Genting Day 2

Woke up around 6am. Everyone is still in the bed.

Felt restless and head out for a walk. It wasn't that cold in the early wee of the morning. Sit at the hotel lobby and read the library's book.

An expensive breakfast! Expensive in a way we didn't expect. For 3 pax, a bowl of ba kuteh(2 pax share), 2 coffee, some tim sums and cost us RM$98 at a kopitiam! I couldn't believe it! The hotel expensive buffet around RM$30(nett) per pax! It makes more sense to eat at the restaurant than at those cheap looking shop.

Yesterday even eating at Kenny Roger, the pricing is around RM$100 as well.

Came down to Awana after checking out. It wasn't a long ride. The car abit chao ta which is expected.

The race expo is like last year, pretty small...same location.

Goodie bag wise, i think this year is much better. At least whatever was given in it, i will use 90% of it! Gosh! When is the last time i find out so many goodies that are useful.

Goodie bag items:

1 - Milo Shoe Bag
2 - Event tee(darker green colour than last year)
3 - Genting Skyway complimentary pass
4 - Indoor/outdoor complimentary pass
5 - Gym membership pass (14 days) - Useless!
6 - Powerbar (self collection)

Race briefing is super early as per last year. 5pm briefing to start on the agenda, but i deliberately arrived at 4:30pm which is just in time for it! Learning from last year experience! Damn organiser just don't care on following the race schedule!

Meet up with many familiar faces from SIN. For the TOO, there is too yen, ms piggy and myself.

Dinner is at the Korean restaurant at Awana instead of the buffet dinner the package includes. Given i have 2 tickets(there are 3 of us) and the last feedback i get is the makan is so-so only, i decide to eat out. Anyway the pricing doesn't look that scary. Damage is RM$90.

P/S: Economic rice at the "lok kok" place according to Seivland experiences, 2 pax - RM$50. They came together with her family and they are complaining like hell as well.

Conclusion, in Genting, if you wanna eat, but eat at "higher pricing" makan place. At least you will find it more worthy.

Time to rest for the race tomorrow.

Genting Day 1

The journey on NS highway was a bit new to me. For once i am travelling to KL in the day time. I actually feel it was LONG. I haven't feel that when it is in the evening. I guess the fact that i can't see far in the dark is comfort to our senses.

It rains on/off pretty heavy while on the journey there. I had experienced worst rains on NS highway before. Situation whereby forcing me to drive at slowest lane while i floor the gas pedal, i am still going at a mere 80km/hr max! Car skipping left/right going at 50-60km/hr isn't new to me. For this trip, i can still maintain around 80-100km/hr going at fastest lane towards KL. My guess was that i took about 4 hours+ to reach KL from SIN with a makan pitt stop in the middle. Can't really go fast in daylight :)

The jam was bad in KL and everywhere seems to be heavy traffic. When we finally arrived at Petaling street. The makan shop that we are targeting had closed shop. Had to settle for another shop, which imo was bland. Not the kind i expected when we last head over to KL.

Again the traffic was bad as i follow the instruction of Ba Ku Teh to reach Genting via Ampang, MRR2, Karak route. I used to go via Batu cave route, which is a bit messy and end up going in cycles before reaching Genting. Not a problem this time, just a bit LONG stuck in the jammed.

Reach Theme Park hotel around 6pm+. The weather was still good, nothing serious happened to the car on the way up. Phew! It is always a challenge for the car when it hit mountains. The car just not use to "climbing" the hills and have to overwork its poor "limbs".

Since it was quite late, nothing much to see/look also. So walk around, had dinner and jalan abit before calling it a day.

Weather wasn't that cold though. I hope it get cooler tomorrow.

Genting Bound

It seems like a long time ago, since i step out of Singapore. The last being Desaru trip for the Triathlon event.

This time, i will be heading to Genting. Hmm...for Trailblazer event.

It was fun the last time. It is also very scary as well. I was feeling like i going to blackout in the forest. It was not much of the pain, but the feel of despondent and i have to keep on going knowing there is no way back no matter what come between me and the goal. Like the common saying - pain has short memory. :)

This time round, i hope i will feel much better and at least put a small test to the body and see how much it has developed. Hopefully i will survive without any hiccup.

Have to stick out of the comfort zone and see how it goes.

Fingers crossed.