Just finished watching the Singapore F1 and Alonso wins on Singapore soil again! This time he is driving for Ferrari instead. Lewis Hamilton was out of the race due to an accident. This probably puts him out of the rest of the championship, in which Mark Webber is the leading man. Went to watch the F1 yesterday with Li Teng, thanks to free tix from his gf, Meiqi, who volunteered in this event. Cool man, didn't think that a girl like Meiqi was so onz about F1, and even so onz until wanna be a volunteer. Thanks to that, she got free tix for all 3 days and thus giving me and LT the Saturday tix.
22nd September 2010, Wednesday
It was COB at Capital Square. Me and a few other people had to go there for work for that one day. Quite an interesting experience, although there were plenty of cock-ups. Got to see the other people that we liaise with at Cap Sq, as well as their workplace. We had lunch at Beppu Ramen at China Square. It's a totally different atmosphere compared to what we have at CBP. Plenty of eye candy lol, as compared to our "Little India" zZZzz... The only drawback would be the rush hour jams and sardine trains.
After we were done for the day, we proceeded with our plan to meet up at Marine Parade for dinner and Koi, then to ECP for a mid-autumn festival celebration. Feels like being a little kid again, playing with lanterns, lightsticks and sparklers.
We bought loads of sparklers and lanterns for everyone. After lighting up all our lanterns, we then decided to draw our names using the sparklers. Luckily we brought some lightsticks and we practised drawing with them first. In the end, it was very beautiful ART we've created. All 9 of us will definitely have this beautiful memory etched into our minds forever.
Pictures courtesy of Aaron unless otherwise stated.
25th September 2010, Saturday
After collecting my passport at the ICA building, I went to meet up with Leonard at VivoCity for lunch and then went to check out Cafe Del Mar at Sentosa. We took the Sentosa Express to the last station, Beach Station, and walked for just five minutes to reach Cafe Del Mar. We talked to the Assistant Manager, who is called Baillie (makes me wanna drink some Bailey's). He showed us around the place. I also took plenty of pix so that we can show them to the Year-End Party Committee.
After we're done with our site visit, I went to meet up with Li Teng for the F1 event at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. We met at Esplanade station and walked to Gate 3 of the circuit. Grabbed a Survival Kit each at $2 from the people standing around the entrance. Trigger-happy mode till we reached our seats at the Dark Green Block of the Bay Grandstand area. Some Porsche racing event was going on. I then went to check out the other areas around the circuit while LT stayed on to shoot at the Bay Grandstand area.
Got myself a survival kit. Will go deaf without those earplugs!
Lotsa merchandise for the F1 fan.
Porsche racing cars.
There were plenty of performances around the circuit and I walked on to check out the Daughtry concert held at the Padang. It was an awesome atmosphere. Daughtry belted out their hit songs one after another, ending with "Home". Then it was time for the practice round starting at 8pm. I went around to shoot at the viewing platforms on the Esplanade Bridge.
Capoeira performance.
Very energetic dance moves.
Can you do that?
Series of pix showing the guy doing a backflip. Awesome!
These dudes doing their melodious African sounds.
Daughtry live at the Padang!
Jam up the place Daughtry!
The fans love you!
Time for the final practise round.
If I only I had such lenses...
Panned shot.
Was pretty close to the cars at this part of the circuit.
Can you believe they actually pay $100+ to rent this thing for the night just to see/hear the live results?
After that me and LT had dinner at Ichiban Boshi @ Esplanade. Freaking tired, hungry and thirsty after all that walking and shooting. We charged up our energies before the qualifying round started. Shot a few more pix before we called it a day. Meiqi then met up with us and then they went off to do some shopping (at that hour!?) lol. It was 12 midnight already. I continued to check out the Adam Lambert concert at the Padang again. That chow ah gua really can sing and put up a magnificent and energetic performance for the fans. Nice way to end the night. Woo! F1 rocks!
Nothing like a good Japanese Yakiniku set to charge up our batteries.
Back at Bay Grandstand to witness the qualifying round.
Even MBS lights up with F1 designs.
The pass that I cannot keep >_<...
I'm almost as tall as them. Who needs stilts? Hahaa!
Podium finish for the three of us.
Victory!
To top it all up, Adam Lambert dishes out his hits.
He sure got the crowd moving!
Great concert to end the night. Woohoo!
