A day in China

Judging from the title of this blog, you may have guessed that I been to China recently. The answer is wrong! Recently I went to a 2 days 1 night stay at Sentosa and during this whole entire stay, I conclude I am in China more than in a Singapore Island. I have not been to Sentosa for a long long time and I must admit there are indeed a lot of changes and makeover done to Sentosa. Sad to say, I wasn't really very impressed and attracted with the new makeover. The last time that I went to Sentosa was at least 10 years back which I remembered I was there with my mum, sister and friends. At that time, the main attraction on island was the Underwater World and I remembered the ticket price was a cool $16.00. Imagine $16 at that time was considered a luxury. This time round, Sentosa did improve with more thrilling ride and fun show like 'Songs of the Sea', 'Pink Dolphin Show'. I will say the minimum price for each entry ticket (be it for show or ride), I think the cheapest is the $8 for 'Songs of the Sea'. I was too stingy for all these. I can see a lot of tourist did buy ticket for this and I feel its a shame when at the start of the show, they played songs like 'chan ma li chan', 'lou yang hua gu', etc. Goodness, how you expect Japanese or Caucasian to understand all these. I was thinking to myself 'I had saved another $8'.

During the whole stay, I was rather pissed off by many China tourists! While I was queuing for the tram to the beach, you know the word queueing but those Chinese do not understand at all. The moment they see the tram they just rush for it without any hesitation to be considerate to those who have been queuing obediently. Each row of tram seat can accommodate about 4-5 persons and the way I saw some of these Chinese taking a ride on the tram, I feel like giving up and take the next ride. They are a horrible inconsiderate gang and behaved so uncivilized! Anyway, suay me had a China lady seated beside me. She put her leg up and I saw toe nails on her foot and I feel like puking. Oh no, it appears to me that she have never trim her toe nails from the day 1 she was born till now. Real disgusting and no personal hygiene at all! Puke!

Going back to the point while I was queuing for the tram, before and after me in the queue were both couples. The similarity in these 2 couples is both are Singapore men with China girlfriends! The man in front me who look like in young 40s, dressed up in nice pink shirt and black pants (office attire) and slightly bald, the only conclusion that I have for him to be hooked up with China girlfriend is either 1) Singapore girl won't fall for such slightly bald middle age man or 2) he is actually married but flirting with China girl and this explains why a man dressed in working attire can be seen with a China girl during a weekday. He must have guessed it is safer to date on a island and less the risk of being spotted by friends or relatives.  As for the other couple behind me, this man is a 50yrs old man with a sexy and heavy make up young China girl. I believe this couple needs no more description from me and trust all of us can conclude their relationship. As I was in queue, I have a feeling that I am on a foreign ground more than on Singapore Island. Beside these China girls, tourists, there are also few several groups of China male workers working round the upcoming Resort World developments. From tourist to workers, I can see more China citizens then our own Singapore citizens......hey, where are our fellow people?

As I explored more on the island, I felt Sentosa is an expensive island for family to have fun! Hopefully when the new resort hotel is ready, the island will have more fun for all of us!