28th May: I took half day off as we're supposed to leave for Redang that night. Work was a major pain in the butt because there was so many things left hanging and I felt really bad for those who were covering my work and I ended up leaving at around 3ish. Rushed down to Kino, grabbed my FishEye Submarine and rushed home and packed some extra stuff in. I took my shower and dinner, talked to Yi-Long online and confirmed what time we were gonna meet at Lavender MRT. Sent a message to Ie Ting and told him to relax and take his time since I'm meeting the guys at 8:50pm. It so happened that Yi-Long and Daryl were on the same train as me, we walked over to Golden Mile Complex and bought snacks from the Thai supermart. I bought my favourite milk and chocolate wafers (cheap and yummy!) and wangwang rice crackers so we could all share =D
We walked over to Golden Mile Tower and 'checked in' with the agency. We collected the vouchers and then we proceeded to rest in their so-called lounge area. Then Ie Ting came along and we just sat around, waiting for the time to come where we board the bus. We changed buses when we were at the Malaysian customs, and it was our cue to get comfy and sleep. The seats were relatively comfortable, and the bus sped on the deserted road with the only source of illumination coming from the headlights. I stared out of the windows and I saw the bright stars in the nightsky and I find myself smiling :) I guess I'm easily contented like that.
Sometime after midnight, my coughing fit came back to haunt me. I kept coughing non-stop and I was worried that I would wake people up, so I instinctively reached for the cough syrup and gulped it down with water. I was coughing so badly that I teared. It was not long before I KO-ed. I knew we had several pitstops along the way, I tried to open my eyes but my eyelids were really heavy and I couldn't seem to be able to move my body, and I gave up fighting the drowsiness and just slept on.
29th May: The next time I opened my eyes, the dawn was breaking and I could see the silhouette of coconut trees against the purplish skies. I struggle to stay awake to take in the sights, but my eyelids failed me and I went back to sleep. We finally reached the jetty after some time and we got off the bus. We were slightly lost as the bus dropped us at the jetty for Laguna Resort's guests. I went over to the counter and got directions to the jetty where we are supposed to go to and it turned out to be just further down.
Yi-Long & Daryl
We were early and we had to wait for the 9:45 boat ride. So we put down our stuff and waited... In the meantime, I was pretty much walking around testing out my Supersampler and working the FishEye2. Then there was this group of boys who were having fun entertaining themselves, making music and all that, somehow that put me in a pretty good mood. :)
Waiting at the jetty...
Soon, the boat came and we went on. We went up and sat near the captain. Kate Rose sat in the captain's seat too! :)
*picture taken by Yi-Long!*
The ride took quite a while, we even turned back to the jetty because someone or something was missed out. It was a pretty smooth ride, I'm thankful I didn't experience any choppy waters that Serena told me about. And guess what, we even saw wild dolphins frolicking in the sea! :) Wanted to take a picture of that, but it didn't quite show up in the pictures... Oh well. :)
Soon, we arrived and the boat docked in the shallow waters. There weren't a proper platform for us to get off, instead there was a flight of movable wooden steps for us to get off the boat and into the waters. Thank God for the reviews online, so this didn't come as a rude shock to me. We had our welcome drink and collected the key to our room and went to check it out. And as luck have it, our room was located at the back, where the generator was. I personally felt that it wasn't as bad as the reviewer described. Yes, it might be shabby with basic amenities provided and since all of us were all prepared for it, it wasn't too bad. :) We just hung around in the room for a bit and went for lunch.
Can't resist but to snap a picture of this. Almost everywhere we go, we hafta abide by this no-shoes policy. Guess they didn't want the sand to get everywhere. :)
After lunch, we went to rent our snorkelling gear and lifevests and paid for the entry to Marine Park before heading back to the room to get changed and apply sunblock. 3pm came by, and we strapped on our lifevests and headed for the boat that would take us there. Upon reaching the Marine Park, we had a very short briefing and off we went! I had quite a difficult time taking to the snorkelling equipment because I had problems biting. But still, I had fun! :) I brought along my FishEye Submarine and took pictures! Hahahaha =D
Waiting for the boat to come and take us away!
On the boat!
Look at the fishies!
I wanna be a fish too! =D
Our adventure ended after an hour odd and off we go, back to the resort for tea-time! Food was okay, after tea-time, we headed back to the room. I let the guys go shower first since I know I would take a longer time. I told them I'd go out and take a walk along the beach and would be back. :) It was nice to walk along the beach, watching everyone going on their own activities. I walked till the end, checked out some shops and watched the sky turned a pretty mixture of pink, purple and blue and saw the sun slowly descending behind the hills. After I was done with my shower, we made our way to the 'canteen' for dinner. After dinner we walked around, trying to find a decent place to settle down and play our game of Taboo. While we walked, I can't help but keep looking at the stars above. They were so bright, it's as if someone threw a black blanket over the sky and poked holes in it so the light could still shine through. It's hard to see such a lovely sight in Singapore because the city is just too bright.
Soon, we found a bar and we made ourselves comfortable. The guys shared a bottle of wine whereas I had my magarita, I didn't exactly enjoy it because it wasn't frozen! But anyhow, we had an awesome time playing Taboo and before we knew it, it was almost 11:30pm and we headed back to the room where we had a round of Scrabble. We snacked on our junk food while playing... I suck at Scrabble!!! =(
My tiles - how to win with such tiles?!?!
After the game, it's time to turn in...
30th May: If I'm not wrong, we were supposed to go catch the sunrise together. But hmmm, we all slept till around 10ish! =P Think we slept around 12ish-1am the previous night so yeah... We obviously missed the timing for breakfast, so we got ready and headed out and settled for brunch at some place in another resort.
Oh yah, before that I had a false alarm - I thought I lost my wallet! Hahaha =P I couldn't find my wallet in my crumpler bag and I even went to the reception counter to report loss as I couldn't find it anywhere in the room. I checked my bag several times and I finally found it safely tucked away in a secret compartment of my adidas bag. Sorry for the scare guys! =P
After brunch, we went to rent kayaks! =) Also got a plastic bag to keep my FishEyeSub + digital camera safe.
By the way, this is Redang. The waters are unbelieveably clear, there are even fishes in the shallow waters! This. Is. Paradise.
The 3 blokes
Here's a picture of me! I didn't take much pictures on this trip... Can't help it since I'm so active!
Hello hello!!
Say Hi to my kayak partner! :)
The sun was blazing hot and we really kayaked quite a bit man. Soon, 1hr was up and we went to return the kayaks. We spent the rest of the time just hanging out by the beach, soaking in the cool waters.
I love this picture so much that I made it my profile photo in Friendster, MSN and Facebook, Hahahaha! Someone told me that I look like I'm topless in this shot, but I'm not!!
After a while, the guys engaged in sandball fights and I managed to stay outta it (but I got hit once!!)... It was fun watching them try to hit each other with sandballs hahaha! Then, it was almost time to go back and put down our stuff and grab our snorkelling equipment for our afternoon trip and reapply sunblock.
We went to a different location and it was awesome! I saw so many different kinds of fishes! It was a breath-taking sight... I didn't bring my FishEyeSub thinking we might be heading to the Marine Park again and I wanna concentrate of fishy-watching instead. Oh well... =) I really enjoyed myself... I followed the school of fishes around and swam away from the crowd... And best of all, I felt like I was the only one around as I could only hear myself breathing. It was so... peaceful.. just me and the fishies... :) I was enjoying myself alot more prolly because I had gotten the hang of using the equipment to help me breathe. We went back onto the boat when time was up and went back to the resort. Didn't take any snacks to eat during tea-time as I wasn't feeling particularly hungry so I drank instead. As usual, I went on my walk (this time with my SuperSampler) whereas the guys took their time to shower. After my shower, we kinda explored the place a little.
We sat down and just looked at the beautiful surroundings and thought of how crazy we were to kayak out so far... Hahaha! I guess you can see how chao-ta we've become after a day in the sun! My shoulders were all red and burnt! =(
We went to have dinner and we brought along our games since we might be staying out late. We then checked out the board for our check-out times.
他妈的！They got my name wrong! %$&*!
After dinner, we walked over to Redang Bay as the guys wanna get cans of beer. It so happened that there was some kinda fancy costume party going on, so we just hung around and watched. There was this composer-singer person around to sing us songs as well. =D Oooh, and we saw some unidentified glowing creatures in the sand! After a while, it got a lil boring so we headed back to our room for our nightly dose of Taboo and Scrabble =D
I tell you, Taboo has gotta be the awesomest game around, we had so much fun man.
Daryl was trying to get Yi-Long to say the word "Secret", so he began by saying "I have a dirty little what?" and Yi-Long just burst out saying "dick" and we all collapsed in laughter, so much so that Daryl had to call for a timeout. =P Also, Ie Ting's another one fella who made us laugh. I was paired up with him and I was supposed to get him to say Merlion. So I was going on saying, "Okay, this is a Singapore icon, mythical creature made out of 2 animals" and he said "Orang Utan" *faints* and yes.... we laughed and laughed and laughed man. =)
Then we played Scrabble, tonight it was a lil special as the loser would have to do a forfeit, which is to finish a can of beer. Not so much of a problem for the guys, but I ain't the beer-guzzling kinda girl. So when the game was almost coming to an end, I was already telling everyone that I don't wanna play already since there's no hope for me to be the second runner-up and just give me the beer lah. But Ie Ting has a very smart idea. He decided to up the stakes a lil, and told me that I could draw lots to see if I hafta drink either 1 can, 2 cans or zero cans of beer. So I gamely took up the challenge, and I told everyone I'm gonna pray that I don't need to drink. I also made sure they didn't play cheat by scribbling 2 on all 3 pieces of paper. =D so Yi-Long got ready his camera to film the entire process and I was shaking with nervous excitement as I picked out the slip of paper that would determine my fate and guess what - I picked 0!! GOD WAS LISTENING TO MY PRAYERS!!!! =D hahaha, so in the end the guys finished one can of beer each within 30 seconds while I brushed my teeth. Quite an awesome feeling for me, but not for the guys man hahahaha! They were burping, trying to get the gas out and they were all feeling hot. =P So I was trying to get them to sleep so we can go catch the sunrise together. Finally sleep found us. :)
31 May: I was the first to wake up and I quickly went to freshen up. The water was freezing cold in the morning and my teeth were chattering man. I woke all the 3 guys up and after a while, we popped over to the al fresco tables and waited for the sun to come out.
I love watching sunrise. It as if the Maker's splashing all the wonderful colours on a blank canvas, turning it into a masterpiece every morning.
Yi-long took an emo shot of me hahah!
Kate's feeling a lil emo too...
Soon, we went back to our room, packed our stuff and headed out to check out the room and return the snorkelling gear. :) Had chicken porridge and Ie Ting was showing his 'magic trick' that made me cracked up! =P Then we just sat around, waiting for the boat to come and take us back to the jetty.
Waiting to get on the boat, the sun is killing me!
*picture taken by Yi-Long*
It was quite a ride back... I think I dozed off a couple of times... I tried to ask the captain if he has seen Kate's clothes because I think it dropped when they were passing the bags out from the boat to the shore when we arrived, but he didn't see it so... tough luck. It doesn't matter, it just means that we have more excuse to go get new clothes! =D
Kate's looking mighty pleased at the sound of shopping! =D
We found our bus after we got off the jetty, and we were well on our way back home. We were supposed to stop after 2.5 hours, but the bus-driver kept on going till it was almost 3 (we boarded the bus at around 10ish). We got out and visited the toilet and at the same time, we got ice-cream to beat the heat! I wanted to eat ice-cream while we were on the island but somehow that didn't materialise.
Enjoying my ice-cream under the shade! =D
*picture taken by Yi-Long!*
We then hopped back onto the bus and in another like 2 hours' time, we reached yongpeng and we stopped for dinner. I had some fake ramly burger that wasn't too yummy. =( Then we headed back onto the bus that took us back to Singapore. :)
It was a really good trip... Sometimes, it's the company that matters.. :) I'm thankful that we stuck to our guns and still came on the trip... Anyway, thanks for the memories guys! =) Meet up soon again!
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