Despite all the talk about me meeting my maker, no kids, I am NOT dead. Just been a bit lazy lately. Ok, maybe not a bit but who am I to exagerate?

Thankfully nothing happened between me and my grandmother. It was all good. She got pissed at times but she's sixty plus, so who can blame her?

I'm not going to go into detail of what happened last week which was themed 'My Actual Holiday Week' where it was the only time where I did not spend my holidays sitting at home rotting in front of the computer. But I have to say that last week has to be the most physically tochuring days of the year.

Yep, it beat out studying Physics for three whole hours.

Here are the pictures I took from all the shenanigan that happened. You know its my pictures because it does not look at all professional. If it does, then, what can I say..I'm a lady with talents.

1st December 2006 : Langkawi Island



So this was the inside of the bus that I had to stay in for 8 whole hours. I mentioned 6 but noooooooo. We left at 10pm that night and arrived at 6am the next morning. I don't know WHO to blame. The Kuala Perlis jetty I guess, for being so god damn far.

After the ferry ride to Langkawi, we straight away got onto another bus and was brought to our hotel. I thought we were not going to stay there but apparently I was wrong. We need to stay there. Shopping for a day will never be enough and sleep is extremely important.

Half an hour in the hotel, we already had to get moving. I'm seriously not kidding. I never slept for the whole bus ride to the jetty because I thought we were going to get a chance to have a couple of z's in the hotel. I spent 8 hours in the bus trying to sleep but never got to it. While other people were sleeping their heads off it was just me and the bus driver. He was driving and I was dipping chips in my Coke.

Sleepy, but couldn't sleep.

So after intense shopping for the whole morning, it was about 4:30pm when everyone decided to go for the cable car ride. I was hyped because I don't enjoy shopping and have never been on a cable car before.













After that, I was hoping we were going to go home. Not home, HOME but home, you know the hotel, where beds actually exists. I was dead tired and so was Sal. But the 60 year olds weren't. They wanted to do some last minute shopping and see fishes above their head. So, next stop was Underwater World. Sal and I decided to stay on the bus and chat while screwing with my M&M's.




And then, we went home. One and a half hour later, we were out again. To shop and buy dinner. Since I rested for a bit, I was quite up for this one. I saw a lots and lots of shops selling chocolates. So I bought lots and lots of chocolate. Not for ME.. for the family back home. Maybe some are for me. Sal keeps telling how good of a daughter I was. Both my parents have blood pressure and here I am in Langkawi buying them chocolates. I was laughing with her. Then she told me that since both my parents have blood pressure, I have more than 50 percent chance of getting them to.

I regretted not pushing her out during the cable car ride.

The next day, after packing and having our breakfast we were off to the jetty. We were going to go to Padang Besar in Perlis. I have never imagined going to Perlis so I was pretty excited.




We got on the ferry and suprisingly it was so damn cold and the grannies didn't seem to mind. The previous ferry ride was pretty boring. This one was interesting. On tv, which was pretty clear, was some French action movie. I never really cared about it at first. Then I saw the main actor who looked like the tougher version of Patrick Dempsey who plays Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy and THAT got my attention. It was a damn good tv. Better than the english shit we always get on Astro. No one was moving or even talking. Very rare, I tell you.

After the ferry, we got on our earlier bus and went to Perlis. I have a feeling that Padang Besar is at the far end of Perlis because when I was listening to my walkman, Hitz.fm and Fly.fm never really spoke english anymore. Sal was pretty amused by this.

Later, when we got there, I saw a lot of Thai ladies selling potato chips. They actually get on the bus and persuade you to buy their chips. Not just one or two but five or six of them will come on the same time. The bus driver never seemed to mind.

How suprising.

So Padang Besar is just another boring place to shop for cheap goods. Sal and I never really ventured there. All the time we were following our grandma who was clearly enjoying buying even more stuff. Whatever makes her happy.

After that, we were finally on our way home. Eight hours later and it was already night time.



All in all Langkawi was a good trip. The last time I was in Langkawi, I spent my days near the pool looking for hot guys. This time it was different. I don't mind the difference really. I would do it again if I have to. Only this time, I would probably opt for a plane ride, minus the granny.

7th December 2006 : Sunway Lagoon Theme Park

I was looking forward for this one. The last time I had been to Sunway Lagoon was ten years ago and I wasn't tall enough for any of the rides. Sal couldn't make it so it was just Nad and I.

View from the top of the entrance.

We walked through the entrance and the first thing we saw was this huge viking ship.

The Pirate's Revenge that swings and rotates at 360 degrees.

So I was like 'Gee, lets get on that one first.' You see, I have never been on any thrill rides whatsoever. The last time I was on a rollercoaster was way back when I was about 4 and it was at the Fun Fair. The rollercoaster at that time only had seatbelts and it felt like riding on a trolley from Point A to Point B. There was no rotation or fast curves, nothing. Just a ride that goes as fast as my my mom's driving. But I cried nonetheless. I seriously thought I was going to die and never get to taste Koko Krunch ever again.

So, I told myself to put this incident behind me and get on this ride no matter how according to most people how scary it is.

So I did get on the ride. Just to get a taste of what its like click on the link below.

A Taste Of What It Was Like

I stepped on the ride. Put on my seatbelt and secured this thing where you place in between your head. There was this young Australian kid sitting next to me, out of nowhere started nudging me and cried 'Tolong, tolong.' Thats probably the only malay word he learned. How convenient.

Oh nothing happened. He just wanted me to fasten his seatbelt. I prayed that I secured it tightly because if he slipped off and died then it kind of would've been my fault.

Anyway, the ride was pretty thrilling. I was not scared by the height. But I get nightmares just thinking of when the ship goes backwards. Everytime the ship goes backwards, you'll feel gravity acting on you thoroughly. You're no longer sitting. You are left dangling with your feet not even touching the ground. Your only hope is for the 'thing between you head' to not give up and hold on to your weight.

Scary stuff.

But after that, nothing was holding me back. I got on all the rides in Sunway Lagoon and it was fun. I'll come back some other day and maybe this time I'd crash at the wet park too, sipping lemonade, looking out for hot guys on surfboards.

Later at about 2pm we headed back to Sunway Pyramid. The ice skating ring was pretty crowded and putting me on slippery surfaces would just be a disaster in the making. So we skipped that and decided to go bowling.

You can see from the first three bowls, I'm a pretty sucky bowler.

After two games, one of the guys from the other line was staring at me and it did not feel at all comfortable. So, we decided to call it a day and go home.

8th December 2006 : Berjaya Times Square

Yes, you guessed it.

Cosmo's World Indoor Theme Park

We got on all the rides for this one too. The roller coaster was way better than the one in Sunway. The best ride has to be the DNA Mixer.

No, it is NOT what you think, you sick pervs.

Its a thrill ride where people are rotated upside down real fast. I never really took many pictures here because I left my bag in the locker.

But it was great nonetheless.

Went for bowling again afterwards. This time, two guys from Saudi Arabia wanted us to take their personality test. Answer their questions and they can tell you who you are and what you're like. They said they were studying here but was on vacation. I never really understood that part because I was lost in one of the guy's eyes. It was piercing green and well, it was piercing me.

We got home, safe and sound.

Fun days. My whole body was aching for the next two days. I could barely brush my teeth. It was painful. I was so not in the mood for the whole week.

But can't wait to do it again though.