hits a home run: Universal Studios Singapore

Reached the land of pyramids!

Snapped some photos of Egypt first before proceeding to sit "The Revenge of the Mummy" ride!

Sis with two of the Anubis

Close-up! Check out the Anubis' muscular legs!

Turned into the pyramid to sit the rides after that but had to head to the locker room first to place our belongings!

Because for this ride, the USS personnel do not allow any bags, caps (even on your head is a absolute no-no) or cameras as they are afraid the item(s) would drop or fall off the roller-coaster since your hands must be placed on the restraint device at all times (in order to keep yourself in the roller-coaster)

Anyway, just had to rave about the locker system, especially since it's free! Well, only for the first 30 minutes that is! But it's absolutely different from our college lockers! It's like so damn computerized and high-tech!

First you key in your birth date, a password and choose a color from orange, red, yellow and green (possibly the various rows) then the computer would allocate you a locker according to the color you chose and auto-open the locker for you! And the best thing is that there's no key!

You must be wondering how are we going to re-open the locker to take out our belongings if there's no key! No no, we ain't David Copperfield! It's really simple! We just proceed to the same computer and key in our birth date and password and it will automatically re-open our locker again! Now, how cool is that?! Wow, man, the computer must have some super memory!

Anyway, after settling our belongings into the locker, we finally went in for the ride!!!

The storyboard title

Oh yeah, had an inside joke with my sis that they probably had arranged people to hide somewhere inside and they would appear and pull your sleeves or clothes (or in my case, my pigtails) Think I read and watched too much "Matilda" when I was young!

****SPOILERS AHEAD****

...And oh my gosh, it was super duper fun! The roller-coaster would go into this pitch black darkness then the King of Mummies or whatever started yakking away about some book of death or something and about wanting to take away your soul or blood or whatever and that you will never get to leave alive!

Then the roller-coaster would go front in a very fast speed and then jerk suddenly and go backwards again so you feel like you are falling down a cliff of some kind! Oh and the roller-coaster would go forward forward and forward then backwards then front again so you feel like the roller-coaster is being spun 360 degrees!

At the very end, the roller-coaster would go forward at a bullet speed but there's a brick wall ahead and the roller-coaster didn't show signs of stopping! And the moment the roller-coaster collide with the brick wall, that's when your heart would be in your mouth! But, thank goodness, the brick wall will later collapse (visual animation) to reveal another roller-coaster track behind it and thereafter, the ride comes to a end!

Anyway, it was super thrilling that I feel like going again, again! But my sister and I looked at my mom and she looked like she was about to faint! Lol!

Mom was saying that it was really frightening when the roller-coaster went down backwards, she was gripping the restraint device so hard as she was afraid she would be flung off the roller-coaster and that she closed her eyes and didn't dare to see half the time!

Which was seriously such a waste cause it wasn't that scary but my sis and I agreed that it was great great fun! A definite must-go!

Kim's fun rating for Revenge of the Mummy Ride: 4.5/5 ->MUST MUST MUST-GO!!!

Exited Egypt and went on to Star Trek World...or rather...Sci-Fi World!

USS Sci-fi performer on Stilts

Check out the infrastructure of the ride

Close-up!!!

Traveled back to Jurassic Park to sit the ride!

Final shot of Far Far Away <3

Sleeping Beauty

Cinderella

Snow White

Rapunzel

Took this while waiting for Mom to come out of the toilet

Thereafter, we went to watch Waterworld! Apparently, it takes about three hours to prepare for every show, which means if you missed this, you have to wait another three hours! Anyway, so we went there rather early and tons of people were already there waiting to enter the area!

As soon as the area opened, like oh my gosh, everyone starting running like as if they were marathon runners and ran into the waiting area! My sis and I were rather skeptical to run but my mom, even at her age, had already ran along with the others and were miles ahead of us! Sis and I couldn't believe our eyes and shot "WTF???" looks at each other!

Anyway, so god-forbidden, we quickly ran too, in order to keep up with my mom in case she falls down while running or something! But, when we went into the waiting area, we had to wait another 30 minutes too!

Oh and I spotted some woman beside me who was wearing long sleeve and I was like staring at her and thinking how she's able to survive this damn humid weather!

At approximately 3.00pm, the door finally opened and everyone practically zoomed inside (like something out of a zombie or pandemic movie) Again, Kiasuism! Lol!

Once inside, there was front and back seats and the front seats were divided into three sections! Section 1 (Extreme front): Soak Zone (Definitely get wet), Section 2: Splash Zone (May get wet) and Section 3: Sprinkle Zone (A lil' wet)

Being adventurous ones, we chose...SPLASH ZONE!

The stage for the Waterworld performance

Mom and Sis!!!

Anyway, so before the performance started, some muscular and rather good-looking guys were interacting and entertaining us by splashing water from their water buckets and water guns at us! Even those people sitting at the "Sprinkle Zone" were not spared as some of them (depends on your luck) was also rather soaked!

Some people opened up their (purple) umbrellas as a way to dodge the "sudden" splash;

But the guy went behind them and splashed water down their backs!

In short, no one was spared! Lol!

The props above

Didn't take any photos of the performance as I was afraid the camera would end up being drenched and because sis wanted to take a video of it to show dad!

But the performance was amazing, like a B-budget Hollywood "live" action film with gun shots, M16 rifles, bombs, explosions and filled with flying and diving stunts!

Although it was a smaller scale one compared to the actual Waterworld performance at the original Universal Studios in the U.S., but hey still spectacular and definitely not something you get to see everyday! Plus, I don't know how these stuntmen/woman or actors get the energy to repeat all these everyday for all the show slots! Absolutely admirable!

Kim's fun rating for Waterworld: 3.8/5 -> Entertaining!!!

Strolled over to Jurassic Park for the ride and by golly, it took us 3 insane hours to queue for the ride alone!

Check out the insanely long queue please! And it's only Part 1 of the queue!

Oh yeah, the plasma telly was playing some documentary and it looked so realistic (showing some scientists uncovering some dinosaur fossils and how baby dinosaurs were hatched from their eggs in today's world) that it had my mom fooled!

Mom was asking whether this documentary were real and that scientists managed to hatch dinosaur eggs, I'm like, "Erm Mom, dinosaurs were extinct thousands of decades ago even before actual humans came to earth (excluding prehistoric flintstones/cavemen), it's impossible to even find a single specimen of dinosaur's DNA."

The cute "No Smoking" dino sign

A cautionary sign; which explains why people wore on ponchos minutes before the ride

Uh-oh Rainy!

So you guys, better don't piss me off or I would turn into one and tear you apart <3

The fantasy island boat thingy where you are supposed to put your bags in between your legs and clamp it tightly and hold onto the steering wheel thingy at all times

****SPOILERS AHEAD****

So when it was our turn, we went into the boat thingy and it was nine to one boat, three on either sides! Anyway, we didn't bring any ponchos as we brought extra clothes to change into! The seats on the boat were already wet so your shorts will definitely get wet, just by sitting down!

And...off we go! The boat landed on a stream and a "voice" began introducing us to Jurassic Park and there were really detailed research facility buildings, signs and even a 24-hr surveillance camera (to fully immense you, like in the movie) along the stream!

As our boat followed the movement of the stream, we saw a cute harmless normal dinosaur along it! And as our boat approaches the dark cave, the peaceful situation changes and a "voice" informs us that there's danger as the research went awry and dinosaurs have broken out of their enclosed facility!

Inside the dark cave, everything was pitch black and as our boat floated forward, we hear dinosaur growls nearby and soon we saw a T-Rex which had broken out of it's cage and growling menacingly at you! But by then, I was already too tired to care (as we had been in USS from 10am - 5pm) and my eyes were like gradually closing!

Suddenly, the water current would increase and the boat will be thrust forward into a lift! The lift brought our float up to the highest level at an extremely fast speed and there was a huge T-Rex growling directly above us (like as if they wanted to eat us) - my eyes were practically half-closed by then due to exhaustion!

After that, some hidden opening at the side abruptly opened, the float fell some height into the stream and "SPLASH!", the water hit all of us especially me! So the rest were all relatively dry except me, I was drenched to the bone!

Some "evidence" below, of how drenched I was!

drenched...

...drenched...

...and the dry!

Survivor of Jurassic Park;

Changed into fresh clothing!

Kim's fun rating for Jurassic Park: 2.5/5 - Totally not worth the wait unless you have too much free time on your hands!!!

After surviving Jurassic Park, we were all starving (mind you, we didn't ate anything except the breakfast nasi lemak) so we grabbed a quick bite at the Drive-in we saw earlier!