LANGKAWI

Alright! Time to upload some photos.

Decided to flood it here this time, fb can wait. Been pretty absent minded the past few weeks, I think age is really catching up on me, and I am sure I can never remember all of this, so I had better jot this trip down together with all the tiny details and pictures!. :)


Flew over to Langkawi for my birthday this year. Long story, but not worth mentioning I guess.

Anyways, first time to Langkawi!! ALWAYS wanted to go, more than Redang.  So I was actually expecting so much more. Didn't turn out very great after all, sigh.. I mean after you've seen THIS (from Whitsundays):

everything just seems to pale in comparison. But maybe it's just this beautiful in my mind, that you know, expectations are a little high from then on, and it probably wasn't even that nice in the first place!

How I wish I was a vampire then, then I can remember everything vividly.

So OK, our first mini-holiday together since we came back from Australia.. (trip to durian farm not counted!). After browsing through the photos, it's actually quite pretty! Like I said, my brain's perception is pretty screwed up then.

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At the airport! 02 OCT 2012

Some display inside Terminal 2, huge teapots and teacups!

My travel bag! Been with me for all my small trips when i was in Aussie :D

We had an hour or so till boarding, decided to grab a kopi and watch kangxi for entertainment! Can't remember who was the one who introduced me to watch kang xi but i thank you from the bottom of my heart! Never fails to entertain me. hahaha.

Our flight!

hahaha.
just kidding.
siao ah, take SQ to Malaysia.
im not that rich.
YET.


we took Silkair! can't believe it's damn cheap. the tix was about $130 or so each, but the airport tax was $160!

And so we board the plane. It was super empty, less than 30 pax definitely, but there was an artiste who sat on the same flight as me! So the trip started off pretty well, hehehe. :D

off off here we go.

..tadah! managed to grab her before we all alight. :P i dont really care my face is fat, just woke up from 30min sleep okay..

So, she lives in Langkawi, and probably flies to Langkawi often. YAY i like her so much! Can't believe I actually saw her. She's exactly like how she looks on TV, which is awesome and pretty, and I get to spend 1.5hr flight with her so I was damn excited!!

Ok, I have very little luck when it comes to bumping into big stars. So far i've seen Christopher lee, huang biren, gurmit singh, vincent ng and xiaxue (she's famous too right?), but it was only a glace, or from a far. With her I really need to take a photo! otherwise I'll probably regret it my whole life I think cos' I doubt I'll ever go to Langkawi again..

Btw the current 9pm show is really good! They do act well together, her and christopher lee. But I can not stand dumb people, so I hope she brighten up soon? (in the show).

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And so we reached Langkawi...
Contrary to popular belief (and photos)  Langkawi is actually not all sand and beaches okay!
It's not resorts and snorkelling.
not 蓝天白云, AT ALL.

It's Malaysia. It is a piece of land, with solid ground, shops, museums and malls.


It was 8pm when we reached our resort. We call it the 城堡/castle. Cos' looks just like it. You'll see!

Our first food was tom yum seafood at a nearby place, outdoor, halal and very malay. Hmm.. I'm not very good with describing food.

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And the sun rises! 03 OCT 2012.

view from our room

The bed and breakfast sucks! Horrible ttm.

Don't ask me what's LHOOQ.
And for this, I quote xx and kk, "don't ask me a question what Google can answer"



Day trip: Island-hopping!
can't believe i threw away my awesome rainbow top, only to buy another rainbow top.

in the van to the jetty

At the jetty!

In the boat. Island hopping starts!

the you-cannot-imagine-how-famous-this-thing-is eagle statue.

Actually it's not that bad cos the water cleared up when we went further away from the shores/civilisation.

First stop! Beras Basah Island.

I don't know who are they.
Some Chinese peeps.

 

Or what we actually call, the monkey island.
IT IS FULL OF MONKEYS!

We had one hour here and it was OMG-freakin' long.
the snorkel shop wasn't open so we had absolutely nothing to do except walk the beach and sit at the jetty.

Ended up taking pictures of a fly!
See how bored we were.

More monkeys..At the same place.
never bluff you right?

Very poor thing cos the monkey's foot was stuck in an aluminum can drink!

Feeding of monkeys is allowed over there.

2nd stop: Eagle feeding
It's basically just eagles. Feeding. FULLSTOP.

ok, actually it's A LOT of eagles.
feeding.
fullstop. 

Halfway out of eagle sea, our boat decides to go cranky and we were stranded on a jetty for about half an hour or so. We just looked at boats that drove past us, seriously.  At some point I became a little delirious and started going insane and telling random jokes that are NOT FUNNY. hmmmmmmmm.....

Stop #3

I don't like this place at all. the water smells funny (sea water mixed with pee and sunblock) yuck! Plus I had to climb up to this place, only to climb back down.. -.-

30RM. not bad at all!

Had this couple take a picture for us. See how nice i took for them, with the nice forest-y scenery and all!

and they took ours with us and WATER. for fuck i want to see the water for? Had to paddle over to them to pass camera back and froth some more leh! ugh....

And then we headed back to our castle.. (see! it's a castle right!)

little did we know they really dropped us right at our castle and not the actually jetty. Had to jump into the waters to reach our castle! 


We changed, and went to the "mega' mall to have lunch. It only took me 2hrs to finish walking the whole mall + lunch. Lunch was 30mins and 20mins were spent watching Real Steel on their TV. technically speaking, 1hr 10mins to finish walking the mall. how bout mega bored to death.

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Day three!
shall be remembered as the day awk forgot my birthday.
and i don't think it's the first time actually..


So, yep, another day trip.
There wasn't any one else for that day, so it was just me and awk in the car. Kind of like a private tour actually, lol. 

Told you bout the famous eagle?
YEP.
very famous indeed.
it's all over the island.

after some 20 over shots, finally got the angle that captured both of us with the eagle.

Headed off to see their underwater world.
wa piang.
if it's not in your package, you don't really need to be here.
not very interesting.

Red tail tin foiled barb. Nostalgic man.

some very cute small monkeys. i don't know what they're called, but they looked like small monkeys to me lor.

Adorable penguins! It's funny how they walk/hop around! :D

salamander! scientists love them!

white-tip shark. whatever.

lots of puffer fish. that's nice :)

the backside of the lobster. LOL.

puffers!

boxed puffers!

moray eel. which looks just like the ones at our uww.

more puffers!

Ive actually seen this fish before at dayang! poisonous..

And.. the highlight of our trip I might say.
The cable car ride.

Little did I know I would actually be UP there, THAT high.

The start of a scary journey!

Still didn't fully know what I was in for.

Seven wells.

WTFffffffffff.

Annoying face!

Seven-wells.

damn high!

Finally we reached the stop!

 

And to my horror, it wasn't the end.....

Yes this is THE TOP.
very Genting-like, haha.

there's nothing much to see anyway cos' it's all fogged and misty.

On the way down.. Look at how m-effing high la!

with wobbly legs, we wanted to go to a nice beach. Cos we HAVE NOT seen any nice beaches yet! We want to see postcard worthy beaches ok!

Not bad at all! :D

And.. dinner. decided to grab some Chinese seafood now. Zhi char. it's just tofu, veggie and prawn.

Yes, ONE PRAWN.

probably about 20cm big! We didn't believe it when the uncle said we only need to get one prawn.. And he chose the smaller one some more.

And.. we walked back to our 城堡...

Pretty sunset by the pool! (:

 our castle(:

Last day: Fishing!

Decided on a fishing trip for the last day, cos' they promised fishes. And we did!
(:

So.. we were expecting rods and lines you know...
Turns out, it was just the reels.
JUST the reels.
 like this.

Nevertheless, it was a pretty awesome 4-hr fishing trip where he brought us to the different fishing spots.

And here's our loot!

FISHIES!

heh heh. Proud to say I got at least 6-8 fishes okay!
got the hang of it at the last hour.
yayyy!!

But they were all quite small, totally different from what we had in mind.

All in all, Langkawi it totally NOT what we remembered or knew.
It would probably be an amazing place if we hadn't had those high expectations I feel.

And looking at those photos, it's actually not that bad, right?