i'm back ^_^

finally got my new computer and a DSL connection. Happy times are here again. Actually I've had the connection since yesterday but apparently gaming is the top priority. That and downloading rome, elizabethtown and mirrormask (shhhh). Happy, happy me. I'll probably officially start blogging tomorrow. I'll probably get some pics up once I put all my photos back here. Done lots of stuff since I've stopped which is around 7 months ago.
Today I actually got into a ride that made me want to cry in the middle of it and another one that made me stop because i was too dizzy and really wanted to puke.
I went to EuroStar with mom, pau and neal. Pau and I were too excited and rode the joker first. The Joker is this catapault like ride which looks like fun as long as you're standing on the ground. When it starts plummeting you to the ground and you realize that you're suddenly not sure it is a safe ride because it cannot possibly be a safe ride the way you're hurtling in your seat. It defies reason. It feels like the seat you're on and the harness, a simple neck brace and a seatbelt strap is NOT enough. Then it stops with you on the top end of the ride and it's not the height that bothers you. It's the fact that you can't scream loud enough to tell them that you want to get off the ride right now, as in NOW.
I've never felt that before except for the second time we rode the bungee jump ride (The Abyss Turbo Drop) in Ocean Park when my fear of heights kicked in and I was insane enough to think that if I can get off the ride (while it was 100 feet or so off the ground), I will be safe.
Unfortunately I knew it would actually go for another spin before I could go down so I stopped screaming and just concentrated on seeing my life flashing before my eyes.
Though I must admit, the second spin felt more harmless because we were going the opposite direction and thus not aware we were hurtling toward the ground.
The next ride we rode was horrible because it made us dizzy. I thought it was like a simple octopus. It wasn't. Of course Pau and I realized it too late. When we saw we were parallel to the ground 30 feet high and spinning like crazy. It also didnt help that I was dislocated (nothing too serious) from my seat and had to hold on for dear life until the ride stopped. I was pretty banged up and Pau was just too dizzy to do anything.
I was so off balanced. I kept asking her if she was ok and she was thinking how the hell I could still be happy and active.
I was just trying to keep myself from puking at that time and concentrating on something else felt better.
After a while Neral and I just walked and I still felt like puking most of the time. I was so out of it I was seriously a bit frightened on the ferris wheel while I was with neal. Who by the way was also frightened. ^_^ We couldn't move but we took a lot of pics and after a while I was laughing again and I was ok again.
I even rode the log jam type of ride. Got extremely wet because I was in front and neal hid behind me when we dropped.
Would I do it again? Maybe. Maybe in around 3 years when I've forgotten how it actually felt. Or when they develop an emergency stop button on the ride. ^_^* oh well.
I hope I can find someone to go with me that time.
Yup, I haven't officially started blogging yet at this rate. Have to go to sleep now.
I have a feeling my dreams will be of falling not flying.
I hate falling.