I don't get it... Why do people spend big bucks to go to places that aren't interesting, just to go to some place to visit some uninteresting scenery, spend long hours on the bus sleeping, eat the same food no matter where you go... The trip was 300+ / person... Its a boring trip. 1st and 3rd day spent largely on the bus. 2nd day is boring also. Btw i didn't want to go. Sort of forced.
1st day:
Woke up at 5 am. zzz... Reached golden mile complex. Then remembered that its a few hundred people tour. Haiz... Going to have long queues everywhere =((.Go up bus. Sleep. Can't remember very well. But went into a strawberry farm (i think?). Learnt that dried strawberry in chocolate is delicious. Hmmm... Rest of the day did nothing but stay on bus...
At the hotel, i learnt that all hotel rooms look the same. Also, it makes no sense that the air-con is on inside the bathroom. =( Sure, we need ventilation. But shouldn't the temperature be like higher? I like air-con temperature, but it's a different story when i'm wet after the shower.
2nd day:
Woke up at about 7 am. Z_Z... Sleep on bus... visited Rose Valley. Rose valley had a lot of stuff to talk about. Bad stuff. But unfortunately it doesn't work well without photos. So i shall skip that.
Then slept on bus. Went to some strawberry farm without strawberries.(all plucked). Later went to some Pasar malam. Learnt that the whole 300m of Pasar Malam stalls basically only have about 5 varieties of stalls. Walk a few meters and the rest of the stalls are just with different prices and people.
3rd day:
Today is the day where i learnt most stuff. But 1st i'll talk about how uninteresting today is. Went to San Poh Tong... some cave temple or something. I learnt that having large shoes or feet is bad for climbing down uneven stairs. You feel like you fall easily. I learnt that by climbing up some long stairs which lead to... under construction =.=, which was not the bad part. The bad part is climbing down while holding on to the railings, hoping i never climbed up. I consider the staircase railings a great invention of man kind now. Staring down uneven staircases is like staring into an endless abyss trying to pull you down... the only difference is that it will end and when you fall it will hurt or maybe you will die. If there are people other than you then maybe you will not die but they will die.
I remember the toilet down there. When i reached there, i saw a row of female queuing up. I saw lots of cubicles in front. Didn't think too much, just queue up and go in. Later i went to wash my hands... i saw the sign ''Male toilet'' in front of the basin. Btw, i'll draw something so you'll understand.
__________________________
| ..................................| ^
| ..................................| | C
| ..................................| |
|_________________________| v
<------------C----------> <----WB---->
C= cubicles
WB= washing basin.
Male ''toilet'' on the right side.
Female ''toilet'' left of WB.
Never mind the fact that i went into the toilet meant for females.( No wonder only got female queuing @#$@#%@#%) But then...Whats the point of calling it female and male toilet when their just cubicles?!?! And i remember the sign in front of the toilet cubicle door. It looks like a long haired.... something with sunglasses. The problem is we can't tell whether its a long haired man, woman, or Michael Jackson. (Again no pictures so... sorry. Comedic effect only at 10%.) Although, it doesn't really matter since ''Whats the point of calling it female and male toilet when their just cubicles?!?!''is the more important issue. Learnt that people who put the signs there has no common sense. Learnt that people will follow signs whether or not it is logical.
Also, i realized that the reason Singapore may be called a clean city is a lot due to the toilets. In Malaysia...No matter what kind of high class looking restaurant, once you enter the toilets... It all looks like a million people has shitted on the toilet bowl cover. The floor looks like the million people has accidentally stepped their own shit, then walked out... Only to realize that they left shit on the floor, but they did a bad job of cleaning the shit. Also, because there was a million people, the janitor was trampled on by the million people and died. The body was left unfound. Attempting to sit on any toilet bowl would be like asking for a million different types of diseases to be cared and shared around. Or rather, its not like. I think it is. Fortunately though, the hotel toilets aren't like that. If not i wouldn't be able to Poo in Peace for 3 days.
For some reason, the food in every tour is also the same. 10 people gather round a table, fish, chicken, veggies, soup, rice, cooked the same bloody way and served the same way. What happened to local food? Although, what local food does M'sia have?
Conclusion:
Tours are uninteresting. In fact, going overseas is often uninteresting with what people do. I don't want to go there to see the world's largest waterfall or climb it or whatever. Thats uninteresting when i can see professional photos over the net and when its just a larger waterfall. People say they want to see the world by travelling overseas. But i say thats narrow minded. The world pretty much looks the same everywhere with little variation anyway... What they should see, are those which really makes the world look different. For example... uh........oh shit. I can't seem to think of any real life examples that would be interesting. But visiting the 1st ever alien aircraft to land on Earth is probably one.
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