Mid year vacation over, back to reality

Yeap, my island adventure part 4 has come to an end. Time for me get recover and get back to reality. I had a very wonderful island adventure with my other 8 friends. To honest it was fun but not as fun as last year's one. May be it's because of the accommodation and facilities that was provided. I find that the room was the only good thing here. The rest like food, beach boy friendliness and the activities provided still lose to cheaper resorts and chalets in perhentian lsland. I stayed at Bubu long beach resort btw. I wouldn't recommend anyone to go bubu long beach for the price. Cheaper resort can do better than Bubu long. Why do i know? Because i have been to perhentian island 3 times in a row and i have stayed at Perhentian Island Resort (2007) and Cocohut chalet (2008) and there are a lil cheaper than bubu long but in term of activities , facilities and food provided still lose to both ot them. I highly recommend cocohut and it was the best one i every stayed. Food is freaking nice, beach boys are fun when you go snorkeling, room is very comfortable and friendly staff there. So planning to go perhentian trip ya guys can consult me...hehe.

Anyway...now let me get in detailed to my holiday here. We had fun that was for sure because this time we had a underwater camera! Well...it's not really a underwater camera but it's a normal digital camera and we got a cheap underwater casing that will work no more than 10 feet underwater. Seems fair enough for me because we're just snorkeling and wont be diving too deep after all. Here is a shot underwater.
We used bread to lure the fish to us so we can get a up close shot here.
Here is a shot of me in the water. If you noticed i wasn't wearing any life jacket while swimming, that's because i wanted to have the freedom to swim at the open ocean. I want to give in the ocean to see the corals and fishes nearer. Don't worry, i can swim pretty well i think...LOL. But a piece of advice here, if ever you plan to go and swim in the open ocean and even if you know how to swim but you're not confident with the open ocean, please put on the life jacket. I have seen amatures swimmers struggle to keep them self a float because of the underwater current.
Here is an example how someone should put on a life jacket...hehe

So basically what we do there for 3d2n was just eat, swim, and play and eat again. Same routine. We spent a lot of time in the water thought.
Here is a poser pic of me and kevin for you to see. Trying to be like ultraman i guess...lol. We saw sea turtle too and i manage to swim along with the turtle and took a few pics. Here is one. It's damn big i tell you! i think this turtle has been around here for almost 100 year.
Now we paid another extra snorkeling trip and we went to the light house....boy i tell you the corals underneath the light house was sooooooo nice! I mean what you see outside the resort most of them are dead thanks to the the amount of people swimming around that area. If you ever go to Perhentian island, the light house is a MUST go place for snorkeling. Trust me you wont regret. We then docked at the light house and the boat man went up the light house and jump down into the deep ocean! Wow now that was freaking fun and i wanted to do it too!
Here you can see me i have climbed up the light house and about to jump into the ocean! It's about 2 story tall into the ocean.
You can see here the beach boy just jumped into the water! Freaking awesome! To honest here i was kinda afraid when i got up the light house....it looked pretty high but i was determined to do it! Every time i wanted to jump, my leg just couldn't let go of the ledge. Kevin pushed me into the ocean once but i wasn't satisfied because i want to jump the light house ledge on my own so i climbed back up for 2nd attempt.
It took me around 10 mins standing at the ledge before i jump into the ocean! Everyone was waiting for me to jump and now i am being teased by them.
Now that's me in the water already...couldn't manage to take the shot of me jumping into the ocean in time.

It was one hell of an experience and i will do it again if i get the chance. Well, after that we got back to our resort, took a nice hot shower and ate dinner. At night we had a secret operation for a good friend of mine. He was going to propose to his gf to marry him and we make him a treasure chest and guess what...the operation was successful! I am so happy for my friend here. This friend of mine better belanja is BIG BIG because we did played a big part in planning ...hehehe.

Now i am back in KL with sun burnt mark on my back. It was really red and painful yesterday but now not so painful. Now my skins is turning darker and it's starting to itch. It's a sign of the skin is stating to peel. Well...i have been to island adventure 4 years in a row and guess what 4/4 times i got sun burnt! Oh yeah! I am so used to the feeling already which i literally don't care. I did put sun lotion on but still i always kena. Don't know why but well...as long i had fun...it's ok to get sun burn once a year...HEHE.

Okie...that's all from me and here is the pic of the resort
Alright, I'm off...here is a song i have been listening until now since 2001 for you to enjoy..."Vertical Horizon - Best i ever had"....adios amigos!

~ Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1 comments

Time for a break

I took my CCIE written exam last monday and i pass with flying color (thanks to p4s) and now i have renewed my CCNP and now i need to prepare for the ultimate challenge which is the super lab! I have 1 and half years to prepare for my lab so i some how gotta find motivation do study. For the past 2 week i haven't been playing my guitar a lot. May be just 10-30 mins a day max if i have time but now im back to being a full time guitarist at home! So glad i can fully concentrate on my guitar and trying to improve myself at the same time.

Pretty much i'm all beat up.
Alright, it's time for me to take my 1/2 year break for 2009.This sunday i'll be taking a plane to KB, then a 40 mins car ride to Kuala Besut, then another 20-30 mins boat ride to Perhentian Island! Boy i can't wait!!!! I can hear the waves washing up the shores now. This is what im picturing in my head now below:
This will be my 4th island adventure in a row and my 1st holiday of 2009. Going to take my guitar there to and have a beach street performance. Let's see if my skills have improved to draw a lil crowd. There will be 8 of us going and we plan to go on a fishing trip. I have been looking forward to this trip for a long time and it's gonna come very soon! Oh boy oh boy i better get my stuff ready.

Well....that island adventure will be my mid year holiday and end of the year i have another holiday to look forward too and it's Krabi in Thailand! I have never been to Thailand before. Do you know that all staff are required to take 2 weeks force leave off during december. 2 weeks is hell of a long time and i don't plan to sit at home and rot. So i was thinking something fancy and may be Thailand. Was talking about it with with my ex-colleague and she too agreed to go Thailand. So i suggested Krabi and we went and looked for another 2 person and guess what...with in 24 hours after discussion and we have booked AA direct flight from LCCT to Krabi for only RM211 with return! I must say this is the fastest planned holiday in history! It's like "i on. you on. they on. air ticket cheap buy now." and the next second it's "Krabi here we come!" we shouted. There will be 4 of us and we'll be ther for 4d3n. We haven't look for accommodation yet as we still have time to plan. I have never stepped out of Malaysia since im back from aussie back in 2005. Okie, may be Singapore but that's too normal to me. Now Thailand, that's something new for me.

Ho ho ho...i soooo cant wait for my holidays! In fact i have other group of friends also suggested Bali this year. I don't mind going there but it seems there isn't any cheap air tix for now. We'll wait and see if we will come across any cheap tix.

Okidoki, i guess that's all i want to say here. Let me see if i have time put in one more entry before my Perhentian trip. Before i sign off, now here is another song for you to enjoy. It's a new song from Miley Cyrus called "The Climb". I'm no fan of Hannah Montana but this song pretty encouraging to listen too if you know what i mean. Alright, signing off now. See ya~

~ Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2 comments

Time to put my guitar a side and get serious

Alright, i have an announcement to make here. I will be quitting my guitar until 15th June. I know, i know, you guys must be saying "what!?" or "you must be joking right Benny?". Well, im not joking here. Something that i play in front of my pc everyday i will put a totally stop on it! Okie, may be not total stop la but when i think i need a break, then i'll pop my guitar out and play for a while. The reason to this is because i will be doing my CCIE written exam on the 15th June i don't plan to screw this up. It's the highest certification in Cisco certification and not easy at all! I need all the time available to study and score here. This means no more going out with friends until dawn. So wish me luck here!

Today, i looked up the sky and saw the moon shining so brightly up the sky and it's a full moon. I stared at it for a while and smiled, thinking about something i wrote to someone about the moon shining so bright during the night. If i can remember clearly, i wrote this:

Everybody want to be the sun to shine on you but i rather be the moon, so i can shine upon you during your darkest night when you need light


I don't think that's the exact words i said but something close to that. Can't believe i actually thought that up...lol. I took the picture of the moon today.

I know the bright round thing don't look like a moon that's because i was using my phone camera. You know phone camera are not meant to treated like a digital camera especially if it's a Nokia.

Oh shiet, it's 3:37am now. I think i better go. But before i go, i got something to say here. You all noticed i added a new music player on my blog here. Now for every new post here, i shall add in the song i'm listening at the moment. So for today's post, it's a classic song back in the 90s during my secondary school time called 'Greenday - Good Riddance(Time of your life)'. It's lyrics if the song is very meaningful so that is why i like this song. I can play this whole song on my guitar too and i'm planing to record it and upload on youtube one fine day.

I don't think i will be adding any new post until 15th June. So hopefully the next post, it will be good news about my CCIE exam. Until next time, take care, and later~

~ Sunday, June 7, 2009 3 comments