Row Row Row Your Kayak

After reading thesmartlocal post, I decided to jio asking him along X to go Kayaking with me.

Row, row, row your kayak, gently down the stream. 
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

We went to Water Sports Centre located near Stadium MRT and Singapore Sports Hub. It is kind of difficult to find this Water Sports Centre, but it is so damn near to the MRT. Why? Because we reached there at around 8am, but we were lost for more than 30mins. For those who are going there as well don't make the mistake as us, when you exit the Stadium MRT (Exit A), just walked to the end of the covered/sheltered linkway, turn LEFT!

Anyway, this is their rates :)

My memories of kayaking were during Primary and Secondary School Camp. I think during Primary 5 (11 years old) and Secondary 3 (15 years old) that time. Not much impression about it except for the one during secondary camp. I remember I was too heavy that time, I have to partner with one of the bigger size teacher and the worst part was I was heavier than her. Anyway after 10 years, I am going to attempt this activity again.

So when we were sitting on the kayak, the lighter one will be seated in front and the heavier one will be behind. I get to sit in front! Finally! So the heavier one will get in the boat first. Please note this is a very tricky part. During those school camp, you get in the boat when the water is shallow. This time, you get in the boat like somewhere in the middle of sea! I admit I panicked and nearly backed out. I mean, what if I dropped inside?! But I manage to get on board after a while and getting impatient stares from lifeguards.

To be honest, kayaking is so fun and scary at the same time.

The fun parts are...

1) Scenery. It is like those Chinese painting with mountains and lake/sea, but here you get buildings and sea.

 

2) Away from the noise..... Okay, I lied. When we went there, there were some team training dragon boat and Standard Charter Marathon for Kids event. But I do enjoying seeing those dragon boat team train, nope, not because of the hunks or babes their movements are very in-sync.

3) Bonding time with your love one. Well, we saw a father-son duo kayaking together and some couples too. Seems like a more affordable dating place.

4) Best place to quarrel. Well.. you can paddle someone further away from the crowd and have some shouting match or just push him/her into the water.  Just joking!

The scary parts are...

1) The lifeguards/trainers will only give some safety advises, how to get on the kayak boat and then... OFF you go. No further instruction about how to kayak and etc. I guess you need to either ask them or just figure out yourself.

2) I don't know how to swim, so I have constant fear of falling off the boat and become fish food. Throughout the kayaking session, I keep relaying my fear verbally to X. His reaction is pretty similar to this image ↓. 

 

Lesson learnt: Don't trap in a island surrounded by water with me! 

We will be trying out hiking soon!  
soon = unknown future and most probably next year.

Review: The Butchers Club Singapore

Roaming around Clarke Quay with X on a relaxing Friday night, and while walking towards Liang Court, we are attracted to this store.

The Butchers Club
3A River Valley Road
#01-01B Clarke Quay
Singapore 179020

not sure what filter is this on Camera360, but make this photo looks very pretty!

According to their waitress, they are serving dry-aged beef patties burger... So what is dry-aged beef?

Dry-aged beef is beef that has been hung or placed on a rack to dry for several weeks. After the animal is slaughtered and cleaned, either the entire or half will be hung. - Wikipedia

Sounds interesting enough to try them out, right?! And just look at their menu ↓

 

 Their menu already screaming eat me! Eyeing on their RED-EYE REDUCTION!  

BACON, EGG, HASHBROWN. All my favourites!

 

X already started eating before I can take photo of the food. :x

The Red-eye Reduction is sold out! T.T So we tried Double Happiness ($38). 

Ignoring the fact that despite its name is Double Happiness, there is a knife stabbed in it. O.O I can totally imagine the burger saying, "Awww... are you on diet? But this burger is so nice, so just prepared for your death! FAT DIE YOU! evil laughter" 

Okay, but to the burger. It comes with double patty with double cheese and all the fixins between these two grilled cheese buns or what they called sammys. To X, the patty wasn't seasoned enough to his liking, but we both agreed that they cooked the patty very well with a light pink in the middle. The cheese and fixins are nice, I am secretly addicted to their bacon, it taste kinda sweet~

Their Duck Fat Fries ($8) is an add-on order, not a set meal kind. Wondering why is it called Duck Fat Fries? No, it is not just a random name. All this thick fries are cooked in DUCK FAT... To be exact, triple fried in duck fat! But sadly, it is not my cup of tea fries..

Definitely going back to try out their Red-Eye Reduction and maybe giving their fries another try?. The fries wasn't that nice during our last visit. Hope that our next visit the fries will be nice and like crispy.