Sentosa in the night..

I am supposed to write this long ago.. a month ago.. I made the trip to sentosa on the fri of the last week of exams..

My friends and I decided to go to sentosa to watch the new laser show "Songs of the Sea".. the old musical fountain had closed.. this is the new replacement of the attraction..

This was the first time I went to Sentosa in the night after so many years.. I have been going to sentosa beaches seems like every june vacation.. for camp activities.. which are held in the afternoon.. so I never really see the night scenery in sentosa before after all the renovation.. this time going to sentosa in the night is a new experience for me.. and we get to sit on the sentosa express for the first time.. yah.. the new sentosa monorail.. there is no more ferry rides to sentosa.. and this monorail is the new transport to sentosa.. and the price is still the same at $3.. and you can take the train to and fro as many times within the day..

The new Sentosa map..

felt quite excited to take this express train.. first time mah.. and the card used to enter the station actually feel like a hard cardboard card.. but is a contactless smart card that you use exactly like a ezylink card.. really high tech.. sitting on the train from vivocity, you can see the St James Powerstation passing by, then cross the short strip of sea and reach the first station which is not accessible now as it is for the new IR.. then the 2nd stop is the imbiah station where the various attractions are located like the merlion.. then the last station is the beach station which is our destination.. yah so fast reach last station liao.. this monorail is so different from the last one.. this monorail don't go round the island at all.. not much scenery to see from the train lor.. hai~ quite a disappointment..

The access cards, blue one for the Express and green one for the show..

The station at vivocity..

Inside the train..

Three of us.. mich, jinrong and me.. mich always don't like to take photo..

and me standing in the middle with the other compartment at the back..

the beach station is situated on the side of palawan beach near the siloso beach.. and the laser show is just next to the station.. yah the show is on the beach.. seats that can accomodate hundreds of people are installed so are some kampong kelong houses models are built above the water near the beach.. on the sand in front the seats are some fake big rocks.. this place has been surrounded by many tall wooden stilts.. so you will be able to see the show clearly unless you buy the tix at $6.. however, as the show is projected to the sky.. from outside you actually can see some laser stuff, some explosion effects and fireworks.. ha.. so you actually can see some of the show without paying..

The beach station..

the fireworks that can be seen and heard from outside..

we were just in time for the second show at 8.40pm and the first show at 7.40 has already started when we are there so we actually can see and hear some of the effects from outside lah.. as there is still some time before the show started, we decided to walk around the shops near there. then at about 8pm, we walked back to the entrance and we already see a long queue there.. we are quite shocked lah.. need to be so kaisu mah? so we went to queue too lor.. many of the people watching the show are tourists and there is a couple who queued in front of us chatted with us.. they are from china.. and they are actually quite impressed that we are able to speak english and mandarin so well and fluently.. which we are quite surprised by it.. becos we are just speaking a rojak of chinese and english like what we usually did.. which is very singlish lor.. haha.. and they are surprised that we are actually uni students.. haha.. they thought we are younger than that.. haha.. quite happy to hear that..

when the show starting soon, we are allowed to enter to take a seat and we found some good seats in the centre not too front and not too back as the show will involve performance at the front on the beach and at the sky.. okay.. the storyline is quite lame.. not very interesting.. at the beginning, they asked for audience participation to sing along some of singapore songs in the four languages.. and the response quite bad.. not many people sang along.. then the effects and the more exciting part of the story started.. but exactly exciting lah.. it is all about a young man using his charming voice to awake a beautiful sleeping princess.. the voice is not bad at first but he sang the same melody so many times lor.. you will grow quite sick of it..

what really worth the ticket price are the visual effects, the lasers, pyrotechnics and special computer imaging which forms the images of the character in the smoke that serves as a white screen.. there are also stunning flame bursts which you will really feel the strong heat.. wow! there are water jets from the stilts of the kelong which gave the magnificent water fountain show.. like the old one.. at the end, firework burst into the sky.. so beautiful.. first time I see a real firework leh.. I am like "a frog in the bottom of a well".. haha..

Some of the photos I took with my phone..

the princess who is asleep.. there are also live performers running about on the beach..

more graphics and lasers..

the laser showing the sea creatures and oscar the tiger fish..

The lady of the sea..

the princess is finally awaken and smiling..

The hot flame bursts!

The beautiful water fountain..

The fireworks began!

We taking a photo together after the show..

after the show, we went to walk around sentosa.. the sentosa in the night, is quite peaceful.. peaceful in the sense that there are not many people.. as many of the attractions are closed in the night.. not many tourist walking around.. a bit deserted and eerie.. haha..

The bright full moon that night..

the eerie and dark dragon trail..

the scary and ugly merlion.. haha..

what's beautiful is the lighting that they used that will change colour every min.. but that's all lor..

it was blue..

then it changed to purple..

we found that we have nothing to see so when we reached the 2nd station which is just a short distance from the beach station, we hop on the train and back to Singapore!

I found this interesting.. why is there a cow in vivocity.. and it is trying to hide from us behind the pillar.. but the pillar is not wide enough for it to hide.. haha.. silly..