16-17 May 2009
*Pics intensive*

It's been ages since I last traveled with my parents. Knowing that they wanted wouldn't mind touring Malaysia once again, I followed them to Genting and Kuala Lumpur for a short weekend getaway. It was my first time traveling up to Genting in my entire 27 years! A rare experience indeed... Taking the Five Stars coach service early in the morning, we took a quick breakfast and hurriedly made our way to the meeting point. The entire journey took us about 6 hours plus to reach our destination.

Along the way, there wasn't much interesting sights but I was impressed by the driving skills of the coach driver. They were like driving at about 120km per hour! Overtaking different vehicles was piece of cake for them. (Think they must have been practicing Daytona whenever they are free) When we reached the foot of the moutain route, I was intrigued by the steep winding roads leading to Genting. It was damm long and high! As we traveled higher, the fog started to drift towards us and the visibility was totally off. Next thing, it was raining in Genting! Wow, lucky me, only to be greeted by showers of rain for my first time in Genting!

Luckily for me, it stopped after sometime. So off we went to check in to our hotel, Hotel First World. The lobby looks good, but the room was way too small! There was no aircon too. People were saying it was due to the natural cool air up in the mountains, so there was no need for aircon. Oh well, wonder if that's true. Next, we were off to explore the place. For most of you people know, Genting was an entertainment centre, comprising of just a theme park and casinos. Basically, there was nothing much to do for me as I doesn't really gamble and that there was no one to take the thrill rides with me. The only ride which I had tried was the caterpillar ride which brought us round the amusment park.

So when night falls, I began to search for other activities to keep myself entertained. I went to the archery range and tried archery. It was again my first time and it was fun. Not too bad for a beginner like me as I had several arrows hitting the circle but not the bull's eye. Haha... Next, I went bowling with mum. It was my mum's first time trying bowling and my first after a very long period of time. Boy am I getting rusty after so long.

It was a nice game with mum, with the joy and laughter on her face even though our points are far too lousy, with me scoring about 100 plus points and mum lesser. =D After which, we were off to the casino, with me wanting to have a view on how Genting's casinos are like.

The next morning saw us searching for our breakfast and having a morning stroll together after that round the resort premises. The air was so refreshing and cooling... I was snapping away when I suddenly turned and saw this old ah peh cleaning his private part in the public area!!! I'm sure many others who have walked past the area, would have saw it too but he simply ignored the stare from others! What are you doing, ah peh!?!? I should have taken a picture of him. Wahaha... =P


With a little bit of window shopping to past time, we were off to take our laggage and catch our transit coach to Kuala Lumpur... Goodbye Genting... =)