Ripley’s Believe It Or Not

While waiting for our movie Made of Honor at 2030hrs, we were walking around First World Plaza in Genting and because we had like 4 hours until the show and we already conquered all of First World Plaza and officially ran out of place to go and to prove that, we walked to the rooms area and i showed my girlfriend where my friends and i stayed the last time we been there and she too showed me that First World Hotel offers free hot water supply =DD Feeling exhausted and tired because we conquered First World Plaza in less than an hour, we found an empty pathway with rooms on the sides and sat down like we got kicked out from the house but nevertheless it felt so good, we continue sitting until we heard sounds like someone is coming by so we quickly got up and walked away XD we also did some really stupid thing because my girlfriend subsequently tried to open the door of an occupied room by deliberately twisting the handle -_____- and once again, we ran for it.

We stopped by a few outlets before we actually ended up at Ripley’s museum and i remember my girlfriend told me that she hasn’t been in there before and so i suggested that we went in but she refused because it was expensive, RM16.00 per adult but i guess “what the hell” right? We’re on holiday and money should be of my secondary concern and so i bought 2 tickets and we entered. The first exhibit was a wax figure of so-called the World’s Fattest/Largest Man, looks like a Samoan or some shi- but the eyes look real. It doesn’t really impress me… don’t know why :shrugs: he is like a blardy land whale. We then walked further in and we came across a sculpture of the infamous Mr. Ripley’s himself.

The story behind this sculpture is that it was sculpted by a blind man, and it was claimed that the his ability to ascertain facial features was so great that he can have a clear picture of it at just one smooth run over of that person’s face. Fact or a made up story, we do not know. All we know is that if this is real, Mr. Ripley has a very big head as alleged by my girlfriend T_T

Next into the museum is this piece of iron copper chair, it was said that to be used by some native tribe somewhere in the world i forgot, to put a man on trial. It was said that this chair has the ability to make any person to speak the truth when sat upon and once found guilty, the defendant (in modern terms) will be executed immediately on this chair =O Just try and imagine a big guy holding a super big long sword and swings it left to right beheading that poor man who just happens to shiver in fear because the chair was cold =/ There was also a spear like thingy used by the monks in Nepal to banish evil spirits which i didn’t take. Talking about Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights XD

Located opposite of that exhibit was this thing, seriously i don’t know why i took picture of this. Maybe it was because of the dog figurine =/ all of this figurines were made completely out of junk and recycled materials, nothing extra-ordinary or special. Seen steps away from this exhibit, we saw 2 big scary statutes and we went over and read and found out that is it called the “Fertility Statutes” alleged to have the power to make females pregnant by just touching on them OF COURSE you don’t just get pregnant by just touching them and not have sex because that would go against the very nature of reproduction, either that or your wife is cheating on you =O there’s no such thing as sperms traveling in thin air or your sperm magically founds it way into your wife’s *ehem* My girlfriend teased me by wanting to touch it =.=

There’s a video placed behind the statute showing testimonials made by people only in the United States *sense conspiracy* that claimed that they had been blessed with a child having touched the statutes after having years and years trying to conceive a baby but with to no avail. The more extreme case is that a person accidentally tripped over statute also got pregnant =O There’s a side note placed next to every exhibit and it was stated there that the female personal who unloads this statute into a warehouse got pregnant too because she was too stubborn and skeptical into believing that it has that ‘magical‘ power but the funny thing is that, the statute is not light and why would a logistic company uses a female worker to unload goods? I’m not discriminating here but just that doesn’t it sound weird or something? I didn’t took picture of these statutes because they look creepy by themselves =/

Little did i know our previous Prime Minister and perhaps the most respectable ones and my idol =DDDD Tun Dr. Mahathir, has a room dedicated to him alone at Ripley’s which i found weird, what’s so ‘unbelievable‘ about him? I’m not saying that he’s not special, he IS special but just that the things he did over the years of service is nothing close to the interpretation of Ripley’s unbelievable stuffs, he’s not like paralyzed or anything =/ but i found something that made me chuckled :teehee:

A picture of him during his teenage years i supposed, GAWD he is so the …. hahaha i don’t know what to say XD

…and you have the portrait made out of small little crystals during his very well recognized face =D the room is basically like a mini museum about him and letters from various people including small kids writing thanking him and telling him that he is a great man =) on display of prized possessions that belongs to him was also there, put behind a glass shelf including a Al-Quran stand made up of pure gold and silver, his favorite magazines were included as well.

Moving on, you’ll come across a LCD monitor which shows an old lady being able to twist her tongue backwards, like flipping it back and in right behind that monitor you have a very big mirror with the word “Can You Do It?” pasted on top of it. Both of us tried but obviously we can’t =(

We got punk`d by this 2 wax figurine that was placed at a corner and my girlfriend and I was being ‘cheated’‘ somehow into believing that there’s actually a real person trying to take a picture of another. Both of us of course walked forward without paying much attention and then was actually startled by these 2 ._. the one thing that i don’t like about this place is that it has more of a brain teaser museum than anything else because it has alot of things like the one you see in this picture on the upper right corner. I felt cheated but in anycase, while you’re at it try to play along =D the instructions are simple, look at the board and try to read out the COLORS and not the WORD.

And then i came to this door, i was really really puzzled about it. I mean since it is Ripley’s, does the sign “Stop, Do Not Enter!” really mean DO NOT ENTER or it is just there to tease you so that you would go and open it and the intention is to make you open it? I stood there and thought deeply of a few moments and while i’m at it, my girlfriend could stop helping herself into camwhoring for me =D and so i snapped XD Finally after careful consideration, i decided to try and open and see just to cure my curiousity and i found that the door is really lock because the knob cannot be twisted =.= This sucks!

I think this is the Red Mosque of Russia and despite the name, it has nothing to do with Islam, i think. Anyway i couldn’t remember exactly what it was because i was more interested on the fact that the person who had this idea of actually asking architects and engineers who are supposed to be building megastructures for the country to build a miniature model of Red Mosque entirely out of tooth picks, yes… tooth picks -____- and because he didn’t want the science to leak out, he actually ordered to have the people involved in this project that their tongue to be cut, fingers to be amputated and eyes scooped out, cool shi- yes? The cartoon image on the upper left is Ivan The Terrible, i don’t know how he looks like but i have to believe that he looks like that, quite harmless i must say =/

DO YOU KNOW, the playing cards that we used to gamble on Chinese New Year is actually a French deck?  and that the Kings, Queens and Jacks in the playing cards has their own name? I found out through a board illustrating the evolution of playing cards. Apparently, the King of Spade that we’re holding now is depicting King David of France and the the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar or something like that, i forgot where Alexander the Great stands. I remember Lancelot if the Jack of Diamonds. Joan of Arc was in there too as well as Mary Magdelene.. eh, wait! not Mary Magdelene -_-! it’s Marie Antoinette, the French revolution queen who had her head beheaded in public through a guillotine, the guillotine was created specially for that purpose. Therefore, i’m 2 cents richer and have things to boast about next Chinese New Year =D

After that, you come across a dark room with projector TV showing some special episodes of Ripley’s which you have already seen on our National Television and that is when we realized that most or some of the exhibits are just replica of the real thing and some might even be a total fake, the Fertility Statutes were also featured in the movie and that is when we realized that the real statute and the ones we saw earlier is significantly different, on the real one the male statute actually wields a sword and an egg but the one we saw wields a sword but on the wrong hand and instead of an egg, it wields something that looks like an emu or some shi- at that point, we felt cheated >=( and of course like all good Chinese people, we walked out mumbling between ourselves “Ripley’s bluff people wan…” hoping that someone would hear us XD

Once you exit the projector tv room, you’ll reach the Hall of Torture where there are various torture equipments used by medieval colonies, mainly the English. They are one horny and cruel bastards and they now claimed they are the most noble people in the world, oh! the irony. This is one of them where the victim will be locked inside a thing like a sarcophagus with the head part accessible perhaps open to obtain confession or something and also to throw animals such as rats and snakes together which makes perfect combination to induce fear onto someone. Wasn’t really impress by this shi-

…and Van Helsing has its own truth. Displayed here is a Vampire Killing Kit that was on sale probably in the age of the Yorkshire Ripper, comes equipped with silver bullets, garlic powder and everything that all vampire killers used in movies but please don’t make reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer because that is pure bullshi- Ever wonder how Jack feels when he climbed the beanstalk and into the Giant’s house? Well, my girlfriend had a taste of it by sitting on the chair

This was the last picture taken in the museum because there’s really nothing interesting to see in this place, one thing is for sure is that it has a lot of brain teaser materials and the deeper you go the more random the stuff gets because the things that was on displayed is becoming more and more common and nothing special about it. I mean there’s really no point dedicating one big whole big room to display the various types and kinds of ties.

In conclusion, this place can be a great place to waste time because both of us spent a total of near 3 hours in there and we cannot wait to get out of that place because it’s getting very tiring and we saw a family that was walking passed by all the few final exhibits furiously and i guess they were feeling equally frustrated as well XD I’m really expecting that this place has more REAL stuffs as supposed to replicas then RM16.00 would be really worth it but it’s not =/ I wouldn’t recommend to anyone to go in unless you’re really boring and has nothing else better to do.

Oh yeah, one final thing. Remember the mirror i mentioned very early of this post about the flip back your tongue thing? Yeap! The mirror is actually a ‘see-thru‘ mirror meaning what you are doing in front of that mirror can be seen by the persons behind the mirror and there’s actually a place for you to stop by and watch stupid people doing stupid face trying to flip back their tongue XD but this wasn’t made known to you until the very end of the museum. Luckily for us we managed to see one girl trying to perform the stunt but she didn’t did it for long >=)

Just try to avoid entering that place if you can and i mean it.