Wings of Words
Hi folks I'm back from somewhere on Earth. I had previously witnessed my friend flashing a London air ticket in my face so don't tempt me. They had either gone to Australia, China, New Zealand, London e.t.c but where did I go? Kuala Lumpur!!@#@$@$ I'm not complaining about the trip, it was marvellous. The tour guide has effectively bored us to death along the way, telling us a lot of random things that comes out of nowhere. Some things to note is that the food is good, the band exchange is good and all the SHOPPING*u*!!!!!!!!! However (moving on to the spoilers), the room sucks. 5-star hotel as it claimed it is looks more to me like a 3-star hotel. And the ridiculous thing was that we each got different rooms. Some got the much larger suites while others got the normal rooms with dilapidated decorations. The bathtub was as small as you could have imagined. One of my friend actually got a room that looked and felt like a presidential suite in the 1980s with a kitchen, living room, bedroom, 2 toilets (with full sized bathtubs). And also, the hotel management sucks, it took them 1 whole day to change some of our faulty rooms. The facilities I have to admit was good. We've got some sort of a private bowling alley in the hotel and it is free of any noise so we could play in peace.
On the first day, we went to see a performance by the Malaysian Philharmonic orchestra and they were marvellous and the ticket was so *CHEAP*!!!!!!! 10RM for a stall seat and I was staring at it for almost the entire performance. We had a bit of shopping before going to the horrific hotel. People please remember that it is called Holiday Villa Subang Hotel. Don't ever go there in the future.
We had a bit of city tour in the morning of the second day rushing from one site to another in order to remain on schedule. Had Indian buffet lunch at the famous batu cave and proceeded to a local university for an exchange with their band. They were damn hell bloody good (obviously, they were uni students in the music course). After that, its shopping again at the Sunway pyramid. I loved that place. The ice-skating ring was exposed to the entire shopping center all the way up to level 5 and the feeling of ice-skating when there are hundreds of people watching at you was terrific. You can never experience this in Singapore!!!!!!! One thing I don't understand is why girls like to shop so much. We were strolling after ice-skating when our seniors just ran past us without realizing that we are waving RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM!!!!!! XD Think I spent about 29Rm there?
Third day. We had a wonderful morning training in the hotel's ballroom. The sound was excellent. We sounded loud, rich and clean. Lunch was a very good buffet that will normally cost around 35-50RM/head. We then went to a local school for exchange and the students there I have to admit they have better discipline and also at an age of 14-15, they were just awesome. They kept asking us "How do you all do warm-ups?" "How do you all train staccato?" They spoke mainly chinese with accurate usage but different pronounciation. Bare in mind they are effectively trilingual; they can speak malay, chinese and english, some even know hokkien. We had a memorable interactive session where we just sat down and chat with each other. Through this, I think I had a better idea of how life was in those places. Last thing on our schedule was shopping. When we went to KLCC at the petronas towers, we thought that it was the biggest shopping centre with well-knowned brands but then we saw Sunway Pyramid which was easily bigger then that. However, welcome to Mid-Valley shopping centre, the largest of them all. We had a tough time of distributing some 2-3 hours of shopping to visit all levels. We were seriously awed by the size of the mall. It comprised of an area not more than 2 vivo-cities.
Last day, I'm back in Singapore.
On the first day, we went to see a performance by the Malaysian Philharmonic orchestra and they were marvellous and the ticket was so *CHEAP*!!!!!!! 10RM for a stall seat and I was staring at it for almost the entire performance. We had a bit of shopping before going to the horrific hotel. People please remember that it is called Holiday Villa Subang Hotel. Don't ever go there in the future.
We had a bit of city tour in the morning of the second day rushing from one site to another in order to remain on schedule. Had Indian buffet lunch at the famous batu cave and proceeded to a local university for an exchange with their band. They were damn hell bloody good (obviously, they were uni students in the music course). After that, its shopping again at the Sunway pyramid. I loved that place. The ice-skating ring was exposed to the entire shopping center all the way up to level 5 and the feeling of ice-skating when there are hundreds of people watching at you was terrific. You can never experience this in Singapore!!!!!!! One thing I don't understand is why girls like to shop so much. We were strolling after ice-skating when our seniors just ran past us without realizing that we are waving RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM!!!!!! XD Think I spent about 29Rm there?
Third day. We had a wonderful morning training in the hotel's ballroom. The sound was excellent. We sounded loud, rich and clean. Lunch was a very good buffet that will normally cost around 35-50RM/head. We then went to a local school for exchange and the students there I have to admit they have better discipline and also at an age of 14-15, they were just awesome. They kept asking us "How do you all do warm-ups?" "How do you all train staccato?" They spoke mainly chinese with accurate usage but different pronounciation. Bare in mind they are effectively trilingual; they can speak malay, chinese and english, some even know hokkien. We had a memorable interactive session where we just sat down and chat with each other. Through this, I think I had a better idea of how life was in those places. Last thing on our schedule was shopping. When we went to KLCC at the petronas towers, we thought that it was the biggest shopping centre with well-knowned brands but then we saw Sunway Pyramid which was easily bigger then that. However, welcome to Mid-Valley shopping centre, the largest of them all. We had a tough time of distributing some 2-3 hours of shopping to visit all levels. We were seriously awed by the size of the mall. It comprised of an area not more than 2 vivo-cities.
Last day, I'm back in Singapore.
