Weekend @ Macau

Just touch down......dreading to go to work tom after the lovely weekend.

Went to Macau and finally spent some time doing bo liao stuff with Stevie. We spent the whole of Sat roaming around for 12 hours. Pretty long time considering we only went to 3 places.

Went to the newly open City of dreams to take a look at the new casino and hotel. Then shopping at Venetian and again to the casino. We watched people play the Carribean stud and my hands started to feel itchy. The min bet is too high. When we were in Burswood it is soo much cheaper. $15 and i can play the Carribean stud already. But the min bet in Macau is $50 per game. Wonder where all the people get their money from?

So decided to try the jackpot since the table is too expensive. Found this Monopoly game which have interesting bonus round. There is this aunty that keeps getting into the bonus round. The interesting part of this game is there is more than 1 type of bonus round and all of the bonus round is soo cute with all the tiny people moving around and different choice leading to different rewards. We tried our luck and we managed only to get into 1 bonus round, earned some credits but still we end up losing. With my luck at gambling, this is already considered not too bad . I used to not even get into any bonus round despite going to Burswood every other night). Afterwards, we realised that the whole row playing the monopoly game keep getting into the bonus round one after another. Well, some people just have better luck with gambling. Just have to think that my luck is compensated with other things in life instead of for gambling. This is how i come to terms after soo many loses at Burswood.

Then it is off to enjoy our must-have Jap food. As we were there early, we decided to eat slowly so that we can enjoy the various promotion of the day. The chef will at different time throughout the night ring the bell and announce the promotion. Each time will be a different promotion. As I do not understand a single cantonese and stevie is not very good at cantonese either, it is very difficult to understand the promotion. Once we saw the chef slicing the fish and soon after he made his annoucement. We just came to the conclusion that the promotion must be the fish sushi. When the order came out, we still didn't realise it is the promotion order. I still looked at steve and ask him whether it was a complimentary. It's so hilarous. What we thought would be a fish sushi turns out to be an ice-cream!! We stayed for almost 3 hours and finish the whole bottle of preserved ginger while chatting and waiting for the next promo. Luv the beef tataki, the scallop and definitely the sea uchin.

After the short lovely weekend, it is time to fly back to reality. And not before long, in the airplane, i am already greeted by some idiot peoples. Maybe it is stevie influencing me with him ranting on about his idiot people theory and i found myself getting more and more impatient recently. So while on the plane, i read a story in reader digest and it kindda inspired me and i decided that maybe i should be more forgiving and show more kindness and that is what i was planning to do until.....

People started to stand up and taking their bags before the plane even stopped and on their handphones when only 10 mins before the air-stewardess just made an announcement to only switch on the handphones when in the airport and this is announced in both english and mandarin. If these are uneducated people, really i can forgive but these people are singaporeans in there 20s who are bilingual. Are they being arrogant or are they being ignorant? Arrogant that nothing bad will happen to them and they are kings or ignorant about how important the annoucement is and should be followed. I do not know how the handphone will affect the signals but if this is an annoucement made by all airlines and they bother to annouce at each takeoff and landing, they must have a good reason. Even though our plane have landed safely, there are still planes in the queue to takeoff or fly in and they might be affected. With such inconsiderate and irresponsible behaviours, is this increasing the risk of taking airplanes. Should airlines just consider keeping the phones for all passengers until touch down?

There are many people out there that falls in and many other that do not falls within this category. I should just think positively as Steve say the glass is half full and not half empty. Then maybe i won't get so emotionally disturbed by these people. Maybe stevie should also self-counsel himself so that there is less anger.