Mr and Mrs Shrek

A photo to liven up your week!

Introducing Mr and Mrs Shrek!
Momo and I visited them again at Universal Studios Singapore.



We are kids at heart and always feel good visiting Universal Studios.
Mr and Mrs Shrek in Universal Studios Singapore has bodyguards!

Just wondering, which weekend we will go visit other characters again.

Cylon or Human

The wife and I  went to Universal Studios Singapore over the weekend again.
We bought an 'Annual Pass' and had to make it more worth it by going in more often.



We took a few rides except this one.  We enjoyed looking at people scream their heads off. It's not only us, everyone there seems to enjoy looking at them scream!

Both of us are too 'chicken' to take the ride, but we just say "I know you are afraid, so I won't take the ride too". We timed it, it's a bit more than 90 seconds for the ride. Hmm...

If you have taken the ride, how is it? Which is more exciting? Human or Cylon?

My favourite ride at USS.

Whoosh! 



It's one of the more exciting ride at Universal Studios Singapore.
It gets you really wet! It's so fun!

Just thinking of making use of my annual pass.  *smile*

Battlestar Galactica Re-opens

Adrenalin Junkie take note! Battlestar Galactica re-opens!

I was at Universal Studio just before Chinese New Year with my brother and his fiance. Guess what I saw? A sign at Battlestar Galactica saying it will re-open soon, they are doing test cycles.



Suddenly I heard some sound from above. I looked up at saw that they were testing the rides!
The above, Battlestar Galactica: Cylon. (on the blue track)




Can you see Battlestar Galactica: Human (on the red track)?

As an Universal Studio Singapore Annual Pass holder, I got an email invite asking us to go for the ride before it reopens to everyone on 21 Feb 2011. Tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday night, annual pass holders will be the first few to scream their lungs out!


Which do you think is more fun or scary? Human or Cylon?



My brother was so unhappy that this attraction is only reopening when he is now back in UK.

marilyn monroe

Everyone loves to take photograph with this lady at Universal Studios Singapore.



How many of you think she has a very interesting job?

She walks around Universal Studio everyday and pose for photos with anyone who loves her character. All she does is smile to the camera.

(No, I have not taken a photo with Ms Monroe.)

Universal Studio Singapore - Canopy Flyer Queue

In the last two weeks, I have been inside Universal Studios Singapore twice!
(We treated a friend to her birthday here and also bought my brother and his fiance tickets as belated birthday presents. January was a cheap month to buy tickets as gifts because there was 20% off the ticket prices if you pay using a 'certain' credit card)

The Canopy Flyer at Lost World USS happens to be one of the many rides I enjoy.



It's such a short ride, but the waiting time is so long because it's so popular.
Just look at the queue! Guess what? Old folks seems to like it too! I see grandma in saris taking the ride too!

The best time to take this ride is at 6 PM! At around 6 PM, there are no queue and you can take the ride over and over again with no waiting time. Get down the ride, go back to the entrance, walk up the ramp and you are next!

Universal Studio Singapore Annual Pass - Fun Pass

Momo and I behaved like little kids for the last few months, we were faithfully collecting spare coins to put into each of our piggy bank. When it finally reached $318 each for our piggy bank, we broke it! We carried the heavy bag of coins to Universal Studios Singapore (USS) and told the lady at the ticket counter: "Please, can we have 2 Annual Pass, the Fun Pass version."

Did we really do that? No, we just took out our iPhone launched the calculator and enter $318 divided by $72 (weekend ticket) and we saw that we just needed to visit Universal Studios 4.4 times to make it worth it. Instead of a bagful of heavy coins, we gave the counter lady a plastic card to purchase 2 plastic cards today!



We are both glad and a little dissapointed when we got the card. We are happy because we are proud owner of the Fun Pass annual pass.

Disappointed because there was no Universal Studios logo on the card! There was only a Resorts World Sentosa Singapore logo and words on the card.



The only indication that it's the Universal Studios Singapore card is at the back of the card.
I have blanked out the original Name, Barcode and Photo from the card. Why? So that you can't print this page out and enter the resort as keropokman!

The Fun Pass version does not allow us 365 days access to USS. The other thousand over dollar "Superstar Pass" version does, but we don't think we can afford it. We don't think we will be entering there everyday!


Anyone out there is a fellow Annual Pass holder? ;-)

Woody Woodpecker @ Universal Studios Singapore

Ooo.. I used to watch Woody Woodpecker when I was a little kid.
Tonight I got see him at Universal Studios Singapore!



I used to think hmmm what can I see inside.
After 1 visit, I think I would want to go in again! I missed out so many other things inside!

I wonder if getting an Annual Pass is considered insane. :-p

The Sentosa Merlion

There are 5 'recognised' by the 'authorities' Merlion in Singapore. This is one of them. It's located at Sentosa and is probably the tallest of them all at 37 metres high.

Do you know you can get inside this Merlion at Sentosa? With a $8 entrance fee, you get to go to the Mouth and the Head (top) of the Merlion.

Momo and I thought it would be silly to pay $8 to go in. But we wondered if we could see Universal Studios from the top! We went to ask the ticket counter folks. They said, you can see part of it! It's only $8 to find out. So we parted with our $16 to find out.

(We thought a fair price would be $5 per person!)




There's a video show in the mini theatre inside the Merlion. It's most probably the most ridiculous story of how Singapore is founded!

Even the Australian tourist from Brisbane that were with us was laughing at it! Half the facts were true, the other half, we would say the story teller had really good imagination!

We got to the top of the Merlion after that. We got to see what we wanted to see! Partially only though.



(if you want to see a larger photo of the photo above, click here. I loaded the original size photo at Flickr. You can zoom in to see the details!)

USS is opening soon, we should just wait till it's open to get in. :-)