Pengerang Ride--Southmost tip of Malaysia, East Coast

1 Dec 2007
















Our route.

Attraction:
Rengit & Pengarang are old traditional fishing village
World War II British Ops Centre


















Big in Kulai.
The stars of Edmun Cheng and Xiang Yun are still shinning in Kulai.
Property advertisement.


We had breakfast at Kulai. There are 22 bikes on this ride.
I sat next to Daniel, an Australian who rides a VFR. I was shocked when he ordered the famous super-big tau pao at Yun Lai and conversed to the kopi tiam auntie in mandarin.
I asked him how come he knows how to speak mandarin? He replied in complete phrases of Beijing-accented mandarin that once he went to tour China for 4 months. And he had no choice to learn mandarin. Because everyone down there speaks mandarin and little english. He has to learn to speak mandarin, othewise, no hotel, no food, no transport...



















Trucks also got siamese-twin type joined at the hips?
One on right of photo kena accident and become pai kah cannot move.
One on the left come and rescue and shift its cargo (sand) over to carry on delivery.


















Route 90, en-route to Pengerang.
Route 90 is like a road kena carpet bombed. Craters left and right. Got to split in between craters at times.


















Ride along J52, along the southerntip of east coast of Malaysia was fantastic.
Flat plains all around.

















Coconut trees blowing in the strong sea breeze on the left.
Beyond is the South China Sea.

















Arriving at Sungei Rengit. I think its landmark is a huge prawn.


















Our bikes attracted a crowd of young fans.



















Reached Sunget Rengit, a town before Pengerang.
Beautiful view of the sea. And can see lots of large cargo ships moored out in the sea in front.

















The flat green at the background is Pengerang, where we are supposed to head to.
When there, supposed to be able to see Singapore.
You can actually take a boat from Changi Village and take you to Pengerang.

















After riding so far to get here, a photo to capture the moment that might never return.




















House with a view of the sea.
A few feet in front of the house is the South China sea.
Fantastic place to live in as retirement home. But need RM130K.

















Tall coconut trees lined both sides of the road.
You know you are near the sea when you see so many coconut trees.


















We stopped by the roadside to take photo.
This road is interesting because rarely, the sea is just next to the road.

















Me and my marvelleous and dependable Vice.
The STX1300 never fails to amaze me with its athletic finesse even though I have already experienced it before already.
It is not a tourer. To me, it really is an upright Blackbird.


















We reached the jetty, Jeti Tanjong Pengelih, that is at the southermost tip.
But cant see Singapore leh. And nothing much to see. Snap a photo and we u-turned back.


















We had lunch at Sungei Rengit town.
I ate my kin. This is wild boar dish. That animal is my Chinese zodiac.


















Sunray bursting through the cloud cover.
The weather today was great. No rain and cool somemore.


















Another stunt photo of mine.
What's so special of this photo?
I was the leader of the convoy back. And I took a photo of the convoy, turning myself facing backward, while still riding.

















Entering Kulai town on the return trip, saw aftermath of an accident.
The Malaysian Vios langga into the rear of a small lorry. Huge jam behind.

















The woman from the Vios, still suffering from the impact.


















The End :)

Twin Peaks Ride (Genting Highlands & Fraser's Hill) and the Best Route to Corner in Malaysia: Day 3 and Final

Monday, 8 October 2007










Highlights:
- What real life casino looks like
- Discovered Route 9, the shiokest route for cornering in Malaysia


Roller Coasters on Genting


After taking complimentary breakfast, we had some time to kill before we check out at 11am.



















Some of us got not enough fun conering up Genting and to take the roller coaster at First World's amusement park.
It features a prone-down posture, has spinning and looping actions.
















From their faces, do you think the ride was scary?


A Casino in Real Life

Somehow,no body mentioned about about going to the casino. Maybe bikers all boh luai.

Surprisingly, the person most gian to go to casino turned out to be our undergrad, PPlater. He chio me go casino and I said on and tagged along.

Now, the casino allows shirts with colour and jeans. The casino does not allow photo so too bad I got no photos to show you.

I have prepared a princely sum as my gambling capital--S$200!
I told myself to be disciplined. Maximum lose all my gambling capital but must not sell my STX to the casino.
PPlater, being a student still, has a slightly smaller capital of S$100.

Inside the casino, we were first greeted with rows and rows of jacket machines. But we want to go for the real thing. We only want to play card games and huat ah!

There are many card playing stations. Each station consists of a large table lined with green cloth on its top; a dealer, who is a casino employee; space for 6-8 players. Each station plays only one style of card game eg: Black Jack, Poker, etc etc.

The first discovery I made of real life casino versus the movies is how little talking is required. You can play even if you can't speak Malay, English, Tamil. In the movies, the dealer will now and then talk and sprout things like, "Banker draws an Ace. Player A wins etc". At Genting, for all I know, the dealers might all be mute. In the movies, the dealers are elegant gentlemen dressed in tuxedos. At Genting, the dealers are teens still with pimples, dressed in overly large waiter-like uniforms.


There is no need for anyone to talk to play the game because the table cloth is a self-contained rule-book. All the rules are written on the table. And you just need to put your money at the right box on the table cloth. You lose, the dealer eats your money away. You win, the dealer puts chips on your box.

The only time the players talk is when the poor teenage-dealer is about to draw a card. The players, all uncles and aunties, will all shout in unison, "Picture! Picture! Picture!" And when the dealer really draws a King and exceeds 21, the rowdy loud rejoices happily.

In the movies, the dealer will perform fancy trips when they shuffle the cards and spread the deck across the table. In real life, the dealers do not need to do any shuffling. A machine does the shuffling.

Sitting down distributing cards for 8 hours a day, 12 months a year, I think it must be very boring to be a dealer in a casino. And it's a job that the only time your customers are happy with you is when you screw up in your job--that is, if you lose and therefore they win. It must be the worst job on earth.

So when the Singapore IR is ready, better think properly first before apply job as a card dealer.


Our Turn

PPlater and I spent some time watching other players how they play, like where to put the bet, what are the card rules. We watched and watched. We watched until we start to almost chicken out. At least I did. Good thing PPlater did not.

One player vacated from the game. Here is the chance. PPlater goes forward and sit down at his place. PPlater takes out his gambling capital of S$100 and was about to exchange for chips. But not before one uncle took out his stack of notes to exchange for chips. Our S$100-200 suddenly looked so small because that uncle exchanged 2,000 ringgit. Unlike in the movies where Chow Yuan Fatt has stacks and stacks of gambling chip piled in front of him, PPlater's gambling capital composed of just 4 chips.

PPlater's put his first precious chip down on the table. He wins! He now has 5 chips! Wow, I didn't know winning is so easy.

He puts his next chip on the table. Lose. Back to original 4 chips.

He puts his next chip. Lose again! O-Oh. 3 chips left. Things are getting tense.

Next chip. Lose gain! 2 chips left. Wow, I didn't know money can part from you so fast.

Tolong tolong. Ti kong por bi por bi. Next one better win ah. Next chip. Win at last! 3 chips now.

He then wins 2 more games in a row. He now has 5 chips and is on a winning streak!

PPlater is very disciplined. He stood up and ended his foray into gambling in Genting. He explained that he might only win S$25, but better that he walked away win a small win than to keep playing until he eventually loses.

Wise words and at a 25% profit on his investment within 15 minutes, it is a good return. But if I am casino operator, I will surely ban such players.

For me, I kind of like regretted for chickening out. But I am glad that at least I still have my STX to ride home.


Departure

Checking out of First World is such a breeze, compared to the 1 hour checking-in. Just drop the keys into a box and leave.


















Lined up for a motorcycling race on top of Genting?


















It's to take a group photo.




















Going down the steep slopes of Genting.
If you look down, it can be a bit scary. The small dotts in the lower road are the head of our convoy while I am riding down.



















Going up Genting is throttle and leaning over.
Going down Genting is all brakes and leaning over.


The ride up and down Genting was really fun. And we reached the bottom of Genting before we know it.

From Genting Sempah exit, we took the E8 highway, also known as the "Karak Highway".


















On the scenic Karak Highway.
Unlike the straight monotonous NorthSouth Highway, the Karak Highway was fun to ride.


















Nice scenaries around, some gentle bends and nice weather.


We head north and enter Route 2 to get to Karak town.

















At this kopi tiam at Karak town center, we had lunch.
The roast duck and wanton mee are nice here. Yummy!


After that, we rode along this route called Route 9 that will take us south all the way to Melaka's Tampin.


Route 9, the best cornering route in Western Malaysia

I have been to some routes with twisties that are really nice to corner on a motorbike: Route 3 to Mersing, Cameron Highland, Gua Musang Highway, Gerik Highway, the earlier Genting Highlands.

But this Route 9 beats them all, in my opinion. What makes Route 9 bends so special?


















Riding along Route 9.
I don't have any picture to show you of my cornering action along Route 9.
The bends are so fun that I kept me so fully engaged that I had no time/no capacity left to take photos for you.



Route 9 is filled with twist and turns. It even has hairpins. What made these bends so fun to corner is that almost all of them are constant- or increasing-radius corners.

This means you can enter the bend and can really lean very low because the bends will not suddenly sharpen and catch you out further.


















One of the numerous increasing/constant bends along Route 9.

And the further good news is that Route 9 is rather long. It takes about an hour to complete riding through. And all through the route, there will be nice corners here and there.


The STX is a cornering machine

Going through Route 9, it made me love my STX, Vice, even more.

I already knew my STX is a very different bike from its predecessor the ST1100. I already knew the STX is a very fast bike, despite having a neat sedated Honda tourer image. Along the NorthSouth Highway, you will be surprised to know that the STX pulls as strongly as a Blackbird when both bikes are in top gears (the STX has a lower redline so it's 240 can't match the BB's 300 top speed). And on the first day of this trip, while playing with a BlackBird along another trunk road, Route 50, I was pleasantly surprised that the STX was a match with the BlackBird.

All these are straight line performances. What about cornering? How good is the STX in corners?

Along Route 9, I found out the STX was fantastic!

The bike is so light to steer and to lean over to take a corner. Its sitting posture is perfect for upright touring, yet its frictionless broad and long seat along you to hang off and to adopt a prone sportsbike cornering posture that makes cornering action much more involving(the FJR has a frictionful dimpled foamy seat).

I leaned over so much that after I buah the toes of my boots against the road surface, for the rest of the corners, I tip-toed my boots on the foot peg like riding a sports bike.

And it's fantastic V4 engine that delivers great amounts of torque from as low as 3,00 rpm. Plus, somehow the STX V4 allows you to use the power of its 1,300 cc engine without fear. The engine is so gentle with you, yet it actually is digging the tyres into the tarmac and hurling the bike forward.

This fantastic V4 is my ace around corners. Once I see the exit of the corners, I could open my throttle quickly without fear of losing grip as in the case of inline4s. The 1,300 cc engine throws the bike forward and I can see the bikes in front of me, the FZ1, the GSX1K, the CBR1K, can't escape and all gets reeled towards me! Yes, I eventually overtook most of them.

(But convoy riding along trunk road is not a race. So it is not fair to say the STX is quicker than these litre sports bikes. It's just that the STX is a match along the corners to keep up with them.)


And there's the STX's combined linked brakes system (CBS) with ABS. Bike journalist hates them. I love them. They are so idiot proof and so effective. I can power out of a corner, hurl the big STX to high speeds. See the road rapidly disappearing in a corner fast approaching. No fear. I opened the throttle even wider!

Just about right, I pressed on the front brake lever. Sometimes, with the foot brake added in. I can feel the CBS gripping the front discs, then activate the rear discs and my STX gets pulled back like a big parachute behind. I have the assurance if the braking force too strong, the ABS will kick in, though it never ever need to. The idiot-proof CBS also meant that I can trail my brakes into the corners of route 9, something I seldom do previously on other bike models.

And as I traversed the mid-section of the corner, leaned over and out of my seat, with a constant pressure on the throttle...see the bend starts to straighten out and I saw the exit, once again, I opened my throttle progressly and see my STX closes in onto the bike in front!



















The corners of Route 9 and the fantastic cornering capabilities of STX lead to using up to 80% of the width of my BT-21 BattleAxe tyres!


How can a bike that is comfortable for long-distance cruising yet be able to go so fast and so able in cornering? Sometimes, life is just so unfair.


Watch Out

Later on, it starts to rain. We are reaching the end of Route 9. Then the other STX in the group fell. How come?

The STX wasn't going very fast. It was just doing 20kmh or so going around a bend. As the bend straightens, the rider opened the throttle ever slightly only since it was raining. But it so happens the rear tyre, at the moment, was on the white painted central divider. This painted surface is so slippery when wet that the rear tyre lose grip and the bike fell.

Good thing the rider was amoured and there was no injury, just a scare.

So boys and girls, lessons learnt are: Avoid touching the white painted lines when raining. And wear armoured safety riding gear as they keep you looking beautiful and handsome.


















Sitting down. The VFR rider was in the midst of filling up when this big Malaysian lorry decided to squeeze past him inches away and the rider could only hold his breath.

Twin Peaks Ride (Genting Highlands & Fraser's Hill) and the Best Route to Corner in Malaysia: Day 2

Sunday, 7 October 2007


Paiseh paiseh. My article on Day2 take so long to come out. I was busy using my free time to draw a picture.
No, you never read wrongly. Endless, me can draw one. Got chance, next time I show you my drawing. Ok, go back to our story on the Twin Peak's ride.




Fraser's Hill at Dawn






















Look at the beautiful dawn at Fraser's Hill!


















The rising sun slowly stirring the land around it.


















In the cool morning air, the lazy hills still have the blankets of cloud pulled over them.



















A cheerful bright flower to wake up your morning and to remind you today is a beautiful day!


The above photographs are courtesy of Spectrum and Bornfree. They not taken by me.
Because I was still kunning on the bed zzzzzzzzz.
I really meant to wake up one.


Trekking at Fraser's Hill

Spectrum brought us for trekking and he reminded us to wear trekking attire lik long pants, shoes and long-sleeve shirt.

Ai yah, Fraser's Hill is such a lazy tourist place, why ask us to wear like this? Also no jungle to bash what.

So most of us just wear T-shirt and slippers.
We stroll at a leisurely place, breathing in and feeling the cool, fresh morning air on Fraser's.













Do we look cool?
Supposed to walk in one row and look cool like those Backstreet Boys boy bands.

















On top of Fraser's Hill, there is one (and only one) "town centre". It is marked by a clock tower.


















As you walk around, notice that some of the buildings have charming architecture.
This one looks like it was air-lifted out of Amsterdam and plonked here.


















We stumbled upon this thick, long, huge millipede!
Must be a thousand years old. Can understand why it goes bare footed--so many legs.
















Singaporean really swah-ku. Never see before a millipede is it? All crowd around the millipede.

Ooi, bully ker-chi ah!? So many people bully one millipede ah?!
No lah. The millipede blur blur was crawling towards the road.
We want the millipede to live another thousand years,
so we help to U-turn it back towards the forest.


Ok, we reached the jungle trail liao.
At first, it cannot be seen that there is a jungle trail. Only signs are the sign board, and a very small opening through the bushes, like a very small long gao.

Har?! You expect us to bash through this thick underbush ah?!
We looked at Spectrum in disbelief. Hello, we now are on holiday. Not on reservist leh!

This Spectrum keep saying Must try, must try! While we were trying to convince each other, one of the girls in our group, Joy, very gun-ho. She want to walk up the trail liao.

I quickly volunteer and telll her, Wait, wait, let me go first.
Must help all the Men in the World save some face mah.























Up the steep jungle trail on Fraser's Hill. With me as point man.
It took quite a while to get the group to get onto the slope.
Alamak. All ride so big cc bikes, but balls so small cc!


Finally, we managed to convince most of the group to bash through the thick bushes and onto the trail. Just as we are starting to get used from entering a jungle world and about to start our trekking, I saw a small family coming downhill from we were heading towards.


















The father (in grey T-shirt, back facing you), as he walked past me, asked:
"Do you know how to get rid of leeches ah?"

I begin to recall from what my sergeant told me during my national service days, but I never get to practise, "Oorh, use cigarette or fire to burn it lor." I think to myself: Jey, want to test me on my jungle skills ah?! Uncle, I am SAF (Singapore Armed Forces)-trained leh

The uncle replied, "Really ah? My daughter got a leech stucked on her."


*Gulp*




Oh my goodness. I came to Fraser's Hill is to be a tourist. I just want to do tourist things. I just want to do comfortable and relaxing tourist things that tourists ought to do.
I am not here to do jungle bashing. I am even more not here to deal with live leeches and bash through leech-infested jungle.
Trek 25 metres is enough liao. I want to quickly get out of here.
























Thank goodness for smokers! The smokers in our group came to the rescue and used their lighted cigarette to burn the leech. The leech released its grip on the daughter.

The fact that the daughter remained so cool and steady and walked through the whole trail carrying a hungry leech stucked to her made me even want to scream out even more.

My greatest fears in life are slimy soft things like caterpillars and leeches. I dared not go see the leech.

Finally relieved that the little girl has gotten rid of the leech, I was prepared to retract back.
But too late. 3/4 of the group already committed onto the slope liao. Very hard to u-turn back.
Spectrum urging non-chalently behind, "Let's carry on!"

Har!!!??? Xian ji buah!

















Parts of the jungle trail to walk through. Ambush alley for hungry leeches lurking around hungry for human blood.



















Even as fallen trees and we have to duck under.
What if one leech dropped from the branch and onto your neck and into your shirt???!!!
Yeeeeeeeeeeeks!!!


After a while, I try to pyscho myself. Mai xiao lah. Maybe the whole trail only got one single leech niah lah. Don't know how that little girl so suay suay can be sucked by that one leech.
Leech so slow. How can it possibly crawl onto our fast moving legs?

Becasue of such thinking, so whenever we pause now and then during our walk, not just me, but every of the guys, kept moving and shuffling their legs on the stop. All do hantak-kaki marching.

But still no use. And don't know how the leeches do it. Despite never standing still, one of the guys found a leech crawling up onto his canvas shoe. *Gulp*

And another guy, just in the nick of time, found one leech crawling up the flesh of his exposed ankle, but haven't sunk its mouth in yet and he quickly swepe it away!

This is turning out to be Nightmare on Leech Street.

We walked on, in full alert, as if we were those hunted and eventually doomed commandoes in the jungle in the movie Predator.

We reached a spot where there was a branch off from the trail. We can see that it leads onto civilisation, onto a metal road. We actually have not walked very far. Maybe only 200 metres. But it felt more like 2 kilometres. Spectrum was asking aloud, more to himself than to anyone, Which path to take, to continue the trek or to take the shortcut out and end the trek prematurely.

But very quick to respond, our tough R1-speed demon Crashman volunteered the answer. Off he went down the shortcut route to civilisation. He was quickly joined by the rest of the guys.
















Leech Check Drill.
Finally glad to see sun light again and emerge out of Leech Alley, I suggested the Leech Check Drill. Just to check if we might have any leech stucked onto us, unknowing to us.
Every guy in the group promptly performed their own Leech Check Drill.

















History of the jungle trail if you want to know (click to enlarge). The trail is more than 100 years old.
I don't know how the original founder could survive all the leeches.


We continue our walk. Thank goodness no more jungle trails. But just normal tourist walks.

















Rent and paddle the boats at Allan's Water.
















Interesting quote on Fraser's Hill.
Of course take nothing but photographs lah. Because on Fraser's Hill there is nothing else to take, nothing to shop or buy.
No shopping, girls! Hiak hiak hiak!


The walk around Fraser's Hill was really the highlight. It was very refreshing and relaxing.
I highly recommend you to take a long stroll around the next time you are up Fraser's Hill.

Anti-leech solution optional.


Check out and Ride Down Fraser's Hill















View of the apartment block that we stayed in. Note our bikes parked below the block.
We checked out at 11.30 am.

















We aren't leaving Fraser's Hill without the customary group photo-taking.














If one bike were to topple, then all liao.




















Thick vegetation lined both sides of the route down.
Going down is the same style as coming up, but reversed.
Slow, intense-focused and somewhat repetitive corners.

















Like coming up, after a while, the bikes start to bunch up.




















Slow meandering corners.

But be careful. The repetitive and long ride down can easily seduce you to lose concentration and to simply follow the lines of the bike in front.
If the bike in front runs wide into the incoming lane, you would run wide too.

And another thing to be careful of. Sand and debris on the road.
Because the road rounds around a mountain, rain might caused the sand and debris to be eroded and to fall on to the road. The sand and debris fequently settle on the outside of the corners. The sand might compromise your normal optimum cornering line so you should not ride with the max permissable corner entry speed, but with plenty in reserve.


















Downward Hair-pin.


After Route 55 that runs through Fraser's Hill, we turned right into Route 8.










Route 8, at the bottom of Fraser's Hill, where the road finally straightens again.
And who turned off the air-con?

After Route 8, we hit the scenic Karak Highway, E8.



















I switched to Da Vinchee's Suzuki VStrom 1,000 and he to mine STX1300.

You sit high up on the V-Strom. When you take a corner, it feels like cornering on a stilts. But it takes surprisingly light effort to steer the VStrom. I also welcomed the breeze allowed in by the V-Strom compared to the STX, though there is some wind buffering beating down on the top of the helmet at speed. This later version ('07) of the VStrom is able to hit high cruising speeds (140-150kmh) without any of the harsh vibrations of the early versions of Vstrom.

In turn, Da Vinchee's description of his brief stinct on my STX1300 was, "Very refined bike...agile...instant pull."


We reached the Genting Sempah R&R where we had lunch.
Of the original 22 bikes, some left for Singapore still leaving with 15 bikes and 17 people to head up Genting.



The Ascent to Genting Highlands

















Within short notice, the road starts to tilt upwards.



















On your mark, get ready to lean over. Wide multiple lanes. Note the differences of the road nature compared to Fraser's Hill.
















The wider lanes allow higher corner entry speeds (2nd-3rd gear 40-60kmh).
Swifter progress and more buah katah time.


I prefer the Genting corners to Fraser's Hills which are slower.
If Cameron Highlands corners were thrown in, I would rank the corners, with the top being my most preferred:

1. Genting Highlands
2. Cameron Highlands
3. Fraser's Hills


















Keep your eyes on the road. Not on that lady on the big poster playing her legs at you.



















Steep gets steeper. And cloud starts to appear as we hit cloud level.




































Into Cloud City and Sin City.
Our convoy prepares to make a grand entrance into the First World Hotel.


Checking into First World Hotel

















Our bikes lined the hotel entrance and formed a spectacle for a while as, we off loaded our luggage onto the lobby.



















The colourful exterior of the First World Hotel which we stayed in.

We arrived at about 3 pm and we parked our bikes at the hotel's carpark. As we rode into the entrance of the hotel's carpark, I had a big scare.

The carpark's floor was painted and it was drizzling outside, so the floor was a bit wet.
After my bike crossed our a hump, I opened my throttle slightly to get over the hump.

Suddenly, underneath me, my big 300 kg++ STX started to disobey me, and slide sideways and drift across the carpark floor in a S-pattern, just like in the movie Initial-D. My rear wheel lost traction because of the wet painted floor. I was thinking, "Xiao liao lah. How to pick up this heavy beast when it drops onto the floor."

Miraculously, somehow the drifting action stopped and the bike did not drop. I turned around and looked at my bikers behind me in Did-you-see-that. I could see a couple of their mouths still open big big.

After we parked our bikes, we back to the lobby to check in. And the checking in process is sibei long man. Even though I booked our hotel rooms, fully paid all of them in advanced via internet and phone, and there are like 50 staff each with computers in front of them processing customers check-in, I still waited one hour to collect our room keys!

This means the casino business must be damn hot man. So our jeng hu to build casino is correct one!

The checking-in took so long, SuperRuth (girl in the middle) composed and took this cute photo in the hotel lobby.

What is the famous saying? See what ...Hear what...Speak what...?
And we don't know the napping uncle on the left.

We finally collected our hotel keys. We were split into 6th floor and 8th floor.


















My room on the 6th floor.

I forgot to mention: On Fraser's Hill Silver Resort, each unit cost 225RM per night and can sleep 4 persons. On Genting First World Hotel, each unit cost 131RM per night and can sleep 2 persons.



















My room has a good view to outside.

















View outside my room.

I learnt that try not to book your hotel rooms on the 8th floor. Why leh? 8 lucky what. Because the hotel's main restaurant is on the 8th floor, so many people from the whole hotel will walk along its corridor to go to the restaurant. So rather noisy to the people inside the room.


Evening Program

We jalan jalan around the First World Hotel.

The First World Hotel is a good hotel to stay because it is the one of two hotels on Genting with the casino inside the hotel. Also, it has a big amusement theme park inside for non-gamblers to explore. It is one of the newer hotels there and the room rates are amongst the cheaper ones.



















The bright colourful theme park inside First World Hotel.

Got shopping. Got an amusement park with roller coaster. Got different decorations and famous replicas.


















Can find Eiffel tower on Genting!


















The Statue of Liberty also like to ride bike, like us!


This Genting company is really clever in entertaining people and making money. It is a place that you can take your whole family there on the weekend and guaranteed they will all have fun. We have lots to learn in the casino business from them man!

Take for example, if you think eating on our Sentosa is expensive, wait till you eat on Genting. One plate of wanton noodle in their foodcourt-like eating place cost 15RM!
If you really on a budget, you can eat at their McDonalds and KFC.

And on Genting, you see thousands of people of all religions and races being gainly employed working in the foodcourt, to bell boys, to inside the casino. So I don't understand why if they can do it, there are still people using religion as objection against the casinoes in Singapore.



















Interesting phenomenon: Super puffy potatoe chips bags on Genting.
When transported up to the higher attitude where the air pressure is lower than on sea level,
the air pressure in the pressurized bags expand.


















At the original Genting Highlands Hotel.
Contrast the more classic design of this hotel compared to the wacky theme-park style of First World Hotel.

Don't know this is true or not. Do you know that the First World Hotel's casino sits right in between the Pahang state and the Selangor state? One of the reasons why Genting organisation built the second casino in the First World Hotel is so that in case the Pahang state want to use Islam as an excuse to shut the first casino down, there is still the second casino in its strategic position. Malaysian politics, I lia-boh-que.



















At night, the cloud and mist are so heavy, it proved impossible to take photo.
Can't see far too. So better don't ride up Genting at night.


















Chilling out door out at this Coffee Bean on Genting.
It's located somewhere near the Genting Highlands Hotel.


It was actually very cold and it would be more comfotable to sit in door. But we wanted to enjoy the rare opportunity of drinking our hot coffee in the cool climate.


This wraps up our night on Genting. I tell you of my casino gambling trip the next monring in my next article!