Tioman Island - Day 3

When the time i woke up already 0730. Well, it's the last day of our trip at Tioman Island and therefore, darling & I was so lazy to wake up early. We had our breakfast at about 0815 while others still having a sweet dream on their bed.

After the breakfast, we went to the beach for a morning walk as well as for sea-shell picking & photo shooting. Darling planned to go for kayaking with the colleagues but unfortunately, there all were still sleeping. Ends up with no activity on our last day at Tioman Island.
At 1130, we were checked-out from the resort. While everybody is waiting for the ferry, a 'Luck Draw' section was held and again, darling failed to draw anything, not even a cash voucher. Most of the pricey gifts were drawn by foreign labours.

What a lucky life in Malaysia!!!

We arrived at Mersing port was around 1330. Our travel agent stopped the bus at a shop for us to buy some native like dried salted-fish, jelly fish cracker, dried 'sotong' etc. I din't buy anything at all as I don't like that smell of those native. Therefore, darling & I went to a restaurant for our lunch. What a poor thing! No more food was available for us. Nothing else we can do but to wait till we've back to Johor. So, I took my lunch & dinner together on that day at Secret Recipe, Jusco Tebrau City and it was already 1730. Pity me!!!

Tioman Island - Day 2

It was 0700 when my alarm tried to wake me up. We've been requested to have our breakfast between the time of 0630-0930 (as fixed by the resort). This time, darling and I decided to go to the lounge earlier in order to prevent same incident happened like last nite (no much food left). Okay, there were not many guests queueing up there and now, I do believed that "early birds always get the worm to eat". HaHaHa....

Our schedule for today's activities started at 0930 as everybody needed to gather at the jetty. The first activity was snorkelling at another beaches (eg: marine park, tulai island, ayer batang etc.) as taken by a fishing boat. The agent rented for about 5 boats for us as we had total of about 80 persons. Of course, there are always choices to choose whether to join or not. It took about 30 min to reach at our destination. The water was so cold and the waves was also quite strong. Guess it might be causing by the weather that seems to be cloudy & raining on the day. However, we still proceeded with our snorkelling activity.



At 1200, we had our lunch, Fried Rice at Marine Park (provided by the resort). It wasn't delicious as the rice already cold & tasteless. Before heading back to our resort, we've been taken to a 'Duty-Free Shop' for short shopping trip. Well, all liquors & cigarettes are sold with price of tax free. But most of my friend told me that those so called 'Duty-Free Shop' usually selling with imitation liquor, meaning not an original liquors. Yet still many of them were buying from there. Time shown about 1500 and the sky started to rain when we were on the way back to our resort. The winds & waves was getting stronger and stronger which caused all of us felt cold & freezing. After a while, rain stopped and we almost reached at our resort, thanks god!

I felt extremely tired after the snorkelling activity. However, darling & his gang (some close colleagues) were suddenly held a valley ball match with their company foreign workers at the beach. That was a fun & friendly match.

Finally, darling & the team won the game! Good job darling!!!

Tioman Island - Day 1

Joined darling's company trip to Tioman Island for 3 days 2 nites on 29/09/2006 with the total of 80 persons (included of darling's company foreign workers). The journey started at 0930 whereas everybody gathered at a Petronas station located at Taman Pelangi Indah. It took about 1 hour 30 minutes to reach at Mersing port. From the port, we took a ferry and reached at our destination, Paya Beach Resort at around 1330. How I wish we can be there in the faster time as no entrtainment at all inside the ferry and it was bored & sleepy.

I heard that is a legend about the island of Tioman was formed when a magical dragon princess, flying from China to join her beloved prince in Singapore, became so enchanted with the warm clear crystal waters that she decided to discontinue her journey and formed into the beautiful dragon- shaped island to provide shelter and comfort for weary travelers.What a romantic legend...!!

After checked-in to individual's room, I was so excited as my room was just in front of the beach. It was so calm and relaxing to be hearing with the sound of waves especially during night time.

At 1500, darling's colleague Wong suggested to go for snorkelling among ourselves. Without saying a word, 20 of us rented the equipments (goggles, flippers & breathers) by paying RM22 and started our first day activity- snorkelling at the beach nearby our resort. Wow....the corals are big and beautiful like a flower while fishes are so cute and colourful. I was hoping desparately that can dive deep into the sea to have nearest touch with them. As time past by, darling & I started to feel tired and decided to go back to our resort. As we swam near to the beach, a RM50 note just floated in front of me. Yeah, yeah....it my luck day!!! haha......

After taking rest for an hour, time shown 1900 and we had our early dinner (buffet style) at the resort. I guess it was not early enough as when were got there, all the foreign workers were already in a long Q. No much food was left till our turn as the refill service by the resort was not efficient. Therefore, we had no choice but to take whatever left for us.

After dinner, darling & I went for a night walk at the shops along the beachside and of course with his colleagues. The colleagues bought some birs, cracker and started their night activity - gambling. No other words but 'gamblle' can be described about Chinese. Darling neither lost the game nor won the game as I told him that I am sleepy but eventually is an excuse to get him 'back-off' from loosing the game. Guess he wouldn't know that is my trick against him.

The Birds Restaurant @ Kepong

上个星期因HR department的小姐辞职了. 其中一位同事便提议为她举办个辞别午餐 (farewell lunch). 那是一间很有特色的餐厅- The Birds, 卖的不单单是食物(nyonya cuisine), 就连餐厅的装饰也别有一番古代风味. 墙上挂满了一些70年代明星的照片如林黛, 周旋等. 而天花板上的吊灯用的却是”鸟笼” 呢!(大概是为了配合店名吧) 其他的摆设都是以一些70年代似的用具, 真够特别的.

至于食物呢, 也不差劲呐! 我们点了”阿三虾”, “泰式式石班鱼”,”咖啡鸡翅膀”, “家乡豆腐”及一些青菜. 大致上的食物都很美味, 就只有那道”咖啡鸡翅膀”. 可能是咖啡的影响吧, 味道苦苦的, 真难以入咽!!

不过, 这家店也真的是值得再去回味回味的. 别一番风味的环境配上美味可口的食物, 而最重要的是价钱又公道啦!!! 姐妹们, 有机会一定要是试试看哦.....

Hi-Tea @ KL Hilton

After strongly recommended by my so called ‘best friend’, i had finally went to KL Hilton for Hi-Tea. I guess it might be due to my friend’s good comment about it that had caused me to having high expectation on the foods. However, it really disappointed me. No much choices on the foods!!!

Price charged per pax was RM38++. (It was luckly that i have a discounted card from the friend, else it won’t be worth it for a Hi-Tea with no much choices)

Somehow, it still a good try ...

曼谷之旅 - Day 3

大概是昨晚太"拼命"的关系吧, 双脚都一直在痛着, 结果整晚都睡不好. 加上老妈子又一大清早就拨电话到我房里叫我起身. 哎......整个人感觉很累, 无精打采似的! 一直到0945, 我们才到 Lobby Cafe享用我们的早餐. 其实,酒店的早餐时间是0600-1000, 幸好还来得及, 要不然就得浪费了. 都是二姐的错, 也不晓得她在做什么, 就是整个早上在那儿慢吞吞的!
中午1200, 把所有的行李都收拾好后便准备check-out了. 我们几个人, 一人都得拿着几个袋子, 真的是名副其实的"师奶". 买最少东西的人是我, 得拿最多袋子的却是我!全都是三姐的东西比较多, 真是的!
从酒店check-out 后, 我们便乘搭 Taxi 到 MBK去. 老姐们还买不够, 又加上我们搭的那班飞机是1745. 所以还有时间再逛逛. 这一次, 伟就得成为我们的Luggage Guard了. As usual, 伟就在Mcdonalds' 等我们, 两个小时后便回来! 想了想, 伟也好可怜哦....没办法啦! 只有他一个人最不想 shopping 的嘛!
下午1500, 从MBK搭Taxi (Fare:370bht) 到 airport. 很不辛的, 我们竟上了一辆"恐怖司机"的车. 这位司机不但不懂english, 就连基本的驾驶道德也没有. 一路上, 就像只"蛮牛"似的. 不是 horned, 就是破口大骂前面的司机. 好恐怖哗.... 把我们几个都吓得脸青青了. 好不容易才抵达airport 了, 我们几个马上跳下车后, 把行李拿下车便向check-in counter 走去. 好险哦!
来到Airasia 的 check-in counter 时已经是'排长龙"了! 排了大概45分钟后, 终于要轮到我们了.谁知道, 又有一些不曾搭过飞机的人要cut Q了. 真的好过分哦....结果, 排在我前面的那个couple 便开口声明不让他们cut Q. 他们却说什么不知道这个lane是没有counter 等类是的借口, 简直就是废话嘛! 一怒之下, 我便对他们表明自己开始时也是不知道的, 但最终还是得找对lane来排的, 如果每个人都向你们那样, 就不必排队啦! 最后, 我也不晓得有没有人肯让他们cut Q. 但我是肯定不会让这种人cut Q的. 真是令人讨厌的家伙!
这一次的旅行, 遭遇真不好! 不过, 我还是很喜欢Bangkok这个购物天堂. 太多东西可以买了!
曼谷, 明年见啦!

曼谷之旅 - Day 2

闹钟响时已是早上0830了. 马上播了电话到老姐们的房间, 谁知道她们都还没睡醒. 大概是太累了吧! 而老妈子呢, 却比谁还要早起身! 梳洗完后,便到Lobby Cafe享用酒店已包括的Buffet style早餐.
早上1100,乘搭MRT到 Silom 转换 BTS 到 Rachadamri 的 Erawan 拜神. (Fare from Sam Yam-Silom: 15bht/pax; Silom-Rachadamri: 10bht/pax). 我因身体出现了"某些状况", 所以便不能参拜了, 唯有和三姐在外面等候咯! 接着, 我们五个人就乘搭Tut Tut 到 MBK Mall. 抵达MBK时已是1200. 老姐们提议各自shopping, 两个小时后在Mcdonald 见. 而我和伟呢, 便在那儿随便走走! 一直到1400便到MBK顶楼的日式餐厅享用午餐- Teppanyaki! 在曼谷, 日式餐厅多得是, 而且价钱又便宜. 可能是哪儿的日本旅客比较多吧!
下一站就是到Siam Paragon - 一个五星级的shopping mall. 无论是设计, 装修都很有心思, 很特别! 每一层都用着不同的装饰来配搭! 比起我们KL的Starhill 还要壮观,豪华呐!在Siam Paragon的basement 又有个"海底世界"供游客们参光的. 相信吗? 在曼谷的中心竟然还有个"海底世界" 呐!厉害吧?
走完 Paragon 后, 老姐们又要到 Suam Lam Nite Bazaar 逛逛了. 在那儿, 老姐们很快的又把那疲倦的身倦收拾起来, 再次向这个Nite Bazaar 挑起购物之战!天啊, 我的脚又要受苦了! . 到了2100时, 她们才肯会酒店了! 我真的快累死了, 回到酒店后便马上用热水来泡脚了!
这次之旅, 老姐们才是最enjoy啦! 就只有我和伟是最受苦的, 又没买到自己要的东西!

曼谷之旅 - Day 1

中午1400, 开车出发到LCCT 并把车子park在那儿的停车场 (Rate: RM30/day). 大概在1545准备boarding了. Senior citizen, family with children, pregnant women & handicap people都拥有优先权,不需要排队. 老妈子与三姐也属于在内, 所以, 我们也不必排队. 哈哈!
因乘搭的那一班机是下午1610, 所以抵达曼谷已经是那儿的时间1800了. 接着, 拿了旅行相后便到出口处乘搭的士到已预约的酒店-Mandarin Hotel .的士车费: 470 bht (350bht 是车费, 60bht 是Hi-way通行费; 另外的60bht 竟然是什么司机费!) 真不便宜, 感觉好像被骗了!
从机场到酒店需要大概30 min. 办好hotel check-in 手续, 再把行李放好后, 便从酒店乘搭MRT (Fare: 17bht/pax) 到Suam Lum Nite Bazaar, 开始曼谷购物之旅的第一个地点. 当然, 在购物前就得先把肚子给'医'饱. 所以便在那儿买了一些当地的美食作为我们的晚餐.,有些的味道还不错,但有的却很难吞咽. 吃饱后, 就开始了购物之战. Suam Lum Nite Bazaar是个很大的购物地方, 每一个档位又小又热. 但却什么东西都有. 衣服啦, 礼物啦, 饼干啦, 室内decorative的东西等都有. 这儿呢, 简直就是老姐们的'天堂'. 一连走了几个小时, 也不觉得累. 老姐们真的是名副其实的shopping Queen!! 我和伟的双脚却痛得快断似的! 一直在我的催促下, 她们才肯放弃而回酒店. 那时已是2300了, 真的快累死了!