Sunday, September 25, 2005 1 b*tchin

Vacation at Genting Highland

Well, tis is the first ever vacation I ever taken with my amigos. The orignal plan was for us, the Five Amigos (ie: Me, Smelly, Eidur, Suke and Acapan) to take a one night vacation at Genting. Unfortunately, Eidur for some reason had to pass out on this vacation so we had to become the Four Amigos instead.

The journey to Genting was a very tiring one as we had to take a LRT to Sentral before taking a bus to Genting Skyway and finally taking a cable car to Genting. Once reaching Genting at around 12.00, we had to walk a very long walk to First World Hotel to checkin. On our way to First World hotel, we bumped into one of the Stupid Malaysian Idol Judges(the amoh kuai). To our dismay, instead of being able to checkin quickly in our room to rest our tired legs, we had to get a turn ticket and wait for our turn. Since there area practically 100 ppls infront, we decided to take our lunch first in the Indoor Theme Park. There we realiazed that things here in Genting are f*cking expensive. At first we wanted to eat at Burgers King but after a quick glance at the price, we headed to KFC instead. The price at KFC was also quite the same (expensive), but since we're tired and hungry, we settled for a special combo meal for 3-4 that had a price tag of Rm 35. None of us were full though...

After lunch, we returned to the hotel only to find out our turn has passed so we contacted the help counter and was instructed queue to checkin instead in at a particular counter. Lucky for us the queue was not long and we're able to checkin quite fast. We were assigned to room 825 at floor 20 in Tower B. To our dismay, our Deluxe room was one small room with two beds that was "serba-kurang". Guess that is wat one should expected for a Rm165 room.

After dumping our baggage into our room and taking a brief rest, we were up and ready to party. We decided to enjoy ourself at the outdoor theme park but like usual Acapan had to ruin the mood by saying he wanted to stay in the hotel room (his excuse was he wanted to use the entrance fee money to the ourdoor theme park at the casione instead), sheesh... So Suke, Smelly and I went ahead and left Acapan at the hotel to enjoy ourself at the outdoor theme park.



At the outdoor theme park, we had quite some fun at some of the attraction which includes:
  1. Roller Coaster - Nothing fancy by look but gave me and the amigos a shock when it dip down-up and right-left.
  2. Cockscrew - This roller coaster ride involves a 360 turn with a speed which almost sent my glasses flying. Smelly and Suke very at the most front seat so they had the best view... :-)
  3. Gold Cart - Ended up last among the amigos thanks to my lousy gold cart and a moron that decided it was fun to drive slowly in the middle of the lane. Wish my gold cart had more speed so I can bump the driver outta the way.
  4. Boat Ride - Boring boat ride in Dino Park which really LAME Taken some very hilarious photo pix at the Dino Park though.
  5. Flying See-Saw - Took me some time to gather some guts before I decided to took this one up. Had some tense moments while I was pratically being swing around in mid-air in a circle at high velocity.
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  7. Pirate Ghost Ride - Nothing special bout this ride, very short ride with some lame haunted house gags.
  8. Sea ??? Boat - Nothing special bout this one cept for a segment with mirrors which made it quite hard to find ur way out.
  9. Antique Car - Rode on antique cars which took us around the theme park. Kept banging into the car infront of us and getting banged from the car behind us since the cars are control by the station.
We however missed two main attractions that were the Mono-rail ride which was already closed when we entered the park and the Space-shot which I didn't dare ride. While we were having fun at the outdoor theme park, it seems Acapan was busy lepaking around Genting.



It was around 6.30 when we returned from the outdoor theme park. We decided to have dinner at a chinese restaurant Acapan found while lepaking around in Genting. Had to walk a long way to get to the restaurant. Quite frankly, while the food in this restaurant is cheaper than most food-stalls in Genting, the food ain't great. Rm 6 for a normal Pan Mee really puts a hole in my purse.

We retreated back to out room after dinner and watch Malaysian Idol (which was held at the indoor theme park) from our room. After watching Malaysian crown another singer that ain't that good at singing, we geared up for the main event... Casino...

We started out at the new first world casino. Smelly was the only one among us whom was asked to show his IC. None of us were quite ready to gamble our $ in the tables yet so we settled at watching the game which we wanted to gamble on later. I initially wanted to play at the roulette and bacarrat but after watching all that play roulette play , I decided to skip roulette. Suke and Acapan meanwhile were more intrested in Mini-Dice and Casino War. We decided we wanted to checkout Casino De Genting before gambling. On the middle of our way to Casino De Genting, Acapan called for time out and we rested outside in a "pondok". Out in the cold night Acapan, Suke and Smelly tried improving their odds at getting cancer.

At Casino De Genting, again Smelly was asked to show his IC... LOL... We discovered all the games offered here were alike yet none of us is yet willing to start gambling. We took a free coffee break inside there but still none was yet willing to start gambling. I wanted to play bakarrat but the minimum wager was big Rm 50 which really doens't sit well with me. Acapan claims he saw a bakarrat table with min wager of Rm 10 at new world casino so we ended up going back there.

Going back to new world casino, this time Smelly, Suke and Acapan was asked to show their IC, LOL. After walking around the new world casino, I discovered that the minumum wager for bakarrat is also Rm 50. The other amigos were still unwilling to start gambling so I got fed up and became the first one to gamble. I started up with a model of Rm 100 (only 2 chips), and placed my first bet of Rm 50. Won the first bet but only won 50% return (Rm 25). I waited a while before placing my 2nd bet, and I lost the bet losing Rm 50. At this point, Acapan and Suke went to the mini-dice table to start gambling. With only another Rm50 chip left, I waited a while before placing another bet. This time I won and got 1-1 return. I fought a brief struggle with my passive self before placing another bet. Won again and have Rm 175 chip in my hand. Another brief struggle, this time my passive self won and I decided to look for another game with less min wage.

Suke was gambling in a game of mini-dice. Acapan was just standing behind him watching the game. Suke won quite alot of times but since he's playing small (Rm10+), he only made a positive Rm 80. After a few more games, Suke began losing and his profit was slice down to Rm 65. The table closed at 2.30 am so Suke went on to play Casino War. With a minumum wager of Rm 25, Suke won 1 game but lost 3 games. Hence his winning spoilts only accumulate to Rm 15. Suke declared he was done gambling and I, considering made a small Rm 75 profit also decided to call it a night. Acapan and Smelly decided not to gamble (Acapan, wtf!?) and we all went back to our room for some shut eyes.

Most of us were wasted and I was the first one up at 8.30am (my routine working day wake up time). At around 9.30 am, everyone was up but suffering from red eyes. None of us wanted to go for another round in the casino so we ended up walking around Genting and taking some photo shots. We return back to our room at about 11.30am and started packing. We checkout and started a long and exhausting journey home.



My feeling now is this vacation to Genting is as lame as it can get. None of us really gamble big at the casino and Acapan is the jackass of the vacation as he not only didn't entered the outdoor theme park but also didn't gamble one dime in the casino. So wtf is he coming with us to Genting for? Anyway, I recommend u stay away from New World's Deluxe Room which really sucks...