my.escape

jueves, diciembre 02, 2004

[ 726. Genting - In Full ]

Just barely 12 hours after mobilisation exercise ended, i dragged myself out of bed to make a call to eric. Firstly to ensure that he's on his way, second to coord the place which i'm suppose to meet him, somewhere near my place.

Dad drove eric, mom, bro and myself to beach road, the usual pick up point for malaysian trips. Kiasu mom made sure that we reached there by 0630, only to give me ample time to go opposite, take a seat, order a bowl of noodles, enjoy it and stroll back to the waiting area to read my newspaper. Yes, we departed at 0700. Around that, i guess.

Never cleared customs so quickly ever before i guess. Thought that since it's holiday season, the jams will start clogging up, but heck with it: it was nowhere to be found. Was enroute to genting on the north-south highway even before 0930. Had a couple of mandatory stops on the way, you know, those shopping stops or lunch breaks at the overly-visited stops at yong peng or ayer hitam.

Reached the cable car station at 1400. Fastest ever, though the trip of about 400km is really a drag, but thanks to Da Vinci Code and Britney Spears, the trip seemed about half as deary. Nonetheless, it should be noted that the cable car ride can actually be slated as one of the 'thrill rides' of genting. One part of which actually took on a slope of no less than 45 degrees. The last time i took it with my class girls a year ago, i stepped off the gondola with semi deaf ears (mostly due to acrophobic shrieks) that took another half a day and half a pizza to recover.

Check in first, shopping first. A quick bite, some little arcade, and off to dinner we went. This little hut tucked away a little distance from genting highlands, serves one of the best chinese food in the area. Ummm. Ok, take into consideration certain facts such as the highly unpalatability food they serve up in the hotel itself. Heck with it, we were enjoying the RM220 dinner for 10 with large prawns, fresh pomfret, sea cucumber (which don't come cheap) and other chinese dishes that you can imagine.

The night was spent on shopping. Went around the shopping arcade in first world, as well as checking prices for the theme park. To my delight and eric's horror, we found a ktv there as well. For charges like RM24++ per pax for happy hour, i bugged eric shamelessly to make it our wet weather programme. Not to mention, disgustingly pray for the rain the following day.

Much to my disapppointment it didn't rain... so we blew like RM129 for three theme park tickets for the two of us and my bro. No to think of it, we didn't actually take much rides. First was the vertical drop thing which i simply REFUSE to take. Being acrophobic, or rather, the fear of sudden drop in height, I enjoyed my cup of maggi mash potato while waiting for the two of them to queue for the ride. Eric had the guts to comment about the lack of speed in the free falling, and there i see eric coming out of the ride, slightly pale in the face.

Took that indoor mini-roller coaster, as well as the outdoor version, cyclone. Manage to get on this gold mine thrill ride which seems like just another cyclone. Heck with it. Broke off for lunch since we woke up late and screwed breakfast. Tempted by Pizza Hut prices we can never get in Singapore, we went and had it. So full, that we had to withdraw to our room for a rest before continuing. Alas, the afternoon was quite non-eventful i guess, the mist stopped quite a number of rides, and hence we went on only the spinner and the simulator ride before going for another shopping break.

Ahh... let me talk about my shopping spree. I splurged on two shirts, which i easily coaxed mom into buying for me. Not exactly buy for me, but to pay for me in advance since i didn't have that much cash. Aww... so sad, but heck. I bought them anyway. Muahahahs. Even mom thought they were nice. That's all it matters.

Met up with kailoong in the late night, and he was disgusted by the fact that i could walk around genting with my sleeveless and my SAF shorts. Even as we strolled to First World via the internal route and back to Genting Hotel via the outdoor route, he was freezing so much more than me. Gee. Went to macdonalds for supper, before we walked past this disco. The lazy me shall now quote you from eric's blog:

"Met up with Kai Loong there at night for supper. We had no where to go at night! Boring. In the end, we ended up in a pub called Safari. Weird. Their opening hours are damn short. 1730 to 2200 was live band performance and from 2200 till 0200 was clubbing and that's it. Only till 0200! The place is good but the crowd is old. Tourists from all around the world came here and gosh, we had aunties and uncles dancing like the 60s inside! Haha. First time in my life I've heard club playing Canto and Malay Techno! Eh... They had no themes unlike Singapore and all their tracks were quite jumbled up. The good ones came real late but the fun was ending soon."

That was easy reading, isn't it? =) good job... xuan... good job...

Anyway, it was like all over so soon. Third day, we woke up, had breakfast, then barely an hour later, had lunch and then we were on our way back to singapore. The bus journey was long, but sufficient for me to complete the book that i've finally started. I shall not comment on the book since it's highly controversial.

Well... let's go on to something more interesting. Actually, i didn't really enjoy myself throughout the trip. I reckon that even though i was away, on a break, but i don't feel like i'm giving myself a break. Still very much depressed, i guess. About relationships, about friends, about my life, my future. About my past, my identity and my thoughts. That's my problems: i think too much. I thrive on people, on relationships. And ever since the tumble i took back in JC2, i had never seemed to really recover fully from it. On the contrary, sometimes i feel i've fallen deeper. On the trip back, melancholy sets in. Something that i enjoy yet detest. Feel lonely yet not alone. Feel down, but yet circumstances keep me up.

Ahh sharks. I'm planning for my ORD trip. Made some minor discussions with eric. Thinking of going taiwan in 2006. Any takers?

Shannon left at 8:28 p. m..

gone.

will i be back?
i don't know.
maybe i've started elsewhere.
maybe never. again.

jueves, diciembre 02, 2004

[ 726. Genting - In Full ]

the guy

his wishes

his horizons

people.

tags

gone. will i be back? i don't know. maybe i've started elsewhere. maybe never. again.

jueves, diciembre 02, 2004

[ 726. Genting - In Full ]

the guy

his wishes

his horizons

people.

tags

gone.

will i be back?
i don't know.
maybe i've started elsewhere.
maybe never. again.