Note: Since I am notoriously lazy when it comes to taking pictures, most of the pictures here are shamelessly stolen from Carol’s blog.
Ok ok my new year resolution is to go on a holiday this year! It’s been quite a while since I’ve managed to get away on a good long holiday and now’s as good a time as any to plan ahead. My dad used to work in Singapore Airlines so my childhood was a very lucky one. Every year my family got free tickets to a destination of our choice. Sometimes we’d eat mostly instant noodles there but hey I got to see a lot of places my friends didn’t: New Zealand (I dream of retiring there), Australia, the USA, England, Canada etc. He used to tell me I’d regret it when he retired and we no longer had this opportunity. I didn’t think much of it then but boy do I get what he meant now!
Hopefully I’ll be able to go to these places again someday. I’m thinking of starting off small though. Mysimplifieds.com has this Bargain Tuesday thing where they come up with a great deal every Tuesday for a limited time. Some time back it was a 3D2N 5-star hotel stay at Anantara Si Kao, Krabi, Thailand for a very good price. I snapped it up immediately!
That’s going to be my destination for this year.
If there’s one place on earth I’d like to go to again though, it’d be Disneyland.
Call me childish but there’s really no place like it. I was looking at Carol’s Tokyo Disneyland pictures and it got me really nostalgic.
I went to Sunway Lagoon recently – it was o-kay, but when I went for the Scream Park I got really disappointed. Despite the banners proclaiming “PRISON BREAK” and “NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM” what you really got was cheap props and a bunch of part-time students going up to you and yelling “boo!” (no kidding!). I couldn’t help remembering the Haunted Mansion, I won’t spoil it but suffice to say I can still remember parts of it even though it’s been a decade since I was there. Ditto for Genting which was even worse, they actually charged an extra RM10 to ride a “simulator” that had something like 200×150 resolution, 8-bit graphics and the motion didn’t even sync with the screen! What a rip-off. I still remember going on Disneyland’s Star Tours and how very impressed I was with it.
Of course it’s not just about the rides there. Even if you’re grown up there’s just something about that place, the sheer detail put into every aspect of the park from the rides to the performances, to the decor, and the cast.
Going to the Magic Kingdom again is my long-term goal for the next few years, now I just gotta save up for it!
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