tioman trip!
Hello frens! actually i got back to sg on wednesday evening, but have been too tired and lazy to load the photos and write this blog. hehe..=P
0600 hrs: meet at golden mile complex. what an unearthly hour that was! our 38-seater coach was thankfully pretty empty. there were just 16 passengers altogether, including my 2 trip mates and I. Here's the view from my coach window, as we are crossing the causeway. the sun hasn't even risen much yet!
0900 hrs: we had a stopover at this little coffeeshop called Panti. (Parn-tee)
In the shop, there was a buffet table, with large plates of mee goreng, beehoon, rice, eggs and sausages. Hmm! are these things for free? That'd be great! Heehee...
but, glancing around, i saw a lady at a counter, looking in my direction. darn. i think u are supposed to take whatever food you want, then bring it to the counter to pay. I was a little hungry, but was mindful of not eating too much. Trish and I suddenly felt that the pile of fried eggs looked incredibly delicious. We had one each. yummy! M'sia food does seem to taste better! our tripmate, Justin, just laughed at us as we blissfully ate the eggs. it was really expensive actually. rm 70 sens for one egg!
1100 hrs: our bus ride took abt 3 hrs plus, along a really special road. i call it the "distorted sine/cosine curve with yawing". hahaha! =P it was like a mini roller coaster track, going up, down, left, right. on a no-yaw portion of the rd, i could see 3 or 4 crests ahead. trish was mostly asleep for the bus trip, because otherwise she'd get car-sick.
we reached the Gemuk ferry terminal at 1100, and bought tix for the 1200 ferry. Feeling slightly hungry again (i only had a slice of bread at 530am!), we decided to walk out of the terminal to look for food in some kopitiam. wah lau..the whole place was like a dead town. most of the shutters were down, and we could only find a couple of shops open. in each shop, there was a little glass window where they displayed food, like in canteens. it was really pathetic. 2 small fried fishes and 3 eggs. the other shop was not much better. 1 portion of veg and some mashed-up meat/fish. i really couldn't tell. we decided to walk back to the terminal, where there were 2 mama-shops.
that was where i made my DISCOVERY abt snacks in m'sia. our beloved "Choc-ko-lat and store-belly" Pocky was called "Rocky"! i thought it was an imitation of Pocky, and didn't think too much of it. Also, the cream-filled wafer-roll Collon was labelled as "Loller". Weird! They looked really genuine, with glico, etc printed in the proper places. later i discovered that every shop only had Loller and Rocky. it must be the real thing then.. =|
1330 hrs: ferry docking...
finally our ferry reached our Paya Beach Resort. this is a view of the jetty from the island itself.
we walked along the beach to the main "lobby" to get our room keys. we saw 2 pple in the water, about 100m from the shore. they looked like they were standing chest-deep in the sea.
"Wah, so far out, still can stand! the water is really shallow!" Trish said. Justin and I agreed, thinking of our sg beaches where it is really easy to commit suicide. just walk 10 steps into the water.
THEN, those 2 pple stood up. they were not even knee-deep in the water! hehehehe....
this is our deluxe rm: no sea view, unfortunately. it's the "middle" category.
in case u r wondering, our room is only the bottom right one.
0600 hrs: meet at golden mile complex. what an unearthly hour that was! our 38-seater coach was thankfully pretty empty. there were just 16 passengers altogether, including my 2 trip mates and I. Here's the view from my coach window, as we are crossing the causeway. the sun hasn't even risen much yet!
0900 hrs: we had a stopover at this little coffeeshop called Panti. (Parn-tee)
In the shop, there was a buffet table, with large plates of mee goreng, beehoon, rice, eggs and sausages. Hmm! are these things for free? That'd be great! Heehee...
but, glancing around, i saw a lady at a counter, looking in my direction. darn. i think u are supposed to take whatever food you want, then bring it to the counter to pay. I was a little hungry, but was mindful of not eating too much. Trish and I suddenly felt that the pile of fried eggs looked incredibly delicious. We had one each. yummy! M'sia food does seem to taste better! our tripmate, Justin, just laughed at us as we blissfully ate the eggs. it was really expensive actually. rm 70 sens for one egg!
1100 hrs: our bus ride took abt 3 hrs plus, along a really special road. i call it the "distorted sine/cosine curve with yawing". hahaha! =P it was like a mini roller coaster track, going up, down, left, right. on a no-yaw portion of the rd, i could see 3 or 4 crests ahead. trish was mostly asleep for the bus trip, because otherwise she'd get car-sick.
we reached the Gemuk ferry terminal at 1100, and bought tix for the 1200 ferry. Feeling slightly hungry again (i only had a slice of bread at 530am!), we decided to walk out of the terminal to look for food in some kopitiam. wah lau..the whole place was like a dead town. most of the shutters were down, and we could only find a couple of shops open. in each shop, there was a little glass window where they displayed food, like in canteens. it was really pathetic. 2 small fried fishes and 3 eggs. the other shop was not much better. 1 portion of veg and some mashed-up meat/fish. i really couldn't tell. we decided to walk back to the terminal, where there were 2 mama-shops.
that was where i made my DISCOVERY abt snacks in m'sia. our beloved "Choc-ko-lat and store-belly" Pocky was called "Rocky"! i thought it was an imitation of Pocky, and didn't think too much of it. Also, the cream-filled wafer-roll Collon was labelled as "Loller". Weird! They looked really genuine, with glico, etc printed in the proper places. later i discovered that every shop only had Loller and Rocky. it must be the real thing then.. =|
1330 hrs: ferry docking...
finally our ferry reached our Paya Beach Resort. this is a view of the jetty from the island itself.
we walked along the beach to the main "lobby" to get our room keys. we saw 2 pple in the water, about 100m from the shore. they looked like they were standing chest-deep in the sea.
"Wah, so far out, still can stand! the water is really shallow!" Trish said. Justin and I agreed, thinking of our sg beaches where it is really easy to commit suicide. just walk 10 steps into the water.
THEN, those 2 pple stood up. they were not even knee-deep in the water! hehehehe....
this is our deluxe rm: no sea view, unfortunately. it's the "middle" category.
in case u r wondering, our room is only the bottom right one.
posted by who? at 11:14 AM
1 Comments:
yeah, m'sia food taste better, did anyone also mention that they are dirtier too. :Þ
GH
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