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I finally had a chance to go on a holiday with some of my best mates last weekend.

FRIDAY

Met up with Wai, Hiu Jian, Soon and HGY at KL Sentral. WAI WAS THE FIRST AT SENTRAL.

We were an hour early (bus scheduled to leave at 7 p.m), so we went for dinner at KFC.

Food there wasn't really good. Hiu Jian's coleslaw had ice in it. HAHAHA. And it was there that HGY started calling himself a 'sexy muthabi**h'. LOL

After some time, we started arguing over room arrangements, with HGY refusing to sleep in the same room as Soon, and demanding a bed all to himself, and the rest of us throwing in counter-arguments of our own, while Soon threatened to throw us all out. It was funny as hell to shout at each other with demands and complaints about weird things about each other such as leg-hair and size.

Soon got us rooms free of charge, at Highlands Hotel.

We boarded the bus and settled in for the trip at 7.

: )

Nothing much happened on the journey, except Soon trying to cuddle/hug/lie down on me. HGY shut his eye and probably rested, while Hiu Jian and Wai chatted away. Soon and I also talked quite a bit.

After we arrived at the hotel, Soon went to collect our room keys from his dad's friend, who helped us check in earlier in the afternoon. We took a few photos in the lobby.

Wai, HGY and Hiu Jian.

Hiu Jian said, 'When I touched it, the temperature increased!'

Yeah right.

Wai, me, Beruk.

Soon appeared!

Those two were quick in grabbing beds -_-

We settled down quickly. Some of us washed up, while the others rested.

Afterward, we went to check the place out.

We wandered around, checking the counters in case we could buy tickets and stuff for Saturday. However, we couldn't. And Genting's cinema had stopped showing Inception T_T

Some of the ridiculous jokes we traded including going for massages and '拉根' sessions. We've all heard of prostitutes at Genting, and HGY wanted to say 'look for pleasure', but ended up saying '找快乐' LOL.

We considered going to the pub, but finally decided to get a drink at Starbucks instead.

Sipping cold/hot coffee and frappucinos while relaxing and chatting at the place...priceless.

We bought a pack of cards at a convenience store, then returned to the hotel room for the rest of the night.

The hotel rooms were good, spacious and comfortable, but with almost zero privacy -_-

The bathroom doors couldn't be locked! While I was shitting, Soon easily pushed his way into the bathroom. Luckily there were separate cubicles for the shower and the toilet, and I had the screen door closed.

We played 'chor dai di', then switched to 'Bluff', while eating the junk food we brought.

Bluff? As HGY puts it: "You get to find out who your real friends are".

It was freaking funny. We were roaring from laughter at all the ridiculous tricks each would try. Wai didn't join in, but he watched and even he found it funny. To put it simply, the goal of 'Bluff' is to get rid of all your cards, throwing them down and calling them out (either truthfully or...you know), and then hoping that others would challenge you and make a mistaken guess.

We played many rounds before going to bed. Wai made some really funny screams when he went for a cold shower in the middle of the night.

He couldn't sleep either, cause the Dark Mocha he drank made him high. He was all over the place making weird sounds, doing weird things. But at long last, we all settled down and got a few hours of restless sleep.

SATURDAY

Shitty night. I had diarrhea.

Oi. Wake up.

This is how you wake that whale up.

Okay...maybe that didn't work out too well.

It took all of us a while to get our systems up and running. HGY was the first to go to bed, and the last to rise. -_- Soon lazed around a bit, playing his PSP. Wai fooled around a bit, mostly with Soon.

When we were all ready, we headed down to the First World area for breakfast as well as to get some theme park passes. We opted for an outdoor walk down the the mountain from the Highland Hotel to First World.

It was pretty refreshing.

We had breakfast at Marrybrown.

Breakfast ~_~

John :D

Once we got these, it was time to hit the park :D

Wai had diarrhea, so the other three decided to ride the Swing Carousel.

I didn't join them because of a nasty past experience :D

After they were done, and Wai had returned, we went to check out the Go-Karts, but they weren't ready yet, so we waited around trying to decide what to go for next. Wai had another diarrhea (he said he shitted Dark Mocha), so we stood around waiting for him.

Hiu Jian and Soon tried this game. They tossed rings onto the bottles, trying to loop one around the bottle, but they failed :/

HGY suggested Dinoland, and so we went. He probably thought there would be cool dinosaurs and stuff.

Heh. Here we have Soon, HGY and Hiu Jian.

@_@

Dinoland was...boring, I'd say. I was in the same boat as HGY and Soon, and we were talking really loudly about the ride and the dinosaurs throughout the boat ride. Soon tried to gay around with HGY as well, but HGY didn't like it much.

Totem.

Posers?

Afterwards, Wai went to the toilet again, and later went to buy some medicine, accompanied by Hiu Jian. The rest of us went for a ride on the Corkscrew. My first time :D

Man, it was awesome. I pretended to be afraid of it, and HGY and Soon kept trying to prevent me from 'leaving'. But I was actually excited. And I was really satisfied. Ahahaha. The loops and the spirals and the whatnot...EXHILARATING.

We went for a drive on the Go-Kart course. By then Wai was feeling better. The queue was...long. It seemed like ages before we managed to get onto the track.

And we were off! I followed behind HGY all the time because I just couldn't overtake him. My car was just slower than his, whereas he was overtaken by a Malay guy who disappeared from my sight later on. I guess he got a pretty fast car.

There was a rather scary moment when HGY was blocked and almost boxed in by three girls, one of whom kept swerving from left to right and blocking him. We didn't know if they were doing it on purpose, but they certainly drove dangerously. We did our best to overtake them and put some distance between them and ourselves.

We wanted to ride the Cyclone, but the sheer length of the queue deterred us. Instead, we went onto the spinning Cups. -__-

It was extremely punishing. For the next hour or so I felt completely queasy and nauseous. Wai, Hiu Jian and I were squeezed into one cup, and even though we didn't spin much, it was enough to upset my stomach. Whereas the other two crazy clowns spun from the start till the end. HGY had trouble getting out of the cup later. HAHAH. He was sprawled across the seat and struggling to pull himself upright. It was extremely funny.

I recorded a video of the ride, but it's too large to upload here, so, sorry folks.

I wasn't in the right condition for any more rides, so I sat on a bench and rested. Hiu Jian tried another game, while Soon accompanied me. HGY and Wai went for the Pirate Train ride, to which they said "sucks!".

We took a couple more photos, then went indoors. We went for the Motion Master show, 'Turtle Vision'.

It was another crazy queue, but we passed time as usual by taking photos and talking. Soon complained a lot.

The Motion Master show was alright, but it put a little too much emphasis on the importance of being environmental-friendly. Sort of made it a little boring and cliched, IMHO.

And then, it was time (finally!) for lunch.

We ate at a hotpot restaurant. All-you-can-eat steamboat buffet style. Overall, I'd say the food was pretty good. And we took too much! Seriously.

Boiling in tomyam soup.

Wai was still eating and enjoying his food at this time.

We could also fry the food on a grill around the pot. Soon and Hiu Jian deep-fried many pieces of Chicken, whereas HGY, Wai and I kept frying fish. We overate, and still were unable to finish, with HGY calling it quits first, followed by the rest of us.

Hiu Jian and I took a walk, and we made a trip to the bathroom before returning to the restaurant. Finally, all of us mustered our courage (and last vestiges of appetite) and finished off the scraps! Victory!

What to do when you want to ride something and digest a huge lunch at the same time? Take a ride on the antique cars!

The queue was long, but it wasn't long before it was our turn. Wai and Hiu Jian took the car in front of us. Wai drove that; Soon drove ours.

:D

As it turned out, it was a bad decision to let Soon drive. The nut kept giving the excuse of 'no brakes!', but he kept accelerating anyway and ramming into the back of the others' car.

And we couldn't really blame him either. The other two were going at...4 km/h? They were moving so slowly! And they kept camwhoring in front.

Gay moment.

There was another kid ahead of them who kept slowing down and blocking them as well. On the final stretch of the track, Wai sort of lost patience and rammed his car into the kid's. LOL

After that, we wanted to go on other rides but Soon wanted to rest and shit, so he went back to the hotel first. He was also kinda discouraged by the Mining Train queue.

While waiting for the ride.

To sum it up, it was short. So it wasn't that satisfying. And it only got pretty fast towards the end. Furthermore, the ride wasn't scary, but the rather low ceiling kinda freaked me out. If I'd stretched my head out too much I could have been decapitated.

Outside again.

Wai and HGY went for the Pirate Ship, but I wasn't confident that I could stand it, so Hiu Jian and I walked around instead.

At one point, a clown followed us. Yes. It was kinda freaky. She was staring at us while walking alongside us, and we stared back, then she said very slowly, 'Hiiii...'

Hiu Jian and I quickened our pace and left when she was distracted by a kid.

Later, Hiu Jian played a duck game, but lost. He didn't have any luck the whole day. Haha.

Once he was done, we went to look for the other two at the Pirate Ship.

They were kinda unlucky as got onto the ship last and had to sit in the middle, but it didn't stop them from having fun.

Two crazy guys :D

Wai started to do Mexican Waves, leading his entire side of the ship to do the same, as he called out "ONE, TWO, THREE!" When it comes to crazy fun, this guy's a natural leader.

The last ride we went for was the indoor rollercoaster ride. Fun, but nothing new, because the last time I went to Genting I'd ridden it for more times than I could remember.

By then, it was already evening, and a thick mist blanketed the outdoors. We headed back to the hotel, but took photos on the way.

Hah, posing in the mist.

All the funny poses.

He said it was his car.

Soon locked us out. -_-

We managed to gain entry after spamming the doorbell. We rested for a while, then Hiu Jian, Wai and I went out to get a little surprise for Soon.

Yup, to show our gratitude for free rooms.

We got half a gallon of Baskin Robbins ice-cream, in four different flavors, and went back to the room. Could tell he was kinda surprised.

We all sat around eating the ice-cream for a while, and then Wai had another crazy idea.

He suggested eating it in the mist, outside. Aw, what better idea could you get? Eating ice-cream, outdoors, in Genting.

Unfortunately, it was raining!

Next best thing? Sit on the curb and eat it. HAHA. We must have looked really weird, but who cares? It was fun, and how often do you sit on a curb of a hotel in really cold weather, eating ice-cream with your buddies?

All hail glorious ice-cream.

We went back to the hotel to prepare for 'Dazzle'. Yep, Soon got us free tickets to the show.

Wai was a little high again, and he lay down onto the carpet in the corridor. A cute little girl down the hallway spotted him and said in a loud, high-pitched voice, "EE!! 那个人在睡觉!"

Needless to say, the rest of us roared in laughter. She was so adorable!

We had to split up though. I sat with Hiu Jian, on the same row as the other three, but further away.

Before the show began, they made an announcement saying that recording devices were prohibited, so no photos. So we just watched and enjoyed the show. Luckily, the seats beside the other three remained empty, so Hiu Jian and I went over to join them.

I wasn't really interested in the dance segments, but the magic tricks were really entertaining, especially the umbrella magic, the statue illusionist and the lightning-speed clothes-change. The magician who did the umbrella tricks came among the audience at one point and started to do some tricks as well. He took RM10 from Hiu Jian and turned it into a hundred dollars.

We were all laughing really hard at Hiu Jian and his surprise, and at the magician's antics. Apart from performing magic, he was quite the actor and joker, keeping the audience in stitches. At the end, no harm was done, and Hiu Jian got his RM10 back.

The magician also did some other magic with other spectators which were no less impressive and also very funny.

We went to the arcade, and it sort of spoiled our moods. Long story short: Genting doesn't always deliver when it says 'free stuff', and this kinda pissed Soon, Hiu Jian and HGY off.

In the end, we returned to the hotel for more games of "Bluff", resulting in a couple of hours of almost constant laughter as we put each other to the test with our wits.

We played till about 2 a.m, then went for our karaoke session.

Ah, it's really different going for a karaoke session with them. For a change, we sang only English songs, and with them, songs from Michael Jackson, MLTR, Ronan Keating, Aerosmith, Oasis, Linkin Park, Nickelback etc were sung. And I have to say, I prefer singing with them much much more than with anyone else I've sang with so far. I suppose these guys were just much more 'my crowd'.

They knew a lot of classic songs, of which I only have fuzzy memories, and it was only through half of those songs that I realize I knew the songs.

I think it was "It's My Life".

Everybody sang, taking turns on different songs, sometimes singing all together, on songs like "It's My Life" and "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing".

Extremely fun session. Sadly, it cost me my voice for the rest of the night, and gave Soon a sore throat.

Sunday

Last group picture.

We packed up, then went for breakfast at The Bakery.

The chicken pies and panini were really delicious. We chatted for quite a while, but Soon had to leave early to join his family.

Once we were done with breakfast, we went to get bus tickets home. It was kinda difficult, what with some tickets sold out, but we managed to get tickets to Gombak. And then, we waited (a lot of time in Genting was spent waiting) till it was time to board the bus.

And with that, our Genting holiday came to an end. I really enjoyed myself (perhaps more than on any other trip I'd been on before), and I really hope that someday, we could all go on another holiday again.