Why belated? because I got back from the trip early this week and could’ve blogged about it then but was (and still is) too lazy to do so. Anyways, the school trip to Redang Island was in short, awesome. Put my two wounds and antisocialization aside, and it’d have been a break from the books and teachers. Nobody wants to know read in detail about the whole ordeal, so I thought I’d just sum it up with a couple of pictures and interesting stories.
At first glance, the water would most probably attract you more than the island itself, since it’s just beyond being just crystal clear. I was told that Redang has one of the cleanest and clearest waters in Malaysian seas by our guide, Mr. Nas and Datuk Jay. We left Shah Alam at around 10pm as planned, and got off the boat at about 11am the next hot and sunny day. Sun block cries were everywhere..
We’re bunking in at this cool little place called Redang Lagoon, there’s accomodation for just about over 40 people and it’s quite intimate, with hammocks all over where you can just kick back and enjoy the ocean breeze, and stench apparently during those free-at-leisure periods. Times were boring though, and in the wise words of fellow tourist Azim, we came to have fun, not sleep all day long.
So our first snorkeling run was called upon, the whole trip actually had 3 snorkeling runs and this got me thinking about actually how boring can an island be, having 3 snorkeling trips and one trekking trip (which never happened, mind you) for a 3 day 2 night activity itenirary. But anyways, during the first trip I couldn’t enter the water because I wasn’t smart enough yet to figure out that I could have just removed my dressing and let my wound dry for a moment and then go into the water. Honestly I got enough entertainment from seeing Aida’s constipation face when the boat swayed on the way to the snorkeling spot anyway.
The funny thing about it though is that before we arrived, this spot was a ghost town.. I could’ve sworn I heard the fishes talking on the way here, but 5 minutes later one after another boats and hooligans started pouring in. I even saw some dude which apparently came swimming from the direction of the ocean like he didn’t even come on a boat! Pure coincidence is no coincidence here, apparently.
One of my teachers on the trip caught this interesting little sea-doohickey and told me that it’s a sea cucumber. Now, correct me if I’m wrong but I remember very well watching that one episode of Jackass where Harry Dunn experiments making love with a sea cucumber and I don’t remember them having these thorns.. Oh yeah, and I thought they ejaculate some white stuff when you touch them? Hmm. (That explains to some of you why I never like to step foot on the ocean ground, never know what creature’s gonna crap what on you)
Somehow, somewhere during the snorkeling trip, I bumped into this active bloke and his mates who forgot to bring their camera along to snap pictures with, so I was asked to help take some pictures for them for just today. Fast forward, and in the process of getting to know them, I found out that the chap on the right is a Rotaract Club of Gombak BOD member, how small can the world get? Nice meeting you, Zameer!
Well, it was time to call it a snorkeling day, so we got back and freshened up for a short volleyball game and the barbeque. I like volleyball, but too bad, well let’s just say the best time that I played was like the worst time the rest of them played. Soon after I was eliminated, hah! Next time I’ll just stick to juggling..
Well after the barbeque, things went slow and one by one we started calling it a night, except for the usual bleachers Jimmy, Zaf and Azim doing their air pollution business and what have you in the new room. Me and Shahir slept early, but I woke up late and missed the morning swim, here’s a picture from it. That’s Azim attempting to hit Fadhly with sand, he can’t throw sand for shit though and most of it came towards me, sheesh!
The second snorkeling trip’s 2 hours away! So us being the natural boys that we are (sounds slightly wrong with a pinch of salt) had to find something to do and I’m not sure who dished out the idea but we started lugging sand on the ground and Fadhly started building a weird shopping mall contraption (so he claims thats the gag) and the rest started modifying it and we eventually got this thing. It’s no small achievement I tell you! A castle with a waterway and everything! water would actually pass by under it when the tide came, now who said boys aren’t creative and only know how to eat and play football..
Well, I grew some guts and stepped in the water during the second snorkeling trip at the Marine Park, but I only got to go around for a short while since I went in when everyone came out and was literally alone. I find that most of the time on this trip I’m alone anyway, so it’s no big surprise. The prices you pay for not going on trips with your mates, eh. Well, after that, during the third trip the ocean looked rough and skies started pouring, so we went to the Marine Park again and that ended our snorkeling journey. I didn’t take pictures because it got tiring after a while, and I really wanted to swim, yo.
Things got interesting after lights out, just after the ice breaking part two the boys and Aida got together to form a plan to go and hang out on the beachfront after the teachers went to sleep. Apparently most of the people were still out past curfew time anyway so we just went like we owned the place and hung out with Jay and the other guy I forgot his name. Actually, I found out during this time that Jay was a student at SMKSSAAS 10 years ago when he used to have the supervising teacher as his arts teacher. So as it got darker and later we started discussing about the taboo topics of our school, the private and confidential, unethical and unthinkable..
to be continued..
