After the previous post, I really did go off to make dinner. I cooked macaroni (loveee!) with tomato-based pasta sauce. Also had slices of chicken franks and some black pepper SPAM. *burp*

Err.. I think I might have cooked a little too much though.. because I am still full!!! Like hellooo, this is Jolene we’re talking about here! The one who’s hungry every 2 hours or so. *miserable face*

And to top it off, because I am this full, I can’t have my chocolate milk. Sheesh..

In my state of misery from feeling like I’m gonna burst, I decided to finally get down to editing the photos from the Tioman trip last month! Quite an accomplishment, I must say.. seeing as how I am queen of procrastination. Haha.

Last month, Dawnie, Pam, Pinkie and I headed off to the tiny island of Tioman! We met bright and early at Golden Mile to take the coach into Malaysia. Err.. ok, not quite bright because the sun was still sleeping. Pftt.

Dawnie and Pam on the bus!

Pinkie & me! Someone's not too happy huh.. hahaha

I’m not a big fan of long bus rides or plane rides.. mostly because my back starts to ache after a couple of hours and I get insanely uncomfortable. Grr. This bus driver was insane! Like some racer, he turned super sharp and fast corners. Quite fun, if you’re not in a big coach that threatens to swing off the slopes and plunge into endless rubber tree plantations……

YAY SPECS!!! <3

After the looong bus ride, we finally arrived at the ferry terminal where we’d take a ferry to Tioman! Pinkie’s contacts went crazy, so much to my delight, he put on his specs! Hee hee hee

Dawnie & me on the looong ferry ride!

We all thought the ferry ride was going to take about 45 minutes, as per the previous trip and what the agency mentioned to us but somehow.. that turned into a horribly long two hour journey! *sadness* I fell asleep and got a shock when I woke up and they told me two hours had passed already. Hahaha.

Finally got to Tioman, and headed to check-in. Dumped our stuff down and took a walk down the beach in front of the resort.. Being back at Tioman reminded me of the awesome time I had 2 (or was it 3?) years back when about half of Pam’s girls were around. Fun.. I miss those times.

The beach! Taken on Dawn's Fisheye lomo.

Clear waters make all of us happy!

Happy smiley Dawnie!

Twinnies!! Happy happy

Dawn sneaked photos of Pinkie and me. OMG, I have a huge ass. Hahahahahaha

Aww, man.. I like this photo I think I was pointing out seashells to him with my foot. Hehe

My favourite photo You can't see it from here, but he's going "rarr!!" at me.. Hahaha.

As part of the package which we were traveling with, most of the meals were provided for us at the resort. The resort may be small and tiny, and doesn’t look too impressive but my word.. the meals provided were awesome! Not in the exquisite 5 star resort food kind of way, but in a very comforting and simple food sort of way.

Stuffing ourselves silly at breakfast! See the lot of eggs?

Of course, no trip to a beach resort is complete without snorkeling! We headed out for a day trip to snorkel at various locations. Pinkie didn’t enjoy himself very much because of feeling seasick and all that jazz.. =(

As compared to a couple of years back, the waters are nowhere as clear.. and the fishes not as bright and colourful. So sad what pollution and human traffic can do to a place huh? Sigh.. this is why efforts need to be made and maintained to protect the natural world that’s still around us. It made me so sad to think that this tiny island could change so much in a few years..

On the boat going out to snorkel!

There was some sort of mishap/adventure at my favourite spot to snorkel when we were there. Sigh.. sadness. I wished the snorkeling could have just taken place smoothly, without hiccups but ohwell.

On one of the days, before Pinkie and I headed to the tiny pool at the resort to float around and be lazy, there was a hugeass storm brewing. The wind was crazy, but because of where we were, the view of the clouds was just amazing.

Dawn captured the awesome storm clouds on her Fisheye! Love this picture

We got back to the room to find Skip and Pip attempting to get a tan in the room! AHAHAHAHAHA

The little room we all shared!

We all spent a good amount of time lazing in the room when we didn’t feel like being out in the sveltering sunshine… Nice to catch up on rest when we’re on a break. I absolutely hate holidays that have so much packed into it that I’m left feeling even more exhausted when I leave than when I arrived. Bangkok holidays don’t count.. because that involves a mad amount of shopping! Hehehe.

Pinkie fell asleep... with Skip and Pip by his side! AHAHAHA!!

Uh oh.. he wasn't too happy about being woken up to go for dinner!

So he made Skip take photos on his behalf! SO. DAMN. CUTE.

The few days at Tioman were sooooo hot! But it wasn’t as humid so it’s bearable as long as we were in the water or having a lot of ice cream. Pinkie went mad and overdosed on ice cream.. as did I. Hahaha. We’d walk into the first shop and buy a popsicle stick and then eat it whilst walking. By the time we got to the third shop, we’d have just finished the first popsicle so we popped right in to buy another! Hahahaha! I miss ice cream!! I want moreeeee! LOVE the orange popsicle ones. I shall have one the moment my cramps go away. Whee!

We spent parts of the trip watching Big Bang Theory, and listened to Olivia Ong sing whilst we napped on the ferry ride back. After being frustrated and stressed with various things along the way, I suppose it was all worth it if only because God chose the journey home to touch me in a way that I haven't felt in awhile. <3

I was taking photos of his MP3 player (which has an awesome AMOLED screen, by the way) during the ferry ride, and I snapped the following photo…

Notice anything?

After I’d snapped that photo, the stupid bear took my camera to look at it and started sniggering. I leaned over to see what was so funny, and he zoomed in on the photo…

!!!!!!!

OMG! SERIOUSLY! Hahahaha this stupid bear will be the death of me one day!! *glares* Haha..

And with that, we bid Tioman goodbye!

I still really really really want to head to Maldives. And Hawaii. *wistful sigh*

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