Genting Trip 09 Jan 2009 - 11 Jan 2009 part 1
Song: Wo Ye Hen Xiang Ta by Steph Sun
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2 posts ago, I was talking about my trip to Genting, now I am going to talk about it again. This time round, it's with my another group of friends. They include Gary, Kian Feng, Linda, Emily and Su Heng.
This time round was a bit rush, we waited till about 1 week before the trip then we confirm all the booking as my leave was approved quite late.
Our first stop was KL. We travelled on Grassland Coach. All of us were very excited on the bus, keep on talk cock, then suan Gary about where he want to alight. We saw someone on the coach wearing a shirt that Jon has. I wanted to take a photo of that guy and mms Jon, but too bad the guy put on his jacket and went to sleep.
While on the bus, we were playing Nintendo DS's Mario Kart and Mario Party. Initially, the bus looks like there's no movie playing on board, then when we reached Malaysia side, the monitor came down from the ceiling showing, "Quantum of Solace". All of us had watched that show before and I was wondering if that's original or pirated. But of course, taking a look at the sub-title, and the answer is obvious.
Linda bought a loaf of bread onto the bus, like we are going to "run road". Actually she's afraid that we might get hungry during the journey. When we were at the pit stop, Su Heng grabbed some noodle to eat, then Linda wanted to buy a lot of sweets, Gary rushed to get some cigarettes.
While Su Heng was eating half way, we heard the announcement saying "Coach 1991 is departing soon". Then I told Su Heng say, "when we reached KL, I ... bring you to eat nicer noodle." Then we proceed to the bus, but there's still no sign of the bus driver. We were saying did we hear the wrong car plate number or wrong announcement such as "Coach 1991 will depart in 15 mins time". So we just stand there and rot and took some photo. Emily throw some sweets for Su Heng to eat, and he's quite a good catcher.
We arrived at Berjaya Times Square at about 1:30pm. All of us "chong" to the toilet as there's only 1 pit stop thru out the journey. Then we walked our way to the bus terminal to catch our coach to Genting. The trip was supposed to be coach then transit to cable car. But the cable car is under maintenance so our trip was directly up to First World Hotel.
On the coach up to Genting, 2 aunties were quarreling over the curtain on the bus. They were quite loud and disturbed the uncles' rest. The 6 of us were like watching show, and we thought we should had video it down and put it on Stomp.
Before we entered the highway, the coach was moving very slowly, we thought it's going to be a massive jam at KL. But what we saw was very shocking. There's a riot outside the US embassy. Riot police were there, KF was afraid the rioters might push down our bus, Gary was scare that there might be some bomb around. We immediately took some photos of the riot scene. Then when I got back to SG, I saw the news mentioning that this riot is about the Israel attacking the Palestine. Ally, my Malaysian colleague told me I was very lucky to get to see such incident as it happens only once in a thousand year.
On the bus, we were looking at the scenery, then when we were not near there at all, KF said out loud, "Yao Dao Liao"(Reaching soon). I think the aunties and uncles should be asleep in the coach, if not they would be laughing at us. When we saw the sign 15km to Genting, and seeing the hotels of Genting, we all cannot believe the distance is shorter than our 24km route march distance.
We reached First World Hotel at about 4pm. As there were a lot of people checking in, so we were to grab our lunch/dinner. We had it had the "Hou Wei" restaurant. Food over there wasn't that great. Su Heng's food came only when everyone had finished eating. Gary went to sign up for his "Genting Worldcard", before we went to check in. But he did not want to register cause his hair not up to standard to take photo.
When we went back to the lobby, it's still not our turn to check-in, so we went to outdoor to take some photograph. By the time we went back, we were a bit late so we had to q up for another counter to check in. Emily and Su Heng stayed in standard view room while we stayed in standard room. The difference is they got a nice window view of the outside world, whereas our room's window were facing the room opposite us.
The room was indeed very small. The bathroom has no locked for the door and it was quite cramped. Then I have 1 friend who say must cover up the mirror, the other say must close the window, another say shoe cannot put too straight. All my friends are so super superstitious.
As Gary and I were wearing 3/4s and slippers, we had to change to jeans shoes to enter the casino. When I opened up my bag, my clothes were wet due to the water spillage from my water bottle. So I had to borrow socks from Gary and had to put my shirt at Su Heng's room to let it dry as his room has some sunlight.
So we were proceed to the casino at the resort area. We played quite a lot of game including roulette, dice, baccarat, three pictures. The most interesting is the roulette. Me and some uncle were chatting with the dealer while placing our bets. Then I told her that 29 is my birthday, asked her to get us a 29. All the uncles also placed quite a lot on 29. Then they said "Come out 29 make us all happy leh". The dealer just smiled at us. Then the ball really landed on 29. Super happy sia. Then we immediately thank the "jie jie" for making us a happy person.
After that, I went back to the dice table to find them. There were 2 aunties who keep on winning. Then the rest of them were saying the aunties have very good tactic when placing the bets. Usually on the dice table, I would only buy 1, 2, 3 cause of a special reason. It really came out a few times and I won quite a bit on that.
After that, we went to Pizza Factory for dinner. A bit lost at first, but still managed to find the location. We had Hawaiian, Curry Chicken and some other finger food. The food there wasn't bad. Actually both KF and I had it before. When taking photographs there, everyone was saying the lighting there not bad.
After dinner, we went back to the casino for a few more rounds then we head back to the hotel to bath. After bathing, we head back to the casino again. By that time, it's about 12am. The weather was very cold outside and I forget to bring my cardigan. Knowing this, they purposely suggested walking outdoor. On the way there, Emily said "I am the biggest loser today, and I will be the biggest winner tomorrow." But sad to say, the curse was somehow passed over to me. I loss quite a bit when we went back.
At about 2am, we were all tired so we head back to our hotel room. On the way back, KF, Gary and Linda bought some food from Mac and KFC for supper. As I don't like to eat before sleep, I didn't buy anything.
Linda was coughing quite badly after eating the KFC burger. But somehow the cough did not affect me and KF. Only Gary somehow couldn't manage to sleep. I think after Linda finished coughing, Gary was feeling cold and caught the flu virus. So he did not sleep very well for his first night.
In the room, I realise my clothes were wet due to the water spilled out in the morning from my water bottle. Even my socks were wet. So I need to borrow them from Gary.
posted by angel of death @ 1/20/2009 06:36:00 pm
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