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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 , 7:21 AM

Touch-down! I'm finally back in Singapore. LOL.

The KL-Genting trip was totally awesome!

Getting there--->

We took the trans-star 5 star coach bus, it had like this TV monitor, where you can watch movies, play games, watch music videos and documentaries! It was a 16 seater so there was lotsa leg room and it even provided massaging services! How cool is that? LOL. Not that I need it anyway. Well, I watched Constantine, a lil of Troy, Lord of the Rings. I played games mostly on the trip towards KL. Everyone was pretty much hyped up at the beginning of the trip, but when we entered Malaysian territory, the scenery out there was pretty much monotonous, rows after rows, hectares after hectares of oil palm plantation. And my TV monitor chose to hang on me in the middle of the trip! Goddamnit. I got back up from a toilet break and realised it jam on me halfway through a movie I hadn't even selected! Well, since my only supply of entertainment was cut off, poor me resorted to taking short videos of the yes, oil palm plantation wheezing past us on the endless North-South highway( thanks Mr Ng for otherwise I would NEVER have known its name).

On the way to Sunway --->

Finally alighted at the transit station where we'll take a cab up to Sunway. I shared a cab with Aunt Rosemary and her kids/nieces ( I dun really know). She's like a workaholic and self-proclaimed 'loti-wong' (cantonese) , I was shell-shocked when they start whipping out their stuffed toys( with names!) and played with each other! God, I was really tempted to take my Dong Dong out, but something just made me hesitate. LOL.

During the cab ride, I took lotsa pictures of the twin towers, hmm, many old buildings, the 'istana' of Malaysia and lotsa billboards there.

Arriving at Sunway! --->

Finally! Sunway!

LOL. The hotel room was really neat! Though I much preferred the prev hotel, it had this balcony thing and a lil pond just outside, and, it was so much nearer to Sunway Lagoon Theme Park. But still, all was good.

Sunway in short, was a shopping paradise. We just didn't know where to begin, with shops after shops after shops after shops after...lined up in four compass point directions: North, South, East, West. Hence, we decided to conquer em' all level by level. First day at Sunway was pretty much shopping and settling down. Aargh! The rain! We didn't go to KL chinatown, so I din get me shoes! Aargh. Well, not that I'm complaining. Cuz' I reckon that we wouldnt haf time to conquer Sunway if we've gone there.

Woohoo! We ice-skated at night! It was totally cool, and I don't just refer to the temperature in the skating rink. I mean everything about it, the company, the people. As I was a beginner in ice-skating( worse than a beginner if you ask me), my sis( she had more experience) and I had to cling on to the tiny piece of a ledge bordering the entire skating rink. Man, we were like koala bears clinging on to its mummy. It was so darn embarrassing when you see lil tots and kids wheezing past you and execute figure skating tricks with perfection. God, I could have buried myself in ice! So my sis, cousin and I clung onto the ledge and we half-walked( walk!?! It looked more like fumbling ard!) and half-skated the enitre parameters of the rink. Honestly, we were pathetic. LOL. It was like learning how to walk all over again, only this time, we're doing it on ice. After a while, my cousin and I sorta warmed up to the rink, and could at least skate in the inner rim of the rink, like 1m away from the ledge, LOL, occassionally lungin for support. My sis was having a lil difficulty and pulled out halfway. RM$19 + RM$5( gloves) gone to waste.

There was this X'Mas performance in the ice-skating rink halfway, so we had to clear outta the rink. It featured countries like Malaysia( duh?), Brazil (samba!), Spain, Japan, France and lots more. Singapore was excluded, much to our dismay. And there was Santa too. The children were so darn cute! LOL. Again, I whipped out me handphone and videod the performance.

The next day was solely dedicated to a theme park extravanganza and...more shopping( surprise surprise! LOL). We didn't do the slide, cuz my sis and I sorta chicken out halfway, and the slide was closed for maintenance anyway. LOL. So we went to the wave pool and basically, we just chilled there, on our tubes( these floats that looked like humongous doughnuts). My sis rested both her arms on either side of it and got up next morning with sore armpits. The ride that we affectionately call the 'long-kang' ( malay for drain) was quite neat too, there was this tunnel thing where statues( they resembled Mayan statues) squirt water at unknowing riders like us. The Niagara Falls flume was like the best of all! Bacially, we sat in a circle and get flushed around the entire circuit, and the unlucky one gets to be plonked by gallons of water. LOL. We took the ride like countless times.

Then there was of course the boot ride. We took the ride mainly for one purpose: to dry ourselves. You see, the boot ride was honestly, a kiddy ride, where people sat in a huge boot compartment and basically just circled around at hi-speed. It functioned like a dry cleaning machine, really. LOL. And we went to see the tigers! There were 2 tigers in this enclosure, that totally stinks from miles away. Yeah and I took pics once again. LOL. We then proceede to the games stall beside it, and my cousin plonked down RM$5( if I remembered correctly), for only one dart! She had to burst a balloon to get a prize. And alas, she got a crummy-looking torch light which we later found out, had a broken filament. What a prize! LOL. But it was still fun though. I tried my hand at this duck stall( think straight will ya?) where I plonked down RM$5, I got a modified fishing stick and hooked a lil rubber ducky out, and alas! Guess what i got? I got a pencil with a rubber spiderman head attached to ti. The price tag read RM$2.95, so I guess I made a loss of RM$2.05. Shucks. LOL.

Rides later...we shopped again.

Sharon : Heels, earrings( 4 for RM$10), necklace, cosmetics

Sis : Cosmetics, clothes, necklace, earrings ( 4 for 10)

Me : No cosmetics, tops and a bag from fourskins, necklace, earrings

LOL. The necklace was buy two get one free, so we split the cost and each necklace was going for like RM$10.20. It was a long beaded necklace which you could wear in whatever style you like, my cousin and I got black and me sis blue.

Dinner was at a streethawker stall opp our hotel. The ambience was so cool, it's like those Hong Kong street stalls, and once again I took pics. Man, above the row of hawker stalls was an Art School, man, can you imagine what its students will look like? All of us had Char kuey tiao, satay and stuff, the food was great but the cockles totally suck! They were greyish and smelled like...decomposed seafood really. Yuck! LOL. But the satay and the peanut sauce was sheer paradise! Yummylicious!!! We ice-skated again after that. I can skate a lil better now, but I had to have my cousin in sight and occassionally pulling over for support. LOL. Will try my hand at it again in Jurong! LOL. My sis didn't feel like it so she sat out, and we make it a poitn to stop over at wherever she's sitting for a mini photoshoot fer me cousin. LOL.

Genting--->

Woohoo. Off to Genting! We were so looking forward to the weather up there! Halfway through the journey, Sharon realised she left her specs at the hotel, so 'mama' had to call up Jeremy who's there for some kinda bowling tornament again to get it back. The long winding road up Genting was so freaking cool! It was like a scene from Initial D. LOL. I salute the uncle who captained the car man. If it was a Daytona game, I could have crashed my car and died like 50 times? LOL. Touchwood.

Yippee! Finally the temp dropped, our ears hurt, and we could see the Genting logo, which looke like a red baseball. 'mama' was staying at First World for the 1st day there, and we accompanied her fer check-in. First World hotel was like HUGER THAN HUGE! It was like a maze or a large cruise ship man, it was split into like 3 large columns. We almost killed our legs walking from the lobby to the lifts.

Wee! After all the checking in. We hit the theme park immediately. It was RM$49.90 for an all-day indoor outdoor wrist band. We were all hyped up as we walked to the theme park, but our jaws dropped when we saw the thousand of people there. There were so many people Q-ing up for a ride. It was incredible, really. So, we went for motion master, our wristbands glowed in the dark waiting room and it sorta resembled those clubbing wristbands. The ride was goddamn lame, the theme was Alice in the Wonderland, our seats barely moved and we were squirted by sprays of water( clean or not? I'm clueless). And it ended as abruptly as it'd begun. LOL. What 4D( better than 3D experience) my foot! LOL.

We went outdoors and got our tickets for the latest ride: The flying coaster! It cost a whopping RM$10 per ride, not forgetting the locker. We started Q-ing, it was a pretty short Q I guess people were pretty paranoid about this ride cuz it really looked menacing. Halfway through the Q, we realised that there was not much screaming, hence we fially concluded that the people prolly fainted halfway thru the ride. LOL. We were nearly there when our guts got the better of us, plus it was drizzling a lil, so we chickened out. I mean look at the possibilities! We could have been struck by lightning, the tracks were all slippery. LOL. Excuses aside, we just chickened out honestly.

So, we headed indoors where we went for the family-oriented ride, we got into the dragon cabin and it took us around the whole upper interior of First World. It was great for photo-taking!

LOL. other than that, it was a no-thrill ride. Later, we took the Euro Express which was a roller-coaster moving around the whole of First World. It was moving at top speed, and my cousin slided from right to left due to the impact. LOL. After that, we went to look at the pics taken during the ride, and guess who i spotted in the gallery? I saw a photo of Kok How and his family or friends. LOL.

After the rain stopped. We finally plucked up enough courage to Q fer the flying coaster ride. It was like a roller coaster, only diff was that we were lying down on our tummies thruout the ride like superman. When we were locked in our seats, and it slowly moved upwards, i totally freaked out, it was the 1st time I really feel like yelling for them to get me out of there. But when it finally took up speed, bringing us upside down and stuff, it wasn't all that scary anymore. LOL. in fact it was FUN FUN FUN! Aargh! We wanted to take it again but it was a tad too costly. LOL.

The next day, we got up real early for shopping. Again. We had Kenny Rogers fer lunch, and then we headed down to the stage fer some yoyo action. You see, the annual Asia-Pacific yoyo championship was held in Malaysia this year! There were players from places like Japan, HK, Taiwan, Korea, M'sia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand...there were judges from Brazil! LOL. Rodrigo Yokota ( a judge from Brazil) was so darn cool, and he was uber friendly too, always smiling. LOL.

Aargh. But the players tt really caught my eye were from Japan! Especially Hiroyuki "Mickey" Suzuki and this Jap guy we call 'Shark Man' cuz he wears this Bathing Ape shark jacket( Xiao Zhu has one) and he zipped it all the way and appeared on stage to work the crowd. He was totally hilarious. The Jap players were more showy and wild. When the jap players were not competing in a certain category, they will be amongst the audience with their 'woos' and 'yeahs', cheering on the yoyo players. LOL. They're a gregarious bunch man. There was this Jap player who stood beside me, getting his bearings for his yoyo, and he was so freaking cute! Aargh!

After the comp, the yoyo players will usually congregate at the Duncan yoyo booth near the stage. Aargh! If only I had the guts, I would have asked them for a lil photo shoot! LOL. We went to watch the 2nd day of competition too. But Mickey wasn't competing in the category.

LOL. We went fer karaoke too, the karaoke lounge was called 'Be A Star'. LOL. We paid RM$130 for 3 people, 2 drinks per pax, the one thing that I dun understand was why is it compulsory for us to buy 2 bowls of nuts? We had to buy 2 bowls of nuts to get a room! God, They're prolly nuts. LOL. Nuts aside. It was pretty fun, the waiters were prolly really free and they kept looking in, some other customers kept peeping in, so we had to stop when they do that, it was friggin embarrassing. There was a CCTV surveillance cam inside the room, so we felt like we were constantly watched! Man, now I know what a goldfish feels like. LOL. At the begiining, we din know we were under surveillance. And we had difficulty with the remote control. Sharon even resorted to flinging the controller on the carpeted floor and pressing furiously at the buttons. I took over and started pointing the controller to the screen of the player while the my cousin asked fer help. When the waiter came in with drinks, was still pointing the goddamn controller to the screen, and he told us we were supposed to point it towards the sensor which was just above the monitor. God. It was so friggin embarrassing cuz we told him there was something really wrong with the controller. Aargh! I was walking ard the seats with my shoes on until I read the sign: You are under CCTV surveilance. God. We prolly look like a bunch of zoo animals gone loose or sumthin. LOL. Fun Fun Fun!

Something cropped up halfway in Genting. My cousin's cousin Gary, a 22 year old got killed in a traffic accident in Singapore. My aunt was panicking and she was so freaked out she couldnt tell exactly where she was, so we had to go look for her. She was crying when we found her, and the adults were making dozens of calls back to Singapore. It was sheer chaos. My aunt broke down again when we received news that he didn't make it. It was really really saddening.

After they sorta recovered, we managed to get back to our routine. The next day we walked around First World and had dinner at this reataurant called 'Hou Mei' which was delicious in cantonese. We ordered fish n chips, we waited for like 10 minutes then this waiter came along to tell us that it was sold out so we ordered the Hawaiin BBQ chicken chop and Sprite, by then our stomachs were alr roaring for food. Another half an hour gone by, and we were so f**king pissed off by then. And the waitress said the chicken chop takes a longer time. Well, fine but then there was no excuse why our Sprite hasn't arrived, right? Argh. And the freaking manager was nowhere in sight, he's prolly gone into hiding. So after 45 mins, food arrived! aargh. And there were 2 malay guys opp us. One of his friends was eating and he's still waiting for food. LOL. So we called him 'The Hungry Man', after we finished our food, we went to a boutique opp the restaurant and Hungry Man was still waiting fr food. LOL. After like an hour, we saw Hungry Man still looking famished. LOL. Hungry people UNITE! Man. We even joked that Hou Mei ( delicious in Cantonese should be called Hou Mei which means 'Is it ready' in cantonese). L-O-L, lol, wee-ird.

the last day at Genting. We went down for more yoyo action. Hai...I'm gonna miss Mickey and Sharkman. LOL. We were going back at 2.30pm so we couldn't catch the prize-giving and closing ceremony. Aargh! We should have lived in First World hotel so we can see em'!!! LOL. After the final category comp, we went to 'Lok Lok' fer lunch. There was this malay uncle who was so friggin enthu and hilarious, he kept coming to talk to us and even wanted to treat us to teh tarik. LOL. Dun get me wrong, he's the manager there, he's really friendly and he's not like those lewd ah peks. LOL. And surprise surprise! The Jap yoyo players oso came here fer lunch. The owner of the shark jacket was there, he's really cute! LOL. He stood beside me during the comp and kept yelling 'Yeah' along with his friends, also yoyo players. They kept circling the makan area, and walked past us a gazalliontimes. And we were prolly too star struck or something, we totally forgot to take a video of em'! Aargh! Regret regret regrets! LOL. If only we had the guts and the cash, we'd have bought yoyos tt were on display and ask em' fer autographs and photographs! Aargh!!!!

And finally...we had to say sayonara Genting. And we're still missing Mickey, Sharkman and owner of the shark jacket. LOL. We got the 16 seater bus home and this time the downhill journey was really tough on us, I almost puked. So I slept all the way downhill, while my mum was watching Anita Mui's concert and singing along to herself. LOL. She even had a go at the game Lion King and Mario. LOL. I watched Ray Charles concert and there was Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Usher, Norah Jones and other music legends. I watched the entire concert w/o once skipping. I watched Jay' concert, Robots, Mr Bean and played some games. LOL. And our dinner was a satay sandwich. It was yummylicious with peanut sauce! mama mia~ LOL. We finally touched down Singapore Tuas at around 12 am and got home at ard 1 plus in the morning. LOL. The first thing we did when we reached home was look for websites of Mickey! LOL.

Ah..and so it wraps up our KL-Genting trip.

I will miss these people : Darren and Anthony ( these lil monkey were always running around and stuff, and they called us Dan Xiao Gui cause of our 'performance' in the skating rink, and they taught us the ang moh version of the card game Go fish!) LOL, Joey( she's a pro at ice-skating!), Gigi and another kid whose name I forgot, Aunty Rosemary who's a hell lot of fun to be ard, Aunty Mei Leng( her warm smiles) and Mary E

I wanna thank : my godma for this trip, mary E aunty fer her sweet treats esp 'gao luck' and popcorn. LOL.

I will miss these people too: All the yoyo players esp those from Japan, like Mickey, Sharkman, owner of shark jacket. LOL. And the 'Lok Lok' uncle!

And finally I wanna express my condolences to the family of Gary.
May you rest in peace Gary.

p.s: I'll post pics some time soon of our trip and the legendary Mickey who's the world yoyo champion in the single A category, and hopefully Sharkman and owner of the shark jacket. LOL.

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