Harley Quinn and Suicide Squad

*Disclaimer : There might be some spoilers on how you look at it so if you haven't seen the movie yet and loath on spoilers then it's highly advised to avoid reading this post. 

To say Suicide Squad was a disappointment--well, not really. It was actually really good. But it would have been even better if there were more scenes of Joker and Harley Quinn together--and not those flashback scenes.

Before I saw the first Suicide Squad trailer a year ago, I've never read any Batman comics before. I've vaguely heard of Harley Quinn and kind of knew she was a comic character but that was all I knew about her. Then I saw the trailer, and what intrigued me the most on Suicide Squad compared to other comic movies was the concept of a bunch of bad guys getting together and forced to save the world. Then I saw Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and damn she looked so cool. And one night I was just Youtube-ing all the Suicide Squad trailers and I came across a video from the Batman the Animated Series of how the Joker seduced Dr Harleen Quinzel, and as we all know, from the highly acclaimed episode "Mad Love".

And since then, I became obsessed with Harley Quinn. I watched every episode of Batman the Animated Series with her in it and started reading every comic that mentioned her including the whole Gotham City Sirens series, Batman: Mad Love, Batman: Harley Quinn, Joker's Asylum II: Harley Quinn, Harley Quinn and the Suicide Squad Special Edition, and now I have just started on Suicide Squad (2011)--the edition with Harley Quinn in it, of course.

Image courtesy of dc.wikia.com

I don't know what it was, but the twisted obsession Harley has for the Joker and how he mentally and physically abuses her and even tries to kill her, but every single damn time she still runs back to him, really got to me and made me want to see more of the crazy couple.

And the fact that she was a psychiatrist before she became mad just made me want to understand her even more. I always thought intelligent people are actually mad deep down inside. It's just that without triggering it, it will stay buried. The Joker was Harley Quinn's trigger.

Image courtesy of www.ign.com

So I was super excited to watch Suicide Squad--mainly to see Harley and the Joker, but was disappointed to see that the Joker was just a supporting character rather than on of the main characters. In fact, with or without the Joker wouldn't have affected the storyline at all. That's how much of a sideline he was.

To be fair, the movie is Suicide Squad, and not The Joker and Harley Quinn, but in the trailers they made if off as if the Joker was the main character. They highly publicized Jared Letto in interviews and stuff and Jared kept on talking how much he was into the character and the time and energy he spent to pull off the perfect Joker and heck, the whole music video "Purple Lamborghini" was practically about the Joker.

You could tell Jared Letto was quite pissed off in interviews at how many scenes of the Joker were cut. If people never read the comics or seen any of the Batman Animated Series before, they would never know how unhealthy the relationship between Harley and Joker really is just by watching Suicide Squad.

The good news is, I heard that they're making a Harley Quinn and Joker movie soon. Fingers crossed and hope against all hope it's not just a rumor but actually a dream come true!

Image courtesy of comicsalliance.com

Okay, back to reading Suicide Squad. I'm on Issue #4 now wohooooo.

Ps the Suicide Squad OST is totally sick.

Me Before You: A Movie Where Daenerys Targaryen and Tywin Lannister Are Actually in the Same Scene!

*Disclaimer*

No major spoilers here.

Sorry, couldn't help slipping in that Game of Thrones reference in the title there. 

So what did I think after watching the movie compared to the book? I guess it’s fair to say you can’t really expect much from a movie adaptation of a 140,000 (possibly more) word count novel. First of all, I love the book. I couldn’t put it down right from the beginning. The storyline wasn’t draggy, the characters were beautifully written, the scenes were almost so realistic you kind of forget you’re reading a book, there were lots of humor and wit, and also a lot of gentle and emotional moments at the right places. It’s really difficult to write a book with all that and Jojo Moyes did it. No wonder it sold over 4 million copies.

Taken from Goodreads

Taken from Wikipedia

Now, for the movie, I love Emilia Clarke as an actress. I wouldn’t have known her if it wasn’t for Game of Thrones. I mean, I did watch Terminator Genisys, but I didn’t start watching GOT yet at that time, even though my boyfriend did, but he wasn’t the type to get all excited and jump up and down pointing to the screen and shouting, “Sarah Conner is Daenerys Targaryen!”

No, no. He definitely does not do that. So yeah, Emilia Clarke never did stood out for me before I started seeing her as Daenerys.

As for Sam Claflin, I didn’t know who he was but he did justice protraying Will Traynor.

One thing that annoys me when my favorite books get adapted into films is how much they change the plot. Think The DUFF by Kody Keplinger (they just took the characters! Changed practically 99% of the plot. They even casted Bella Thorne as the mean girl where in the book, there were no mean girls at all, and made the whole movie seem so superficial when actually the book was not), and Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen (okay, fine, in all fairness How To Deal was a merger of Someone Like You and That Summer, but still, the movie kind of sucked). But Me Before You was pleasantly a surprise. It didn’t run far from the original storyline, just a few small changes and some plots never made it to the big screen, but the script and characters was everything like in the book. And that’s most likely because Jojo Moyes wrote the screenplay herself.

BUT it was all a little too rushing for me. It was like they were trying to put everything in only under 2 hours and it developed just way too fast that you didn’t have time to feel any real emotions and before you know it, Lou is already crying on the bed beside Will, and you’re thinking, wait, they alredy fell in love?

This is just my personal opinion and maybe it’s because I read the book before watching the movie and because of all the emotions I felt from the book, I was having high expectations from the movie. I didn’t feel this way with A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks though, because maybe  I saw the movie first before reading the book, and I felt a lot of emotions from the movie.

Would I recommend watching the movie? Sure, because Emilia Clarke is a delight to watch. But I would also highly recommend to read the book instead because it’s too good to pass up.

And I’m still thinking if I should read After You or not, because after Lou and Will’s love story, it just feels so wrong to have a sequel and should just have ended there with a bang. I read that Jojo Moyes wasn’t even thinking of a sequel when she wrote Me Before You, so I think when the writer writes a story without the intention of it having a sequel, then if later a sequel happens, the sequel won’t be as good, if not better, as the first one.

I Drove Under A Rainbow Today!

Yeah, it's no big deal or anything seeing a rainbow especially in a tropical country where it's raining all the time but today on my way back from work, I was in such a crappy mood because it was raining so heavily and the jam was horrible. It took me almost three hours just to get home. But halfway through the jam, the rain stopped and a rainbow appeared!

And it was an actual FULL rainbow. Usually we only get to see partial rainbows, but here was this big, beautiful rainbow with a perfect arch, and you could practically see the colors stacked up against one another so clearly.

Well, that lifted my mood. And a bag of Famous Amos cookies. And it's not easy trying to take a picture while keeping your eyes on the road and stuffing your face with cookies.

Umm. Not that I did that...

Animal Rights Activist My Foot!

I recently read an article entitled "Director of Taiwanese animal shelter commits suicide after 'feeling distraught about having to euthanise too many dogs'". You can read the original article here. 

The article is about a vet who is also the director at  Xinwu Animal Protection and Education Centre, a centre where they take in stray animals, nurse them back to health and care for them, but carries mercy killings when the centre runs out of place, committed suicide after becoming distraught when "animal rights activists" started sending her threatening messages and called her a "female butcher". She left a note explaining she had become too distressed about the number of dogs she had to put down. 

I wrote this on my Facebook profile, and I'm going to write it again in here because a lot of people need to open their eyes wide.

This is just so wrong on so many levels. First of all;

1) She's not a butcher. She helped these animals by giving them a home, nursing them back to life, and caring for them. She's done more than any of us has ever done for a dying animal on the streets.

2) Stop buying pets and start adopting. There are too many strays out there that badly need a home and that's why they are forced to be put to sleep because people would rather have cute little expensive kittens/puppies than the old domestic cats/dogs.

3) Neuter/spay your pets and yes, some people find it to be evil and mean but unless you'll be the ones responsible for the many litters that will be born, then it's just something you have to do or this vicious cycle will just go on repeating itself.

And lastly;

4) Don't you dare have the audacity to call yourself an ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST when all you do is complain and bash about the one person who has helped these animals in the most humane way possible. If you really ARE an activist then PLEASE DO SOMETHING USEFUL. Donate time, energy, or money to these shelters, volunteer, adopt, or even better yet, open up a new shelter to accomodate more animals. Activists aren't people who yell and shout and say hateful words to other people. They actually DO something to make things better.

Why Do We Kill People Who Kill People To Show That Killing People Is Wrong? (credits from a protestor's sign)

Image courtesy from google.com

I don't usually write or comment about political topics but this particular subject gave a huge tug at my heartstrings.

About more than 24 hours ago, the British Parliament had voted into a decision regarding how to make UK safer after a 10-hour debate. The verdict? Yes in starting airstrikes in Syria. Merely within a few hours after David Cameron announced results of the voting on UK's national television, the British Royal Air Force had carried out their first airstrikes in Syria.

What is the most sickening thing is how the decision was made based on votes. Deciding to start airstrikes upon Syria is not something as simple as deciding whether the prices in oil should be increased or not. These are innocent lives, we are talking about. Do they really think that their bombs are so highly technologinised to the point there are GPS targetting only ISIS? Yeah, I hardly think they are that stupid, which just proves that in the back of their mind, they KNOW innocent lives will be at risk. If they didn't learn that from the war in Iraq in 2003, then they have been living under rocks. No, not even JUST under rocks. Under rocks in PLUTO. 

And don't they dare say "oh, well, that's just part of war. There will always be collateral damage."

They won't be saying that if it's another country voting in favour to bomb their homes, now will they?

And please stop trying to defend them by saying, "oh, well we can't just sit back and do nothing! Why don't YOU come up with a solution?"

So it's not their jobs to come up with the best solution? Heck, if all it means being in the parliament is voting for the most violent and easiest way out, then I also can surely enter the parliament. Piece of cake.

I applaud the British public for standing up and publically protesting the decision their government made. Which just shows every government is the same. They never listen to their people. The good people of Britain even started a trending hashtag #NotInMyName to show they do not support this atrocious decision, and this proves that whoever agreed to this decision have no concious whatsoever.

For the 397 British Parliament that voted for yes, including the dear prime minister of Britain, what do you think about after that long debate, when you are tucking your children in for bed that night, them safe and warm under the covers, while 3000 miles away from you, Syrian parents are tucking in their children, kissing their foreheads, and placing a hand on their child's heart, with the thought that this may be the very last time they feel their child's heart beating, anticipating for the bombs to come, just because all you did was vote yes?

Wow. It's that simple to take out an innocent life. That's even worse than being cold-blooded murderers. Do you guys even sleep at night?

To the victims of this evil war, I pray that God will protect you and you are all martyr. Aamiin. 

My Travel Adventures Part 3 - Georgetown, Penang

As mentioned in my past posts before, I just LOVE street art and where better place to find all kinds of street art in Malaysia other than Georgetown, Penang. The street arts there are AMAZING and what's so fun about it is that they even made it into a street art hunt where there are maps you can refer to to find these street arts.

I went to Penang with Ayuni, she was the one that planned everything (I told you, she's good at planning these things) and I was so excited because I knew Georgetown was famous for these street arts so I had google ahead to find which street arts I wanted to see.

We went to Penang for 3 days 2 nights and I guess that should be enough if your main purpose there was to hunt down for street arts, haha. But If you go there not only for the street arts but for the many other attractions they have such as Bukit Bendera or Escape Adventure Land (initially, Ayuni planned to go to this escape place but then I read online about all the activities and said, umm..no thank you. Lol) or to Bukit Ferringhi and Penang's beaches, then maybe 3 days 2 nights is not enough. As for me, I went there for the street arts while Ayuni went there for the food (I told you, Ayuni takes her food very seriously).

So from Johor Bahru, I took a morning flight to Subang Airport where Ayuni was waiting to pick me up and from there, we headed straight to Penang with her car, which she drove but when we reached George Town, we swat roles and I drove because she said she hated driving in George Town due to the small roads and traffic and a lot of motorbikes.

We reached George Town around noon and I have to say, I immediately fell in love when I laid eyes on this city. There is so much of a heritage feeling to it. It reminded me a lot of Jonker Street in Melaka. The small roads, the many old, antique shop lots to your left and right, the old aunties and uncles riding their bicycles without a care in the world, the antique kopitiams with their antique window shutters. I really hope Malaysia will preserve these towns for a really, really long time. I hate to see us lose these precious gems in our country.

It was raining a bit when we got to the Penang Bridge.

We decided to check-in into our hotel first before starting our sightseeing. Ayuni booked us at this small, funky hotel called Glow Hotel. And I meant funky as in literally colourful with bright colours and not in funky as in, you know, weird. It was just a small hotel, nothing fancy, costing us around RM100++ per night, I think. I can't exactly remember the price. But it was perfect for us because it was located in the city and easy for us to get around. You can find out more about it at their official website here.

Anyway, Ayuni turned on Waze to help us find the way to our hotel, and Waze led us to the seaside, away from the city, to this huge, fancy hotel and as we turned into the entrance of the hotel, I asked Ayuni was she sure this was our hotel because it didn't look like it from the price we were paying, and she said she was sure because she typed in the name of the hotel in Waze and Waze brought us here. So I parked the car, we brought out all our luggages and as confident as ever, walked into the lobby of the hotel.

And O M G.

The hotel was huge and the lobby looked so elegant and I was so so so sure at that time we were definitely in the wrong hotel. I looked at Ayuni and Ayuni looked at me. I could tell she was also having doubts. As we were walking towards the receptionist desk with our luggages wheeling behind us, I noticed the sign behind the desk that said G Hotel.

Then I turned to Ayuni and said, omg, we are at the wrong hotel. This was G Hotel and not Glow Hotel. We immediately turned around and quickly scrambled back to the parking and into the car before anyone realised what a couple of fools we were. Lol.

Thanks, Waze.

So this time, we made sure to Waze the name of our hotel correctly, and lo and behold, we finally made it to Glow Hotel. Haha. It's actually a pretty nice place. Ok, it's nothing like the big, fancy G Hotel but we didn't need anything fancy and big. Glow Hotel is a really modern hotel and I think young people would really enjoy it.

This is the lobby of G Hotel (picture taken from agoda.com) Compare it to the lobby of our Glow Hotel below.

This is the lobby to Glow Hotel. See the difference? Now you can see why we were so surprised? Haha. (picture taken from tripadvisor.com.my)

After checking in, we were starving because it was around lunchtime and so because Ayuni was in charge of the food hunting, she led us to the famous Nasi Kandar Line Clear. There was a loooooooong queue when we arrived and I know some people say the place is quite overrated but in my personal opinion, the nasi kandar was really good. Okay, so the place may not be a 5-star restaurant or something and hygiene-wise--let's just skip that--but if you close one eye and taste the food, you kind of forget about everything else. Lol. But seriously, I really enjoyed the food. And they gave in such big portion and I finished everything so that really says something about the food.

Ayuni and me with our nasi kandar and iced lemon syrup (hahahahah sirap limau ais, it sounds so weird saying it in English)

And what coincidence it was to find Ruhil and her husband, Fitri, queuing up at the nasi kandar place! Okay, it wasn't exactly a coincidence. I already knew that Ruhil was coming to Penang with her husband, their baby and her parents. And it was lunchtime in Penang. Where else would you go if not to Nasi Kandar Line Clear? Hahaha.

After lunch, we wanted to burn off some calories so Ayuni suggested to start our street art hunting. I downloaded the PDF version of the street art map but it wasn't so useful in the end. We found the hard copy of the map at one of the tourism places which was so much more useful.

I love this map so much. It had all the pictures of the street art, the names, the street names they were on, and numbering on the map of where to find them. We used this map so much until it got ripped in the middle. I still keep it though.

There are so many street arts in George Town. Before I went, I thought the street arts were, like, next to each other or something and we could easily take pictures of them one by one. Hahaha. I was so naive. It wasn't so easy finding these street arts. Yes, some of them were on the same street and were walking distance from one another but some were sort of loners or in another group at another street where we have to get there by car. And not all of the street arts are so accessible to take pictures. Like sometimes there was a big truck parked right in front of it. Or sometimes the street arts were so close to the main roads that the photographer have to cross to the other side of the road and quickly take a picture before traffic starts pouring in and you have to wait for some time before you get a chance for a perfect view. 

If you are the kind who hates walking under the hot sun through a throng of tourists and having to keep an eye on cars and motorcycles and old uncles and aunties riding their bicycles while crossing the road, then street art hunting is not the thing for you. If you are the kind that don't mind the sun, the people, the dust and debris from the busy roads, then please do street hunt all you want because it is so worth it. The street arts there are beautiful. 

Anyway, Sheena Liam is one lucky girl. She's dating Ernest Zacharevic, who is the artist of the popular Kids On Bicycle, Boy On Chair, Old Motorcycle and many more street arts. Lucky, lucky girl.

You can download the PDF version of the map here. 

That night we ate at this restaurant called Jawi House located at 85 Armenian Street, and wowwwww, the food was to die for. They cook Peranakan dishes and there was this one desert, I forgot the name, though, Ayuni was the one that ordered it, it was this type of red velvet very soft cake, and when you take a bite out of it, it just immediately melts in your mouth and tastes like heaven. I think the owner just recently won an award given by Chef Wan or something. Well-deserved, I must say.

Sooooo delicious.

The next day, we went to a 3D Trick Art Museum located at 10, Lebuh Penang, and there was no other visitors there so we had the place all to ourselves. That was fun. Now I know how 3D trick art museums work.

That night, we picked up Ruhil at her hotel and drove up to Hard Rock Cafe which was actually quite far from the city centre, around a 30-minute drive, and because it was up on a hill, the roads leading there had a lot of turns and twists and actually quite dangerous so make sure to drive within the speed limit. Anyway, Hard Rock Cafe was the usual, dark and loud, haha. Not really my style though, and the food was okay.

The next day, Ayuni brought me to a cat cafe. The food wasn't that great, to be honest, but at least we got to pet some cute cats. But most of them were really sleepy. Most probably we came during their nap time.

Ayuni and her cat mug ^-^

Sigh. Penang was awesome. I would definitely go there again some day.

My Travel Adventures Part 2.2 - Singapore

As promised in my previous post, Part 2.2 will be about Universal Studios Singapore. I have been there 3 times already and to be honest, 3 times is not enough. There are just way too many rides and shows and activities to do that 1 visit is never enough and every year, there is always something new. And the really fun rides are not enough to experience just once. The tickets are a bit expensive after converting to Malaysian Ringgit but it's still worth it. You can go here for more official info about the entrance fees.

The first time I went to Universal Studios Singapore was in February 2014 with Wani. Wani took a long break from work and decided to escape Miri and she came to Johor Bahru to meet up with me. It was her suggestion to go to USS and I immediately agreed because I have never been there before. Wani has been there once with her friends before. They stayed at a hotel in JB. This was way before I started working in JB so now that I had a place in JB, accommodation wasn't an issue for us.

My passport had already expired at that time. And being the procrastinated person I am, I renewed my passport just one day before our trip to USS. Which is never a good idea. I renewed my passport on a Sunday at Pekan Rabu which is in Tampoi, Johor Bahru and damn. There was so many people. I arrived at 7.30 am and was the second last person to receive a number before they closed the registration. At 7.30 am and they had already closed the registration! Good thing I made it just on time or Wani would have killed me.

So I picked up Wani from the airport that day, she stayed overnight at my place and the next morning, we were all set to go to USS.

Except we didn't exactly planned so well on how we were going to get there. By my car was a big no no, because I was scared my car was already blacklisted in Singapore as how I had written before in my previous post here. Last time Wani went with her friends, they went by bus from JB Sentral into Singapore and once in Singapore they took the MRT to Sentosa Island.

I Googled it up and realised that Tune Hotel Danga Bay had shuttle services going from JB directly to USS daily and so I suggested that we just used the shuttle service as it was faster than having to make a lot of stops on the MRT. Our mistake was that we just assumed that the shuttles were available, like, every half hour and we could just buy the tickets on the spot. So we arrived at Tunes Hotel Danga Bay at around 10am (I know, we should have woken up earlier) and when we asked the receptionist regarding the shuttle services, she told us that the buses had already left and the next shuttle service will only be available the very next morning.

Damn.

We still didn't want to give up. We were pumped up and excited for USS, nothing was going to stop us from getting there. So we decided to ride the bus from JB Sentral to Singapore and from there, the MRT, until to Sentosa Island. It was almost 11.00 am when we finally got to JB Sentral and I had to park in City Square instead, which has a bridge connecting to JB Sentral, because the parking in Sentral was already full.

So we managed to catch a bus to Singapore, which I should mention there are many, many buses that comes to and fro Singapore like almost every half hour and costs only RM1. The buses will go through the custom and everything which is a little bit of a hassle because you'll be hopping on from JB Sentral and from there the bus will stop at the JB customs where you have to hop off and scan your passport and then you hop back on the bus and from the JB customs they will drive to the Singapore customs where you have to hop off again and fill in the white form and scan your passport and everything and finally you hop on the bus again until finally you reach the Kranji MRT Station, which is the nearest MRT station to the Woodlands custom. And you have to make sure to get on the same bus or then your ticket wouldn't be approved.

When it was only me and Wani, it wasn't such a hassle because it was just the both of us. The third time I went to USS was with Ruhil, her husband, and her 1 in a half years old baby, and that time I decided we should just ride the shuttle from Tunes Hotel because Ruhil was bringing her baby and I didn't want to cause much hassle for them having to make many stops on the MRT, so I had prepared earlier and bought the tickets and everything. I was pretty proud of myself but I had forgotten the fact that we still have to hop on and off from the bus to go through the immigration and customs and all and dragging a stroller everywhere was really tiring and we haven't even reach Singapore yet. Lol.

Wani and me on the bus, excited like little kids. Haha

So when we finally reached Kranji MRT Station, I was pretty confident that Wani would know which train we were suppose to ride on that would get us to Sentosa Island, because she has done all this before.

Ha! I was WRONG!

Wani didn't remember anything. She kept claiming it was because her friend was the one that led the way and all she did was follow.

Yeah, ok, fine Wani. Thanks for your help.

So we asked this really nice MRT staff at the counter and she gave us a map of the MRT trains and circled all the stations we were supposed to stop at until we finally reach Sentosa Island. It's a very useful map if you know where you're going. I kept that particular map and used it the second time I went to USS with my boyfriend. Which I was very proud of because for the first time my navigation skills were better than his, even though I kind of cheated because I've done it before, but still. Lol. I still keep the map until today.

Before reaching Sentosa Island, our last MRT stop was at VivoCity, which is this huge shopping mall. We bought our entrance ticket to USS in VivoCity, which is available at level 3 of the mall. From VivoCity, there are 3 ways you can get to Sentosa Island:

1. By cable car, which I think is the most exciting way to get there and a lot of tourists with money would pick this option. The problem was, Wani and I didn't have enough money because our money was from Ringgit Malaysia currency so we converted just enough to buy the ticket entrance to USS. Haha. We even brought along bread we bought the day before because we were determined not to spend any money on food in USS. Lol. So sad, right. The cable car costs S$29 per adult and S$18 per child. So yeah. Riding the cable car was out of the question for us.

2. By Sentosa Express, which is like the Singapore version of Malaysia's monorail. It was only S$4 per adult for a return trip. This choice was considerable.

3. By foot via the Sentosa Boardwalk from VivoCity to Sentosa Island. This was for free. As tempting as the free sounds, Wani and I were already so tired from our journey on the bus and MRT and it was almost 1.00 pm so we decided against walking. When I went with my boyfriend, he immediately chose the boardwalk because he is supposedly such a health and exercise freak. Ha! Yeah, right.

So me and Wani chose the Sentosa Express and finally we made it to USS. And all of our energy suddenly came rushing back.

Now, if you are planning on going to USS on a school holiday with the kids, well then you have no choice but to encounter the massive crowds and long queue to all the main attractions but if you are a couple of single grown adults like Wani and me, then it is advisable to go on a non-school holiday weekdays. Because queuing up for the rides are really such a waste of precious time and there are so many other things to do there.

Wani and I went on a Monday of a non-school holiday and the queues for most of the rides were still okay, except for the really popular rides like the Transformer. We waited over an hour in the queue for that ride. And imagine if it was a school holiday.

But it was SOOOOOOO worth it because it was one of the best rides there! But my favourite ride was The Mummy. THAT RIDE WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME I COULD RIDE IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. But I think Wani disagreed with me. She cried beside me all through the ride and the whole time I was laughing, so I didn't feel so scared. Haha. Just kidding, Wani. Don't hate me.

When I went with Ruhil and her small family, we wanted to ride the Transformers ride many times so Ruhil came up with the idea of queuing up in the single rider line so we didn't have to wait long. If you're not going with a group of friends and want to save time, queuing up as a single rider is a good idea as it saves A LOT of time. The only downside is you don't get to sit beside your friend or sometimes not even in the same motorcar if you're not lucky. But it doesn't really matter actually because once you're actually on the ride, you totally forget about the person sitting beside you because the ride is just that FREAKIN' AWESOME.

I wanted to go on one of the larger rollercoasters in USS which was in the Far Far Away Land section under the Shrek theme but Wani didn't want to and I didn't want to ride as a single rider. I practically dragged Wani to the queue of the rollercoaster and she kept  begging me to stop so I gave in. When I went the second time with my boyfriend, the rollercoaster was closed due to maintenance so I guess I was never meant to ride that ride.

We took a photo with Pinocchio instead since Wani was too scared to ride the rollercoaster. Haha.

And there are so many shows to watch there but make sure to take the pamphlet written the schedule and timings of all the shows and manage your time properly so you don't miss the shows you want to watch. When I went with my boyfriend, we managed to catch this water show at the Lost World section which was so cool. They showed off a lot of water stunts and if you sit really close to the front you will definitely get soaking wet.

The water show where the stuntmen/women put on a play of how this damsel in distress was kidnapped by a gang of bandits and the hero came and saved her.

When I was with Ruhil and her small family, we waited in front of the line to see a Sesame Street show because her baby was a HUGE fan of Elmo. We even went in two times because the first time we didn't know what time the show started and came in late and had to sit at the way back so after that we found out the show was going to be played again at another time, we managed to get front seats. Her baby was super excited, he started dancing at the bottom of the stage along with Elmo. So cute.

Oops. No Elmo in this pic. Sorry, Elmo.

By the end of the day you will be so worn out and the next morning you will have muscle sore all over your body so it's a good idea to also take leave one day after your USS adventure. Totally worth the money, in my opinion. Me and Wani were totally famished when we came back to JB that night because all we ate the whole day was bread. Haha. Yeah. We were that much of a cheapskate until the point we would rather starve than spend money on food. >.<