Genting short getaway 2011

Before end of last year's school holidays came to its end, we went uphill to enjoy the cool air and with much intention to spend the whole of the day outdoors, letting the kids run wild with the rides to their hearts' content.

We would have gone early in the morning, but as habits die hard, we only leave home much much later than we wanted to.

On the way, around the Batu Caves area, we had roti canai as breakfast, their absolute favorite, but seldom gets to enjoy as mommy (me) prohibits!

It's the sugar that both of them love!

While korkor starts to appreciate the curry, but would still want the sugar sometimes.

As we get there later than we hoped to, plus the time to finally check in to First World Hotel was like AGES, it was half a day gone already!

I pestered hubs to get the tickets for the outdoors anyway, but unfortunately it was drizzling and many rides were closed. In fact, the ticket counter was closed for the outdoors!

Furthermore, we could see from where we were, the crowd outside was EVERYWHERE! and the queues to all available rides were very very long!

So, no point buying the tickets in anyway. What a sad story.

In the end, we just lepak around the First World indoor park until hubs finally get tickets for them to have a go at the bumper car, one time each.

Making funny and boring faces while we wait around, with absolutely nothing much to do.

The queue was quite long too for meimei. She was happy to be going alone, and need to wait like 3 rounds for hers? Meanwhile, I can't find any available place to sit down since there were so many parents alike waiting for their child to finish their work. Sigh! Parents these days are really giving too much!

After she was done, we hurried up to upstairs for the boys and there they were, still in line for their turns! They gave me their very sad looking faces showing their dissatisfaction for just a little bit of fun. It didn't seem like a very enjoyable holiday indeed. :(

We then strolled over to the center of the indoor park and already, a performance was going on. Meimei and I stood there to watch these very pretty girls showing their strut, giving a very delightful and brilliant showcase of dance and little bit of gymnastics. Both of us then had a very enjoyable time watching a live performance like this. And it's FREE!

(I learned much much later, these girls are trained from the same club where meimei's gym coach is from. That means, they are good!)

Then, we had a clown performance which brought some smiles to our faces. It was good enough, much better than lingering around with nothing to do.

After which two acrobats came on and gave a very admirable performance. My hunch, they came from China.
Meanwhile, hubs and the boys went to get their hands on the tickets of the gala show for the evening.
2 were FOC, given by his parents who were in turn given by the Genting resort for their "loyalty". Hubs bought another 2 and said that one have to sneak in.

Why, I really dislike this kind of habit of his. I just hate the confrontation at the entrance when they would be stopping us and asking to show where the 5th ticket for the 5th person is. I rather be the person who stay in the hotel room and let them watch. But hubs wouldn't hear of that. He wants everyone to go and he wants to take a chance to get the 5th person in for free. What the..

But it was stated there, ALL audience MUST buy a ticket to enter, including child above . Yerrr.... and he must argue with me, if they insisted, then he would go buy la! EEYER!!!!

Is it just me? Am I abnormal?

Anyway, all went in, with 4 tickets and hubs must show his smart alec face to me.The problem is, I would feel thrilled too to save on 1 piece of ticket, and to think eh, not cheap leh, can buy a good lunch from that amount of money too. hmmph! Geram still!

I don't know about the kids, but I had a good time watching this show. There were some moments of funny jokes and made me laugh too, but I suspect the hubs and the kids didn't quite understand what the joke was as apparently, I seemed to be the only one having a good laugh, eh?

When we were there waiting for the show to start, I can't help remembering the first time I had been to this venue. It was, almost like our first date, and hubs, then bf, had tried to surprise me with a gala dinner and show together, but wasn't successful since he had to go get the tickets in Penang before our trip. It was quite the lavish dinner he spent on me that time. Still pak toh mah.. oh, those old days...

The 2nd time was during our company sales presentation trip when I was with Bayer group of chemicals. The bosses were very generous to us, giving us free stay, great dinners and 1st class seats for these shows. But I didn't get to enjoy the trips until the sales presentation was over. They made us, sales reps, to present the year's performance and the plan for the next year. I hate all these crap meetings. Can't they just let us enjoy ourselves? Well, that's why I left the workforce. I really dislike working, I admit. bleh.

Back to our family trip for the year 2011, that wrapped up the old year and to embrace the new one. What? april already ah? Aiyah, too late for april fool.