Perhentian Island - Day 1

When we reached the island, we landed steadily on the white sandy beach. Wow, i can actually see my toes clearly, in Kuantan don't even expect you'll even see yr feet. We walked along the beach to look for our chalet, Panaroma. Sounds cool right? All over the place is colorful graffiti board and signs, very artistic people we have over here. I saw the sign Panaroma at last, there's a wooden path towards our chalet. We entered the entrance and when i put my head up, MAN! that's a lot of ang mor! all of them having breakfast in the restaurant. Toast with strawberry jam, a pot of hot coffee and a big platter of fruits - so this is ang mor style breakfast. Thinking of our own nasi lemak and milo kao kao.. doesn't sound so healthy, but heck, this is Malaysian style of breakie, although i'm not very proud of it. My breakfast is usually whole wheat cereal with some cold milk.

The chalet's reception counter located in the restaurant itself. Made of bamboo and solid wood, and above the counter there's 2 puffed up puffle fish with light bulb inside.

Holy moly! those are real fish, i wonder how they freeze it when the fish puffed up. Brutal. I like it. I would like it even more if it drops on someone's head.

We put our luggage on the table when Su Fen and went over the counter to settle our accommodation matter. Seem like forever, apparently they didn't have a clean vacant room. Oh well, we'll wait then. After for like 10 minutes of waiting (Shannon starts wondering around the area with Phil), we got our keys into our room. First we thought we're going to be neighbors but they gave us rooms thousands yards apart. Nah, not that far... because when Shannon blast his Irreplaceable we can hear it loud and clear from our room. Damn that inconsiderate brat, people come here to relax and hear the wave and wind, not some english top chart songs! The got the A2 room while we girls got the E2 room. Splendid!

We open the door of our room. OMG. What a room! it's huge, the floor creeks, the room have no electricity, mosquito net is wrapping both double bed and there's 2 fan on the wall. I went straight to the bathroom and check, looks fine. Okay, i can survive in this place. Not for long maybe. We changed into our swimsuit and went out to check on the boys. They changed and after that we headed down to the restaurant to have our breakfast. We sat under the bright yellow umbrella and had our brunch. I went over to the shop nearby to look for pareo, nothing really fascinates me. That's alright.

Seriously, we have no idea what to do for the rest of the day and we're bursting our heads off to think what to do. We rented an umbrella for RM10 and sat there, chill under the freaking hot sun. Shannon and Seng Kwee went over to the water and start playing like small kids. Smart ass they didn't put on the sunblock. I'm enjoying myself glancing/staring/eye-stalking guys. But some of them turned around and i almost strangle myself to death because i've been staring at their back for so long and when they turn around they look like Shrek.



The boys got back and it's time for the girls to hit the sea. Su Fen and i went down because June wants to sleep. She's sleepy and tired. We dipped our toes in the water, it's cool. I kept walking deeper and deeper, but the water are so shallow i can still sit and half my body still left unwet. You need to walk a distance before you can actually swim. It's like we're in a kid's swimming pool, only the water is salty. Su Fen and i don't want to get too dark the first day so we headed back to the shore to join the rest.

June

Su Fen

We start cam whoring and after that sleep on the crowded mat. It's so crowded Su Fen and I went to get another umbrella. We slept under the hot sun. Bad choice. All the ang mors do that, they even read under the hot sun without umbrella, these people are CRAZY!! Soon, all of us just doze off for few minutes. We discovered that we're the only Malaysian tourist in Perhentian. Cool!

Finally, June joined us in the sea for our second round of dipping.

I love this picture.

After the second dipping. We all went back for our next napping. Clearly all of us didn't get enough sleep on the bus the other day. Actually we didn't sleep long, the sun shining on our faces and burning on our skin is not such a good condition to be well rest.



Surprisingly, June can sleep! like a baby.

And i'm burnt all over.

I love this place.

My flip flop and my feet. Both burnt.



Shannon and I

Su Fen and I at our second umbrella.

Soon, the rest were having fun burying Su Fen at the beach. I was too lazy to get my bums off the mat i just sit there and snap some photos.

Our first umbrella, the most special one.

Umbrella stall.

Su Fen. Rest in Peace.

Ahh!! She's alive! she smirks too!

Can you see the red patch on my feet. It's all burnt. BURNT!!

Look like some indian film.

Thanks to Shae's tripod, we got a group pic coming along!

Water Ghost in Bikini

Check out Phil's sexy sunburnt leg! In fact, not only his legs are burnt, his entire body is burnt.

Enough of sea water and sun basking. We headed back to our chalets for a quick shower and change. Dinner time is approaching, time to think what to have tonight! In our room, Su Fen and June over heard the people staying next to us, "They are French!!". Wow... they can recognized their language. I can hardly understand French. There's one women and 2 guys. I wonder how they sleep in one room. Threesome. Scare the hell out of me. I don't want to hear anything at night coming from that room. I saw her kissed the guy French style, so i suppose that's her husband and the other guy is just a friend. We have no guts to talk to them though.

We saw this huge owl with over sized eye brow gazing back at us with his gigantic black eye balls. Maybe i'll fry that for dinner. Owl's Eye Balls. Anyways it's a nice birdie, we didn't go near it because he don't look so friendly.

The sun starts to set announcing to the people in the island it's time to get off the sea.

We decided to have our dinner at this restaurant near the shore. June ordered banana pancake with chocolate, Shae and I had tom yam, Su Fen and Phil got their BBQ scrumptious meal. The barakuda tasted fantastic. The girl that served us is a French girl from Bordeaux (pronouced as Boldor, or make it easier.. Bodoh), we all wondering what is she doing here in this island serving.

After that we headed back to our chalet, the light bulbs to our chalet are lit up, shining the beautiful natural path. We were fast asleep. Charging for tomorrow, where all the excitement awaits! Fishes and sharks and turtles i'll see you tomorrow!

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