Star City
We went to Star City. And as expected, I was turned off by the length of the queues to get to a ride. You have to fall in line for more than an hour to be able to take your turn on a roller coaster ride that lasts in less than a minute.

The "Wild River" ride went beyond my expectation in terms of adrenaline rush. When we went for the big drop, alas! it was a blast. The only negative on this ride is that it's only a couple drops, one small drop and one really big drop. Then that's it. On goes the next in line. There was also too many maintenance work that the long queue got longer in time and length.

Zyclone Loop. This was the ride that brought Star city to stardom. It's a roller coaster ride with a 360 degree loop. The queue on this one was as long but moves faster as there are 3 set of carts that runs at the same time. I normally take the last row on coasters as it is reputed to be the most hair-raising place to be. Unfortunately, the "trough" of the first drop was not so smooth. It was a balls crushing moment once you hit the trough. I was expecting a little bit more rush on this ride. The loop section was simply disorienting. For a moment, you'll lost sense of which was up or down. Still a good ride overall.

Gateway Cubao
I think the last time I went to Cubao Quezon City was 5 years ago. I went there today, and wow! it was modernized. It was almost totally different from the one I saw 5 years ago. Traffic flow was good. There's a lot of new establishments with modern architecture and malls interconnect with the light rail train systems. The only problem I encountered was that, for its size, there's not enough parking area.

/rom