Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Y 11:52 PM
Our six hours on Tuesday 13th March 2007, was spent in a bus all the way to A’Famosa, Malacca. As soon as the ten Sec 2s and twelve Sec 3s gathered together with our two OCs, Mr Chng Eng Peng and Mr Terence Leong, we boarded the bus and began our ride to Malacca. We were loaded with many gadgets like food, MP3s, handphones and poker cards and entertained ourselves easily.
Lunch was held at KFC and the food there was very different.they had bigger pieces of chickens, different set of meals and had cheesy wedges instead of cheesy fries. Furthermore, the food is so much cheaper!
Finally reaching A’Famosa at 1430 hrs, we went our separate ways in a Banana Truck to Villa D’Faro, where Sec 3s occupied bungalow 802 with Mr Leong and bungalow 800 for Sec 2s with Mr Chng. The ride in the Banana Truck was so fast aand there was no doors but chains at the side. But the Banana Truck however never looked like a banana, just a truck. We were given an hour rest at our respective bungalows and explore whatever was in the bungalow.
Each bungalow had a mini swimming pool parked outside like a Jacuzzi, four rooms one living hall, two toilets connected to two rooms and one small kitchen with not much appliances in it. We just didn’t get why the ceiling was made to be so high up. Located in each room wad also air conditioners and television sets for some rooms. We rested, bathed, enjoyed the comfort of the television sets and then headed for Cowboy Town at 1530hrs.
What other better mode of transport than the Banana Truck. It took us to Cowboy Town located quite far away from our bungalows in about ten to fifteen minutes only. Right outside stands a huge bronze statue of a cowgirl in a seductive pose another statue of a cowboy on a horse at the entrance. Where else to start our fun than at the bowling alley!
We were given two free games and teamed up in groups of four. The first round was like a test drive and the second a mini competition. Who won? I forgot. The funniest part of the whole game was that a bird was leaving in the alley and flew around the place once we started to play. I do remember that Mr Chng played fairly well so as Vikneshwaran, Helmi and Mr Leong. Obviously there were a lot of lucky strikes by most of us and havoc fun was entirely present in there. We played for a good two hours before leaving for dinner at Huang di Restaurant, a Chinese restaurant but halal.
We were served with Chinese tea, seafood soup, and various kinds of side dishes like sweet and sour fish and spicy chicken. The dinner ended quick and another two hours was given to us to roam around the area only.
A few of my friends and I had a lust for bowling and went to enjoy it some more. We played so much that we missed the Red Indian Show at experienced pain on our poor fingers. We slowly rushed our way to the Carnival Street, going in and out of the Shopping Village and were in time for the carnival. There was a parade of animals, cowboys, red Indians and dancers. The carnival ended off with a big bang of beautiful fireworks. It had an array of colours and patterns and will be your downfall if you came to Cowboy Town without witnessing the fireworks.
The first day there ended just like that and we headed back to our bungalows in the none other fast moving Banana Truck. The rest of the night was spent in our own rooms.
The early took off with a trip to the Clubhouse for a buffet breakfast. Since it was a buffet, we took a few refills and headed to our next destination to Animal World.
Again we had two hours for free roaming. We went for a tour around an enclosed part of the zoo in a ‘caged’ truck. Another downfall if you miss this tour too. We were filled up with excitement as animals were seen every few meters we go by. Not to forget animal dung was around too and one of them looked like grapes. Obviously there was a lot of filming and the coolest animals were the sun bear cubs and lions/tigers. The cubs easily attracted us tourists with their cute actions like sitting up showing their white patch on their chests and begging for food which then led to the stealing of stealing their own siblings share of food. The ride ended with a ‘roller coaster’ ride where there was a steep slope going down and a boulder in the middle of the track at the bottom of the slope.
We then went straight for the elephant show after alighting from the ride. The elephants proudly welcomed us to their show by putting one of their front legs over the other. Entertainment was next. They showed us what they were capable of with their acts. There was soccer, basketball, painting and massaging two of the audiences. The audiences also started to give them treats, bamboo sticks. They accepted it with proud and gulp them down like nothing. They were also given money, but they grabbed it with their trunks and passed it to their tamers sitting on top of them.
Other places that we ventured to in the zoo were the Chicken Farm (where different types of chickens were present), Monkey Island (where at small bumboat transported us to a small island filled up with species of monkeys) and zoo walkthrough.
Noon marked our end at the A’Famosa Resort and we headed out to Giant for a short shopping trip. The rest was accompanied by sleeping to our way back to our island homeland, Singapore.
I have to say that the trip was really fun and enjoyable and I did not regret coming to this trip at all with my friends and teachers.
Daud the idiot. =D
