So its the weekend.. I for one am not going anywhere fancy today. Initially I was thinking of going to Miri with dad to fetch mom up at the airport.. but then, just the thought of having to sit for hours in the car because of the inevitable weekend traffic jam en route to Miri made me change my mind almost immediately. Thus I blog.
Now onto the point of my title..
I've acknowledged some people's tweets and Facebook statuses lately saying they're going to Jerudong Park to spend their Sunday. The first thing that popped inside my mind is you guys don't know what you're about to get into.
I went to Jerudong Park with the big family last week.. by that I mean with my cousins and all. All I could say at the end of the day was: its not worth the excitement, its not worth the money and its definitely not worth waiting in the long queue just to purchase the tickets.
Just few days before that, having heard that Jerudong Park was reopening, I was as excited as Rebecca Black in her Friday music video! And from what I can remember during my frequent visits to JP in my not-so-long-ago childhood, the place was all about fun and amusement.. but when we actually got there that particular day.. I was instantly disappointed.
The main reason why I got all psyched out for JP at the first place was because of the anticipation to ride the roller coasters -been a while since I did such a thing. Much to my surprise though, not even one of them was opened, all had been shut down, not just the roller coasters but all the extreme rides including the Water Log, the Sudden Drop and all those alike. Whats left to be amused about for kids my age are the bumper cars, the paddle boats and the go-karts.. but I didn't even ride any of them, why? because of the unbelievably long queue one has to wait in just to get a turn to play.
You don't even have to stand in line just to know the wait is long, you could pretty much tell just by looking at the desperate people waiting there. And whats worse is, you only get to spend about 10 minutes of what you've been waiting half an hour in line for.
Much more to my disappointment, I expected JP to have a face-lift or something now that it has reopened again, but things remained almost the same and old like the last time I visited it years ago. And of all the things I did spend my ticket on was at the Shooting Range booth, and that place alone looks decapitated and in need of some serious renovations. Enough said on that.
After spending more than 3 hours of simply wandering about the place, the little ones finally got tired of playing in the playground and so we finally, finally exited JP. Some of us still have our tickets left.. unspent.. so they decided to sell them to the rather desperate people waiting at the ticket booth. Its better to do so than let it go to waste, right?
On our way out, surprise as we all were, we could make out a traffic jam of cars moving inch by inch to enter JP. The traffic jam was intense and made very slow progress. It stretched from the parking lot all the way into the highway, the jam ended precisely on the Jerudong highway bridge, near the filling station. Funny thing is, we didn't even have to go through much trouble going into JP that evening, even as we got out from it. Though I really felt sorry for those people in the traffic jam and those still waiting in line to get a turn to play the bumper cars.. is it worth the wait? I doubt it.
Here's a snap shot of me and Ammar before entering JP, very excited to ride the non-existent roller coasters. Sigh.
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