AN OVERDUE POST

Its been so long time since i came back from Redang Island, and so far i've been too lazy to even bother to update. But i guess its been abit too long, so as to increase the popularity and number of patrons of my blog, i might as well blog about my trip to Redang ( and maybe start to post pics).

DAY 1, SATURDAY 17TH OF AUGUST

Woke up at 8:30 to find my parents are already dressed and ready. They have this habit of waking me up only after they're ready, whenever we're going on trips. Why? Simple, so they can NAG, and PUSH, and HURRY, and COMPLAIN about how slow i am and why can't i be more like them, and eventually LOSE THEIR TEMPER. They ravel in it, they are addicted to it, i swear. But that day, things were more subdued, merely because of the fact that we're carpooling. Courtesy of the Thengs that live near us. When they arrive, i see to my dismay that im not gonna have the whole back seatsof their seven seater dunno-what-car to myself, instead, i'll be sandwiched between their 7 year old son Nixon, and their 11 year old, Nevin. God, somehow i just knew that today was gonna be a fucked up day, and i was right on the spot. Lemme tell you what i have against those kids, firstly, there's nothing really wrong with Nixon, just a very cute, big eyed average little standard oner. But Nevin is a complete nightmare. ( I will now divert from the main topic for a long rant, warning: contains explicitly ''mean'' and ''rude'' content. Not suitable for underage or naive losers.)

The first annoying thing you'll notice about him is, he STARES. And not just an inconspicuous sideways glance or anything. Just an obvious turn of his head and a long, blank, open-mouthed, dead on stare. And if you turn and stare back ( clearly to indicate its annoying ), his underdeveloped child mind still cannot comprehend this and he continues. Damn bloody annoying. And it doesn't help that he looks like someone stepped on his face while in the womb. Seriously. He also keeps snapping unflattering photos using his bloody motorola razr. He also seems to have no shame or self restraint, typical of stupid kids you find in shopping centres and such, screaming and talking loudly and asking me an overflowing river of intrusive and personal questions. And if i say dunno, he'll turn to my mom and ask her! FUCKING CHILD! Take all that childish behaviour, and put it into a roughly 6'5'' 50kg body, and the result is HELL amplified a thousand times. Its like some mega loser who never grew up with the rest of us.

Anyhoo, back to the car ride. I expected us to be there by lunch, and i was wrongly assured of that too, by dear ol dad. But as the day dragged on i just went on to sleeping, staring out the window, and watching a movie on their portable DVD player.(Resident Evil: Extinction). Finally we reached the the stinking hotel at Kuala Terengganu by twilight, only to find the nightmare has just begun. The damned place was a dump, the type you normally wouldn't even go into, let alone spend the night. Actually it wasn't that bad, but still it sucked. The toilet was difficult to flush like hell. And the bathroom door couldn't lock. Others had problems like dusty floors, crumbling plaster, and front doors that couldn't be locked.....Went for dinner in a seaside restaurent which served mediocre food. Saw quite a few white tourists, and as usual felt embarrassed that they have to see the state of the......well, the not-so-picturesque places in Malaysia, shall we say. I hate living in a third world country....After dinner we returned back to the hotel, and i watched tv till i was sleepy.

DAY 2, SUNDAY 18TH OF AUGUST

Had breakfast at the hotel. The toast was average, but damn! the nasi lemak was terrible, and this is Terengganu for God's sake. We got kinda lost trying to find the jetty, after going in circle a bit, we finally found it. When we finally got in, it was already packed with other holiday goers. I spent the whole ride watching some Roman movie that was okay, but didnt get to see the ending because the ferry has already arrived at Redang. The first thing i saw was a OMG fucking grand resort. But i later found out when we came ashore that we'll be staying at the resort next to it. That i failed to even notice before, thanks to the fact that i was too dazzled by the upscale one next to it. The room are not in a large building like normal hotels but instead are banglos with 8 separate room, that are heaven compared to what i slept in last night. But for all its clean and comfortable accomodations, there was something it clearly lacked, a tv. Anyhoo, the gardens surrounding it was landscaped with the usual tropical trees and palms, most notably large flowering bauhimia trees, full of pollinating bees, wasps and plain sunbirds. After we got settled we went to the snokelling shop to rent some snorkelling masks. Normal ones costs RM 1o, powered ones cost RM 2o, quite a reasonable price considering you get to keep them the whole trip. And my dad forced me to get a stupid life jacket too, even though i can totally swim, thank you very much. I didnt feel that embarrassed about wearing them after i saw everybody, including those not in our 30 or so group wore life jackets too, except a German couple. We got on a boat with about 50 or so people and went for a short ride out to some island, and off the boat we went. My mom went into the water and freaked out just cause she couldnt feel the bottom! She got back on the boat immediately. I just drifted around without any effort thanks to my life jacket, and stared at all the coral and fish. Saw parrotfish, damselfish, clownfish, even barracuda. One of the boatmen caught a seaturtle, and everybod went to have a closer look at it, and even touch it. I obvoiusly did so, and found the flippers to be quite plastic like. After about 2 hours, we got back on the boat due to strong currents and went back to the main island. After a short break to rest and refuel, we all went to the beach to snorkel again. The coral there were mostly dead, not unexpected, as it was in close proximity with so much tourists all the time, saw more fish and baby sharks about one and a half feet long. Dinner was provided by the resort throughout the whole stay. After the okay meal, we all went to the projector at the side of the resort to watch ''the most one sided match between the two'', as it was called. Im talking about Lee Chong Wei again Lin Dan of course. When the match finally finished, there was much to do, so i just went to bed at around 11.

DAY 3, MONDAY 19TH OF AUGUST

Woke up early for we had an early snorkelling trip today, at around 10, we all gathered only to find most werent going. Why? Because it was raining bloody cats and dogs. But i still braved the rain and got into the boat to go to the marine park-with-no-specific-name. The people there were alot more numerous, but then again, so were the fish. They gave us lots of old bread with mould growing to feed the fish. There were so many fish it was scary. Saw some jellyfish too. Mom still opted to stay in the shallows, but it was further out that most of the fish were. By about 12 we decided to leave, and i was the most relieved of all, what with the cold rain and the sunless sky deprived of warmth, i was shivering my balls off. So i gaily(wtf) swam to the shore and thats when it happened. Just as i was reaching the shore, i felt ths stinging jolt on my right arm. I immediately reacted by grabbing whatever was on my arm, and saw there was a transparent tentacle in my hand. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKKKKKKKK!!!! We all know what that means, JELLYFISH. Was i gonna feel unbearable pain? Will i go into epileptic shock? When will the poisons start to take effect? Paralysis?!?! So obviously i stayed in my little panicky moment for a bit, too bad there wasnt anybody around for me dramatise it all. So i just discreetly told someone i got stung, and soon everybody knew. The people at the information counter or whatever it was didnt seem too worried about it, good sign, they just gave me some spray that can be used on ant stings and such....It was really painful, more like annoyingly itchy and burning, similar to ant bites. But still, my right and some of my left arm turned first red then purple and swelled abit, with the line where the tentacles stung expecially obvious. Nevin's mom tried to cheer me up by pretending to scratch it, just for laughs. But she would stop doing it and i was like what the FUCK is wrong with you?! It was barely any funny the first time and its not getting any funnier! sheesh. Anyway no biggie, i survived. Went for the second trip of the day after lunch but im too lazy to elaborate....spent the late afternoon doing a lonely almost romantic walk on the beach if not for the fact it was with my parent. Dinner was a lil different tonight. Besides the food prepared by the chefs, we had a barbecue. They had corn, and fishballs, and lamb and satay blahblahblah. Since my parents we lazy to do it, i went with a buch of aunties and such and well, barbecued. The corn was really dry, but everything else was fine. Once again, the lack of tv forced me to an early bedtime.

DAY 4, TUESDAY 20TH OF AUGUST
The ferry to take us back to the mainland was coming at 11, so after breakfast, we took some last minute pic(not me), and tried to collect as much memories as vividly as we could, before we leave the clear aquamarine waters back to the dirty smelly green waters of the port back in terengganu. They played the same movie as before, so i didnt pay any attention. Instead i listened to my brother's mp3. It was only after we left the ferry that i realized i left the cover in the ferry.....too late to do anything about it. Luch was at some chinese restaurant that was extremely secluded. The rest of the day was filled with the miseries of being trapped in the same car with Nevin again. Other things happened, but im too lazy to type......so ill just summarize it. I reached home at 11 pm. FINISH.....

And found a sms from Nevin, giving me his number. *shivers*. As if ill ever call you! I proceeded to happily deleting it, like i just triumphantly exterminated some vermin that has been terrorizing my house. No actually i didnt, not that bad a person. just added him to my phonebook and hope he never calls. And he never did ;)

ITS A CELEBRATION!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIA HEE CHING. Cue applause. So today we went out for an obvious reason, that is, to use HC's birthday as an excuse to go out and watch 21! XD So the people who went were Mei Tin, Yee Shuen(who didn't watch the movie), Nikki(who left earlier than YS), the Bday girl, and yours truly. Sam came, but didnt join in. *pokpokpok* He just said hi, and left to watch some movie all by himself. Had lunch at that Japanese restaurant outside MPH. The food was surprisingly reasonable as in expensive-but-compared-to-other-Japanese-restaurants-is-quite-normal kinda way. I had unadon which is basically unagi on rice. It tasted great, as all unagi does. XP Too bad my bowels were still angry at me for eating God knows what ( most probably that chilli padi tuna sandwich i had last night + yogurt). After that we walked around blahblahblah. Went for 21 at 3:30. And of course, i sang along to ''I love the whole world'' during the advertisements. The movie was good, but i was disappointed they didnt do any fancy cheating tricks, all they did was counting cards, which by the way, you cant do unless you play with cards wide open. pffffft. And i didnt even recognise Kate Bosworth in the movie, i guess it was because her hair was a disaster. Before i went home, i decided to try and buy Twilight. Yes, i've decided to join in on the craze. But what i found was that MPH was bloody outta stock. All it had was New Moon and thats it. And no, i DO NOT want to borrow it, cause i'm sick of reading other people's book. If i cant read my own, then i wont read it at all. End of story.

AS BUSY AS A HIVE OF BUSY BEES DOING SOMETHING BUSY THAT KEEPS THEM BUSY

Okay, so i haven't really been updating my blog for quite some time. A very long time. Ever since that frail attempt to revive it when i was sick, before i went to the hospital, which i didnt bother to blog about either. Pfff, so what, sue me. So anyway, once in a while i get random people telling me they've uncovered my blog, and that its empty and boring and i need to update. So i guess i should probably post something for all you people out there who wasted their precious time to come here expecting something but getting nothing to read. i've just had a more-hectic-than-usual weekend, so here i go. (Sorry no pics, not the type that goes around snapping pics of everything i do.)

FRIDAY, 1ST AUGUST
Ah fridays, how i used to love them so, all i need to do was go to school until 12:40, and i was free. Free like a bird. Plus the subs i have on friday were relaxed and laid back. But not on this friday. After school i had to stay back for some St. John leadership course. I was conned by Sin Wei, who deliberately told me that it was mandatory. So i went, and found out that most had better luck than me. There were only 40 bloody people there. Bloody shit. The guy who came to school to talk was named Myocho. Permission to be confused while laughing out loud granted. And no he isn't Japanese. It's pronounced MY-CO. Anyway we did some activity like writing down characteristics of a leader starting with the alphebets A-Z, how to managed time better, the makings of a leader, blahblahblah....Over all it was pretty fun, but it did'nt make a big impact on my life. I'm not a better leader than i was before. I guess you just can improve what's already perfect. XD. Before the course ended, we got a little snack, which was a carton of Yeo's chrysanthemum tea, an oily deep pink piece of kuih, a not-so-oily-but-stale piece of curry puff that doesnt taste like curry puff, and a very-very-very-oily piece of friend dough like thing. The time i got home it was 5. I spent the remaining daylight going online. After dinner i changed, and prepared for tuition. My first tuition class for years. In fact, i haven't had tuition since standard 6! And that was when the teacher came to my house. Besides that, the only other tuition i had in my life was when i was standard 2, and i went to some house for like 3 weeks, then i quit. So this is my first ever in a tuition centre.The Perfection in Dataran Sunway, with Chris Chua/Lim, Priscilla, Abigail, and Kelly Ping pong piang. srry Kelly, i couldn't resist. The place looked like some new strip club or something. You would never have guessed it was a tuition centre. Come and see it for yourself, come join my class if you want. The physics class was easy to understand , but addmaths class was still hopeless for me. After that, my sis and bf Eric Seah took me to a DVD shop and bought '' You Don't Mess With The Zohan'' and ''Grey's Anatomy Season 2''. Then off to a hawker centre for a snack, wasnt really hungry so all i ate was a pau. Reached home at 12, watched tv till 1:30 then crashed exhautedly into bed without brushing.

SATURDAY, 2RD AUGUST
As usual, slept till parents rudely break into my locked room using the keys they have to wake me. That was 12 by the way. Said they were gonna balik kampung, which added to my annoyance. But at about 1 they just left without me. JOY! Leaving me,my sis and bf, they took me out to Kelana Jaya LRT station, and off we went to KLCC. The place was people-mountain-people-sea, crowded to the max. Decided to have lunch at Burger King, because everywhere was crowded, but i guess lots of people had the same idea, i've never seen a burger king with so much business in my life, it had more business than every Burger King in Pj put together. Anyway, while waiting, my sis went and tried the -near-impossible-task of getting a table. Erics was holding her handbag, when we finally got our food, he carried them, while i held my sis's handbag, and while walking to the table, i passed the long queue of people, and saw a european guy look at me and the bag and say something to his friend in his native tongue. I couldn't decipher what language, but i clearly heard their version of the word handbag. so it most probably was " hey look, even they guys here use handbags.'' Wonderful. After that we shopped and went to the PC fair at the convention centre. Tried to go back at 5 something, but the queue of people buying LRT tickets was longer than the great wall. We decide to get a cab to go to a LRT station further along that was more empty. BIG MISTAKE. Took forever to get a cab, and when we finally did, the driver was crazy.(DRIVER = D, US = U)

D: MAHAI.....MAHAI......MAHAI......(swearing at the traffic)
U:...........(starting to realise mistake)
D: eh, why is today so crowded wan? huh huh?
U: err, coz today got PC fair, at the convention centre.
D:HUH? (had to repeat numerous times in both english then mandarin before the bloody deaf fool understood, deafness most probably a side effect of all his swearing)
D: i ask you, computer or human smarter.
U: err, human. (he continued to ask it again and again, seriously deaf man, until finally hearing us)
D: smart. now who is the us king of computers.
U: Bill Gates. in both english then mandarin again x10.
D: HUH x 10. (after finally understanding, he asked us whats his english name.....idiot. we repeated, and he kept saying will wates, before giving up.Finally we reach our stop.)
D: RM 15.
eric didnt have enough change, so he turned to my sis and the bloody fool said
D: eh, four eyed girl, RM 15. ( she didnt have enough so she turned to me.)
D: eh four eyed boy, RM 15. ( i paid, n we got out asap.)

BLOODY MOTHER FUCKING BRAINLESS DEAF TAXI DRIVER THAT CAN JUST BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY. anyway, fast forward to when we reached Kelana Jaya. We went straight to OU. To try to get the 6 pm screening of THE DARK KNIGHT. yes yes, i know, totally lagging behind. Went there, to find it sold out, finally we settled for the 9pm screening, and that was the 3 middle seats of the first row that nobody wants. Had dinner at Dragon-i. The movie was great, i just loved the realistic sadism it had. Especially in the blow up-the-other-ship-scene. Tobad they didnt blow them up in the end. In real life they would of course, but its just a movie that lil kids can watch too provided their parents are with them. came out at about 11:40, and OU was more crowded than ever, at least in GSC and the bowling alley. And everybody there could drive, or old enough to drive or looked like they were old enough to drive. T.T Went back home, watched tv till 1:30, was about to sleep when my sis called me to watch the Zohan DVD we bought yesterday. It was another typical Adam Sandler movie, abit funny, and full of crap. And of course, he played a character who found his ture love for the hundredth time. Movie finished at 3:45, my sis by then was asleep by then, and eric slept a while, but i was wide a wake. Then i finally went to bed.

SUNDAY 3RD AUGUST
Woke up at 12 again, did normal sunday things like reading newspaper etc. By 2 pm, we were all sitting at the table, with food laid out for a steamboat bonanza. But the stupid heating thing didnt work until 2:45, so we finished lunch at 3:30. I was supposed to go watch The Mummy today, and the meeting time was 3:30. XD So i was rushing the last part of my lunch, when i had gotten everything together, i went out and rang Christophers door bell, i was supposed to fetch him you see. He comes out, wearing his basketball shirt.

H: are you ready? (stupid question.)
C: huh now ar?
H: yessss.
C: okok, wait ar, i go change......

We reached at about almost 4, to find Nicholas, Tze Runn, Serena, and Yi Han at the pool tables. Played abit, then went to buy popcorn. We ordered a large popcorn and 2 cokes for Chris, one of which he gave to Tze Runn, medium popcorn and 1 coke for me and Serena each, mineral water for Nick, and nothing for Yi Han. Since there was 6 of us, our order got messed up. In a good way. We only realised that when we went into the cinema to find we had 5 cokes instead of 4, so Yi Han got it free.The movie was great, with lots of special effects and such. But The Dark Knight was still better. After that we went for dinner at Delicious, beside FCUK. We all had different spaghettis except Serena who had lasagna. The portions were huge and it was delicious. Too bad for Chris though, Nick was buying him dinner, so he ordered the cheapest spaghetti with some strange frech name, and one of the words were oliv. So i guessed it had something to do with olives. When his spaghetti came, there was spaghetti, but no toppings!!! And i just knew they used olive oil. And they did. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Me and Chris left at 8:20, but since my family hadn't eaten, we were brought to some crappy hawker and watched and waited for them to eat. I only reached home at 9:20. Sorry you got dragged along with us Chris.

THE END. I've just spent dunno how bloody long to write this(9:45-12:30), so dont bloody expect me to post something new anytime soon. 2hours 45minutes of my time every 3 days is not my cup of tea. Peace Out.