Easter Holidays - Tioman Day 2

Good Morning from Tioman!
Today's itinerary is super simple.

8am: meet and wait at Jetty
9am: first dive or snorkel
11am: lunch- OMG so early
1pm: 2nd lunch - OMG i feel like a hobbit now who has many meals a day.
3pm-6pm: divers go dive, nua-ers go nua
7pm: dinner at another restaurant. Because everyone here is uber slow, we ordered before the restuarant opened, guess what, 8pm they were still cooking for us and there were many people in the restuarant were near fainting because they were hungry and some left.
10am: night walk to pizzaria

 saw a school of dolphins!

 first dive area...i didn't snorkel here cos i was abit scared.

hubs went down to try first cos it was getting really hot while waiting in the boat. plus it was very rocky....

 2nd diving area where i plucked up my courage and plunged myself into the sea. I can't swim.

 1pm: Yes I'm finally on shore and having my 2nd lunch now - vegetable soup and rice.

after lunch, we watched a dvd - My Big Fat Greek Wedding and fell asleep. When we woke up, it's time for dinner and the beautiful sun was setting.

 i ordered mixed grill because they ran out of chicken chop. it was fantastic although i waited 45mins for it. And only 30% of our food came. after waiting 2 hours, one of us the food never came. apparently, they missed out on her share. opps.

and we ordered 2 side dished of sambal brinjals - they never come either.
total mess up.

nevertheless, i was very satisfied with my BBQ mixed grill - 2 prawns, squid, fish fillet, chicken fillet, fries and coleslaw on the side.

night walk to a pizzaria where the pizzas are $20 ringgit each. and I ordered a very potent mojito where one of my cute auntie colleague pronounced as mosquito.

hubs and his Mojito.

Easter Holidays - Tioman Day 1

 it's a long weekend here in Singapore so the 14 of us, friends and colleagues chartered a van on friday morning to cross the seas onto the shores of Malaysia. Tioman is where we are heading.

6am: meet at Lavender MRT station open carpark area.
7am: cross customs
9am: breakfast at JB where we had Yong Tau Foo.
12nn: Ferry from Mersing to Tioman (ABC)
3pm: Lunch at Tioman - service super SLOW.
4-7pm: Divers go diving, nua-ers go nua.
8pm: Dinner. Again service was so SLOW that we skipped our planned night walk because by the time we finished it was 1030pm!!!

my dear ex-colleague (the one in white) who overslept, skipped meeting us at Lavender and went straight to Woodlands checkpoint. Guess what she reached there faster than us!

something which i learnt on my trip.
my other colleague (the one in blue), i knew she was an aborist. ok so she loves plants. OMG. I didn't know she was a vegetarian too. Does it mean she loves plants so much that she loves eating them too?

>_<

My Breakfast - overloaded

They had a big fishcake where you can fry, but i think i rather have it in my soup.

 Finally after 1.5 hours to Woodlands and 2 hours to Mersing and 3 hours to Tioman.

I have reached ABC - Air Batang Tioman

I have no idea where did the "C" come from....

 here's my try at being a puffer fish.

i can even show you the underwater hand action for a puffer fish! - something which i learnt from this trip too.

neon coloured bicycles which caught my attention so much that i had to take a picture to show you all! But the locals don't cycle at all!!! it's the angmohs that do so, the locals go around on their bikes with a side car. - shucks, come to think of it, i don't have any photos to show here, so you all will just have to imagine.

 here's hubs waiting with cobwebs over his head for our dinner.

That's the way of life here - slow and easy. literally.

that night, we finished the day with a can of beer each and a packet of BBQ flavoured cheezels and DVD called The Professionals which I fell asleep halfway...zzzz