Susubear Little Inn: Murdoch Convocation 2008 - Raffles City Convention Centre, Swissotel

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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Murdoch Convocation 2008 - Raffles City Convention Centre, Swissotel

After 10months of waiting ...

I present to you Murdoch Convocation 2008 at Raffles City Convention Centre, Swissotel, Singapore

I headed down to Singapore on Tuesday morning with First Coach. During one of our stop, there's tons of flies flying around in the bus and I almost ate one fly. Eww, that's the second time I'm there and that stop is always the fly kingdom. Reached Sg around 4.30p.m and we headed straight to my mom's friend house located at Paya Lebar, east of Sg. The place I stayed is pretty near Geylang so everytime I will passby motels, hotels and whatever you call those places. Mostly Singaporeans stayed in flats and their lifts are pretty weird, they only stop at specific floors and you need to walk up to where you are staying.

She's such a cute girl, I stayed with her for the past 3 days and she just stick to us most of the time. She can tell you tons of story and she will ask you tons of question. She's only 6 years old but already as smart as a 12years old girl.

After resting for a while and had our dinner, we headed to Bugis Street aka the Petaling Street in Singapore to walk around. Shopping of course, I bought one watch, one dress and one pair of shoes that only cost Sgd25 in total. I must go there again, the market have much more things compared to those low quality stuffs we have here. Surprisingly, at 10.15pm the bus is still packed with people.

The next morning woke up at around 8.30am and we headed down for shopping around 10am at those complexes near to the place we stayed. Guess what, we realised that Sg shops only open at 11am, so what are we gonna do for an hour?

Sitting and waiting for shop to open for business.

After that we headed back for a bath and lunch then prepare to go Raffles to collect my gown. We asked many people about Raffles Convention Centre, mostly told me that they have changed the name to Suntech Convention Centre and there's no such place. I asked the taxi man again and he said so too and fetched us there. Upon reaching the destination we headed inside and found that there's no Murdoch Convocation at all and we walked all the way up to 6th floor which has the most scary ever escalator, even more steep than the one you see in Genting which is attached to First World hotel. Feels like I'm on the way up the roller coaster and that was how steep the escalator.

So what should I do next??? I called shan shan, glad that she know that place and we took another taxi and headed to Raffles City shopping centre. Ok, fine that place is located up at a shopping centre and attached to Swissotel. Sighh, Murdoch please post a clearer venue for us. I collected my regalia and mortar and headed down for photo shooting. Again, I was unable to find that place, I ran all the way up there again as my phone was out of credit, just to realise that photo shooting was just located right behind the place I collected my regalia which is in the same ball room.

I was sweating like mad while taking those photos. I wonder how do I look like ... I'm still waiting for the people to upload and order the utmost expensive package ever in AUD. Once in a life time, what to do ...