砂漠のJeffire

Jeffirean Stories

Thursday, March 02, 2006

To all my dear friends, fans, blogspies, and whosoever~

Yeah, the post you have been waiting for so so so LONG! Wonder if my memory still serves well to bring you through the Genting experience we had truly enjoyed. The photos are up under the photo album, so feel free to check them out! They were uploaded in a jumbled fashion though (oops).

To cut short the usage of Pikachu and Jeffire, they will be combined to be known as PJ.

19 Feb 06 Sunday 5.30am
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You can read what happened the few hours before our departure. Basically the aim was to get to Queen St bus interchange by 630am on the first 851 bus departing from Yishun. Although the bus was late, we still managed to fly to the destination at 615am~ While Pikachu was yawning as though he has yet to sleep for months, Jeffire was so excited that he was wide awake despite not sleeping for the past 22hrs. Soon the bus came and another 2 couples, 1 middle-aged, and the other a few years above our age. They were real noisy for a while until the bus departed at 645am. Too bad we didn't take their photo.. hehe. They were one source of laughter for both PJ throughout the trip, even till at Genting. Hahaha.

19 Feb 06 Sunday 2.25pm
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I shan't tell you about the scenery along the way for he was bored to sleep by the repeating palm trees... heh. Nonetheless, he witness the entire mountain ascent by the bus and he says it must have been some engineering miracle that they could let so many people go up the mountain with ease. *clap clap* Some turns were so steep that he thought the bus could have toppled anytime! However all was well and easy to the end. PJ were the last to get off the bus.

Woohoo! The weather was unexpectedly cooler than the bus. It was like aircon blowing all over the place! As the place was crowded with people flowing in like us, we had some difficulty finding our hotel. Eventually we managed to get to our hotel - Theme Park Hotel. Here are some pictures on the way to the hotel.

Hotel Corridor

P Opening the Door

We took some time to open the stupid door because we din know how to insert the card key. Hahaha.

After throwing the stuff into the cupboard, we rested awhile and then went to find our dinner as we were very hungry. Our first meal --> Merrybrown. It was just situated at the hotel lobby! We shared a meal and then moved on to find other stuff for our dinner.

Misty Genting

P was very happy with the cold cold mist and pranced around like a small kid. He took another photo of me when I was looking at the sky.

J looking up

After visiting the casino to make my Genting Worldcard (din bet a cent at all), we checked around the area to know where to get around the next day, the theme park ride prices, the FnB establishes and finally we stopped at the ramen store Grace intro us. P ordered the Penang Prawn Noodle while I ordered Char Siew ramen. Grace ahhh, P says the prawn noodle is too hot for his mouth. Wahaha. Some more photos here. We took these photos on another day as day 1 too tired le.

Yummy noodles!

Meeeeee

After eating, we made our way back. The mist was really thick and hid the hotel from view. We still managed to find our way back and after washing up, we watched some tv, a Chinese horror/comedy movie (from the 80s). We laughed a whole dumb lot as the show was extremely funny. After the hysterics, we then ended the day sleeping.

20 Feb 06 Monday
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The day began with me trying to wake P up. Perhaps he didn't sleep well because I was coughing at night. I think the best way to wake him up is roll him off his bed. Haha. We ate brunch at KFC after another long walk and hesistative deliberation. Then another short walk before we went to the theme park with the skies all clear. It was the start of my nightmare.

Warming Up

P says "Let's try this!" (Nah, Grace said it was a dumb one)

An UFO?

The above was the first ride we taken. It was a great show of centripedal force at work. Basically you sit on a baskety seat, lock yourself with the seat belt thingy, then get flung around by the machine. Wooaaahhhhh... I was screaming all sorts of Japanese words when I was on it. I thought I would be flown away.. but that was not the end.

Spinning Cup photo (spin is too slow so not groggy after end of ride)

P flew up the sky after the photo above, bounced up and down, came down laughing like a devil. Those sneering type of laughter... as if nothing happened. Scary?

I nearly died of heart attack if not for the nice guy beside me. You can see how tight I was hugging to the safety harness throughout the whole ride.. sigh.

So I will list the rides that come along as the photos we took are too many and it takes hours to load all these up.

- Spinner (see the description above)
- Spaceshot (that stupid fly up, dip down at G, bounce up n down thing you see above)
- Spinning Teacup (just a sit in and spin urself while the world spins ride)
- Pirate Train (a stupid horror house ride, P screamed when he saw creepies...-_-)
- Flying Jumbo (a spinning ride in the air while you can elevate yourself by pressing a button)
- Astro Fighter (another spinning ride but our plane din fly high cos it was spoilt)
- Double Deck Carousel (the horse riding ride lor)
- Grand Prix Fun Kart (Go-kart was wet n smelly...stupid helmet stupid rain)
- Super Toboggan (an old use-your-weight-to-go-down-the-slide ride)
- Cyclone (it was sucky for me.. i hate falling at G)
- Antique car ride.. hahaha. relaxing ride
- Monorail ride.. this one have to wait a while but can take lotsa photos
- Flying dragon (this is a low level roller coaster)
- Rolling Thunder Mine Tran (woah this one is another scary thrill ride, you may bump into the wall if ur head is too tall, u get shaken left right left right, and sometimes it ends up passing the ending line, so you go on for a little while before taking the technician's route back, which we did)
- Sungai Rejang Flume ride (we got real wet so this was the last ride, it's the water flow ride that has 2 free fall segments. Dangerous part is that there is no safety belt! So we hung on to the side bars, and the boat was wet.

mm.. think we didn't take those bump boats rides, din manage to go dinosaur land, din manage to take the Corkscrew ride (din wan to take it even though it was available on the last day) and also the mini-train ride and the ferris wheel called Matahari .. hehe. The thrill rides were real scary lor.. scared of flying out of the seat, scared of breaking my leg cos i got leg injury.... scary scary. P not scared wan, on the contrary. He only scared of the creepy crawlies and the horror shows. The thrill rides like nothing to him.. PENGZ.

After a whole day of thrills, we were super wet after the last ride and then walked back to the hotel to get changed. Our first dinner buffet we chose First World Cafe! Food variety wise was good but quality wise was normal. After the dinner, we walked around somemore to check out what to do the next day. We decided to take the cable car after we found a new area (Genting/Highland Hotel area)! Haha so fun, but it was initially very scary as the thrill of the day had yet to subside.

P looking bored

Me lookin like VIP. Hehe.

After the cable car ride down, we took the ride up again after exploring the Lower Sky Station. There is a photo we took with the clown in the photo album. Heh. We then went back in the cold cold weather again. TV for Day 2? Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck! so cuteeeeeeeeee! we had another great laugh and went to bed.

21 Feb 06 Tuesday
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Tuesday was a much relaxing day as we took a longer sleep till about 12noon. Lunch was at the Japanese restaurant I spotted the day before. Wahahaha. We ate unagi, soft shell crab, sushi, tempura soba, nabe udon and nearly had the matcha ice-cream. But we wanted other options... oh ya betta list our dessert trail

day 1 - baskin & robbin shake
day 2 - mcdonald spearmint mcflurry
day 3 - strawberry sundae at BK

P tried to convince me to take the ultimate signature ride -- the Flying Coaster... he took 30mins to talk me into it lor! Hahaha. Then finally we spent that 10RM each and went for the ride... woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooahhh I screamed like mad again (he also) but in fact it was not as scary as Spaceshot.. haha. maybe because lying down and locked up in the cage.

After that we went shopping to kill off some of the energy and then we went proceeded for bowling!! P beat me in 2 rounds out of the 4 rounds we played so it's a draw. Haha. I was just unlucky ok!

We went around shopping somemore as there was a need to spend the ringgit we had... P bought the brown BUM bag after we deliberated for a long time over whether black or brown. I am sure we made the right choice! He also got himself a Billabong belt. I bought some food stuff after dinner at Resort Cafe (the food sucks) and we went for another cable car ride as there was still 2 more updown vouchers left. It was scary! The cable car stopped halfway in mid air!!! Anyway P was trying to take photos of the Genting/Highland Hotel from the cable car when it was on the up route but the camera was not powerful enough.

As we were really tired, we went to enjoy the breeze again before departing back to the hotel. The next day we had to get up early and take the 10am bus back as we had a talk at SIM at 7pm. Nearly didn't make it on time as by the time we got back, it was 5+pm. Were so so so so tired!

The entire trip was real fun, the right company and the right weather made it real memorable. I will never forget this trip - my first trip to Genting Highlands. Oh well, we didn't play at the casino =p so dun bother asking that.

Yeah yeah, any questions please feel free to ask, you can see the photos at the photo album, it's collected from both our cameras. =)

忘不了
Jeffire

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