Six Flags Great Adverture Trip on May 17

As one of the Honors College students of Polytechnic University, I have had the honor of earning a free trip to Six Flags today along with other students. I left my house early this morning to catch the tour bus scheduled to depart at 7:30AM, grabbed couple of red bean paste bun and a Japanese tea drink near my house for breakfast. After over one hour of boring ride on the bus, we arrived at Six Flags. Alongside with me were Jason (co-writer of this blogger), Madean and shy Maydur.

The group of four under my suggestion first took on a rode on Twister to warm up; Jason and Maydur were a bit shy of the rides so I wanted them to get used to the thrill before advance to wild ones. Dated from a year back was when I first rode this Twister thing, I felt a little rusted and my palm sweat a little during the ride, but it was fun to kick off the destined wild day. Arriving at a park early gave you an advantage of having less crowd to wait for popular rides, in fact, there was no waiting after we kissed goodbye to Twister and moved to the Great American Scream Machine; we boarded onto the cart; the ride lasted for about only 30 seconds in a terrifying speed and twisting on the edges of the track similar to the others we had later in the day. The one that twisted the worst I thought was Medusa, and my head hurt when it bumped the seat behind my head!

Four of us hung around the park all day and rode about 5 rides, both wild and mild ones, later in the afternoon we went to riverside and sat down to relax there before a Tiger Show at 3PM. The old lady at the gate of the show was a pain in the ass, me and Maydur got locked out because we arrived at 2:58PM, she pissed me off and perhaps it was the worst part of the trip. Forgive her now, maybe she was just doing her work in the right way! Anyhow, we had fun at the park maybe not Jason (ask him why yourself), he did however invite Madean and I to have a dinner at XO Cafe (one of my fav.) off Canal St. in Chinatown, thank him again here. Below is a little of my afterthoughts summarized today's adventure.

Honestly, it was my first time to be on wild rides and I was lying if I told anyone I wasn't scared at all at the beginning. Of course I was scared just like anyone else in the rides! But I came to the park today with a determination to challenge against my mental weakness; I was always afraid of riding roller coasters because my parents would worry bad things could happen and they thought I wasn’t capable of doing these things, now, realizing that I was able to face the challenge on rides and realized I actually do have the ability to do things I probably never aware of doing in my life made me feel great!

The rides to me were like obstacles in reality, because our mind tend to absorb opinions from others that scare us, we are often trapped in a maze filled with unrealistic comments and misleading directions. To find the path, no one is more reliable than us, simply judge yourself without experimenting anything is what a loser would do, and these people never succeed in their lives. I overcame the “wild rides” in my maze, have you done it? Follow your own torch that leads to the gate of bright future, come on take the rides!

Kingda Ka - The tallest 456 ft tall and fastest at a speed over 128 mph roller coaster in the world today! I missed it today due to mechanical problem and long line but promise will overcome you in the near future!