The Maths Lesson Plan that has taken up most of my time and attention the last few days was finally completed and handed up this morning. I am back home and packing for my next weekend escape - To Pulau Aur to swim with the fishes.

Before I embark on a new adventure, I think it is appropriate to recap on last weekend's adventure.Here we are at the macdonald's at Larkin bus terminal in JB, waiting for the 1030pm bus which would take us pass KL and up to Genting.


5:30am. The bus turned in to Genting Bus Terminal. We emerged from our sleep and groggily made our way into the vast lobby of Hotel First World, where we learnt there were no available rooms, which was part of our original plan anyway, we were prepared for that, just that it would have had been a great lot more comfortable. Masquerading as guests who had just checked out, we stowed our baggage with the reception and head off to explore the giant casino complex, which reminded us of Golden Saucer from Final Fantasy 7. Abel is checking out the toy model of the whole place in the photo above.

We found out that the theme park only opened at 8am. With two hours to spare in the wee hours of the morning in a giant casino complex, the most natural thing was to head for the casino, Trainee Teacher or not. We emerged unscathed (between us 30 ringgit richer lol. That's about $12 SGD.) from the maze-like halls of sin filled with tempting slots machines and alluring game tables which promise to double your money, but in actuality, they are tentacles hoping to ensnare you and suck your wallet dry (I know, so drama.haha).

Time to hit the rides in the theme park. See the picture above? That's like the scariest ride in the whole park. The tower of fear ( I can't remember the real name) a phallic tower extending up into the clouds, well further up into the clouds.(technically by being on top of the mountain we were already in the clouds) The scary bit was actually the part going up and the pause just before the free-fall when you are never sure exactly when it was going to happen. Well after the first go, it wasn't scary anymore. We are brave people :)

At this point, I am getting quite tired of writing, so I will run through it really fast. Here goes, we gave most of the rides a go (even the silly ones; except for the flume ride becos we didnt want to get wet with no hotel room) , some more than one go, Abel thought the 1st Roller Coaster in Malaysia ride was the scariest because of the constant creaking of the joints of the structure, which gave us the impression the whole thing was gonna collapse at any time.
Past noon, we head down to KL, spent a few hours there, got some stuff from Borders, came back up for the concert at 8pm. It was a blast! I heart Mayday yada yada yada.