Genting Highlands, Malaysia
Malaysia Highlands in Genting.
Imagine finding a pristine mountain top with intact rainforest and a perfect temperature of 75 degrees throughout the year, when the rest of the flat plains is roasting at 90 degrees temps or higher. What do you do with such an oasis? Plant a big fat casino of course while ripping out all the green leafy trees and putting in plastic ones! I took a visit to this casino for a poker tourny of 500 hundred players from all over southeast asia. I came in 30th place and won 1000 malaysian ringits--would you believe I was bumped out when I had a Full House in my hand? Such a tragedy!
Because I thought I had a chance to win the whole tourny (before the dreaded Full House came), I purposely missed my flight back home. I realized later all the buses were booked and I had no ride home for Sunday night, so ended up hiring a cab to drive the 5 hrs back to Singapore --pretty cheap actually --half my winning of 500 ringits. Unfortunetly the cab driver loved John Denver (country roads..take me home...to the place....I BELONG...) and falling asleep at the wheel. We went half in the ditch about 3 times which kept me VERY awake--where I offered the cabby I would drive, but he wouldn't let me. Know the price of gas in Malaysia? about a 1 USD per gallon. This is a cheap cheap country--I'll be heading back soon.....
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