Hello there my dear awesome, awesome readers!! How have you been? It's been ages since I wrote an entry. Missed me?
Anyway, Diva's Daily for today is my experience to LegoLand Malaysia.
Ah this is
always the hardest part... to actually start. (>_<) ugh! Ok let’s start
with “Pre-Trip” planning.
Pre-Trip
Planning
To begin with,
we have been planning to go on this trip for ages. Like since the first day
LegoLand was announced to be opened in September. Ugh! How rude of me! Not
explaining who is “We”? You see within the past 2 months to September, Ronn,
Paul and Me had been hanging out together a lot. And like almost everything we
did together, planning for LegoLand was done upon impulse. However, upon
getting the information from a friend of mine in Johor, that by the grand
opening, LegoLand hasn’t been completed completely yet. A lot of rides were not
available yet. So when I told this to Ronn and Paul, instead of going to
LegoLand a week after the grand opening, the plan was put on hold until further
notice.
Then not until
two weeks ago, the plan had resurfaced. Ronn and me reconstruct the planning
and invited more people. Since initially it was only Ronn, Paul and me who had
known about this plan, we shared the planning to more people. We invited Adesh
(Paul’s friend), Michael and his Girl, Megat, Zahrah (Ronn’s A-Level friend),
and Sookie and her Boyfie.
The trip was
supposed to take place late this week. But since Megat had to go to Kedah just
this recent Thursday, the trip was moved up to either on the 27th
Nov or on the 28th Nov. Then
on last Friday night Megat dropped another bomb that he can go if we have the
trip on Tuesday since Wednesday was a no, no. (=.=)’’’ seriously? Obviously it
was serious. So with the date set, it was the people who wanted to go had to be
confirmed. Eventually, only Ronn, Megat and I manage to make it for the trip.
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Paul couldn’t go because his
parents wouldn’t let him and it was too rushed.
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Adesh couldn’t go because he
had exams.
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Zahrah was in Jakarta so
there’s no way she could make it even if she wanted to.
· Michael? Well I texted and sent
a Facebook message. He didn’t reply to either one. So I didn’t do any follow
ups.
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Sookie? Well I texted her, she
did reply but couldn’t make it if it was arranged the very week we wanted to
go.
So yeah, this is
what happened when you rush plan everything. Since I am pretty much clueless
about the stuff here (Peninsular Malaysia region), I had to leave the planning
go to Ronn and Megat to deal with. Ronn find out as much as he could for the
theme park and Megat was asked to deal with the transportation’s information. Bastard
suggested taking the plane... is he insane?! Geez! Obviously I vetoed against
the suggestion and went for the obvious. Bus ride. To get them bus tickets, we
went to TBS, KL. Cost us RM58 for the bus tickets, to and fro. Pretty good deal
really. Ronn got the entry tickets to LegoLand via online purchase and had
Megat to print it for us. So bus tickets and LalaLand entry pass purchased and
printed, we are set to go. And this was done Monday.
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| Bus Tickets & LegoLand’s Entry Pass |
That night I
slept earlier than usual but my roomy was still with her dramas which made it
hard for me to sleep. Though forgiven since, I sometimes do it too. (>_<)
Sorry Irene.
Trip Day
First 4hours of
an 8hours bus ride...
Woke up to my
alarm at 5.30 in the morning, I was still sleepy since I got less than 4 hours
of sleep. I woke my ass up and went and dive in the cold morning shower to wake
up. I put together my attire, pack up the extra cloths Ronn suggested us to
bring since there are some you’re-gonna-get-wet rides available in Legoland and
we certainly wouldn’t miss it for the world to try it out, and I also packed up
my overnight bag since later that day I have to stay at his (Ronn’s) house
since by the time we reached KL it’ll be way past my hostel’s curfew. Ronn
reached my place at 6.45 a.m. then we headed to Megat’s house. Reached his
house sometime around 7.05 and had Ronn texting him announcing our arrival in
front of his house gate. Megat called back 5 minutes later telling us he needed
to cook his instant noodles and he needed few minutes to get it done. Take a
wild guess how long did he took to “cook” his instant noodles? 20 bloody
minutes! Since he took 20 minutes to show his face in front of the car, you’d
assume he’d be done eating his breakfast? You guessed wrong! He came out
bearing a CUP INSTANT NOODLES! That fucked up food only takes me accountably 5
minutes to have it cooked and chow-down my throat! Apparently Mr. Fucking
Genius here had to “Fry” his Maggie first. Damn it! Who fry their CUP noodles?
If you say the instant noodles in the packet then yes! Even I do it from time
to time. And honestly speaking, even if I were to fry that noodles, I only
needed an extra 5 minutes to get it done including cleaning up my cooking mess.
As from the smell of the noodles, it was only EGG he added into the noodles.
For someone who suggested us to get ready at the crack of dawn, he surely took
his own sweet time wasting a good 20 minutes on a bloody fried cup noodles.
Finally getting
a move on to TBS, we got stuck in the same area for almost 1 hour. Just in the
nick of time, we reached the bus station and finally got out breakfast. Mineral
water and a packet of twin Twigees for me and mineral water and few packets of
Gardenia’s waffle for Ronn. The bus came slightly 10 minutes off schedule.
Nevertheless, we were on our seats and were well on our way to Johor’s Larkin
bus central. Bus ride from KL to Larkin took a good 4 hours. Ronn and Megat
utilized this time to reclaim lost sleep while I submerge myself into reading
Daniel Silva’s Secret Servant before my head decide it was too woozy to read in
the bus. Then I decided to take a visit to slumber land. Of course not before I
cam-whored myself on the bus seat and stole a sleeping picture of the boys.
LOL!
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Ronn woke up at 6am and he had to drive.. poor thing..
Megat didn't sleep the whole night. plain idiotic (=.=)'' |
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| Bye-bye for now KL.. LegoLand here I come! |
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| Toilet break.. waiting for the bus to make a move.. |
I wished I have
more things to tell you about the bus ride like how I had engage an exciting
conversation with anyone of them or anything of sorts. Sadly none since we
spent the next 4hours of our lives snoozing throughout the 4 hours bus ride.
Upon my waking hours before I decided to sleep, how I actually wished Nikita
was around. Perhaps the bus ride wouldn’t be such a bore.
Around noon, the
bus came into halt on an R&R area. I made the visit to the loo count. God
knows how long it will be until I’d see the next toilet. Assumingly my
biological clock knows this kind of things, after approximately another 1 hour
and 30 minutes of bus ride, which I spent sleeping for the final one hour, then
I simply was just too awake for the next 30 minutes so I decide to look out the
window and enjoy the view of Johor’s town. We reached Larkin Central around
1.10 in the afternoon and waited another 40 minutes for the bus that goes to
LegoLand. While waiting, I got myself some lunch from McD (Thank God for McD
being available in the bus station). LegoLand bus finally came around and took
around 20-30 minutes before we reached LegoLand.
LEGOLAND!!!
Seeing that
LEGOLAND sign on top of hill like how they did with that Hollywood sign back in
the US was the best thing I have ever seen. At least it was time to have some
serious fun after 4 sleepy hours bus ride. I could have just dash off the bus
and run off to the entrance gate if it wasn’t for the fact that Megat had the
entrance pass in his back pack. (=.=)’’’
Have you ever
heard the expression that says, “Like a Child in a candy store”? It’s something
like when you entered a place for the first time and the place is was just too
awe-tastic that your eyes just goes a hundred and one places at once and you
don't know where to start? Well if you experienced that before, then it’s safe
to tell ya’ll that, that is exactly how I felt when I step pass the entrance
gate. Sufficiently, I grabbed a LegoLand map. We tackled the theme park from
right hand side facing the map and work our way up to the begin point again.
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| LEGOLAND'S MAP (^_^)v |
For start, we
couldn’t decide where to go. Obviously being in a theme park you can’t expect
to get on to a ride without standing in line for at least 5-15minutes. But we
didn’t want to stand in line. So our first stop was the Lego City Stage. They
had some play gathered up. We sat there throughout the show enjoying it while I
multitask with figuring out where to go next. At first I suggested that we take
turns to decide which ride to get on. But after the first ride which Ronn
chosen, Lego City Airport. I’m pretty lazy to explain how it looks and how does
it work so here’s the pictures of us on it.
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Lining up waiting for our turns...
Pictures of us on the airplanes.
Megat didn’t want to be on it so he was the one who took these pictures. |
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| Too bad there's no pink plane.. hahaha :p |
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| Ronn made me choose the green once on purpose!!! |
Anyways where
were we? Ah yes, taking turns to decide what ride to go next. Well after the first
ride, we were again walking aimlessly walking pass both Boating School AND Lego
Rescue Academy’s attraction, which both we didn’t get enough time to revisit
and have a try on it! Ugh! So walking past that too (Lego Rescue Academy
attraction, where we have to jump on something or move something on the ride so
the whole ride can move from the starting to the finishing line. I’m not sure
how to explain but basically you need your energy to enjoy the attraction), we
went to the Lost Kingdom Adventure.
I guess at the
end of the day, I realize that we didn’t stop at the boating school especially
was because of 2 things. First we didn’t want to start out LEGO adventure with
waiting in a line while we could be easily doing other things that don’t
require lining up and waiting for turns. Second was because of what Ronn said
earlier that day. Something about leaving all the water rides to the last
minutes until we have tried every single ride that does not make you wet.
Honestly we did
plan to stick to the plan. But after the 2nd ride which was the Lost
Kingdom Adventure attraction where he had to shoot stuff, collect points, get
our pictures captured (which we eventually didn’t buy any. Seriously who wants
to buy a picture that cost us 30 bucks minimum? Crazy!), and mummies waking up
from their casket and for some reason Ronn kept screaming... LOL!
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| Lining up for the Lost Kingdom Attraction |
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| That bloody things there are made from 100% LEGOS |
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| And he goes bang, bang, bang... LOL |
Moving on, 3rd
ride. Getting out from the Lost Kingdom thingy, I said I wanted to visit the
Dino Island. So they were like okay. Obviously I didn’t know it was to be a
water ride. If not I would have skipped it. But, I didn’t so we went on and
line up. The nearer we get to the core of the line, only then we realized that
it was the water ride we saw when we accompany Megat while he get his lunch
break in between after Lost Kingdom and before Dino Island. Damn it his meal
cost him 22bucks. But judging from the look of the burger, I’d say it was money
worth spending.
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| Lunch Break.. Nothing is cheap!! |
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| Megat's Burger... It's a well deserving 22 bucks burger set.. |
Going back to
the Dino Island incident, well when we realize it was ‘The Water Ride’, it was
already too late to go back out. So we went on with it. Since it was a water
ride and I did not want to get any of my electronic devices to get wet as well
as the reason we did not buy the pictures captured by the camera, can really
show you guys our expression. But it’s good enough to say, our faces were
terrible! You’d pee in your pants laughing looking at our expression! Going up
the water slide was the most gut wrenching experience I’ve ever felt. Have you
ever felt that feeling in your abdomen region when you feel like your gut is
going up the throat and when you finally hit ground, you just thank God that
you didn’t peed or crapped the hell out of your pants? Yeah me too. Oh how I
screamed while going down the slope.
Soaking wet, we
precede to LEGO Studio 4D Experience. There we watched a LEGO production of The
Spellbreaker. I was hoping the 4D Experience was a bit like what I’ve seen in
one of Mr. Bean’s sketches where the chair rock from left to right just to
capture the true 4D Experience. Instead we were only greeted with water spray
and soap-bubble-snow-look-a-like. A bit disappointing but what the hell.
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| Waiting for the show to start... posing with 3D glasses |
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Still really wet from Dino Island.. proceed to go to 4D experience...
Gonna get wet again! |
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| Waiting for the show to start... posing with 3D glasses |
Done that, we
walked pass the observational tower as it was close due to the thunder and
lightning. So we proceed to whatever that came next. Ronn suggested that we go
to the Built and Test attraction where we get to build something out of LEGOS
and geared mechanism that could make it move around and stuff. But we didn’t
went since I personally think it’d just take up our time when we can try out
other rides while the weather is a little bit better then turning into a
thunder storm. So where did we go next?
Take a wild
guess...
Well evidently,
we were talking about the roller-coaster rides and how the day couldn’t get any
better. Well Megat did most of the talking, mostly about roller-coaster. He was
very excited about it. Then we reached LEGO Kingdom region. We entered this
place where it’s nearly deserted and went it. While wondering where the
entrance to the roller-coaster is we saw from like literally 2 regions away
from the LEGO Kingdom region, we entered this castle like, walk up the staircase
and took a few pictures along the way. And what should we find at the end of
the trail? Yes people. THE ENTRANCE TO THE ROLLER-COASTER!!! Ding, ding, ding!!
Jackpot! You see I am a roller-coaster virgin until LEGOLAND happened. And here
I was thinking I’d always lose my roller-coaster virginity to Sunway Lagoon’s
roller-coaster ride. Anyway, the ride was off the HOOK! Funny how that didn’t
made me lose my lunch though it is not biologically possible since it’s been
more than 2hours since I consumed my McD’s double cheese burger set.
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We have no idea it was the passage to the roller-coaster entrance!!
With the map in hand, I automatically became the attraction coordinator... |
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| Ronn was way ahead.. Nevertheless pictures was a MUST!! |
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| Credits to Ronn who gave the idea for this picture... *Hugs |
Done that, we went off to the next attraction. There we saw the smaller version of The Dragon. But right in the moment, we had our sunned moment when we say Project X. How we wanted to ride it so bad. I went for a toilet break when I assigned Ronn and Megat to ask the people in charge is the attraction open for a ride. Sadly it was closed due to the continuous drizzling (like seriously it as drizzling. Not even qualified to be called rain. But it drizzle long enough to keep the place damp and us people wet!), thunder and lightning. So instead we went to TECHNIC Twister. Basically it’s a spinning cup. We had a blast despite our stomach threatening us to throw up our lunch out of the system. Gosh I could barely walk straight after the ride.
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| Spinning Cup thingy... |
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| Ride haven't started but Megat wanted to look retarded so.. yeah.. HAHAHA.... |
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And round and round it goes..
Note: No lunches were lost during to the end of the ride. |
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| Someone suggest me what to put here... Idk what caption to put.. LOL |
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Megat: How the hell do u take pictures in this condition??
Me: I have my ways... hahaha... |
As soon as we
went off the spinning cup thingy, we noticed the earlier closed AQUAZONE Wave
Racer had opened. So off we went and line up. Actually, by half the day gone,
we didn’t care much for the fact that we are still wet from the first water
ride and our perspiration as well as the rain drizzling on us, by the time we
went to the AQUAZONE Wave Racer thingy, we were basically thinking of how much
fun can we get. It was fun and all but honestly after having a taste of The
Dragon, everything else that was meant to be extreme seems tame. This is why
they always tell you to save the best for last.
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| Toilet break.. Mirror frame is LEGO inspired too... |
Anyways, once we
were done with AWR, Project X was still close. So we decided to proceed to
MiniLand where every single monument was built out of LEGOS. I basically went
gaga over the whole thing. I must have snapped more than 50 pictures on the
sculptures themselves. Here are some of my best works.
Megat had to
look for me in the MiniLand as I was going gaga over them when he broke the
news to me that the Project X has finally opened. Just before we dash off to
Project X, we snapped few pictures with the Hollywood look-a-like LEGOLAND
lettering on the hill as a background.
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| THEY ALMOST LOOK LIKE THE REAL THING ON THE REAL PLACE... |
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| THEY ALMOST LOOK LIKE THE REAL THING ON THE REAL PLACE... |
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| THEY ALMOST LOOK LIKE THE REAL THING ON THE REAL PLACE... |
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| LEGOLAND AS THE BACKGROUND... Lady behind me is so photobombing me.. (=.=)''' |
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I always take good pictures of people..
Sad how people can't seem to get it right with my face on it... |
Project X was
only slightly less awesome in comparison of The Dragon. But it was awesome
nonetheless.
Last ride we had
was the also recently reopened Observation Tower. It was around 6.45 in the
evening and seriously, it was a really nice way to end the trip. Took a few
snaps of the scenery thought it was less than satisfactory since the glass were
all fogged up due to the rain and the air-cond in the capsulate.
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The view from the Observatory Tower.
I edited the picture as much as possible so ya'll can see the view cuz originally the picture was all fogged up.
This is the best I can do. |
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The view from the Observatory Tower.
I edited the picture as much as possible so ya'll can see the view cuz originally the picture was all fogged up.
This is the best I can do. |
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The view from the Observatory Tower.
I edited the picture as much as possible so ya'll can see the view cuz originally the picture was all fogged up.
This is the best I can do. |
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The view from the Observatory Tower.
I edited the picture as much as possible so ya'll can see the view cuz originally the picture was all fogged up.
This is the best I can do. |
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The view from the Observatory Tower.
I edited the picture as much as possible so ya'll can see the view cuz originally the picture was all fogged up.
This is the best I can do. |
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The view from the Observatory Tower.
I edited the picture as much as possible so ya'll can see the view cuz originally the picture was all fogged up.
This is the best I can do. |
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The view from the Observatory Tower.
I edited the picture as much as possible so ya'll can see the view cuz originally the picture was all fogged up.
This is the best I can do. |
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| Perfect way to end the day... |
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| Poor guy.. he was too tired dy.. |
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Seriously none of his pix seem less retarded from the previous once.. (=.=)'''
Thank you Mr. Time Keeper.. |
Then we made our
way to the merchandise shop where Ronn and Megat went all out shopping for
souvenirs. (=.=)’’’ I bought myself a key chain in the shape of a LEGO brick. I
wanted to buy W one too but seems it ain’t worth it. Especially how he been
treating me recently? Well forget about it.
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| Christmas Tree made of LEGOS... |
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| OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE SHOPPING TIME!!! |
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| OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE SHOPPING TIME!!! |
Done shopping,
we walked out and went to wait for the last bus to go back to Larkin. But of
course not before taking loads of pictures in front of the LEGOLAND’S main
gate.
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| Bye-Bye LEGOLAND... It has been a wonderful day... |
When the bus came, it waited for another 10 minutes to give the people chance to get everyone back to Larkin. Like everything else in life, trip going back is always feels faster. Once we reached Larkin, we split ways for an hour or so with Megat. We thought he went to the loo and will look for us once he’s done with whatever business he had with the toilet. So we went ahead to get our dinner in McD. As soon as we finished eating, the bus came. We went to the toilet then as I was walking out; I bumped into Megat who apparently went to grab dinner in some other place. We went into the bus and experienced another 4 long hours of bus ride. This time going back to KL. How did we spent it? Well you’ve guessed it. We slip into slumberland.
Reached KL
sometime around 1 in the morning, Megat went to smoke his lungs out while we
waited in the car then off we went to send Megat to his house. Only after that,
that we finally we reached Ronn’s house and could get a proper clean up and rest.
I took my shower and borrowed Ronn’s hair dryer. As soon as I was done ironing
my hair, I was already mentally asleep half way lying down the bed.
Over all, it was
a great trip. I had so much fun and god knows when will we be able to do it
again. But for now, it’ll be my favourite memory. I was around good company, we
had fun, we let loose and for a day, we didn’t give a f*ck to whatever people
would think about us while we are having the time of our lives. To Ronn and
Megat, I don’t know about you boys, but I really had fun that day and will ever
more so be grateful to have embraced the YOLO term for a day.
Love,
Farcella M.
01-12-2012
(written from 12.30am to 5am)
These are some of the pictures that I took from MiniLand.
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| Putrajaya |
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| Thailand (I think) |
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| Same as above |
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| I think this is the Angkor-Watt |
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| China's Forbidden City and at the background is the Great Wall of China... |
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| Cambodia's Dragon Boat? |
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| My proudest picture captured... The Taj Mahal... |
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| Replication of the Eye of Singapore. |
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| The angle taken from Putrajaya overlooking KLCC and KL Tower... |
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| The KLIA... |
