Berry in Msia

Reports from various parties have shown that women ARE better at endurance than man, and this includes things like being in the army, withstanding emotional stress etc. However, just being with pink berry proves this! Man, nobody can keep up with her when she sets her mind on it. Haha! (No offense ya? It's meant to be a compliment. The world needs more people like that.)
After a grueling 4 days at OBS camp at Ubin island (YES, Singapore DOES have ulu places..haha) that ended in the evening, she came to Malaysia on the night flight looking none the worse but for a little bronzed look. Even then, she only slept around midnight. Haha, I would've just thrown in the towel long ago and hit the sack!
Went out to the market for some beef noodles (try it out guys, it's a specialty of my place!). Brought Nocturnal along too. Hopefully both of them can be good friends later on, seeing that both would be course mates soon.
Plane to Langkawi left at 1250 pm. Here's some pics berry took:

Clouds above someplace in Malaysia. Hopefully the subsequent downpour wasn't very bad=)











The Boeing that we took. I think it's a 727 or 737. Not really that good with it being cramped and all. Prefer the A320 we took back from Penang. But hey who's complaining? A plane that gets us there safe and sound is a plane that gets us there safe and sound!



Arrived in Langkawi slightly past lunch time. First order of business was to get a car. First few counters offered a Kancil for RM50. Compared to peak times that price was quite ok. Nevertheless, I thought, "No harm trying to ask other counters." Just before I left to ask the others the owner got a little agitated, saying something about wasting my breath and time since all companies offered same price. Definitely not a good sign, for him I mean=) Such are the tactics employed by unscrupulous traders. The next few also offered the same price as the first, albeit giving guarantees of their cars being newer than the others. It really paid off later when I asked the last few counters. Their first offer was for a Wira Auto for RM50! Haha..no need to think already, just get it! Lol..





The Kancil. Named after a small lithe animal resembling a small deer. Compare to the Wira on the right. Notice how Kancil is actually half the size of the sedan Wira? Ok, maybe not. Haha..but it's true!

Lunch was KFC. Haha..KFC in Langkawi! Lol..but we were really rushing for time, and besides the good seafood restaurants only open at night. So there we were at KFC, with berry activating super tourist mode(STM). Haha..Get a look at the food we had:
Left for the numerous beaches around Langkawi. Beach no. 1 was Tanjung Rhu. It's located around the NE side of Langkawi, about 30 minutes away from our hotel City Bayview which is located on the SE sideof Langkawi. Ok, maybe it's a little nearer than that, but then you would have to consider that we used a Wira that could only achieve a topspeed of 80+ Kph and berry took a lot of pics. Haha..A nice scene would pass us by and somebody would go "Hey!" Next would entail either a sudden stop followed by reversing to the afore mentioned spot or a 3-point turn back to the place where a nice picture would be taken. What she said was quite funny, "Malaysia can drive off the road one ar?" haha..
Here are some samplings of what we saw before reaching Tg. Rhu:

Cow crossing!
So why did the cows cross the road? I dunno..since it's all fenced up I think they didn't even cross the road in the first place..haha..
A nice view of rubber plantations. Good effects=) It's not mist or fog or whatever btw..It's smoke..berry skillfully left out the fella openly burning rubbish..haha..
Arrived at Tg. Rhu without much ado. The roads there are a bit ulu, but then most of Langkawi is ulu. Haha! It's a real nice place to have a relaxing evening=)
Rushed off to Black Sands beach after that. Initially wanted to get some petrol along the way, but the place was a rip-off. RM2.02 per litre. Crazy man! Other places RM 1.90+ only! So beware, it's a small place near the roundabout leading to Tg. Rhu.
Ok, Black Sands beach is exactly that. A beach with sand that's naturally black. Please lor, Malaysians not so bo liao like those ang mors go make fake crop circles or in this case, making fake black sand. Imagine the amount of work put into constantly keeping it black! You'd run out of willing people before the project even started. Haha..
Enlarge this picture if you want to have a detailed explanation of why it's black. Don't ask me. I'm no geologist or minerologist. (Maybe if you asked when I was still there I would have dropped by the 1st floor of the hotel and popped in to ask the whole bunch of government minerologists there who were having some lawatan sambil belajar seminar thingy)
Rushed over to the other side of the island for the 7 wells waterfalls. From bottom to the peak was about was 638 steps or 480m. Took a wrong turn and ended up at the 7 wells instead of the waterfall. Haha..nevermind, since we didn't take swimming trunks along. Would have been sorely tempted to just jump in. Haha..
PS We took the car right up til the halfway point. Haha..bypassed 200+ steps. Haha..got some stares by some very tired people along the way. lol..Hey, we were rushing for time. To catch the sunset at Chedang beach.=) Shhh...
Managed to rush to Chedang in time for the sunset. FYI it was 7.30 pm instead of the 6.30pm the KFC manager mentioned. Haha..Good thing didn't go there so early. Would've been waiting there for a whole hour doing nothing much instead of visiting all those nice places we went. Haha..Although the main activity along a beach is to relax and DO NOTHING. Haha..
On a side note, I think I had better learn more Arabic if I am to go to any tourist spots in Malaysia with friends after this. Really man. Asked an Arabic woman to take pictures of us with the sun setting behind us. She happily replied ok and snapped away. Even told us proudly she took 4 in case some of them turned out unsatisfactory. Then when we checked later she took the SUNSET itself instead of together with us. Haha..so sad..but it looks good no? None of my ugly polluting the picture. Maybe that's why she didn't take us together with the sunset-_-"

Ok, that's all for now. The trip's been too long to post in 1 shot. Especially with the slow transfer rate of photoblogger. I'll add the rest up soon. Maybe. Perhaps. =)