Genting

Wu Zhong Li by Wilber Pan

I think I lost count of the times I went to Genting after the previous post. Please call me an uncle the next time you see me. I think I am more active than those uncle.

I think I went there 4 times for the past 6 months. That's like average twice every 3 months. I think I have tried every method of reaching the mountain top except for helicopter. But surprisingly, I have yet to see any helicopter around the mountain. I think must be not enough trips.

I have drove up from SG, JB, sit plane to KL and drove up, took bus from SG, took bus from KL. I think I can lead the way up with my eyes close. I think the most comfortable way is to sit plane to KL. No need to squeeze on a seat for more than 4hrs, can buy giant mentoes, can sit plane, got free drinks, peanuts, can buy DFS (from malaysia), no need to alight at some shops which you don't feel like spending your money.

Wonder before my next post, will I be up there again...

genting Trip 09 Jan 2009 - 11 Jan 2009 part 2

Song: Singalongsong (English) by Fang Da Tong

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The next day, we woke up quite early cause we plan to go for breakfast. Everyone was like thinking whether we should bath or not, then who go to wash-up 1st, cause all of us were very lazy and wanted to sleep longer.

When Gary woke up, he seems like he was having a bad flu. The reason he gave was because i took up a lot space when I sleep and he was unable to grab hold of the blanket and also because Linda was affecting his sleep.

When all of us were ready, we went to see if Su Heng and Emily wants to join us, but Su Heng told us Emily was still sleeping and will be coming to join us later. So the 4 of us went down to have some porridge. Initially not all of us ordered porridge but the kitchen only left porridge and I think salt in Malaysia seems to be very expensive. The porridge that I was eating was quite bland, I forget if they feels the same, so I kinda keep adding salt to my porridge.

After breakfast, I thought we would be doing some walk around like maybe bowling or other activities. But then they say, "Chi Bao Bao, Qu Shi Shi Yun Qi leh"(Since we are full, let's go try our luck). So we head straight to the casino again. We head straight to the "3 pictures" table cause KF and Gary were quite interested in that. After sitting for awhile, I heard someone called my name. To my surprise, I saw my camp mate there. He told me he is going to check out today. Then come here and play for awhile before leaving. I heard he has been called up for ICT liao, but I still got no news at all.

Then after playing the 3 pictures, Emily and Su Heng came to join us, then we went to the dice tables. Then there was this auntie to came near me to place some bets. So I was thinking, since she make the trouble to move to my area, I should follow her bets. And I won! Haha! The odds were like 1 to 50. Linda, they all were quite shocked when they saw me take the winning. I thank the auntie on the spot for "giving" me this lucky "tip". Haha.. They were also going to check out today but still want to earn more money before leaving.

We continued to play awhile more before going to Sushi King for lunch which was around 2pm. Then on our way to lunch, we saw a bacarrat table then Gary, KF and me just placed a 50RM bet. So our lunch was sponsored by Casino De Genting. Haha... The food we ordered in Sushi King was quite slow to come. The sushi on their conveyor belt was very limited, so we had to place order with the waiter. Their tomago sushi does not have any seaweed and we were quite surprised. We thought that they had forgotten or what. Anyway, the presentation of the sushi wasn't like sushi at all. It's like egg with rice only. All their meals came with a bottle of yakult, then they were saying the straw like lousy condition then Gary couldn't poke. So we make a joke out of that on Gary. =x

After our lunch, we went back to the casino again. We went to play some casino texas, which was different from the one that we played. Most of the table were min 25 so only KF played. Then after awhile, they specially open a table of min 10 for us. So we occupied all the 6 seats. It's kinda fun since we are all aiming to win the dealer's money. But then I lost quite a bit. After winning enough of my money, which is about 10 rounds, they changed the table back to min 25 so all of leave the table.

We went back to the 3 pictures game and then Gary and I were quite noisy there. When I sit beside him, there's always a higher probability that he will win. Then when I leave, he will start to lose. The dealer was a bit blur, so there were times when she give us the wrong payouts. But we were quite honest so we told her about it. Then it was like 5 or 6 games in a row that we won by 6 points, so there's a tag to inform us that we will only win half of our bet. So we were saying we should have one custom-made and engrave our name on it.

There was this round in which I got about 5 or 6 points, but I placed on the dealer to tie with me. The odds is 1 to 8. So I was hoping the dealer to be of the same point as me, and yeah! she got the same point as me. So I was a bit loud over there. Haha... Then 2 rounds later, Su Heng tried to follow me and placed tie game with dealer, but he lost it. After while, I went to play the roulette, then I saw this uncle who changed for about 5 to 7 hundred dollar chip. Then at first I was expecting him to place on the red or black. But he placed it on numbers. So I was thinking he must be an expert or have analyse it for long, so I followed the numbers he placed on. I am glad I make the right move by following him, the ball landed on number 32 which he had placed his bets on. His winning is more than 3500RM cause he had placed on other column bets. Usually the banker would pay out stacks of colour chips which is 5 or 10 per chip, but his stack is 100. That was like OMG, I should have up my bets. I only won about 175, cause my bet was only 5RM.

As we had quite a late lunch, our dinner was also quite late, we had it at about 9+. We had KFC for dinner.

You know how people always say the ending very rush? I think it's going to happen to this entry.

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.

Looking back at 2008

Song: Shuo Hao De Xin Fu by Jay Zhou

2008 has became history and now we are in 2009!

Things that I have done in 2008:

2 driving trips to Genting

11 birthday celebrations

(1 x 1,1 x 20, 3 x 21s, 4 x 22s, 2 x 23)

500++ hours of MJ sessions (Estimation)

50++ hours of Casino Texas (Estimation)

52 movies (1 movie per week on average)

1 new N95

2 wisdom tooth operation

ORD

1 new Job

Saved $126.50 of coins

Happening Weekend

Song: Red is... by Fiona Sit

During the Deepavali weekend, it was super happening for me. It's been a long time since I did so many things in 1 weekend.

On Saturday, I went for rock climbing. That's the very 1st time I tried rock climbing. Went there with Gabriel, Joanne and Rebecca. I went to the CSC (Civil Service Club) which is at Farrer Park area. I think me and Gabriel were super late, cause by the time we reached there, Joanne and Rebecca were quite tired. I managed to have 4 consecutive successful climb on my 1st attempt. But after that, my arms like no more energy, had to come down halfway thru. It's like doing more than 10 pull up at 1 go.

It is really fun but too bad my energy is limited. Hope to be able to go there again next time.

Straight after that, went to PS to meet Yixian for Max Payne. Was a bit late cause I went to collect my altered clothes at Wisma and Taka. Had dinner with him at Xin Wang after that. Found out that even Xin Wang has membership card. So weird sia...

Went to Double O to celebrate Marcus and KF's birthday after that. Perhaps too tired after the rock climbing, most of the time was spent sitting there drinking. According to KF himself, he was gone after 12. Linda complained that he wasted the Tony Roma that they had eaten earlier. =x  

3 events in 1 day, when will it happen again?

Genting Trip 27 Sep 2008 - 28 Sep 2008

Song: Mo Jie Zhuo by Jay Zhou

Last weekend, I went down to Genting again. This is like the 2nd time is less than 6 months and I have 2 more invites to go there again. Oh my god, am I like going to be some uncle who frequents there? This time round, I went there for less than 24 hours cause I am like accompanying Ben to go watch Sammi Cheng's concert. Oh ya, but I didn't watch it with him. 

I went to watch Painted Skin alone at their cinema. I bought the tickets for the Osim Chair. They are on the 1st row of the cinema. Surprisingly the seats wasn't that popular. Maybe, the seats are like alone on its own, so it's kind of you watching the movie by yourself even if you are with a group of friends. But since I am alone, such seats are very suitable for me. The massage is really comfortable and the uncle beside me falls asleep. Haha.

Actually, I also wanted to sleep through the movie. But the movie seems not bad so I continued watching. Quite touching, but too bad my fav Zhou Xun is some kind of monster. The feeling of watching movie alone is really different. This is like the 4th movie that I ever watched alone. The other 3 are, 8 miles, Love Actually and Blood and Chocolate. But this is the 1st time watching it alone overseas.

Then on our way back to Singapore, we were stopped by the police who asked us if we understand malay. Then he told us we were speeding. But I not sure if we really did speed, then he told us the fine is about 300RM etc... Then end up we have to give him 50RM for his Hari Raya Celebration. After we left, Ben was saying like "Even if we give 30RM, he would have accepted it also." So i asked him, "So you expect him to give you 20RM change is it?"

Army museum

Song: Cui Ruo by Sammi Cheng

Today, I went to the army museum for work. Ya. It's work on sunday. 1st time visiting there, the tour is great, learnt quite a few things. But work on sunday is never good. I seriously went to work, and my friend thought I was out on a date.