Tuesday, November 23, 2010

My Royal Caribbean Cruise Adventure - Behind the Scenes

Remember my previous entries on My Royal Caribbean Cruise Adventure Contest by Omy and sponsored by Royal Caribbean International?


My royal caribbean cruise adventure - travel like royalty

Selected to tour Legend of the Seas

My royal caribbean cruise adventure countdown


Well... Wifey and I went for the half-day tour of Legend of the Seas on Monday...


For the actual review...
http://ginsengtonic.blogspot.com/2010/11/legend-of-seas-review-my-royal.html


We took soooooo many photos.. 
And met other like-minded and nice bloggers... 
I decided to do more than one entry and give a little "behind the scenes" take.. 
Before I start writing about the cruise ship and hopefully be selected for the Legend of the Seas 5D4N Isle of Southeast Asia Cruise (Port calls at Port Klang and Phuket) with Wifey!




Us making our way to the event...




Legend of the Seas from Singapore Cruise Centre

Singapore Cruise Centre which was at Harbour Front...
There were about 40 bloggers who were selected for this contest and we were broken into 4 groups to be lead by different Royal Caribbean staff...


Wifey and I grabbing a quick bite while waiting board

Royal Caribbean Staff getting Ready


Janet from Omy
That's Janet from Omy... Whom I am sure felt like a school teacher that day as she tried to organize us... get us to gather... take attendance... and give out instructions!... Well.. at least she looked like she was having fun =)



Alvin from Omy
That's Alvin from Omy... Whatever he said did not register much with my mind still on snooze... 
BUT... THIS I REMEMBER...
Instead of selecting 4 bloggers... they will now select 10 bloggers for the Legend of the Seas 5D4N Isle of Southeast Asia Cruise (Port calls at Port Klang and Phuket)!
Even if not selected... Bloggers will be given some vouchers for the cruises...
How cool is that?!..
They more than doubled the prizes!!!

Wifey seems all geared up to win!



Royal Caribbean Guide

That's our guide.. (Oooops... I forgot her name)...
She did a great job answering our questions over lunch and gave us some highlights of Royal Caribbean's other cruise ships and some of the destinations they travel to...

Here are some pictures of our group of bloggers (not all though)....

My Royal Caribbean Cruise Adventure Bloggers


My Royal Caribbean Cruise Adventure Bloggers
This was a group shot at the end.. Some were missing by then already...



Us having fun at the Video Deck
From Left to Right:
The Rocker Chic.... The Crazy Couple....... and the rich girlfriend buying a guitar for the rocker bf??... Hehe...





Here are the bloggers and their blogs



Maryann
the mummy, the photographer and the wife

http://maryannkoh.blogspot.com/
She also runs The Studio Loft which specializes in photography of kids, families and pregnant ladies!!


(Wifey tells me she was on one of Channel News Asia's program on photography before.. I'm terrible at remembering names and faces..) 



Lionel
Longtaizi


The personal trainer and groomer
http://www.longtaizi.org/

The Keropokman
The Keropokman
A Singapore food blogger...
He does not want his face to be revealed...
Or he will stuff me with so much Keropok I'll look like one...
(don't need to be a CID to find out haha..)




Peimin
Peppermin
The rocker chic blogs at http://peppermin.blogspot.com/



Lynn
Follow my Heart
The one who seems to know who's who among the bloggers haha..


Peggy
With Love Always
Peggy whose blogs seems to have quite a bit of travelling blogs at


And of Course...

Wifey
the barefoot girl
She's the best... Because she's my wife!! Haha...
She blogs at 

and her little room of crafty wonders


--Ginseng Tonic Maker-- Birds of a feather.. flock together...

16 comments:

Unknown said...

Haha.... You want to eat keropok?
Or going for tone up with the personal trainer?

Great to have met all of you!

Benjamin Ang said...

Haha...
Ya.. nice to meet all of you...
Catch you guys around...
Next time go makan..
Jio my wife and I!!

maryann koh said...

hey ben, thanks for the NICE pix of me! i seldom look nice in front of the camera, must so get the shot from you! thanks much really great meeting you and michelle :)

ulricng said...

i think i saw you :) and im in one of the pictures :)

peppermin said...

nicee!! and ...i stole a photo from ur blog :p

Benjamin Ang said...

@Maryann: Sure!!.. A photographer wanting MY photo leh... More than glad to let you have it..
I'll email you tmr if I can find your email add somewhere...

And Mich is totally sold.. Think she would love to have her pics taken by you when she's pregnant!

Benjamin Ang said...

@ulricng: Which one?? Those group background.. Passerby A kind ah? haha...

Benjamin Ang said...

@peppermin: I can't even tell which photo you took... be sure to "credit" me! =)

And people.. my entry on it is up.. check it out...

http://ginsengtonic.blogspot.com/2010/11/legend-of-seas-review-my-royal.html

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peppermin said...

of cos u wont know, told u is "STOLE" liao.. haha.. No, i didnt post it up, i just grab & keep in my folder, haha *sneaky*

eunice said...

hi Ben! interesting post! :D I came to ur site before.. n very impressed with how Keropok Man appeared in this article. He was like shaking his head too hard that ur camera shutter wasn't quick enough to freeze his action HAHA

Good luck man! Hope both u n ur wife can win n have a great holiday onboard the cruise!

Benjamin Ang said...

@Eunice: Thanks for dropping by... Coz Keropok Man told us he doesn't have any pic of himself on his blog and facebook... so just did some editing for fun...

Check out my actual review entry on it (if you haven't).. and my Wifey's entry on it damn creative lah (and I'm not saying that coz she's my wife!)...


@Peppermin: I did the same thing and "stole" a pic from Eunice also for memory's sake.. the group pic with her inside...


Good luck to everybody involved.. who knows.. They may double it to 20?! haha..
Never hurts to be positive =)

cheap caribbean vacations said...

I am so amazed in all the pictures that you posted in this blog post. I can see how fun your adventure is. How I wish I can also experience it.

Unknown said...

It's always fun to be with different people in an adventure like that. Try Corryvreckan cruising. You will surely enjoy.

sophiebn0 said...

Glad to have read your Cruising Adventure Trip. I love ship cruising and i had one to The Barrier Reef. It was an amazing trip.

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