Global Fun - Not Too Fun.

I am quite a fan of carnivals, peryas and themed parks. I feel young once again everytime I go to one. But carnivals are not created equal. What interested me with Global Fun was the fact that I can see it from my messy desk everynight. Since I am seated beside the glass windows of GT, I have a magnificent view of Manila Bay, (not too fabolous view of) South Cemetery and Edsa and all the way to QC. In anycase, every night, the lit ferris wheel catches my fancy. It's so big that I can't help but compare it to Paris' The Eye. I had a preview of the site two Christmases ago. But then, by the time we got there, the park was already closing (last day, five minutes away). Aside from the fact that only Yeng Reyes and I were able to go past the guards without paying, the lines were too long. Oh well.

But since they're back this year, I had to go there and try it for myself. I nearly peed when i saw the carnival being set up. Geez.

Cut to December 24. My family went there to make the little tykes shut up. I joined them. And since the ALL ACCESS Pass was quite expensive (500 bucks), my sister and I wasted no time to ride all the attractions. The carnival gave us 2 hours to finish everything. They were closing early due to Christmas Eve celebration.

My first ride, I will call it flying fiesta. It's how it's called in EK. Flash back muna: two sundays ago, I watched Dyan C. puked in all her athletic glory. She said she got too nauseos from the ride. And I thought, what a puff ball? How can someone so fit like her be so frail in this ride. You're just going to fly around in circles??!! What's so nauseauting? Having thought of this and expecting nothing else but this, I went in in fully glory almost schmuck about this. When the thing started rotating I even blurted out "Child's play!" It was just spinning round and round until...

The swings started to move tooo fast I was literally being brushed to the sides and the seats rotating 360 on top of the whole revolution! And the worst of them all, it was moving up and down in various speeds. Fir the first time, I felt like my stomach soooo empty and so light headed. I knew I was ready to throw up. Yuck. I just kept swearing for the next 5 minutes. That ride caught me unprepared; belittling it was not the brightest thing I did.

Then the ranger ride happened. YOu will be literally suspended on mid-air in reverse glory for like 5 seconds and you anticipate what will happen next. Will it dive down face front, or slide down back first. What hurts the most was the fact that most of the other riders was seated with someone and screaming their lungs out. I was almost choking sa higpit ng cushion in my stomach and no one was beside me. Hmmph. On top of, I was kinda scared that someone might throw up and you know the law of gravity...

The other rides was so-so. But the most challenging was guarding my three little tykes. Di sila natakot at all while we were at the highest point of the wheel. And Im talking about a 5, 6 and 8 year old kids. They kept moving around, making harot and really making the capsule move. I wasn't scared of the ride. I got more scared with the responsibility of having to look after them.

The perya games were too difficult! The food sucked. The ground was made with stones. It's so hard to walk on them. And it was too humid.

I guess I'm just dizzy. My only source of happiness are my cute photos. I am posting them separately later on.