A-Hurlin' The Clouds

Now either age has been playing up on us, or probably the fact that we'd only managed some 3 hours of sleep for the past two days (we think the former may be more likely, ack ack ack), but somehow we feel that we're more prone to motion sickness!

Well we know our limits in the first place. We've somehow outgrown carsickness and can read in the car with no problems (but not if said car ride was heading up Camerons or Frasers). We can do first-person shooter games like CounterStrike for...half hour? Fifteen minutes? We know better than to go for theme park rides that feature spinning around in circles such like that teacup rides where all one does is spin as much as possible.

Oh goodness, just imagining it makes us go wobbly. We don't have a cast-iron inner-ear vestibular system, and we don't go abusing our limits. It's not that we end up feeling dizzy with vertigo, but rather we get nauseated, our body temperature goes up and we get a wee bit tumbly in the tummy. And it puts us out of commision for a bit of time.

After all, there was this once during our final year when we went to the Blackpool Pleasure Beach with some coursemates, where we sat on one particular ride that had us sitting out of some 4-5 rides before we recovered. Lesson learnt.

So...Alex, Jin, Xav, Daemon, Junior, Chief and us took a day trip to Genting today, via some promotion where we only pay RM38 for the bus rides and cable car rides to and from Genting and an all-day all-theme park Adult ticket. Very much value for money. We'd left on the 10am bus, made our way up and made for the Outdoor Park rides while it was still cool and the sky still overcast.

Started off with the Spinner and then the Super Toboggan. The Spinner is fun and has been one of our favourites, while for the Super Toboggan we had to meet the weight requirements - the park ride operator had this weighing scale and would check everybody's weight before letting them through - and to our shock we've put on weight.

Horror.

From our steady 50-53kg, we're now some 56kg.

*ducks and runs away*

Okay, okay, so it isn't much but such weight isn't being evenly distributed! Without supervision this extra weight goes straight to the creation of a belly!

We digress. After the two rides we all head for the Pirate Ship next. Somehow, we've never tried that ride or anything similar to it before. We think we haven't mustered the courage before. :P However this time we didn't feel any apprehension as we queued up, and so we happily got on the ride and, thrill-seeker that we are, even made our way to the end of the boat rather than the middle.

Things went well - until some halfway through the ride. We're not too sure, to be honest, but we felt as if we were getting slightly seasick. Not a nice feeling but thankfully it was very mild. So after that we had to keep an eye out for our rides, should they cause us further motion sickness. Luckily for us it was mild, and we did get to take a break and do lunch after the Pirate Ship ride. No spew!

But asides from the Motion Master ride (Enchanted Castle was very disappointing) none of the other rides gave us cause to take flight to Watsons begging for a pharmacist to get us antiemetics, antipyretics and charcoal. Not any of the rollercoaster rides, not the Spinner (we rode that again!), definitely not the Rio Float nor the Monorail nor the Ferris Wheel.

Still, we think next time we think we shall start popping some Novomin before we embark on such trips. And gotta start stocking up on our meds stockpile, we should add in antiemetics and wakey-wakey to the inventory.