All for the Love of Cliff Richard...

Just came back from Genting Highlands. It was a bittersweet weekend trip.

My whole clan of family had bought the tickets for Cliff Richard's concert back in October 2006, and the concert was yesterday night. Left for Genting Highlands yesterday afternoon, and reached there about 1.45pm. Met up with my parents and had tea at Starbucks at First World Hotel after checking in. My parents had gone for the concert on Friday night, so they were just hanging around waiting for me and my husband to arrive.

My husband and I had planned to go for a midnight movie after the concert, but when we went to the cineplex, the midnight show was at 1.15am. So late! We thought they would have a movie at 12.00am. So was really disappointed. In the end, we walked around a bit, as the concert was at 8pm. We bought 2 tickets to go for the 4D Motion Master, thinking that it was a new attraction. Much to our disappointment (again), it was the same system as their previous 3D with just the addtition of having wind blown into our faces, and water splashings on our body. Nothing special. What a waste of RM16!

When we came out of the motion master ride, our cousin called, informing us that they have arrived, so we went to the hotel lobby to meet up with them. My aunt had a letter given to her that gives her a 2 days 1 night stay for free in First World Hotel which will due by the 15/2/2007. So she gave it to my parents, and just like that, my parents get to stay another night tonight. How wonderful to have this kind of freedom! Hahah! Hung around with my family for a while, then my husband and I went out by ourselves to jalan jalan. Had dinner at 7pm, then left for the Arena of Stars where the concert will be held.

The concert was a hit! All of us thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, amazed by the energy and stamina this 67-year-old singer had! My cousins, my husband and I were one of the few who were much younger than the other people around us. All with the influence of our parents! He sang songs after songs without needing to catch his breath. I was really amazed. Sometimes I dun think I even have his stamina!! When the concert ended, we were disappointed. We wished it could last longer. He only came out once for an encore, and that's usually his trademark. Just one encore. :(

Anyway, had supper at McDonald's after the concert. Decided to forego the movie and just go back to our respective rooms to rest. It was a good day, and each hoped tomorrow would be another good day. After all, it's going to be Sunday. :)

Sigh! How wrong! Hubby woke up very early for breakfast, while I slept in. Nothing will make me wake up as my son is not around for me to worry about, so sleep is one thing I would love to catch up on. Hubby came back at 10am and I woke up, took my shower, then we packed up and checked out. At least, that was our intention. Decided to check out later and go shopping first. Our Genting World Card has about 11,600 points so we thought of redeeming the points. We were so happy, thinking that we have so much to buy.

Went into Soda, and saw two outfits that I liked. We saw the price tags. One is RM89W and one is RM95W. Asked the salesman what the 'W' means, and he explained that's the World Card point that we can redeem. We thought, "Cool!" I tried on the outfits and I liked them. Asked my hubby to go check exactly how many points we have, so he did. 11,600 over points. Thought we could redeem more, then the sales man came back to inform us, "Oh. With your 11,600 points, the worth is only RM116." POP! There goes our happiness that we can redeem loads of stuff. Hahahah! So, all right, decided to redeem only 1 outfit and purchase the other outfit.

Second incident...our WorldCard was declined! What the heck? We have 11,600 over points, and our card is declined. OK, fine! We went to the WorldCard counter and asked. "Oops, your points are suspended as you lost your card a few years back. Wait, will un-suspend it for you," the girl there said. Did whatever she needed to do, and we went back to Soda to redeem the other outfit. DECLINED AGAIN!! Hubby getting pissed off! Stormed to the WorldCard counter again and demanded why is it happening again. Girl checked, and then frowned, informing us her manager didn't un-suspend the card for us. Called her manager and told him, and then passed us the card back, saying this time it's un-suspended. Went back to Soda AGAIN, and tried again. Thankfully, this time it worked! Another point we're not happy is, we spent RM11,600 over and we can only redeem RM116. Totally ridiculous! Even our credit cards give us a better deal! So we decided not to bother using our WorldCard anymore. Not worth the aggravation! Can't believe Genting is so cheating!

After lunch, we walked towards Genting Skyway, needing to go back home already. At the Skyway, we realised we didn't check out!! We called the hotel and asked if we can just go without having to pass them our room cardkey. Turned out to be ok...so we just left Genting, with sweet and bitter memories. And we'll be going back to Genting on the 25th February 2007. Asking for it, aren't we?? :)