Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Part 4)

I hope to go on the cruise again in 2009 when I am about to go back to Australia. The only thing I really need on that trip now is company.

I'm really looking forward to doing it again. I remember during the cruise, while I was walking down one of the corridors telling myself, "This has been so wonderful, I don't know if I can leave." Then I could picture a very disturbing scenario where my mum and grandma are calling me to come down from my bunk in the room because it's time to go. While they do, I'll be hugging the pillow as I whimper in the corner screaming, "Naaaoooo!!!!! I don't want to go hooooome!!! I want to stay herrrreeee!!!! NaaaaoooO!!!!"

Sadly, that didn't happen. Sadly, I willingly stepped off the ship without any hassle, and without any force exerted on me. Something that I wish I hadn't done. Maybe I should have just done the above and screamed my lungs off from the 11th deck. People would be so shocked, they wouldn't know what to do because this 17 year old boy, cowering in the corner of a room is screaming his head off, demanding that he must stay on the ship. That would have been interesting because they could resort to using some animal nets to drag me out of the corner. Then an angry mob might start protesting against the use of the animal nets and create a whole new dramatic scene. Riot police will have to come in and start throwing tear gas, and the SWAT team may have to ensure that the terrorists on board the ship don't steal the Queen's jewels from the Captain's hat. Then the NASA scientists on board the ship would have to be muffled from their constant pestering that the world is gonna end. And can someone get Stephen Hawking to stop screaming, "We're all gonna die! We're all gonna die!"!? How annoying.

I think it would be better if I had left the ship on my own.

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We had dinner at another restaurant that night called the Pavilion. They only served chinese food but we weren't too fussed. After what we had at the Bella Vista, I think chinese food would be a very good choice.

Fortunately, it wasn't to disappoint. That meal that night was the best meal we had since coming on. We were all very impressed with what they gave us. It was either because the food was simply delicious, or what we had for lunch completely turned our taste-buds upside down and was begging for any type of food better than lunch. However, I believe it was because the food was simply delicious.

We had deep fried squid, spinach with abalone and sea cucumber, stir-fried chicken with vegetable and cashew nuts, deep fried prawns with the shell pried open in some batter, and seaweed with wanton mushroom soup.

Ok, the only reason why you don't see any pictures of these delicious food is because of one reason. It's because by the time I finished eating, I realised that I should have taken photos of the food and by then, it's way too late. Usually when I see food on the table, I can't think of anything else but eating it up. Especially when I'm hungry, rarely does anything else 'run' in my head but the word 'eat. Eat. Eat! EAT! EAT!!!!"

Anyway, we were so full because, did I mention that all the food on board (all the inclusive restaurants) were all buffet meals? So we were just ordering anything that we liked, and I liked a lot of things =P After that, we decided to go upstairs on deck to take some photos of the setting sun.

I dunno why this one was blurry. I think I was shaking too much from all the food from dinner. lol You know, all the food wanting to push its way out of my stomach, so there was a lot of force happening down under.

We had actually docked in Malacca that afternoon at 2pm, but I forgot to mention it. Around lunchtime, the ship started to vibrate considerably hard. All I thought in my mind during that time was, "watch the staff. If they panic, I panic." I watched every single one of them, but none of them seemed to react when it started shaking. So I just calmly returned to carving my lamb.

What actually happened was (and this was what my grandma told me) that the ship was actually 'pulling into' the dock sideways. So it was actually moving sideways to properly align itself with the dock in Malacca. Not sure if that is true because I didn't actually see it for myself. But that's the best explanation I have now, so I'm sticking with it.

The night sky was actually much darker than it looks in the picture above. The camera must have brightened up the picture quite a bit, and I thought the picture came out quite clear. I also have to comment that these glass panels along the sides of the ship was really a nice idea. It prevents people from getting thrown overboard, but it also allows people to take pictures through the panels. Plus, it makes great pictures when some amateur photographer like myself take shots like these.


Sadly, this was the best sunset picture I could take during the trip. There were too many clouds that day, I couldn't get very good shots at the sun. So this will have to do.

After having taking all these evening photos, I headed off to the arcade again to kill time. The movie was at 9:00pm, and I think it was 8pm when we went back in. I think I really had too much fun at the arcade shooting animated figures that I had to do it again.

I went in, and bought myself another 20 tokens to play with. You know, going into the arcade all alone, playing with tokens by yourself, one would think it would be fun to be able to do that. Strangely, it wasn't satisfying. It just wasn't much fun shooting people by yourself. I even contemplated putting in 4 tokens for one particular game, just so I could have two guns shooting at the same time - like how they do it in the movies where the main character raids through the enemy's base with two pistols, shooting at all the bad guys without getting hit; except I could have played with two rifles.

However, I didn't need to do that. This time, I saw someone playing Time Crisis and I decided to make it really obvious that I wanted to play with him. Actually, I just asked him if I could play with him, but he said, "Oh, I'm playing solo. Maybe next game." When he said that, I just stood behind him and watched him as he got shot. And every time he got shot, I couldn't help but be glad. So I hoped that he could get shot some more so I could play. lol I seriously did. In my mind, I was like, "Die! Die! Die! Yay! ^^"

After a few minutes, I got tired of waiting for him so I decided to play by myself. I went to get another 20 tokens in case I ran out while I was playing and had 2 tokens slotted in. When the screen came up to choose whether to play solo or linked. I was surprised cause he told me it was solo. So I chose linked, and I joined his game. As I did, he died.

He quickly ran off, and went to grab more coins. We continued playing, until he eventually died too many times that he ran out of coins. I asked him to take my coins to continue, but he said that he played too much and is tired. So I had to play solo again. Nevertheless, I completed the entire game and was satisfied with my victory over the final boss XD

I had 20 tokens left over after winning the game, and realised that I didn't actually need to get those extra 20 tokens. "Oh well, I'll just waste a bit of it on this airplane game that costs 6 tokens." I think the main reason why it costs to much was because the seat actually moved left and right whenever you fly the plane. Other than that, the game was crap and I didn't last 5 minutes.

I thought the game was a complete rip off. Unhappy, I left the arcade to go to the cinema. In actual fact, the newsletter for the cruise stated that the show at 9pm was the Breakup, and in all honesty, I wanted to go see that. When I got to the cinema, they were showing the Da Vinci Code. Something I didn't actually want to watch. But it was too late now. I had opened the door to the cinema, and everyone was looking at me. I had to go in. "Oh well, let's just watch it for fun." I thought to myself.

It finished at 11:15pm and by then, I was pretty beat. I went to the gym, aqua pool, parthenon pool, jacuzzi, then climbed 10 decks for fun and for exploration sake that day, I was entitled to being tired. Out of my entire body, my chest was taking the most beating. So I decided to just take it easy and go back to the room to prepare to sleep.

When I got back, I stumbled upon a Malaysian TV channel that was broadcasting wrestling. WWE Smackdown! to be more exact. They were showing one episode 2 weeks back, so I kinda knew what was gonna happen. Not too exciting. Nevertheless, it was great to watch people mercilessly pound each other like a piece of meat. It has been a while since I last seen it happen in action. Awesome stuff.
It finished at 12am, and I decided to just surf the TV a little bit more. It flicked to Miss Congeniality 2. That went for 15 minutes as I got tired and had it turned off. Then, it was pitch black.

To be continued...

This is me doing the sexy.