things never seem to go right for me for the whole duration of my trimester break.

GIMME ME A (REAL) BREAK!

drove to genting highlands to send my brothers back and then stayed for 2 nights there with gek suan, huwi yin and jin yew. had so much fun with my 2 pet sis, especially the part where i disturb/bully huwi yin to the point that the injury i picked up at redang island recurred. had some problems with the payment of our hotel rooms and i'm still working on to settle it. i brought gek suan into the casino for a so-called-tour while jin yew and huwi yin waited outside. jin yew did try his luck to enter by persuading the guard since his 21st birthday was just months away, but failed. both of them had a chance when a large group of chinese tourists enter the casino while the guard was busy attending to an indian couple (talk about racial harmony in a sentence!). they could've just sneak in without the guard noticing, but they decided otherwise. futhermore, we were on our way to dinner! anyway, gek suan first entry to the casino cleared her doubts about something. apparently, she heard rumours about people throwing candies under the table to feed "those" things, but in fact, only the wrappers are found.

while in the casino, i got to see my brothers at work. somehow, it made my heart sank. i mean, they had to enter the job market at such an early age and their future seems bleak. i really don't know what other options are available for them with their spm results. i was never close to my brothers but i do care for them, albeit not obvious. ask my close friends, and they will tell you that i don't seem to give a damn about my brothers. even the way we talk with each other was like 2 friends fighting. things got a little bit better since they started working, perhaps they started to view things differently and gotten more sense of responsibility.

the 2nd day of the trip coincide with the release of my exam results. i asked ching yin to check for me, since she offered, though at first i wanted to check it on my own on my return to melaka. i knew beforehand that i was going to fail one of my subjects, so it didn't came as a surprise to me when her sms confirmed it. nor did the news spoil my mood for the day. i probably won't be seeing mischievous huwi yin for a further four months after the trip so i might as well savour the moment. gonna miss her soon...

on another note, i'm getting frustrated at waiting for my new computer to arrive. it's been 2 months, and the vendor keeps delaying it. besides, it wasn't my idea to purchase from this particular vendor, he's a friend of my dad. wiyang was right, the disadvantage of buying stuff from a close friend is that you can't really scold them for fear of hurting their feelings. it might be different if he's my friend though. i might have threaten to cancel the order, when it's ready to be delivered. just to serve him a lesson. *evil grin* then again, i might not be that evil. it's seriously getting on my nerves. we'll see what happens when he delivers it this coming monday, or so he promised.

caught up with a lot of friends from secondary school these few days. cheng kiat and ganesh asked me out to watch starsky and hutch (damn hilarious) on friday and we had a nice talk at the mamak after that. cheng kiat has already graduated from uniten and got a job. he will start work in may and he said he's most probably working in ernst and young. meanwhile, ganesh still has one more semester to go before he's out from uniten as well. i felt happy for both of them, although it probably means that the previous talks of going on a trip somewhere together with edmund, affryll, etc. will never materialize.

anyway, yesterday was yoke theng's birthday and we (siow thien, fong fang, li wei, woon chin, jing keong) celebrated with her at greenworld cafe. i didn't want to go at first because i was quite tired and i'm lazy to drive. however, jun kee called me earlier and said she is going there later so she wanted to meet up. plus, i seldom get to see her and yoke theng's gang so i went.

i couldn't quite keep up with what they were talking so i just watched football on tv while waiting for woon chin to arrive. and then it was cake time! it was a blueberry cheese cake from secret recipe and boy it was nice! didn't ask for a second piece though cos i was full.

later, i meet up with jun kee at greenworld bistro which is just next door. i saw yu hwan and her friends just outside it but ignored them for a while, because i wasn't sure it was her. i went in with jun kee and it was when yu hwan called me on my phone that i was sure it was her outside. i went out and talked to her and went in again with her. basically i was here and there between jun kee and yu hwan's gang.

i wasn't very keen on clubbing, but yesterday was different. i don't know but of all the times i went clubbing, yesterday was the time that i'm really sure that i'm enjoying it, albeit a little. the songs were nice and the dj was ok. i wanted to leave at 1am but when i met yoke theng's gang again outside. there were going in and i tagged along. her friend bought me a bottle of heineken. not a fan of alcoholics drinks but i feel guilty if i didn't accept. the dj continued to play some great songs and made the crowd high. i know i was! i was having a great time!

do i look like someone who won't get angry?

i asked this question to a friend, and he said "quite". reason was that, as long as he knew me, he hasn't seen me lose my cool once.

i don't like being angry, and i don't know what hell will break lose if i do get pissed. yet, some people are starting to get on my nerves. they are subconciously telling me to release the evil in me. they are tempting me, i tell you.

first off, they are not satisfied or maybe, they hated my guts. they hated everything about me, and yet they have no freaking guts to tell it to my face. they tell so and so about me doing this and that and me not doing this and that, and most of the time accuse/assume things that i didn't do, without giving me a chance to explain. and after that, they said it's nothing and they will forget about the whole thing the next day.

read this : FORGET MY ASS!

if you did thought about it, there's no chance in hell that you are going to forget it. sorry, dudes. there ain't no controlable delete function in your pea sized brains.

for those who want to see what i would do if i get angry, get this :

TRY ME.

not so enjoyable, but definitely memorable.

that sentence basically summarized my redang island trip. i kind of expected it to turn out that way after all that happened for the past few weeks before the trip. i was having doubts about going but i made a promise to someone and i don't want to break it. furthermore, i was the one making all the bookings and the others had no clue whatsoever. for the record, those who went are lay wei, chin chin, liang liang, sheue mey, hui yen, chee hui, wee how, zhenjian, kea loon and me.


day 1 - disaster!

nevertheless, i was excited when we finally reach the island. i had no idea that the boat ride would take an hour and a half! almost throw up in the boat. good thing i slept for a while. after checking in, i went out alone to check out the beach. my thought was, since i already paid for it and i'm here, why not just forget about everything and let myself off for a few days? after all, my final exams were terrible and i really need to relax before i study again for my supplementary paper. *sigh*

just when i thought everything will be ok, it was not! one of the guys (there were 10 of us, 4 guys and 6 girls) came and told me some unpleasant things about the project i've worked on previously. suffice to say that what i heard killed off my mood instantly. it took me a while and some walk along the beach to cool down before taking my lunch.

after lunch it was snorkeling time! wee how and hui yen decided not to go because hui yen was having her period (bad timing) and wee how stayed back to accompany her. those who went were taken to the marine park by boat and the process of getting on the boat was hilarious. because the water was to shallow, the boat can't stop too near to the beach. so we had to swim a bit to get on it. no one briefed us about this and most of us had no idea how to put the life jacket on properly. i managed to figure out the correct way but i don't understand the use of the strap which goes in between our legs and just left it loosely clipped. off to the water we went and it hit me. the strap was supposed to keep the life jacket on our abdomens. you see, when we get into the water, the life jacket will float and our heads and body will sink. the bad thing about the strap is that you'll get a sore groin. imagine jumping into the water from the boat and ...you get the idea. i'll explain about this bit a little later. anyway, since most of don't know how to swim, we struggled a bit to get on the boat. once we got on the boat, the first thing we did was to tighten up the strap as we already know the purpose.

i thought the marine park was in the middle of the sea, but it's not. it was just a small area off the coast of a small island. we were briefed about the do's and don'ts and was given one hour to snorkel. i had no prior experience in snorkeling, so it took a while for me to get used to it. i don't really know how to swim either, but i had knowledge in breast stroke. i can't thread on water nor swim without some floating aid, so i was a bit reluctant to go to deep waters in the beginning. still, i tried practising my so called swimming skill and managed to navigate around. feeling confident, i even brought lay wei around since she doesn't know how to swim at all. although the one hour period was short, it was enough to make me feel exhausted from all the swimming around. in addition, my mood was lifted a little...

and then came the bad luck. i was sitting idle on the boat, waiting for everyone else to get on. the boat started moving shortly after, and suddenly, one big piece of plank fell down from nowhere and hit me on my nose and right arm. it caused a noticeably deep wound on my nose and the back of my right hand and i was bleeding from it. a small area of my right arm got swollen as well. i can't bend my right arm either because it's painful. i was suspecting some internal injuries but i didn't really see a doctor (there is no clinic there). some other guys and girls on the boat looked at me one kind. perhaps feeling sorry for me? anyway i think the plank hit another guy but he didn't suffer any injury. that being said, then next thing on my mind was, how am i supposed to get down from the boat? sea water and open wound don't go along well, right?

upon reaching, i realised that i had no other choice. i just have to bear with the pain. i couldn't use the ladder to slowly go into the water (we had to swim to the shore) because i can't use my right hand. the most obvious decision was to jump into the water, and i did, totally forgetting about the strap in between my legs. conclusion : pain in between the legs, nose wound and hand wound. not forgetting i swallowed some sea water as well. also, i became an instant celebrity because i overheard some people who saw the incident spreading the news around, and people were looking at the blood on my nose.

now don't get me started on the bathing part...

the rest of the day wasn't so interesting. after dinner i went to take a nap because i had a small headache. the others went to look for blue sand and then went to a open air pub a little bit later in the night, without the courtesy to ask me along. what they said (which i came to know after the trip) really baffled me. the guys said that they assumed that i wanted to rest so they didn't bother to call me. i was like, is that a valid reason? another version was that they didn't know where i was, which was really a stupid reason, because i took the key from them and told them i wanted to take a nap. what about handphones then? a call would've easily located me. luckily, siew eng (my coursemate who also went holidaying at redang island, but not with us) mistakenly called me and woke me up. i can't sleep anymore, so i called them to ask for their location and joined them. oh yeah, i forgot to mention that we got to know a snorkeling guide there and he's really friendly. he intro himself as ah kiat and he brought us around and even treated us drinks. but we felt sorry for him because when he paid for our drinks he accidentally dropped his money and lost it. RM250 that he got from his salary earlier that day...

p/s: saw 2 meteors that night...


day 2 - so-so..

nothing much to write about today because we played separately.

ah kiat wanted to bring us to watch some turtle early in the morning, but most of them are lazy to go because it's early in the morning. only liang liang, chin chin, sheue mey and i went though we never saw any. that was also the last time i went snorkel during the whole trip because the pain became unbearable once i touch sea water.

all of them went snorkeling again in the afternoon except hui yen, lay wei and me. the 3 of us walked along the beach and snapped a lot of photos as well. unfortunately, most of the photos turned out...uh...not that nice.

we wanted to ride the banana boat in the evening but we were too late as it was fully booked for the day. T_T

after dinner we went to get some souvenirs and then we went to a disco in laguna beach resort. the disco was nice, but the dj sucked big time.

the night was spent watching stars and enjoying the cool sea breeze and the sounds of the waves. some of us didnt sleep for the whole night, me included, waiting to watch the sunrise which was bee-you-tee-fool!


day 3 - i'll be back...

after breakfast, liang liang, chin chin and sheue mey went to take more pictures since they accidentally deleted the earlier pictures. hui yen and lay wei joined them later while the guys, except wee how, slept. a funny thing happened today though.

we had a double decker bed in the room and i slept on top. i usually leave my sweater there when i go out and after breakfast, i went into the room and climbed on top to sleep again. zhenjian was already sleeping below me. i was in the process of wearing my jacket when a cockroach crawled out of my jacket! i told zhenjian and he totally freaked out and jumped out of bed! we tried to lure the cockroach out and maybe kill it so that it won't disturb our sleep, but to no avail. in the end we slept on the extra bed on the floor.

over at the girls' room (we had 2 rooms, one for guys and another for girls) they were panicking because one of the snorkeling goggles was missing. they searched the whole room and they still couldn't find it, which only mean one thing, they have to pay the RM80 for lost goggles. we didn't pay in the end, because ah kiat secretly told me he took the goggles away when the girls were not looking after it. he wanted to teach them a lesson because he already told us on the first day of arrival that we shouldn't leave our goggles and life jacket lying around. he asked me to lie to them that i forked out the money to pay for the fine and i did! i only revealed the truth to the other guys and later told everyone about it when we reached melaka.

after checking out, we took our lunch and snapped some last minute photos before heading to the boat for our journey back to melaka...


after thoughts...

i will return to redang island in the future, maybe with other friends, and make sure i play every single thing and go on every snorkeling trip. i was a little disappointed with this trip, but like i said in the beginning, it was memorable. i had some happy moments there, and also some unhappy ones. plus, i gained a slightly darker skin, 2 wound, sore arms and legs and experience!