Tuesday, June 5, 2007

redang 2-4th June 2007 (the complete chapter)



basically i had fun. well .. it's been months since my last vacation.. i think my last vacation was in march. so, it's been 3 months lah.. that's why laarrr.. i've been so strange. this particular trip was a blast.... for several reasons.. and it was a much needed vacation after all the things that had happened the past few months.

before we left, i asked halimi if there were any cute guys there.. he just said, there's one u might be interested in. so i was expecting to see at least one cute guy. huhu.. when we reached thePhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket chalet.. not a disappointment. the chalet's staff are really adorable. they're younger.. much younger i think. and they are very flirtatious.. hehehe.. so the first five minutes i've already set a date for karaoke session at the chalet. little did i know.. there's no karaoke at the chalet. wakakaa... and that we were (according to halimi and muzie lah) to have had the karaoke session at the restaurant.. kekeke.. orait la tu.

azlan, hani and i jumped into the waters as soon as we got our rooms. then after lunch, azlan and i
suited up for our first dive. our first session was on navigation. it's only for 10 minutes, then we took a tour of the dive site. our boatman was jali. during night dive, we brought along hani.. simply because the manual says bring a non-diver.. saje je kenakan hani. jali was so taken by her that he took us out to have dinner at summer point that nite. that nite also we got to know geduak or jail... the others at the dive shop.. unknown... nobody introduced anybody.. ermm... too bad. we went back to mozana and karaoke until late. hani and azlan had this congkak tournament. hani kalah teruk. adoii malu jee... hahahaa... i did some songs with wan, an agent that followed his clients to the chalet.

the next day, we did our deep dive at tanjung tok kong with macha and geduak. macha, geduak and muzie were separated from us. said they saw lots of cool things. tak kisah lah.. we passed this specialty.. with flying colors. heehehe.. ye lah.. saw a huge turtle resting at the bottom. managed to capture three photos. went up cheerfully.. told jali i took photos of the turtle.. only to find that i've lost my voice... :(( then i saw Man @ aziz . he's a staff at chagar hutang. been a while.. i doubt he remembers me. then we picked up stopar.. he's cute. but looks like a surfer dude lah weii.. :))

our second dive today was a wreck dive, which is our fourth specialty. man.. it's my first wreck dive. i was petrified.. seriously. i was kinda dizzy before the dive..probably cause i was sea sick at the dive.. or probably i didn't have enough sleep. but the adrenaline rush took over my fear and my dizziness.. it was a line descent. there's a net tied to the line. so i had some problems going down. everything seems to stuck to the net. first my camera, then my bcd, then my camera again, so it took me a while to go down. halimi, muzie and lan were already down. macha was leading. so i decided not to use the line.. but the current was a strong one. luckily i had my gloves on. isk.. then my fin was stuck. adoiii... nasib baik hero ada.. stopar helped. but that sort of gave him modal to tease me later. isk isk.. by the time i reached the bottom, my buddy left me behind. ceissss.. halimi was busy taking photos.. muzie was busy posing for him. so i'm left with stopar. took his photos.. took photos of the wreck. was too afraid to go near.. so he led me cruising the wreck site. lots of small fishes as the site was new. only been there for two months. turned out we were the first group of divers to have ever been there.. cool ek? saw telur sotong. thought it looked like asam jawa so took photo of it to ask them what it was. the viz was terrible otherwise the dive would have been great. cause i couldn't really see anything... even the camera couldn't capture anything in color. everything turned out green. halimi took great photos and i have them in my multiply site.

our next dive will only be after lunch. i was still dizzy. so halimi told me to go andPhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket rest. i was about to take a quick shower when a staff at mozana offered a back rub. he was really good. the pain's gone. i changed to something dry and went back to the restaurant to grab some lunch. stopar, macha and geduak already ate. so i sat with goon. then the three stooges sat in front of me and goon and began talking about the deep dive and the wreck dive. stopar called me the dolphin that was stuck to the net.. jahat! then when i asked them about the "asam jawa" i saw.. they were laughing off their chairs. jahat gile.. mana la aku kenal apa rupa telur sotong tu. then they looked at the photos i took. when they asked why i didn't go near any of the fishes ... i simply told them i was afraid. which was true.. there was this really cute juvenile lion fish.. on the wreck. i told them i was afraid of the fish.. they asked why. i told them it's named lion fish... it might bite me. macha was laughing again. saying a goatfish would only eat grass lah then? cisss... mencik kat diorang! hani was doing her discover scuba at this moment.. and our next dive was at 3. so we spent the whole time borak2.. while eating smarties. stopar then asked if i'd like to visit his kampung later in the evening. to that i said yes of course lahh... thank god for smarties. hehehee

then our last dive of the day, stopar was the dm. at least i thought he was. turned out he's only a rescue diver.. tak kisah lah... janji dia ada rescue can rescue me. we went diving at the lima wall dive site. some sightings of a whale shark by laguna redang divers at the site reported the day before. cool.. hunting time. alas the viz was terrible.. alaaaa.... no kodak moments.. the most exciting time would've been the swim through.. no that fell second.. the best was touching stopar's muscular arms.. alamak.. seb baik tekak dah dry... kalau tak nampak air liur meleleh.. hahahaha... siott je aku ni. i failed the swim through. and while doing the safety stop i coughed which caused some air trapped in my lungs.. and then floated up. so i grabbed stopar.. wow... cair la weii.. lama dah tak pegang tangan besi gitu.. naik atas aje dia ketawakan aku.. siott laahhh.. wasn't my fault i coughed.

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after cleaning my bcd and reg and everything, since i was scheduled to take a flight on monday night, i wasn't supposed to do the leisure dives on monday.. i quickly went to the room to change. and pray. ajak hani to come along to stopar's kampung. cool.. naik bot kecik. then switched to sembilu II hahaha.. to which stopar said jangan ketawa. i told him i already have.. hahaha... naik bot kecik, bot nelayan.. what's next? motor la pulak. since his house was like 3km from the jetty we had to take a ride on his motorbike. adoii. i hate motorcycles. kelakar betul..especially bila naik bukit. i was heavy. and screaming. takut lahh.. we stopped for coffee at a local kedai kopi. makan keropok. and then went to his and his friend's places. they all nak pick up baju for the night. staying at mozana that nite.

then we headed back to the chalet on the small boat. hani and i showered and prayed. then we went to the dive shop. demanding our rojak buah and ais kacang that geduak and macha promised. sampai sudah tak dapat.. mencik tawww... we had dinner at laguna. i could only telan roti canai and keropok lekor sikit with teh tarik. my cough was getting worse. and the guys were still laughing at my asam jawa... jahat tol... that nite i decided to forfeit the flight ticket and asked halimi to take me back to gombak instead so that i could do the leisure dives with them. halimi said no problem and i jumped with joy... had our karaoke session again. took out my smarties... and finished all the junk food.. that night..




in the morning after breakfast we had two dives.. what a disappointment. the viz was like 3 meters kot. the first dive i followed geduak. so i got to take my first photo of a nudi. tak kisah la it was the most common one.. so that was fun. but the second dive...i was lost for a minute masa second dive.. and luckily saw two divers from kt that joined us that day. i looked for halimi and azlan again, and saw them and followed them real close. i didn't really enjoy the last dive. i was so scared of getting lost.. hehehe... then masa safety stop i floated up again. halimi suspected i was doing that so often cause of my breathing. i hope so. tak larat bawak weight banyak2...

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket after the last dive i manja2 for the last time with geduak and stopar. sedih nak balik. especially since i was flirting like mad with these guys.. i'll miss the flirting.. especially since i'm going back to the real world.. where no one's nice. and there's no fish and nudis to comfort u. dried my gears and took a real shower. packed the bags and took them to the dive shop. we had our nasi with sambal sotong .. geduak bought at stopar's kampung. sedap gilee.. masin sikit. probably cause of the salt water hahaha.. took macha's and geduak's no. was kinda sad stopar didn't send me off..

our ferry arrived at around 3. we left for kt. lepaked at the jetty a while. took hani to the airport and i arrived at mama's around 3 kot. took tuesday off.. mc on wednesday. cough worsened. as of today still coughing and voice still hoarse. stopar called me on tuesday. tipu kata jumpa whaleshark. jahat. i called him that night. cause morning was too drowsy to talk. he said tipu je.. jahat tol.. saje nak bagi org dengki. tak kisah la.. janji ada no. dia. mana tau nak menggatal lagi.. now can always go to redang. hahahaa...

see.. told u it was fun :)

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