Redang (Part 2)

So after having our tummies filled, we all waited for the van to arrive to pick us up to send us to the harbour. For those who are still confused as in why its so complicated, here are the stages we had to go through before actually touching the heavenly beautiful Redang beach sand:

1) Find our own way to Kuala Terengganu bus station.
2) Wait for the resort's transport (usually bus or van) to come pick us up to bring us to the office which is in town.
3) Drop our baggage at the office's store room and go look for breakfast on our own.
4) Meet up again at the office at a certain time and take the transport provided to go to the harbour.
5) Once you reach the harbour, wait for the resort's boat to pick us up.
6) Take a 45 minutes ride on the boat and you see glorious sand!!!

Eagerly waiting for the van to arrive...

Where was I... Ah, yes... After getting on the 'VIP' van, we all felt tired (didnt really sleep in the bus all night), and most of us started to doze off. I was fortunate enough to get the front seat (which had a seat belt) because what was about to happened really left a mark in some of our lives... When all was well, and everyone felt it was time to join our dear Snorlax in slumberland, suddenly I heard a loud screeching noise. When opened my eyes, I only managed to see our van swirl to the left, trying to avoid a CRV.Thank God to my habit of buckling the seat belt the moment I enter a vehicle, I was only rocking, otherwise my head will be joining the lizard's carcass that was already lying in the middle of the road. While I was left shakened, my friends were left with bruises and cuts on their knees (one of the seat actually came off). I was starting to think that all these are perks for choosing their resort (a little excitement and something to bring home). It so happens that the accident happened in front of the driver's relative/ friend/ damn good friend/ have no idea who's house coz the owner of the house immediately took his van (that's why I said it might be staged) and sent us to the harbour. So, with this older and wiser driver, we reached the harbour safely, driving below 90 km/h, in one piece and in time!

Look at the damage the van suffered...

The CRV barely suffered anything. When I opened my eyes, I saw the CRV rocked in it's position front and back =p CRV's breaks must be super good!

Waiting for the boat to come pick us up. (Me, taking photo, KK getting boat tickets)

The wait was killing us, no one could wait to see the beautiful sand, the sandy beaches, the clear blue water... The journey felt forever and I kept thinking that something bad will happen and our trip would be canceled (a few times it almost came true. Somebody UP THERE must really like me =p) After passing a few islands while keeping our calm all the way(though you can see that we looked as though we have snakes in our pants), we finally saw the reason why we took a 7-hour long bus to reach here...

Still excited, Snorlax is in slumberland again...

The water at the harbour...

The water in the middle of the sea...

We knew we were in heaven...

After a quick briefing and dropping our stuff, we headed straight for the open sea! Damn, I miss the sea water... I suddenly remembered why I almost stayed back last year =p A quick adaptation to the salt water and abit of Tarzan jumping of some rocks, we headed back to our rooms to rest.

Tired but still can pose =p


We were not allowed to sleep on the bed coz everyone refused to take a bathe =p

So, after lunch, we went snorkeling near one of the island, called Pulau Lima. Needless to say, it was great... Some of us didnt know how to swim, so we spent some time learning how to breathe through the power mask. After an hour and half, we went back to our humble hut.

Look what KK brought back from our first snorkeling outing. I knew we should have put sun block on our legs too =p

We had tea break , dinner and free time after that, so it was time for some photo snapping and walking by the beach!


Lih Pin is very thirsty. The sea water must have not been enough =p

I love Summer Holiday..

Everyone loves the hammock...

Redang Beach's cafe...



L.O.V.E hammocks...



Swing swing swing...


Everyone took a turn... =p


Latest news: A baby whale has been found caught in a hammock and stranded by the sea shore...

The night ended early for some but a few of us continued a few more hours. In the end, everyone was sound a sleep...

The next morning, we had breakfast.

Lining up for breakfast

Registering for the next snorkeling session.

Breathe taking...


It looks like a giant pool.


One way of getting onto the boat to go snorkeling.


Looks abit like illegal immigrants...


"Cepat! Cepat! Kastam sudah mau mali!"


I LOVE REDANG!!!


Yes, I left my mark...


So did Jiro-Wang...


Happy Happy!!! (check out the colour coordination)


A rose amongst thorns.... =p

So, after finishing all the booze we had, it wasn't very hard for all of us to meet Snorlax in slumberland again... The next morning, we were in for a surprise... 'knock, knock'. "Encik, saya nak ambil air cond controller". Boy, were we shocked, some still having hang-overs. Apparently the boat was leaving in 5 minutes time, and we haven't even finished packing!!! Damn, I have not anyone pack so fast! So, after managing to throw everything into our bags (leaving a toothpaste and toothbrush), we boarded to boat and headed back to KL...


Brought nothing back for myself, just some dark skin...

*tune in for more side stories*

Redang (Part 1)

Im very sorry!!! Im so sorry for this super late post. I realized that my last post was ages ago, but actually I wrote a post about mother's day. But due to my extremely high IQ, I accidentally clicked back when i was previewing it. I dont know how many of you actually experienced this before, but DAMN! It's damn frustrating =p Therefore I decided to not re-post it =p

So, as I have promised, this is the first part of my trip to Redang, and believe me, it's packed with actions, laughing, crying and surprises. Just like one of those John Woo's movies =p So as we all waited patiently, the fateful day, 20th May 2007 arrived. Believe me when I say that the last few days before D-day was not easy to swallow... Did a last minute check on Saturday to certify that I can really swim (didn't wanna drown in the sea). Packed my stuff on Sunday morning, had some sleep in the afternoon and went to the Kajang bus station at 8.00pm.

From my past (last year) experience, there was a bus leaving for KL at around 8.30pm, so I went to Sigmax's place to meet up with him to walk together to the bus station. We waited for almost an hour (like idiots) for that freaking bus. Everytime a bus came, it just pass us by and didn't stop at the station. We were like "WTF??!! the bus drivers are on a strike or what?". So in the end we decided to take a can to KL (which cost us 50 bucks!). "Not a very good start", I thought... I always have this fear of great things not being able to happen around me. Maybe it's my low self esteem, but according to Fishtail, I am supposed to have a high level of self esteem =p

Well, so after slightly more than an hour of journey, we reached Pudu bus station where we met up with the rest of the gang, bought some food, last minute supplies and boarded the bus at around 10.30pm.




Everyone is so excited, it seems that no one could fall asleep =p


So the painstakingly 7-hour long journey started, but not without some excitement along the way. First in the 'things-that-can-go-wrong' list, The bus driver started to smoke 10 minutes after driving the bus and that lasted throughout the journey, no to mention our seats were the nearest to him.

Next in line we had to watch James Bond followed by a damn bloody funny movie! Not that it's a comedy show. But it does tickle your bones in some certain ways =p For example, the storyline is so full of shit, it makes Britney Spear look heaven sent in Crossroads (no offense). The show is so Man-made, or Made-for-man, you can smell the sweat and Brute cologne miles away... The best part of the movie was the subtitles. The pirated people who came out with the subs were either high or they were trying to fool around. For example, "Holy F***", was written as "Persetubuhan Suci", which was actually correct if the movie was Davinci's Code or Bruce Almighty. =p


Yes, It will haunt you UNTIL DEATH (do you part)...

Ok, so after we got sick of laughing at the subs (we had to read coz the volume was only meant for whales and bats to listen to), we started to doze off. But everyone knows that trips are not meant to be spent sleeping. So a large BANG woke all of us up, and when we went down to look at what happened (damn busybody), the threaded tyres tore off and was left bare to the bones =p A little lesson in saving-money, endangering-your-passenger 101. Some people add a layer of rubber to their worn out tyres so that they dont have to change the tyre which cost more. So after the driver assured us of a slow~er and steady~er drive, we continued our journey.

We reached the bus station in Terengganu at around 5.30am and we had some complications looking for the damn resort's transport. Apparently we were not assigned to board the big-nice-looking bus. Instead we were supposed to wait for our 'VIP' van. So after frantically looking for the van, we got a ride to the town where we had our breakfast.


All seem to be awake, even our Snorlax is smiling =p


What to eat? Where to eat? No Chicken Rice Shop! Haha. (lame)


Found it! It was right opposite the resort's office. 'Ping An' means safe. Totally the opposite of our journey =p


Tune in to Redang, Part 2. Where we almost lost our lives! And see how to give yourself skin cancer =p

Groovy Night

Last friday was another night's out with my friends. As usual, Daniel, Ashley, Flora and I headed off to Sri Hartamas this time to watch our good friend's APU (ASEAN Percussion Unit) perform at this cool place called Groove Junction. Located Right behind True Fitness, next to Bojangles, the atmosphere was just great =p

Once again, I would like to apologize for the great picture quality as I could only use my 1.3mp camera phone coz my SLR is still in the shop, waiting for me to buy it =p

Groove Junction, own by a man who not only has great taste in music, he also has great taste in choosing a wife who has great taste in design and food. Yup, just a perfect combination for a great place =p

We reached there at around 8.45, sat and ate until 10. Then it all began, the music, the sweet sweet music. Well, actually the groovy groovy music. For those who has not heard of APU, you can check out their homepage here.

Still early in the night, just before the performance started...

The group was great! Song after songs were played and it was nice because the songs they sang were never boring...

Sorry Ash, I'm sure the frozen martini flowing through your top wasn't very pleasent =p

My partner in crime, having "sex on a beach" and "groovy men" =p

Is this lighting better? After a few drinks, everything seems to look that way. Nah, just kidding =p

The two beauty queens of the night, haha =p

The band, trying hard to make us all deaf one ear =p

Oh, BTW! guess who decided to drop by =p Well, they went home during halftime, boo hoo, party poopers =p What to do, old people need to go home sleep =p They missed all the booty-shaking, heart-pumping, head-banging, hand-clapping dance floor =p

So, all in all the night was great, the music was awsome, the croud was fantastic. One word to describe it all, GROOVY!!!

With hope, all things are possible...

Guess what? We finally managed to get our poor friend to go to redang with us =p All thanks to Gnehcweis!!! Hehe, thank you!!! I owe you one =p Went to Pudu to buy more tickets yesterday and paid the remainding balance to the travel agency today, so without anymore problems, all we need is the time to speed up till it's 2oth of May!

But, wait!!! That also means that we need to speed up our assignments!!! Oh no, still at a lost of thinking what website my group should create. For now it's a website on all the good food in malaysia. Any good suggestions guys? Just shoot, any suggestions are welcomed =p

What about the other assignment? So far, I only have my snake-looking monster and a very ugly 'cute animal' for my flash animation. Didn't want to use any existing life forms because that way, people will compare with the real thing. This way, they have to accept my creations as they are (coz my drawing sucks).

So, goggles bought, swimming skills practicing. Boy, I can almost smell the ocean, hear the sound of the waves crashing to the sea shore, feel the cool breeze blowing through my hair (well, not really), feel the sand between my toes, fingers and every else the sun-don't-shine.

Redang, I just can't wait...

Forever Together

Do you have those type of friends who no matter how long you have not met, you will still be able to laugh together when you meet? I have this group of friends. And although some of them have already left the country and some have gone their different ways, I am still able to laugh together with them and this surprises me.

It's this permanent 'thing' stuck in you that turns on automatically whenever you are with them. No matter how long you have not seen them, whenever you start to talk, this 'thing' inside you will remind you of how you used to laugh so often and how close you were and suddenly, you are laughing together like you never separated before...

I am glad to have these kind of friends. Whenever you have problems with your current life, you meet up, talk about the past, laugh at the simplest things, like the moon and the clouds surrounding it. And the best part of it is that there is no pressure. We don't really stress ourselves, we just find solace in the fact that each and everyone of us have our own problems and we need each other to plant a simple smile on our face.

We talk, we laugh, we joke and we go home. We go to sleep and wake up the next morning as if you have come back from visiting the past, where there were not much pressure. And you feel better with life, and it helps you take on life's challenges...

What If.

What if.

What if the world was round?
What if things go up, and don't come down?
What if white is black and black is white?
Boy, I'm sure things wouldn't look very right!

What if day is night, and night is day?
Would things still look so happy and and wonderful and gay?
What if boys are girls and girls are boys?
I'm sure then, toys will be dolls and dolls will be toys.

What if right is wrong and wrong is right?
What if good is bad and bad is good?
Then our future wouldn't seem very bright,
'Coz things wouldn't look like how it should.

What if the rich were poor and the poor were rich?
Then dogs would be humans and humans would be on a leech.
What if GOD was human and human was GOD?
Boy, I wouldn't even wanna give that a moment of thought!

What if I didn't think of posting this weird looking topic?
Then you wouldn't be spending 5 minutes reading this and then start to critic.
So, we shouldn't be spending so much time thinking of 'what if',
Instead, we should be thinking of 'how to' because my friend, life is brief.

~Curse~

The epitome of full.

I realized that i have a lot of posts on food, and here is another one =p Last Saturday, I was invited by my kind and generous sister to join for a seafood buffet galore, at my own expense of course. Located in Bangsar, I must say, I was impressed with the place. It so happened that there was a wedding dinner happening at the same building, so we stood in front of the reception, waiting for someone to attend to use, like idiots =p

Anyway, we finally found ourselves a lift and decided to look for the place ourselves, then I was given this brochure. Wow, I was amazed that I could get all that just by paying RM 38. Then there was a catch; some of the items could only be ordered once, such as the shark's fin soup (that looked like starch soup without the shark's fin nor the crab), the crabs (one piece of crab for 6 PEOPLE!) and scallops (7 scallops for the 6 of us, so thoughtful. There was one more extra =p)

The shark's fin-less soup. The only thing you can taste is the egg and and the starch... (Verdict:2/10)

The first dish, fried chicken in lemon sauce. looks good, taste ok. (Verdict: 7/10)

We had 3 of this same dish. Not because it was that nice, its just that it looked like the rollercoasters or cheezles snack, so we just kept ordering it =p (Verdict: 5/10)

This was how the prawns were supposed to look like...

This was how it came out... Didn't look anything remotely like the picture and it wasn't fresh... (Verdict: 3/10)

Most of the time was spent waiting for the food to come. It's like TD (Tower Defense in World of Warcraft), an average time of 45 minutes for every 'wave' of food to arrive. We had around 4-5 'waves' and a total of 21 dishes (excluding desserts) and it took us around 3 hours to finish everything so after deducting the waiting time, we took less than 5 minutes to finish every dish =p

One 'pushing it down' while the other thinks of what to order next =p

Kean Ghee wanted to choose something from the menu too while my sis couldn't wait for the food to arrive, so she had a bite of the meat closest to her =p

As we had ample time waiting for the food to come, we started looking around, and to my astonishment, there were a few interesting sea creatures in tanks waiting to be eaten.


This snow crab was huge! As you can see, using my fully calibrated measuring stick, the crab was the mamma's of mamma's. It was so bad that it used the lobsters that were in the same tank as slaves and stepped on them to try to get out of it.

Next on the freak-Dom-out-today was this weird looking thing called the Geoduck:


A GEODUCK! WTF!!! Which part of it looks like a duck? Its huge and looks like a lobak. They should call it Geolobak or Geobak. It just look wrong man... And when i looked closely, it shocked me even more!


Some weird looking thing was coming out of what seems to be it's head. It really looked like some white 5h!t coming out of it's @r$$!!!


For real, what does that look like to you! Not like I have seen things coming out of my neither regions, but I have seen my dog take a poop.


After everyone felt that justice have been done to our wallet, we finally ordered dessert, and it was good! This melon in coconut milk taste great, so we decided to order another round of it =p


This lychees and sea coconut was also great, therefore, we had second helpings too =p No wonder the couple sitting at the table next to us had something like 4 bowls each before leaving =p

And to top it all, the one thing that was there for us right at the beginning, during the feast and at the end of our journey of indulgence was...

Good o' Mr. Chinese Tea! Without it helping speed up the process of food going down our throats, we couldn't have achieved what we had achieved=p

All in all, it was a good experience and I would give it a 7/10 (just because i could eat as much as i wanted) =p