Showing posts with label Langkawi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Langkawi. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2009

More pics from my trip!

I finally have more pics of Langkawi... hehe... stole the memory card... lol... Let's hope the internet is fast tonight... Otherwise lesser pics... hahaha...

My room! Guess which is my bag =)

Failed attempt at taking pics in the dark! it was 12 am plus ON THE BEACH, mind u...

Walkway to the thai restaurant in the evening

View of the Junior n premium suites... The chalet that sticks out the most is the presidential suite.

Guess who is peeking? Could it be the same monkey that visited us at our room 2 yrs ago?

Bl3kk! Even monkeys know how to camwhore OK! hah... love the hairdo...

Two hornbills right outside our room!

View from the Thai restaurant during sunset... preetttyyyy~~

View of the swimming pool that we FINALLY had more or less an hour to swim in!!
The last time we were there, only had a quick dip...

Excuse the lousy pic but there is a momma monkey carrying her baby yellow monkey! CUTE!

View of the fountain from the cable car.

The pier near our hotel... It's like 5 minutes away!

Now what did I tell ya! They love taking pics!
This monkey was trying to act all cute so that we would feed it... of course we didn't! Not dumb! lol... This pic was taken from the hotel's coffee house terrace...

Pics all jumbled up!Hah! View from inside the cable car. That little town down there is the Oriental Village. On the right, Burau Bay, whr our resort was located but u can't see it in the pic. This section of the bay was Mutiara Bay Resort. Centre and a bit to the left, Pantai Kok.

Me in the jungle!! Was on the way to the suspension bridge...

There is this dude at the edge! Scary... Maintenance guy...

Spectacular view from the bridge!!

Found another nice pic of the resort! This is the Premium suites...
Lol! This is what happens when u have too much time waiting for the plane to arrive! Hahaha...

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Today I went for a wedding... Nice... Sad... Tearful... Bride was crying when she was exchanging her vow...

~Vanessa (bride), mom, me, aunt~

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After the wedding, we went to きっさてん、a japanese cafe to have lunch... Very nice place and the food was not bad... Love the decor... hehe... After that, went to MMU for DAICON!! My very first anime con! Sad to say that I'm a bit disappointed... Mayb cuz I didn't know anyone except my sister and I know none of the characters were cosplaying (well 90% la)... I only know Mario n Lugia and that white robot from Star Wars... Lol... Here are some pics...

2 of my sister's friends cosplaying... I have no idea what characters they are suppose to be... lol... All I know is the black dude is a character frm Bleach... Enlighten me some1!

Jpop booth! Kanjani 8 and NewS's section...

KAT-TUN n 嵐’s section...
No KK? T&T? SMAP? HSJ? *sobs*

Disappointment... but the campus was HUGE n cool!!

Shall sleep now

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\TTFN/
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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Langkawi trip~

Didn't take much pics from my recent holiday... If u followed me on twitter u would have know what I did... hehe... Anyways, this time we managed to go to Pulau Payar 'Marine Reserve'... Notice the inverted commas? Well, if u have been thr b4 you would understand...

Lack of management = dead corals
Lack of management = rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish!
Lack of management = Even more RUBBISH and more DEAD corals!!
Website claims that there are plenty of soft corals... Maybe in the deeper waters but not the ones near the beach...

Don't expect any live colourful ones... I found like 2 or 3 patches of small sea anemones thriving but mostly were either dead or rock corals... Plenty of fishes that will swim up to you... Note to self, do not stick finger into the water... The fishies WILL BITE you... No kidding... Water is turquiose and clear... During low tide, don't swim too far out cuz it's too shallow... I scraped my knee when I was 'gostan-ing' back... I tried to signal my sis to stop swimming towards the dead corals cuz it was too shallow but she kicked me with her flipper... swts... I was actually behind her but she thought I was far away... Had 3 fresh slightly bleeding wounds on my knee... Had to get out of the water FAST cuz got sharks... DON'T LAUGH! I was so scared, okay... Eventhough they were on the other beach (which was like less than 2 minutes walk away on foot), I was freaked out cuz they have super sensitive smell... can detect blood like miles away! or was it kms away... hah! but I was nt even 1km away from the sharks... so yea, I was so scared...

I'm missing the seafood and coconuts already! I miss the sea!! I miss living in the chalet and waking up in the morning listening to the wave crashing against the shores... I miss Langkawi! This time it was a very laid back holiday... Went to the marine park and the cable car only... Other days were spent lazing around the resort and driving downtown for yummy seafood and cheap chocolates...

I came back not only with chocolates but this time I came back with injuries! Lol... Scraped by corals, got whacked not only by my sister's flippers but also another guy's... Yes! I was snorkeling around and didn't notice that I was swimming into 2 ppl! Lol... The guy didn't notice but his sister did... Bang! and I have a bruise on my right hand... Not only that! Apparently I have a more 'matured' skin now according to the pharmacist... I came back with breakouts!! Not minor ones like 5 or 6 on the cheek but more than 10!! On my forehead, cheeks, and chin area!! OMG! Horrible!! First time having a major breakout! Visited the beautician today for a super painful extraction of those pesky pimples! OH! I cut my hair too!! hehe... I likey! Just tidied it up... snip snip here and there... nothing major...

Ok... Time for pics!
Excuse the poor quality... I was only equipped with my handphone's camera...

View from my room!

View of the super expensive water chalet from my room... Price per night: RM2k... If we were to stay there, have to top up abt RM1k?? Super expensive!

Sky-set (no sun! it's hidden behind the mountains) view from the Thai restaurant

View of the smaller water chalets from our table
(Note the two small yellow figures: Our entertainers of the night!)

Another view of the Sky-set! reminds me of Paddle Pop Rainbow!!

My Baked Pineapple Fried Rice with Chicken @ the Thai restaurant
It was YUMMY but portion was small =(

Can't really see right? Fishes in diff patterns cuz they were being chased by a couple of squids! Lol... Very entertaining to watch. This was seen from the Thai restaurant.

Night time at the 'Tilewalk'... It's not a boardwalk cuz it is made of tiles and not WOOD! The expensive chalets had the authentic boardwalk...

View of the Thai restaurant from the 'boardwalk'...

View of more chalets!

Clear waters! Don't be fooled by the pic! I thought they were corals at first but when we were in the water, it was rocks, dead corals, and very very VERY few rock corals.

Nope! Those yellow stuff are not fishies! They are all leafs.
View of the beach... Sand was nice... our little hut was the one below the blue sign.

That white thing there is the reef-viewing platform. I saw plenty of rubbish under the platform... Sad case...

The floating thingy!! It was so hard to get on... hahaha...

Spot the Black Tip reef shark? This was the baby shark... I didn't take the huge ones cuz my camera was in the bag... There were like 2 or 3 sharks as large as 2m!! The rest were more or less 1m in length... These small ones, not too sure... Mayb around 1m...The small ones swam so close to the shore that I walked beside them... haha...
My dad was not aware that he was swimming right next to the 2m ones! Lol... He was so excited! hahaha...

Sis looking outfrom the pier...

FISHIES!! I saw a huge grouper under the rocks! Hmmm... Sekpan! hahah... There were plenty of parrotfishes n other stripey common reef fishes...

CHITONS! First time seeing them! There were PLENTY TOO! Only saw it here though... The rocks at the resort tak ada... weird... I thought they are very common on rocky shores...

Look who came back to visit us! The monkey! My mom was so smart to feed it rambutans and so it called 2 of its brother/sisters to join the feast... SCARY but cute!

View from 700+m above sea level... I spot the two man made islands!!
Lush greens...

Selca!

My favourite Nasi Dayang from the hotel!! It's RM20 (excluding 10% disc for Berjaya members)

Lobster!! It's yummy!!

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That's all the pics I took... More pics are in the Nikon camera... Not taken by me though... hehe...
Wouldn't mind doing it all over again! Langkawi was fun~~

TTFN!!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Langkawi Trip~!

Eeeee... Nette posted abt her second day to China adey... I must post osso... Ahhh... Today just had my first lesson of the semester... and the first lecture I attended was Stats... The lecturer funny la... The BTH lecturer didn't turn up... probably he got sesat... Lol... Some of the lecturers didn't even know there were lecture theatres at the basement... They didn't even know the basement existed!!
The uni should have provided a floor plan of each building... So hard for us to get around... I got lost! I had to call my friend to ask her where my class was... but now I okay adey... haiyoo... I really pity the new students... They seem quite lost... ok... wanna post the trip fast and then I can sleep... TMR NO LAB!!! hehehe...


Day 2
21.06.07
[Part 1]
Me and my sister was awaken by my mummy...
"Girl, girl! Wake up! got monkey!! Come see!"
I was still blur blur... waited for a while then I got up and went to look at it... It was soooooooo cute!! Sitting at the verandah there... Hehehe...






We went trekking today... Telaga tujuh... The guide at the airport said it takes abt 4 hours to get there... but when we got there... WHOA!! We looked up and saw the road leading up to the waterfall... Shocking... too bad we didn't take a pic of it... was too tired... Lucky there were steps on the side to climb up... the road was almost 20 degrees... you could bend your body so much to the front...

We climbed soooo many steps... really tiring... OmG... I really need to exercise... But the hill was really steep... There were 638 step all together... MADNESS!!!


But it was really worth it when we reached there... Did I meantion, there were plenty of monkeys on the way up?? SOOOO Many of them... there were packs of them... It took us abt half an hour to reach the top of the waterfall... The guy at the airport said 4 hours because if we climbed summore, there was a place filled with butterflies which was abt 1 hour away... then another 2 hours, I think, to reach this really blue lake, Tasik Biru something... We didn't go because we weren't prepared.. No water, no food.... haha... after reach up there too tired to come back down... LOL... more pics!!






See how clear the water is?




Me and my sister...



There was a small tower near the place... So we went up and took pics of the mountain that we were "suppose" to climb...





After we rested for a while and soaked our feet till it was well rested... We went back down... 367 steps later we reached the bottom of the waterfall... This is where the steps ended... but we still had summore walking to go to reach the foot of the waterfall... Sob... there were more steps involved...




AND again... It was worth it... Look at the pics we got...




Lol-ness!



Then after more oohs and aaahss... We went back... and saw this caterpillar on one of the steps...


Not to mention... more monkeys
Had some really refreshing and COLD coconut before we left... Went back to the hotel for lunch and then went for the cable car... Unfortunately... I need to sleep adey... So more updates coming... =)
TTFN~!