Late Entry - Genting Part 2

Time to continue Part 2 of my Genting Trip during the CNY holiday.

I stopped at how people were still smoking their lives away even when they were standing in front of NO SMOKING signs in the hotel lobbies, entertainment centers, everywhere! Just so irritated with them!
(>_<)

Anyway, Aron and I walked around to see if there was anything else to do, other than trying to spot eye candies. Looks like it was the school holiday period or something like that, huge crowd of young children, boys & girls with their families. Totally packed and squeezy everywhere we went.

Got so bored of walking and decided to go into the casino for free drinks while waiting for the movie to start. (Economy bad, need to save money! Heh heh heh)

Finally, time was 0330 hours and we went in, eager to find out if it was really worth the RM16 we paid for the OSIM massage chairs movie package. We started fidgeting with the controls and woah, really feels good to have a massage after a whole night of walking. Somehow, after about 10 minutes into the start of the movie, it began causing discomfort and with all the vibration and shaky massage motion, found it rather difficult to enjoy the movie.

Final decision: OFF THE DAMN OSIM MASSAGE CHAIR!

Personally, I felt Underworld: Rise of the Lycans was a well-paced movie. You know sometimes, some movie sequels are slow compared to their predecessors, but so far, all series in Underworld has been up to my expectations.

Alright! Movie finished and it was approximately 0500 - 0530 hours on Friday. WOW! Freaking hell, first time staying up so late just to catch a movie. Anyway, guess we were too tired and retired for the day.

End of Part 2

To be continued...

Late Entry - Genting Part 1

Late entry for recent Genting trip during CNY holidays.

I was on a long leave during the CNY week.
初一 and 初二 were Mon and Tues, I had to take the remaining Wed - Fri leave since my company forced us too. All because our partners mostly resume office operations on the following Mon after CNY.

Since I was on such a long leave, casually asked my parents if they were keen to go up to Genting for a short break. My dad has been working very hard whole 2008 and I want him to have a rest before starting a new 2009. He did not immediately agreed for the trip and said he would have to check if his schedule permits.

And the end conclusion: Yippeeee! He was able to make it.

We set off on 初四 morning at approx. 1030 hours after our breakfast. Oh btw, I also asked my friend of 15+ years, Aron, to join us for the trip. Anyway, back to where I was... we hit the Malaysian highway by 1110 hours and "chiong" all the way towards KL.

Cut the story short, we started ascending Genting Highlands around 1530 hours and by 1545 hours, we reached Chin Swee temple. Tough luck, traffic jam during this time! Seems like alot of cars were stopping along the sides of the winding road and I was wondering what happened. I SHOULD NOT have asked to know why... cause the unexpected happened.

There was smoke rising from my side (front passenger) of the car. I immediately wound down the windows to look out, trying to see exactly where the smoke was emitting from.

DAMN! From the front left wheel!

My dad decided to stop the car along the road as he also felt there was insufficient power to get the car going up the mountain. We opened the bonnet and there was smoke coming out from the car engine, with a terrible "burnt" plastic + metal smell.

One driver who had parked his car in front of us earlier asked us what happened, and we said we didn't know, just that the engine doesn't seem to have enough power to keep the car going. He mentioned that there could be a problem with the clutch.

We just nodded our heads and decided to let the engine cool down first before trying to ascend the mountain again, since some of the cars which we saw parked along the side earlier had started ascending after half and hour's cool down time.

Things couldn't get any worse! It started raining and we had no choice but to get back into the car and spend another 45 mins inside.

At about 1745 hours, we realized this was not the solution and we decided to call up Genting Hotel's helpdesk to get some tow truck to tow our car up to the workshop near the hotel. We called the number of a tow company provided and was disappointed to know that even the mechanic wouldn't want to risk getting his tow truck up the mountain, especially when there's a jam. Ohhhh yes... it was still freaking jam at 1800 hours!

Just when we thought all hope was lost, an Indian guy approached our car and asked if we needed help with our car. He inspected the engine compartment and found that the clutch pads had actually worn out (the car is Manual Transmission) because of the constant friction during the jam. He said he can either pull the car to a nearby workshop (down the mountain) or provide repair services on the spot (at a higher price though). We decided to get his repairman to do the repairs on the spot because our car is afterall a Singapore car, and we would have trouble if the car was not returned to us (you can never be too sure when you are in a foreign land).

The damage: A whooping RM 1,400!

Tadaa... there you have it! Losing money even before you step foot into the casinos.

Anyway, it doesn't seem like we have a choice and we agreed to engage his services. We managed only to hail a taxi up Genting Highlands at 2030 hours. When we arrived at First World Hotel, we were famished! Immediately did our check-in and went for a quick dinner of noodles at the noodles house (just beside Hainan Restaurant).

Aron and I were excited to have finally reached Genting. Actually, not really exciting for me, since I have been here quite recently in 2008. Aron, on the other hand, had not stepped foot in Genting for more than 10 years!!

We walked around, enjoying the cool air and I suggested catching a movie, on an OSIM massage chair! I did not managed to try it the previous time I was in Genting because the movies then were not to my liking.

We booked the 0330 slot for Underworld: Rise of The Lycans. Must be crazy! Watching a movie at 0330 was something out of this world and I would never do in Singapore. (>_<")

Anyway, we went into the casino for awhile to busk in the CNY ambiance, totally SMOKEY! Cannot stand the smell, especially when the NO SMOKING signs were put up all over the hotel lobbies, halls, everywhere but THEY STILL SMOKE!

End of Part 1

To be continued....

Do we really have to... ?

Just something to think about...

Stepped into the MRT train and found a nice comfy seat to last a long journey from the east to Boon Lay. Suddenly an old aunty or uncle boards at the next stop, in the same cabin as you. And of all places, stands right in front of you.

Question now.
Do you...

1) Get up and offer your seat?
2) Just not bothered by their presence?
3) Just not bothered by their presence and pretend to fall asleep?

Alot of goody-2-shoes will choose the Answer 1.
Of course, because it would seem the nicest thing to do.

However, some would choose Answer 2 or even worse, Answer 3.
Pretentious beings are the worst lot and they know who they are.

For me, it depends.

If my alighting stop is like 2 - 3 stops away, I will definitely choose Answer 1.
But if I am traveling from the east to Boon Lay, I might just go ahead with Answer 2. Anyway, even if I were traveling such a far distance, it depends on:

1) How old is that aunty/uncle?
2) What is my mood that day?

Screw all those who try to be Mr/Miss Nice-People and condemn me for my answers.
Who cares about what you think?

And of course, you probably haven't met those aunties/uncles who THINK they deserve the bloody seats on the MRT train. Some of them deliberately talk loudly in front of you, trying to get your attention, and some carrying items like plastic bags of groceries or whatever will actually "accidentally" bump the bags against your legs.

Come on, whether people offer their seats to the elderly is entirely up to us.

I had seen a recent newspaper article with a snapshot of a guy holding a handphone sitting on the Priority Seat in the MRT train. The contributor wrote that there was an elder standing nearby and "flamed" the guy for not gving up his seat. Why does it bother that contributor so much?

From the angle that the snapshot was taken, it looks as if it was taken at same level as sitting down opposite the fella on the Priority Seat.

Perhaps you have perfect aiming talents and can capture clear full-view shots of this fella, or maybe you were also sitting opposite the fella and complaining about him not offering his seat to the elder standing nearby.

If my second guess was correct, why don't you just get up from your seat and offer to the elder nearby and stop whining?

I may be wrong about my guesses, but that's that.
Anyway, thinking about this at this very moment just made me want to end this post. Totally no mood.

Ciaoz!

Doomsday Is Near

2 yesterday, 3 today, how many tomorrow?
That's a very critical question.

1 by 1 I see my new found friends leaving, because of company retrenchment. It seems the company is not in good shape and has no choice but to cut the number of staff. And to think I had earlier asked my boss when logistics side will be employing a new staff to handle the work left behind by the previous logistics coordinator. Just so close to being AXED!

Who knows, tomorrow will be the official announcement, wonder if anything bad will happen to me.

I was asked earlier by my boss to attend a meeting with a colleague (who was being asked to leave today) in the afternoon. Of course, I hadn't expected this colleague of mine to be asked to leave. Suddenly my boss started saying things like, "Whichever company or boss in future will appreciate if you have some interesting ideas to bring up for product development."

I was like (-_-")!!!

Why was my boss saying such things? Especially when there were only my colleague and I in the room. I just had a bad feeling that bad fate might befall one of us! Shit man!!!

Anyway, I put that behind me and continued doing my work. At around 6plus in the evening, my colleague was asked to go into the room, which a lot of my other colleagues have been asked to earlier today.

At around 7 plus, the talk was over, damage was inflicted and my colleague walked out shocked. Shocked that he had also been asked to leave, since he heard that only 2 will be AXED today.

In the end, some of us decided to go for dinner together and I joined in. Everyone was still discussing on why they were asked to leave and why management couldn't wait till after Chinese New Year.

A lot of views were exchanged but I just kept quiet. Who was I to comment? I am in no position to voice out anything since I am not one of those asked to leave. But who knows really? Just one thing on my mind, ALWAYS BE PREPARED.

Boring Sunday

Always the same old feeling whenever it comes to this very day of the week. It shall be the start of the long treacherous work week ahead. Whatever happy things that have occurred earlier in the day would soon mean nothing much as the hour hand creeps nearer to midnight.

Arggghhhhh! (>_<)

Woke up at 8 this morning for no reason, just couldn't tell my body to keep sleeping as long as how BaoBei can on weekends. Really AMAZED at how she can just let her body fall into the "realm of darkness". I had to find something to do, otherwise I would feel extremely uncomfortable for the whole day, especially when it's Sunday.

Took the train back home and decided to surprise my family with simple breakfast of bee-hoon and fried carrot cake. In the end, everyone except my mom, was still asleep! My sis had earlier arranged for a morning swim which I had to turn down because I was not sure what time I would reach home. Turns out the rest of the family REALLY set their alarms for a late morning wake-up call.

*FAINT* (-_-")

We went for a swim around 1 in the afternoon due to a heavy rain just when I reached home. The usual practice, 30 laps to get the body warmed up and muscles working. I really need to burn off my excess fat I had gained over the past 2 weeks. Not forgetting the fact that I am going to have my ICT in 2 weeks time! Shucks man, definitely no chance at getting the $200 for Silver! Anyway, that was expected given the fact I had slacked alot after I ORDed. My main aim is just to get my weight down and at least build back a leaner body.

For once, I felt my freestyle improving in speed, maybe because I changed the way my arms cut and pull myself through the water. My freestyle was even slower than my sis's frogstyle, which was terrible! I am glad this swim session was better than previous ones.

Anyway, we were back home by 4PM and my cousin, Hao, asked me out for a walk. He has just finished his exams on Thursday and finally taking a breather after 2 weeks of hardwork revising for his exams. We agreed to meet up at my place first because my mom had cooked pasta and crabs. And just because I had watched my diet, there was too much to finish!

I went to pick up Hao from his place because he was going to pass me his Canon Pixma printer. He has an extra set which he said was collecting dust in his house and asked if I wanted it. Since it's free, why not? Moreover, it's a multi-purpose printer with additional scan and copy features, something I will want for my new home.

After the late lunch, Hao and I went to Marine Parade, our usual hang out place during Sundays, as it was nearest to our place. I had earlier suggested going for a foot massage as my feet were aching from the wearing of my bro's shoes which were 1 & 1/2 size smaller for my comfort level.

OUCH!! (x_x)

Thanks to my BaoBei, I will have new shoes to wear tomorrow! No more grumpy old feet. Thank you BaoBei! Love my new shoes very very much!

We decided to take a walk around PP (Parkway Parade) first because we wanted to take a look at the computers first. Massage can wait, or that's what I thought. In the end, we walked aimlessly through the shops in PP and by the time we know it, it was already 8.15PM and the foot reflexology center we frequent was closed. Got some drinks and just chit chat the time away, also on the same topic as to why Sunday seems to be one of the worst days of the week. Same answer: it is the day before we start the working week!

*Sobz x Infinity*

And so another chapter ends as it was time to go home and rest around 8.45PM, to get ourselves ready to fight a long battle starting tomorrow.

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