Grease : The Musical

Grease was held at the KL Convention Centre. We bought the RM90 category which was the cheapest one and it's quite alright. We took our seats in the hall and waited a while and finally the show started.

It started off with a short contest on stage for anyone who wants to go up and get jiggy with it (dance around). The winner of that shake-ur-bon-bon session got a Grease T-shirt...so much for all the dancing. I enjoyed the show, though the second part of the show was much more exciting. The best vocal part was for the song Beauty School Dropout which is done by a female singer this time, unlike in the movie which was a male singer. That part was really good. There were some funny moments too especially at the drive-in movie scene. The downside was that the sound system in the hall was less than satisfactory. There was too much echo which made it hard to listen to the dialogue in the show and there was A LOT of talking parts whereby the unsatisfactory sound system really was a spoiler. With the complaints aside, it was truly a great show put up by the Grease cast. Good work to them, they deserve a standing ovation. Too bad nobody shouted for an encore...and I was too shy, as expected, to chant that out because everyone would be staring at me if I get no response or nobody joins in to chant.

My KL Trip

Day 1 @ 7:30pm
After an enjoyable 4.5 hours ride in the bus, half of it spent watching Fong Sai Yuk (which was really damn funny), we finally reached our destination : KL. We were taken to Chili's for a sumptuous, mouth-watering, taste-bud satisfying dinner. Aahh...the mash potatoes make me crave for more.
Day 2 @ 11:00am
We took a cab to Midvalley and the first thing I wanted was Burger King! Well, what can I say right? We poor little Penangites don't get the opportunity to savour this ultimate fast food chain back in Penang...so we saved all our energy for this chance in KL. Onion rings~! Love them love them love them! Anyway I had this French Chicken burger and it was delicious. After that, off to some window-shopping and we took the kommuter to KL Sentral, from there to took an LRT to KLCC. More window-shopping and frequent feet-nursing on any available seats we could find. Later on, we went to satisfy my desire for Dunkin Donuts!

Day 2 @ 8:30pm

We headed off to the convention centre for the main purpose of my trip - Grease:The Musical. I enjoyed it...I just love musicals. Expensive but worth it. It was a good show by the Grease casts.

Day 3 @ 11:00am

We went off to Low Yat Plaza via cab and spent a few minutes there while waiting for Ding's brother-in-law to meet us and take us for "drunken-chicken noodle" brunch. After that, all of us took a walk around at Metrojaya and then out to Sungei Wang. When all that was conquered, we headed off to Lot 10 and finished it in 15 minutes. So, we had to make a last minute decision to change directions and we decided to go to 1-Utama. We took the monorail to KL Sentral and from there, an LRT to Kelana Jaya. Upon reaching that station, we took a cab to 1-Utama (new wing). OMG. It is huge...Thank God we decided to go there. We spent the entire afternoon exploring that place and finally found Subway which was our destination for dinner afterwards. Next stop was Dunkin' Donuts again..of course. That was our last day at KL, I must get some donuts coz Penang doesn't have Dunkin. How pathetic right? Shopping haven island, tourist attraction destination -> Penang...and it has pretty much nothing but A&W, Mcd, Pizza and KFC. I didn't realise locating the Dunkin Donut store was such a tiring tasks. It was a really long walk. After that, we attempted to get directions from the guard on where is the nearest taxi stand...to no avail. No doubt, the guard was helpful and long-winded but we just couldn't understand a single word he said. His accent was so heavy that Oval sounded like Awal. Finally, we managed to escape from his never-ending speech on directions and found the taxi stand. I would say the taxi ride wasn't so great, first of all, was the taxi drivers attempt to get extra money for the fact that apparently the road would be jammed. So, we relented and said ok..fine. So off we went. The road wasn't jammed..the driver was full of crap but anyway, we paid him the extra RM2 (with very much unwillingness) plus the meter charges. One thing about the taxi system in KL is that...the drivers tend to round UP the values instead of asking for the exact amount unlike in Singapore where the drivers are much more disciplined and with less of those greediness in their manner. Over here, RM 14.80 got rounded up to RM15.00. We've met 2 out of 3 taxi drivers during our short trip in KL who rounded up the amounts. Ding refused to pay 15 which the driver pretentiously proclaimed that was the fare. It's either the drivers in Malaysia have lack of mathematical capabilities or simply greedy. There is no OR actually, they are just simply ignorant and greedy. Anyway, he finally changed back the 20 cents for us. If Malaysia wants to be world-class...try starting from solving the problem over here.
Day 4 @ 8:30am
Boarded the bus and headed off home!

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