Back From Singapore!
3 Comments Published by Kevin Broken Scar on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 8:34 PM.
We’re back from Singapore! Here I am sitting in front of my computer, watching the videos we took and recalling the trip. I’ll attempt to blog about it but I wish you were there though!
So we started off the journey when we met at the First Coach office early in the morning on Monday. I was there by 730am when our bus only leaves at 930am. Thank God there was a mamak stall just around the corner and that was my little hang out while I wait for the rest to arrive. Paul arrived soon after, followed by Alex then Debbie and Alda.
The bus was very spacious and comfortable. The seats were even bigger than those on a plane’s economy class. To summarize the long 5-hours bus ride from KL to Singapore, Alda and Debs slept, Paul tried to sleep, and Alex and I wished ourselves good luck to sleeping and bid it farewell as we talked about everything under the sky throughout the whole journey! This means that your dear singer here did not get any sleep at all.
On the bus from KL to Singapore
Fast forward. After one stop somewhere in Johor, we reached the checkpoint in JB, crossed the second link highway over the sea to Singapore, and arrived at the Singapore Immigration and Customs. Hopped back on the bus and headed to the First Coach office at Novena Square.
So now we’re on Singapore ground. Hailed two cabs and headed to The Strand, our comfy hotel of residence for our little trip.
Fast forward again. We headed to our rooms, unpacked, washed up, attempted to catch a little shut eye, got ready and left for sound check. We paid for a room for three, which was supposed to have 3 beds but there was only two beds when we arrived. So Alex picked up the phone and requested for the third bed. This was 3pm.
The hotel we stayed the night in
Bencoolen St. is where The Strand was
I thought that the logo was cool
Bar None is located in the basement of The Marriott Hotel. The hotel is an architectural genius. As for Bar None, the feel as we walked in was like going to a very sleek club, say Zouk? But when we got to the stage area, it felt like Hard Rock Café / Planet Hollywood. We started to sound check assisted by their in-house sound engineer Mr. Gib. Sound check was pretty intense as it was a brand new venue and we slowly got the feel of the room and the general sound on stage.
After sound check we just hung out to watch the two other Singaporean bands sound check. Boy was this a mixed genre gig.
We headed to the Asian food court nearby to grab some grub and headed back to Bar None. Orchard Road on a Monday night was a vibrant as a Saturday night in KL.
So here is what we did while we waited for our turn to hit the stage. We took pictures! Teehee!
Look ma! We're on the poster
From L-R: Paul (hmm?), Alda(Woi! I'm warning you!), Alex(Really?Cool!), Kevin(What? I can't believe it!)
Hello?
Holding the bull by the horns
Meet our good friend Imran of Zero Sequence
Fast forward. The show went well and we all had a great time. This is the first show ever that I’ve played where I was the most tired! No rest, very little sleep! I was almost running on a low-batt, empty tank surviving on reserves before the show but once we hit the stage, that reserve tank really served me well.
At the end of the set, I was drained but it was all good. The guys from the other bands invited us for a mamak session, Singaporean style! Thanks guys for such awesome hospitality.
We made good friends and memories engraved in my mind.
We finally got back to the hotel room at about 3 plus in the morning and there was still no third bed in sight in our room. I picked up the phone and went, “dude, we requested for our bed since 3pm and it is 3am now and we still don’t have the third bed”. When you’re out all day, all you want to come back to is a nice cozy bed. Soon after, the bed arrived. Naturally, we talked some more, watched the video we took earlier and slowly slept.
For some strange reason, I was up by 8 on Tuesday morning. Lazed around in bed till we had to get up to check out. We got up, washed up, packed up, got ready and checked out by 12pm. We put all our gear in the storage area in the hotel and headed out shopping, Singaporean style!
We walked along the whole of Orchard Road and had a great time. After lunch, Imran of Zero Sequence joined us and hung out all day. So we did the compulsory things one should do in Singapore. A visit to Swee Lee and two other music shops lead me to spending impulsively. HMV, a perfume store, and a million and one shops later, we were back at our hotel at 5pm to get our stuff and headed back to Novena Square to grab a quick dinner and catch our bus back to KL.
Again, Alex and I talked more but this time we managed to sleep a good half of the journey away. When we got up, no prizes for guessing, we talked again, with Paul and Alda in the loop now. Man, we’re such chatterboxes.
All in all, it was an excellent trip and adventure. Love it to bits.
NOTE: Zero Sequence and FatSkunks are super awesome extraodinary bands! RESPECT!!!
So we started off the journey when we met at the First Coach office early in the morning on Monday. I was there by 730am when our bus only leaves at 930am. Thank God there was a mamak stall just around the corner and that was my little hang out while I wait for the rest to arrive. Paul arrived soon after, followed by Alex then Debbie and Alda.
The bus was very spacious and comfortable. The seats were even bigger than those on a plane’s economy class. To summarize the long 5-hours bus ride from KL to Singapore, Alda and Debs slept, Paul tried to sleep, and Alex and I wished ourselves good luck to sleeping and bid it farewell as we talked about everything under the sky throughout the whole journey! This means that your dear singer here did not get any sleep at all.
On the bus from KL to Singapore
Fast forward. After one stop somewhere in Johor, we reached the checkpoint in JB, crossed the second link highway over the sea to Singapore, and arrived at the Singapore Immigration and Customs. Hopped back on the bus and headed to the First Coach office at Novena Square.
So now we’re on Singapore ground. Hailed two cabs and headed to The Strand, our comfy hotel of residence for our little trip.
Fast forward again. We headed to our rooms, unpacked, washed up, attempted to catch a little shut eye, got ready and left for sound check. We paid for a room for three, which was supposed to have 3 beds but there was only two beds when we arrived. So Alex picked up the phone and requested for the third bed. This was 3pm.
The hotel we stayed the night in
Bencoolen St. is where The Strand was
I thought that the logo was cool
Bar None is located in the basement of The Marriott Hotel. The hotel is an architectural genius. As for Bar None, the feel as we walked in was like going to a very sleek club, say Zouk? But when we got to the stage area, it felt like Hard Rock Café / Planet Hollywood. We started to sound check assisted by their in-house sound engineer Mr. Gib. Sound check was pretty intense as it was a brand new venue and we slowly got the feel of the room and the general sound on stage.
After sound check we just hung out to watch the two other Singaporean bands sound check. Boy was this a mixed genre gig.
We headed to the Asian food court nearby to grab some grub and headed back to Bar None. Orchard Road on a Monday night was a vibrant as a Saturday night in KL.
So here is what we did while we waited for our turn to hit the stage. We took pictures! Teehee!
Look ma! We're on the poster
From L-R: Paul (hmm?), Alda(Woi! I'm warning you!), Alex(Really?Cool!), Kevin(What? I can't believe it!)
Hello?
Holding the bull by the horns
Meet our good friend Imran of Zero Sequence
Fast forward. The show went well and we all had a great time. This is the first show ever that I’ve played where I was the most tired! No rest, very little sleep! I was almost running on a low-batt, empty tank surviving on reserves before the show but once we hit the stage, that reserve tank really served me well.
At the end of the set, I was drained but it was all good. The guys from the other bands invited us for a mamak session, Singaporean style! Thanks guys for such awesome hospitality.
We made good friends and memories engraved in my mind.
We finally got back to the hotel room at about 3 plus in the morning and there was still no third bed in sight in our room. I picked up the phone and went, “dude, we requested for our bed since 3pm and it is 3am now and we still don’t have the third bed”. When you’re out all day, all you want to come back to is a nice cozy bed. Soon after, the bed arrived. Naturally, we talked some more, watched the video we took earlier and slowly slept.
For some strange reason, I was up by 8 on Tuesday morning. Lazed around in bed till we had to get up to check out. We got up, washed up, packed up, got ready and checked out by 12pm. We put all our gear in the storage area in the hotel and headed out shopping, Singaporean style!
We walked along the whole of Orchard Road and had a great time. After lunch, Imran of Zero Sequence joined us and hung out all day. So we did the compulsory things one should do in Singapore. A visit to Swee Lee and two other music shops lead me to spending impulsively. HMV, a perfume store, and a million and one shops later, we were back at our hotel at 5pm to get our stuff and headed back to Novena Square to grab a quick dinner and catch our bus back to KL.
Again, Alex and I talked more but this time we managed to sleep a good half of the journey away. When we got up, no prizes for guessing, we talked again, with Paul and Alda in the loop now. Man, we’re such chatterboxes.
All in all, it was an excellent trip and adventure. Love it to bits.
NOTE: Zero Sequence and FatSkunks are super awesome extraodinary bands! RESPECT!!!
nice pictures!!
and did you doooo any shopping?
Yeah you bet I did! haha. Perfume there is cheap. Music equipment was affordable.
Good fun! I wanna go on a trip too!