tioman island getaway

had a weekend getaway last week with my bunch of colleagues~ to tioman we head - 11 people in 3 cars, including my mini kancil and other 2 myvis - the drive was a total madness; the road, the speed, the fog and the distance jz didn't make sense .. thank goodness i made it through the drive, i could have easily dozed off if not for the company in the car

we first had to stop by mersing jetty, johor for the speedboat to the island... tooks us 4½ hours reaching here from kl~ could've been faster but kancil ain't a good runner afterall ε-(´・｀)

after some delay, we're on the boat - with no rest after work and a tiring journey, one could only hope for some rest - but NO... there was this hell of a boy of screamed out his lungs crying to be released to shore, and lucky me, i was jz two rows away - it was a nightmare... things however came calm thankfully, and i managed to catch some sleep

and tioman came to us...

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beautiful... calming... and undeniably a good place for a holiday... never had i seen water so clear~ maybe that's because i've only been to the sickneningly polluted port dickson beaches... i should travel more often - some did mentioned that redang was better, hmmm....



we've checked in later, into a chalet-type resort by the name of idaman... not the best around, but definitely cheap and it really had that getaway-ish feel~ having enuff of kl, this was almost paradise to start with~

... off we go on a speedboat an hour after checking in... by boat we went past some other resorts, which is 10, maybe 20× more modern than the ones we chose... the grass is always greener on the other end, for this case the water's kinda more bluish in colour (in fact it was)~ went to the town, stopped by the duty-free shop and had a can of budweiser - should've grab some liquor here, cheap and kastam-less in mersing! regret, regret! ☆⌒(＞。≪)



went snorkeling some minutes later, illegally... the pakcik took us to marine park by sea, dropped us skipping the need to pay a rm5 entry fee... we suspected something fishy here, but indeed there's fishes~ wasted some time chasing the one two fishes, only to realise an incredible lot of fishes near a feeding area - and it was dead obvious, that's where all the people were ( -_-)"

switched locations, more snorkling at a nearby coral reef... blind as a bat, without my glasses the coral does appear to be pretty... next time i'll try contacts! zettai! ended the day with bruises and some very blurry memories, aha~ (O_O；)

had some sleep and food/dinner was served... the later night was filled with teambuilding activities... what i would usually preceived as lame somehow was actually fun this time~ dozing off - i slept til wee early next morning



morning here at the chalet area was kinda disappointing - no bikini babes and more importantly, no sunrise to be spotted anywhere along the beach (;´ρ`) as i suspect it, the beach was actually facing direct north while the east and west of it was entirely blocked by some hutan, anyway - i still had a fun time snapping photos with the soothing sea breeze along the "powdery" beach



















before i forget, the trip also did introduced us the locals. there was the pakcik who took us snorkling and a boy we called "mamat" - cute but pesky... talking about pesky, the cats here had a "thing" for me... they were following me everywhere but alas, it wasn't only me...






more snorkeling at the beach nearby before heading to the jetty for the boat home.. the bloody boat was late 2 hours+ $#%&!@! anyway, we had a long drive heading home, roads were considerably packed~ was okay when i reached the office, but had a hard time driving home with a blank mind... thankfully, i'm still to blog about my trip ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/