I just returned from my Genting trip with Agnes, Jo and Yuan
Wen. It was not only a fun trip but also a very adventurous one.
Day 1 - We set of early morning to meet at Yio Chu Kang station at 6.50am to catch the 8am bus at Golden Mile Tower. After we passed Singapore custom, we waited a long time under the board that showed a list of bus license plate numbers and their respective parking lot numbers. We didn't see our bus license plate number. We expected a long waiting time because of the jam near the custom but after waiting for quite a while and realizing the disappearance of some of the aunties who took the same bus as us, we started looking for the bus. Just then, we saw our bus carrying all other passengers parked into a lot. The passengers were waving to us and we hurrily board the bus. The driver was very mad with us. When we were alighting for the Malaysia custom, one of the passenger told me that actually they had waited for half an hour for us and after understanding our situation, he told us that we have to search for the bus instead and asked us to follow closely to him. I felt really bad about it because everyone waited for us for so long but it wasn't entirely our fault since the bus driver should have key in his license plate number and the lot number he parked in after he had parked. But well... No point pushing the blame. We just have to be more alert at every stopping point and make sure that we return to the bus earlier. When we reached Genting, it was almost evening. We checked into our hotel room with Jo's third aunt's help and hurry for our dinner at Shanghai 10 before heading out to our Halloween event at the outdoor theme park from 8pm-11pm. The crowd waiting to enter the theme park was crazy! It was totally packed outside and was very squeezy. Halfway through waiting to enter, Agnes decided to just return to the hotel room to rest by herself because she hates pushing and squeezing. Jo, YW and me tried to retain her but respecting her choice, we let her return to the room earlier to rest. The kind of pushing and squeezing closer to the entrance was worse but after entering, it was much better. I got frightened several time by the yells of the staff and some of the rowdy customers. Nonetheless, the night was fun. Three of us got to take the outdoor rides with shorter queues and photos with staffs with scary and creepy make-ups.
Day 2 - The first ride of the day - flying coaster - has ruined my day. After I alighted from the ride, I realised that my phone was no longer in my sweater pocket where I placed it before the ride. I thought that placing there will be safe since we were be flying like a superman and my tummy will press against it, preventing it from dropping out. I felt the phone inside the pocket almost 80% of the ride but didn't expect the phone to slip out towards the end. I notified Shafiq (one of the staff of the ride) about it and he stopped the operation of the ride and went down with 2 other staff to find my phone. He returned with nothing found and I clearly remembered that he asked "Are you Singaporean?" then. I was really depressed. I called Glenn's mom to explain my situation and get my phone line cancelled. I felt bad because this was the second time I lost my phone but aunty was saying that it wasn't entirely my fault that the phone flew out of my pocket. The girls are nice to help me search about the area from outside the fence then we saw my purple mirror case inside the fence. The phone shouldn't land too far from the case if the phone hit on something causing the phone and case to be separated so we tried searching around the area we found the case. Shafiq saw us loitering around the flying coaster and called for us. We told him about spotting my phone case inside the coaster area and even he was surprised that they didn't it on the first search they made. He stopped the ride again and went down to retrieved my case and search around that area but still did not find a trace of my phone. I was disappointed. Shafiq suggested reporting to the security counter about my case. Initially I thought there was no need to because I don't think it will help in any way so we queued for pirate ship. In the queue, I realised I have all my family passport details in my photo gallery because I wanted to book air tickets to Taipei so long I spot sales online. Also, I have once whatsapp my sister my credit card information. I was really worried that all these information might be used illegally. I called my mom to explain the situation and told her not to pay the credit used so that if the person is to use the card information, he can't spend much. At the same time, I also told her to make a police report for me in Singapore. Realizing the seriousness of the situation (though it might be just me thinking too much), we went to the security to make a report after the pirate ship ride. They recorded my passport details then two security guards brought me back to the flying coaster and the ride was stopped once again. This time round, the 2 security guards, Shafiq and myself went down to allow me to find within the area. I searched high and low around the area I found my phone case but nothing was found again. The security guard asked me if I want to make a police report and I replied, "it's okay". A curious Malay customer asked the guards about the situation. Though they converse in Malay, I kind of understood some part of their conversation through their hand gesture. The Malay customer seemed to be saying that the staff might have pocketed the phone. I did not suspect the staff because I find them helpful but Agnes was saying that we cannot judge a book by its cover. Even personally search cannot find the phone, I gave up hope and we went to queue for corkscrew roller coaster ride. The queue was long. My mom messaged Agnes to inform me to make a police report in Malaysia then delete all data in phone using Internet as suggested my Singapore police so we did after the ride. The police station is about 15 mins walk from the theme park plaza. There was like 2-3 police in the station and they seemed to be leisurely doing their work which made me feel quite helpless. But since I only wanted a report in black and white, I waited for a while. A female police then attended to me. Agnes was telling me to say it simply because they don't understand half (or probably more than half) the things I am saying. I tried to speak in simple English, phrases and pauses but it doesn't seem to work. They won't know the entire situation. Just then Cheng Bing came in. He sat at the counter next to the female police attending to me and was busy using his iPhone. A while later, he asked if I can speak mandarin and because I can, the female police tried to push the report writing to him and though he tried to push it away, he helped nonetheless in the end. I explained the entire situation to him with YW beside me and he typed out the report in Malay. He said he could be the translator if Singapore police were to call. Adding on, he told me that he worked 24 hours and is a police officer (probably because he is a 便衣警察 and was afraid that I mistaken him as a admin staff). Throughout the report writing, he took my phone case twice to adjust his cap and hair through the mirror. Funny guy. He was busy being a translator between the other Malay officers and me. Probably because my case was found but not phone, he asked me if there are any suspect I had in mind and, after recalling what the Malay customer mentioned to the guards, I thought it might possibly be the staff. I was taken aback when he said that he was going to 抓人！But upon clarifying, they are actually only going to question the staffs and not handcuff them. Frighten me. After typing the report for me, Cheng Bing went off to have his dinner. Another police officer then lead me to the car, asking me to follow Jay Jai to identify the staff who picked up my phone case. I was pretty afraid that the guy will sell me away because he doesn't allow my peers to follow, ask me a lot of my background details and the car is not a police car. But luckily, I managed to pull YW to go along with me. Jay Jai asked if I can speak Malay but I can't so I suggested asking Cheng Bing to come along as a translator. And indeed he came after Jay Jai called. Jay Jai drove us up to the theme park. It was really cool to be in a police car because Jay Jai was efficient in finding a car park. The traffic police even allow him to park anywhere and anyhow. Haha. But ended up Cheng Bing spotted a proper car park and Jay Jai speedily got into the lot. Along the way, Cheng Bing asked if we have enough space in the back seats and kept shifting his seat forward until eventually he said, "Aiyah! Now I don't have enough space.". Haha! YW and I followed behind Cheng Bing and Jay Jai. Along the way walking to the flying coaster, Cheng Bing was afraid that YW and I will get lost behind them so he walked behind us instead. When we reached the flying coaster, Shafiq was like alamak you again, using his palm to hit his forehead. Nonetheless, the staff still helped by ending the operation of the ride early after the queue is cleared. 3 theme park managers also came to understand the situation. While waiting, the weather turned much more misty and cold. Cheng Bing was shivering and Jay Jai in his cool self had goose bumps all over but he just waited quietly. They didn't bring a jacket along. Very touched! When the ride ceased operation, we went down to search the area again. Everyone, except me who was combing every single tile, was gathering at the area where my phone case was found, understanding the situation and thought of all possible landing spot of my phone. While I am scrutinizing thoroughly, searching high and low, a Malay approached me from outside the fence and asked for the thing I am searching for. I found him familiar and I thought I might have met him before so he was concerned and asked. The conversation went like this:
Man: What are you looking for?
Me: My phone.
Guy: What phone?
Me: iPhone 4.
At this moment, he unzipped his jacket pocket. I just stared blankly, thinking that he was joking with me. Took out a white iPhone from within and hand it to me, asking me, "Is it this?". I was very surprised and thanked him profusely. Later the group of staffs walked over to stop the guy from walking off, asking him where he found the phone and requesting to record his IC. The guy said that he found the phone at the stall next to where my phone case was found. Most likely, the phone hit the fence with the case falling in and the phone falling out. Actually early that day, the girls and myself have combed that area but found nothing. Cheng Bing then asked about the conversation I had with the guy who returned me my phone and I told him. While running through the photos in my gallery, I realised that the guy actually took the phone since 10am plus which is when my phone is lost because he took a number of screen shots. Chances are he doesn't know how to use iPhone and couldn't unlock the phone, and in addition, seeing that the matter got more serious, involving theme park managers and even police officers, he chose to return me my phone. Lucky me! And my lucky phone! It survived despite being thrown out from 2-3 storey height. YW and I followed Cheng Bing and Jay Jai backed to the police station after I gave the theme park managers my passport details for record purpose. Heard from Agnes the technique Jay Jai used his car to push the cone that reserved their parking lot is really funny and that Cheng Bing and Jay Jai were really happy when they alighted the car upon reaching the police station. Everyone is so happy that my phone is found. Haha. Cheng Bing then directed me to the police station again to make another report indicating that my phone is found and the case is closed. We leisurely got the report typed out and I think the 4 of us kept all the police officers very entertained because we can't speak Malay.
I felt both thankful and elated. :D:D:D
We continued the night with indoor rides such as indoor roller coaster and bumper cars.
Day 3 - We had our breakfast at Old Town before heading to our coach to return back to Singapore. Midway down the highland, the coach had 2 of its tyres punctured. We waited for 2 hours for another bus to head up from KL. For the past 2 days, bad things always happened in the late morning and eventually the day will end off with some 贵人 appearing and helped us, so we joked about meeting a 贵人 again later in the day. The bus ride was really long. It was 10 hours (8 hours drive and 2 hours wait). When I reached Singapore, I was starving because I didn't eat anything along the way due to my motion sickness. The bus driver said that he will drop us at jurong easy mrt station but we actually alighted at the middle of nowhere. We asked for direction to the nearest mrt station and a guy directed us to take a bus from the bus stop ahead. We still joked that if that guy is the 贵人 then he should have offered to drive us. But we doubted he drive because he walked away with his friend into a worksite. While waiting for the bus at the bus stop, I randomly flag for car or taxi, suddenly a black car stop in front of us and the driver was the guy who gave us direction a moment ago. He offered to give us a lift. Later we learnt that it is not that the bus driver is mean to drop us at the middle of nowhere because Malaysia coach have only a few designated drop-off point, similarly for Malaysia taxi, there is only 1 pick-up/drop-off point and his name is Desmond. Thanks Desmond! You are really our 贵人! We were famished. We ordered a number of dishes at ichiban sushi to share, still joking that we might meet another 贵人 to foot the bill for us which is highly impossible and if really happen, it will definitely freak all of us out. Haha. Dinner was filling and delicious. We headed home right after dinner since we all need to work/study the next day.
4 of us are really amazed by the creepiness of this entire trip. It was both adventurous and eerie, but nonetheless, FUN!!! :D:D:D
Day 1 - We set of early morning to meet at Yio Chu Kang station at 6.50am to catch the 8am bus at Golden Mile Tower. After we passed Singapore custom, we waited a long time under the board that showed a list of bus license plate numbers and their respective parking lot numbers. We didn't see our bus license plate number. We expected a long waiting time because of the jam near the custom but after waiting for quite a while and realizing the disappearance of some of the aunties who took the same bus as us, we started looking for the bus. Just then, we saw our bus carrying all other passengers parked into a lot. The passengers were waving to us and we hurrily board the bus. The driver was very mad with us. When we were alighting for the Malaysia custom, one of the passenger told me that actually they had waited for half an hour for us and after understanding our situation, he told us that we have to search for the bus instead and asked us to follow closely to him. I felt really bad about it because everyone waited for us for so long but it wasn't entirely our fault since the bus driver should have key in his license plate number and the lot number he parked in after he had parked. But well... No point pushing the blame. We just have to be more alert at every stopping point and make sure that we return to the bus earlier. When we reached Genting, it was almost evening. We checked into our hotel room with Jo's third aunt's help and hurry for our dinner at Shanghai 10 before heading out to our Halloween event at the outdoor theme park from 8pm-11pm. The crowd waiting to enter the theme park was crazy! It was totally packed outside and was very squeezy. Halfway through waiting to enter, Agnes decided to just return to the hotel room to rest by herself because she hates pushing and squeezing. Jo, YW and me tried to retain her but respecting her choice, we let her return to the room earlier to rest. The kind of pushing and squeezing closer to the entrance was worse but after entering, it was much better. I got frightened several time by the yells of the staff and some of the rowdy customers. Nonetheless, the night was fun. Three of us got to take the outdoor rides with shorter queues and photos with staffs with scary and creepy make-ups.
Day 2 - The first ride of the day - flying coaster - has ruined my day. After I alighted from the ride, I realised that my phone was no longer in my sweater pocket where I placed it before the ride. I thought that placing there will be safe since we were be flying like a superman and my tummy will press against it, preventing it from dropping out. I felt the phone inside the pocket almost 80% of the ride but didn't expect the phone to slip out towards the end. I notified Shafiq (one of the staff of the ride) about it and he stopped the operation of the ride and went down with 2 other staff to find my phone. He returned with nothing found and I clearly remembered that he asked "Are you Singaporean?" then. I was really depressed. I called Glenn's mom to explain my situation and get my phone line cancelled. I felt bad because this was the second time I lost my phone but aunty was saying that it wasn't entirely my fault that the phone flew out of my pocket. The girls are nice to help me search about the area from outside the fence then we saw my purple mirror case inside the fence. The phone shouldn't land too far from the case if the phone hit on something causing the phone and case to be separated so we tried searching around the area we found the case. Shafiq saw us loitering around the flying coaster and called for us. We told him about spotting my phone case inside the coaster area and even he was surprised that they didn't it on the first search they made. He stopped the ride again and went down to retrieved my case and search around that area but still did not find a trace of my phone. I was disappointed. Shafiq suggested reporting to the security counter about my case. Initially I thought there was no need to because I don't think it will help in any way so we queued for pirate ship. In the queue, I realised I have all my family passport details in my photo gallery because I wanted to book air tickets to Taipei so long I spot sales online. Also, I have once whatsapp my sister my credit card information. I was really worried that all these information might be used illegally. I called my mom to explain the situation and told her not to pay the credit used so that if the person is to use the card information, he can't spend much. At the same time, I also told her to make a police report for me in Singapore. Realizing the seriousness of the situation (though it might be just me thinking too much), we went to the security to make a report after the pirate ship ride. They recorded my passport details then two security guards brought me back to the flying coaster and the ride was stopped once again. This time round, the 2 security guards, Shafiq and myself went down to allow me to find within the area. I searched high and low around the area I found my phone case but nothing was found again. The security guard asked me if I want to make a police report and I replied, "it's okay". A curious Malay customer asked the guards about the situation. Though they converse in Malay, I kind of understood some part of their conversation through their hand gesture. The Malay customer seemed to be saying that the staff might have pocketed the phone. I did not suspect the staff because I find them helpful but Agnes was saying that we cannot judge a book by its cover. Even personally search cannot find the phone, I gave up hope and we went to queue for corkscrew roller coaster ride. The queue was long. My mom messaged Agnes to inform me to make a police report in Malaysia then delete all data in phone using Internet as suggested my Singapore police so we did after the ride. The police station is about 15 mins walk from the theme park plaza. There was like 2-3 police in the station and they seemed to be leisurely doing their work which made me feel quite helpless. But since I only wanted a report in black and white, I waited for a while. A female police then attended to me. Agnes was telling me to say it simply because they don't understand half (or probably more than half) the things I am saying. I tried to speak in simple English, phrases and pauses but it doesn't seem to work. They won't know the entire situation. Just then Cheng Bing came in. He sat at the counter next to the female police attending to me and was busy using his iPhone. A while later, he asked if I can speak mandarin and because I can, the female police tried to push the report writing to him and though he tried to push it away, he helped nonetheless in the end. I explained the entire situation to him with YW beside me and he typed out the report in Malay. He said he could be the translator if Singapore police were to call. Adding on, he told me that he worked 24 hours and is a police officer (probably because he is a 便衣警察 and was afraid that I mistaken him as a admin staff). Throughout the report writing, he took my phone case twice to adjust his cap and hair through the mirror. Funny guy. He was busy being a translator between the other Malay officers and me. Probably because my case was found but not phone, he asked me if there are any suspect I had in mind and, after recalling what the Malay customer mentioned to the guards, I thought it might possibly be the staff. I was taken aback when he said that he was going to 抓人！But upon clarifying, they are actually only going to question the staffs and not handcuff them. Frighten me. After typing the report for me, Cheng Bing went off to have his dinner. Another police officer then lead me to the car, asking me to follow Jay Jai to identify the staff who picked up my phone case. I was pretty afraid that the guy will sell me away because he doesn't allow my peers to follow, ask me a lot of my background details and the car is not a police car. But luckily, I managed to pull YW to go along with me. Jay Jai asked if I can speak Malay but I can't so I suggested asking Cheng Bing to come along as a translator. And indeed he came after Jay Jai called. Jay Jai drove us up to the theme park. It was really cool to be in a police car because Jay Jai was efficient in finding a car park. The traffic police even allow him to park anywhere and anyhow. Haha. But ended up Cheng Bing spotted a proper car park and Jay Jai speedily got into the lot. Along the way, Cheng Bing asked if we have enough space in the back seats and kept shifting his seat forward until eventually he said, "Aiyah! Now I don't have enough space.". Haha! YW and I followed behind Cheng Bing and Jay Jai. Along the way walking to the flying coaster, Cheng Bing was afraid that YW and I will get lost behind them so he walked behind us instead. When we reached the flying coaster, Shafiq was like alamak you again, using his palm to hit his forehead. Nonetheless, the staff still helped by ending the operation of the ride early after the queue is cleared. 3 theme park managers also came to understand the situation. While waiting, the weather turned much more misty and cold. Cheng Bing was shivering and Jay Jai in his cool self had goose bumps all over but he just waited quietly. They didn't bring a jacket along. Very touched! When the ride ceased operation, we went down to search the area again. Everyone, except me who was combing every single tile, was gathering at the area where my phone case was found, understanding the situation and thought of all possible landing spot of my phone. While I am scrutinizing thoroughly, searching high and low, a Malay approached me from outside the fence and asked for the thing I am searching for. I found him familiar and I thought I might have met him before so he was concerned and asked. The conversation went like this:
Man: What are you looking for?
Me: My phone.
Guy: What phone?
Me: iPhone 4.
At this moment, he unzipped his jacket pocket. I just stared blankly, thinking that he was joking with me. Took out a white iPhone from within and hand it to me, asking me, "Is it this?". I was very surprised and thanked him profusely. Later the group of staffs walked over to stop the guy from walking off, asking him where he found the phone and requesting to record his IC. The guy said that he found the phone at the stall next to where my phone case was found. Most likely, the phone hit the fence with the case falling in and the phone falling out. Actually early that day, the girls and myself have combed that area but found nothing. Cheng Bing then asked about the conversation I had with the guy who returned me my phone and I told him. While running through the photos in my gallery, I realised that the guy actually took the phone since 10am plus which is when my phone is lost because he took a number of screen shots. Chances are he doesn't know how to use iPhone and couldn't unlock the phone, and in addition, seeing that the matter got more serious, involving theme park managers and even police officers, he chose to return me my phone. Lucky me! And my lucky phone! It survived despite being thrown out from 2-3 storey height. YW and I followed Cheng Bing and Jay Jai backed to the police station after I gave the theme park managers my passport details for record purpose. Heard from Agnes the technique Jay Jai used his car to push the cone that reserved their parking lot is really funny and that Cheng Bing and Jay Jai were really happy when they alighted the car upon reaching the police station. Everyone is so happy that my phone is found. Haha. Cheng Bing then directed me to the police station again to make another report indicating that my phone is found and the case is closed. We leisurely got the report typed out and I think the 4 of us kept all the police officers very entertained because we can't speak Malay.
I felt both thankful and elated. :D:D:D
We continued the night with indoor rides such as indoor roller coaster and bumper cars.
Day 3 - We had our breakfast at Old Town before heading to our coach to return back to Singapore. Midway down the highland, the coach had 2 of its tyres punctured. We waited for 2 hours for another bus to head up from KL. For the past 2 days, bad things always happened in the late morning and eventually the day will end off with some 贵人 appearing and helped us, so we joked about meeting a 贵人 again later in the day. The bus ride was really long. It was 10 hours (8 hours drive and 2 hours wait). When I reached Singapore, I was starving because I didn't eat anything along the way due to my motion sickness. The bus driver said that he will drop us at jurong easy mrt station but we actually alighted at the middle of nowhere. We asked for direction to the nearest mrt station and a guy directed us to take a bus from the bus stop ahead. We still joked that if that guy is the 贵人 then he should have offered to drive us. But we doubted he drive because he walked away with his friend into a worksite. While waiting for the bus at the bus stop, I randomly flag for car or taxi, suddenly a black car stop in front of us and the driver was the guy who gave us direction a moment ago. He offered to give us a lift. Later we learnt that it is not that the bus driver is mean to drop us at the middle of nowhere because Malaysia coach have only a few designated drop-off point, similarly for Malaysia taxi, there is only 1 pick-up/drop-off point and his name is Desmond. Thanks Desmond! You are really our 贵人! We were famished. We ordered a number of dishes at ichiban sushi to share, still joking that we might meet another 贵人 to foot the bill for us which is highly impossible and if really happen, it will definitely freak all of us out. Haha. Dinner was filling and delicious. We headed home right after dinner since we all need to work/study the next day.
4 of us are really amazed by the creepiness of this entire trip. It was both adventurous and eerie, but nonetheless, FUN!!! :D:D:D
