Here's the thing about the boys and i...we make plans,and break em all the time...So it's no fucking suprise that after we agreed on going to pangkor...we ended up in
Perhentian Island (Stop Island ?)
Outside Shabri's mini mart, Ipoh Garden East,picking up some snacks for our small 1 1/2 hour journey:
Daph: I ain't going to pangkor..i know the curve of the beach like the back of my hand.Lets go somewhere new....lets go to perhentian or tioman..
Jaya's eyes start to sparkle.
Twins look confused...nothing new.
Nessa too, nothing new again!!
Meghan: NO! Be practical,we gotta be back on Sunday...How about Penang?
Jaya,Twins and Daph in unison : NO!
Meghan's been love struck you see, and was simply trying to drag us there so that he could get some lovin from his island girl...
And so after a loud debate, we opted for Perhentian..hhaha..i love getting my way! Drove to the traffic lights...
Green...Er, Which way?
Thanks to a few phone calls, we gathered some rough info on the direction we had to head in..
AND THEY'RE OFF!!BEEPPPPPPPPPPpppppppppppppp
We weren't detered by fact that it would take 6 hours, or the fact that we didn't know the way, nor that there were 6 of us to be squashed into SpeeDy Gonzales Yeo (my kelisa). With spirits high( only because we didn't know any better), with headed off into the great unknown like true adventurers....Some idiot managed to quote someone famous....Ah, my moment of wisdom...
"IT IS NOT SO MUCH ABOUT THE DESTINATION, BUT THE JOURNEY THAT TAKES YOU THERE"
If only we knew what we were getting ourselves into..it was all good at first...
It was a beautiful journey, through many kampungs (villages), with cool green jungle on both sides, a bit of rain, a bit of sun, lots of sing along songs like
OOo Baby i love your way, Bad to the bone,I believe in a thing called love, Kill Bill's I'm Blue, Hey girl, Hey Boy... etc. It was almost as if we weren't 6 in a kelisa, and all 56kg's of NEssa wasn't on my lap.
That didn't last very long..she just became heavier and heavier,thank God for the constant swapping..
It was definitely a wicked road trip...we went past the vast Lake Banding. There was an island in the middle that we had to cross and come out from on two identical looking bridges..
Daph: Aren't we on the same bridge?Just different side of the road?
Meghan: stupid fuck, we'd be going back if this was the same one...
Daph: I dunno...it looks the same..
Then there was the need for speed tunnel...
Then there was the sign for chicken's crossing
Than there was the sign for slightly bigger
ELEPHANTs Crossing...
at which point i could contain my excitement no longer..so i did what i do best, stuck my head out the window, looking for them, and when i didn't see any,i called out to my fellow mamals...ELEPHANTES?EleFanTES??
It was all a joke of course but there's something very appealing about sticking your head out the window of a speeding car, screaming at the top of your lungs and letting the wind pound your face till it's all tingly even when when you're back inside... HIGHLY RECOMMENDED...
We stopped in some pretty rural areas to top up on fuel and food..Getting out of the car was always tricky, we were all tangled up in the back seat, people might have thought we were a mini mobile orgy.
One stop was on top off a hill, at a look out point, where only a few lonely truckers stopped and where they advertised Tongkat Ali ( herbal version of Viagra) like it was the best drug ever...who they kidding? E clearly is,second to el WEEDo. The photo's in the ad's were disturbing,old wrinkly men smiling with their Tongkat Ali Coffee..yucks...
But gross posters aside, it was a pleasant rest area overlooking a valley,where the weather was ,as Navin put it in his English accent:
"like a chilly London afternoon"
and the people were nice..The burger woman even recognised us on the way home. Probably coz we were notably united,in the smallest ways...
Ordering drinks:
Jaya: warm Milo
B. Woman : ok 1 milo
Navin: Milo
B. Woman : ok 2 milo
Arvin: Er, Milo
Nessa: Er.....Milo
Daph: I can't decide, nescafe...no no...make that a milo
Meghan: Kak bagi 6 milo..
Needless to say we all had burgers to keep the tradition going.
Burger woman on the way back commented:
' Well you guys were alot chirpier on the way there' ; )
No shit, that was before booze, weed, sun and an extra 3 hours in the car with me and nessa farting on each other. I love my sister, but i don't love her that much...it was full on, with vibration too...but it's all good!!MUahhahahhaha...i got my turn.
MINI INTERCEPTION
Yes boys, chicks fart...and while we're on the topic...we shit, burp, have smelly feet, hairy armpits...the reality is cruel..
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That's why my guy friends are the best. They know this...they've been trained..so any ladies wanna get with any of them? I'm sure they'll be real grateful,er.. i mean happy..They are AMOGES!!!(read
Nessa's blog to find out more about this multiple purpose word, and SA, i believe it was spelt this way!)
Oh....and then there was a sign...
5 KM THAILAND
Daph: TURN TURN TURN
Navin: Yes
Meghan aka ASSY DRIVER : NO!!
DAPH: Damn it...if only i were taller,and entitled to drive, we'd be headin to Thailand, and you guys would be enjoying the hollers of ' 10 dollar i give you good time!' Bloody practical people!
Who would have guessed that fucking thailand was nearer than our destination.The thought of going to thailand did briefly cross my mind outside Shabri's mini mart, but i kept it quiet after coming to the conclusion that none of them had border passes and i thought it was further. If only my grasp of Malaysian geography was better,if only i had paid attention in Puan Teh's classes, i would have opened my mouth and taken an extra 20 mins getting everyone border passes....
So we passed the sign board....all eyes remained fixated on it, even a hundred meters after...hopes shattered as we saw it fade into the distance...(oh, the drama)
so close yet so far..it was painful.Painful because i so wanted one last thailand experience before i leave this region, which is Thursday.
But in the true spirit of fun loving spontaneous people, we all were still excited to be going to Perhentian..
And boy was it worth it! The water was perfect, everything was. It was like a chilled out version of Thailand...white folks everywhere, little wooden huts for accomodation, not so much partying unfortunately,but hey, if you had cash...it was definitely good enough.
We arrived like a bunch of hill billy's....over excited about everything. It was hard not to be..I could just hear the other tourists who were already there saying under their breath....
Bloody newcomers...disturbing the peace..
Bet they did the same! Managed to find a hut for 25 bucks a night..
2 single beds~ 6 people...yeah..we'd manage,no probs.
Unsurprisingly, the following two nights we spent there involved alot of bickering, elbowing, kicking, and me eventually sleeping on the floor. Saw that coming...absolutely no complains...
After dumping our bags, we did a baywatch run into the crystal clear waters, and stayed there till nightfall,then we skinny dipped underneath the stars..
I LOVE SKINNY DIPPING.....it's liberating.
The guys were a bit worried that fish would come and bite their peckers off..No big lost there guys...: )
Here, have more alcohol for balls...yes,the drinking had begun. Dinner was on the sand, on little short candle lit tables. Over dinner, the conversation turned to El WEEDo..maybe coz Uncle BOB was playing in the background everywhere...Wouldn't it be nice??....
Jaya: I have a small amount.
That took care of dessert..And a few hours later, the crew was DNS, Drunk N Stoned
Navin:Look at the ripples in the sand...doesn't it look like finger prints?
Daph: Yeah, God put his fingerprints on earth, as like a copy right..so that other Gods can't duplicate it..Which means maybe other planets have different Gods...like Mars would have a different GOd, and Pluto would have their own God. And each planet is has their on form of life that's like no other, coz it's all copy righted...
Navin: What???
Daph: huh? It makes sense...
Navin: YOu're talking crap..
Daph: It made sense...never mind
Running on the beach, i vaguely see Jaya sticking his leg out to trip me..Jamming the breaks i shout:
' No macha, No macha, NO!'
Bang!!.i somehow fell backwards on my butt...although i'm very aware that i was suppose to fall forwards.HMMM...it's a mystery.
So that
disgusto mundo shower they insisted i had to take (bloody clean metrosexuals ! ) was a waste of time coz i got sand everywhere anyway.I opted for no shower the next day...Aahh..That's the way to go.
The following day was one flawless day, i felt so lucky. The sun was shinning , water shimmering, the eagle was flying...actually it wasn't...it was sitting on the beach.Apparently it broke it's wing and has become a permanent resident, a bit off a shame, but he seems to like showing off and posing for the cameras. Nevertheless,even for the flightless eagle,
Life was GOOD. Couldn't get any better, and i just felt really grateful. So i made the mistake of telling the boys my slightly deep emotions....and of course got a lot of flak for that..
Jaya(immitating me): Oh, boys thank you for coming with me.It's so beautiful..Boooo hooo...
Hmmm,i forget sometimes that i'm travelling with the boys, and keeping their company means strictly no mentioning anything slightly mushy...OR YOU WILL PAY...coz small elephants don't forget...HAHAHA..serve you boys right.
And it also means that the cheesy fun sounds of Bananarama 'Love in the first degree' and Barry Manilow ' Copacabana' are no where to be heard....Damn...JOSIE? RACHEL?? LAINES?? RISHA??? the fuckers skipped our anthems....
disPECKERble!!(geddit? CHEESY TACO STRIKES AGAIN.
Anyways, fell off me chair watching Arvin try to sit in his after nessa had pulled it away. He was busy impersonating someone, got up and did some candid dance....and the sat right down into the ground!!DUMB CLONE!
Next night i was so up for a party, all tanned up and happy....BUT dammit, we were out of funds. We had rationed just enough for the trip back and dinner, and a little booze..but nessa and i had decided to sneak a banana milkshake and fried rice while the boys were playing footie.
NAvin: If you two didn't go overspend, we'd have enough for a beer!
Daph: But we were hungry....u guys ate our lunch..
but i knew right then that had this been survivor,i would have been voted out . And i seriously regretted it myself...
Also, that wouldn't have happened if they had allowed
Nessa to play footie with them. We both did initially and had a great laugh, Jaya copped one in the balls..Then these big boys came, so i knew they were gonna play seriously.
Nessa being the dumb fuck she insisted on playing..
Nessa: Can i play..?
Jaya : Sure
Navin: Just stand a bit further back
Arvin: More
Meghan: Ok,now you stand there..
Nessa was behind the goal post, outside of playing grounds of course but she didn't even realise it...so she stood there for quite a while before realising that she wasn't in the game, unless of course she were a linesman...hahhaha
Failing to be included in football,we went to spend money on food..
And that's how we were short for the night. But we did have a great dinner on a wooden balcony, with pretty friendly people...We finished our booze (THANKS LAINIE FOR THE BOOZE!!!) and were already eyeing the EL GRASSO at the sitting area...The hunt was over...we had found some...now..to ask.
When it came to asking, i have no idea why we were so hesistant and waited so long..especially since throughout the day we had comtemplated plans and practiced the line ' Do you have any weed on you?' numerous times.
Some of the plans the boys wanted to ochestrate that were not put into action were..
Jaya: Daphne, you see that guy with Rasta Hair....ok..you go over there and suck his dick..then ask the magic question...
Say it with me people....
Do you have any weed on you?(don't forget the british accent)
It started Raining..so plan two was that Navin was gonna pretend to get struck by lightning..and in his dying seconds, request some weed..He actually jumped in the air, shaking like he had be electrocuted..and landed in the water...It was all very gay looking...hahahaha..like his finger nails that
Nessa had painted on the way there...and his arm where i had written i love PENIS after he'd accepted the membership of the PEN 15 club (PEN15 = PENIS)
Other tactics were....
Navin:
Nessa, that guy is checking out your ass...go ask him.
or sometimes we would sing...
'A friend in need is a friend in deed, a friend with weed is better'
notoriously loud...and once the beacon had been sent....we'd stick our heads up....looking for anyone who would have looked up in interest..Boris..We decided to name him boris...anyone who looked suspiciously guilty off having weed and not sharing.they were all named Boris...
We did ask some locals,but everyone was very...no no no about it...BUt finally, here at dinner, we had found BORIS...it was AMOGES!!!
Yes, BORIS was the man....he played the guitar,sang pink floyd and gave us....EL WEEDO..Hahaha...all that hard work paid off..Apparently, they don't sell it, but just give it out to whoever asks, very love all....
Haha...i predict, i see... u hard core weeders flocking to Perhentian now..actually...no..because nobody reads my blog...hahaahaha..oh well...SERVE YOU RIGHT AR! (as chinaman as possible)
I'm still abit bummed coz after dinner, there was a bar playing great music, and people actually finally dancing...we were asleep but i hate to miss a good party so i woke everyone up to go check it out....
YOU're MY Brown Eyed GIRL!!
Daph:I wanna dance !!!i wanna dance!!!Everyone get ready to go...hang on...no money...
So i proceeded to empty out all bags, wallets...everything..i counted 5 cent coins as well..We had RM 7.10 in coins...we were short of 90 cents...bugger!!That would buy 1 beer..Oh well...luckily the music died down soon after so didn't feel like i was missing out..
So us lucky poor folks still managed to have a great time at STOP ISLAND.Anywhere would have done it with the beautiful people i was with, but i have to say...I'm glad it was PERHENTIAN, the second superb malaysian island i been to besides REDANG....GO see what i mean people, it's a waste if you don't...this country has so much to offer...and 6 hours isn't that bad.We survived..
PLUS,there's plenty of road kill on the way to keep you entertained cats, dogs,goats, monitor lizards, monkeys,cows..Yup...we saw a huge bull, all four legs up in the air, stiff as hell...Imagine what a great post card pic that would have made....