LANG TENGAH 2011

Despite knowing these people for nearly 10 years, we have NEVER gone on a holiday before.

FYI by holiday, i dun mean 1 day outings where we spend half the day in the car and 3 hours in a mamak stall.

i'm referring to an actual holiday. where we fly. we get in a van together. we get chauffeured to a foreign place (and not fight about who fetches who or who takes turn to drive who where) and then we just lepak for afew days (and not worry about where to go what to do or how to get where).

So anyway after much discussion (in FB, no doubt. love technology and how its destroying our human-to-human interaction. luvit! ) we settled on Lang Tengah.

This was actually the 2nd time oWaiYee and myself were setting foot on the nice sharp corals sands on this island. Our virgin trip here happened 2 years ago. (here. here. and here.) but we stayed in a different hotel on the other side of the island. (which is also reachable by foot)

but somehow this time... the rocks seemed... shorter.

maybe we got taller.
maybe the sand washed in and elevated the ground.
maybe the world is coming to an end.

i dunno la... but either way it was still damn fun.

just chillin and laying there with no 58342083958034 things on ur mind.

amazing scenery.

seaside Giantess picking off humans for dinner also got.

Ah Jin bending over for me to oil and touch.

karaoke video beach walk.

at night we played lantern like small kids.
(since it was Mid Autumn festival tat night)
(and we are all small kids at heart)
(some still small kid mentally)

i havent touched a lantern in ages.

And surprise surprise it was during one finely served BBQ dinner one day that the Hotel staff came running over to our table and asked if we wanted to see one of the most beautiful things a beach trip could offer - a turtle laying her eggs.

WAH i tell u i literally sprang up wanna fly already.

Our trusty Hotel man lead us to the location not too far away and we managed to witness this fragile creature going about her natural course. Of course with this taking place, the onlookers were beginning to pile up closer and closer till it reached a point that i started to suspect that these people were after more than just a nice glimps of the poor thing.

i really think that they were after her eggs.

When she was done everyone was too busy pulling a paparazzo on the poor thing i think we had it traumatised for life la.

i was thinking "GOOD. pls dun come back. too unsafe for u here."

the poor thing actually got stuck when it was making her way out back to the sea. I'm quite certain if we werent there to help her out she wouldve been maggot food.

it was a really huge turtle

This was taken on the jetty.

There was a private fairytale beach wedding the day before

(ruined by the night storm HAHA)
so we took the opportunity the next day to trespass and camwhore.

(i'm not smiling cuz i tot we were doing the whole
traditional-family-portrait-numb-face look)

(thanks for NOT telling me we were going for happy family smiles, guys)

(thanks alot)

nice trip. good friends. cheap stay.

OH YA did i mention tat we were the ONLY guests in the hotel during our stay?
we practically had the entire beach to ourselves throughout our visit.

beachgasm la really.

LANG TENGAH REVISITED

Just managed to pop some pics from my phone (which turns cranky whenever i connect it to the PC) and found some i took when we went jungle trekking on Lang Tengah 2 weeks ago.

We were guided through the jungle to this awesome cliff point somewhere on the island and i didnt have my trusty Canon IXUS with me so the year-old Sony Ericson had to do.

I hardly ever use the phone for pics but this was inevitable.
Die die also had to take.

It's actually a really really long way down but i dont think you can see the height of the cliff from the photos. My legs were wobbly standing at the edge.

The 2 whom i trekked with.

spot the tiny couple at the edge of the cliff.

If you're wondering where the rest of the gang was during this pivotal moment on the island, they were busy snoozing away the nice beachy morning and the paid-for breakfast.

i know.

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Cameron pics will be up soon.
I am stoked strawberrified shitless now.

more LALALANG TENGAH!

If there's one thing about the island that really caught my eye (other than the clear water, dead corals, small beach and missing TV), it was the massive amounts of humongous-gigantus long leggy spiders nesting at all 52354283409 corners of the island.

A simple walk could easily land you face 2 face with one of these huge ass crawlies if you weren't careful.

Needless to say, this drove me crazy.......

.....with enthusiasm!

So with Discovery-channel mode turned on, I was running around the bushy areas catching grasshoppers and any form of living organism spiders would consider "food".

Then i got smart by recycling the empty bottles lying around and slammed the unlucky lil hoppers into the bottle, compiling them in large numbers before feeding them to their poisonously fanged predators for an imminently slow and painful death.

i felt so proud of myself.

With so much food you'd think that the spiders on the island would appreciate my kind and giving gesture by putting on a dramatic predator-devouring-prey gorging fest right?

WRONG.

Now i know that Lang Tengah spiders are super lansi.

The friggin huge one's just weren't interested in my peaceful offerings of fresh meat and shrugged em off like i was some annoying dude trying to disturb their afternoon lepak.

Most of the hoppers i fed just ended up twitching alot in the web.
Spider ignores twitch.
Then web brakes and hopper falls down and hops off into the sunset.
Hence, wasting my efforts to give back to the food chain. -_-

But the humbler, smaller one's layan-ed me and really gave me show.

Bless you younglings.
Bless you.

Aside from Spideys, there were other forms of lifeforms battling for survival on this simple yet strangely savage island.

Like this damn kau cool lizard we spotted on a tree while we were having our seaside toast one afternoon.

Initially we thought it was the spider who had him caught in his web.. (which would have been friggin cool also cuz walau spider eating lizard?! *eyes open big big stare in awe....*) but closer inspection led us to discover that this lil fella was actually hanging onto the web, already halfway done with the spider in his mouth.

Some crazy shit i tell ya.

Also sighted: green green crawly caterpillar thing on beach sand.

...And what happened to it 20 minutes later.

Then during beaching time, saw this floating on the water.

Brought it to the seaside.
Only to see white seabugs burrowing and slithering out from all sides all of a sudden.
Damn geli weh.
I don't get geli-ed often but this really made my skin crawl.

Also spotted family of bushy caterpillars.

Owhy got so freaked out she stand far far away out of focus.
But still in the camera frame for abit of the spotlight.

Here are some less disturbing pics from the remaining 2 days we were on the island.

going out for more snorkels.

working the pout.

snorkels.

before we spotted the spider-munching lizard.

public display of affection

damn nice hor the water?

electrods on his head.

fireflies flying into her nose.

my close up.

dead corals lead the way

crystal water me like

That's Owhy in the water.
Fuh. Like lady in the lake liddat.

me hanging.

Owhy & Marley & me.

our residency for 4D3N.

Leaving on a jet-ty.

Next destination: CAMERON HIGHLANDS

As the very wise Wooldoor Sockbat would say:
"WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!..."

LALALANG TENGAH!

I am back from beaching!

Burnt, flaky and peeling. As usual.

Apparently every beach trip i take leaves me visibly reddish and looking like a heat-struck snake shedding scales.
Then, as SY likes to put it, in 2 weeks time i become white again. -_-
I think i should just give up trying to get dark la.
Should just leave it to the experts. *cough* shyng *cough*

Now i tell u about ze trip:

Lang Tengah was where i was for 4 days and 3 nights.
"Tengah" because it's located in the middle of Perhentian and Redang.

The 3 of us (Zarf , Owhy & Me ; Chenny was suppose to join us but couldn't because work, commitments and bosses suck - i'm so sorray Chenneigh... ) took the night FireFly to Kuala Terengganu and stayed at a backpackers inn in the city for the night.

It was the 1st time giving FireFlyz a go.
Plane felt even smaller than AirAsia.
But all in all was ok.
Anything will beat the crappy heatyness of MAS.

Our inn felt like a prison cell.

But aiya. RM15 per person of course la.

Next day we met up with Ken and Kel and proceeded to the Merang jetty for the boat that was to transport us to Lang Tengah.
I hated waking up at 6.
Friggin moody.

The boat ride was kinda boring.
Nothing like the super bumper-car-roller-coaster feel Krabi speedboats had.
I was dozing off. On the boat.
Yeah. I like it rough.

Upon arrival on the island, We kinda expected it to be more of a "woah" than an "oh ok......." reaction.
Beach was kinda small and lacked the vast white oomph that PhiPhi island had.
We stayed in this humble resort called Redang Lang Resort and we pretty much stuck our asses there most of the time. Mainly cuz there wasnt anywhere else to go.

And to make things worse, we had no TV and the rooms were literally ovens if you didnt leave the air cond on while u were away. Going green and saving energy out the window.

I literally lashed out silent scream when i saw the absence of the tv.
Guess it comes with the price we paid for the package.

Goodstuff: very clear waters. very fine white sand. Quite an affordable package.
Badthings: small beach. budget accommodation. Dead corals everywhere. Poor soles.

Oh and as expected, my seaside romantic walks turned into draggy limps of pain.

Spot the cacat toe.

The sun was so hot that most of us had lost the mood to really enjoy on the 1st day.
I understand that beach trips are suppose to be bright and sunny but this
was kau burning lor. Like the rays were literally eating away our flesh from the surface layers to the tissue inside.

1st day was a snorkel visit to Redang Bay Marine Park.
Didnt really enjoy it.
Too many people.
Sun was too hot.
Salt water kept getting into my nostrils and gagging my breathing system.
(it was only after tat that i realised you could actually tighten the snorkeling gear to your preferences. heh.)

Obtained majority of sunburns there.

2nd day was perfect.
No sun.
Breezy the WHOLE day.

Beached alot.

Snorkeled alot.

Took paparazzo pics of ppl pakto alot.

Parade in fugly uncle singlet alot.

And there was even karaoke at night.

After working the rented snorkeling gear to my advantage i actually found myself enjoying every moment of being under the water.
Surprisingly calming.
After you get pass the potentially-drowning paranoia, unknown-creatures-creeping-up-to-u phobia and fear of scrapping-feet-on-sharp-corals.

More to come soon. :)

We are fehmilee.