As I have said in my posts earlier and on twitter, I went on a cruise this holiday! An European one.
-Which means, I've been hearing people speak in French, Italian and Spanish. Whether is it the guest on board or the crews.
Which then means that I've picked it up a little since I've been listening to people speak in these languages because whenever an announcement is made, it's always first made in French, Italian, English then Spanish.
Yeap! I had to listen realllll hard when they speak in English and if I couldn't catch what they're saying, it was just too bad for me.
Friday morning, all packed up and ready!!
Over at habourfront to check in the luggages.
Over at pasir panjang...
YAY!!! Ready to board the cruise!!
And if you were wondering.... yep, that pic above with my bro inside is actually the lobby of the cruise. Looks just as much as a normal hotel right!
The coridoor to our cabins!
Then, we started raining.................
We were still in Sg btw, though we were already on board the cruise. Basically, everytime the cruise stops at a certain destination, people are able to get down for a tour or just go around freely on their own!
sorry, I had to do this..............
It's just a habit for me whenever I get into a hotel and see a large mirror in the toilet.
I just had to do it.
So yeap, a view of our cabin! Yeah, it was pretty small. I was pretty disappointed as well because I thought we were getting a suite but instead,
oh wellz.
I was staying on the 5th floor!!
And if you were wondering, we weren't actually exploring the place. Maybe a little? But our main aim was actually to find where the eatery and restaurant was. WE WERE REALLY HUNGRY!!
YAY!!!! Finally found food!!
After eating, we went up on the capri/deck which was on the 13/14th floor
And the view........................................
nah, no view. we were still in SG.
There was even a theatre in the cruise!!!! Every night after dinner, a performance will be put up by their own crew!
Even so, the fact that it was by their own crew, the performances were realllllllllllllllly good! Almost all of their crew members are talented!! They can really sing really really well!!!! And by that, I actually meant opera kind of well.
I don't get it why they aren't doing operas and all but are serving on the cruise. really.
Alright, theatre.
Back in my cabin. And the photo of the cruise which I took earlier on, way up, already started sailing while for mine, still in SG -.-
-_- ship not moving yet
Then, dinner time!!!!!
Only the restaurant is open during dinner. Which is a 7 course meal!!
So yeah, I had western food, 7 course meal daily on the ship. BUT GUESS WHAT! I lost 1kg -.-
Doesn't even make any sense? lol
And around 8pm, the cruise finally started moving..............
went to the theatre to catch the performance!!
And sneaked into the casino..
And got stucked there obviously.. It was just so exciting to watch. Would be even better if I could play though :/
Exchanged some coins. A little but yeah.... everything on the ship is basically in euros!!
Nah, no gambling. I DIDN'T GAMBLE!! Instead, we played in the arcade..
Visited the library after that.
Ordered hot chocolate. And their hot chocolate was reallllllllllllly rich. And thick. So think that it was pretty undrinkable.
Supper time!!
Back in my cabin.
Couldn't really sleep on the first night and woke up pretty early like around 5am?
And sat and watched the sea from my window view till 7am.
Morning faces.
And we reached our first destination. Port Klang!! -KL!!
Didn't get down though, I went to KL too many times. So I visited the gym and jacuzzi instead.
Just visit. Not exercise.
And went for lunch.
Super mini apple.
And watched my bros play mahjong with my grandma after that. I WANNA LEARN HOW TO PLAY MAHJONG!!
Time for Jacuzzi and Sauna!!
And back to my cabin! My cabin steward was really cute. HAHAH. Look at what he did to my bear!!
LOL. TRYING TO ENTERTAIN MYSELF PRETENDING TO BE A REAL ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHER.
Apparently failed.
We had art and crafts lesson everyday as well!!
Then dinner again.
Uhm, the crews really love performing and they usually put up a show every night at the dinner table.
3rd day on cruise!! PHUKET!!
One of the waiters I've met and one of my favourite, Delgado from Brazil.
YAY WE'RE REACHING THAILAND!!
At phuket, we had to take a tenderboat to the island because this ship couldn't dork at the beach.
LOL!
Less than 10 mins and we reached phuket island!
Can you see how clean the water is!!!???????????!
We went on a tour a phuket. First stop, elephant company.
Where we had our elephant ride.
And I got to sit on no.1!! The biggest and oldest elephant there!!
Some monkey show. Boringggggggggggggg
Then elephant show.. Poor elephants ): The elephants were so polite!! Esp the baby elephant. She kept saying thank you!! Which I could free them and put them in some elephant jungle and take care of them instead of having them stay there to do tricks.
Visited one of the largest and oldest temple in Phuket
looks like universal studio. lol
k, this is pretty scary. The girl(?) there...
DID YOU SEE THE BUDDAH UP ON THE MOUNTAIN?? The mountain is pretty far away (I used zoom that's why it looks so big) But even if I didn't use zoom, the Buddha can actually be seen from superrrrrrrrrrr farrrrrrrrrrrrr awayyyyyyyyyyy!!
Went to Cheshunut factory after that. (idk how to spell it)
Was so happy I found milo!!!!! I cannot live without milo longer than 3 days! So happyyyyy!! But I got pretty disappointed after drinking it. Their milo doesn't taste like milo at all.
Back to take the tenderboat back to cruise!
The lighted thing there is our cruise.
ok, so this was when my cruise trip started to become a little sucky. I took a different boat back and I forgot to take my motion sickness med.
Guess you can guess what happened after that eh..
I was really freaking nauseas and my head was really painful.
Still, I went for dinner...
After drinking my soup, I vomited everything out and had to head back to the cabin to change.
Didn't know why I held it in and try not to vomit.
It really feels so much better after vomiting!! Though I was all dirty and smelly. lol.
So yeah, back to shower and then right after that I actually went back to the restaurant for dinner.
Talk about me eating too little huh. I ACTUALLY EAT A LOTTTTTTTTT.
And went for the midnight bbq at the capri for more food.
Spot the cute christmas tree in the above pic ^^
And I found out they actually have one of my favourite sauce on cruise!!
TABASCO SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This made me enjoy the food even more.
Ordered hot chocolate again and this time, I really couldn't finish them because it was really so damn thick, I had to ask the waitress to add more hot water into it.
This ship actually stopped at phuket for 2 days. But I didn't go down on the second day in phuket fearing the tenderboat ride because I didn't want to feel unwell again.
So breakfastttttttttt
Arts and craft lesson on that day was to make costume for the costume party.
LOL
Pardon my enthu mom up there.
Dinner time!!
And I asked for Tabasco sauce.
LOL. I don't wanna explain this part here. But yeah. My tutu skirt. LOL
Super cute bottles of alcohol.
5th day, Langkawi
Really had to buy some lip balm because the cruise was really so dry, my skin almost cracked and so did my lips.
Chanced upon this lip ice thingy and decided to buy it for this lip ice thing saved me from looking sickly during prom night this year!!
I was damn pale and looked as if I'm a ghost or something and thanks to Theo, she lent me her lip balm so I wouldn't look so sickly.
And there was this super duper anorexic woman on cruise with us. She's a real example of anorexic! NOT ME!!
Lunch time!!!!
The crews there are really nice!! Because there were quite a few groups of cheenas on board and a few Japs who couldn't get used to the daily European, Italian and western food, they crews on board made an effort to change the menu and also have some Jap/chinese cuisine!!
Efforts noted!!
Lol. They thought Dragons are pretty Japanese.
YAY! MISO SOUP!!
Dinner!!
The waiters decided to put up another performance.
My loots from Langkawi.
I really had to have maggie after so many days of eating European food. CAN DIEEEE.
Went to take a look at the costume party,
Peneng the next day!!!!
So we shopped for awhile and headed to Chinatown street where we aimed to find the famous Peneng laksa and Chao Kuay Tiao!
Found it!! This wasn't the only famous one but we couldn't be bothered to find it anymore. We decided to just settle for this old shop filled with lots of people.
I have to say this grandma here makes the best fried idk what, ngoh hiam everrrrrrrrrr!
YAY! MILO!!
And I must say, Peneng Laksa is really one of the best ever!! It's a must try even though you have to travel all the wayyyyyyyyy down to Peneng!
Their laksa is kinda like mee siam but it's laksa! And it's really good!!!!
Talking about it now makes me drool. Really wanna go back there for it now!
Yes, this is what I was talking about. The grandma makes really nice whateveryoucallthis. It was realllllllllllllllllly good!! Ok, I feel like going back there now. lol ):
Chengdol was pretty good too.
And Peneng's chao kuay tiao!
And if you were wondering why I could take this photo of the custom, it was because there's no one there. LOL. and yet, they make it compulsory for us to walk through the custom.
Then for dinner,
GALA NIGHT!!
Guess there's no need to me to explain about it? Everyone had to dress up for the GALA dinner.
It was also a farewell dinner for us before we the cruise goes to Malacca and then head back to Singapore.
We were wondering who's the people sitting at the table next to us because they were never present throughout the week!!
Don't they need dinner?????
And on that night, we found out why.
They were the captains of the ship!!
Looking so smart. I think I wanna be a captain too! heheh. I'm honestly considering!!
My parents ordered red wine and I was allowed to drink.
not nice though.
OH! btw, the guy behind me was our waiter.
he's really nice and he really takes care of us but sometimes, he really gives us too much food to finish.
His name is Jeorge btw
Farewell performance
Every night, my bear will be waiting for me. HAHAH. so qt
Stuffs done during arts and class by my mum. lol
Ok, and let me fast forward to the last night on cruise! Dinner time!!
Didn't get down at Malacca because we have to take a tenderboat to the shore. Didn't want to risk feeling unwell so I decided to stay on cruise. I tried the Turkish bath which is realllllllllll good!!
Random pic of a shirt I bought at peneng.
And next morning, we reached Singapore.
So this basically sums up my whole time on the cruise.
Overall experience was pretty ok except for the day where we got down to ship and took a tenderboat to phuket then, I felt sick.
Rest were pretty ok. I was actually counting down the days back to Singapore because I was pretty home sick!!
I was like
me: yay!! 1 more day and we're back to Singapore!
dad: stupid leh. you having holidays and you're counting down.
me: I'm home sick.... :/
dad: home sick? you missing who. your whole family is over here!
me: my bed lah! my room??! Then you meh!
But if I were to rate clubmed and compare it to cruise, I must say clubmed is better. In many many many ways. Especially variety of food wise, food quality wise and staff service. I feel like a princess over at clubmed but duh, because clubmed is pretty much for the ATAS but still..
I hope you guys spent your holidays well!!
:)
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