Last weekend David and I flew to Singapore for Lye Keat and Mei Li’s wedding (part #2). Our friend Josie a.k.a. baby stalker was with us as we took our maiden flight with Firefly down south. The whole Firefly experience was pleasant—Terminal 3 in Subang was like 25 minutes from our place, the refurbished terminal was very clean and not crowded, our flights were on time, and the waiting area was fab. Nothing like the mad-packed low cost carrier terminal in KLIA. I guess it’s cos there’s only 2 airlines operating from Terminal 3, Firefly and Berjaya Air.

We even had time to take a pic!

Firefly’s fleet is made up of the ATR-500s which are really tiny planes with propellers. I would say it was about the size of 2 buses in length, and the head space is quite limited. David, Josie and I knocked our heads onto the overhead compartment!! I’ve taken similar propeller jet planes before with Cebu Pacific when we flew to Boracay for our honeymoon, so I wasn’t really worried about the plane being all small and wobbly (as some people may say…small = unsafe). Oh and did I mention, we each get a muffin and a cup of juice?

David’s mobile office at our hotel hee hee… all he needs is coffee for fuel.

Very quickly our 1 hour flight got into Changi Airport’s Budget Terminal and immediately we took a cab and check into our hotel. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Atrium off Outram Road which is a pretty old hotel, though I must say very well maintained, extremely clean and relatively close to the city centre. After chucking our bags we had lunch, met up with my brother for 15 minutes and then off we went shopping! Wheeee! Josie met us up later at Orchard where she had a late lunch and I had my 2^nd lunch wtf. I was so hungry even though earlier we already ate prawn mee and carrot cake. It must be from all the walking *shifts blame*.

David got some sketch pads from Muji cos he’s artsy fartsy like that and I got myself a replacement Teva sandals cos my old one is like a piece of disintegrated rubber mat and I could like slip and fall if it was a slippery surface. Slipping and falling at this point in time is not an option. As much as I love shopping in Malaysia but I must admit our neighbour does have more variety when it comes to certain brands and labels. Just like how I got my Microplane zester in Tangs last year. Oh man, that is like my favourite baking tool!

One for the album! Hubba and I (omg my arms so big)

Josie followed us back to our hotel to chillax and get ready for Lye Keat and Mei Li’s wedding dinner at St. Regis. As soon as we stepped into St. Regis, it was like all posh and sparkly and gold and enchanting and…pretty. Awesome. I’ve been into the Burj but the St. Regis had a more personal feeling to it, less showy and grand (as in size) but more majestic in a way. As the ballroom doors opened we made our way to our seats. Mei Li then popped by to say hi and cam whore for a bit before dinner begun. Speaking of dinner—it was fab fab fab! Mainly Chinese inspired, we had a 6-course dinner presented ala-fine dining. Only thing missing was I was sipping water instead of wine wtf.

After dinner we said our bye byes and walked for a bit down Orchard to see the Christmas lights. They were quite pretty. Odd though, There’s so much emphasis on Christmas decorations but when it comes to Chinese New Year or Hari Raya, we seem to go stingy on making it look “boomz”.

With me and Josie in the pic

Without me and Josie in the pic

Next day we got up, had brekkie and went off to Orchard again to meet Mike, Dave’s Twitter friend for brunch. Ok, Josie and my Twitter friend too. Mike and his wife Kathie have 3 sons, sooper adorable and cheeky. When I was having a conversation with Kathie and Josie, Micah (the oldest one) interrupted me and said “excuse me, can you please whisper?” I think he couldn’t hear the sound of the game he was playing on his iPod. So polite, yet so cute!! After brunch we killed some time around Orchard before leaving to the airport and coming home!

All in all 30 hours in Singapore. T’was fun but tiring as we crashed at 9.30pm on Sunday night. Lye Keat and Mei Li, thanks for inviting us to your wedding dinner in Singapore!