i will not lose this. my hair will not be blue.
this weekend is not a happening weekend i basically rotted in my room for the whole day. but to act haps i shall do about the rides i took last weekend at Great America!
malaysia: truly asia. oops i mean great america ok no link
the merry go round looks really pretty but i din get to ride it cos we got no time cos we entered the park at 5 pm (park closes at 8pm) cos tickes are half price after 4pm cos we are cheapo
our first ride: vortex! sebastian looking very emo in the picture with the clouds and everything. vortex is a standing roller coaster. looks quite scary from the outside but the actual ride wasnt too scary and it was very short.
not much of a spongebob fan.
chuckie! i love rugrats!
a ride orinally called top gun...based on the movie of the same name. it is a inverted roller coaster (the track is above your head). pretty nice ride felt a little giddy after the ride. apparently in 1997 a person tried to retrieve his hat somewhere near the tracks and was kicked in the head by one of the riders in the oncoming roller coaster. the person died and the rider broke his leg.
this ride is called invertigo. see the v shaped track? they are the two ends of the track so the ride goes from one end to the other and reverse back to to the starting end. the seats are situated such a way that the riders are facing each other so u can see your friend's face during the ride!
look at how the tracks are twisted! nice.
the drop tower: rated 4 stars for thrill level according to the park (all the previous rides are rated 5). but this is the scariest ride of all. basically it slowly brings u up to 207 feet (70 meters) and drops u down! all 4 stars of the thrill packed in 3 seconds! really made me humji and scream like a girl...
apparently a 12 year old mentally disabled kid managed to slide under the restaraint in 1999 and fell to his death while taking the ride.
looks like a scene in a haunted theme park. the merry go round looks really eerie at night. especially if it turns when no one's on it and starts to play the creepy music.
we took a few more rides after that and managed to cover almost all the 4 & 5 stars rated rides. the park is actually quite near my house, a less than 10 minutes drive away! didn't know the rides are so awesome! should have come earlier cos we missed a few water based rides zzz. looking at the average age of the people in the park, i guess i am too old for the rides already hahaha but it was still fun nonetheless. the rides here are thrilling but i like the rides in universal studios better cos even though the rides there are less thrilling, they have a story to go with the ride which makes them really interesting.
bonus! my dream car (at least one of them) mazda RX-7!
dont mistake it as a mazda miata i kill u!
rotary engine forever!
i dunno to put this under odxm or a normal blog post. May be the kokest thing that i've ever done in US hahahaha. Anyway KFC is trying to be healthy and all so they introduced the grilled chicken to slowly replace the fully fried one. Check it out at KFC.com. So last monday they had a promotion, FREE CHICKEN FOR EVERYONE! Just show up at any outlet and they will give you FREEEEE chicken! ok you know how malaysians function, where we hear the word free we feel adrenaline rush all over our body. That's when me and tiang lim (malaysian as well) decided to RAID THE KFCs!
when you fail to plan, you plan to fail. NO FAILURE IS ALLOWED FOR MY KFC RAID!!!
Actually alot of ppl are cheapos also see how long the line is. But i guess most of them actually bought food.
EXACT WORDING: "hi could we try the new kfc grilled chicken sampler? there's two of us"
"anything else i can get for you?"
"erm, i think we are fine, just the grilled chicken will do"
Must give the innocent asian look that as if after we try one we will buy a whole bucket
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
1st KFC RAIDED!
nope THANK YOU colonel!
2nd KFC
3rd KFC
must hide the KFC properly! must hide the fact that we are going around to collect free chicken!
4th KFC closed! FAILUREEE
5th KFC! this KFC has no drive-through. must do a walk-in. used the same line though hahahha
met this random guy called OMAR that talked to me about cars. he's going to change his car's ECU to get extra hp and probably buy a 240SX or ae86. NICE. anw the KFC cashier thought 3 of us were together so she gave us 3 pieces of chicken! wheee THANKS OMAR!
6th KFC! same drill without drive through. saw a bunch of kids trying to get more than 1 free piece of chicken but keep getting rejected. kids. if only they had a car. hahaha
we actually went back to the drive through KFCs to go for another round. just that this time we walked into the store to ask for free chicken. to ang moh all asians look the same. good thing to be asian when you are KFC raiding in US.
after 2 hours and 40 minutes, 31 miles of drive, 6 KFCs we present to you 17 pieces of FREE grilled chicken!
ok actually at the last KFC i felt guilty and bought a 99 cents snacker (mini-burger)
i ate 6 or 7 pieces of chicken that very night! i think i will skip KFC for the rest of the month (the raid happened on april 27th). oh its may already! lets go kfc again!
bonus! NUS intern Smack Down: http://www.getquikblog.com/
disclaimer: this happened on two seperate saturdays! last saturday and yesterday! But i lazy to do seperate posts since they happened in the same location.
been to san francisco multiple times already but first time going there as tourist! so last saturday we (me, zy n tl) went to san francisco since we were bored!
passport ok lose liao cannot go back malaysia
the tram! pay 11 usd for unlimited rides!
these trams are very old liao maybe got 100 yrs
at the terminal the tram will turn around on this disc..operated by human muscle power! no wonder the passport so expensive...
nice random building at the terminal
the whole tram has no doors...you can choose to sit or stand on the steps...feels like malaysian school buses
the cars are parking on a very steep slope...they have to park perpendicular to the road so that the car wun sleep i mean slip.
chinatown! ching chong ping pong king kong!
dunno what cathedral this is but there's park in front of it filled with ppl.
they are not filipino maids ok!
haha the guy realised that they were in the picture so they waved!
looks like those you see inside a bottle right?
ghirardelli the chocolate factory!
not a big fan of chocolate but come here still will succumb to it....
nice city view!
it is made out of pieces of tiles ok...ever wondered why everybody draws heart in this <3>
fountain dedicated to martin luther
San Francisco city is a really pretty at some streets. But if you walked a little further from the nice streets you will be surprised to find yourself in streets that are filled with homeless people sleeping on the streets . you can see people scavenging rubbish dumps with their stolen shopping trolley. there's smell of urine in the air everywhere you go. people holding an empty cup in their hands asking you for quarters and spare change as you walk by. you will see entire different worlds just by walking down two streets. please consider yourself very blessed to have a job (a professional student!) and being able to read this blog at your own comfort.
ok that sounded abit serious. ANYWAY the following saturday (yesterday!) we went san francisco again!
cant get enuf of gg (golden gate) bridge!
money, car, erm i think i will need a yatch as well.
killer view! bring girl come here sure die in your arms!
this place is called fort mason.
what are we doing here?
to my 3rd floorers, this one is for you guys:
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL!
up to 300 types of beer! more than 60 breweries! tickets sold out in first 2 hrs of sales!
aloooot of ppl
marcus and horrace with a random person at the side. we stole the trash only sign from the rubbish bin. WOOOOT!
its hard to behave yourself after drinking lots of beer.
everybody does this in the toilet to free up your hands. The cup is the most important thing in beer fest!
a familiar sight in my house but this is rather a fresh setting.
Beer fest is really interesting. So basically after you enter the warehouse like structure, you are given a small platic cup which will be your most important possesion throughout the festival. Everything inside the festival is free flow! just go to booths and they will fill up your cup! lost count of how many cups that i've drink. the best drink that i liked is something called hornbee hard cider because it tastes EXACTLY like china brand apple juice! just that this one will make you high! everyone in the festival is very high! from time to time people will hold up their cup and yell together. we just went around hi-fiving random people and cheers with them! took loads of random photos with random people as well (see fb) hahaha oh i am very glad for the fact that i din puke at the end of the day! yayyy ok byebye
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