Remember my little getaway I mentioned a few posts earlier......
It was one helluva memorable weekend 'scape to
Rawa Island with my all time favouritest darlings!!!!
Bear in mind this post is suuuuuuper long because SOME people love to read long long posts about themselves. Heeyergh.
Anyhoo,
I hope the pictures will entertain you lest you got bored with my long-winded ramblings.
Get ready your popcorns!
:)
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I'm so excited just thinking about the trip again! And I've been browsing the pictures over and over again like a sex addict who can't get enough of porn. (Sorry cannot think of a better metaphor right now. haha!)
It was all very last minute, and by last minute I mean 5 days before we left. Haha!
I was happily eating mee rebus when Faddy msg-ed: "Beb, kau ade $500 to spare tak?"
At first my heart skipped a bit coz I thought she owed tailongs money. Hahaha.
Then after all the explanations, confirmations with the other totots, gedebak gedebuks, the plan was on!
It was our first time going overseas together and also the first time going to an island neither of us had heard of. So we were all jittery, trippy, drunk happy babes.
But before the actual meetup at 5.30am on Saturday, me and Pe'ah surprised ourselves over at Faddy's place on Friday night and invited ourselves to a sleepover becauuseee......
Yeap! Welcome to the 2-0 club bebeh!
And she loves her jacket soo much she can't stop saying: "I LOVE THIS JACKET!"
And it went on til the next day ok.
At first we were all "Yaaay! Glad you love it girl!!"
But she kept saying it until we just nodded politely and changed subject. Hahahahah.
*big hug*
Our Rawa trip is only a 1 night thing. So we would depart on a very early Saturday to catch the morning ferry to Rawa at Mersing Ferry Terminal, and then return home on the noon ferry on Sunday.
We had decided to hire a cab from Rawa's cab service, which would take us all the way from Singapore to the ferry terminal and also fetch us home on Sunday.
But! Insecurities and paranoia got the better of us and on Friday night, me, Pe'ah and Faddy were planning on how to escape if the taxi driver wants to rape and murder us and then take our kidneys to sell. We planned to:
** make pepper spray (pepper + tap water),
** buy taser guns,
** pretend we are constantly on the phone with a fake someone to hint to the driver that if we go missing, people will know,
**PRINT A MAP to Rawa!! so that if the taxi detoured into an unknown place, we would be ready to pepper spray him. hahaha that's the best....
Turns out all our paranoias were evil imaginations. Lucky we didn't carry out our plans. Haha!
The cab driver is friendly, has no ill intentions and 5 minutes into our journey, we were comfortably settled down, nerves calmed, and thoughts spiralling into wonderful imaginations of what may await us at Rawa.
We switched taxis somewhere in Johor to this gerek Taxi Uncle! He knows so much, was ready to share his experiences travelling the world, and the best of all, was willing to tolerate our karaoke sessions and constant blinding flashes as we camwhored in his cab. Turns out, he was first of the many friendly people we met in our trip.
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Arrived safe and sound at the Ferry Terminal. And by this time, we were all happy macam monkey! Even the butt cramps from the 3hour ride were gone! Because... we're only 30 minutes away! Whooopdedoo!
Hopping from boat to boat....
A very bumpy ferry ride which bobbed me and Pe'ah to sleep...
So this is Rawa...
:)
We were already so happy at Mersing with its dark green murky waters, you can't imagine our euphoria.
Jakun + Giggly + Gasping + Squealing + Jumping.. are only part of the equation in describing our feelings.
When we saw the blue blue waters from the ferry, we wanted to jump in straight off from the jetty. But we wanted the FREE welcome drink first. Heheh. Typical Singaporean lah hor...
Then we rushed to the beach squealing like four happy little piglets.
The sand is so so fine and soft and white!
And the water is cool and refreshing!
It was simply breathtaking......
While waiting for our rooms, we chucked our bags one corner, tore off our clothes and ran into the welcoming sea as though we were once mermaids!
Haha. No lah.. We're not so barbaric.
We ran gracefully like Baywatch babes into the sea with our sexy swimming outfits...
If you knew Faddy from her blog entries, you should know that one of her favourite camera shots is the Jump Shot.
So we jump jump jump on the shore while the other tourists looked our way in amusement (I think? Hehe).
Below is my favourite Jump Shot. Look at Nana's super squarish and weird jump. Hahahahaahahaha.
After all the jumping jacks and swimming in the water, we went to get rest. But got stalked by a peacock who was after our pringles. We named him Pringles.
Finally we got our keys and once again we were stumped by the awesome view from the verandah of our rooms.
We got two rooms and both were simple and clean. We made one room into the 'Messy room' and the other we kept it untouched for sleep. So after lunch, we properly chucked our bags and rested for awhile to reload our energy before zooming off to the beach again!
What happened the rest of the day was simply SHIOK!
First, we went
SNORKELLING....!!
Below is another one of my favourite pic. Very cute right! Haha. And Nana (middle) looks down syndrome-ish. Hahahaha.
The reefs are not as colourful as Redang's but it was still fun to swim around in flippers and all while looking out for some weird fish species. And I must say, we roamed the sea like graceful mermaids. Teehee!
After happily swimming around, we decided to up the adventure by going
KAYAK-ing.
And all of us had not kayak-ed before.
It was a really fun first try.
Quoting the Abang who mans the rental booth: "Good kayaking girls!"
Hahah.
We kayak-ed until we discovered new land!
Ok no lah.. it was actually the other end of the beach. Heheh.
After all the fun, we headed back to our rooms, hungry, and waited for dinnertime.
So what do you do to make time go faster?
We show you k...
I think if I put all of these here one by one you all will surely die of beauty overdose. Hahaaaaha!
Okk one last sweet pic.. Hehe!
The sunset was also very beautiful as we walked along the jetty to catch a bit of evening breeze after all that camwhoring...
After a BBQ dinner, it seemed like there was nothing else to be done. But since we had kind of made friends with the friendly people there, we managed to get a room to...
KARAOKE!FREEE!
Whoowheewhoowhee!
Quoting the Abang in charge of the room (translated):
"You girls wanna karaoke until morning also can. If tired of karaokeing, can watch Astro. But don't forget to clean up afterward k."
Best right!
And to top off that well-spent day, we witnessed a spread of glittering stars amidst an inky black sky. And the most magical of all,
A SHOOTING STAR!:))))
Eventhough exhausted, I think I slept with a smile on my face.
:)
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We're not done with our adventures yet you know!
The next morning, we woke up eagerly because we had made plans to ride a
HOBBIE CAT!And no, it is not a big cat who has a hobby.
We had made friends with the Abang who mans the rental shop. He's name is Izar and he's reaaally very friendly and such a funny guy too.
So introducing Izar...
and his Hobbie Cat...
and us pushing the Hobbie Cat...
The ride was FUN FUN FUN!!
I love the feel of the wind and sun on my skin and how the hobbie cat rode the waves.
As we bobbed up and down the waves, we really felt like those angmohs with perfect tans, on top of boats looking over the sea with dolphins jumping in and out of the water alongside.
The only thing making us short of that image was the dolphins. Heheh!
So we went off toward another island to swim around and enjoy the beach all to ourselves.
Being on the Hobbie Cat humbles you because you will be dependent on the wind. It can choose to blow you all the way to China if it wants, you know. When we asked Izar the chances of returning back to Rawa safely, he just smiled mysteriously and said "I honestly don't know. Ask the wind." Takut, gegerl!
But the wind was kind enough that day to push us back to Rawa although it teased with us a little :)
Eh I got too excited about the Hobbie Cat experience.
Before the ride, we actually took a hike up to the peak to catch a super awesome view of the island.
Really really breathtaking...
Although it was blistering hot, we couldn't really bring ourselves to go off so soon. Yeap. The beauty was that hypnotising.
And if I was an immortal who knows how to swim, I would have jumped off that cliff into the sea, really.
Oh and before we leave, we made sure we got a bit of scandal to spice things up...
Heh heh heh heh.....
The Scandal:Two lovebirds were found sitting quietly together watching the waves come in. It is known that the lady has to go far far away, leaving her lover all alone on this island, pining for her.
For confidentiality's sake, we shall name the lovergirl and boy F and I respectively.
Zooming into their conversation.....
F: Oh abang *ahem*, baby, you'll always be my number one!I: Alamaaak.. so sweet! Takle angkat lah beb! *smacks forehead*AWH! SO SWEET! hehehehe
At the end of the whole trip, we emerged darker but so very happy.
Happy that we made friends with the Rawa staff, happy that our first time experiences were such a blast, happy that everything from the weather to the whole place was super fine, and just simply happy we did it all together.
It truly was a therapeutic, most wonderful trip with my very lovely darlings.
And they're so psychotic. If not for me and Nana schooling the next day, they wanted to go KL / pretend to miss the ferry for another night in Rawa. NAK MAMPOS.
Anyhoo. It doesn't change the fact that I love and adore them so!
:)
