Sekinchan Day 2

I was typing my last post halfway and suddenly blogger gave me an error 400 report and I had to change to IE to finish up my post (luckily it had been auto-saved). I found out that IE could not cut and paste photos, you know? After uploading photos into the blog post sometimes we have to locate it at a specific area but IE only allows us to drag the photos instead of the typical cut and paste command. Sucks max. Or maybe it is only my IE? Anyway I could not care much about it.

Lying down aimlessly.

So everyone was able to wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning (surprisingly). And most of them had the same problem I faced, that is they could not completely fall asleep as the night goes by. Our mind just kept revert back to 'awake mode' every hour. Anyhow we felt refreshed nevertheless.

After breakfast, we went to the paddy field to catch some eels/belut/黄鳝. We managed to capture 2 of them after a long 2 hours, which means the quantity of eels has diminished since the past years.

Simple stuff: a long wood, string, hook and a bait to trick the innocent preys. Humans are just marvelous.

We had fun, and everyone was in shock when it finally managed to get hooked (no pun intended). That surely replenished our rural childhood life, and now we know what exactly our parents did while they were young and there were no gameboys or psp and stuff! Of course it became our lunch in the end =)

Chicken intestine as bait, free from the butcher.


From this.


To this.

Bathe and packed, we went to Bukit Melawati to view monkeys on our way back home. They are known as Silver monkeys and when they are young they are actually orange in color and as they grow then turn into a shiny gray, which makes them silver monkeys.

The orange monkey on the lamp post.




Spot the fake monkey xD

We did not manage to visit the beach at Pantai Remis and fly kites because it was late and going to rain anytime.

And we are back to city life once again!

Sekinchan Day 1

The two-day-one-night trip ended pretty quickly I think, we did not really have enough time to finish what we had planned ahead, but yet it was very fully packed with unforgettable events (okay they are forgettable because I have some short term memory disorder so I will blog everything to keep myself reminded).

The paddy fields are bald after the harvesting season. Does not look like the photo in my previous post.

Departed in mid afternoon, we reached to our rented terrace house around dusk. Then we spent several times doing the typical three-point-turn on the narrow streets as we found out that the restaurants were closed on Thaipusam.

After eating and chilling, we proceeded to the firefly viewing destination. Unfortunately no photos could be taken because it is prohibited to avoid disturbing their habitat and lifestyle. And I have to tell you, it is awesome to see them settling down on the only special trees they depend on their life upon. They look like the fancy light bulbs we have on our Christmas tree, except that they have the same color and the blinking lights are relatively smaller, and there were plenty of them (not as many as last time according to many people).

This is a little more exaggerating than what we saw that day. But cannot take photos.

I still could not recall my mom bringing me here when I was young before, and it is definitely a different experience to have your friends sitting on the boat talking crap and laughing while keeping our tones down. The full moon on the 30th of January 2010 is far most the best accompanied by the blinking lights of these little creatures. And sometimes their shimmering are in sync!

As the boat goes by, a firefly flew near to me and I tried putting the back of my palm near it (I did not touch it!). And surprisingly the small glow was able to illuminate a part of my hand with a fade white light. The scenery around is like a smaller version of "Avatar", well that is the closest thing on Earth that looks like what is being portrayed in the movie.

Our first day ended with us playing card games and falling asleep at 1am. See? 24 hours is never enough when you are having fun! But it was still nice nevertheless. =D

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Sekinchan

This is most probably my last trip of the year, okay maybe not since I will have another long break on December, it's so far away from now so I will treat it as the next year.

And this time we are going to Sekinchan. Don't go like 'whoa so many places to choose why whould you choose a place where nothing nice can be seen'. The main point of this trip should be just eat, eat and eat. Exactly, Sekinchan is at the port (I think) and this place is famous for seafood (I think). Ah I don't remember la! The last time I went I was so young I could not remember anything. Wait. Maybe I didn't go to this place before. Whatever I am going tomorrow!

Okay I googled and Sekinchan is said to be like this:

Credit to the person whose name written on the photo itself

Looks nice, should not be as bad as what my mom described to me just now: hot and nothing to see.

I only started packing 12 hours before the departure time. It's good to be spontaneously laid-back sometimes. Just hope that nothing essential is left behind.

Off to Sekinchan, bye bye busy city life =)