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Friday, 29 May 2009

Hi.

After months of vacations finally I can go back to study already *excited*, just don't feel like wasting time anymore doing nothing.

Got an offer from underminer a few days ago to work as media at several Dota sites ( DA and Garena ) for upcoming Asia Cyber Games because I previously worked for the best eSports site - myMYM before they got screwed by their sponsors. Just decided to reject it because that's really time consuming.

Back in serious stuff, my result is finally out, and surprisingly I got an A-, I expected it to be at the boarder of fail and pass, haha. Thanks to Juno and Xt because they promised to pray for me *touched*, but i know Juno sure blow water only one, haha.

Traveled down to KL yesterday, such a busy schedule. Kuantan -> KL (Titiwangsa) -> Taman Melati. Then continued this morning Taman Melati -> PJ -> Shah Alam. I'm at my home at Shah Alam now, and will leave for Kuala Pilah (Negeri Sembilan) in like few more minutes and then back to Kuantan. Wow faint.

Submitted my Application form at Utar PJ this morning but sadly haven't receive any offer letter or bills yet, not sure if I'll attend Monday classes.


I wanted to watch Monsters vs Aliens, my friends are going to watch it tonight but I can't make it back to Kuantan in time T_T

Ciao.

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Went for a 3 days 2 night trip at Redang Island, a really exhausting one, like half of our group fell sick after / during the trip, including myself :(

I went to shop alone for short pants like 4 hours before my bus to Kuala Terengganu, get back to home, packed my stuff in 15 minutes and left. The 1 am bus arrived at KT at 4 am in the morning, we had to wait for 3 hours before someone come and pick us up. Basically we ate abit at the bus station, shopped abit at 7-11, and I played with Pon pon's Ipod Touch while the others slept.

Everyone were so tired that they went to sleep right after they got their room keys at Redang, only few of us went for a walk to explore the resort a little bit. We grabbed our snorkeling tools and went snorkeling after our lunch.

It was really a funny experience, despite helping those who can't really get used to the sea and swim, the guides kept frightening them with sea cucumbers and corals. I must say the government did a really good job keeping Redang sea unpoluted, the water is still crystal clear.


When we're not out there snorkeling, we'll stick to games like Mahjong, flying darts, Rami, Pool, Ping pong. What? Why did we travel all the way to Redang Island to play table games? Because we just like it that way :P At night our singers went to sing some karaoke, too bad nobody snapped pictures of them singing.




At the first night I'm already having sorethroat, and it got worst in the 2nd morning. Still there's another snorkeling trip waiting, this time at the famous Redang Marine Park. The park is really awesome, lots and lots of fishes that surrounds you, not afraid of humans. We should've bought a undersea water and take some pictures :(


We skipped the last snorkeling trip and went to Redang main beach area sight-seeing. Which we took hell lots of pictures. We also played Beach volleyball and kayak at evening. I was really ill on the second night having headache, slight fever, sorethroat, running nose (OMG H1N1? LOL), so I went to sleep earlier while the others continued their Rami frenzy.



Had to leave at the 3rd day, our ferry was at 12pm but we had to check out at 9am. We packed, checked out, and continued Mahjong-Rami-ing, took some last moment pictures and say goodbye to Redang Island.

Off-Topic : We took a Transnational bus from Kuala Terengganu to Kuantan, cost an additional 2 Ringgit and like 100 times sucker. The bus looks like some 1970's bus with pampers, rubbish, insects and idiots. Some Malay teens actually molested one of my friend. (Please note that the key word is not "Malay") Worst of all, it took freaking 4 and a half hours to reach Kuantan, that's 1 and a half hour longer than our first ride to KT.

Monday, 18 May 2009

I'm on a travel marathon in May because of the college / university holidays, despite the fact that H1N1 is already in Malaysia, everyone seems to have confidence in their beloved government, so here goes.

The first stop is Ipoh, where I actually got played T.T. At first everyone seemed to be excited and wanted to go to Keat Eng's birthday party at Ipoh, surprisingly I found out that only 4 people kept their promises :( Too late to say no, so it's a go! I'll share some interesting pictures of us and the places we went!

The first stop was Sam Poh Cave (I think?), I think most Malaysians know this place, what is in there? I'd say nothing much but turtles! The number of turtle had decreased over the years, but there were still some big ones there. Only a few of us were there, nobody else, I wonder where's all the tourists?

Then we head on to Guan Yin's Cave. I LOL-ed when I see the Japanese style decorations all over the place in a Guan Yin Temple. But the place is really beautiful, we took alot of pictures there.

At night we went to Keat Eng's birthday party. It was so crowded, we gave her a Sonic gear speaker as present but she was so busy that she don't even had the time to take a look at it, haha. We ate abit, cheered for the Malaysian badminton team abit, but eventually they got pawned hard by the Chinese.

The second day was a rush one, we din't have much time. We went for breakfast at the Ipoh Oldtown. I ordered Milo but they gave me White Coffee T.T (Waitress' OS: Walao come Oldtown drink what Milo, give u White Coffee!). Then we went to the 3rd cave, Kek Lok Cave. There's a big garden behind the cave with beautiful plants, lake and scenery. Not as interesting as the previous cave but this one is definitely a place that you would like to spent hours reading a book here.


The last place we went was Kellie's castle, a castle owned by an English long time ago. There were tales that he built the castle for his wife, but she died in it before the castle was even completed. Some said they saw Kellie's spirit in the castle wandering around, sounds mysterious. There's quite a number of rooms, wine room, guest rooms, storeroom, there's even a lift and a secret basement tunnel to escape in case of emergency.

We went back to KL straight after we left Kellie's castle. This marks the end of the trip but something else happened that day. I arrived at my Condo at 4.15pm, my bus back to Kuantan was at 5. After a quick pack I rushed down, tried to get a cab to the bus station.

The taxi drivers offered RM15 (double of the actual price). I was mad because the taxi drivers there are so selfish, they wanna earn more, but never thought of understanding the financial problem of students. In fact by refusing to charge by meter, they can be warned and punished by the taxi council. I refused to pay, I took another cab to the LRT station after waiting for 10 minutes, which cost me RM3. I wouldn't even pay RM3 if I had time.

Luckily I found a really nice driver at the station that took me to the bus terminal with a fair price, and he told me that he hated those selfish taxi drivers too! I made it to the terminal 5 minutes before the departure, pretty much sums up the exciting (and frustrating) day.

Really exhausting trip because I traveled from Kuantan -> KL -> Ipoh -> KL -> Kuantan
I'll have one day rest before my next destination
Next Stop: Redang Island!!!!