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Hard Rock Cafe Again!

Yesterday was awesome!! Mom, Dad and I went to Hard Rock Cafe last night (again).
It was even better then the last time we went there! I was SO exited when I first went in the restaurant and saw a big projector with the "Hard Rock Calling" playing. The Hard Rock Calling is a concert with all of the hip music like Bruce Springsteen and Pink. Then we ordered some appetizers and drinks. I had a mango smoothie with whip cream. After that we just watched the "Hard Rock Calling" waiting for the band Energy to start performing. When they started they sang Pink Floyd. I can’t remember the name of the song but how they sang it was good. Then after we listened to a few songs we ordered our supper. Dad and I had the same thing, it was striploin steak. It was delicious but there was alot of fat on it so I had to eat around it. When we finished the band was on break so we went out to the Rock Shop and bought some drum sticks. When we were at the cash the lead guitarist came in and started talking to us. Mom told him about my blog and how he is on it, so he wanted to go on my blog and see it!! After we went out of the store we sat down and he came over again and he wanted me to go sit up in the drum set and pretend I was playing with my new drumsticks!! Then when I stepped down from the drums he put his black guitar around me and got a picture! After that they started singing "Jump". So then this guy went up to the stage and started singing the whole song!! He wasn't bad actually. So after that we went home and went to bed.

the megazip

Yesterday Mom, Megan, Dad and I went to Sentosa. We spent the day on the beach and Megan and I went on the Megazip line. That was the very best thing I did in Singapore. It was a really big zip line and a long way down. It was a long buggy ride up to the hill and a long time to get our stuff on; also we had to wait to go on the zip line so it took over an hour to go on the ride. So when we got hooked up on the line we went for about two minutes. But when it was over I didn’t lift my feet up, so I got stuck and the workers had to go out on the landing mat and get me with a long pole. We went down a few sets of stairs and over a long bridge to go to the other side of the beach to find Mom and Dad. Then we had to take the stuff off and lay it on the table where we bought our tickets. After that we went home.

Yesterday, Megan, mom and I went to two islands of Singapore that were just 5km away. We went there by ferry and there were only three other people on the ferry besides us. The ferry left at 10:00 in the morning and came back at 1:00 in the afternoon.

The first island was called St. John's Island. A long time ago there used to be an old jail on the island but now it is a campground. The island also has a beach, but the swimming area wasn't good because the boundary line was only up to your ankles or less because the tide was low and the water was gross from seaweed and the ships that were anchored by the island. We only spent 15 minutes on the island because there wasn’t much to do there and we would have had to stay there for over 4 hours until the next ferry came to pick us up.

We went to the second island and that one was alot nicer. It was called Kusu Island which means Tortoise Island in Chinese. Kusu Island has a Chinese temple called Da Bogong
Temple, Malay shrine called Kusu Kramats and a huge turtle sculpture. Legend goes that a turtle saved two shipwrecked men and to thank the turtles they built statues of the turtle on the island.

We walked out of the boat and saw a wishing well. We couldn't put any money in it because the workers were moving it to a different spot on the island. After that, we walked and found a place where they had live turtles!!! So we fed them some crackers and went on to the Chinese temple. There were a few deities there but the two main ones were the Merchant God and the Goddess of Mercy. We looked and took pictures. After that, we came to stone stairs and the sign said we had to walk up 152 stairs to get to the top. After stopping many times we finally made it up. There were wishes written on the painted yellow rocks at the entrance of the shrine. Everyone wrote their wishes on the rocks hoping that they come true. Some of the wishes were "I wish I get 100% on all of my exams" and "I wish I had 4 iPods!!" Most of the wishes were about getting good grades in school. People also pray for blessings for wealth, marriage, fertility, good heath and harmony. The shrines are also popular for couples wanting to start a family.

Then it was time to leave so we got back on the boat and headed back to Singapore.

Yesterday Mom Megan and I went to the Singapore Science Center.
We went there to learn and see all of the kool stuff there. My favourite part was the IMAX theatre. Watching the IMAX movie WAS MY FAVORETIE THING I DID HERE IN SINGAPORE!!!!!!! It was narrated by Jim Carry, my favourite actor!!
The show was called Under the Sea and it was amazing! Then we went to a show called sound. These two people thought us about sound and how it travels. There was only thing I learned and that was that sound travels because of energy and short vibrations produce a high pitch sound and long vibrations produce low pitch sounds. Then we did a bunch of activates like the echo tube and this plate that you spin and the water goes around and around.
That was our day at the Singapore Science Center.

 

Yesterday Mom, Megan and I went to Universal Studios. It was one of the best days I had here in Singapore. The park had 7 different sections: Hollywood, New York, Sci-Fi City, Ancient Egypt, The Lost World, Far Far Away and Madagascar.

In Sci-Fi City we got on a ride called the Accelerator. In Egypt we went on a ride called The Mummy. In The Lost World we went on a ride called canopy fly and went to see a show called Waterworld. In Far Far Away we ate and then went on a sherk 4-D adventure

First we walked through Hollywood but there was nothing to ride on so we walked on. That lead us to New York but there wasn’t anything there to ride on there either. We went to Sci-Fi City and rode the Accelerator. It had a wheel that we spun like crazy and it made us twirl around. It reminded me of the Tornado ride at Thomas Amusements.

After that ride we went to Ancient Egypt and rode the biggest ride… The Mummy. We got in the mummy roller coaster and it went SO fast. It came to a coffin that we crashed into and a mummy popped out of it and then we shot backwards over hills. I was so scared when we crashed and shot backwards. Even though I was scared, after the ride I wanted to go again.

Then we set off to the Lost World and went on a ride called Canopy Flyer. This ride took us up and over The Lost World and gave us a good view of the park. Megan sat up in front and she got soaked because it started to rain.

We ran through the rain to Far Far Away and went on an inside ride called Shrek 4-D Adventure. The seats that we sat in moved and sprayed water when something happened
during the 4-D movie. It was so crazy!!!!!!!!!!

We stopped at Friar’s restaurant for chicken fingers and waffle fries before we moved on to Madagascar. There wasn’t much to see there, just stores. After all of that walking we came back to New York and watched a group of break dancers called the Rockafellas. That was my favourite part because they were doing flips and spinning on their heads. IT WAS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Mom got called up to break dance and she did great. They called Megan and I up but we didn’t go because it would be too embarrassing to do the wave and stuff like that.

Before we went home we got pizza and the manager of the restaurant gave Mom a prize for break dancing. We all cracked up laughing when he left.

That was our day at Universal Studios.

Our trip to Phuket

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Tomorrow my family and I are going to Phuket Island in Thailand. I did some research on Thailand and found out some cool facts.

THAILAND
Thailand is located in South-East Asia. The capital of Thailand is Bangkok. Patong is the most famous island and is known for its beaches. The Chao Phraya is a main river in Thailand where many people live in houses built on stilts. Thailand is bigger than the United Kingdom, Iceland, Belgium and Austria combined. Thailand has 1430 islands with Phuket as its largest island. The language in Thailand is Thai.

The main religion is Buddhism. The Buddhism religion has a New Year and it takes place in Thailand. They start at the first full moon in April.

There are a lot of animals in Thailand and some of them are: Black stripped weasel, Tiger, Water buffalo, Bats, Otter, Eld’s deer, Black bear, Sei whale, Golden cat, Neill's Long-tailed Giant Rat. Elephants are also found in Thailand and they are very important because Elephants haul lumber out of the mountain forests in the north. Monkeys are another important animal to the Thai people because monkeys help harvest coconuts in the south.
Thailand has a tropical climate. The rainy season or monsoon season is between June and October and the dry season is about the rest of the year. Temperatures average 24 to 33 degrees Celsius, with the highest temperatures from March to May and the lowest in December and January. There are three seasons: the cool season (November to February), the hot season (April to May), and the rainy season (June to October), with heavy downpours usually only lasting a couple of hours.

Chinese New Year

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This is Megan and I at Little India. We got our henna drawn on our arms and legs. Henna is black ink made from plants. When the lady finished puting it on me it was all dry and clumply but when it fell off it is stained into my arm. Henna does not hurt like a tattoo. It is in a tube that when you squeze it the henna comes out on your hand. When Indian people get married, the wife gets henna done on her legs, feet, arms and hands. They are told that the longer their henna stays on them the happier their marriage will be. A lady who worked at the henna shop, took my piture and put it in the henna album for everybody to see. The next henna I am getting, is a big dragon on my back!!!! I am sooooo excited!!
I got a lizard running up my arm and Megan got flowers and vines on her ankle.

This is the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple that we went to in Little India.
In the temple we had to ring three bells before we left and it would give us good luck. The first Deity (that's what they call the god statues) we saw had 4 legs and one of them was standing on a dead body. I don't know why but almost every God was standing on a dead body. There were people praying and they had to give the Deity gifts of fruits and flower necklaces. The last Deity that we saw looked like a vampire. The name of it was Sri Periaci and although she looked scary because she had blood coming out of her mouth, she was the goddess of fertility, safe childbirth, and the good health of newborn babies.
Before we went into the temple we had to take off our shoes and socks and we were "supposed" to have our arms and legs covered with clothes but we went in anyway.
In the Indian culture the left hand is used for "toilet task" so poniting at people or sacred object with the left hand is not polite. if you have to point you have to use your open palm.

This is Mom and I at the Jurong Bird Park Singapore. We went there a month ago and there was about 20 people there that day so we got to sit in front every time and I got picked one show and a bird piched on my arm and put a toy penguin in a bucket that I held in my hand. Also we got to hold and feed parots and one of them talked to us!! It was really fun.

This is the largest dedication to the laughing Buddha temple in Indonesia. The temple is still being built and the workers started over 10 years ago. The temple is huge having over 45 praying rooms and more than 300 statues. It is located on a hill top so you can see all of Bantam. We saw a really big cockroach in the temple too. This is me at the ferry terminal waiting for it to come. We traveled by ferry from Singapore to Indonesia and back. It took us an hour each way.

Here we are at my house in Holyrood. This is my last day in Canada with my friends until 5 more months. I really miss them and alot of other people too. We went sliding down my big hill in my backyard (not the big cliff) and Chase tried to go down the hill with everyone else, but he grabbed on to Cameron’s shoe instead of the slide. Then Chase flicked his boot (trying to throw it back to Cameron) but it landed in the woods instead. So everybody was looking for it and Chase had to go get a flashlight. I was covering Cameron's foot to make it warm! Then we found it using the flashlight Another thing we did was have a big pillow fight (A.K.A piccolo fight) in the basement and I think Chase won.

Last night, me, Mom, Dad and Megan went out for supper at Hard Rock Cafe. Hard Rock Cafe is a really good restaurant that has its own gift shop and used clothing by the Sex Pistols and Elvis Presley.
At the restaurant they have live bands playing and a dj there.
The guy in the yellow shirt is the lead singer and also plays guitar. The guy in the black shirt is the lead guitarist. It was the same band that we saw at the New Years Eve ball at Clarke Quay (you pronounce the quay part as "key").
We went there so I could write about it in this blog page and to eat supper.
The name of the band was Energy and they offered me to sing on stage (but I didn’t). The lead singer gave me his autograph and the lead guitarist let me hold his guitar!

I am living at the Monterey Park Condos. The Condos have 3 big swimming pools 1 gym 1 lounge 1 karaoke lounge and 1 tennis court! But the bad thing is we are in the middle of nowhere (like my house in Holyrood) because every thing is on the other side of Singapore. When we first came here we had to take taxis every where it was like 100 dollars every week!!!!!! But now we travel by the MRT which is like a subway but it is above ground and sometimes below (like a subway) it is soooo fast!!!!
The weather here is sooo hot and the hottest time of year is winter!!! The lowest it gets is about 25 degrees! Most every day it is +30. My favorite part of living here is the shopping. The shopping here is awesome because there are like hundreds of malls in Singapore, and Newfoundland is bigger than Singapore. My least favorite part is not being with my grade 5 class!!!:(

Here I am at the Singapore Zoo with the White Tiger. I went there with Nan, Pop, Mom, Megan, Roger and Marlane. My favorite animal was little little monkeys. They were the size of your palm but I cant remember the name of them.:( I went to the water park at the Zoo where a big 55 gallon bucket of water falls on you IT WAS SOOOOOO FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!