Hi I am such a mess right now. Basically not in my right mind right now. Oh well. This blog post might be long. Super long. Or it's not. Oh Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha everyone. It's weird cause this is the first time celebrating raya with only Naqib's around. The parents are miles away performing their Hajj.
Okay... I had my company's Family Day in Desaru Coast last two weekend; the last weekend of July to be precise. After they announced that the new King coronation day would be on the 30th which was on Tuesday after the weekend, so something hit me up that it would be nice if we go to Singapore after the Family Day.
So I recruited some interested people to go with me. It was crazy enough to have this last minute trip as I was quite busy to even do the simple itinerary. Oh well. So much to think about; like where do we stay either in JB or SG? It would be so much hassle if we stay in JB but it's cheaper that way. It would be so much convenient to stay in SG but we need to fork a little bit of our money.
So we decided to stay in SG. I roamed in Agoda/Booking to check out any cheap accommodations. Hotels were being ticked off from my list as we couldn't afford to stay there lol. We had a very tight budget. So what came across our minds; Capsule hostel! To be honest, I always wanted to stay in a Capsule hostel but you know I don't do hostel. Cause the idea of sharing the bathroom is a little bit crazy for me.
So I did some checking and I found this Capsule hostel named 'Met A Space Pod @ Arab Street'. The location is fantastic!
Days before we're leaving for our Family Day/Singapore trip, I finally got the time to do our itinerary there. So I just learnt that the capsule would be mixed dorm. And the sharing bathroom would be unisex. *insertnervouslaugh* It's funny, no it's not. I had no idea why was I not aware of the dorm situation? I was way into the spaceship interior of the capsule rather than focusing on the dorm situation. I guess, we have to bear the mixed environment for two nights.
Well this is certainly not a paid review, I want to post this up as I want to remember that I had tried the Capsule hostel once in my life. YOLO. lol
I want to skip to the hostel right away but I guess I want to tell you our struggles to get into SG. HAHAHA. Yeah, 'struggles'. We went into SG via land vehicle; bus. Bella dropped us in JB Sentral. Never been there in my entire life. Last time I went into SG was via air plane. Way easier though. Anyways, as we're asking for adventures... Here we go.
Bella said now we have to purchase the bus ticket in the bus. So we had to pass the immigration and what not. The queue was madness guys. It was insane. I had no idea where we queued but we managed to get into lines. And we're queue-ing for that Auto-Gate machine. I always had this trust issues with that freaking machine, as my finger print's always not working well sigh. So I prayed hard that there won't be an issue there.
We got through. YEAY! As we passed that Malaysian immigration, there were two gates; well I call it gates; A and B. The heck, we didn't know which one is the correct but I remembered reading in a blog saying that just follow the one that has more people going down. LOL. How accurate. We did follow though. And we're 'clever' enough to climb up again cause we thought we made a mistake. Guess what, we went down at the Gate A again. Initially we were freaked out cause damn guys, the queue was no joke!
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| The queue to the bus from JB to SG |
We joined the queue. I think we queued for an hour and half? We made through into the bus #170. From JB to Queen Street was RM2.60. That was the amount that the bus driver charged us per pax. It was cheap. I thought it would be slightly higher. The journey was short from JB Sentral to SG's CIQ in Woodlands. We walked to the CIQ building; Please keep your bus ticket cause you won't be using the same bus afterwards.
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| Situation inside the bus. |
We walked into the building, almost queue-ing then we thought of filling in the infamous white card. Yes, please fill in the White Card guys. And like the others said, bring your own pen. So we got our cards filled in and we queued again. The immigration lady was quite tough. Oh well. Alhamdulillah we're now in SG safely. We thought...
We walked to the bus waiting area. The hell guys. The queue was even toxic here. We didn't even see the end of the queue. Madness! We were extremely exhausted. Like super intense. And there were so many stupid morons who tried to cut lines! Our legs were trembling. I guess we're still tired from our Family Day. We're queue-ing right beside the main lift. It's like the lift was playing with our mind and we decided to give up our line there. Screw the bus.
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| Queue-ing for the bus from SG CIQ to Queen St. |
We took the lift as we decided to take a cab instead. Yup, we took a cab to our hostel. Easy peasy.
We were grateful that the taxi line was not that long and the taxi availability was good. We got our cab; extremely happy that finally we got to sit in a nice seat. We were drenched in sweats, I felt sorry for the taxi uncle for that though. Anyhow, the taxi uncle was SUPER nice! Forgot to ask his name but he was way too friendly as he lived in Malaysia 20 years back. A Singaporean working in KL back then until he said Malaysian gov asked them to some sort leave the country. He loved Malaysia though.
He dropped us at Arab Street as our hostel was really easy to find. We checked-in; the check-in counter was really small though. Well what do you expect; it's just a hostel not a 5 star hotel. So the lady explained the do's and don's there; she explained how to use the pod as well. We're given the key card as well as the remote control of our TVs. Weird.
I didn't snap much photos inside. We recorded videos. Stupid videos of me. Should I update here? LOL.
To my surprise, the pod is nice. I mean, it's big enough for me. I didn't have that claustrophobic attack or what not. I survived. It just that I got the above pod, so it was not really convenient for me. Once I got into my pod at night, I didn't want to go out. Malas.
I remembered meeting my pod neighbour when we were back from our visit to Marina Bay Sand on the first night. I was pretty much sure he's a Malay guy. I bet he was very startled upon seeing me in my pod. His face was like, "wth are you here?" As if, me in hijab is not allowed in a mixed dorm. That was his look. I even said hi but I got nothing in return. Oh well, I was just being nice okay dude.
I survived the first night up until 4-ish in the freaking morning. My capsule neighbour was making noises as if he was cooking inside his pod. Like dude seriously?! I couldn't sleep back. To be honest, I freaked out the idea of using the bathroom. So many random thoughts came into my mind that morning. So I decided to shower at 5 AM in the morning. Fully covered and I had myself running into the shower. I bumped into the capsule neighbour in the bathroom as he was doing stuff in front of the mirror. Whatever dude I'm running here. HAHAHA. Freak.
You know when you're in hostel, especially now in a mixed dorm/toilet I couldn't help but to feel very highly uneasy. Your eyes roamed everywhere as you showered. You checked on every possible weird points lol. I showered quite long because of that un-easiness. Screw people if they're queue-ing. But who in their right mind wanted to shower at 5AM sis? HAHAHA okbye.
I survived my morning shower. I slept afterwards. LOL. Later that day we spent almost a day in USS. The highlight of our trip. USS was sad though.
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| Hello USS. It was scorching hot guys! |
We got back from USS with the idea of chilling down in our capsule before going out again later than night. To lepak at the super nice looking minimalist coffee shop below our hostel. To our surprise when we got back to our dorm, there was a guy standing at the common area in our dorm. Not being judgemental but we did; he was looking oddly weird. I didn't know how to describe him but we felt scared? Seriously. Okay he looked like 'Heimdall' from Thor? So mysteriously scary? I'm not saying he's bad or what but he gave you chills and it's not fine.
We went out later that night to find him going out the same time as well. But now with something extra odd. He brought a stick. I am still having chills writing this. Sigh.
To our disappointment, the coffee shop closed super early. Like SUPER EARLY! We hung out at Haji Lane, there's a cafe with some interesting quizzes served on the table. Not long after, we went back to the hostel. I guess, we're too tired already. Jannati said, let's go shower together that night. But I couldn't wait so I showered alone.
Anyhow, we survived our two nights there. It was a total fun experience, regardless. We checked out early as we wanted to get off from SG quite early as we wanted to hit the road early. Alhamdulillah we got back to JB safe and sound.
So what's my take for this capsule thinggy? Well, as for the location it was superb. It's located right in front of the Sultan Mosque. The nearest MRT is Bugis MRT; you'll have to walk a bit but not that far. Haji Lane is around that area as well. If you want to chill at night, there are few couple of bars/pubs/cafes with live bands along the Haji Lane. But it's just the mixed dorm, so try look for somewhere that offers female dorms. I came across one I think that day. So it is searchable. No worries. You preferences. I would highly recommend this hostel but I won't repeat. LOL. Not a mixed dorm again. Penat lah nak berjaga jaga all the time lol.
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| The front of our hostel. |
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| Kasi chance lah feeling2 dekat Haji Lane. |
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