Genting Trip: Day 1 (Part 1)

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Like I said, Genting trip with WSS mates was fun. Gonna post up some photos now.

Day 1 (3rd March):

Woke up at 4am, messaged everybody and packed my bags. Did some final checks, slugged on my camera bag and pulled my luggage down to the car. Dad drove and mum tagged along. Went over to get J, then headed off to the rendezvous point.

We were early with HJ and his girlfriend already there. W, YK, JY, N and A reached (in that order, if i'm not wrong). Sat around at the kopitiam while waiting for the coach (which was... waiting for us lol).

The driver came over and bring us to the coach. He was skin-head bald, wearing a clean blue shirt with black long pants and a glove. For the moment I thought he was some Asian "Transporter" or something lol. Ok, got up onto the coach and we were all stunned for a while. The coach was badass and full of awesome comfort. Big chair, tv screen and lots of leg room. Everybody took their seats, I sat between W & Jess on the back row. And off we go on the way to Genting!

Group shot. Oh please forgive me for this haha.

W & J

W & WK

Road trip

Reach Yong Peng at around 12 noon. Toilet break, walked around for 20 over minutes and then continued on the coach trip. The coach's suspension was so good that I didn't even feel giddy while the coach took long and sharp winding bends up Genting. We got to the Bus terminal at around 2pm.

HJ checking in like a superstar

YK & N

Why are we waiting...

Yeap, first thing we do is this...

So we've reached First World Hotel. Nothing very First World about it if you ask me. But anyway, we settled down and dumped our luggage in the room. Some of us were getting hungry so we all went out in search of glorious food... which was pretty hard, everything is either closed (at 3pm wtf?) or found in Singapore! After some dilly-dally-ing, we finally decided on having Malaysia's very own: MaryBrown. Okay, wasn't as glorious (delicious) as I've expected... (Ugh ok in fact, it was not). Went back to the hotel and slacked for an hour before getting our lazy asses up to go to the mushroom farm. Went to the reception desk and ask about the farm. Got a number from them, called and a mini-bus appeared magically like a gift from the fairy-god mother. Hopped on and headed to the mushroom farm... Okay. Its 3am. I'm tired... Yawn. I'll continue tomorrow... or maybe other day (procrastinate)...

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Back!

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Back from 3D2N of Genting. Awesome trip. Good climate, great fun, great company :). Anyway I'll blog about that in the next few post. Not really in the mood or have the time to do it.

Had a few intelligent conversations with a few friends over MSN just now, feels refreshed. Hardly have such conversation anymore.

Gradnight's tomorrow, not going. Feels weird. Dont know why.

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Triple Misses

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They say that if you missed something once it is ok.
Twice? It might be just bad luck.
Thrice? You suck.

So apparently I missed 3 epic face-melting performances on February.

1. Eric Clapton
2. Iron Maiden
3. Eagles

Totally regretted not going to Eagles' Concert. Feels like slapping myself for missing it. Ok I'm making a promise here, if Eagles would come back again... I'll definitely go this time!!!

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End of IAP

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Hurray for the end of IAP!

IAP was hell of a good experience for me. Working in a tech startup, all foreigners and IN NUS is totally awesome. Bet no one else had the same experiences as me (muwahaha).

The first few days in office was kind of a culture shock for me (considering I'm used to having singaporeans around me). I was not used to interacting with them (mandarin mostly), but I got used to it after a while. In the end, we begin learning more about each other's culture (or whats left of it, lol) and history.

I admit I was a little bit xenophobic at the start but hey, who isn't!? When I tell my friends that I worked in a company with me as the only citizen, their reaction was expectable haha. But really, its not as bad as it seems. In fact it was a very refreshing experience. Working in a startup, where theres not really a defined corporate structure. Carefree and relaxed because everyone is a friend!

And the more awesome part is, I work in NUS! Central hub of all the smarties in Singapore! Hope this won't be my last time visiting NUS... Hais (uni-application...) Haha. And yes, this is my first official job. I've clocked zero seconds in any jobs, nuttah. Had a farewell pizza dinner during my last day and I gave out chocolates to everybody :D!

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