Went to the island, ll Aux Cerf,nice beach,nice weather, no babes lol!
Traveled there by a free boat shuttle from our hotel.
Glad they did it,cause their beach sucked big time.So no choice go there and swim lol.
But the sea was really really shallow there.Quite impossible to swim.
So i just relived my childhood by making sand castles lol.
While getting burned by the sun at the same time ahah.
Didn't try any of the sea sports because the prices were really "Go screw yourself" that kind.So yeah not worth it.
Stayed there for a couple of hours and went back to the hotel.
The sun must have sapped all my energy.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Mauritius Day 4
Pretty much the same thing,also hired a taxi to drive us around,this time the southern part of the island.
We went to alot more scenic spots in Mauritius.
One would be the Volcano crater which i have been to 14 years ago.Vegetation has reclaimed its rightful land,and was growing rampantly from all sides of the crater.
It looked more like a forest then a crater to me.
Unfortunately it began to rain,and as we are on a higher altitude,and with the wind raging on,it became really cold.
So we stayed there for like 5 mins only,after driving 1hr just to get there lol.
We also went to the 7 coloured Earth,still pretty like before only that they have put up security barricades around it so as to prevent people from stepping onto this amazing natural feature.
We used to be able to walk on it,but seems like they are trying to protect that area now.
It is cause by hydrolysis from Iron and Aluminium,breaking down into coloured residue with green,purple and brownish red as its main colours.
So the small portion of land appeared to be in Rainbow colours.Pretty nice.
The photos are on my facebook,check it out if you would like to see it.
We also checked out a indian Temple,pretty large scale from what i saw.
Scenic spots and stuff.
Photos on Facebook.
Then we came to a Scenic Cliff where large rampant waves were breaking furiously along the banks of the cliff.This has got to the the nicest spot of them all.
One thing you will never see in Singapore.
We also checked out lots of small Waterfalls here and there,perhaps Mauritius didn't have that much to offer.
We toured the whole country in just 2 days.
Put it was a pretty good experience so far.
We went to alot more scenic spots in Mauritius.
One would be the Volcano crater which i have been to 14 years ago.Vegetation has reclaimed its rightful land,and was growing rampantly from all sides of the crater.
It looked more like a forest then a crater to me.
Unfortunately it began to rain,and as we are on a higher altitude,and with the wind raging on,it became really cold.
So we stayed there for like 5 mins only,after driving 1hr just to get there lol.
We also went to the 7 coloured Earth,still pretty like before only that they have put up security barricades around it so as to prevent people from stepping onto this amazing natural feature.
We used to be able to walk on it,but seems like they are trying to protect that area now.
It is cause by hydrolysis from Iron and Aluminium,breaking down into coloured residue with green,purple and brownish red as its main colours.
So the small portion of land appeared to be in Rainbow colours.Pretty nice.
The photos are on my facebook,check it out if you would like to see it.
We also checked out a indian Temple,pretty large scale from what i saw.
Scenic spots and stuff.
Photos on Facebook.
Then we came to a Scenic Cliff where large rampant waves were breaking furiously along the banks of the cliff.This has got to the the nicest spot of them all.
One thing you will never see in Singapore.
We also checked out lots of small Waterfalls here and there,perhaps Mauritius didn't have that much to offer.
We toured the whole country in just 2 days.
Put it was a pretty good experience so far.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Mauritius Day 3
Hired a Taxi Driver and we drove around Mauritius island.The Northern areas.
Have to say there's still quite a long way for the Country to grow in terms of development.Of all the places that we drove to,the only developed area was the capital city, Port Louis,but of course they totally lose out to Singapore alright.Thats a fact.
If the place was to lose its tourism appeal,it will turn out to the like the movie "I AM LEGEND".Yep deserted to keep it simple.
And yes,as usual the things are really not cheap at all.Maybe they are trying to leech as much from the tourists as possible??
Can't help it,they don't have enough tourist and business to support their economy,so the smaller percentage of tourist shall have to pay the price....more expensive goods.
And do you know the extinct DoDo bird was found in Mauritius a long time ago?
Yeah too bad its extinct,or i would really like to see it before my own eyes lol.
Mauritius is really a relaxing place to live in.Probably good for those old couples who have retired and would like to face the sea all day.Badly sadly i do feel alittle bored after a few days cause there isn't really much to do there.Except all the sea sports and slacking.But the wind is too strong for that,so basically all you can do is to appreciate the scenary and feel the breeze if you get what i mean.
Have to say there's still quite a long way for the Country to grow in terms of development.Of all the places that we drove to,the only developed area was the capital city, Port Louis,but of course they totally lose out to Singapore alright.Thats a fact.
If the place was to lose its tourism appeal,it will turn out to the like the movie "I AM LEGEND".Yep deserted to keep it simple.
And yes,as usual the things are really not cheap at all.Maybe they are trying to leech as much from the tourists as possible??
Can't help it,they don't have enough tourist and business to support their economy,so the smaller percentage of tourist shall have to pay the price....more expensive goods.
And do you know the extinct DoDo bird was found in Mauritius a long time ago?
Yeah too bad its extinct,or i would really like to see it before my own eyes lol.
Mauritius is really a relaxing place to live in.Probably good for those old couples who have retired and would like to face the sea all day.Badly sadly i do feel alittle bored after a few days cause there isn't really much to do there.Except all the sea sports and slacking.But the wind is too strong for that,so basically all you can do is to appreciate the scenary and feel the breeze if you get what i mean.
Mauritius Day 2
Went around the nearby villages,looking at the lives of the people,their lifestyle and stuff.
Have to admit,the way they live really seems to be backtracked all the way to the 1970s in Singapore.Live poultry running around on the roads.Dogs were running rampant everywhere.Maybe all the cats were killed by the dogs or something lol.The dogs there aren't really the friendly sort.
And the cost of living there is totally outrageous.
The average salary of the locals is between 6k to 10k Mauritius rupee,that's about Singapore $600 dollars only?Thats per month you know.
And in the restaurants around our hotel,the cost of the food is really WOW?
They cost the same of sometimes even more than Singapore restaurants.
How will the locals be able to afford it.
We were already feeling the pinch,it must be worst for the locals.
That's why they grow their own crops and poultry for food.Really Kampong lifestyle lol.
That more or less sums up the things i have seen on Day 2 of Mauritius.
Certainly many things have changed since the last time i was there. 14 years ago.
Have to admit,the way they live really seems to be backtracked all the way to the 1970s in Singapore.Live poultry running around on the roads.Dogs were running rampant everywhere.Maybe all the cats were killed by the dogs or something lol.The dogs there aren't really the friendly sort.
And the cost of living there is totally outrageous.
The average salary of the locals is between 6k to 10k Mauritius rupee,that's about Singapore $600 dollars only?Thats per month you know.
And in the restaurants around our hotel,the cost of the food is really WOW?
They cost the same of sometimes even more than Singapore restaurants.
How will the locals be able to afford it.
We were already feeling the pinch,it must be worst for the locals.
That's why they grow their own crops and poultry for food.Really Kampong lifestyle lol.
That more or less sums up the things i have seen on Day 2 of Mauritius.
Certainly many things have changed since the last time i was there. 14 years ago.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Mauritius Day 1
Ha shall talk about my holiday to Mauritius.
And coincidentally this will be my 100th post since i started blogging!Nice!
I'm lazy to upload the photos now,but i shall in the near future lol.
Flight was at 11.45am in the morning of 28th September 2010,Tuesday.
Ate my last bowl of Prawn Mee soup before eating pastry based meals for the next 6 days.Flight was about 7 hrs.
For the majority who don't know where Mauritius is,it is located near Madagascar,with a land mass 3 times the size of Singapore,yet their population is only 1.2 million.
Their timing is 4 hours behind Singapore's,so when the plane took off at 12 noon,it would land at 7pm Singapore timing,but it was only 3pm in Mauritius.Jet lag lol.
As always,no airport can beat Singapore's,it's a fact.
The travel agency got a representative to fetch us and provided us a ride to our beach hotel,"Tropical Hotel".
Well,after living in a concrete jungle for so long,it is sure nice to see miles and miles of sugar cane plantations along the way to the hotel.You can wind down the window to the max and not smell exhaust fumes blowing into your face.So this is one of the great things about not having a too huge vehicle population.
Took us an hour before we reached the hotel.Rather disappointing though.The beach,which we thought would be a nice one,had seaweed strewn all over it.
So the beach had large green patches all over it,super ugly.
The shoreline was also very close to us,so it is almost impossible to walk along the beach during high tide.The water sport activities really failed in this resort.
The reasons are listed below:
1)The beach sucked big time,wait,is there even a beach in the first place,maybe time to do some beach nourishment.
2)The wind is so bloody strong,before you can do wind surfing or anything,i think you would have already been blown away by the wind.
3)The sea corals on the sea bed were all dead,perhaps the effects of global warming??
So snorkeling would suck big time.
Thus not the best image portrayed by the resort i guess.But you would say that this is nature's fault,but nobody held you at gun point to build the resort there right??So ultimately it is still your fault for building it there lol.The resort could have been built at a better location with a nicer beach.FAIL........
And coincidentally this will be my 100th post since i started blogging!Nice!
I'm lazy to upload the photos now,but i shall in the near future lol.
Flight was at 11.45am in the morning of 28th September 2010,Tuesday.
Ate my last bowl of Prawn Mee soup before eating pastry based meals for the next 6 days.Flight was about 7 hrs.
For the majority who don't know where Mauritius is,it is located near Madagascar,with a land mass 3 times the size of Singapore,yet their population is only 1.2 million.
Their timing is 4 hours behind Singapore's,so when the plane took off at 12 noon,it would land at 7pm Singapore timing,but it was only 3pm in Mauritius.Jet lag lol.
As always,no airport can beat Singapore's,it's a fact.
The travel agency got a representative to fetch us and provided us a ride to our beach hotel,"Tropical Hotel".
Well,after living in a concrete jungle for so long,it is sure nice to see miles and miles of sugar cane plantations along the way to the hotel.You can wind down the window to the max and not smell exhaust fumes blowing into your face.So this is one of the great things about not having a too huge vehicle population.
Took us an hour before we reached the hotel.Rather disappointing though.The beach,which we thought would be a nice one,had seaweed strewn all over it.
So the beach had large green patches all over it,super ugly.
The shoreline was also very close to us,so it is almost impossible to walk along the beach during high tide.The water sport activities really failed in this resort.
The reasons are listed below:
1)The beach sucked big time,wait,is there even a beach in the first place,maybe time to do some beach nourishment.
2)The wind is so bloody strong,before you can do wind surfing or anything,i think you would have already been blown away by the wind.
3)The sea corals on the sea bed were all dead,perhaps the effects of global warming??
So snorkeling would suck big time.
Thus not the best image portrayed by the resort i guess.But you would say that this is nature's fault,but nobody held you at gun point to build the resort there right??So ultimately it is still your fault for building it there lol.The resort could have been built at a better location with a nicer beach.FAIL........
Sunday, September 26, 2010
It has been done
So today was performance day..
All the shit we have been through for the last 2 weeks will finally pay off.
11 songs...wow....
But i really do not like the venue at all.
Seriously sucks.When we first arrived,it smelled.Literally smelled.
Like the urine smell from the toilet.Horrible!
The hall was small,it was further reduced with only half the hall used.
Laselle promised us a 1000 seater venue,instead we got this shit....
A church....seriously...Our performance became a charity event...
But never mind, on a happier note,all of us had fun.
The performance turned out alright,no major mistakes or anything.
Pretty happy to hear the sound of applause once again.
Thus the struggle is finally over.
Time to relax!! Woot!
All the shit we have been through for the last 2 weeks will finally pay off.
11 songs...wow....
But i really do not like the venue at all.
Seriously sucks.When we first arrived,it smelled.Literally smelled.
Like the urine smell from the toilet.Horrible!
The hall was small,it was further reduced with only half the hall used.
Laselle promised us a 1000 seater venue,instead we got this shit....
A church....seriously...Our performance became a charity event...
But never mind, on a happier note,all of us had fun.
The performance turned out alright,no major mistakes or anything.
Pretty happy to hear the sound of applause once again.
Thus the struggle is finally over.
Time to relax!! Woot!
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Total Respect
I have to totally salute Chok Wei,i hope i spelled he's name right.
Apparently he has won a pair of tickets to go "see" Jay Park from 2pm,but he is no longer in the group.But still it is a rare chance to see a K pop celebrity here in Singapore.People pay for the ticket,but he won it.
He got the tickets quite a while back.He was able to make it before,but now sadly i think he's heart is bleeding.
Due to the constant postponing of the Laselle concert,it has so coincidentally collided with the fan meet next Saturday.Yet he has to come and help us with our performance.
He made the biggest sacrifice,of letting go the tickets.Man.....total respect for him.
If it was SNSD,i wouldn't know if i would be able to make that sacrifice.
The most hurtful thing is,he was first able to make it,but due to the concert being postponed,he lost that once in a lifetime chance.
He is a guest singer,yet he chose us over Jay Park....
He is not forced to sing with us,he did it voluntarily.
Yet Ngee Ann/Joe have never thank them for it at all.Yes, i am also refering to Toby and Daryl.They are clearly more skilled then the Ngee Ann singers in terms of singing,yet they get no credit at all.But they are still coming back to help us.
I am totally grateful to them,for all the sacrifices they have done for us.
Apparently he has won a pair of tickets to go "see" Jay Park from 2pm,but he is no longer in the group.But still it is a rare chance to see a K pop celebrity here in Singapore.People pay for the ticket,but he won it.
He got the tickets quite a while back.He was able to make it before,but now sadly i think he's heart is bleeding.
Due to the constant postponing of the Laselle concert,it has so coincidentally collided with the fan meet next Saturday.Yet he has to come and help us with our performance.
He made the biggest sacrifice,of letting go the tickets.Man.....total respect for him.
If it was SNSD,i wouldn't know if i would be able to make that sacrifice.
The most hurtful thing is,he was first able to make it,but due to the concert being postponed,he lost that once in a lifetime chance.
He is a guest singer,yet he chose us over Jay Park....
He is not forced to sing with us,he did it voluntarily.
Yet Ngee Ann/Joe have never thank them for it at all.Yes, i am also refering to Toby and Daryl.They are clearly more skilled then the Ngee Ann singers in terms of singing,yet they get no credit at all.But they are still coming back to help us.
I am totally grateful to them,for all the sacrifices they have done for us.
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