Muara Beach Trip - I must say that this trip was hilariously fun and entertaining at the same time. Really. We learned abit about the waves that I really completely forgot. I just remembered F = V * <insert something here> Lol. Moving on, the trip was fun. The bus, I just listened to my awesome Metallica and shit. Trivium grows on me more and more everyday. They are such a fucking awesome metalcore(hardcore metal) band. I can't believe I was so lifeless that I went to collect shells and gave them to Karen. ._." Sad But True(song by Metallica). I more or less did nothing there tbh. I just watched them play around as I listened to my music. I was truly enchanted by The Unforgiven II. I don't know HOW but this song has a way it connects to me more than most other Metallica songs. It's just.. awesome. Anyway, I'll emphasize on its awesome play later. Moving on, the trip was pretty much awesome all-in-all and fun I suppose, but yeah.
Mall Trip - Yeah, paid $1 to watch 2 movies. Ok I guess. I watched "U, me & Dupree" and "Devil Wears Prada". First movie was insanely hilarious. The romantic parts fucking bore me though. I'm not a 'romance'-kind of person if none of you realize. Otherwise, the movie was ok I guess. At the end I remember Gary saying to Lina "I love you too". IT WAS HILARIOUS because right before he said it, the movie actor/actress said it to the other. Don't remember, lol. Oh well, moving on, Devil Wears Prada was abit, odd. It's about females and the fashion industry. It was meh I guess. They could've used a sexier actress though! :idea: Ok that's it for the mall junk. Was expecting my best friend to come *COUGHALYSSACOUGH* but apparently she's too lazy to, so I wanted to smack her in the head. -_-"
KK Trip - The most golden trip I've been to so far. Fucking awesome I say this trip was. It was just. AWESOME. The rafting part of the trip was just....... AWESOME. Seriously, there is NO word that can describe it. It was fucking uber I say. Damnit man! I wanna go on that rafting again, it was FUN! Ok let's start on day 0(day before we left).
Day 0 - I was checking up some music shit. I saw some reviews, one that caught my eye was Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory. I must say, after I checked it out, I was pretty impressed with the responses. So yeah. That was it. I also saw a review for Metallica's ... And Justice For All! and I must say that the One review was interesting. Ok, moving ON!
Day 1 - Woke up at 6.30 or something, was pretty early. Went to the port, saw Ai Yen(Real name is Lang Tze Yen) and was like O.o. Apparently, Cikgu Amelly didn't call me nor Ai Yen that the boat was at 8.30 -_-" so due to that fact, we waited for 1 hour ++. First people to come after me were Lilian and Jia Yee. Then it was, err, Jia Hui I think, then Shim(I THINK!), then Maria, then Aston, Nai Kiat, then Edwin and Daniel. Donno la. Something like that. Ok anyway, we got on the boat, was pretty peaceful. After we boarded and shiet, me and Shim sat at the same place where our bags were dividing us. It's like this:
Me | BAGSBAGSBAGS | Shim | WINDOW
So yeah, lol. We had to move all the bags just to let Shim out and in. XD! Ai Yen was sitting in front of me and Aston was behind with his group, Cikgu Amelly and the girls were to my right. Form 1 girls(Maria, Lilian, Jia Yee) were sitting somewhere in front so yeah. And then, uh we took a plane to KK. Don't remember why we didn't take the boat to KK. I think it was cause of some time problems or what, so yeah. We took plane first and later returned by sea, but I'll tell more stories about that later. In the plane, I really was hungry since when we were at Labuan, I didn't get to eat at all, so in the plane, I was like, "PEANUTS? DON'T WANT? GIMME! i WANT PEANUTS!" LOL! I am like, peanut-obsessed. >.> When we arrived at KK, we took 2 shitty minivans to Asia City Hotel, which sucked too. At least it wasn't as bad as those hotels last year. X_X I was stuck in a room with Shim and Ai Yen. I was like,"I AM MAN SO I SLEEP ON BED. SHIM SLEEPS ON FLOOR LOL!" since we only had 1 Double-bed. I had to share it with Ai Yen. Apparently, I kept stealing the blanket later that night, BUT, let's not go into detail just yet. After unpacking and shit, we went for lunch, then out to the mall for some gaming time with Shim, Ai Yen, Maria, Lilian and Jia Yee. I never expected the 3 form 1 girls to play games. O.O but anyway, it was fun. After that, we went to Burger King(meeting point) to wait for everyone and we bought like Onion Rings to wait. Later on we went to Popular to buy some stuff. Shim bought a book, I bought a dictionary and I don't think Ai Yen bought anything. When we went back to the meeting point, we saw the three form 1 girls waiting nearby so we just waited along with them.
Soon after, we waited in burger king for the rest of the big group and returned to the hotel. Everybody went to shower or what while I went to take a snooze lol. Ok so sue me, I was fucking tired. I COULDNT SLEEP IN THE PLANE DAMNIT! >_<" After that, we went for dinner someplace, I don't remember where. It was OK I guess. After all the dinner and junk shit, we returned to the hotel once again where the form 1 girls bugged us in our room and left soon after to go to their room. Shim and Ai Yen followed, I took a bath. Then I went to their room to watch CSI: Miami. CSI OWNS YO. I MADE SHIM A LITTLE MORE MANLY. HE LOVED CSI. After Miami, they felt tired so Ai Yen, me and Shim returned to our humble abode(LOL). The two form 1 girls, Lilian and Jia Yee were asleep. Maria was still awake o.0 When we went back to our room, we watched CSI: Crime Scene Investigation(aka Las Vegas), it was cool, but I shall not go on about it since CSI is awesome ANYWAY! That night, I slept pretty cozy since I had the bed + the warm blanket LOL. The other two were suffering due to lack of something comfortable + warm lololololol.
Day 2 - We had breakfast and we prepared on our way to RIVERBUG or whatever you call it. This. Was. THE. BEST. DAY. OF THE TRIP. FUCKING. AWESOME MAN. I'M NOT KIDDING. I FUCKING LOVED IT. After breakfast, we waited for the guide people to come and pick us up. We went in 2 separate minivans, one for guys and the other for girls(psst sexists). When we arrived at the place(finally, it took like 1 - 3 hours I think, don't remember), we got off and headed to listen to the guides and shit and wear our safety equipment. We used 3 boats. My boat was with me, Cikgu Amelly, Maria, Lilian, Jia Yee and the two guides. In Shim's boat, it was him, Jia Hui, Eileen, Chia Chia and the guide. In the last boat there was Aston, Nai Kiat, Ai Yen, Daniel and Edwin and the guide. So yeah, 3 boats. We had the slowest start at the beginning of the course, I shall tell you, everybody wanted to push me off, but luckily for me, I fell into the water before we got into the boat thanks to the rocks. But it was a good thing cause I didn't feel cold when they splashed me with water, I felt cool instead. I wanted them to keep on splashing me! XD! Maria didn't though LOL. And she was sitting in front with me so yeah, we were 'shielding' the group. Cikgu Amelly was originally behind me, but later she swapped with Jia Yee cause she wanted to splash them lol. Ok at the start of the course, we went off with a slow start, the 4 guys in lead, Shim's group second and my group last. We had a rough start, but afterwards, it was smooth sailing. I did 99.9% of my boat's paddling. Why? Because, I am the ONLY guy in the boat lol. So all of the girls were like,"oi Alex, paddle wahh!" So I just had to abide. X_X So it was a one-man-show until we were all ordered to move forward then I would help them by alot lol. At one point, we overtook everyone, but I became too lazy to paddle so yeah. At one point as well, our guide went 'emo' and jumped into the water lol. Maria was like trying to push me off, then Cikgu Amelly, then I pulled both of them, so if they pushed me, they'd pull themselves as well and then the two other form one girls also tried to LOL. They failed until the guide pulled me in which was horribly imba. Lol. It was really nice and cold the water was.
I enjoyed swimming in it. Soon after, Maria joined us, and the rest of the groups caught up with us and also went swimming lol. Only cikgu Amelly and the other 2 form 1 girls stuck to the boat, rest of us were floating around, especially me. I tried to grab a foothold on the rocks. I failed lol. The current was quite strong. At one point, we were following the guide and he said there were sharks and shit and scared Maria ahhahaha. When Mr Brownie jumped into the water, Maria swam as far as she could, LOL. When we had to get back to the boat, I pulled Maria to the boat as they pulled her up into the boat. Then they pulled me into the boat. After all that, we ate our lunch or whatever that was there and headed back to the hotel where we were to pick our bags because of 'overstaying'. After that, we left in the afternoon at around 3++ to the mountains, in uh somewhere lol. Don't blame me forgetting the name wah. It was a very long trip. I believe we arrived at around 5 - 6 in a very COOL weather-like environment where we were to climb endless amounts of stairs to reach our tree houses. Lol. I was sweating just by climbing up those endless stairs, and also I ran out of breaths easily. My stamina is shit, which is why I quit swimming. I couldn't keep up anymore. Which reminds me - during the rafting, the rapids were THE best parts of the rafting. I fucking loved it. I loved bouncing around in a boat while getting splashed with water. You have NO idea how fucking fun that was. Damn I loved it. Rafting ftw.
At night, we ordered dinner, and although they gave me a wrong order, I still ate it lol. I don't care, I was hungry! We actually were walking around aimlessly for 10 - 40 mins before we decided where to sit -_-" I sat with the three form 1 girls cause I thought my kidbro, Ai Yen was sitting with them. So yeah, in the end, he moved to sit with Shim, Eileen, Jia Hui and Chia Chia. After I had my dinner, I just waited for the rest of them. After some of them finished, they just trolled around the place. E.g, Maria was buying DOMINOES LOL and some random snacks. So after dinner and a LONGGGGGGG walk up, we went to my room, then the girls came and Shim and Yen followed them to Room 2. I took a bath while they went off and then went looking for them afterwards. I looked in Room 5(where the Form 1 girls were, cause I thought they said they were going to their room) but went to Room 2 after Nai Kiat checked that they were there. Then, I played Big 2 with Shim, Maria and Eileen for a while. Maria was kinda new at this so me and Eileen helped her(psst, trading cards, LOL!). Man those games were golden. Shim lost a total of 5 times when we all decided to stop, I lost a total of 4 times(I actually was supposed to lose 3 times but due to my stupidity, I lost 4 times). Maria and Eileen didn't lose at all so, lucky them. After all that, the form 1 girls went back to their room and soon after, Shim, me and Yen followed them. We were like in their room for a bit, then Yen left, which left Shim and me in their room to discuss pointless things in life and in school. Maria was apparently half-asleep while we were talking but she could hear us, HAHA. Lilian and Jia Yee were scared to fucking death LOL. They didn't like the bugs and the fact that an ant is VERY harmless, scared the shit out of them. Even that drove Maria semi-crazy. HAHAHAHA. LOL. Maria was like,"IT'S JUST. AN ANT! WHAT LAH" LOL. Really funny man. We actually played dominoes in their room, but that sucked lol. It was pointless. XD. Maria's expression is insanely hilarious man. You should've seen the look on her face. It was ROFLMAO material. So yeah, later that night, the two girls, Jia Yee and Lilian to stay in their room cause they were scared lol. But we went back to our room anyway. Next day I heard that Aston and a few people came cause they were scared and told Cikgu Amelly. Maria was apparently asleep during that time but when she woke up she saw Aston sitting next to her LOL. So yeah, the 2 - 4 guys(don't know who were there except Aston) were sleeping in their room on the floor or on their beds or something and moved out later or what. Donno la, this you gotta ask Maria or the other 2 girls for more info. This is all that I am told of so yeah. Anyway, during this time I was in my cabin sleeping + listening to MetalliAWESOME(Metallica).
Day 3 - This has to the most painful day of the trip. I shall explain. In the morning, when we woke up, we met with the Room 101 girls(or the form 1 girls) and headed down into the van of suckiness. We were on our way to I believe, the Rafflesia center, after having a horrid shit ass breakfast. X.X The f1 girls were apparently afraid that the food would poison them(maria had a stomach ache the night before, thus being on her bed the whole night). Anywho, we started on our LONGGGGGG ass trek, of which, I used a walking stick. Not much happening but a lot of people screaming "AMG LEECH", etc. Especially, Eileen and SHIM. That's right, our own Shim Chin Yee was screaming, like a girl, really really loudly. o.0 And to think he was becoming more manly, TSK TSK TSK. Moving on, I fell like a lot of times, a total of 7, I counted. At one point, I actually fell down the cliff or whatever you call it. Nai Kiat and Eileen had to pull me up. Thanks guys!(if you ever read this lol). I mean, I fell down a lot of times, I pretty much didn't care about my own safety. I wasn't afraid of death. If I were to die, then so be it. I accept fate. I don't argue with it. : Besides, falling down isn't really killer, it just hurts. On our way back to the shit ass place, I was REALLY, REALLY, thirsty. I was out of water and had to keep asking around for spare water. At one point when I was REALLY scarce of water, my body decided "hey you know what, you don't need your legs!" and decided to turn "off' my legs. That's right, I honestly could not feel my legs. Every step I made felt like a muscle cramp, but that wasn't it. I believe if your body lacks water, it will shut down unnecessary parts of your body to make due, but I am not 100% sure so yeah. Anyway, I had to go back to the bus, get some water, clean myself up and return to the bus yet again. This time, we were on our way to some orphanage place. Originally, I thought this has got to be a shitty place, but then as I saw all the religious figures, I thought,"hey cool, these guys are religious, maybe it's not so bad after all.."
When we went in, I wanted to play with a puppy but it wouldn't let me :( Meh, after I went in, I sat down, and watched them as they performed. It was all mediocre, I guess, but it's their effort that matters! After that, we had Cikgu Amelly call Mr Brownie to sing, hahahaha. It was hilarious beans. Lmfao. After the orphanage thing, we went to the Sabah Asrama place, I donno what it's called, I forgot. As we entered the place, we were shown our room and as soon as I saw it, I went "AMGWTFBBQ". Yes, I really did. O.o Anyway, I took the stuff from my bed and migrated out to the sofa. Yes, the sofa. I had Cikgu Amelly's permission to sleep there, woot! It was like my own home sofa, so I kinda got used to it rather quickly. I tried to rest but people kept shaking the ground so I just pretended I was asleep and hoped to myself that I was sleeping lol. That night, we had dinner in some whacky place, and I played cards with Jia Hui/Aston/Nai Kiat/Edwin/Eileen, etc. After dinner was ready, I rushed food and I donno why, but I didn't feel hungry much for some odd reason, but anywho, I ate whatever I could and started to troll around the place with Cikgu Amelly and the group. We went to see some pitcher plants and shiet, it was cool. Too bad we didn't see any pitcher plants that ate anything(It was kinda very dark). After that we went to "evolution" park. A place where dinosucks have supposedly been. I don't believe in that junk though ahahaha.
Last Day - It was kinda boring, woke up, took bus to train station, ate breakfast, went to the train station. While aboard, we had to put up with some douchebag seller. I sat next to Eileen who apparently had a headache. Anywho, half the time I tried to sleep but failed miserably. z_z At one point I saw Jia Yee taking pictures of Yen sleeping and attempted to take Maria's pic, funny shit. She woke up before Jia Yee took the pic I think, donno. Anyway, after the train trip zz, we took 2 vans to the docks. We took a speedboat to Labuan, then we took the Suria boat back to Brunei, which was kinda dull. The last day was the dullest tbh.
Also, since I feel inspired to write, I might do stuff about my music. It owns. I was reading some reviews about Metallica albums, I saw one about ..And Justice For All, which included the awesome song, One. When I listened to the song and read the review, I become awed by the song. It was just UBER. It was OWNAGE TO THE MAX. I saw an album and selected few songs that people seem to love. It was by Dream Theater. The songs were The Spirit Carries On, One Last Time and Finally Free. I agree with the reviewer, these songs touch me, in a creepy sense. Somehow, they just touch me. These songs are uber, really. They may be rock, but they still have that quality that every song needs. I also am more in touch with The Unforgiven II by Metallica for some odd reason, it just moves me, in a good way, of course, but this song is just like no other. I guess, Metallica's beans are still awesome.
Other than that, my really favourite songs are as follows:
1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Metallica - Orion
3. Metallica - One
4. Metallica - Battery
5. Metallica - The Unforgiven I & The Unforgiven II
Yes, they are all Metallica, so sue me. My reasons: Master of Puppets is #1 because it IS music, it is WHAT music is. Master of Puppets is the single most popular Metallica song in the world for a simple reason, the guitar solos are fucking insane and the riffs are awesome. The lyrics? FUCK YEAH. THE BEST SYNERGY OF A SONG EVER. Seriously, Master of Puppets doesn't really need a reason to be number 1, listen to it, and you'll get what I mean. It has THE best guitar solos in the world, and it has an awesome tune, and the lyrics are of course, meaningful. As explained in my previous post, MoP is about drugs. This song owns hard, I fucking love it.
Orion for number 2? HELL YEAH. WHY THE FUCK NOT. Cliff Burton was a fucking genius. I cannot believe I thought the bass solos were guitar solos. I mean, he is a GENIUS. Damnit, the song is also awesome, it's instrumental so no lyrics = gg. Plus, its tune is just wonderful, this song REALLY touches me. I love it.
One for number 3 for easy reasons, its machine drumming was insane, and the solos are awesome and the song has a great intro, etc. This song is just wonderful, I can seriously agree and feel this song. It was about a WW1 soldier. The last two verses are something like:
Darkness
Imprisoning me
How will I see?
Absoulte horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine
Has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
These lyrics just touch me for some reason, they are just plain awesome.
Battery for number 4, easily. Excellent intro to the song and the song is very active and fast, which makes it interesting, solos are awesome too. But aren't the best, MoP is where all the awesome solos are.
Unforgiven 1 and 2 make it to number 5 because they just plain own. If you listen to the song then you'll get it. It's just weird how I can relate to both the songs, but yeah, they mean a lot to me.
However, my favourite instrumentals are:
1. Metallica - Orion
2. Trivium - The Crusade
3. Metallica - The Call of the Ktulu
4. Apocalyptica - Somewhere Around Nothing
5. Apocalyptica - Betrayal/Forgiveness
Not gonna explain my reasons for the instrumentals cause they own. Espeically Orion and The Crusade.
Yeah, well I'm off to listening to more Metallica, I hope their new album sounds like their old stuff. Their old shit plain owned. St. Anger was a fucking piece of shit. I think of shit everytime I hear "St. Anger". It really sucked. Anyway, the new album should sound something like their old stuff from the leaks(they played them LIVE.) I offically hate Korea + Japan + Germany cause Metallica went to give them previews of the new songs. GRR ANGRY. Anyway, off I go. I think this is long enough for me. Tata.