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Chillin

Oh well, might be some slow weekend, but I guess here it comes another day working tomorrow.

Been really a while since I have been enjoying such a great cool breeze from the rain today. Damn. How I wish it could lasted for the whole month. Did some minor shopping today, perhaps should I reveal later on what it is about. Was sitting outside the house blogging now, realizing might be the stupidest thing to do but well, who cares, it’s the cool air that counts. Adios.

Old friends, guess there are some I should start to keep in touch with them again. Got nagged from not visiting them after a long while. Great to hear from some of them, not all then, and to remind me that lately has been so much unfortunate event to happen to friends and their closest ones. Perhaps to always evaluate that to live everyday is even more precious than celebrating birthday one day every year is a good thing afterall. We have our “birthday” daily afterall.

FLVer v0.2

FLVer v0.2

Some rather um, work which I guess will take a while before I can release it for public consumption. Perhaps there’s even a lot of better alternative to FLV player already, but I’ll see what I can do to provide.

Nothing much you can do at the moment except it’s filled with bugs and able to play video.

p.s. – I’ve included the ‘enter fullscreen’ option somewhere in there. do some right clicking you’ll find it. But I realized that it’s actually a good experience for user to able to view video in fullscreen + smoothing up the video.

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[Part 4] Langkawi

And alright, here’s the last part of the entire journey, and perhaps the biggest blog spam ever you’ll get from me, for now.

What’s up right in the early of the morning?

Nothing except clean breeze, cool air, and extremely great weather.

That’s even great with the local R.M.1 Nasi Lemak. Argh. I miss them.

Remember all those surreal landscapes I was talking about? On my way headed towards the Makam Mahsuri, and here I drove across these really beautiful scenery that I thought I can only see in Colin McRae Rally.

The entrance. If I remember correctly, it’s R.M.15 per person? Or cheaper.

Some of the pictures.

And some interesting signage.

Much less you’re like going around a small museum of the local traditions and culture. Not bad.

Lunch time.

So what’s up on the last day? Instead of running around like a madman on the first day, I’ve decided to cool things down, besides it’ll help to maintain my budget.

Never realized it’s such a great place to walk around across the beach where I’m staying, it’s known as Pantai Tengah, not as crowded though.

Basically, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the water ain’t blue in its hue since it’s from the sea. Green I would say.

Great for after-lunch chill out session.

And right after that, I’ll have to do some last minute cruisin’ before shopping for my parents and brothers and sisters.

And from the map itself, just right towards the north, I’ve read from the web that there’s royal suite that costs up to R.M.2K ++ per night which most of the runaway artiste would stay there. I did took a glance at it thought, never had the courage to park inside.

And it’s really deep far away where my mobile provider changed to Thailand’s one. Ah. Looks like some restricted area. Private playground perhaps?

But not too far away from the suites itself, there’s this small beach.

Where it seems like there’s people around before, with football and some fun, but it’s kinda scary though there’s no one around. But the water’s clean and sand’s kinda white.

So then after that, I’ve drove across down back south and there’s this another waterfall nearby where to reach inside the waterfall, you’ll have to go through a really STEEP AND NARROW pathway. I really mean it.

See. But it’s really beautiful for a visit and well it would probably be a good spot for photography as well.

What else for the lunch? This restaurant which located at the town seems interesting and it’s surprisingly packed with people. It’s affordable as well!

Not long after that, which the jetty would be one of my  must-go destination, it’s just right across the town. Where I stopped there for a while, I was disappointed since there’s not much maintenance which made the whole park looks ugly.

Shopping time! It’s called some kind of “Parade” but according to a  forumer from Lowyat, this is one of the good place to look out for cheap bargains. Bought chocolates and ciggies for my brothers.

The classic KLG.

Monitor lizard. Shopping

The super-priced cyber cafe. Damn this.

And after 3 days of staying there, I’ve realized the sign meant that it would a dead end in front instead of NO-ENTER. Doh. And Pantai Tengah is where I stayed.

Poor penguin where we had to feed him with rubbish. Speaking of that, I didn’t go to the underwater world.

Local assam laksa.

And up to now, since it would be like less than 6 hours before the sky gone dark totally, I’ve decided to take a walking path instead of driving down across the most happening beaches in the island, Pantai Cenang, which incredibly empty due to it’s not public holiday. Lol

But perhaps I was wrong, and I was stunned.

And that I thought  there’s not much beach I can go and enjoy .

Basically I stayed over the beach for more than 4 hours, it’s so beautiful that there was someone proposed for marriage there right in front of my eye! I didnt’t took their picture though, kena belasah later lol.

It’s beautiful beyond word I can explain, and there would definitely another round of time where I’ll be back here.

It’s night, and surprisingly, I’ve not yet pop much on alcohol while on the island yet, acknowledging the fact that it’s even cheaper than bottled water due to the tax-free law.

I think this costs less than RM3?

Dinner. Pattaya.

Yay. Final one better leaving to sleep.

And before leaving after the morning, supposingly to drive over towards the town but it seems I would be late for my flight, well, I took the turn and head towards the airport.

Quite some people.

My beautiful boarding pass.

Well, the queue was a hectic since we’re kinda delayed from entering the plane due to some security issue that they had with few passenger. Bye Land of Eagles.

Took the bus from KLIA which costs RM6  and ended up in KL Sentral. Phew.

Hello Klang. See you again.

[Part 3] Langkawi

This part is rather a huge picture spam, which you’ll have to bear with me for a while, and I can consider it’s one of the most fun part of the day.

I’m stunned literally to know that there is still landscapes that has water buffalo! And some of the scenes are just beautifully surreal.

And then there I went to this hot-oasis. Or so called oasis. Or probably a better word, hot spring where you can’t dip your leg into the water but to take the pails and feel it with your hand. Looks convincing enough minus that there’s no receiptionist when I arrived.

And across the whole area, I had a strong Deja Vu feeling came to me when I saw this huge sculpture or block of stone. Which it’s somewhere somehow I’ve seen it in my dream before. It’s an interesting stone since it explains some of the myth on how the name of the places in Langkawi came from.

Commerlization at its best.

Congkak.  Classic game.

And not so long after that, which supposingly I should be heading towards the previous Prime Minister gallery which stores most of his beloved collections, but I left due to that there’s not much people around. Except me. And then there’s this waterfall nearby, with friendly neighbourhood. Really friendly.

So on, I dashed forward to the bird park which suprisingly out of my expectation, it’s really good.

Of course minus the fact again that some birds are damn lansi.

And some of that you wouldn’t normally see in Zoo. In fact, I ’d feel it’s better than zoo?

Bird feeding at its best.

Wow, it’s the Kancil. Which suprsingly tiny.

Literally a hawk. Right in front of you.

The ticket which is RM18, that would left you with RM2 if you pay  with RM20, is a good balance where you can take any of the 3 packets near the counter to feed the animals inside.

Whee.

They’re not camera shy, but one hell of a curious being. And they smells…like…poo.

And perhaps the most enjoyable and relaxing moment where I was able to feed the rabbits.

You’ll able to put the eagle on your hand. I mean, with the help of the assistance-on-charge there. Don’t try it on your own.

One of a very sad sculpture…

Kok Beach. Really.

And then not long after that, I’ve headed toward one quite isolated area where not much of tourist will head up to here, Tanjung Rhu which is suprisingly beautiful. White sands. Ah.

And so I took on the trip for a boat ride with 2 of the navigator. They’re really friendly.

Reminds me of LOTR.

Feel the wind.

A group of happy Japanese rafting.

Floating restaurant and there would be one of the first destination of the trip, you can catch a fish on your own and eat it later. Real nice. A must-to-be spot for our ex-Prime Minister, said the boatman.

Sting ray. yes. I feed it!

Some sort of crab.

Note that there’s fish that as huge as a chair you’re sitting on now.

Monitor lizard. Swimming.

The mysterious bat cave.

And from this onwards, I took the pictures with my handphone due to my stupidness. I brought the charger for the camera but left half of the connector back at home. Doh.

And so then, the ride continues towards the small islands around up to outside of the beach borders near the sea. I can see Thailand from inside the boat!

Well well, it does took up to 3 hours for the whole trip. Really enjoyable.

Perhaps didn’t I mention that I only bought a one-way ticket to here. Which at the mid of the trip, I had to get a cyber cafe, which fortunately, it’s all good and sound at Langkawi with a lot of cyber cafes, but due to lazyness, I stopped by the one next to my room, that cost RM3.50…for half an hour. Ah, that’s not to it, due to last minute booking. The ticket price jumped up to 2times more than it was. Ah.

With such all of those bullshit happening to me, I started to feel the fever in me growing, flu and all kind of headaches. And out of the sudden, I remembered the owner (Laila) told me about the nearby Spa, which I would get 20% off from staying there, which in the end, I tried. it’s really a fucking-unbelieablve-tastic experience. Really nice. Yay. And then what’s happened inside, I think I’m not going to tell anything about it here. Lol. But anyway, it’s really a good experience.

With that, again with my laziness, just right after the spa, I noticed there’s some sort of Italian restaurant across the street, and so I walk. I sit. I ordered. I paid…RM30 for it.

To be continued…