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Monday, July 24, 2006 @ 1:03 pm
last week, I had a very mind-clearing holiday on redang island. of all the islands I've been on, I must say that this one is the most rural, kampung-ish one. haha. with absolutely no mobile coverage for maxis, I was left with my parents, my sister and her 'friend', joel. I dunno why my mom keeps introducing him to other people as my sister's friend. I mean, they're clearly more than just friends. is my mom in denial or something?
so yes, redang island is off the state of terrenganu and the only thing I knew about that state was that sea turtles go there to lay their eggs and rogues come at night, lay their greedy paws on the eggs and sell them illegally. nice! but it seems that the law's gotten tighter. nothing a little *duit kopi can't settle.
anyway, we got onto the island by a small 30-ish seater plane called Dash. I thought we were gonna fly on those 9-seater Fockers, but nyeh, we got a huger version. reminds me of Indiana Jones. *hums the theme*

the plane was really stuffy. lucky I didn't get much sleep so I just dozed off during the whole 1 hour and 10 minutes flight from subang airport.

Day 1
took a short boat ride to redang bay - a different part of the island. where this photo was born.

why do ~ang mohs love to burn themselves under the sun and why do the chinese try all their might to stay out of the sun and smother themselves with whitening products? clearly, we humans are never satisfied.
at the beach, joel and I made a sand sculpture of a one-armed man with some sort of hernia. neat.
went for a swim in the hotel pool after and got a tan, much to my mom's alarm. am I bothered?

Day 2
snorkelling! sorry, no photos. but I'll tell you this: I never knew m'sia had such pretty corals and fish aplenty. really happy to see nemos swimming amongst the anemone. that was cool. you know what's uncool? fish biting you when you're feeding them. it's just too darn ticklish.

Day 3
reach out for the sunrise! can't believe I woke up at 5-ish, dragged my zombie self to the beach and waited in the dark for a glimpse of the sun. you know what's the worst part? the sun was blocked by a mountain, so all we got was red-ish clouds. pity, really. but, managed to capture some pretty neat shots nevertheless.

bloody mountain. before this, it was so dark that the cam refused to snap, cos' there was absolutely zero light.

a royal salute to the anonymous jogger who had the energy and the sanity to run along the beach.

when it got bright enough to see the rocks by the beach.

yay! some unknown sea creature who was buried underneath the sand managed to dig itself out and swim back into the sea. either that, or redang has some really bhuge crabs.

dad likes this photo very much. he even has a name for my masterpiece - lonely coconut! okay, he finds that very funny, so just laugh along and give him some face lah ok?

anonymous jogger no more! dad was walking beside me going,'take the picture! take it! nevermind one.' as the famous jap photographer, michael something or rather once said,'to be a photographer, you've got to be thick-skinned.' I really like his work, it's really out there.

some love-struck dude must be trying to impress his other half. the funny thing was my mom was the one who told me about this huge heart drawn on the sand. I like this one the most, I must say.

when he saw this photo, dad's reaction was... 'that's not me, right?' but, it actually is.

footprints in the sands of time. sounds familiar. hmm. these aren't my footprints by the way. I have no idea whose it is.

aww. this is a postcard moment, man. I was really brave to take this without their notice. on my way back to my room, they asked me to take a photo of them, which I did. and when I asked the lady to check whether it was okay, she said,'I'm sure it's fine.' that put a smile to my big, round, prosperous face. =)

*coffee money in malay, which means, bribes
~red hair in hokkien, which translates as caucasians

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