Friday, March 14, 2008

Singapore flyer

As a kid, did you ever dreamt bout flying? A breath-taking bird's eye view of everything and everything looked small to you. The feeling of peace as you look down below you, everything which looked chaotic and messy seems soo peaceful. Well, this dream might become a reality to you if you have had a ride in the Singapore flyer. What is this Singapore flyer i spoke about? Its similar to a ferris wheel but instead, its known as an observation wheel.
I am sure many of you would not be interested in all the facts and figures and the difference between a ferris wheel and observation wheel. Allow me to share with you my personal experience when I was on my trip to the Singapore flyer.
We were all hyped up on the bus preparing for the trip to the Singapore flyer. However when we heard about how high the Singapore flyer was, our mind started wondering everywhere on how it would be like on the flyer. On a 42 stories high observation wheel... what is it like? Scary? Well that was what we all assume. When we all disembarked from the bus. All of us stopped our chattering and started admiring and staring at the Singapore flyer. Some of us whom are appointed the role of the group's photographer went on and started taking some shots of the Singapore flyer. However those who are afraid of heights already planned on what they were going to do during the entire trip of the flyer. Sitting there and doing nothing, covering their eyes... While we were all waiting for the teachers to get the tickets, we splitted into our groups and discussed our plan on who would do what in order to enjoy and complete our work.
Once the teacher received our tickets, we all proceded to the capsile. we had to hurry as the capsule would not wait for us to board it. When we boarded the capsule, we found out that it was much more stable than any of us had assumed. As the capsule turned steadily, we started our work, snapping photos, looking out for monuments and measuring the graph. In fact, some of us thought that we were too engrossed with our work to be afraid of the height we were at. However the truth was that we were not at all afraid when we were on the flyer. Heres the prove. Many of us were actually going around taking photos from every possible angle in the flyer. That means getting up close to all the edges of the windows. The view from the flyer was extremely picturesque. None of us could deny the fact and we all just could not resist the temptation to take photographs of the scenic view.
The entire trip took 30 minutes to complete a round. Once we got down of the flyer. We were able to take our lunch break however there was nothing there apart from a seven eleven store. After our lunch break, we went to the rooftop garden to do our mindmapping on our group topics. After that was done, we embarked for home.
From all our friends recount, most of them said that they were afraid at first and anticipated the flyer to be more scary. However they were all proven wrong.

4 comments:

jing(: said...

Hey you don't know me, but i have used your recount of the singapore flyer as part of my english project. and i credited you for it, so i hope you wouldn't mind. (:

jae, 15 said...

HEY, xj, are you xinjing? :D
anws, i used your recount too, :D
credited. (:
hope you don't mind too! (:
thankyouverymuch:D

HuRtandHeA! said...

my gawd. its like all the sngs ppl are here luh..I have totally no idea what to write(as i've never actually been on it before)yea, so i hope you don't mind if i used the recount^^

Jing Ting said...

well um i have also used your recount of the singapore flyer as part of my english project. um ya we are all from SNGS so um hope you wouldn't mind.