Getaway trip (Genting Highland)

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Friday night

A well planned getaway trip with my man before he left for his Brunei trip and finally this day had arrived. Together with his sister, sister's boyfriend, Daniel and Lynette, we conquered Genting highland. The best part was to enter into Casino (at least for me). Although its just a 2 days 1 night trip, we tried to make this trip worth every minute and eventually its worth going! Hehehe.

Boy came over to find me for dinner before meeting the rest and I bought him over to try this western food near my area. This plate of chicken chop/ pork chop cost only $5.50. Too worth it! I grew up eating this western food since young.

His appetite became bigger, a plate of western food is definitely not enough for him so he decided to order Vegetarian Rojak which I had never tried it before.

10am and we left the house to train down to Golden mile to catch our bus.

As sleepy as I am, I tried to stay awake because 6 hours of bus journey could replenish my sleep.

Decided to wear specs because my contact lens was being annoying that night.

Brought to you my Genting clique. 3 couples ready to win a big car/ big condo/ hire helicopter to fetch us back. HAHAHA! Yes, it was JUST A DREAM! CASINO, wo men lai le!

And thus, 6 hours of bus journey started. Snoozing time!

Saturday

Good morning to the world. The bus arrived at one junction and we have to transfer over to another bus. That kinda interrupted my sleep and I have to drag myself out of the bus seat and changed over to another coach. We were pretty mad at the bus driver because the coach simply drove us up to the genting highland hotel. Like less than 5 minutes. We were like 'why such a hassle to change a bus where the first bus could just drove us up.'

Time checked was 6am in the morning. Not many shops were opened. But thankfully that we were able to check in our hotel at 6.30am. But because all of us were so famished, we decided to dump our baggage with the drop off baggage counter and went for our breakfast.

Breakfast was so sumptuous. We had buffet breakfast(Coffee Terrance) at one of the hotel. One person for RM39 (converted to less than S$18) which I think its affordable. What you paid for was their INTERNATIONAL BUFFET. Not the normal buffet you dined in for. With this price, I don't think you can get it in Singapore. They have different section. Chinese/Indian/Timsum/Japanese/Western/Pastries/Waffle booth. Really a thumb up for their Chinese cuisine, especially their wanton noodles.

I thought their pastries would be good but NO, the bread were too hard for me to bite. At least their muffin is not disappointing.

After a full breakfast, we took a tour around Casino and this is the first time I entered in with NO officer checking on my IC. Felt really proud to walk in. HAHAHA However, Boy got stopped by an officer (prolly because he has a small boy face!). He confidently showed his IC and simple slapped across the officer's face. That officer has nothing much to say.

After touring around Casino, we took back our baggage and went up to our room to get a change. Met them up after 1 hour and our first itinerary was to sit on a cable car and yeah, we proceeded on to our plan. Taking a cable car from genting is so much difference than Singapore. The Journey was pretty long (25 mins) to reach our destination whereas in Singapore, you only take 15 mins to reach one destination. Although the scenery was covered by the fog, we still managed to observe the different plantation planted in the forest. And I don't know why, its quite scary to look down from a great height. I tried to avoid looking down.

The cable car is so shaky at a point of time, and my heart almost stopped, afraid that the whole cable car might just drop.

Safety reached the cable car terminal and our plan was to visit the strawberry farm so we found our way to locate the free shuttle bus terminal. We almost got con by the taxi driver exclaiming that the free shuttle bus had broke down. So there wasn't bus service available. Lucky a policeman stopped him and we managed to escape away from his clutches. Managed to find the free shuttle bus by asking some kind-hearted local people. And off we go.

Cherry red & sweet looking strawberries laying around the farm. Im like jumping for joy when I see those small little berries growing healthily but got turned off when it became rotten. The sight of the rotten strawberry looked disgusting. The whole berry turned purplish and you will see flies attacking it.

Anyway, I thought I would have to pay to visit a strawberry farm but they don't charge any admission fee. You go in for free and able to snap shot beautiful pictures. A really nice place to take OOTD or wedding shoots.

When we walked inside of the farm, we found lavender & sunflower farm. A whole paradise of flowers but of course not as pretty as our own Garden by the bay. Speaking of that, I have never really walked around Garden by the bay partly because you have to pay for their admission fees. But right here, its all FREE! HAHA. A good way to mark down a new memories with the boy because we captured lots of good pictures of our face here.

And the weather is really nice to walk around, temperature with less than 18 degree Celsius. Tell me how good can the weather be?

While we were heading out of the entrance, we saw a signboard which said that 'pluck your own strawberries', 100g for 8RM. Out of curiosity, we decided to challenge ourselves to pluck out our own strawberries. Looking at a whole wide of plantation, there were too many unripe strawberries. Its really hard to find sweet/big looking strawberries. And that was when I witnessed decompose berries with flies attacking it. Horrible scene I would say. But still, we managed to collect some.

Pardon of my friends, they were just being bored while waiting for us. HAHA. But this couple very cute hor?

Very compatible please. Every shot make me want to laugh.

Best joker couple goes to them. KUDOS.

Next up to the bee hive farm and I dont really want to take alot of pictures. My hair just stand when I see the specimen of the bees. YUCKS!

This tour lasted us the whole afternoon, so we took cable back to Genting highland our late lunch. We settled our lunch at a Japanese restaurant and the food dampened our mood. First of us, the rice is tasteless. The meat is raw. The service is bad/ rude. The food is over priced. All the negative comments that I can give. All of us didn't finish half of the food, not even one quarter. Definitely not going back again.

Since we still have enough time to spare, we decided to catch a movie. Captain american (V). To be honest, I fell asleep halfway through. Was really tired as you can see from my heavy eye bag,

I recall watching a stage show at Genting when I was young but the memory was vague. So vague that I couldn’t remember any of the single details but for this little girl that sat in with her man, it was indeed a magical night.

Little did this I know that I would be watching the stage show again, and this time, under invitation from Genting package itself. It was a reminiscence of those magical moments.
And also, we were given VIP and VIP seats. Seats that were all the way infront. super duper front row that we can even touch the stage. HAHAHA. So lucky please.

The Upside Down Ceiling Walker

It was unbelievable how Kar Leclrc and his partner stayed upside-down on 30 feet above the ground, with no wires attached. I am amazed not only by their ability to walk, dance, even to play badminton in the air, but how the basketball they bounced would "fall" to the ceiling instead of our very own ground? I bet they managed to confuse Newton and his apple if he were to see this show.

The Gazillion Bubble Show

Touted as “unbubblievable”, Jano has blown my mind away with his foam manipulation: stacking of bubbles, addition of mist, and even blowing bubble out from within another bubble were simply astonishing.

The Rola Rola Man

Portuguese performer Dany Daniel has got my adrenaline pumping in his attempt to hit remarkable heights by having more and more Rola from his pretty assistant Edina while he himself is swaying sideway seeking balance. Their gravity defying talents have mesmerized more than 20 million viewers worldwide, and even gained recognition from England’s Queen Elizabeth II during the recent 89th Royal Variety showcase. If you have not noticed, they are the same performers in comedic ballet earlier on.

Water Bowl Act

For the last performance for the night, watch Mongolian Anudari and Khaliun, better known as the Deo Aqua Mermaids as they descend gracefully in aerial hoops then splashed into the transparent giant bowl.

The show was 1 hour 20 minutes but it feels like 30 mins had just passed. Really a worth watching show.

Managed to video a 15 seconds preview.

Sunday

Previous night was really a nightmare because we lost 200 ringgit in the casino. We played baccarat. All of their station allowed 50 Ringgit as a minimum and that explained why we lost that much. But man said that 200 ringgit will be his maximum, he didn't even think of winning, just wanted to leave me some experience. After losing, we headed back to our room and rest.

The other couple who stayed up at the casino till 4am had a hard time to wake up for breakfast. But there's isn't any chance for us to skip their breakfast. ITS FREE AND VARIETY OF FOOD. So we managed to pull them out of the bed.

After breakfast, they wanted to try their luck again by going for a round 2 casino. HAHAHA, and yeah, my man got checked by his IC again. So poor thing, you see. His kiddy face needed a change. But this time round, we got a little luck and won back 125 ringgit. After all, we just lost 75 ringgit.

A very nice experience I would say (: