Genting Trip with T13

I have been really busy with myself for the last 2 weeks, hardly had any time to update. And now that I do, here it goes.

For starters, T13 is the name of my poly class and about 2 weeks ago we went to Genting, our first overseas trip as a group. Honestly I wasn't looking forward to it because I didn't wanted to go in the first place but the ticket have already been bought and regardless of my presence or absence, I would still have to pay for the ticket. Hence common sense prevailed. I went ahead and thank god I did. To call it enjoyable would be an understatement. I called it fulfilling. The last and only time I ever been there was at least 11 years ago. Alot has seen changed, of course the present Genting is way better and I found out it is quite a good place for a short weekend getaway. That trip also marked my casino 'debut'. I've been to various casinos before especially those higher end ones in Macau but I've never tried my hand on the gambling tables. I'm just not a gambler but I've since broken my duck. Call it beginner's luck - I won roughly about RM300. It could obviously have been more if I had been more daring with my chips but it obviously could have been worse either. Neither way, it's a win win situation as it's all just for fun.

Despite having a pretty good time out there, the trip was extremely tiring no thanks to how the arrangements and timings, especially that of the hotel check in was made. We reached Genting at about 5.15am having departed Singapore at 10.30pm and that is at least a good 7 hours. Ok the journey isn't really tiring as the coach was very comfortable. But we had to wait until 3.30pm the next day before we could check in the hotel. I never had a good impression of First World Hotel ever since my friends told me the rooms were small like mouse holes and I was proven right. It wasn't the mouse hole rooms though, it was the horribly ineffecient check in methods they have there. It may be the biggest hotel in the world with over 6500 rooms, each filling at least 2 occupants which potentially makes it a good 13,000 guests in the hotel at a time. This is where the check in queues were terrible. The queue numbers sequences seem longer than the Great Wall of China. Thankfully Owen had arrived a day earlier and we were able to rent alittle space in his room for our bags - all 14 of us. Can u imagine if that hadn't happened? We would have to carry all these bags everywhere - breakfast, lunch, casinos, theme parks, etc.

Needless to say I was severely deprived of sleep throughout the trip. 4 hours is probably the most I have slept overall. I haven't encountered such a terrible hotel before, even the last visit to Genting, although I remembered everyone being made to wait for check in time to arrive, we were able to proceed everything fast. That was at another hotel though. Well maybe I'm too used to the 5 star treatment and smooth sailing check ins I have experienced from Bangkok Hotels. Thankfully the return journey on that first class coach - the first time I see a coach so classy and even have cabin crew serving food etc - was very comfortable. Just a pity I was too tired to explore the numerous features like games, movies, massage chair as I spent almost 80% of the journey sleeping away under the blanket.





























































































And yes I finally gotten my LG Secret phone, the first time I'm switching away from Nokia phones. I almost shot myself in the foot when I tried to set the language and ended up pressing Chinese. It is not like nokia phones where I do not need to be able to read the words to know where I needed to click or go to change it back to English. Luckily I managed to get Dad to revet it back to English for me. He too spent a good 30 mins figuring that out. The consequences would have been dire if I had accidently pressed Korean or Arabic instead of Chinese! Anyhow, I love my new phone to bits and it certainly looks and feels alot nicer and classier than in the photos shown below. =)