Choo Choo Train Adventure With Moo Moo!

Malaysia Boleh?!?

It all began a couple of weeks back when moo shared with me over an msn conversation that she wanted to take the choochoo train to Malaysia -- well because she's never done it before!

That really woke up the adventure bug / everything must try once itch in me , and so when the boss decided to give the whole company a day off on the 19th, we decided that this was too good an opportunity to be missed!

No plan, No schedule, No Itienary, No idea... JUST DO IT!
Guppies love spontaneous fly by the seat of your pants adventures..ahhaha so on Monday morning, me and moo parked ashton at the basement of Fuji Xerox towers...and took a walk to the Tanjong Pagar Train station!

We had no idea what time the train arrives, when it leaves..where it goes to..all we knew was..there was a train that will take us to Johore Bahru Malaysia and it departs from Tanjong Pagar strain station..muahahhah!
here we go here we go here we go... passing through Tanjong Pagar road...to ..where else duh Tanjong Pagar Train Station la! see the smile on the crazy girl's face! I swear she was trembling with excitement ...

cam whoring with roadsigns...yes ..lame but fun! we even waved to the cars who were waiting at the lights...why? BECAUSE WE CAN! :p

Parade of the bumble bees....uh huh...yap.. i noticed this as i was waddling behind moo...

hilarious!

Yay we found the train station after a short walk! and more cam whoring ensued!

funny though...the carpark was rather quiet...and for a train station it was rather..ermmm empty...where is everybody?

carpark attendant saw us camwhoring and wanted in on the action! he actually waved us over and gave us the peace sign...probably thought we were japanese tourists...

moo pointed out to the statue reliefs on the walls of the train station..and said there were words under each statue...excitedly i pointed the guppy cam zoomed in and took many shots...then i realised...duh...all the statues were covered up...in europe they would be naked..with tiny lil willies...duh in Sg / asia i guess everythng has to be covered up ...sigh

no NEKED men statues...hahahahah

When you are spontaneous...u need to be prepared for KWA KWA moments...

kwa kwa is....arriving at the train station just before 11am only to discover that the ONLY AVAILABLE next train leaves at 2pm...and ticket sales only start at 1pm...

no fear....we can always la kopi first...

moo and me sucking thumb at train station coffeeshop wondering what to do with ourselves for the next few hours....grrrrr

"we shall explore the tanjong pagar train station" declared moomoo!

station art.

painted tiles....mostly on transport and trade images

no train but still can camwhore!!!! aiyo ma...time goes by...so slowly..time goes by ,...so slowly...

yes moomoo the next train wont be till 2...and we wont get to JB till 245pm..if we drove or took a cab across the causeway we would b e there already by now...zzzzzzz

"LETS GO SHOPPING LA...somewhere airconditioned come back later at 1.." cries the guppy

"yay, yes ! lets go marina square " - agrees moomoo

and so ..in true kwa kwa fashion....we both hopped into a cab and made our way out of the trainstation back into town to Marina Square shopping mall to kill time

"I am not insane! I am not insane - Malaysia Boleh!!!! choochoo train boleh!" cries the moomoo

we arrived at Marina square and passed by cool signages by Carls Junior burger and could not resist cam whoring! mauhahahah

we finally settled down to coffee, tea and munchies at Dome cafe....sigh feeling totally kwa kwa-ed..

bumblee bee hair clips on mooo

and a big flower on me ...eh there was nothing else to photograph ok.. yes time goes by so slowly..time goes by so slowly...

when we saw passersby in the mall..i couldnt help myself..i will call out at random --" you working today?! awww so poor thing hahahahaha"

eating is a good way to while away the time? sigh...i had malaysia coffeshop food in my head lor...did not expect Dome cafe...at all...ahhahaha

afterfood we went for foot reflexology session at Kenko

some foot pampering before we continue on our adventure across the causeway!!

Then it was back again at the Trainstation! grrrrr this time we were on time, on schedule...and managed to buy ourselves a pair of tickets on the 2pm train outta singapore!

Yes the adventure was back on!

5 sgd dollars per tix...cheap cheap good good!

here we go here we go here we go

YES WE ARE CLEARING MALAYSIA IMMIGRATION!!!!!!! - inside tanjong pagar train station...is malaysia immigration, how odd right ?

YA BEFORE SINGAPORE ...while u are still on singapore soil...u clear malaysia immigration.. apparently the train station land belongs to malaysia?!??!?

wa malaysia really boleh sia!

THE TRAIN HAS ARRIVED!!!!

WOOT WOOT!!!

I think i can i think i can i think i can!!! yay !!!

super duper excited moomooo hops on the train! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

hehehehehehe guppies are excited too!!! so fun to be spontaneous!

we found ourselves seats in the airconditioned cabins and proceeded to do more cam whoring!!!

even managed to convince the ticket inspector to pose for a pic with little guppies while he is checking our tickets ....SUPER JOY!!!!!

We continued on with the journey and soon we arrived at woodlands terminal...the last barrier before we cross over to

Malaysia--- the land of the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVILLLL ..

across the causeway we go!!!!

pipes carrying precious water supplies....sigh

WE MADE IT!!!!! WE HAVE ARRIVED!!!!

TOUCH DOWN JOHORE BAHRU TERMINAL!!!! muahahahhahahaah!!!! There were a few running themes to our spontaneous choochoo train adventure

1. choochoo train

2. kwa kwa

3, yellow...

what is with the yellow man!? "I DID IT I DID IT " declared a happie moomooo

"yes yes u did it...can we go shopping now?" cried guppy

crossing the overhead bridget to the nearest big mall across the train station...central mall i think... woooo so many motorbikes parked beside the train station...

We roamed the mall for a few hours...the next train out was supposed to be 7 and tickets were supposed to be available for purchase at 630pm... we had time to kill and shop for stuff :D with ringgit mauahhahahah

guppies bought 2 pairs of shoes from vincci and 2 hello kitty mouse mats...joy joy!

Happiest moment --- BASKIN ROBBINS ICE CREAM!!! CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT BUTTER FLAVOUR for mooo...

I had a dejavu bangkok moment...zzzzzzzzz

didnt buy alot of stuff.everything is technically available back home so moo only bought more chippies and snacks...

we settled down to some portuguese BBQ chicken dinner....it didnt look much and i only loved the gravy...hahaha but it was good grub for hungry guppies

Malaysia Tidak Boleh?

at around 630 we went back to the train station to try to get tix home....but were told the train would be delayed and only available at 730pm...

so we waiteed in front of the only working airconditioning unit in the trainstation...hahahahah

730 came and went..still no train! grrrrr '

it was approaching 8, we were tired, sleepy...and generally sweaty from the humidity...in the end moo moo made a decision -- WE TAKE CAB HOME LAH!

HAHahhaah so we asked around and eventually found out we had to hike all the way to the puteri pan pacific hotel a couple of blocks down the road...where we were supposed to find a bus terminal that had taxis that can take you down to Singapore...

We took a hike to the hotel...but alas! that was not the place...and eventually moo got the hotel to hail us a local cab,....to take us to the bus station...to catch our taxi to singapore ( :S) yes v v v v complicated...

long story short...chooo chooo train journey ended with a shared cab home...with 2 strangers...HAHAHAH i tried to take more pix across the causeway..but customs officials made me delete those pics....booooooooooooooooooooooooooo

All in all I think this was a GREAT adventure...i was exhausted ffrom all the walking and the humidity but ..heheheheheh i love spontaneous nutty adventures!

MORE! NEED MORE MADNESS PLEASE!!!