Las Vegas Vs. Macau (This Ain’t Vegas, Baby!)

When I planned to go to Macau for holiday, I was almost as excited as I was when I planned my holiday to Las Vegas. Both have casino which mean both must have very nice entertainment facilities, right? So yeah, I was thrilled when I was landed on Macau airport at 6 o’clock in the morning feel knackered after almost 7 hours flight but still, can not compare with my excitement.
Checked in to The Venetian Hotel, only a little problem as my room was not ready yet. Make sense though, since it was very early in the morning. And because of they were run out of non-smoking room, the hotel upgrade our booking. Cool, eh? Yeah, while waiting for them to get our room ready, I tried my luck on slot machines and lose couple hundreds bucks , Hong Kong that was. But who cares? We’re on holiday!
The hotel was not much different than Venetian Las Vegas with Grand Canal and stuffs. Then yeah, we were quiet happy with the room, the facilities, and of course the shopping mall. So, we tried our luck on Blackjack table. I was never gambling on Blackjack table before in my life. But I thought, this is my holiday so what the heck, I know that Blackjack has 50% chance for us to beat the dealer. So I think this is the safest games in gambling. And that was true. Even for me, who never trust my luck on gambling before, I won 3,500 bucks on my first table. Everyone on the table even called me their lucky charm, Cool! Seriously guys, I was nearly wet my knickers.
I remember someone told me before that if you play Blackjack, don’t think about how to win because you will end up losing all. But you have to think how to beat the dealer so that all people who play with you on the table win, then you will continue winning. And that was what I did and it works perfectly. I won, everybody on my table won, and we were enjoyed the games. But one thing I noticed here, unlike in Vegas, the dealers were not so chatty. And they were hardly speak English, even if they do, we could not understand a word they said. And to get a drink from a waitress was almost impossible as there were not many of them, compares with Las Vegas where the waitress offer you a drink almost every minute. But as I said, this ain’t Vegas, Baby!
I was always trust myself to never losing control as I am an OCD person who mostly control freak on anything. So yeah, after won 3,500 bucks I stopped and when back to my room to get some rest. It was 3 o’clock in the morning and we planned to go to Macau Tower the next day and I did not want to miss all of that. But the next day, after came back touring around downtown Macau, I could not help myself. My hands were so itchy to tried my luck again as I got my self confidence on this game already. Now I believe that gambling is addicted as much as drugs, cigarettes, and stuffs. So, that’s it, I was off to Blackjack table again and lose 1,500 bucks. Maybe it was not my night or maybe just one of my unlucky night, or whatever. Luckily, I was not so much a gambler at the end, so I stopped at the right time.
The next day I was not gambling at all as I went to Hong Kong for a day trip and back at night to saw Zaia show from Cirque O Soleil at my hotel. I went to O show from the same Cirque O Soleil at Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, and again, I was like ‘this ain’t Vegas, Baby! The show was almost the same but the quality of the show was way different. Maybe because Zaia was a new show that started only couple days before so maybe the performances were not quiet ready yet. During the show, the catchers were failed to catch the girls and dropped them on the net. Very disappointed. And the stage was way too small and too close to the audiences. So no wonder if they did not get a standing applause from the audiences. What did you expect with disappointed performance like that?
My last night in Macau, I was like, okay since this is my last night so I am going to try my luck once again on the Blackjack table. And guess what, I won 2,500 bucks, yippy kaye…! So in total, I won 4,000 bucks and that was enough to cover all of my shopping. What else could a girl want consider this was my first gambling? So after all, my holiday was fantastic! I love this town, even this ain’t Vegas whatsoever, this is Macau, Baby! And did I mention that I was nearly bought a Gucci mobile phone that looks so cool with gold platted and Gucci leather case on back of the phone and Swarovski Chrystal for the blings. It was so hip-hop style and I was so dying to have it. But when I asked Gucci dealer at the mall, they said they did not know anything about that stuff. So it was definitely fake. I was like, only in China..
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