I just had to blog about this. This is one dream that still stays quite clearly in my memory. I wonder why too. Last night, I had this weird dream. Really really weird.

Here goes.

I dreamt that she and my family were at a holiday resort. Somewhere in Malaysia?
There was this buggy which the resort provided for the guests to use.
And I have no idea why, but I was always the one driving it. It was so fun driving. I gave lifts to my mum and cheryl to somewhere just to drive that buggy. And the place looked alot like East Coast Park's rows of buildings.

Here comes the part.

I dreamt I saw a ghost.
There was this toilet in the resort that I used and when I looked in a small mirror hanging just above the sink, I saw a lady with long hair covering her face standing at the right hand corner of the mirror behind me. Can you imagine? something like a character from the ring.

I ignored that and continued doing what I was doing. I think I was brushing my teeth but not daring to look into the mirror again.

But I DID! omg.

This time, the lady was standing directly behind me. And I freaked out. I ran out of the toilet looking for my family. And I didn't dare to tell her cause she was afraid of this type of stuffs. But I told my family though. The warning was out, to stay away from that toilet.

That was my dream.

Weird ain't it. Oh wells. Wish me luck today. I don't want any more nightmares.

May you
live long long,
earn alot alot of money,
do your countless parts of charity,
help out the society as you expand your business,
and
and
and
never stop smiling!
You're the best mum anyone can have. To me that is. Haha. :)

Ferry To Tioman

The boat ride took us to a few ports first before finally docking at Salang. (Find it on the map above!)

Throughout the day, I received a few messages from her. she was spamming and I couldn't reply. Argh. Every message brought about a wide smile though. :))

LOCATION: SALANG
TIME: 12.55PM FRIDAY 08/08/08

My parents took the normal room while rach, cheryl and me took another bigger room further away from the clubhouse.

After walking back to a place near the jetty, we stopped for food.

While we were eating, there was this eurasion couple seated beside our table and the lady was feeding the cats that came knocking on her door for lunch.

The place was swarming with cats.
Small cats, big cats, fat cats, skinny cats, pretty cats, ugly cats, dead cats (didn't see) and some other random cats.

Meowwwwwwwwwww. This was cheryl's language on the island as she meowed to every cat or kitten she saw. It was quite comical with the way she expressed that sound. Like those cats desperately calling for their parents type of call.

We walked around, explored the place, and picked up seashells and dead corals from the beach, finally ending up in the water unsuccessfully trying to catch fishies with our bare hands.

After that, we rented 3 canoes, my dad and my mum, rach and cheryl and me taking a double canoe alone as they didn't have any singles for rent. Brings back memories from my canoeing days. It felt weird back behind a paddle again but it was like I didn't stop canoeing altogether.

Actually, renting the canoes was my idea as I thought we could head out to open waters and just glance down to look at the seabed as the waters were so clear.

After an hour of canoeing, we headed back to the hotel to shower and change up for dinner.

There, guests wait for dinner, not dinner waits for the guest.

At 7pm sharp, guests are expected to be seated at the dining area for dinner to be served. Should the guest be late, it shall be only their own misery as the food would be cold.

And so, my dad, not liking his food cold, wanted us seated before 7. Singapore's famous disease kicks in, Kiasu-ism.


LOCATION: HOTEL, CLUB HOUSE - RESTAURANT
TIME: 7PM FRIDAY 08/08/08

We were saying that should the food be horrible, we'll eat abit to give face and head down to the makan places available on the the island.

Surprisingly, the food was fantastically delicious. We ate till our stomach's content and couldn't stuff ourselves with the amazingly nice food. Maybe it was due to our lowered expectations that the food tasted great, or maybe we were all just starving.

After dinner, the girls were at the outdoor dining area trying to take self timer shots with the camera, and it resulted in a family photo as me and my folks joined in.

After 1 and a half hours of rest, sun tanning and lunch, we were once again back on board the now familiar speed boat to take us to the last stop before heading back.

It was a marine park.

And the marine park had an enclosure to keep the fishes in it. Big, huge ones.

We got back on land the same way we got off it, by once again wading through knee deep waters.

After returning the snorkeling gear and life jackets, we headed back to the room to wash up for our next adventure.

To explore the island and lunch.

Lunch came first though as everyone was starving. We headed for the restaurant cloest to the jetty to try out their food.

Once everyone's stomach was to the heart's content, we strolled to the jetty and continued onwards till we came to a small little shelter facing a beach volleyball game in progress. Noticing a hammock strung between two coconut trees, I took my place there and made myself comfortable. Once again, hammocks are damn nice.

After watching for close to an hour, rach was tempted to play. She dragged me and cheryl along to play with her.

We rented a ball from a stall we chanced upon as we were walking back to the hotel. 15RM for the day.

Finding a place to play was another issue though. There were only 2 proper places to play and both were occupied, therefore, we headed to some open space of sand and drew our own imaginary net line with our slippers. however, it was near one of the 2 places to play should the occupants decide to leave their post.

I was pitted against the 2 girls. If only she was there, we could team up and have so much fun. Sian.

One thing that was missing and standing out for the day was that she didn't spam me at all. Sadded. Maybe she was too busy doing other stuffs, replying other people, I wouldn't know. But I still missed her and I sent her another long sms, wishing to hear from her again. However, her reply was completely different from the previous night. It lacked that feeling and I could feel it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Guess not in her case. Sian.

Sleeping was a major obstacle as waking up every other hour was quite common for the 2 nights there. My mum suggested the day before to wake up early to catch the sunrise.

My sisters and I, we planned to do just that. I woke up randomly at 6 plus and woke them up for a walk down to the beach.

We boarded the ferry that was waiting impatiently with its horns blaring at the jetty and took it back to the mainland but not before stopping at a few other jettys, picking up more passengers along the way.

LOCATION: FERRY TERMINAL
TIME: 12.30PM FRIDAY 10/08/08

Finally, we have arrived at the terminal to find ourselves ushered back into the same van by the same driver that we took to transport us there.

And there were more people this time round, a china couple in their mid thirties and a young singaporean couple in their early twenties. The singaporean couple, however, had to be seperated as there were no more seats at the back. The guy had to sit infront. But the girl wasn't fazed. She pampered him with water and snacks and when the chance came, she sat at the very front just to get close to him and stroke his hair.

I noticed this because rach mentioned how the girl actually sayangs the guy alot and talked to cheryl about it. so right now, go awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, zho zweet, with me. ha ha.