Carnival

I loved to go to the carnival when I was a kid. There was a kind of energy which appealed to me. The rides, the bright lights, the blaring music, and the Caucasian carnival people whom I imagined were gypsies living a charmed life; it all seemed straight out a storybook. The Royal London Circus used to tour Malaysia too, back when I was small. I remember the clowns with the big red noses and white painted faces, they were so gay; but when I grew older I saw how quickly the grin could turn into a scowl, and heard the biting remarks that left the exaggeratedly lipstick-drawn lips when he thought his money-paying audience wasn't listening. I saw the dirt on the costumes, the hard unsmiling eyes in the grinning face, the money-bought happiness if only you choose to close your eyes to the glaring imperfections of reality.

Anyway, I went to the carnival again a few days ago. XOXO

Only this time I'm a big girl already, and I went without my daddy and mummy. hahahaha.It was the Euro Carnival at the bukit jalil stadium compound. Sad to say, carnivals nowadays are so unlike those "back in my time". There were hardly any people around, but then maybe that's because it was a Monday.

I went on my favourite ride, the spaceship

which goes round and round and up and down. The person in charge told us to 'pegang' something like a straight rod in the middle of the spaceship. So we 'pegang' lo. Then the ride started, and we went up, and up, and up, and up!! I was terrified! It was as if we couldn't stop. I thought I was going to go higher and higher and then disappear! SW and I looked back and saw cynthia in the spaceship behind us. That girl was nicely and safely sitting in her spaceship far, far below us. Can smile happily at me some more!

To make matters worse, as we went higher and higher the spaceship turned so we were facing the opposite direction from that it was moving. Then somehow we let go of our hold on the rod, and the spaceship went down. Phew. Of course we screamed, I was actually very scared. Quite malu cos the little girl taking the ride with us didn't scream at all. I like to think she was too mortified to produce any sound. I remember that the spaceship ride in Genting's themepark was not this scary. Dunno why this Euro carnival's spaceship ride is so much scarier than the one I like.

I wanted to go on the Ferris wheel, but then it's so common and boring my friends said. So SW and I went on the skyride. It looked scary even when it wasn't moving. I saw seats suspended by long iron chains, kind of like swings. When the engine starts, they would all go whirling round and round in circles together. Try holding a ball suspended by a string and swing it gently so it moves in circles. That's how the ride works. It looks like this:

I asked the person in charge "takut ke?" He told me "tak takut la. BIASA SAJE." So I thought ok lo.Then the ride started moving, faster and faster as it gained momentum. And then I was swinging in circles high up in the air. The circles were not smooth, no, that would have been too easy. I was lurching up, then lurching down. I thought I was going to die. I screamed and screamed. And screamed some more. I contemplated the possibility of me throwing up in mid-air. Ewww. So messy. The ride was so long I reached a point where I was too tired and made half-hearted aaahs only when the swing lurched upwards. I started to think it was all very funny. hahahaha.

My legs were shaking after the ride. haha.It was all very fun, but I think that I'm too delicately made for all this rough handling. =P

Delicate me has to sleep now. Good night.

This is us. We were so happy.