Monday, January 16, 2006
Life in GentinglandYo, so i'm back in Msia. First time ive blogged since ive been back. Excuse? As usual, busy (and lazee). Been working and all, but that's not the point. I'm gonna post a whole summary of my trip back after my hols ( because im lazee again, easier than day-by-day) but for now its gonna be about my vacation, my trip (not once, but twice) to Gentingland, up up in the sky.
Round One
It started out with Jooyee and Cat coming over to Imbi to join me for lunch during my lunchbreak ( i work, remember?). They were nearby buying tickets for S.H.E. concert in Genting Highlands. So i was like, cool. Then after loads of chit chat it suddenly came to them inviting me to join them in Genting and after a while more, it was decided that we should make it an "official" trip with friends. Unfortunately, the time wasn't right and it was a lil too last minute so the roster ended up being : Jooyee, Cat, Henglean, Wern Hui, Muah.
The two couples and Me alone.....SNIFF
It was weird for me , since , ummm im sandwiched between two couples. I'm not too close to Cat and Wern Hui (closer to Cat but havent actually conversed with WH). But anyways, wat the heck, i was desperate to get a vacation from my hectic working life so agreed to go. Five is just nice for a room anyways.
So it was a Saturday afternoon, most of us was filled with energy (Klang Bak Kut Teh) and ready to embark on our journey to Gentingland. The process was a long and troublesome one. 2 hrs min travel time and 3 different transportation methods : LRT - bus - cable car. Nevertheless we arrived safely at the hotel and everything went smoothly until....... we found out theres NO FRIDGE AND SAFE in the room! Okay, i exaggurated. Its not so bad. But we bought drinks so we were a bit disappointed, and i brought my Ipod and new digicam along so i would have been a tad happier to have a safe. Now i had to bring them everywhere. Fine.
Our double bed room!
Jooyee and Cat ditched us to watch S.H.E. (biatches!). So there was me, a bright shining tall LAMP POST in between Heng Lean and Wern Hui. We wandered around First World finding for things to do. So we passed the arcade and like.... why not ? Wanted to play those games that can win gifts (like carnival stuff). But WTF TWO RINGGITS FOR A FREAKING BALL TO THROW INTO A FREAKING HOLE! But wat the heck we had too much time in hand and i wanted to give it a try just for ego boost. There was SMALL MEDIUM BIG holes to throw the ball at. I decided at MEDIUM just to test my skills. BULLSEYE!!! (EGO BOOST!!!) Won a furry notebook which i gave to Wern Hui cause it was just to gurly for me. So now that my ego is sky high (not to mention my nose) i decided to take 3 shots at BIG to win a big lionhead soft toy. Note: BIG hole doesnt mean the hole is biggest, it means the prize is biggest....in fact the hole is onli sliiiightly larger than the ball. So i threw the first two balls. They missed barely. The third ball was dead accurate.........just to rattle off the hole. DOT DOT DOT. SIX BUCKS GONE!!!!! In like.....5 minutes. Great. So decided not to waste money on this shit, lets waste money on those machines that could grab toys and stuff. ANOTHER FIVE BUCKS GONE!!!! I got conned, the machine i played.... it was IMPOSSIBLE to hit the toy (hard to explain in words). So like damn, onli abouy 8 bucks left on my card. HL said lets play House of the Dead 3. Fine. Not a big shooting fan (cause i suck) but shooting zombies should be more fun than throwing two dollar balls at the wall. THREE BUCKS PER PLAY!?? dot dot dot. Wtv. Shoot shoot kill kill. HL's gun rosak so basically i solo. Couldnt get pass first level.......THERE GOES MY CARD!!!! So i came to the conclusion that Genting is meant for conning tourists' cash (too late).
Bowling is for losers
So now that I'm broke, the 3 of us had malaysian buffet dinner which was "accidentally" treated by HL's parents. It was filling and satisfying, although the food served were kinda....cheap. I found myself addicted to papadam, and the bottomless servings at dinner were the main cause. After that, we decided to go for a bowl, just to kill time bfor the concert ends. WH sat out. It was pretty expensive at 9 bucks per game, but after the arcade disaster it was well worth the money. I sucked at bowling, and i found out that i still do. I was pretty frustrated at one point that i threw a slow ball at the longkang......... during HL's turn. He had to rush his 2 balls bfor mine reached the end. He failed miserably. ROFL
Now that group is united again. We took a go at Monopoly bfor we slept. I personally had a miserable bad time (born loser) as i had no property after one round, and only 3 by the time we started auctioning. So yeah it was pretty obvious that i would lose. But i couldnt. When everyone else's houses and hotels were up, i didn't step on them. I escaped many many rounds without getting a single hit. Sounds lucky? Maybe not. I also did not land on any of my properties since i started. So i couldnt buy a single house even though i owned the entire street. DOT DOT DOT. At least I wasn't the first to go bankrupt. (HENGLEAN!!!)
Monopoly is also for losers
So we said next day 8 o clock wake up eat breakfast and go theme park at 9. Wtv. The weather was terrible. It was raining, it was windy like hurricanish, and the mist made it foggy. So obviously the theme park was closed. Great. My main reason for going there was gone. Just like that. My luck. And for this case, all of us.
THE FOG!!!!!!
But all is not lost! We had fun although i did not have a partner with me (where is my ddear?) and i guess we could all go again one day (SO TRUE).
