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Chics si nelayanita [wtf?]

by chics on Tuesday, 22 December 2009 - 12 am · 10 comments

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Hari pertama adalah pergi night fishing. Initially aku tanak pergi sebab tak reti fishing fishing ni, fishing for boys and compliments mungkin reti :P. But  bila fikir, ala bukan tetiap hari dapat opportunity pergi memancing , plus dah ada dekat sini kan, join jela segala yang boleh join pon.

Since nothing was free there, adalah kene bayar USD 16 per person, okla kot [actually aku tak tahu ok ke tak haha].

So dalam pukul 5.15 pm adalah berkumpul di second jetty. Masa tu tengah nak sunset, sini maghrib awal.

Sebelum boleh bertolak, kene tunggu orang lain. Dia minimum 6 orang, kalau tak kensel.

Tah hapa yang suka sangat tah

Sila abaikan tetekku yang basah itu, ianya sebab lepas swimming terus pakai baby t [gigih gila explain haha].

There were about 8 person all together. The four of us [dua kawan yang pergi sekali], a Korean couple with their baby dan few ang mohs.

How was I feeling that time? Pretty sexcited. Boleh ke dapat ikan ni? Dahla aku satu hapah pon tak reti ok.

eh baju sama tema pulak hihiBy the time we made our move to the location [yang aku pon tak tahu dekat mana] it was already sunset. Adalah terkasima duduk dalam bot dengan air yang jernih dan awan senja yang merah [tiru lagu awie hahaaaaaaaa]

Praise to HimChicsinred pon apa lagi, mulalah penyakit vain datang, posing sana sini walauponnnnnnnnnnnn agak mabuk laut [dah makan ubat tapi it took sometime]

Kacaula mop tu!

Kacau je mop tu tau!

After a while sampailah ke destination dimana no land can be seen. Abang-abang ni terrer ok, tengok-tengok je dalam air dah tau ada ikan ke tak. Aku sibuk gak nak tengok tapi takde nampak apa-apa pon hehe.

Bila dah turunkan anchor, the abangs started to buat umpan from some dead fish, potong kecik-kecik and sangkutkan dekat mata pancing.

Abang bot siapkan umpanMost of the workers were not from Maldives sebab hehe Maldivian ni macam Malaysianla, kerja kemas, sapu, membersih ni jangan harapla diorang nak buat, lepas tu komplen banyak pekerja asing. Opss salah topik pulak.

Another thing that I noticed, lansung takde rasta looking guys be it on the capital city or on the island unlike in Malaysia, asal pergi pulau je komfemmmmmmmmmm akan jumpa mamat-mamat cas Bob Marley. Yang menyebabkan aku konfius. Ini Malaysia ke atau apakah? [atau apakah itu sebab aku tak tahu nama negara tu hahaaaaaaa]

And all of them are very nice and polite. I like.

Anyway, we got ourself tali pancing and bait each.

He with his bait

PenjakunDisebabkan aku adalah tak reti, jadi aku main belasah je hehe. Campakkan bait ke laut

Main belasah jeAnd then longgarkan tali pancing sampai ke aras kedalama yang diingini.

Cuba berlagak coolTapi ternyata aku tak reti, the ang moh got few fish tapi aku asiklaaaaaaaaa cangkuk tersangkut dekat coral. Tak pon putus kene makan ikan or bait habis kene makan ikan.

Dalam aku menggelupur memancing, the bedmate managed to catch something.

banana fish!Kalau tak swirl muka, terserlah kesexcited-annya ok.

Mungkin sebab kesian dengan aku, one of the abangs bot came to me and taught me the right tehnique. Despite dia dari nepal and aku tak paham apa dia cakap even in English aku managed to get what he was trying to say and also followed gestures dia.

Dia kata, kalau rasa je macam ada benda nibble, even sikit, terus rentap.

I did just that and tak lama lepas tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu [cue riak bermula]

I caught a barracuda

Sangat gembira! Tapi adalah keji sebab tak nampak muka, hari sangat gelap so main ambik je gambar.

And not too long after that, dalam kemengantukan due to the motion sickness pill, I managed to caught another one, yang aku tak tau nama dia apa.

And another one, a banana fish after that.

Ikan-ikan yang ditangkap dimasukkan dalam bekas, besok boleh suruh chef masak untuk makan.

We continued fishing and it got darker and darker. Masa ni dah tak nampak sangat apa dalam air or dalam bot tapikan kadang-kadang you can see some sparkle under the water macam mata ikan or something. I had to be careful not to slip down sebab gelap and makin licin. Tak nakla tetibe jatuh lepas tu kene makan ikan jaws.

Despite keadaan sekeliling yang gelap, the sky was very clear hence you can see the stars. They sparkled so bright and scattered around the huge sky.

If you lie down terasa macam dunia ni sangat luas [memangla luas kan]. For the first time I managed to see all those zodiak bintang thingy [castellation]. I saw Belt of the Orion and it was fucking clear.

It was just beautiful. Sungguh tak dapat aku nak describe dengan kata-kata.

After 3 hours spending our time on the boat, it was time to head back to the island.

Walaupun badan aku berbau hanyir ikan but I was happy, not only because I managed to catch some fish but because I witnessed parts of keindahan ciptaan Tuhan yang belum pernah aku witness.

Oh, we also had grilled barracuda for the dinner the next day.

The taste? Fucking sweet!

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The island, at last!

by chics on Monday, 21 December 2009 - 12 am · 22 comments

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Ok, I will try to make it as short as possible. panjang-panjang kang muntah nanahla pulak. Hehe.

Lepas dah masak duduk dekat Malé it’s time to head for our vacation. Yeayyyyyyy.

Adalah tak sabar ok. Dalam pukul 9 pagi macam tu we took the boat to the island and head to Embudu Village [they provide a boat to the island and to the airport]. Embudu tu kira macam nama resort la.

Sexcited

Sexcited

The journey took about 25-30 minuts macam tu. Sebelum naik bot aku makan ubat mabuk dulu tak pepasal kang termuntah pulak, free je ikan semua makan pancake masa breakfast hehe.

Si pemabuk

Si pemabuk

On the way tu, we passed few islands and they all looked soooooooo chantek.

Chantekkkkk

Chantekkkkk

Tak lama lepas tu sampailah ke Embudu Village, keluar je from the boat first thing yang aku notice adalah coral dan air yang fucking jernih.

Sukaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sukaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sambil isi borang check in sambil minum air yang sangatla manisnyaaaa. Macam nak membunuh ok manisnya, ni bukan manis sedap ke apa ni manis tiruan.

Oh ye, we went for fullboard maknanya semua makan adalah covered – breakfast, lunch and dinner. Buffet cuma nak minum air kene belila [dan harganya macam kimak]. Either than or you can pay for drink package USD28 per day. Taik tak taik?

For those who went for all inclusive, air adalah termasuk package, jangan tanya aku harga aku tak tahu. In fact aku tak tahu pun berapa harga exact fullboard yang aku tahu enjoy aje hehe.

Lepas dah check in, we went to check out our room.

Our room dari depan

Our room dari depan

Adalah terdiam bila masuk kerana adalah sangat basic. Bilik pon ala-ala hotel Ah Long RM40  dan takde tvvvvvvvvvv. Tanpa tv siapalah aku?

A bit disappointing. Apakahhhhhhhhhh? I mean walaupun aku tak tahu harga exact but the room definitely cost wayyyyyyyy more than RM40. I mean tak kesahla kalau bilik dia simple pon kalau harga dia rm4o, berpatutan la kan, tapi niiiiiiiiiiiiiii? Nasib baik ada air cond dengan water heater.

I was told standard room takde air cod = mati dimasak. Gilalah. Bila tengahari panas gila.

Ada sekali tu kitorang bongok, on air cond tapi tak letak mode “cool” series rasa macam nak dimasak dalam bilik.

Tapi takpelah, belasah je , okla tu dari tido di persisiran pantai dapat gak guling-guling atas katil kannn.

The view from our room was not bad, mengadap laut walaupun takdela depan lubang hidung tapi adela nampak sesikit, jadila kan hihi.

View from the room

View from the room

What great about this island is, dia takdela bogel berpantai je and you can see so many colours – shades of green and blue mostly.

Like this one.

Our Germans neighbour

Our Germans neighbour

Hehe tetibe tertangkap gambar neighbour aku pulak. Mostly the visitors on this island are Germans so that explain why sesetengah harga adalah dalam Euro [which is not so good news].

Dekat tepi-tepi pantai ada banyak pokok rendang which gave a little private touch if you want to lie down to relax or baca buku, macam takdela bogel sangat rasa. Adala macam allocated space.

Disebalik pokok

Disebalik pokok

I read from a pamphlet ke buku ntah tak ingat yang this island try to preserve as much nature as they can hence ada banyak pokok dan semua tempat berpasir.

Personally it was kind of naturalla jugak, takde banyak buildings or concrete. It gave the nice shady cool feeling.

Air pasang

Air pasang

And you can also find few lizards berkeliaran. Banyak pulak tu.

Biawak bermanja

Biawak bermanja

Beside those lizards, ada jugak benda lain.

Apa tu?

Apa tu?

Jeng jeng..jeng jeng

Baby shark!

Baby shark!

It’s black tip baby shark. Walaupun kecik tapi aku tetapppppppppp takuttttttttt. Imagine aku berenang tetibe dia gigit kaki aku, memangla tak putus tapi kalau melekat? Eeeeek

Berkawan

Jom gigit Chics jom?

And those shark can be seen dekat persisiran pantai, tak payah pergi tengah-tengah laut ke apa. Walaupun the island is very humble yet the coral and reef are among the best. Jadi boleh nampak bermacam-macam jenis ikan.

Mandi jela dekat gigi air pon, nescaya akan nampak ikan beramas mesra. Dahla tak takut ok diorang ni.

Sesuai untuk orang yang jakun tapi penakut dan pemalas nak pergi jauh macam aku hehe.

We also managed to see some bangau.

Sekali lagi aku jakun. Padahal macamlah tak pernah tengok dekat zoo kan. Ceh

Bangau tunggu ikan

Bangau tunggu ikan

And also some scary looking crabs.

Pretty but scary

Pretty but scary

The beach was heavenly too. The water was so refreshing.

Mandi manda

Mandi manda

Yang biru pekat tu dah start coral. Do go there with your snorkeling gear, you would not regret it.

Bedmate sempat bermain beach volley. Walaupun aku pemalas tapi main gak, nak jugakk rasa  main beach volley tapi sekejap jela sebab lepas tu tangan aku sakit. Dah tahu tak reti main nakk jugakkk tuu hehehe

Beach volley

Beach volley

While he continued playing, I read a book sambil feeling sun bathing padahal tak sedar diri dah hitam haha. Sesekali nak feeling macam dalam tv kasi canlaaaaaaaaaaa.

Feeling lebih

Feeling lebih

Despite having no tv, no internet you can find many things to keep you occupied 1. One of the many things that I like to do adalah pergi ke main jetty dan duduk tengok ikan.

Ikan di jeti

Ikan di jeti

Sungguhla leka, we also curik some bread from the buffet untuk bagi ikan makan walaupunnnnnnnnnn adalah dilarangggg. Tapi tak tahanla bang, I nak jugakk bagi ikan tu makan. Tengok ikan tu adalah mengasyikkan ok.

If you want more, they are workers who played futsal in the evening, you can join them if you want to. Kalau tak main badminton pon boleh.

Bedmate tak lepaskan peluang main futsal

Bedmate tak lepaskan peluang main futsal

Or you can ride this [aku tatau apa nama dia, yatch ke apa?]

Chics mempoyokan diri

Chics mempoyokan diri

The island is surrounded with coral garden tapi ada satu part tu adalah lagoon, dimana airnya adalah totally tenang. It looks like a desert sebab pasir dia sangat luas dan chantek, cuma ni desert yang ada air [wtf kau ni chics?]

lagoon

lagoon

So kire macam satu part banyak pokok, satu part pantai berpasir dengan ombak, satu part ada coral and satu part lagoon.

Banyak dalam 1 hehe.

Happy

Happy

Despite the humble room, everything else was perfect [well almost] and I could not be happier. Takde tv pon takpe coz by the time balik dinner adalah tido kayu. Zzzz zzzz macam tu.

Even when it was disco night [they have either disco night or magic shor or something that I cannot remember once a week] adalah tido awal despite feeling excited dan nak pergi.

And I think he agreed. Nature is the best.

Enjoying himself

Enjoying himself

But the best part was.. sunset.

Simply breathtaking.

At the second jetty

At the second jetty

Swoon

Swoon

Berenang semasa sunset

Berenang semasa sunset

We tried to wake up for sun rise, malangnya being me dan him yang penido hanya berjaya bangun sekali je. Sun rise dia dalam pukul 5.30 pagi dan masa sekali aku bangun tu adalah berawan. So tak nampakkkkkkkkk sun risenya.

Sun rise yang gagal

Sun rise yang gagal

Many raved about the food, from the reviews that I read bila dah balik [dah balik baru nak baca?] but I have to say the food was so-so.

It was buffet yes tapi kadang-kadang tak menepati citarasa, the salads were good though tapi dessert adalah gagal.

Except for ice cream! Nyamm.

Buffet spread

Buffet spread

They have themed dinner though, each night diorang akan tukar. So far we had Italian, Bbq, Western and Asean night.

My fav was Italian night,bukan sebab aku cas Italian tapi sebab tu jelaaa yang choice dia mostly menarik. Yang lain tu nama je themes tapi banyak kari. Apakahhhhhhhhhhhh?

It was a non smoking resturant, dulu smoking tapi skang tak boleh. Ramai orang complaint kot.

Restaurant

Restaurant

Like I said air tak termasuk dalam package so you have to buy one. Luckily we already knew and bought berbotol-botol air from Malé.

But there’s actually a trick to get free water – mintak air panas untuk bilik.They will give you in a flask for free. Hehe bongok jugak diorang ni kan.

Kadang-kadang gatal nak minum air lain so orderla . Carbonated drinks harganya dalam USD3 macam tula.

Oh ye, you have to share the table with other room. Lucky for us, we shared our table with our friends from different room so tak masalah nak buruk lantak ke apa.

Walaupun akau rasa takde besanya kalau share meja dengan orang lain hehe.

Other than that, we also went for night fishing and snokerling, itu nantila they deserve a special entry each.

To sum it all, it was a greatttttttttttttt holiday. Rasa tak nak balikkkkkkk okkkkkkkk. Nak- nak kene naik flight yang kene transit dekat Colombo dann nak kene tido atas flight :(

But what is all thatlah compared to the few days that we had under the sun?

Totally worth tido duduk ok.

Great vacation!

Great vacation!

Will definitely come back [despite tak tau bila heh].

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  1. Although I have to admit it was a nice change to be free from those technology, rasa damai dan tenang. Tak perlu fikir ah shit dah berapa tikus aku tangkap?
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Hopping to two islands

by chics on Friday, 18 December 2009 - 2 pm · 6 comments

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During the Malé trip, we managed to go to two islands as part of the program – Hulhule and Vilinggili. Tapi ni program yang tak official la, kalau official apa jadahla aku nak ikut sekali. Menyibuk je.

Hulhule Island

Hulhule island is the airport island or also known as the booze island sebab sini boleh minum sambil mabuk.Dekat Malé memang tak dapatlah alcohol so to those who drink, they will go to Hulhule.

It took about 5-8 minutes to get to Hulhule using the dhoni from Malé.

hulhule islandIt is actually another hotel tapi dekat pulau ni takde orang tinggal, just for those yang nak tinggal dekat hotel je la.

Supposedly malam tu cocktail night tapi semua orang bantai duduk je sambil berbual.

But the food was not bad. I ordered water melon juice that taste so watermelon [unlike certain place yang tapaper] and the others took the advantage to have beer and such.

Nachos with avocado dip and onion rings

Nachos with avocado dip and onion rings

The dip was extremely nice, so does the onion ring. Bukan yang sliced onion ok but real onion.

Garlic bread

Garlic bread

We talked and eat. Ok, they talked and I eat. Aku tatau apa benda yang diorang borakkan. Yelakan, katanya menyibuk komfemla tak paham apa benda yang diorang borakkan.

The hotel has a man-made beach tapi sebab masa tu malam adalah tak nampak.

hulhule beachThe rooms looked quite nice too cuma bising sikit sebab bersebelahan dengan airportkan. Sesikit dengar bunyi kapal terbang mengaum [mengaumkah?]

Lepas dah makan, dah jalan dan guna toilet [acara wajib bagi aku] we headed back to Malé.

Tata Hulhule

Tata Hulhule

This was when I realised aku adalah sea sick. Sebab dhoni tu slow and terumbang ambing, aku adalah nak muntah. Lembik betul budak ni.

Vilinggili Island

The next evening, we went to another island, Vilinggili for bbq. Macam Hulhule, Vilinggili ni dekat je. Tapi what made it interesting was to get to the jetty [jetty dia belah lain jauh sikit] we had to naik pick up truck dan duduk berhimpit dekat belakang since no heavy vehicles like buses are allowed on the island. Just like those pekerja belakang pick up yang aku nampak dekat Malaysia.

Berhimpit

Berhimpit

It was surprisingly fun, memangla tak comfortable but it was fun to see how Malé look like in the evening sambil angin menyapa rambut.

At the jetty, we have to wait for few minutes for the dhoni to arrive. Masa untuk camwhore :P

Sempat lagi tu hehe

Sempat lagi tu hehe

We were supposed to see sunset at Vilinggili tapi sampai pon dah lambat. By the time dekat sana hari pon dah malam. But that did not stop us dari melepak di persisiran pantai.

Some of his colleagues

Some of his colleagues

And the others were busy memasak [sehingga hangus haha]

vilinggiliAnd then there were to locals yang datang dan join the bbq sambil bermain gitar.  Aku adalah hanya sibuk makan. Macam biasa hehe

vilinggili

There was also game. Main lari-lari apa ntah yang aku benci sebab motiffffffffffffff nak kene main game bagaiiiiiii. Tak boleh ke duduk makan-makan main air je? Main dia macam lepas lari dan target orang kene duduk atas pasir. As the result bontot aku penuh pasir. Sungguh tak selesa ok.

But at the end of the day everyone had fun despite kene main game tu [which turned out not so bad after a while]

Dah nak balik

Dah nak balik

Hopped in the jetty and got back to Malé. Rode on the pick up again to the hotel.

The girl is from New Delhi and she's funny. I like her

The girl is from New Delhi and she's funny. I like her

At the hotel the rest went to the roof top [pool] to have tea but I was kind of tired and he had some work to be done.

Tu jela pulau yang sempat di lawat masa dekat Malé. After hiswork-related stuff ended we headed to the ‘real’ island. And boy, how I wish to go back there.

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