no more swaying
hello! i got back on sunday afternoon, but have been too drowsy and "sway-ish" to blog. I wanted to put more pics here, but for some weird reason, many of my pics turned out very blur. i am very sure i had the auto focus on. =|
backview of my parents
cloudy sunrise on first morning
pre-sunrise on a cloudless sky
along deck 7, view of lifeboat
anyway, i was on superstar virgo, and it was a really huge ship. i immediately felt the ship's slight engine vibrations, and i spent a lot of time watching ripples in my tea cups. it reminded me of the jurassic park movie. *Pomp....Pomp*
all the time, i felt kind of drunk. a little woozy and constantly sleepy.
when i used the toilet in my rm, i nearly lost my balance when i bent down. it felt like i was in an aircraft toilet. but the ship was really quite stable.
i think the reason i felt woozy was that i saw a lot of waves and foam on the sea as the ship moved, and my brain expected quite a lot of swaying to be experienced. but there wasnt THAT much swaying, so maybe my brain got confused. on the other hand, i was pretty sure the boat was rolling, pitching and yawing all at once too!haha....i know i sound totally crazy and confused.
i stood on the deck one morning and looked at the water. was the ship stationary, with ripples coming towards us, or was the ship moving slowly and the water more or less still? that made me EVEN MORe confused!
anyway, the bouncer at the casino made me produce my ic each time i entered...i had anticipated that, so i had brought my ic along. thank goodness, otherwise i wouldn't be able to see how pple gamble away soooo much money in minutes.
some tables had a minimum bet of $200 and there was no lack of gamblers there. there were several roulette tables, with min. bets ranging from $10 to $50. the gamblers placed their chips on almost every number, and when "no more bets" was called, the table was covered with chips. when the "lucky number" was revealed, the staff put a little glass statue on the winning number, and removed all the non-winning bets in a few sweeps of her hands. each round, hundreds of chips get swept off and only a few chips win. sighh...
my dad wanted to play the 5-cents jackpot slot machines, so he put in a $10 note and started playing. we were incredibly lucky, winning a few free bonus games along the way. our credits ran pretty low, when suddenly we hit some winning pattern and the the "WON" credits kept increasing and increasing. hehhehe!! when the numbers stopped rolling, we had a total of $161.20 of credits. yay!! haha...
my father wanted to play some more, but i persuaded him to hit the "Collect" button and just be satisfied with our 1600% profit. the machine started spitting out $1 coins into a collection tray. HAR?? are we gg to get 161 coins??
it's ok..anything is fine, as long as we get the money. unfortunately, the machine got jammed after a while, and an error msg flashed on the screen. before i finished reading the one-line error msg, 2 security guards and 2 casino staff came over and surrounded the machine....
fyi, it takes 4 staff members to settle the problem. one to un-jam the machine using a screwdriver, another to hold the machine door open, and two guards to oversee everything. and probably 10 pairs of eyes watching cctv screens somewhere in the ship.
anyway, we got a container (looks like a super cup noodle cup) to hold the coins. it was only half full though, and i hoped we had all 161 of them. we went to the counter to change for notes. the coins were dumped into some counting machine, and i watched the numbers jump. 140.....150....160.....170......... ....... 210!!
hahahaha....we actually got $40 extra! kekek. hurry take the money and go out liao =P
cruises are known to be food heavens, esp for those who dont gamble. there is breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. my family and i beat that.
0730: we had breakfast at a chn restaurant, consisting of about 6 dim sum dishes and a pot of congee. that's a lot, compared to my usual cup of milo and one slice of bread.
0900: THEN we had a SECOND breakfast of eggs, cereal, fruits and coffee. and tarts and whatever else my parents could eat. i was stuffed.
1000: morning tea!! had some croissants, doughnuts and coffee...
1200: time for lunch! 6 course chinese lunch with dessert and soup
1300: headed to buffet table for more fruits and coffee
1500: afternoon tea! goshh...i don't want to see anymore food.....
1800: dinner!!! same as lunch!!!!
1900: MORE FRUITS AT THE BUFFET TABLE!!!!
2330: SUPPER AT THE BUFFET TABLE!!! noodles, salads, fruits, and more coffee!!!!
ahhhhhh eat and eat and eat and eat!!!!!
by the law of conservation of mass (hopefully!), and treating my body as a control volume, i visited the toilet twice as much as usual. haha....my mother went three times her usual. see? eat so much!
backview of my parents
cloudy sunrise on first morning
pre-sunrise on a cloudless sky
along deck 7, view of lifeboat
anyway, i was on superstar virgo, and it was a really huge ship. i immediately felt the ship's slight engine vibrations, and i spent a lot of time watching ripples in my tea cups. it reminded me of the jurassic park movie. *Pomp....Pomp*
all the time, i felt kind of drunk. a little woozy and constantly sleepy.
when i used the toilet in my rm, i nearly lost my balance when i bent down. it felt like i was in an aircraft toilet. but the ship was really quite stable.
i think the reason i felt woozy was that i saw a lot of waves and foam on the sea as the ship moved, and my brain expected quite a lot of swaying to be experienced. but there wasnt THAT much swaying, so maybe my brain got confused. on the other hand, i was pretty sure the boat was rolling, pitching and yawing all at once too!haha....i know i sound totally crazy and confused.
i stood on the deck one morning and looked at the water. was the ship stationary, with ripples coming towards us, or was the ship moving slowly and the water more or less still? that made me EVEN MORe confused!
anyway, the bouncer at the casino made me produce my ic each time i entered...i had anticipated that, so i had brought my ic along. thank goodness, otherwise i wouldn't be able to see how pple gamble away soooo much money in minutes.
some tables had a minimum bet of $200 and there was no lack of gamblers there. there were several roulette tables, with min. bets ranging from $10 to $50. the gamblers placed their chips on almost every number, and when "no more bets" was called, the table was covered with chips. when the "lucky number" was revealed, the staff put a little glass statue on the winning number, and removed all the non-winning bets in a few sweeps of her hands. each round, hundreds of chips get swept off and only a few chips win. sighh...
my dad wanted to play the 5-cents jackpot slot machines, so he put in a $10 note and started playing. we were incredibly lucky, winning a few free bonus games along the way. our credits ran pretty low, when suddenly we hit some winning pattern and the the "WON" credits kept increasing and increasing. hehhehe!! when the numbers stopped rolling, we had a total of $161.20 of credits. yay!! haha...
my father wanted to play some more, but i persuaded him to hit the "Collect" button and just be satisfied with our 1600% profit. the machine started spitting out $1 coins into a collection tray. HAR?? are we gg to get 161 coins??
it's ok..anything is fine, as long as we get the money. unfortunately, the machine got jammed after a while, and an error msg flashed on the screen. before i finished reading the one-line error msg, 2 security guards and 2 casino staff came over and surrounded the machine....
fyi, it takes 4 staff members to settle the problem. one to un-jam the machine using a screwdriver, another to hold the machine door open, and two guards to oversee everything. and probably 10 pairs of eyes watching cctv screens somewhere in the ship.
anyway, we got a container (looks like a super cup noodle cup) to hold the coins. it was only half full though, and i hoped we had all 161 of them. we went to the counter to change for notes. the coins were dumped into some counting machine, and i watched the numbers jump. 140.....150....160.....170......... ....... 210!!
hahahaha....we actually got $40 extra! kekek. hurry take the money and go out liao =P
cruises are known to be food heavens, esp for those who dont gamble. there is breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. my family and i beat that.
0730: we had breakfast at a chn restaurant, consisting of about 6 dim sum dishes and a pot of congee. that's a lot, compared to my usual cup of milo and one slice of bread.
0900: THEN we had a SECOND breakfast of eggs, cereal, fruits and coffee. and tarts and whatever else my parents could eat. i was stuffed.
1000: morning tea!! had some croissants, doughnuts and coffee...
1200: time for lunch! 6 course chinese lunch with dessert and soup
1300: headed to buffet table for more fruits and coffee
1500: afternoon tea! goshh...i don't want to see anymore food.....
1800: dinner!!! same as lunch!!!!
1900: MORE FRUITS AT THE BUFFET TABLE!!!!
2330: SUPPER AT THE BUFFET TABLE!!! noodles, salads, fruits, and more coffee!!!!
ahhhhhh eat and eat and eat and eat!!!!!
by the law of conservation of mass (hopefully!), and treating my body as a control volume, i visited the toilet twice as much as usual. haha....my mother went three times her usual. see? eat so much!
posted by who? at 10:41 AM
3 Comments:
yl: hey ur pics r really gorgeous n clear!!! got any more? i wanna see! so tempted to use ur pics as my wallpaper or smthg..haha..really great view..u make me wanna go on a cruise! haha..but the eating part sounds very ....=S hahaha..but u r so lucky! can win so much..hehe
wah u r a lucky pig! and you ate so much! pig! and u din get fat! unbelievable :P did u puke out everything?
hahha...yl, if u want i can send the original 800kb photo to u. i'll pass ur praise to my father. hehe..he took most of the photos.
jane, i must have obeyed the law of conservation, and also gravity. hence i did not puke. =P
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