Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Back from Redang yesterday...
It was incredable!! We boarded the bus at around 10am, then reached Singapore only at 9.50pm!! Wah lao eh, sit until the ass is rotting I think.
Left Singapore on 19th May, last Friday, which also happens to be the day I turned 22 =(. I dun like my birthdays. Cos everytime one comes along, means getting older and older, and I dun wan to grow old. I know that does not make the least sense, but that is how I feel.
Dunno why, somehow, I just feel that I am getting dumber and dumber as the days pass. And also getting lazier as well. And worst of all, my reaction is slowing down!! Cannot react as fast as how I used to react, then always get myself into sticky situations that I shall not dwell on here. Too embarressing.
Anyway, back to the trip. The bus to Redang leaves at around 1030pm, so I nv go home after the econs lec. Went straight to Golden Mile complex area to wait for the bus. Long wait I tell u. Have to hang around alone. Luckily Lincoln happnes to have a pool match at the same area and I watched him play till around 2030 before I make my way to army market to have dinner, alone...
Among the 9 of us going for the trip, I only know 3 -- max, stacy and mel. Met yix during dinner with mel and mel introduced him to me. Nice guy, vv easy to get along with. So no prob with him. Later met ty and ade. Apparently ty is max's meighbour, so mel must have known him, given the amount of time he spends at max's room before exams. Ade happens to be ty's gf, so mel knows her tooba, i guess.
Then still got ade's 2 other friends -- zhihong and joyce. (I think that is how they spell their name) These 2 really no one knows de, not even max. Just happens to tag along with us.
So off we went off to redang after a short introduction at the boarding bay. So sleepy already. When the bus leave, it is near 11. The 2 couples -- ty ade and max stacy, as well as zh and joyce, took the 3 "lover seats" while me mel and yix took the 3 single seats...
Zh and joyce happens to sit on the same row as me. I think zh was trying to make some conversation with me on the bus, but I really cannot take it le la. too sleepy, then give her the kind of dun-come-and-bother-me answer with the dun-come-and-bother-me tone =p. I think that was a bit bad la, as in, that was the first day that we met and pple are just trying to be friendly. Sholdn't have given her that kinda attitude. Well, wad's done cannot be undone, so...
If u think that I do that to her cos she is not chio, then U R TERRIBLY WRONG OK!!! Both zh and joyce not bad, really. That is why i still bother to respond. Otherwise they would get nothing!! Haha.
After clearing the customs, is sleep all the way!! Other than a toilet break at yong peng, no more stops till about 8+ the following morning. I am really impressed with the 2 malay drivers. They can tahan so long, drive through the night, and then still keep us safe. I think must be super shiong, their job. One of them will sleep and the other drive. Then when the driving one tired, they switch. And I think once they drop us at merang, which is the place that we board the ferry to redang, they pick up some other pple from merang and drive back to S'pore again. To and fro to and fro. That is how they earn their keep...
Actually this is more or less like a package tour, not the free and easy kind that I thought it would be. The itenary is already fixed before we check into the room and we were briefed wad is going to happen for the next 2 days. The good thing is, we can choose not to go for the snorkelling trips or the marine conservation park of we dun feel like going. So in a way it is a semi-package kinda thing la.
The receptionist that briefed us was ok, but her mandrian is a bit strange, need some effort to make out wad she is saying, cos of her malaysian accent. According to my ex's mum, malaysian chinese can tell where u r from by the accent u have when u speak in mandrian. I do notice some difference btw the way different pple speak mandrian, but I dunno how to tell where they are from... Nvm, out of point again.
The snorkelling trip at 1500 on the first day was fun!! We were ferried to this place called turtle bay. Was a good 20mins by boat before we reached. From the name, u can guess wad we can see there -- turtles!! Yes, turtles, the creature that lives for 150 years in finding nemo! But we were not that lucky. Nv even see any... But the underwater world is always full of surprises. The corals there are simply amazing, with the variety of fishes and corals, it is simply dazzling!! Too bad I dun have an underworld camera. Too expensive to own one.
After returning from the official snorkelling trip, there was a giude there called yee who offered to bring us to another one near where we stayed, to see some baby sharks. All thanks to the 2 ladies (zh and joyce), super good at making guys do their bidding, I think. Cos everyone lusting after them. (told u they were pretty). This time luck was on our side. Caught glimpses of the baby shark underwater. However, it nv let us get too near. Whenever someone closes in, it would just zoom out of sight and then reappear later at some other location. After a few failed attempts to get near to it, we then know better and observed it from far. It was vv fast, and kinda cute in certain ways, not like the man-eating image that hollywood films conjured in our minds from films like jaws and stuff...
After that, was dinner. Oh, think I forgot to mention, means there are all buffet style. We can get as much of things as we want, but we cannot waste food. 4 meals a day, the normal 3 meals and tea, at around 1630, when we just come back from the snorkelling trip. If I remember correctly, I think dinner was chinese, as in rice with some dishes. Ate with the other 8 of them.
Later went back for shower since we have nothing better to do till 2100, where there is a party at the beach. Lady Luck left is again. Redang is out of water and there is no water from 1900 onwards till god knows when. Lucky mel got a pail filled with water before and 3 of us bathed using that pathetic pail of water. First time bathing together with someone I had known for less than one day (Yix), and yet, we were having some fun suanning each other and stuff.
There was this disco at night, at the beach. It was one hell of a party. Imagine the sea breeze, the stars, the music and the babes in bikini. Wah lao eh, it is dream come true man... Went with mel, yix and the 2 ladies. Despite showering, 3 of us danced to our hearts' content, together with the 2 girls. There is some thing going on btw max and stacy, and after dancing for a while, stacy walked off by herself and started crying. Me and yix went after her, but being lousy with words, left yix to do the talking. Dun wanna make things worse. In the end, things turned out ok. And Sunday happens to be stacy's bday!! 3 of us got a choc cheese cake from the cake shop and gave stacy a surprise at the clock strikes 12 and when the party at the beach just ended. I think that also help in some ways in convincing her to forgive max...
Wah, there are so many things to write about this trip, and also the photoes. Shall continue tmr... This is all for now!!
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