December 7th 2006 - Trip to Genting.

It's 3 days after our sickeningly tough SPM Bio Paper. My friends and I went on a trip to Genting for 3days 2nights. It was one of the best times I have ever enjoyed, definitely worth my 3 days there. We met up in KTM Subang at about 9 AM, when Liew forgot to bring his money or something like that, which he then went back home to take it.

Our first train stop was at KL Central, where we had to take a Bus up to Awana, Genting. With our hopes high, we were disappointed to find that there is no Bus tickets until 11:30 AM or so. IIRC, we waited for an hour and a half there. While waiting, we had our Breakfast at McD, where Nash and Jen Jun played with their food and ended up having Coffee with Salt and Pepper. I tried tasting a sip of it, and that was the last time I could ever imagine myself gargling with Salt Water. Been sticking to my Mom's favourite remedy for Sore Throat, Apple Cider Vinegar.

It was time, and we took a bus to Awana, Genting, where we had to take a Cable Car up to the Highlands. The journey to Awana with a bus was already long enough to consume an hour. Not to mention just simply queuing up for a cable car up, since it was the holidays already. It took nearly 30 minutes from a corner to another corner of the room, where we finally managed to get a cable car.

Finally, we reached the Highlands. Strangely, it was cooling, but BURNING too. I could feel my face and hands burning but my whole body was feeling cool. Maybe the we're now nearer to the sun. While waiting for Edy to drive Edwan and Ariz up by car, we waited at a small, garden-like, waiting place. This ended up to be our most favourite hang-out spot throughout the trip. We could see right below us a winding road up. At about 2:30, finally Ariz and Edwan arrived together with Edy and Bryan.

Taking nearly 30 minutes to check-in, we entered our super small budget room, which just the size of two beds. As soon as you open the door, you can already see the sink and two toilet doors, one for shower and one for toilet. Both without locks =_+. For a while, it felt like some of us were going to sleep outside. Thankfully the two beds combined managed to fit five of us, where the other two slept on the floor with Edwan's sleeping bag.




We slept for a while after a tiring journey up, though restless Ariz, Jen Jun and Ezz left the room and went exploring Genting first. After waking up, Edwan, Nash, Liew and I took our bathes and went exploring around too in a seperate group. Took a few pictures, below. It was then a miracle happened that Edwan remembered about a Mamak Restaurant in the middle of no where's carpark. Thank God! The price was also as cheap as in Subang. All my worries about eating Maggie Cups for 3 days and 2 nights vanished. Though, to get there from our Hotel, we had to go 4 escalators up and 4 escalators down.



As we reunite with the other 3, it started raining. The rain felt very different than in lowlands, obviously colder, but it was fine tiny drops. Sometimes I couldn't tell whether it was raining or not. When it is "raining", it would just feel like those liquid fan that sprays super tiny drops at you but does not get you wet at all. After having our dinner at the mamak restaurant, we went exploring again throughout the night. Everything in Genting is just too expensive. McD's Fillet o Fish Medium set is priced at 12 bucks, excluding government tax. It was extremely fun just walking outside at night. Vision was slightly poor with all the water vapours, but it felt much better than in an air-cond room.

The first night was kinda horrible for me. I had terrible stomach ache, maybe because of Teh Tarik. I've heard that at certain times, a person's body cannot take Milk with Caffeine. Lucky for me, after that cup, until now, I have no problems with Teh Tarik anymore. Sleeping next to Ezz was a bad idea. First, he woke me up when he made weird noises with his mouth, then the pillow that was suppose to be shared, was stolen by him. I tried taking it back without waking him up, but NO he pushed me unconsciously. Then his hand went under the pillow, under his head, which resulted in his elbow below my back. Crap! Had to sleep with his damn elbow behind my back. If I tried to move abit, I'd fall on Ariz, who was sleeping on the floor.

Everyone wanted to wake up early, so we can have fun at the Theme Park longer. About 5 of us set alarms to wake us up early. Ariz's stupid alarm rang at 6:30 to wake him up for school. He forgot to turn it off since school has already ended. Then came other alarms from different handphones in different directions. Funnily, some of us heard the alarm but none of us woke up to off them, except for Edwan. He woke up a few times just to off them. I only woke up to off my alarm though.

2ND Day, yay! Finally Theme Park. As we were about to buy our tickets, a lady came to us and asked us if we wanted to buy tickets FROM her. Was about 8 Bucks cheaper than normal. We figured that these tickets were for tourists that bought the tickets through a package. First ride as a warm-up was sitting on a chair like a swing, and getting spinned around in circles. Then we rode the Roller Coaster, where Nash lost one part of his lense. Then came the most anticipated ride ever, the Solero Shot, which is renamed into Space Shot. It takes you up alllll the way up, until you can see almost whole Genting. Then lets you go on Free Fall. At first, Liew chickened out! Pok Pok Pok!! Then as we were about to reach the end of the queue, he joined us again. As we were FreeFalling, it felt extremely fun and thrilling. Ariz said he tried to shout but he couldn't shout. Voice box too low pressure at that time, maybe. Later we tried shouting even before we Free Falled, it worked! We could shout during the whole fall! Damn, that was the best stress release I'd ever had. The only thing that sucked was, when you reach the top, they'll keep you at hold for a while, you can NEVER expect when you are going to fall. It just happens so damn fast, that you have to count on your instinct to tell. Since there was 7 of us, it was kinda boring for 1 person who had to sit alone. IIRC, we sat this ride three times for the whole day.

The other rides were Bumper Cars, Bumper BOATS, Ferris Wheel, yada yada yada. The Ferris Wheel lady was really nice, she smiled at us every time we called to her from the wheels. At night after dinner, we tried the Go-Kart. Waiting for our turn took nearly ages. Not to mention we had to sign a "Death Letter" saying that if we had any accidents, they are not responsible. Then we had to sit in a room and start reading how to use the Go-Kart. When it started, I was extremely lucky to get a Kart that was the fastest among the rest. I started out last but ended up first. It was really imbalanced. On each car had "No Bumping!". Still everyone recklessly bumped at each other. Though they limited our ride from 10 Minutes to 5 Minutes, since it was "raining" water vapours. Bad vision.

As it "rained" alot of rides started to close down. Was sad, but luckily we managed to get the spinning around in circle ride once more. This time was way more refreshing since it was "raining".

Later that night, we went around exploring the rest of Genting. The only place we didn't manage to visit was Ria Apartments, which requires a car if you want to get there in 10 minutes. Visiting there was the last thing on my list, since nearly all my other friends who stayed there, encountered ghostly activities. I've also heard the 14th Floor of that place was sealed up. When you enter the Elevator, the 14th Floor's button is removed. Some in the internet say that they explored the 14th Floor by climbing up the stairs. The Door was locked but was still easily broken. They found that in EACH door, there is a Chinese "Fu" pasted on them, with red Chinese writing. Next thing they know, they got sick for 3 days.

We managed to visit all of Genting. It felt really disappointing, that Genting is that small, that we could visit every part of it in 2 days. On the last night there, we hung out at the garden-like area again. All the lights were out, since it was already 2AM. Only the 7 of us were there, chitchatting. Then from talking about Bleach Anime we jumped to talking about Ghost Stories that actually happened or experienced by some of us for about an hour.

3rd Day, Bye-Bye time. We left Genting using the same route. Nothing much on the 3rd Day. Except waiting from 11:00 to 1:30 for a Bus Ride back to KL Central. While waiting, we went exploring nearby, and saw many many monkeys. One got very near to us, and we thought it was friendly. Then he showed his fangs at us, and he growled at us. We were like WTF! In the end, we reached home at about 5pm or so. And thats the end of our Genting Trip. Whew, what a long essay.






Group Pictures!