A week before the end of our industrial training in AMD, our gang of interns had a farewell trip to Genting!

Although not everybody was able to attend, it was an amazingly memorable trip!

We conducted a mass intern disappearance where (almost) all the interns in AMD took leave all at once on the same day! It was utterly shameless, but haha our awesome supervisors were sporting enough to allow it…

We took leave on Friday and departed early (like 6AM early) in the morning. Nobody wanted to drive so we took a gruelling FIVE hour bus trip from Penang to Genting!

There was another small group of our friends who had left AMD a few weeks before us coming to join us on this trip. But while we were enthusiastically willing to take working leaves, they, who were back in university – were unwilling to skip CLASSES!

Since this other group could only join us on the next day, we did not enter the theme park on Friday, nor could we do pretty much anything, since they begged us to wait for them before having doing anything fun.

After giving out generous donations to the Uncle Lim Evil Casino Foundation in the afternoon, we indulged ourselves in lepak-ing and camwhoring in and around the hotels at night.

Lepak-ing for REAL on the streets… ‘mao 街’

Homeless beggars!

Bullying another poor beggar…

Acting cool on the walkway…

And then we realized that wearing our hoodies we look like undead Acolytes in Warcraft 3, so we decided to summon some buildings…

and summon some minions too…

… all in the name of finding entertainment while waiting for our friends to come!

Lame >.<

It’s great to be around people as shameless as myself that we can do stupid stuff in public with utter disregard to other people’s stares.

As per all student trips, late night is reserved for playing cards in the hotel room!

We’ve brought some vodka and mixers with us too but again, its all reserved for the full rendezvous tomorrow.

Later we’ve filmed a footage of Alvin losing a game and having to yell some pretty obscene stuff out of the hotel window. =)

We went to bed at 2AM, hoping to get some hours of sleep…

… before all hell broke lose when the second group (taking a late night bus) arrived at 5AM and slammed into the room, switched on the lights and TV and jumped on our beds…

Reluctantly we woke up and bathed, and prepared to try out the so-called ‘super early morning gambling luck’, which our friend Lenx insisted was real!

Still all groggy and blur, we found that the ‘morning gambling luck’ was quite true! We won more than we did the previous night and the entire casino was VERY less crowded and not to mention the table minimum bets were smaller.

At 8AM sharp, when all the kids and families are still having breakfast, we hit the theme park!

It is always an important rule to follow if you’re going to the theme park and that is enter at 8AM sharp.

There aren’t that many rides in Genting’s outdoor theme park so you should be done with all of them (plus multiple rides of Corkscrew and Space Shot) by 11AM – without much time spent on queuing.

However, if you entered at, say, 11AM, you would spend the whole afternoon in the theme park and may not even be able to ride on everything! Because you’d spend hours just standing there in the queue wishing that the roller coaster would just crash out of its tracks and explode in a gigantic fireball to break the boredom.

Having not slept much the previous night, the ‘first’ group of us went back to the hotel for a quick nap after lunch, while the second group went out for some walk. Everybody knew there’s not gonna be much sleep that night anyway, so we needed the energy!

I must mention that we had excellent meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) mostly at rather expensive restaurants  – all thanks to Alvin, whose parents had some Genting shares, provided us with a generous supply of Genting restaurant vouchers with up to 50% discounts in almost all of the major restaurants!

After dinner we went for a walk around First World Plaza and a few of our gambling addicts again figured they had too much cash and needed to dispose of some. So it was one last casino session before we went back to the hotel and commenced our own ‘gaming’ session!

With the gang of crazy people, stupid games, and some liquor we were soon laughing our heads off witnessing some really insane stuff that we would never find ourselves doing normally, and some were forced to do there and then…

… And the night passed quickly. =)

(Unfortunately nobody had the sense to take photos of the ‘stuff’ that happened that night in the room, and now we have one less thing to look back and choke on…)

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The next morning we had an incredibly good breakfast… again thanks to Alvin (I mean his vouchers)!

Alvin confessed that we were actually helping him earn more world points on his Genting card so he wouldn’t mind giving us the vouchers. Besides, apparently he had more vouchers in his house that he can spend. So he was gaining anyways. =D

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Hmm… I’m graduating soon… Will trips after I start working be as fun as those that I have had during my university years?