Shophouse The Social Hostel

Assalamualaikum. I woke up a bit earlier than usual today like I was preparing for fasting, but actually I'm not. What exciting me the most of early morning is, it's super duper quiet since it's a bedtime for most of the people, while I prefer to have daydream, hibernation and reflection on myself. I think it's a pretty cool thing I've done so far and I'm proud of it. See! the coolest thing for me is the lamest thing people would think, I guess.

So, this was my staying place while I was in Singapore, the Shophouse Hostel! It was my first experience staying in this kind of hostel and I rate it 8 out of 10 stars! Frankly speaking I used to live in hostel, dorm or whatever you call it, but that was when I was in school. But of course it have lots of differences between the school hostel and this type of hostel. I mean the school-hostel is self-service, while service-hostel is more like hotel but of course it lacks in term of facilities. I had a really good experiences while I was leaving at Shophouse and for sure I'll stay at this place again when I'm going to Singapore in the future.

The cafe is at the lower ground and the cafe cashier counter cum receptionist is at the same place. So I was a bit confused while I was about to check-in because I thought the counter might be in different places. But how do you expect the small space to have many counters, right?

Shophouse The Social Hostel is located at Arab Street, it's very near from Kampong Glam. If you plan of going here by MRT, do drop yourself at Bugis Station, next to Raffles Hospital.

This is the counter that I was talking about. The staffs are local, friendly and young! I bet they're in early 20's.

I was about to check-out! Keep it clean and no-mess, ya!

The washrooms were very clean and I like it.

This one was very small and I didn't bother myself to enter the room.

The breakfast menu but you can have these for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper as you please.

See! The Sultan Mosque is like one to two steps from this place. Freaking near!

The Raffles Hospital which is next to MRT Bugis Station.

Rooftop Balcony

The mingling place for travelers.

Leave your marks here, pals!

This is how to educate people and I like it. Rules are made for education and it's good... to be good.

Siloso Beach

Assalamualaikum. I didn't know what the hell was wrong with this pc, I was waiting like an hour ago before I can start writing this entry. Does it have to do with anti-virus? It stopped working recently and I have no time to fix it up, neither care about it. It does look like it was my mistake, but it was such a heart breaking waiting for this machine to perform correctly. Stress!

Siloso Beach is one of the beach in Sentosa Island and the largest among the other beaches. The other two are Palawan Beach and Tanjong Beach. Actually I was hoping to visit all the beaches but since it was pretty late, so I can do nothing about it. Then I decided going to the best point and Siloso Beach was the answer! 

When I first arrived here, there were not many people around since it was weekday, but the beautiful part of it, it's quite and you'll rarely find quiet place since it's entirely an island city. But I bet it'll be totally crowded during weekend since Sentosa is the famous and recommended place in Singapore! If you're wondering how to get to those beaches, the first alternative is walking. Walking along the beach will be very refreshing, but do not expect more. Just saying. The other alternative is taking the tram and it's free ride! But expect delay because I've waited more than 30 minutes but it was supposed to come in every 10 minutes. I was wondering why would it late when the road will never be busy. I didn't think I saw a single car taking the same road as the tram???

There are 3 Sentosa Express stations in the island which are Waterfront Station (Universal Studios), Imbiah Station (Merlion Plaza and Imbiah Lookout) and the end point is Beach Station (The Three Beaches mentioned before).

There are a lot of activities can be done at the beach. The more companies you bring, the merrier it gets!

Do expect cleaner on the beach. They'll clean you if you act like rubbish. Just saying.

Rent a bike for more happy moments! It also good for health.

The Luge! It's like mini go-kart but the starting point is from the hill. I think it'll be very fun for.. children. It's extremely not extreme at all... I tend to get excited for something really really EXTREME.

Sentosa Boardwalk

Assalamualaikum and Good Evening! Btw, it's almost midnight! No wonder I keep yawning while surfing this and that. Arghh! It's totally irritating whenever you're on writing mood but the mind didn't go along with it. Fine. I just know my system didn't get along well with one to another. What the heck are they doing actually playing with me? I mean, I am the owner of the body, you guys! You should've respect me in the first place, right? Urm.. okay.. I started talking nonsense.. I think I'm quite out of my mind.. a bit.. I guess.. lol

So, have you ever thought of using Sentosa Boardwalk as an alternative to get through to Sentosa Island? Or to be exact, the one and only the famous Singapore best attraction, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS? If you're Malaysian, I would recommend to have this way rather than the other choices which are train, bus, taxi and cable car. Why do Malaysian should take this and not the other alternatives? Urm.. from my point of view, Genting's cable car is the best in Malaysia and the fare is very cheap compared to Sentosa cable car. So, why do bother trying something very expensive whenever you can have a better choices. But it's just my recommendation, of course I won't get mad if you prefer taking the cable car. For sure, the view is totally different from Genting Highland and Langkawi. For train, it's a bit costly.

If you're prefer taking other transport, you can help yourself searching on the main Sentosa Island website or other various websites that you could easily found everywhere. But for this post, I really want you to pleasure yourself by taking a leisure stroll with beautiful hand-made scenery of the Sentosa Island from Vivo City shopping mall to the island by strolling with your companies with 700 meters only and you gotta pay only $1 for return. Have you ever thought what return means here? It means you can take train for free from the island to Vivo City. And the beauty of this train is, you can take Sentosa Express as many times as you want, as long as you didn't let yourself out from the island. Once you get to the island, you'll no longer pay for the others drop on - drop off station. How cool is that, right? 

The canopy boardwalk never look far from here. You already see the island from this starting point.

Travelators is suitable for people who too lazy to walk!

You can dine here before continuing your short journey to the island. Do you see the Carlsberg sign? So, I encourage the Muslims not to drop yourself here. I'm pretty sure it's non-Halal restaurant.

Excited? Only 170 meters left. We'll arrive to the end point in a very short minutes.