And missing it already. I think the trip was too short… although there’s really nothing much to do there. I think I may just head back again myself next time.
Just being away and having your mobile phone not ringing for a few days is rather nice. :) We just nuah-ed and got a little burnt. Didn’t even go for our massage. Haha!
But the snorkelling was beeeautiful. There were three complimentary trips out - two afternoon open waters and one morning marine park. We only went for one of the afternoon open waters snorkelling, which wasn’t much, but fun all the same. But the morning marine park one was amazing. I thought I’d be afraid of the fishes and all, but they were so pretty that I forgot to be scared. Haha!
Oh yes, it’s the jellyfish season. They had to continually warn us to stay away from orange plastic-like things. Freaked us out a little to see so many of them floating along the way when the boat was moving, but no one got stung, so it was alright.
Had to thank two guides who led us by hand to see “the things that we would have missed if we were just floundering about by ourselves in the sea”. Moray eels are huuuge! And they look so scary lounging about in the dark corners, glaring with their mouths open. They even brought us past the “safety zone” where the currents were slightly stronger - to a shipwreck, which was so cool. And the schools of ikan bilis that were underneath the jetty… I wish I had an underwater camera then. It was really awesome.
Being on the boat and staring at the blue waters and green forests with the waves splashing, the cool wind blowing and the warm sun gently hitting the skin was “the moment” for me.
Food wasn’t great. Bad to be exact, both the buffet-styled on the second level and the ala-carte restaurant on the first. But then again, maybe it was a good thing that there wasn’t delicious food to turn us into pigs.
Room was alright, but couldn’t sleep very well. I’m someone who can fall asleep anywhere and everywhere, so for me not to be sleeping means something. And there was nothing on the television that we could understand, so we had to resort to watching the 24-hour reruns of “Summer Holiday” aka “Xia Re De Mo Mo Cha” which was filmed in Redang back in 1999, starring Richie Ren and Sammi Cheng. But we were quite happy watching that la. Brought books to read, so with or without television programmes were alright for us.
Bus trip was long… More than 10 hours to and fro respectively. But it was a really comfortable bus with movies and games. Nice bus uncles (two of them take turns to drive us during the trip - we happen to get the same uncles during our return trip) who alerted us to toilet breaks, food stops, what to bring down the bus at the customs and estimated destination time-of-arrival, etc.
Anyway, long story, but we met a group of friends (four guys and three ladies) on the bus trip back. It’s always nice to have eye-candies for such a long bus trip back. The one slightly more ang-moh looking one looked like Brad Pitt can? And for the longest time Diappy and I kept trying to guess where they came from. Cause they looked Chinese and spoke Mandarin, English, Hokkien, Cantonese and another weird Western language that wasn’t French, German, Spanish or Italian. Thought they were from Hong Kong, or maybe Canadian-born Chinese, and was about to ask them directly and stop our guessing when the bus uncle told us at the customs that they’re from Holland. :) But having decided to be anti-social throughout the entire trip, didn’t converse much with them. And now I’m irritated with myself cause I think I should have been more shameless and asked for an email or something. At least I’ll have friends there if I decide to go Holland right? Well, too late.
Unfortunately, we forgot to bring along Hui’s Nikon Coolpix, so didn’t get any photographs from the trip. Just beautiful images in my head. Mei, I think it’s a nice place for wedding photos wor… Haha!
All in all, a good trip. :)
And now, back to work. 62 unchecked emails.
