Thursday 6 July 2006

Oooppsss!

I received a mail from the Genting Worldcard people recently to upgrade my card to a green card. So, I went to Genting today to get it done since I didn't have any classes. Got there in an "illegal taxi". My mum didn't want to wait for the 1 o'clock bus hence the illegal taxi. Well, we reached there safely so nothing to complain about.
I did my green card and at the same time, in occasion with my birthday, I was given a slot card which had RM20 worth of credits in it to play the slots machine and a RM10 voucher to play the "table-betting games" (i.e. those that require chips). I got to go into the casino for the first time. My sister & I got asked for our ICs. We were like, "Do we look young?" Hmmm.....
Anyway, I embarrased myself in the casino for being such a dungu! My mum went straight to the roulette area. My sister & I were left to wander around. I decided to try out the slots machine since I I wasn't interested in gambling and I got it free after all. Didn't even know how to use the danged card. We tried slotting it into many different slots machines, it looked like we were trying to vandalise the machines. The card never seemed to work. Then after awhile, I saw some people putting in their cards and then putting in money. So that's what we were doing wrong, I thought. Not putting in money. As I didn't want to part with my precious money, at least not gamble it away, I tried putting in a RM1 note (yea....I'm pretty kedekut, I know). The next thing the machine did was get jammed! I didn't do anything! Went to find an attendant and told him that the machine got jammed. He tried to do something to it, shook it even, but it was still jammed. Then he told me to wait and went to make a call. After awhile, he came back with two other men who looked like technicians (my guess lah). They brought all sorts of tools to get the machine unjammed. They shook the machine a number of times but it was still jammed. Then, probably as a last resort, one of them went to get a hammer-looking tool. But before that guy came back, the other two managed to open the machine. Then the attendant handed over my crumpled RM1 note and said, "Minimum 10 ringgit, lah!" Oooppsss! Such embarrassment! And I put them through so much trouble just for a RM1 note. But there wasn't any note saying that the minimum was RM10. Sheesh! Stopped trying to slot the card in after that and went to find my mum who was still at the roulette area.
I doubt I'll ever go into the casino again unless forced to. It's not only a gambler's paradise but a smoker's one too. Stinks of tobacco!
Oh, I did managed to win money from the slots machine after taught how to use one by an attendant. I won RM1.84! My mum sponsored the capital of RM10. And from that I played till I got RM31.84. Since the card originally had RM20 worth of credits & my mum's RM10, I won RM1.84. I cashed out the RM31, leaving a balance of 84 sen in the card. My sister said that most people go to the casino to "spend" money but I, on the other hand, went there to "steal" Uncle Lim's (Lim Goh Tong) money.
The only thing nice about the casino was the free drinks.
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