love & other drugs: February 2010

Hey you guys, just so you know, i am not happy or glad to be back, and neither did i miss home. I don't belong here and even as a kid, i just found out, that I would walk towards the sea whenever i was at the beach. I was hardly 2 years old then and remember how i used to wish that i was a mermaid? I am suppose to have fins and I belong with the fishes I am very certain of that. Anyway, we spent a week on the island! It's the longest so far, it was also due to certain unfortunate circumstances. But was i glad!
We started our journey at around 9.40pm on the 12th. Well, we went with dad's car and Russel's new second-hand Volvo. We were a bit uncertain about the durability of the car at first and well, our expectations were met at about 4.50am at Perak.

All was well as we were all experienced breakdown-ers. While waiting for help from the mechanics, we took pictures

and napped till bout 8 plus in the morning and then decided to have breakfast. That char siew is probably the pinkest i have ever eaten. At 1030 / 13th we continued our journey. After Greek, at bout 3pm the damn vehicle died again. My dad said the car is too old for a young driver like my brother. The boys sat in the car while it was towed to the workshop and we got a taxi after that and only reached Kuala Besut at about 8plus at night. We had our dinner then rested at Samudera motel since we missed the evening boat.

14th, freaking excited. Had our breakfast, I didn't eat too full cause I wanted to be comfortable during the boat ride. I've always loved the boat ride. Preggers sister in law was a little concerned bout the bumpy-ness though. Lucky baby dont you think.

And then we reached. WE FREAKING REACHED. &!@#$%!!!!!!!

After settling the luggage etc, i just stripped ( I wore my swimsuit that morning itself ) and we went to see our dive master & instructor. Me and lil bro started our course right away. The theory part made us a wee bit sleepy (you know, after all the traveling). But there was this other instructor there whom was quite a looker it was impossible to feel bored. ( I am half joking ) This is one of the evenings. There are almost 600 pictures, so it's a little difficult to choose.

After the 3 days course, we did the test, passed, and got our open water diving licenses!! It was quite tiring cause we dived a few times in a day.

I don't have much words to express how it feels but the underwaters is breathtaking. The feeling is just priceless. My elder brothers got their licenses a couple of years ago, so it was nice to dive with all of the boys.

The rest of the days were spent diving in different locations, swimming and snorkeling in clear blue waters, sun basking, eating, volleyball, canoeing and ahhh just all the good stuff.

During the evenings the boys would play volleyball with the locals, sister in law and Chelly even got their hair braided! I really am not trying to boast, writing this kills me as i remind myself of it. But that's just it, i want to remember all of this. :( I find it difficult though, am not a good diary writer.

Mom was such a gem, she is still and will always be the best cook. We even had steak one of the nights! We would either dine under the trees during the afternoons or by the beach at night. There was hardly anytime to be bored as parents and bros were suddenly addicted to Gimrami, Chelly and I would lie down under the stars.

Wellllllll, I gotta say, you see lovers everywhere. Evey part of the world, people are in love, falling in love, searching for love, or hoping for love. Anyway! I am not going to be sentimental now. Sissy and her collectibles -

I am usually not busy when on vacation, but this time it was different in a way. The most interesting dive we did was at Sugar Wreck, i was told that it is a wrecked ship that was shipping sugar.

There were sea urchins everyfreakinwhere but we saw really a lot of beautiful fishes! And huge ones! The baracudas were kinda freaky they seem to stare at you a lot. The living you see 60feet under is very different from the norm, there are times when i hafta control myself to not touch them. They just seem so.. fascinating. To be able to dive around and under a ship wreck was definitely something, though there weren't much history behind it. I hope in time, i'd be able to get an underwater casing for my cam so i could share it with you guys! Sugar Wreck was on the last day, in the morning. And then came the worse part, leaving. .....

...when we were at Greek, I stared outside the window and waited patiently for any appearance of elephants for almost 2 hours. I was readily prepared to be overwhelmed, since bro and sarah was fortunate to have had a glimpse of them though just for a sec on the way back, the previous trip. ...
...... we got home at 5am in the morning and i went to sleep at 7am. I swear i heard waves.