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Scribbling [a] Runaway History


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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
just got back from genting.
and 4 days was enough to bore me.
i mean, initially, genting highlands was fun.
but during the 3rd and 4th day,
oh goodness,
my sis and i were struggling to find something to occupy ourselves with.

my hand got scalded by black coffee on the first day,
at the YongPeng stop.
i was strolling down the row of food stalls with a cup of black coffee for my dad,
happened to pass the cashier,
and the aunty who was frantically keeping change swished her hand and knocked the coffee off.
well, apparently, her form of apologies were rather queer,
with 2 words "soli soli."
but i GRACIOUSLY accepted it (i guess), and strolled off.(YES, strolled. I didn't stomp off. :P)
was kind of annoyed that she didn't offer to buy me another cup of coffee though.
lol.
anyway, i don't get the concept of rushing about.
since the you paid the bus driver to drive you to some part of malaysia,
then he must be at your service.
there seems to be no reason why you should rush your meal and scurry about j.i.c the bus driver leaves without you (cause if he does, you can sue his pants off).
DUH.
come to think of it. everybody there is hurry scurry.
i've learnt to walk on the sidelines where no aunty and uncle can squeeze through to ensure ultimate safety of my food.
seriously, getting to my table was like crossing the shibuya crossroads.
-.-

did i also mention the houseflies?
i wonder if they're dumb, of just too full to fly around their house.
they just plunk themselves onto a table and stop moving.
even when my hand is an mm from them, they still remain still.
they only fly away when i really really smack them with some mag.
gosh. i easily killed 7 with my sandals. lol.
and btw, the massacre wasn't intentional.
i just happened to step on the group of them resting by the drinks stall.
i found the end result gory. (yeck)
anyway,
none of them bit me, if they can that is.
and they are really really slow, in terms of flying and reacting.
so i see why there would be no need to buy baygon.
just your hands would do the trick.

over at genting on the first day.
it was pretty fun.
the click five was over at the arena of stars having their live concert.
my sis and i didnt manage to get tix to enter,
but we stoned around the area to capture a little of their music.
heehee.
cheapos.
we ended up at the mama stall opposite the concert hall buying groceries.
and we also bought 6 herbal tea eggs.
(to keep warm, and to fill our tummys.)
fantastic i must say- the 2 in 1 function it has.
especially since its DELICIOUSLY cooked by the professional herb aunty.
haha!
my entire family got lost trying to figure our way around the levels,
but i think we can navigate through the place with our eye closed now.
my dad and mum abstained from the casino really hard on the first day.

the second day was cool. as in chilly.
the clouds were overwhelming.
and walking out would be equivalent to soaking yourself.
haha.
my dad and mum finally left us both alone after breakfast and hit the casino immediately.
and my sis and i went round the theme parks.
so theres the indoor, and the outdoor one right.
my sister's first desire was to sit the venice gondola.
she said it was EXCITING.-and i believed her.
so we ended up like retards sitting in the gondola and going round the plaza at a very very very very very very very slow pace.
i felt like some display ornament, when people leaned over the railings to view who the next stupid being actually paid to sit on the venice gondola was.
so we said hello to fake mermaids and seahorses and listened to about 10 minutes of italian/french/spanish recording before we evecuated the gondola.
we practically jumped off. haha.
-
the next ride was worse.
my sister said she wanted to take the euro express.
but we ended up babysitting some cute hongkie girl whom's parents refused to sit with her on the reindeer ride (for obvious reasons).
so we did it again- this time on air.
the reindeer was moving uber uber uber uber uber uber uber uber uber uber uber slowly around the plaza.
though it was just as retarded as the gondola ride,
at least it felt better since nobody could float and stare at you.
haha.
i guess even the hongkie girl thought it was boring.
she was bored to tears and wept like WOOHOO when she met her mum at the start point when the ride ended 10 minutes later.
my sis and i ran off- bad babysitters we must have been. heheh.
-
so we finally sat the euro express.
then we moved out to the outdoor theme park.
sat some thrilling rides.
then there was this particular one.
(okay, im not prejeudiced against fat people k)
this fat lady was at the front seat.
so the person had to push down the safety bar and lock it-
unfortunately.
it couldn't go down.
seriously,
she breathed in deeply,
pulled up her shirt,
pushed down her pants and belt a lil,
took off her bag,
stood up a lil etc;
and nothing worked.
the safety bar just wouldn't go down.
this invited quite a bit of laughter from the queue,
and me? i just ate my candy floss.
poor lady.
i think she can't sit everything else already. oops.
-
(okay, im not against dark skinned people too, since i'm one. but here goes:)
you seriously seriously should consider a trillion times before you hire a dark skinned human to pose as a clown.
OH GOSH.
they're a nightmare in broad daylight.
the contrast between the paint and the skin tone is too much to swallow.
and my heart almost jumped out when one approached me to sell icecream.
just picture this.
green curly wig,
dark skin,
brown eyes with painted eyebrows and curled eyelashes,
the ronald macdonald smile (white and red lips),
the over flowing rainbow coloured costume with black hands,
and gigantic luminous green shoes with abit of dark skin showing between the short costume and the socks.
goodness.
-
and the cliche, don't judge a book by its cover.
i always ignore it.
really.
the most innocent family ride, some pirate adventure,
turned out to be my worse nightmare.
if you didnt already know,
i'm utterly afraid of the dark- to a certain extent.
and skeletons too.
but those 2 didnt come to my mind.
i mean, when people came out of the ride,
they were all smiles and laughter.
so i thought, it would be fun.
moreover, i was at the back of the queue.
so when it was our turn,
my sis and i didn't think much about it-
we just sat down on the little vehicle and went in.
oh goodness.
it was pitch black.
and the next thing i saw was a skeleton.
thank god i had eyelids.
HAHA. my sis and i shut our eyes immediately and just tolerated the entire ride.
it was amazing how we didn't scream.
heehee.
and as usual, we followed those who has went through the same ordeal during the ride.
we smiled our best and exited the ride.
LOL.
-
we spent the entire day shuffling between the 2 theme parks.
till about 9pm, when i decided to take the ferris wheel outdoor.
ah, that was seriously a bad decision on my part.
the entire outdoor theme park was deserted.
and the ferris wheel was going round and round and round on its own with no passengers.
that was seriously, freaky.
hahaha.
so my sis and i walked briskly to the nearest stall to buy something, and at least interact with some human life.
gosh.
-

the third day was pretty warm.
caught indiana jones with my family.
we were so excited when they said our tix came with free SNACKS.
so we were deciding who would get the popcorn and the drink and so on.
but it turned out,
the SNACK was seriously, just a chocostick.
and it couldn't get any better than that.
-.-
but the movie was great. (though there was a whole lot of skeletons involved)
my parents spent the entire day at the casino again.
and my sis and i roamed the entire plaza about 10 times.
had fun at the arcade too.
-
oh ya. speaking about ARCADE.
lols. you know the game PARA PARA or Dance Dance Revolution-
ahhh- the 'ah lian-ish' game some may term it.
any oh how.
i used to be addicted to it with deb.
HEEHEE.
then when i spot some 'ah lians' over there attempting to play it,
i realised,
ah. not all ah lians can play ah lian-ish games.
:P
so evil eh,
my sis and i just stood behind and watched with evil smirks.
then walked away to play crazy taxi.
-
kboxing with my sister was simply hilarious.
we were so afraid the aunty at the booth would hear our horrid voices,
we toned down the mikes till it was mute.
and we just plainly wasted RM2.00 singing as if we were dumb.
haha.
xD
then there was this live performane by a chinese malaysian singer.
she was singing 'Tong Hua'
then there is this line: BIAN CHENG CHI BANG (wings)
apparently, she sang it as JI BANG (chicken wings)
and she repeated that verse for 5 times?!
goodness:
she doesn't seem to notice the vast difference between WINGS and CHICKEN WINGS.
-.-

and the fourth day was much awaited for.
we were so freaking bored of the entire plaza,
we just sat at the bus terminal and waited for our bus to arrive.
even 1 hour at the bus terminal was fun.
as long as it was some place new, nothing mattered.
:D
the ride back home was funtastic.
my dad entertained us with some lame jokes.
heehee.

now i'm back home!
miss a whole lot of people.
:D
gosh.
and i've got to catch with assignments of all sorts.

but now,
i'm going to catch some sleep.
tralala~