Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Right, realized my Holiday trips blog entries were saved as draft and not published.

Well, on hindsight, I got more to add in.

First off, Langkawi

Flew to Langkawi with 2 friends, K, T. both of which are really unexpected for them to come. It's somewhat a miracle for him to join me out of civilization and anime and games hahas! And for K, it's a miracle too I didnt expect him to come with me. Well, must thank T alot for I guess it's their friendship that got K coming over. It's always heartwarming to see his bight smiles when the group come together, even outsiders can see he is most comfortable with them. Anyways, it was a rather smooth trip. Time crawls over there, so just as the Batam trip, we had lots of time every night from 9 to around 2 to talk. Through this we all got closer to one another, or so I hope. Yet, I kept having this feeling that one of them are not open enough, was rather curious about him. Oh well, slowly I guess....... Really glad I have people like them in life, to talk about stuffs.

So the trip was fun! First day did nothing much except the Underwater World, which we were surprised that the whole environment was rather good and nature-like, well maintained indeed! That night we all talked about someone, which in the end talk about me, hmmmm. Through this night convo, I come to realized that maybe my perspective about things might actually endanger my future life. Like, they threw me a situation, if I were a Boss, and there's this Secretary that after some time we started going out after work, and I developed some feelings towards her, so cuz I'm a great husband, I come clean to my wife saying I developed feeling, but then perhaps out of guilt, and conviction to savage my marriage, I decided not to develop the feeling more so I stopped going out with the Secretary and we stayed being just work partners. The thing is let's say my wife asked me to sack her, would I do it? My answer was a straight no without any consideration of alternatives or win-win situations like helping her to find another job or things like that. To me, none of us should change our lifestyle just because of some emotions going on, unfair. And to me, it's also about the trust between wife and I, and my own discipline to draw the line with Secretary. So they throw me another scenario, would I give up a million dollars to make my wife happy, again I unhesitatingly, said Yes. So they asked me, what kind of priorities do I have, money, secretary, wife. I couldnt answer.

Okay, so then the 2nd day we went trekking the Mountain of Seven Wells, did not reach the peak though, but it was like the first hiking trip all of us was in. We were not prepared at all, no water, and had to resort drinking river water too, and in the process attack by leeches. But all is well, we went back before dark, and went for fish spa, also for our first time! The keeper were watching some comedy show of 3 guys screaming like sissies for the first 10 minutes! hahas!    

The 3rd day we went for Island Hopping, and saw Eagle Feedings. Quite an easy day, subsequent nights not much Heart To Heart Talks, just joking around, blasting music with Seedio app, and watching TV. Then we went Mangrove Tour. Rather eye opening to see monkeys swimming, eagle feeding again, and that drama feel where we went into narrow shallow mangrove areas, just minus the snakes and crocodiles........... well they do warned about snakes though...... seemed like they are poisonous snakes, we saw one small one only.

That day, we also went for Parasailing!!!!!! Gosh the feeling of airborne is soooooooooooo good! Definitely a sport I would take my future spouse to go!!

So yea, we went back on the 5th day, and then comes Bandung trip with TLC!

Yea it was a YOLO decision to rush a tip-to-tail trip! Hahas, first time traveling with a group of strangers, but it all turned out soooo fine!

The moment we reached Bandung at the midnight, we had like a 4h bumpy car ride to rest at a guesthouse and a 3h hike to a waterfall that was not known even to the local guide when they approached him. So this trip was specially arranged, joined by 3 other local guide and special homestay arranged too. So cool! This is liek the best group Ive seen! Totally suits me! I like this kind of group where not only they like to travel, they liked to venture off the beaten path! and they loved leisure!!!! Food was ample there! and we had KTV on 2 nights!!!!!!!! crazy people! Taking pictures every few steps and so spontaneous in everything!!!!! Doing Gangnam style and Chicken dance there too!! We also tried Horse Riding, Floating Market visit, Strawberries farms, Message, Peak Dining, and more~~

They are working people, but they are having soooo much fun midst work and all the society bullshits. Like a bunch of kids and Professor Lim!!!!!!! hahas! we were mistaken as a university outing my a passer by hahas! The organizer is a very friendly, engaging and adventurous 60~ years old man! SO glad I found this group! and after that, I joined their activities as long as I can, like Bedok Reservoir Running on Sat, Stadium to Barrage to Marina Bay Running on Sun, and coming up cycling from Jetty to MBS, and then Archery!!!!! Oh yes and Bishan to Pierce reservoir too! Definitely going for the HUGE MEGA XMAS PARTY!!! He booked a room of 1200, subsidizing heavily of 70%, for the great event!

I envisioned myself very active in years to come, the only sad thing is that enlistment is near.

And yea post-travel withdrawal syndrome, I got that travel-spree feeling everytime! And also that kind of sadness when we build friendships on the trip, only to drift again when we are back in our own lives.

Yea........ thats all, ciao.........


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