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No additional alliteration required for today's title as it was the name of our destination: Wild Wild Wet water park. As I bobbed up and down in the wave pool I wondered why this was so pleasant while the waves in the air were the opposite. Thinking again about the next day's flights. I challenged myself to face one fear,  joining B and Alex for one ride on the inflatable raft of Ular-lah. I hated the rapid initial descent. I really hate that feeling. I tried the two Waterworks slides. The first,  an open slide was too slow, as in I almost got stuck a few times. The second was much faster,  but the enclosed black darkness was not fun. I preferred to drift around Shiok River doing nothing much while Alex and B went up and down on Ular-lah. Afterwards we tried some local Chinese New Year desserts from McDonald's,  just because, then walked and caught the MRT to Bedok for a dinner of satay and nasi lemak. The bus ride back to Katong was fasci...

Dinosaurs evolved into chickens, so I guess that makes me a dinosaur. There I was, lost in the Lost World, wilting under the Singaporean heat and humidity, watching and waiting, not participating. Cluck, cluck, cluck. I wait for the next ring full of screaming people to slide down the slope and make a big splash while John Williams' music repeats. Here they come! Snap, snap. No, it's not them. Delete the photos. Repeat. If I'm not going to join them then I have to at least photograph them having the fun I wouldn't have. We are at the Universal Studios theme park on Sentosa Island. This is the second Universal Studios we've visited, after Osaka. That one had Harry Potter world with its addictive (but non-alcoholic) Butter Beer. No Butter Beer here. The day started the usual way, with Alex awake too early and a walk down to the Marine Parade hawker stalls, for some popiah, chicken rice and nasi lemak. The food seems to have improved. Whi...

Every trip we do as a family these days seems to involve at least one amusement park. That's what happens when you have kids I guess. One this trip Universal Studios in Osaka was our designated theme park. When we looked out the window this morning we had second thoughts. Wet and cold again. On the plus side I thought that this should further decrease the crowds beyond the weekday timing. So after a breakfast at the Muu Muu Diner in the Mio Centre that included an "Eggslut" set (sadly, not a bad translation ) we jumped on a Osaka Loop train to Nishikujo and changed to the Yumesaki Line to Universal City. It was pouring with rain and we thought we'd better get some raincoats. Tip: the Heart In on the inside of the ticket gates sells them more expensive than the Lawson, which we only discovered after we'd purchased them. The path towards Universal Studios is lined with multiple levels of restaurants and some quirky shops. We just continued on to the ga...