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Ah finally, been waiting for about a month since we planned this Perhentian trip with my boyfriend and friends from Bishan a.k.a Kenny Gan, Stanley and Pek Bee.

We were really lucky to still get accommodation during this long Wesak weekend, thanks to Mei’s recommendation of D’Lagoon Chalet. The other resorts at Perhentian were fully booked.

Our journey started with train ride for more than 12 hours, from Johor Bahru to Tanah Merah.

Through my experience with the long distance traveling, this time I smart a bit. I brought a book “Wild Swans” by Jung Chang (till now still haven’t finished reading), my greatest friend, Nintendo DS, and my recently uploaded 949 songs into my new 8GB Sony Ericsson w960i, on board to accompany me on our super long train ride. We even went to the canteen coach to have our best-mee-goreng-ever-tasted, however, this time, it wasn’t that great at all. Stan was so disappointed because he purposely joined this trip just to eat this mee goreng. Although the journey was long, I was really excited. I thought I won’t be able to sleep but I did. What a pig.

Need to mention one funny incident. Before we reached Tanah Merah train station, I managed to catch a train officer and asked if there were taxis available from the train station to the Kuala Besut jetty. He was very helpful, immediately took out his handphone, called his friend ‘Beri’ to arrange a taxi for us and that’s settled! I asked the officer his name, and he flashed open his jacket to reveal his name tag ‘ZAKARIA’. Hahahaha. A mini strip show. The action is still replaying in my head.

Our train got delayed by 2 hours so we reached Tanah Merah station 2 hours later than scheduled. We didn’t look for ‘Beri’ as we were ‘attacked’ by many taxi touters there. We just went ahead with the first touter and managed to fit 5 of us in 1 cab for RM80. Not too bad lah, I guess. The journey from the train station to the jetty took about 40 odd minutes and nobody wanted to stop for keropok lekor so my friends SUCKED. There you go.

About 10 plus AM, we reached our designated jetty office and was told that we could board the boat immediately to take us to the island. I was hungry like fuck so we all wanted to have our breakfast at the jetty first, since the next boat was ’sekejap aje’, so said the boatman.

We happily had the best roti canai ever ever ever, best best best. Crispy roti canai, hot hot wan, with nice hot kopi. Aahhhh.

Since the boatman said ’sekejap aje’, we practically rushed our breakfast, only to find out later that his meaning of ’sekejap aje’ was 3 hours later!

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I think this is Terengganu’s definition of ’sekejap aje’. Everything’s lagging here (?)

Boh pian lor, so what’s there to do? PHOTO OP!!!!!!!!

And we sat at the jetty office and mumbled and mumbled and complain komplen until the lady boss I think also a bit fed-up so she pulled some strings and arranged a boat for us there and then. Yippee! No need to wait till 2pm. Terengganu people are so nice.

The boat ride cost RM60 per person, return journey. We just sat and enjoyed the boat ride to our chalet. Kenny spoke to the ‘driver’ and found out that the ‘driver’ earns RM10k per month just ‘driving’ the boat. Oh ya, I realized that Kenny likes to speak to strangers. He gets talkative with strangers like the taxi driver, the chalet owner, the boat people, but never talk to us much. I bet he even talks to the fishes in the sea. Tee hee hee. Hi, Kenny! I know you’re reading!!

Check out the view of Perhentian lah:

After about 30 odd minutes, we finally arrived at our chalet.

We had a welcome drink. Freshhhh iceeeee orangeeeeee juiceeeeeeee. Ahhh. Orgasm terus.

The place was quite decent, and there weren’t a lot of people around. Actually that is what I like best about this chalet. Not commercialized, isolated, and practically nothing to do except facing the sun, the sand and the beach. A real getaway, for me. I really fell in love with this place. And the fact that we were the only local people around, the rest were ang mohs. So we can talk our own language and gossip about other people there loud loud and blast Beyond songs, nobody will care about us.

The Malay girl there can speak Cantonese man! Dun pray pray!

The first thing that we did was to check into our family room. We all shared 1 room, for 2 nights, it costs RM200. No heater, no air cond, no electricity during the day time, no tv, no power point, no computer, no XBOX, no PS, and no kitchen. Just beds, make up table, a fan, and a nice balcony facing more chalets. Hahahaha.

Without wasting any time, we quickly changed into our sexy bikinis, I sprayed on Banana Boat’s Dry Tanning Oil because I wanted to look dark and tan and off we went snorkeling.

Our beach, though, is not very feet friendly. No white sandy beach, but a lot of dead corals. I did expect this, cos Mei already warned me. Walking at the beach barefooted is like people who do those spiritual stuff like carrying kavadi or walking through coals of fire to obtain enlightenment. Suffer to be happy. Cos it felt like heaven when your body touches the water after that. Ahhhh.

The sea was very clear. Saw a lot of colourful fishes, but mostly dead corals. And, that’s about it. Seems like no matter how far we swam, we still saw the same colourful fishes and dead corals.

OMG the fishes played trick on us or what? Maybe they purposely followed us and quietly laughed thinking ‘what a bunch of these human sorhais, didn’t even notice they’re seeing the same us!’

Possible.

Our dinner was very very very nice. I can’t stress enough how good our dinner was for that 2 nights. Our seafood was fresh, (chicken have to import), the dishes were tasty, even a normal fried egg was good. Malaysian food mar, what do you expect man! Service was excellent too!

And for the 2 nights, all we did was sat by the beach, let the wind caressed our bodies, blasted music from our handphones, sang along to it, drank Chang Beer and chor tai dee without money. First, we tried playing that dumb ‘airport’ board game but I didn’t even manage to move at all because I couldn’t get a six on my dice, so it had gotten retarded. We chor tai dee-d until we got tired and went back to our room. We tried telling ghost stories but failed. In the end, Kenny read his book to sleep, Stan watched his Grey’s Anatomy on his PSP to sleep, Pek Bee listened to her mp3 to sleep, I Nintendo DS-ed to sleep and Wilson can just sleep.

The bed was really comfortable, not like those shitty mattresses at Stong, and I had a very good sleep and woke up early the next morning. GOOD MORNINGGGGG I shouted, but everyone else continued to sleep. So, didn’t want to return to bed, I freshened up, took my book to wannabe read on the beach in the morning but failed to cos I was too hungry, so went to the cafeteria to grab breakfast.

The beach was also clean of dead corals this morning, at least can still feel some sand. Dunno what happened. Maybe it was the waves but I suspect it’s that reallyhardworkingman, sweeping all the dead corals away hahahaha.

Today was going to be an exciting snorkeling day because we are going to see TURTLES!

And we really did!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got soooooooooooo close to the turtle when it swam up to take a breath and the turtle almost same size as me lorrrr. And it swam quite fast too. Can see a couple of fishes under the turtle hehe damn cute. Then karma came, as I followed behind the turtle, it…. it…. shitteddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd. Mahaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Can see shit floating towards me I emergency brake and tried not to open my mouth so I won’t swallow the shit. I bet it was all on my hair too. Fuckkkkk. Of all things!!!

Then the boat took us to several places to snorkel, there was a place where the fishes were very very carnivorous and greedy, got sharks but I didn’t manage to see one, I saw a fish shitted some eggs, saw some beautiful colourful corals this time and saw a breast of an ang moh.

After the snorkeling trip, we were back to our island. Wilson, Kenny and I took a 20 minutes walk to the Adam and Eve beach, which was really private and clean and clear and blue and soft sand. Stanley and Pek Bee stayed behind to catch a nap cos they are old. After snorkeling at Adam and Eve, Kenny stripped, and that is all I will tell you.

Check out some of the nice dead stuff I found:

I also tried to tan myself like those ang mohs lah, placed a piece of cloth on the sand, then lie there and do nothing, faced at the sun, turn my body to the other side, tried to read but couldn’t concentrate, in the end too fed up. Didn’t make it. Hence, I now own a patchy dark back, that looks hideous.

Hideous: so extremely ugly as to be terrifying.

Hahaha. (nervous laugh)

3rd day, last day, I woke up early again and had breakfast with Kenny again. After that, don’t know what to do. Snorkel? Aih, too tired and troublesome. At this time, my back was already burning.

So what should a bored girl like me do?

And since Kenny rather read a book than to layan a hot babe like me, he deserves the ultimate punishment.

Looks like someone was also peeking at angmoh’s breasts.

Ahhh Perhentian, I miss you.

Only during the last hour, Kenny finally took some ‘human’ pictures.

I had to diss Kenny because he has like a super expensive gawdawesomecamera but he’d rather take pictures of monkeys, kids, and a leaf than take groupie pictures. Hi Kenny! I know you’re reading!

Ho hum.

Well, anyway, I’m sure you’ve come a long way, reading till here and I know you’re like dying to see a picture of me in a bikini right right?

Nah.

Ya ya I got small breasts whatever.

But they are firm ok?

Perhentian was fun.

The end.