Marina Bay Sands By Night

After a slightly salty lunch @ The Quayside, B and I made our way back to Studio M Hotel, Singapore. If you have yet to see our cosy loft accommodation, feel free to look through my older travel posts. We made our hotel booking online by the way and besides hotels in Singapore, there were many other awesome offers on other great destinations as well including apartments in Madrid that you may be interested in for your next vacation.

From Studio M, we got a cab to take us to Marina Bay Sands. The taxi driver was a Malay chap, very friendly and talkative. We got to talking about the casino and he told us that most Singaporeans prefer to head down to Genting Highlands, Malaysia instead of their own casino because of the SGD 100 surcharge imposed on Singaporeans! Good thing we were tourists so no entry charge for us.

Cab ride view

Marina Bay Sands (MBS) is an integrated resort of hotel living, shopping, dining, entertainment and sightseeing; capped by the landmark Sands SkyPark, which gives you the best view in Singapore. Upon arrival, we didn’t know where to go first. The sun was going down too so we snapped some photos in a hurry before scurrying inside The Shoppes.

Marina Bay Sands

Time to Shop

The Shoppes

I did not shop on the first night but was accosted by a saleslady who tried to sell a manicure set to me. Being the pushover that I am, I had the most difficult time saying no while she frantically rubbed some nail lotion on my nails, all the while telling me how dry and lifeless my nails looked so that’s why I needed to get this nail set. Like that was going to make me buy the kit any faster!

I declined politely and B managed to drag me to safety! Here’s the one and only, very blurry picture of me trying to decline!

No, thank you!

The promenade level was cool with plenty of shoppers and tourists hanging around; walking and basking in the evening sun.

Fluffy woofs

Marina Bay

Waiting for the sunset

My Darling

Evening Crowd

Most of the restaurants were packed but finally we spotted an empty table in South Coast, an Australian bistro and bar that offers a relaxing ambiance and tasty finger food. Tired from walking, we settled in and enjoyed the view of MBS while devouring tasty tapas.

South Coast Bistro

Al-fresco dining

Yum yum!

Garlic Prawns & Baby Octopus in Chilli Oil

Garlic Prawns, Capers and Lemon

Well rested and fed, we walked around the esplanade, and blended right in with the rest of the crowd enjoying a cool evening out in MBS before ending our night at the casino. I didn’t want to have too many photos in this post (because it takes ages for me to upload them!) so my next Singapore post will see me posting about The Shoppes in Marina Bay Sands.

Twinkling Night

Marina Bay Sands at night

If you are planning a short and fun weekend vacation, why not visit Singapore? If you’re looking for something further like Europe, don’t forget to check out the awesome daily deals on superb Madrid apartments online. Until then, stay tuned for more travel photos and stories from me!

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MM – We’ve Got Tonight by Phil Phillips *

When I found out Phil Phillips, the dark horse of this season’s American Idol was going to sing We’ve Got Tonight, originally sung by Bob Seger way back in 1978 and later recorded as a duet by Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton in 1983, I was in ecstasy!

Even B jumped when I suddenly screamed and clapped my hands in glee the moment I heard Jimmy (American Idol’s mentor) said he had chosen this song for Phil Phillips to sing in last week’s Top 3 vital performance. I could not ask for a better song, thanks Jimmy for reading the mind of this incurable romantic!

I love what Jimmy had to say about this song. A deep meaningful song, with a dark edge to it and all the emotions of a romantic, aching soul, complete with a haunting melody and lyrics indeed! No wonder this has always been one of my all-time favourite classic songs when it comes to sad love songs with words so beautiful you just wanna cry!

Results show last Friday was totally intense and as much as I love Jessica Sanchez, I was really hoping for a PP – Joshua finale. It is such a shame that Joshua Ledet, the obvious best singer of this season, will not be fighting in the finale, don’t you think?

Yes, I’m posting three different versions of this song because I love them all, starting from the latest version by Phil Phillips. Let’s hope this super duper cutie pie makes it all the way to the Top! Happy Music Monday and please vote for Phil Phillips, America!

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My Travel Horoscope!

If you must know, yes I do read my Horoscope daily. Not only do I read what the stars have aligned for me every day, I also have it tweeted out daily on my Twitter timeline. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I place 100% belief in everything my Virgo horoscope has to say but more often than not, whatever fate has in store for me that day, almost always rings some truth in it.

This is what my horoscope from Twittascope says today, which I gotta say, immediately put a hopeful dreamy smile on my face!

OMG! Does this mean I’m headed for another awesome travel adventure soon? Will you be seeing me excitedly blogging from Hungary while luxuriating in beautiful Budapest apartments or hotels?

Like my Twittascope horoscope says, “Daydream about your vacation today, don’t even try to hide your vision”. Okay Twittascope, I will follow exactly what you suggest! Maybe this will help further strengthen my hope and wish to travel to all the cool places in the world, which I have yet to visit including Budapest!

Budapest is not only the capital and largest city of Hungary but the largest in East-Central Europe as well. I want to stay in gorgeous apartments in Budapest, eat exotic foreign food to expand my palate, visit old historical museums and enjoy sightseeing in one of the most beautiful cities in the world!

LOL! I guess we’ll just have to wait and see! But whatever happens, this prediction really made my night! Even if a vacation or weekend getaway is not in the pipeline right this very minute, the very idea of having a specific travel horoscope like today; is enough to drive me to continue dreaming about and working towards another great vacation destination soon!

So what did your horoscope say about you today?

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