It was nothing like before. I didn’t revisit for any educational purposes, of course. Nothing related to school. You see, my relatives from Ipoh and Kluang wanted to spend two days in Langkawi this school holiday season. One of my cousin (1 year younger) had been staying in my house since the early holiday and last 6th of June his mom, brother, sister + our aunt’s family came here in Perlis. And the next day after that was when we take a one and a half hour boat/ferry trip to Langkawi, or the so-called legendary island. Lol.

I’m gonna start from the beginning. First, on the way home from KL last last week (dun remember when) my cousin (Irwan) followed us back home. Mainly for using the internet of course as he is dominating my PC opening MySpace wtf (damn I think that thing doesn’t make any sense). But at least I have some company. Its kind of bored staying alone this while.. When I’m writing this, they’ve just gone back home.

The night after my realtives have arrived here, I was told to pick my other cousin on 4am in the morning at the bus station. But then Irwan gave an idea. We sneak out early at 3am and when to Macha’s house to pick him. Then we went to 7 Eleven and sat there and talk until 4am. Wahaha. The town was really empty at that time. Just a couple of Mat Rempits and the 7 Eleven workers. But the bus was late so we went back home first and went out again at 5.30am to pick her sister.

The next day, me and Irwan who was obviously didn’t have enough sleep, along with my other relatives (total of 8 ppl including me) went to the Kuala Perlis Ferry Terminal at 10am. Luckily, the next available ferry was on 10.30am so we didn’t have to wait long to reach the Island. By 12 noon we were already there at Kuah Ferry Terminal. Don’t forget, its the school holiday. Surely there a lot of people over there. And I’m sick of that.

My mom can’t get any apartment room in Kondo Istana so we ended up to this last alternative, Bella Vista Hotel. Which looked great on the outside, but crap on the inside. The swimming pool was under construction (for years I think because they can’t afford it), the TV is micro, and it is separated by a stupid pond and ppl have to take the road manoeuvre which is very long to get out of the hotel. Think, how if you want to walk to the town?

Pretty issit? It’s just an illusion OK.

But, we managed to get an affordable rental rates during the school holidays for a Toyota Avanza thanks to one of the hotel staff. Perfect for 8 people. Our first destination in Langkawi was the Gunung Mat Cincang (I dunno how to spell it correctly) where there is the Geopark and the Cable Car. The admission fees is RM15 if you’re able to show your MyCard and RM28 (maybe) for tourists.

I only can show the pictures at the Cable Car taken by my handphone because other pictures was in my cousin’s camera. And that was the only place I took pictures of by my handphone. Mind the quality ok.

View from the gondola right before the first station. Damn it is very steep.

You can have a pretty nice view at this height.

Background: the islands.

I luv this pic. Taken from the other observation tower.

The hanging bridge was closed because there was a film shooting at that time. Quite frustrating.

Nothing to do up here except from photography and fresh air.

The sunset. The sea was way down below and open wide.

We got down from the peak just after the sunset and head straight to the town area where there are a lot of Duty Free shops. This is the most boring part. After dinner, we went back to the hotel.

Getting bored that night me, Irwan and his brother decided to go out and take walk. But yes there was nothing around the hotel except from abandoned areas of shops and a couple of food stall and a dangdut club. So we took the long road (walk) to the town and it was also not very lively. We went looking for a snooker centre or something like that but the one we found looked quite creepy so we cancelled and walked and walked until my legs were screaming.

I slept early that night and woke up also early (for me) for breakfast in the lobby. Then we went back into our room to change because after that our destination was Cenang Beach. The last time I went there was during the Kayak-ing Clinic in 2005 with the Exploration Club. It was sunny but as it was in the morning my skin was not tanned. I hate my skin tanned.

We checked out at 2pm and after that there was shopping, shopping and a lot of shopping. While they were busy shopping I went to meet Chika who was also bringing her relatives to Langkawi for a visit. After she went back, I stick back with my cousin sitting outside the shop, waiting.

Our boat home was at 7pm. While waiting at the Ferry Terminal, we finally spend the remaining time at the snooker table upstairs. Me and Irwan supposed to pay of course but his brother changed his mind and paid for us. Huhu. On the ferry they took pictures of me sleeping. No wonder when I woke up the people beside was looking at me and smiling. wtf.. Oh well, at least the trip was something compared to spending my time at home in boredom in front of this PC. That’s all I think.