my short-lived spring break.

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nak tunggu mood stabil + kelas semua settle baru nak update betul-betul, kasi ada feel. haha.

orait, without further nonsense, on to the journey!!

disclaimer : videos are not mine/my friends', they are their respective owners' properties, i got em from YouTube sebab kitorang takleh nak pegang any form of recording-tech-thing on the rides. thank you.

24 Mac, Isnin
Six Flags, Magic Mountain

malam sebelum tu, saya + Laily telah menonton Saw secara terus-menerus (read : Saw marathon). yep, up to Saw IV. maka maklumlah bahawa kami tido dalam 2 jam je, ataupun kurang dari 2 jam. ingat taknak tido terus, tapi memandangkan roller coaster memerlukan daya konsentrasi yang tinggi, kami tido laa jugak walaupun sekejap.

bertolak dalam pukul 7 am.


kami antara orang terawal beratur kereta nak masuk tempat parking.


nampak tak belakang tu? NAMPAK TAK?!


ride-ride di sini yang kategori 'high thrill' berupa begini ye murid-murid. sila bayangkan sepenuh hati. tu adalah Viper (rasanya), yang last-last kitorang tak naik pun. sedey je.


nak tunggu tempat parking kereta bukak~ kami berlari-larian bergambaran --


-- bergambaran lagi --


-- dan mula laa idea gila, main tangkap gambar lompat.


dan lagi.


tiket kami~


sebelum main gate bukak -- ramai dah orang time ni.

pembukaan gate dirasmikan oleh Bugs Bunny, Batman, Robin dan beberapa karekter yang dah lupa siapa, bersama sorang budak yang birthdaynya jatuh pada tarikh tersebut.
best gile budak tuuu.

benda first kitorang naik adalah roller-coaster bernama : Revolution.

see how it is.
the video doesn't say it, but it being our first ride of the day, and my FiRST EVER loop, rasa kecut jugak laa time atas tu. masa in line tu, i was like : "kenapa laa aku ada kat sini ni..."

dah turun tu pulak, my reaction : "THAT WAS AWESOME."

on to the next one : Tatsu (dragon in Japanese)


di mana lutut telah bergetar secara tak terkawal.
(gambar ni diambil sebelum balik, fyi)

just to give you people how it looks like :



yes, it's that orange thing.
naik dia : duduk cam biasa, then tempat duduk korang akan dinaikkan, so korang akan sort of 'duduk bersandarkan track' and korang boleh jadik cam 'Superman tengah terbang sambil duduk'. get the idea?

how Tatsu feels like.
memang seram laa sebenarnya naik yang ni, tapi it remains one of the BEST i've ridden on that day. bila dia pusing tu, memang dia sengaja suruh kita tengok bawah and how it'll loop in that huge loop. gileee.

lepas tu : Dejavu.

it was, dunno, lucky or not, that time turn kitorang, diorang discovered yang ada 1 of the screws dah tercabut, and they couldn't locate which screw it was. so diorang terpaksa stopkan ride tu at the time and asked the people to enjoy other rides dulu until they can solve the problem.
nasib baik orang-orang yang naik benda tu sebelum kitorang takde accident or anything.

see this -- just to let you know how it's like if we've got on it.


almost all of the convoy somewhere near Dejavu.


yeah, kitorang yang lega frust disappointed sebab tak dapat naik Dejavu.

then tetiba kitorang terpecah into 2 groups masa kitorang tengah sibuk amek gambar.
terpaksa membuang masa carik the other group. dah laa hampir semua phone kat dalam beg Laily, taktau nak contact camne pun. so kitorang (my group) decided to jalan naik anything first. and kitorang ke Superman : The Escape.


how it looks like.
sort of launching the riders vertically in high speed.
kat atas ride tu ada statue Superman -- kelakar pulak haha.
masa kitorang di-launch, diorang just kata "have a nice ride" -- then bukan cam ride biasa, slow dulu or anything -- ni memang fwoosh!! terus laju gile nak mampos. terkejut weh. perut cam tertinggal kat belakang.

fly!!
yes, it's like this. kejap lak tu.

lepas tu kitorang berjaya unite kat tempat makan (food really can unite people huh).
lunch kejap, then sambung balik.

naik : Gold Rush.
not really an extreme ride, but i think it's considered 'high thrill' according to the notice board yang memang diletakkan kat every rides. ingatkan cam roller coaster yang kepala kerbau cam kat Sunway Lagoon tu, tapi it turns out to be a bit more thrilling than that. no video here, cuz couldn't find one that's good enough.
BUT, hahaha -- Elly telah ditipu ngan jayanya oleh kami.
i put up my hands all thru the end.

pastu diorang kata nak naik Riddler's Revenge.
to me, masa first tengok the structure, i went : "GiLE KE HAPE?!" sebab loop de BANYAK GLE and the turns pulak takyah cakap laa, memang horror. but in my mind i thought : "kalo boleh naik yang ni, boleh dah naik everything else."


it looks like this, yes.

me being someone yang taknah naik loop roller-coaster before Six Flags, masa in line tu was thinking about a lot of stuff, mainly stuff like : kenapa aku ada kat sini, kenapa diorang tak naik benda lain, gile laa orang yang cipta benda ni, etc.

i went through this.
and i SURViVED!! i was so proud of myself, i put Riddler's Revenge as my number one favorite ride of my life. the ride puts you, the rider, in a standing position (well, you can sit, but the seat is just there to support your butt) all along the crazy loops. saya dah berenti menjerit kat second ride lagi, so while on the ride i opened my eyes as huge as i can to take in the scary rush of blurry vision of the park. wahahahaaa~


survivors of Riddler's Revenge!!

minus Elly of course. (she's our treasurer.)

then comes Batman : The Ride.
this one, somehow is lower than all the other roller coasters. takde laa low gile-gile, tapi still, compared to the others...kind of scary gak, sebab dia cam ada tendency nak langgar the ground. yeah, begitu mencemaskan.
we were in line behind these kids aged somewhere like Azzad, maybe younger. Azzad mesti suka gile kalo dia datang sini.


if you can really see, that's how it looks like.

after we went thru this, we were like : "okaaay, rilek laa jap, kasi amek nafas dulu~"
and i was having a bit of a headache neways, so i was really glad no one is rushing.
maka kamera itu secara tiba-tiba berperanan secara aktif.


depan Batman : The Ride.
saya baru je lepas pakai kasut -- yeah i didn't wear my shoes on the ride. hoho. it was refreshing.

gate masuk Batman : The Ride.
the whole Gotham City- and Bruce Wayne-theme is awesome, makes you feel really like in a Batman story. even the vandalism at the ride queue area pun real abes. (taktau laa kalau tu memang vandalism betul)


survivors of Batman : The Ride.
don't ask what i was doing.

pastu kitorang naik Scream.
sayangnya takde gambar, but it was one of the longest/biggest structures there (to me at least). like i said, after conquering Riddler's Revenge, i can ride anything. so walaupun memang takut gile masa beratur tu, tapi dah takde perasaan sangat dah. maybe sebab dah penat pun time tu.

anyways, it feels like this.

then towards Colossus.
roller-coaster yang structured by kayu.


the white structure, that's wood.

this ride, takde loop pun, still thrill gak. kayu weh!! kayuuu!! the drop tu cam lebih menghorrorkan dari drop on the other rides. dah laa banyak drop. saspen gileee wehhh.

kitorang rasa camni.
aaakh. Elly sekali lagi ditipu into riding this.
oh ye, naik benda ni boleh nampak tempat parking kereta kitorang. (kitorang dapat parking betul-betul depan Colossus ni)

dan dengan berakhirnya Colossus, berakhir jugalah kecemasan kami sebab memasing dah letih. jalan-jalan tengok benda, game booths (ada satu game booth ni, kalau menang, boleh dapat gitar kapok or replika gitar elektrik!! tapi saya tak mahir main games camtu!! aaa~!!) (replika gitar elektrik tu pulak cantik gileee~ ada kaler pink XD)


one of the tarikan : kira cam bungee jump. but in order to play this you have to pay, it's not included in the park pass. bummerrr.


muka orang-orang letih tapi nak bergambar jugak.


kami memang sempat je bergambar kat mana-mana.


"aaa nak main lagi~ tapi tak larat~ aaa nak naik Viper~ nak naik X~ nak naik Dejavu~"


" akak nak dua ek, kejap saya amek."

pastu kitorang dinner kat Muslim Chinese restaurant kat entah apa nama tempat tu sampai ari ni taktau. tak larat nak makan weh.

and the day after, saya tidak sihat.
sampai hari pergi pantai.
mak saya kata, ayah saya pun camtu jugak dulu -- lepas balik dari Six Flags (cawangan lain) ayah saya terus demam. yep, i have his genes all right.

30 Mac, Ahad
Huntington Beach

memang dah lama nak pergi pantai kat sini, sampai dalam hati time tu kata : "demam camne pun, time sampai pantai nanti nak lari-lari cam orang gile."


setibanya kami di sana, kami terus jadi orang gila kamera.

sebenarnya tujuan kitorang pegi sana nak buat BBQ, tapi saya yang kegilaan tengok pantai pergi laa merayau main air, kejar burung, tak kisah langsung pasal makan tu. sampai Elly kena call panggil makan (time tu tengah kejar burung ngan Laily).


Shanida : "ada orang lemas laa Nadia!! tolong de cepat!!"
Nadia : "mana? mana? nampak surfer dude je?"
(fyi, takde langsung orang surf ataupun mandi kat situ sebab ombak de sangat kuat.)


Izwan memerangkap chef pada hari itu.
BAR-BEE-KUU~


gembira dapat makan haha.
duduk bawah payung sebab angin kat situ sejuk sangat sangat sangat.


untuk menghalang makanan dari dimasuki pasir, adalah digalakkan untuk anda semua duduk mengelilingi makanan tanpa menimbulkan sedikit pun ruang di celah-celah anda semua.

dah habis makan tu apa lagi -- menggila laa memasing. time tu pulak matahari tengah cantik.


first pose!! takde idea.


Sumo-lah 2 dibintangi oleh Elly, Nadzirah, Laily, dan Amira.
diarah oleh Nadia mwahahaha.


"tengoklah dunia!! aku berjaya sampai ke pantai setelah sekian lama terbayang dalam pale hotak je!! tengoklah duniaaa~!!"


Jabbawockeez crazy fans.
Jabbawockeez adalah nama salah satu group yang masuk (dan menang!) America's Best Dance Crew, dan diorang adalah sangat awesome lagi gile.


suasana hening di tepi pantai.
cewah ayat.


main bola atau nak lompat tapi tak jadi?
(tengok Elly, yang belah kiri tu, lari gile semangat)


PERFECTNESS is achieved when you put your heart in it.
tapi saya sukaaa gileee gambar niii~!!


golf + football, revolusi sukan baru untuk Olimpik 2012.


terer rupanya diorang control layang-layang nih rupanya.


api~ api~


Mary Poppins : The Uncut version.
(Wafiq~ gambar ni boleh celen ko laa~)


gaya wajib setiap kali Nadia atau adik-beradiknya nak bergambar.


Baoywatch haha.


my current laptop wallpaper -- sebab nampak cam kitorang tengah jalan menuju matahari. and the waves are nice. and the sun is pretty. makaseh Mira amek gambar. (dah puji ni~)


take two of 'menuju matahari' -- hahahahahahahahahahahaaa takleh blah.


gambar ni pun suka gile!! sebab saya sorang melompat XDDD
credits to Elly.


hoh saya terbang.


Laily aka stunt coordinator : "hm hm bagus bagus, tapi slack korang tak berlanggar in mid-air."


...adakah Elly dan saya sedang berlatih untuk sesuatu...?


kalau berlari-lari kegirangan secara hyper, anda akan terkena sumpahan Davy Jones.


bonfire. burn baby buuurn.
time ni diorang ada letak something yang akan tukar api jadi kaler-kaler, tapi efek dia sikit + kejap je. ceh. baik buat dalam lab kimia je.


bonfire dari jauh.
the warmth is really pleasing against the cold sea breeze.
(wuhuuu saya puitis!!)


sesi marshmallow. best woo sebenarnya buat camni. saya yang tak suka marshmallow pun rasa seronok.
(tengok laa Azzad~ jeles laa~)


time to say doogbye to the fire, kiddies.
acara memadam api beramai-ramai.

dan dengan berat hati Nadia telah meninggalkan pantai Huntington, sambil di dalam hatinya berbisik : "aku akan ke sini lagi. pasti."
cewahhh gile puitis weh ayat!!

but yeah, that's how my one-week spring break went. nothing much due to demam/tak sihat, but nevertheless it was a memorable one.

thank you for reading + thank you also for being patient with me.