Gold Coast : Day 2 - Certified Tower of Terror!

At Gold Coast, day started at 5am. It was as shiney as 7am in M'sia. We woke up and I cooked scrambled eggs (ya, I'm the house chef). We ate it with bread. We looked out the balcony, we saw beach! SOOOO REFRESHING! Wave sound? Don't have to mention. We can hear it from our apartment. It was good to see it from the top! So we discussed not to take shower and straight away dipped ourselves in the ocean! Hahaha! We brought towels and goggles along, walked down the apartment through the garage. (Goggles? Hahaha! Expectation was high at this moment!) With surfer's attire, we walked out from the apartment.

Once we reached the basement, we saw one garbage lorry in the middle of collecting garbage. The lorry was quite special as the bar came from the back, ran on top of the lorry head, and pick up the trunk. Not like what we have in M'sia, where the bar is at the back, and when the garbage falls down, no one notice it! Hahaha! Then we walked towards the beach for about 5 minutes. The good thing along Gold Coast beaches is, every inter-houses or buildings, got access to the beach. But not for cars ok. And certain access got shower and its free! WOW! A good way of educating people to not bringing sands on the road huh? We then reached the beach and took pictures. The beach was awesome! Long and wide! SO BEAUTIFUL! We can even see the curve of the beach towards the Surfer's Paradise town!

“Let's run!” KECEBUSHHHH! We ran into the water!

“OMGODDDDDDD! IT'S COLDDDDDDDDD!” HAHAHA!! Yup, the water was cold! The wave was strong! At last, we felt the salty Gold Coast's beach!

There were lots of people swimming and surfing. ALONG THE BEACH! Regardless how fat they are, they know how to swim and surf! So no question asked! To see them in bikinis or sweatsuit, young or old, wasn't an issue at all! (Yup, Most of Aussies are fat and not so pretty...BUT, some of them were really beautiful and handsome!) While swimming, we can feel the strong wave, pushing us to the sand. It looked normal but it was nasty actually. At first we tried to fight the wave by walking backwards but it wasn't a good idea as it pushed us even harder. Hahaha! Lucky the beach was quite shallow. Until we can see ourselves far away from the sand, we stopped. The far we went, the weaker the wave.

So we continued swimming a bit far from the beach and we found one trick on how to fight the waves. Whenever the waves came, we dive underneath it! So the force not as strong as on the water! And if you were lucky enough, you could see fishes as well! (Please pray not to see sharks!) The water was darn clear! And fishes played around your feet, just like that! (Hmm...we thought of caught few and fried them hehehe!) But believe me, you can never catch them! Everyone had a good swim except for Mona. We tried so much posed including jumping, laying on the beach and what not. Anything! Hahaha! Then we saw one beach patrol car in red and yellow color headed to us. He parked right in front of us and went out from the car. He shouted to us but we can't barely hear what he was trying to tell us. But we quickly understood that something was not right, we sensed DANGER!

Without any hesitation, we straight away got on the beach. In our mind, nothing else other than sharks! The beach patrol then planted a sign “Dangerous. Do not swim. Please swim between the flags.” Oooo...it wasn't shark...it was the current. Of all the places, the place that we swam was the most dangerous? Hahaha! We looked around, not far from our place, people still enjoying their swimming. Since we had to walk further up just to "swim between the flags", we decided to go back. On the way back, all guys took of their shirts, imitating the locals. One thing that differed them were their tummies. Hahaha!

We thought of going up straight to the room. But hell notttttt! We looked around, there was no management, so we quickly sneaked into the swimming pool and jumped in! We squeezed ourselves in the small pool and can't even do breaststroke or butterfly or freestyle! Hahaha! The we started to do funny things like hold our breath underwater, who got best pose, who better in doing hand stand, rhythmic swimming, and many more! Hahaha! Until we can't stop trembling, then only we went back to our room. We took bath and got ready to go to DREAMWORLD! And today, Cawan drove the car, but still, I was the map reader (from the back seat hahaha!)

Since yesterday we used the same highway, we had no issue finding it. We drove through the Gold Coast Highway, took Pacific Midway, and used the same direction to the Movieworld (it was the same road to Brisbane.) It was easy to locate Dreamworld as it just further up from Movieworld. Along the way, we snapped few photos of Aussie lorries and we weren't sure why Meor and Zam loved them very much. They were kind of nice, some just like what we seen in Transformers. And the most funny part, they had their own choice of car number. We saw few like Dolce, Filmer, Hitman and PukII hahaha! Most outstanding, Surfer. Nice car!

When we reached at Dreamworld, we parked our car at the parking area. We saw one Bentley with plate no. IT GURU! Hahaha! Nice huh? There was one helicopter flying around and flew just right above us. Wow! How much to ride it? Nevermind, we went in first. As usual, we took group pictures at the entrance. Next to this place, there was WhiteWaterWorld. We can see roller coasters from outside, big tubes with many loops! It looked amazing! But, we passed the water thingy. That "high" pole that we can see from the highway was more "extreme" to try! So we went in!

As expected, we quickly spotted the "high" pole. It was Tower of Terror. Using the same pole, there was another ride called Giant Drop. From afar, we can clearly heard people screaming, and the coaster, it was like jet taking off! So loud! We sat down for a while and looked how it works.

“OMG! That IS SCARY! But can we try?!”

“Let's go!”

Hell no, we walked around first. In the middle, there was one round of water fountain, which surrounded by colorful shops. Exactly fulfill the needs of deriving a theme park. From this area, we can see another big thrill ride, Wipeout. It was like sitting on the seat and it shakes you left and right and make a mess with your hair. Hahaha! We should try it...later. Haha! Then we went to see Mona's boyfriend, from Nickelodeon Central, guess who?

"SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!!! SPONGBOB SQUAREPANTS!!!”

Hahaha...we managed to watch the show which actually for kids. There was a pirate, stupid but pretty assistants, and we felt exactly like underwater with flying bubbles around us. So beautiful! And when they played the song, every kids including us, stood up, sang and danced. But too bad, Mr. Squid and Mr.Crab weren't there to join Spongebob and Patrick. The show ended with pairs of daddy and kid, changing costume. Well, at lease, Mona satisfied! Haha!

While walking in that area, one staff brought one cub. It was sooo cute and rolled over the places. There was a ride in cave but it was mainly for kids. Then we took picture at Log Ride but since it used water and we did try it at Sunway Lagoon, we skipped it. We continued walking to the Tiger Island, where we saw one bigggggggg tiger statue at the entrance. When we went in, there was one big tiger sleeping under the tree. Then the staff brought out one big white tiger and it played in a pond, along with another yellow tiger that played nearby the waterfall. It was quite scary seeing the staff walking side by side with that big tiger. Eeeeiiiii!

I“Tower of Terror!” It was the time for us to try!

Haaaaaa…once we entered the tower, there was one big red eyes skull! So you have to walk through its mouth to get to the ride. This time, hubby chose to join! But not Mona. She took all our bags and cameras and wait at the seating outside. Not so many queued and we saw one door at the upper level. The scene in this tower was exactly like shaft mines. Dark and gloomy. While queuing, we started to curse ourselves. Only God knows how scared we were! The sound of the coaster taking off, OMG! We were an inch away of backing off but we really wanted to try this ride! The feeling was a bit different when we rode Superman Escape in Movieworld. So we stayed.

There were 2 doors, 4 person per door. The operator opened the steel bar and we went in. Once we sat, we started to say prayer. Hahaha! The shoulder bar then went down, tightened! At this very moment, we had no idea where to hold as the operator didn't allow us to hold any part of the coaster. And the leg room, was really small!

ZUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPP!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! 

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!! 

The first straight line was SUPER FAST! IT WENT UP 90 DEGREES! IT STOPPED FOR A SECOND AND IT FELL BACKWARD!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

HAHAHA! But this time, we let lose our hands and screamed yeahhhhhhhhhh! We've made it! And you know what? The speed was the same as F1 speed! So now we knew what does it feel, DARN FAST AND FURIOUS! And for your info, Tower of Terror is one of the 6 Big Thrills at Dreamworld. So we have another 5 to go! Woohoo!

We thought of riding The Giant Drop (the same track at different side of Tower of Terror) BUT WE DIDN'T DARE TO TRY! It was a 120m free fall, just like Batman Spaceshot in Movieworld, but this one higher! I bet the scenery from up there was marvelous but no, thanks! Hahaha! I wouldn't want to scare myself and leave my lung up there. Hehe!

Then we walked to the right side of the theme park. At this side, there was World of Wildlife. Like other theme park, we were given a map for guide. There was rail crossing but we didn't have chance to try one.

“EH KANGAROOOOOOOOO!!!”

We headed straight to the kangaroos, but not the close, afraid of being kicked. Haha! But we saw few visitors rubbed them gently and those kangaroos were very well behaved. So we got closed to them and squatted. We tried to touch its head first, and we got good response. So we touched its body, again, it didn't move or do anything. It didn't look mad at all. So we quickly sat next to it, laid next to it, took pictures as much as we can! Once in my life time, I had kangaroos sat before me! Same to the rest, though they still contemplated to touch the kangaroos, they still tried. I looked back, saw one kangaroo dug a hole, I thought it wanted to poopoo, but it squeezed its body into the hole and slept! Hahaha! It must be hot in here.

Not far from us, lots of kangaroos slept under the trees. We had so much fun snapping their photos. Well, first timer, what do you expect. Then we continued our journey to the koala area. Again, for the first time, I was overjoyed to see koalas in front of my eyes! Even there were only two of them! They were so cute!!! But to bad they didn't faced us. And not moving at all. Just sat on the branch, looked back. If they faced us, they just scratching here and there, so still, we can't capture good photos of them. We looked at the counter, to cuddle the koala, they charged AUD15 per photo. So we passed it and just took photos from far.

Enuff with koala that wouldn't want to pose nicely, we walked further up. There was one wooden bridge with waterfall and jungle at the surrounding. There was peacocks, swans, black parrot, and ducks too. We snapped few pictures and walked further up. I started to jump around when I saw tazmanian devil! Cute! But it just slept all day long. Next to it, we saw pademelon, that looked like wallaby. There was one black swan that arrogantly flapped its wings nearby. Hahaha! I don't get it lah! Almost all flying animals had tags on their feet. Easy to be recognized, maybe. In between of the huts, we saw more sleeping koalas on the branches. I wondered how they didn't easily fall huh? Haha!

While laughing at those koalas, hubby's batteries fell down in the cage! OMG! How do we take them back??? We started to think fast and got one idea. We wanted to jump into the cage, but we afraid that people might see us doing so. Since Cawan was the tallest among all, he bended his body, we hold his back, he stretched his hand and tried to take the batteries! And he got it! Thanks Cawan! We owe you! Then we quickly went into the nocturnal animals areas but hell no, we didn't see anything inside there! But we did saw few animals like snakes, rats, and squirrels. So we didn't bother to check the rest.

Then we continued to the other side of the park. We felt hungry so we looked at the map, there was one "halal" resto called Billabong Restaurant. We walked at the swamp side and it was huge and beautiful. I bet there were crocodiles in there! Hahaha! We reached the resto and looked at the buffet price. Too expensive, so we skipped it. We walked and continued snapping pictures, and passed by the crocodiles area. There were two types of crocs in Australia, and amazingly, one of it is the salt water crocs! OMG! Surfer's Paradise beach started to ring a bell...what if we met one there??? Can you imagine that? NOOOOOO! We quickly walked away from that place and skipped the croc show as well.

There was one food stall nearby. We bought salad, chocs and drinks. Nice! We stayed for a while and walked back to the car. This time we passed by Worlds of Classics where we tried to find something that cool and not scary rides. Meanwhile, we snapped lots and lots of pictures and we did have fun like hell! Then we saw antique/vintage cars in 50's era. 4 persons per car, so we hopped in to cars. The car moved on its rail, so we just need to pedal the brake and fuel. We laughed and took many pictures as we made fun of each others. And everyone was taking photos so no one was ready and said cheese! Haha!

When we turned back, we passed by the kangaroo area but this time, we saw red kangaroos! They were huge and masculine! No fur, exactly like siamese cat! Haha! There were dingos too (desert dogs). We continued walking and took more photos until we reached the Log Ride back. At this point, everyone was pointing to each other whether we should ride it or not. At the end, only hubby and Meor jumped in. We waited next to the gate and Cawan pointed to one spot where we can later take hubby and Meor's picture, when the log dived into the water. About 20 minutes of waiting, we finally saw them at the top of the Log Ride, waiting to dive in. Kecebushhhhhh!!! Hahahaha! The water splashed on their face and we all laughed. When they passed us by, I saw the ride seat was made of cushion! Wah! Better than what we have in Sunway Lagoon!

Another big thrill that we tried was Mick Doohan’s Motocoaster. We looked back the root to Tower of Terror and lucky there weren't so many people queued there. Even the Arabian women in "jubah" and "hijab" rode the ride ok! Hahaha! The ride was actually in two forms of motorcycle, either motorcycle with sidecar, or single 500cc. This time, there was waist bar at the back. So this bar will forced you to the front and locked you in.

Red! Yellow! Green!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! EEEEOOOOONNNNGGGG!!! LAJUNYERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

OMG! THE CORNER? IT WAS REAL! YOUR HEAD FELT SUCKED DOWN! UP! DOWN! LEFT! RIGHT! THEN WE REACHED THE END! HAHAHA! THAT WAS HELL OF FUN!

Once we stepped down, we took our bags and shoes and walked ahead to the Thunder River Rapids. The place was called Wild Wild West. Got jail and place where they tortured the prisoners. The was a hole at the side, like prisoner dug it to escape from the jail. So we played good cop bad cop there and snapped lots of photos there. Hubby and I even drastically posed as lovers who got separated for years. Hahaha! We then tried the Thunder River Rapids since the queue wasn't too long. Enough for 6 of us, we hopped into a floating buoy. All bags were kept in the middle of the buoy and the buoy flown down the stream. The water came from above, side, with splashed of here and there, and we played who got the most wet. And guess who? Na and Cawan! Hahaha! She even had water in her pants! And the winner were hubby and I. Hehe!

We stepped down an saw Na and Cawan's butt still wet. In front of the Gold Rush, there was one big fan. So both of them stuck their butts to get them dried. Haha! Not long after, we started to get hungry again. We looked for foodcourt and still had the same menu, ceaser salad and fish & chips. While eating, there was one heron (large bird) walked by. Haha! From there, we walked to the Wipeout, fastest vertical ride in the world, not moving. They wanted a full seats of 20, then only they will run it. Stupid huh? So we had to skip the ride. We then headed to Flow Rider and saw two staffs, young boy and girl, demonstrating their surfing skills. Awesome! Looked easy! But I bet, we can never do that! Haha! Then we looked at the right,

“THE CLAW!!!” 

“LET'S TRY!!!” 

“Eh where's the rest?” Na, Mona and Cawan weren't there.

So hubby, Meor and I queued for it. This Claw was ring shaped and swing 360 degrees and reached zero gravity as high as 9-storey building! Haaaaaaaaaa! Crazy huh? We sat around the ring, with dangling feet. We looked down and saw the floor started to open and the Claw SPINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNED!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

DIZZYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

I EVEN LIFTED UP MY FEET, AFRAID TO GET SMASHED ON THE FLOOR! HAHAHA! SCARY OK! BUT ACTUALLY THE CLAW'S FLOOR WAS ACTUALLY LOWER THAN WHAT WE'VE EXPECTED. THE BEST PART WAS WHEN WE WERE UPSIDE DOWN! I WAS WEARING SKIRT OK! LUCKY I WORE TIGHTS UNDERNEATH IT! HAHAHA!

While we on top, Cawan snapped our photos and each of our faces looked so terrible and scared! Hahaha! Once we got down, we asked them where did they go. Mona actually wanted to take pictures with her hero, Spongebob. She was so happy coz she can hug and kiss him. And there was baby Rugrats too! Even the pirate knew them as they were the only two who wore scarf. We thought of trying Cyclone, but it was already late. Cyclone is the tallest high speed gravity roller coaster in Southern Hemisphere! Don't play-play ha! Then we walked to the exit and along the way we stopped by at certain places to snap some pictures, including putting hubby's head in shark's mouth that turned to be hubby having shark's head. Hahaha! We actually did ask few locals to snap our group pictures but all of them turned out to be shaky and blurry. Hmph! At the end, Meor went to the car and grabbed our tripod, came back to us, and voila, we had nice group pictures.

We got into our car and headed to Surfer's Paradise. Along the way we stopped at one Indian restaurant that offered "halal" curry. But only hubby and Meor bought it, while the rest planned to cook. We later went to Woolworths and bought few needed things. We also stopped at the famous night market at Surfer's Paradise. We wanted to get fridge magnets and what not. We had to make 3 rounds at Surfer's Paradise Boulevard in order to find free parking which we couldn't find one. So we just parked somewhere around there and walked.

“WHAT??? ONLY THIS???” Unbelievably dissatisfied!

The night market was more to artsy thingy. No fridge magnets at all! We can't even take any photos there! There was one time where this one local women chased me for taking her booth photo! Hahaha! Why so difficult? Next time, just put "No Picture", that's all she needs to do! I did not buy anything but Na bought one scented koala. We both then bought one leathery dried fruit and it tasted good! Anyhow I didn't manage to finish it. We ended the night by taking pictures at the Surfer's Paradise landmark but the pictures turned out to be not so great as too many people crossing by.

We got home and cooked. As usual, I was the cook and this time we cooked macaroni soup. We put almost everything in there, even the black pepper that Na took from don't no where. We also bought chili sauce and guess what, Aussie didn't eat chili sauce, they just eat tomato sauce. Not a fan of spicy I guess. After we took bath, we watched TV and discussed about tomorrow. Ciao!

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Gold Coast : Day 1 - Superman Rules!

Ok, let's skip how I got on cab to LRT Bukit Jalil, switched to Monorail Hang Tuah, stopped at KL Sentral, with bags in hand, crossed over to the terminal and made one round just to skip the construction area, rested at MAS area for a while, bought bun and ate it, met Na and her hubby, walked down to the SkyBus depot, waited for Meor who wrongly got hopped onto a different bus, reached LCCT and queued in a super long queue to check-in, got on board in super large Air Asia X that turned to be very small and over-crowded for an eight hours journey, and we FINALLY reached "the land of queen", Queensland.

Once we stepped down from the plane, we snapped few pictures at the tarmat. Looking around, not much different with Jogjakarta's Airport! Outback, simple and ol-skool. Haha! But before we landed, we can see the beautiful seas and beaches and I can't wait to enjoy them! I loike beaches! Right after we passed through the immigration, we straight away went out and waited for our rental car. We agreed to met him at 8am but we touchdown an hour later. While waiting, we looked around and found that we were so different than locals, where they were just wore as minimum as they can, while we were wrapped with sweaters and what not. Hahaha! We thought that it would be cold down here but who knows, it was summer at that time. Just like what we had back home, 25-28 degrees!

We then thought that we have been conned by the car rental service coz we waited for almost an hour, before hubby changed for coins to call them. Then came one BIG and TALL Aussie, with display card in hand, stated hubby's name. Hahaha! He told us that he actually came at 8am but we weren't there, so he went back and planned to come back later. He then picked up one BIG van and took us to town. During this trip to town, we saw GC was not much different to Singapore. Except for their small and cute houses, and English-written signboards made us felt far away from home. Basically, their houses were built with the same grayish brick-shaped, no funny and striking colors, unlike back home which you freely painted your home in blue, green, red, or even orange! Hahaha! The most outstanding thing was the Koala Crossing signboards! We were so excited even there was no Koala crossing the road! Hahaha!

Once we reached the car rental shop, we saw one new Estima that we've ordered (bleargh! You wish!) After a bit of negotiation, we got ourselves a very old Estima Tarago (jaw dropped!) Since the car was quite old, we asked for a cheaper price, as per advertised in the internet. And we got it! So she swiped a bond (around AUD250), recorded down any scratches and dents, then only we dumped in all our bags and went off. The very first driver was as usual, hubby, while second driver was Cawan, Na's hubby. Don't you guys want to know who was the map reader? None other than noted motion-sicker, ME!

With our very own "tour cookbook", along with pamphlets and brochures from the car rental, we headed to MOVIEWORLD! Yeahhhhaaaa! Yup! Why? Owh, yes, we didn't take shower and changed clothes...and the check-in time for our rented apartment was at 2pm! SO YES, WE DIDN'T CARE at that time! So Movieworld, here we comeeee!

We found it quite easy with GC's road coz the directions weren't ridiculous at all. With map in hand and signboards along the way, we can easily spotted Movieworld from far. We just knew which way to go and at the same time, hubby did some homework with google maps and everyone knows that google maps DID give a detail instruction to go to particular places. Left, right, km, everything is in placed. But yeah, the original and actual map that was given by the car rental was better. So from town, we took GC Highway, then turned to Pacific Midway, and straight to Movieworld. Wasn't that easy??? At the same board, we saw Wet & Wild World and this place was just next to the Movieworld. So from the highway, you can actually see that Wet & Wild World, before you can see the Movieworld.

But we had no interest to play with water at all! Movieworld was more into our adrenalin and too many rides that we had to try, the fastest, the spookiest, and what not. We looked up and saw no sun. We were fine with gloomy but please, not rain. Since it was too cloudy that morning, most of our pictures weren't at their best. BUT we still snapped pictures here and there, including the signboards! Hahaha! We didn't want to miss a thing! Then we got in. Na and her hubby bought their entrance ticket online, which was cheaper by AUD2-5. While the rest, queued and got our ticket with AUD69.90 (you can do the math by multiplying to 2.5). So, skip some rides AREN'T a good idea at all, right???

We didn't stop taking pictures from the minute we went in. Crazy! Hahaha! The first thing that we saw was Batwing Spaceshot and Superman Escape, which one was so highhhhhhhhh and one was so fasttttttttttt! We stopped and thought twice. Both were scary but still, we need to try them. So we took pictures with Batman Mobile (the black color) even the place smelled horrible! Not sure why! Hahaha! Then we thought of trying the Batwing Spaceshot but looking at it, it was not much different than Spaceshot at Genting. So we skipped it as we thought it didn't make any different...(yeah right, loser!) So we moved on to Superman Escape!

We saw the highest track and got chickened out! People were screaming hysterically! We decided to try but hubby suddenly told me that he got migraine and didn't want to take the ride. Hahahaha! What a lame excuse! Since I don’t want to miss one of THE FASTEST RIDE in the world, I keep my word. Me, Na, Mona, Cawan, and Meor started to queue. Many kids didn't go through the check point since their height were lower than the supposed-height, but they still tried their best to get passed. And so, it was the time for our turn. There were steel doors at every rows. One door, four persons, two front, two at the back. It was about 20 persons per ride. Once seated, the machine lowered the shoulder bar and tightened the waist bar.

Coaster moving...

Super slow..

Passed by all zig-zag tracks...saw King Kong...subway lockers trembling like earthquake and Manhattan started to caos...patrol cars up side down...subjects ran here and there...and suddenly we heard Superman's voice!

“Don’t worry…I’ll push you right away and………………..fastttttttt!”

ZUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPP!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

OH MY GODDDDDDDDD! FAST LIKE SHITTTTTTTTTTTT! I SWEAR TO GOD IT WAS SUPER FAST! UP SIDE DOWN HERE AND THERE AND SUDDENLY FINISHED! LIKE HUH??? WHERE WAS I JUST NOW???

The ride was actually 100km per hour in 2 seconds!!! OMG! I felt like my heart and lung left behind. Hubby who was outside, waiting to snap our picture, can't even did so! Coz he didn't know where we sat and it was too fast to know where we were and out of a sudden, we already reached the stop. Hahaha! Once we got down, all of us were trembling like hell! All faces went blue and we were speechless! Hahaha! BUT IT WAS HELL OF FUN! With empty stomach, skipped shower (but we did touch up a bit), we went for this ride, we declared this ride as "THE RIDE OF THE DAY"!

Then we started to walk around. We headed to the Kids area a.k.a Warner Bros Kids & Looney Tunes. While walking, we stopped at some places, which among them were Shrek 4D Adventure. Looking at the show time, we were at the right place. So we went in. Such a beautiful place in green color. At the entrance, we were given 4D spectacles each. EXACTLY like what Stevie Wonder is wearing. Hehe! We wore it. The place was huge and dark. Even darker with the 4D specs that we wore which we were not supposed to wear yet. Haha! There was a waiting hall for all audience, where we saw three TVs with three pigs, hanging and dangling on the wall, with Talking Mirror and one big screen. They talked to each other and moved left and right. Cute!

Buttttttt it was too long till everyone got bored! Then only they opened the cinema doors and we got in. There was one big screen and it was dark. They started to play a modified Shrek's movie and it was sooooo beautiful when all things that you watched came into live! Everything was glittering, floating, and you thought you can "touch" them but you can't! So the story was to save Princess Fiona and we found it funny but sad, when she had one carriage in "onion" shaped! Hahaha! As usual, while watching the movie, everything moved along with our seats. The most interesting scene was when Shrek sneezed, where we can feel the water sprinkled to our face! Eeewwww! Hahaha! Then when there was spiders in the movie, we can feel it on our feet! Guess what? We did slap our own feet to make those spiders went away! Hahaha! Once it's finished, with lights on, we saw the sprinkler at the back of the front seats, as well as below our seats. So that was where the secret lied.

We then wanted to try Lethal Weapon but they ride was closed. Looking at the picture, the ride seemed fun as you were seated and hanging. Perghhh! It would be awesome if we can try it! Next to Shrek 4D, there was a Hollywood Stunt Driver. Looking at the screen, it looked fun and there was a new Lancer being featured. So we went in. There was staggered stairs where everyone can sit and see the stunt. There was a big screen in front of us too, for a clearer view. The set was full with buildings and tars, and we can see two cameras shooting at them, exactly like in the making of a movie. There were host, directors, and the whole bunch of production team. Suddenly we went hilarious as we saw Cawan's face in the big screen! Haha!

Out of nowhere, suddenly we heard...

SCREEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTT!!! SCREEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTT!!!

WOW! ONE BLACK PATROL CAR (POLIZIA) WENT OUT! THEN ANOTHER 2-3 CARS FOLLOWED! COPS CHASING BAD GUY IN RED AND WHITE STRIPED CAR! DRIFTED HERE AND THERE! SPINNING AROUND AND WENT STRAIGHT AWAY INTO PARKING SLOT! EVERYTHING WENT SO FAST! WOW! AMAZING!

During the intersection, there was one clown, who acted as the mechanic cum nephew to the producer. He was actually a bench-warmer who wanted to act and get involved but don't know how to act. So he became the stupid funny guy, who later drove that new lancer AND DID AMAZING STUNT! HAHAHAH! And the patrol car got slashed into two but still running on the track! How did they do that?!

Then there was one scrambler, also one of the bad guy, went onto fire! (The fire started when a police officer shot smeared petrol in front of the petrol station.) Right after shooting scene ended, we saw in the big screen that two patrol cars chasing one bad guy's car IN A BUILDING! (It was recorded but the timing was perfect!) It looked original! And suddenly...

KABBOMMMMMMM!!!

THE RED AND WHITE STRIPED CAR RAMPED ONTO THE WALL, BROKE THE WALL, JUMPED TO THE NEXT BUILDING, RAMPED ONTO ANOTHER WALL, KABBOMMMMMMMM, EXPLOSION!!!

AND WE FELT THE FIRE! WOAAA!

So we concluded, the split patrol car just now, WASN'T the one that drifting since the beginning. As well as the bad guy's car that jumped over, WASN'T the one that running from the police down there before the end of the show. Whatever it was, THIS SHOW RAWKS!

We went out and walked around the Movieworld's souvenir shop. Lots of things being sell there and I was quite contemplating to buy or not to buy it's t-shirt. We then moved on to another part of Movieworld and saw one grave, which we didn't know who was it for. We felt hungry and stopped to discuss. The most "halal" food that we can eat was seafood, and that was Fish and Chips in Batman Restaurant. Lucky we shared, as the portion were enough for two! While eating, we enjoyed some intermission show from Scooby Doo, Marilyn Monroe, and Batman. We just snapped few pictures as that was considered a kid's show (except for Marilyn who sang and being sexy, sat on people's laps, kissing here and there.)

After lunch, we went to Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster. At this point, I felt a bit mad and sad as hubby need to go back to the car to take the camera's batteries! Arghhhh! Why didn't he brought it since beginning! He went out with Meor and the rest, waited there and took pictures in front of the Scooby Doo Castle. Then suddenly I, Na, Mona and Cawan, felt like wanted to try this ride...we asked the operator,

“How’s the ride? Is it fast?” we giggled as this ride was actually for kids.

“Mmm…not as fast as Superman…” she said.

Ok…we went in...dark. We saw few Gargoyles up there, water fountain, and what not. We queued, and not for long, we hopped into the coaster. Once car, four persons. Enough for the four of us. This time, no shoulder bar, just the waist bar. I hold the camera tightly. Same with Cawan. The operator asked us to put our bags next to our feet and hold it. Then it moved...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
 

LEFT! RIGHT! UP! DOWN! GHOST HERE! GHOST THERE! HAVEN'T REACHED THE GHOST, WE TURNED LEFT! SWINGING AXE! WENT DOWN! TURNED LEFT! TURNED RIGHT! STOPPED!

DARK! WE SAW NOTHING! (Camera still in hand, I hold it tight! I stepped on my bag, to avoid it from thrown away!) At this moment, I started to say prayer. Waiting, what else after this????

OMG! THE COASTER STARTED TO GO UP, SLOWLY! DECK BY DECK. UNTIL WE REACHED THE HIGHEST DECK AND IT STOPPED!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

THE COASTER FELL BACK AND MOVED BACKWARD! OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD! WE SCREAMED OUT LOUD COZ WE CAN'T PREDICT WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT! LEFT! RIGHT! UP! DOWN! SO FAST! AND SUDDENLY IT STOPPED AGAIN!

We waited anxiously and patiently and hoped that it will stopped forever. LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! (I can't recall but I guessed almost 10 rounds of left and right in the shape of "S"!) OMG! I felt like my lung wanted to explode! It continued till we saw the same operator again. Guess what I said to her?

“WE’VE GOT PUNKED! WE’VE GOT PUNKED!” Coz she told us that this ride wasn't fast! She lied! She just laughed and we went out. Hahaha! We met Meor and hubby and asked them to ride it. We even lied to them that this ride was slow and not afraid at all...well, people can smell what you are cooking when you tell something opposite huh? Hahaha! No, they didn't try the ride.

While waiting for the Stars Parade (the most awaited event), we continued our adventure to the Wild West Falls. It was a cowboy town with liquor shop, salon, and etc. We started to play cowboys and cowgals, acted shooting here and there, posed with vultures and what not. Then there was a ride where you sat in a log, felt down from a tunnel, splashing the water to visitors. The water wasn't actually splashed, there was a pipe that sprayed the water. Hahaha! We skipped that since we didn't want to get wet (even we didn't shower). So we just snapped pictures.

After the show ended, we went to the nearest shops. There was Charlie and Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka choc was there but not the golden ticket, hehe!) We stayed for a while at the place where the Stars Parade should held and I played with one cute but smelly Aussie baby! Hahaha! Then one after another, the Warner Bros characters went out. We stood at the very front lane, just to snap their pictures. BUT HELL NO! THEY WALKED SO FAST LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW! Especiallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy CATWOMAN! She knew that everyone was waiting for her, sexy, big boobs, nice costume, pretty face, with whip in hand, slapped here, slapped there, BUT WALKED SO FAST! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

Then we saw Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Sylvester, Duffy Duck, Batman, Shrek, Wonder Woman, Robin, Flash, (who else…), Scooby Doo, Archie and Friends, Stunt Drivers…ok fine, wait for them to turn back! HEY! I PAID TO SEE THIS PARADE OK! I WAVED AT THEM BUT THEY DIDN'T NOTICE ME! I WAITED FOR SOOOOO LONG, THIS IS WHAT I GET?! (If there was a complaint form, I will definitely send in!)

Ok that's it! We walked out to the exit gate. Let's go back! But we stopped at Batman Adventre, The Ride 2. We didn't have any idea what it was but we queued. OMG! The place was smelly! The same smell at the Batman Spaceshot just now! Eeeewwww! We waited for quite long and the operator just stood there, did nothing. Huh! WHEN WE CAN GO INNNNN?! Until someone asked her, then only she went inside to check! STUPID! Wasting our time! The earlier slot has ended and she didn't even noticed it?! Then we went in. Again, dark, gloomy, we were in a libary. There was a small window where we can see a full moon out there. I believed we were in the Gotham City now. The operator then came and explained on the ride. (She did two jobs??? No wonder!)

She opened the door and we walked into one big gloomy hall. As expected, the same moving seats. But noooooooot! We sat around, and there was Batman in front of the CCTV monitors (it was a robot), explained to us what he was trying to do to save the city. We had to find something for him. Then the same operator came and opened the door, and asked us to hop into one time capsule. There was a screen, and suddenly the movie started playing.

Suddenly, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

The capsule trembled and moved as per screen scene. We felt down, we flew up, hit here and there, BATMAN DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO FLY A JET! HAHAHAHA! WE GOT DIZZY TILL THE END OF THE SHOW!

We walked out and laughed out loud. That was the last ride for the day. We walked straight to the Batman Souvenir shop and bought one fridge magnet as a token to bring back home. We didn't get all our pictures when we rode roller coasters as they were too expensive! AUD15 per piece. Thanks but no thanks.

We went back to the car and we can see that everyone was so tired. We drove to Surfer's Paradise, using the same highway where we came this morning. We looked for Fern Street as there was the Columbia Apartment located. We booked for 5 persons, but there were 6 of us. So what we did, Na and I went in first. There was the owner's daughter in the office. She showed us the apartment, 2 rooms, large settee, kitchen complete with kitchenware and 4 electric stove, microwave, fridge, dishwasher, washer, dryer, dining table for 4, and balcony with sea view! Fantastic! Then she showed us the garage where we can park the car. Security was A+ coz you need a key to open the gate, the lift, and the apartment.

Since basement got lift access, we started to sneak in one by one. Hehe! Easy! We wanted to cook Spaghetti so we asked the girl where we can get sundries, and she told us to go to Pacific Fair. Anyhow we saw Woolworths and just bought things from there. Cheap and affordable! Like our Giant. Since meat wasn't "halal", we bought mushroom. So there you go, Spaghetti with mushroom hehehe! (Who cares!)

We got back and started cooking. Good enough as this apartment gave cutlery and what not. Even toaster was there. Unfortunately we didn't get any bread to be toasted. Hehe! Or else, we would have made scramble eggs with toasted bread! While cooking, some of us took shower. There was only one bathroom, so we have to take turn. We ate in front of TV, watched news, and checked how tomorrow's weather. Then we saw there was a surfing competition at Duranbah! Yeay! We can go tomorrow! After dinner, we talked and discussed about tomorrow. For rooms arrangement, Na, Cawan and Mona, in one room. But Cawan later slept on the couch with Meor since there was an extra bed. While I and hubby slept in the master bedroom. The bed was niceeeeeeeeeeee! Overall, the apartment was great, clean and cheap. Before we called off the night, we talked and enjoyed the Surfer's Paradise wind of change...coollllll...

---> Click here for Day 1 photos.