Movie World!!!

My first trip down to Gold Coast (GC)!

Afiq and I had breakfast at Central's McD! The pancakes are surprisingly good! Ngam ngam after we finished, Wafiy turned up, and we caught the train down to GC.

Reached Movie World around 9.30+am, very excited!




















This is the first thing you see when you enter...

The scariest, fastest ride!! Already, there was a long queue for it although the rides didn't actually open up till 10am.


This was the first ride we went on. Scooby Doo! I think I shall bring Mum on this haha wasn't too scary. Maybe just a bit painful during the sharp turns. Warming up for the bigger rides!

Walked on to the Wild West Falls!

The water log ride at the Wild West Falls. Although the ride itself wasn't as scary as the one we used to have in Jerudong Park, Brunei, the scenery and story were very cool. (I shall bring Mum on this too, if she feels up to it). We got pretty wet but dried up fast under the hot sun.

We were making our way out of this section when we happened to walk pass the Castrol Oil show when it was open for seating, so in we went. The whole show was about how an action scene is filmed. So there was a robbery and the antagonist's quick getaway....

And the police car chase....

It was crazy how they managed to pull off their stunts in such a small space! Amazing!

Freaking. Awesome. Stunts.

The antagonist's flew his car across one building prop to another and there was a HUGE explosion. You could feel the heat for a few good seconds. Stifling but OH SO COOL!

We were feeling pretty good about ourselves and confident, so without any more delay, we headed straight to Superman's Escape roller coaster.

I had thought that I would be one of those cool people who would wave their arms in the air, go WOOOOOOOOOOOooOOOOOOoooo! I couldn't have been more wrong.

It was the only ride with that had a loop video playing that instructed you how to hold on and the right way to sit. That should have been a very good hint.

I screamed for, maybe, the first 3seconds of the ride and then squeezed both my eyes and mouth tightly shut for the rest. Wafiy, who was sitting besides me, said he looked over to check why I was so quiet after the initial screams and wondered whether I had passed out or something (he's a veteran rollercoaster rider).

My fingers are growing cold now even as I think about it hahahahah my legs were damn shaky when we got off, and I felt like I didn't want to go on any of the other rides!! My whole body was aching from the G-force and I somehow lost my all my energy trying to stay in my seat.

But I'm really glad I pushed through because I enjoyed the rest and they weren't as scary (to me anyway).

Looked really scary at first, because though you were strapped into your seat, your feet were left hanging! Ended up being my favourite! Haha! One of the guys said we were hanging upside down at one point. It all went by too fast for me, no idea what happened.

After that, we went on the Batwing. I don't know the proper term for these kind of rides, but basically it just goes up and down. HAHA doesn't sound so scary right? Watching how fast it went up and came down before it was my turn on the ride freaked me out though. I really wanted to climb over the chains to get out of the line, and I could've. And I very most probably would've if it wasn't for Wafiy hahaha But again, I'm glad I didn't.

We finally had a late lunch around 2pm. Didn't eat earlier because we were worried that the lesser veterans, i.e. Afiq and I, would throw up our meals. Had a quick snack and joined the line for the 4D cinema experience.

Honestly, it was disappointing. It was just a shortened Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (which i haven't watched so this spoiled it for me) with 4D effects. Even the 4D cinema in A 'Famosa Resort in Melaka, Malaysia, was waaaaaaay cooler.


Our last ride, the Green Lantern!

"In brightest day, in blackest night,

No evil shall escape my sight.

Let those who worship evil's might,

Beware my power....

The Green Lantern's Light!"

Ngam ngam when we were on the ride waiting for it to start, the sun was shining directly into our eyes ah.

This ride was a different kind of terror. It was slow, so you could feel all the turns. There were two screwdrivers where you hung in the air upside down.

Actually, this was the last ride. But it was just a cart taking you through rooms where you shot at evil Starfish that clung to the heroes of the Justice League. In 3D and there were points recorded, so kinda fun! Hahahaha

With all the rides finally completed, we went around taking pictures.

Vavavoom Cat Woman.

Afiq didn't know who she was!! :O *gasp*

Harry Potter's shop!

Pretty cool. They sold Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. There were Boogers, Vomit, Earthworm, etc. Haha I wonder how they taste? Also saw Chocolate Frogs and their collectable cards.

Bought myself a strawberry sundae from Sweet Treats. Totally forgot about the Ben and Jerry's that I wanted to get :(

Walked around the Children's Section of the theme park....

.... with their own mini roller coasters. Can you see the tracks at the back over the carousel? 

MEEP MEEP!

YEAH I DID IT! I WENT ON ALL THE RIDES! WOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooOOOoooo!!!

Bought myself a memorabilia! A charm for all the rides I went on (except the one with Bugs and Lola Bunny la).

Wafiy and I were out of energy on the train ride back to City. On the other hand, Afiq seemed to be filled with it. Haha it was funny how things turned out. I was the one who was pestering him about promising to go on all the rides BEFORE we went to GC and he was worried because he's afraid of heights. So tabalek in the end. 

That's all folks!

Wish me luck & send me love.

Afiq and ANZAC Day

Afiq rushed his assignments so that he could fly up from Sydney to visit me! I hope he doesn't (not that I think he will hehee) flunk!

I showed him around UQ campus in the morning and in the after I had planned for us to take a walk in the Botanic Gardens and see the Sir Thomas Planetarium, ending the evening with a view from the top of Mt Coot-tha of the city lights.

Unfortunately, he was extremely hard to wake up from his short nap (we came home for about 45mins). Understandably he hadn't had a good sleep in more than 24 hours because he spent the whole night before finishing off his assignments and only packed his backpack 30 mins prior to the arrival of his taxi to catch his early morning flight at 6.30am.

So we missed the bus and didn't get to do the Mt Coot-tha summit lookout which was what I was really looking forward to showing him. The Sir Thomas Planetarium was still under refurbishment :(

We just walked in the gardens. There was a look out, but it wasn't as nice a view. The full moon could be seen even in the late afternoon over the city. It would have been MUCH nicer to see it from the summit lookout. Something I didn't let Afiq forget over the next hour haha

Finally! Someone to take pictures with:

hahahahha And OF:

So sporting of him!

We then had dinner in the city and went home after that, both extremely tired from lack of sleep.

A church. Need to find out what it's called.

That was yesterday, Wednesday. Today's a public holiday. ANZAC day! So we went down to the city to see the parade. As it turned out, we both wouldn't have bothered with waking up early for it if we didn't have each other for company. HAHA oh well. A worthwhile experience nonetheless.

So many people! I've never been in a train packed so full before!! It wasn't too crowded when I got on, but as the train stopped at stations and picked up passengers, it was soon so full everyone was shoulder to shoulder. A little weird to have kids at your crotch, but at least facing the other way.

People waiting for the parade to start:

The crowd was in high spirits and everyone was cheering the whole time for the war heroes and veterans. You could feel the people's pride that is just not as great back home. 

The parade went on for much longer than we expected so after about an hour and a half, we decided that we had had enough and went off to find some food.

Somewhere in the city. So pretty!

After that we took a bus to Fortitude Valley (the locals call it Valley).

My first time to China Town!

Chinese foooooooooddd. I couldn't think of what to buy though, so I didn't :(

Went home after that and SLEPT. Catching up on much needed sleep.

I had dinner at home while Afiq went out with his friends for halal food. It's not that I'm mean! Just that I didn't have halal meat at home and he doesn't eat vegetables AT ALL.

I'm really really glad the guys all came to hang out after their dinner. Four of them including Afiq. Hadn't had such nice company in a really long time haha so sad.

Will post up tmrw's if I'm not too tired.

Wish me luck & send me love! <3