Friday, July 27, 2007

overdue update on Perhentian.

I looked through the blog and realised that no one has wrote an account of the Perhentian trip, since i'm relatively free, decided I should pen a few words down before it becomes a distant memory [God forbid but just in case-lah ;)] but just so you know, please don't expect fu-yo england from me, because my writing aint great at all, and ever since i've stopped any form of intellectual 'doing' my brain kind of ceased its better functions.

SO anyway,

We were all very very very excited about the whole trip, and HUGE thanks to Junhao who single handedly planned it so so well.

Pre-trip, us girls (zyin, becca and i) decided to squeeze some money out from Junhao so that we can get food for the trip, just in case you know, we ended stranded in some kind of isolated island, we won't starve and such. so yes, we got lots of food from good ol' Giant, from cornflakes to cup noodles, plastic cups with covers and cheap tissue and lots of sweets. Making sure we were well equipped for the five days on an island away from home and (so we thought) civilisation, we just couldn't wait to get on the bus and GO.

woot! 23rd June 07' came in a blink of an eye, and soon we were making noise infront of mcdees with no airconditioning and a whole bunch of restless children... he he. there were 17 of us [correct me if i'm wrong] and +1 which was darell's big bro (the only guy who got my little pony right and the guy who hurt rhuban's foot HAHA!) then finally after alot of 'when is the bus coming junhaaaooo?' the Maharani Bus finally reached Putra station and we excitedly got up the bus just to meet alot of unhappy faces from strangers who took up our back seaaat! :( :( :( anyway, realising we couldn't do much about the 'others' we made do with what we had. the bus ride was uneventful, of course with all those 'others' in between our ppl how to make noise and have fun! nevertheless, we were just plain thankful we got to the jetty in one piece, seeing the bus was travelling to what seemed like no-man's land [ remember the isolated petrol station in the middle of nowhere with the gross toilets] and the stop over for food... *shivers* of course we didn't consume any in case we contract some weird disease [ i know sound like a bunch of brats but if you were us you would freak out as well] this is when gardinia buns cannot go wrong. so yay. we finally reached the jetty, and there was food there but the boat was already there! and so yippeee! we got onto the boat!!! the sky was beautiful!!! and Junhao passed us some wishing papers [ biodegradeble] to wish or wishes and let it be swallowed by the big blue sea.


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so we reached Perhentian Island just before nightfall and had a great welcoming dinner after checking into our 'oh-so-cute' keyed rooms in D'Ayumnis!


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we didn't do much that night but played taboo in the guy's room and got attacked by a cockroach.

2nd day! off we go in search of what was beneath the big blue sea! equipped with our snorkelling sets and very friendly tour guides, it seemes nothing else in the world could have been better than that day... swimming swimming just keep swimming.


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of course we (girls) packed ourselves from head to toe with lots and lots and lots of sunblock... ha ha. i didnt go into the water that day because of reasons, hah! anyway i spent my time on the boat laughing at how everyone looked with their snorkels, flippers and oversized lifejackets! hehhehe. and then we visited air berani (sp?) and i got drenched no thanks to the boat driver! by the way our guide's name is abg yo.. damn cheeky fella. so yes fish fish everywhere, for a better description of fish please refer to darell's pictures because saya sudah malas.


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we brought bread along to feed the fish too! sadly i cant remember the islands we visited that day :( choral reef was one rite? please add in ya if u all do. then tired and so super worn out we headed back to shore. and our boat caught fire too. HA HA. and we discovered snicker shake/ mars shake, how cool is that wei? then we washed up, berbonding in the rooms... and headed for another good dinner! then we played charades that night, and we girls kicked ass. HA HA.

3rd day! eh, snorkelling again, this time i went into water! woot! its seriously very beautful under the sea and i think that we scare alot of fishes, but they were so cute and so fish-like, but anyhow another day spent under the sun! we had lunch on some other part of the island and saw HUGE monitor lizards, like dinosaur. so then we headed back to shore after another day out at the sea, and went jungle trekking! woot! so semangat kan, so yes trek we did for hours it seemes. we took a break at another part of the island, and watched the guys kick ball and darell pk frisbee-ing. and that was that. we were sweaty, smelly and definately so tired, i wasn't even hungry. we climbed rocks too, and jumped on mud... hehe ew. and we saw bats. so by the time we got back it was night fall, and yup, that pretty much sums up our day.


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4th day! we went over to redang and langtengah and marine park! those places were definately overrated :( i felt Perhentian had clearer waters and nicer fish. but by this day, we got used to seeing the same types of fish everywhere, so we pretty much were drained from the trip already. ooo, and shireen had a fan club! then we balik shore. ms lee [ awesome lady with so so so cute daughter] arranged to have a fire show for us at night. which was so so soooo coool! thank god no one burned themselves :p haha, but alls well ends well. and that night we had a BBQ dinner, and junhao engseng adrian jiayi were terribly burnt, see! don't put enough sun block lah! neh! that night we decided to spend it together, last night mer, and shared ghost stories, to the horror of some! ha ha! but it was all good and fun :)

5th day :( so sad. all things have to come to an end...time flew past us without any of us realising it was all over! and i wished we could spend more time together. so we packed and bought souveniers in the morning, took the boat ride all the way back again, said our goodbyes, and off we were back home. the ten hour bus ride back to KL, uneventful again because we were all sleeping..i guess :)


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all in all, it was such a wonderful trip, had so much fun, no words can describe what a blast it was. so till next time ppl, we shall meet again :) thanks for the memories.


pssst* KK is next ya.

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