Truly Asia Part 1: Genting

Before any of my recent trips, there have always been a proud history of screw ups. Most of the time, it was physical disorders.

Like the trip to Pattaya, Thailand: I was recovering from haemorroids and i bleed as i shit and sometimes I dun even know whether it's shit or blood. And sometimes, when you confuse the two of them, it gets quite complicated. So the whole trip was kinda dark due to that confusion and it just felt kinda shitty.

Like the US road trip: I'm pretty convinced some insect from Saturn bit me right at the centre of my forehead and therefore installed my third heavenly eye and propelled me to divinity, such that I look very much like a motherfucker in all the pictures I was in.

Kaohsiung was an exception, maybe because it was just 4 days after the end of my US trip, they didn't have enough time to come up with something to fuck me over.

So on 14th November which happens to be the last day of my exams and almost coincidentally, the day I was leaving for genting/KL. I was expecting something to happen really. Like perhaps cancer or the bird flu, chipped tooth or ears getting bitten off. It didn't happen though but I got a phonecall at 2p.m. telling me that my passport has unofficially expired.

Because there's this rule which states that your cannot travel to other countries 6 months prior to the date of expiry of your passport. Huh? Then what is the expiry date for? For fun ah?

So I was left to sweat on the One Trip Pass, wasted 15 bucks and some time. Actually I wasted a lot of time at the Immigration Centre doing all those nonsense.

So there you have it, the people going on to this trip of death.
Luq, Jan, Melia, Fel and Melissa.



I was always worried about Genting, those old stories from Crimewatch of whatever not about those landslides that killed people and the midnight robberies of tourbuses. I started to worry prematurely about the thrill rides even more than the robberies or thr landslides. But then again, those thoughts and fears were quickly dispelled as the heaviest sleeper of the group did it again in the bus ride.

We reached Genting at about 5 a.m. Our hotel rooms weren't ready yet. So we slept randomly from Starbucks to McDonalds.



The theme park was very much on the agenda. So it was just ride after ride. A lot of bonding sessions and a hell lot of pictures taken. I don't want to start the picture commentary shit so here's some of them at a glace.











Surprisingly, our first ride happens to be the most thrilling ride of the entire theme park. Space Shuttle or something like that. Free fall shit. Fel and Mel beside me were scared stiff. And so is a certain someone over at the other end.

Some of the night scenes were pretty too.





Well, I'm a bad photographer I admit. Some issues with the exposure shit which results in shaky picturs. Couldn't help it.

We had 2 rooms. 3 per room. 2girls and 1 guy. Somehow we all had had a pre-agreement who's gonna room together before the trip. So the lineup was me, jan and melia. Fel, luq and Mel.


My room mates at the Flume ride.


Our messy room

It is quite crazy how many pictures we actually took that day but we are all such camera whores. The weather was perfect. Not too cold or hot or too humid. After dinner, like all wannabes, we decide to chill out at Starbucks, sip some coffee and talk cock at night. Foggy and chilly Genting.





We were trying to image we were in the States.

Overall, I was still a little disappointed that I didn't get a chance to step into the casinos and play something. I was the only one above the legal age so there's not much of a point too going in alone. Things were expensive in Genting and all the food we spent on burnt our pockets a little.

I also happen to buy this Cottage Fries Potato Chips by Wise which was excellent, pity Singapore don't sell them anymore. All these snacks were all puffed up like balloons, probably it got something to do with the high altitude we were at.

We slept at 5 a.m. the next morning and woke up just in time to check out, hop on to our van down to KL where shopping awaits us.

For memory's sake, I think I should put up some of the funny pictures I took with Luq at Genting. Highly inspired by Tom Yum Goong.





Quite random huh..