River Hong Bao 2010

OT (Off-topic) : Today I transferred 88 photos! 这是个好兆头啊！

Last Sunday (初一) my family went down to the River Hong Bao 2010.

It's at the floating platform at Marina Bay, so we can get to be on the floating platform :D and as well as to walk on F1 race track :D X3! Here's various perspectives of Marina Bay from the floating platform:
The Mandarin Oriental hotel and the Pan Pacific hotel at the background
The old Supreme Court
The Esplanade
The famous "Singapore Skyline" :D
The upcoming Marina Bay Sands IR!
Oh yah and I have to add on that it's a FABULOUS idea to hold the River Hong Bao there; at least there's plenty of space to walk about ;)

Before I go on, I have to mention the funfair (carnival rides) next to the floating platform. There are quite a few rides there, and some of those are very very scary! Here's some of them:
In this ride "Sky Rider", can you see that the people are being swung very close to the tree branches on the right? Also, I was telling my brother how dangerous this ride was: if somehow the cable between the ride and the seat broke loose, the person on the seat may fly towards (and hit) the seating gallery? Like that the poor fella will "good game" liao! (Touch wood! Touch wood!)


In this ride "Vortex" people are swung around in circles (going from up to down and back up again) . There are two places where people brave enough to try the ride can sit. While the people at the bottom get off/on the ride, the people at the top will be left "hanging around" mid air! Imagine being high up in the night, with cool wind blowing pass you! Once I saw that no one wanted to ride the ride, so the ride was stationary, while there were people at the top! They stayed there for 10+ minutes until a few brave souls stepped forward to try the ride ...

Going on, here are some more pictures:





There are more photos that I want to put up but my internet connection is pretty slow, so that's it for now. Here are some "take-home messages" :D