I managed to check off a few things which have been on my mental-form of "Things I Wanna Do" list (which is purr-retty long, I should say) for quite some time.
i.) Para-sailing. ii.) Jet-skiing.
iii.) Banana Boat Ride.
Sadly we didn't snap any pictures. We were too busy having fun, we didn't even bring the camera.
Parasailing was especially fun, minus the failure of my first attempt at take off, LOL. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I ran together with the chute behind me, as the boat drove off (as directed), I was running & running, almost close to the edgde of the shore, but I was confident that I would already be on air by the time I reached the water. Unfortunately, I ran straight into it & never flew up. LOL, freakin embarassing. Everyone there was like, "Go Qila! Go Qila!" while I was running, and when they looked up, they saw NOTHING, hahahaa, instead of flying free up in the air, I was drowning in between the ropes of the parachute in the water, hahaha. Damn that part man, lol.
But the second attempt was successful! And it was amazing ;D Being able to fly all on my own, I felt a sense of absolute freedom for that short moment. A little cold, after the big unplanned dive during the first take off, but it was just, GREAT. Same goes to jet-skiing & the banana boat ride. Omg, thanks to the Banana Boat Ride, my body's aching all over. It wasn't scarry at all, just that we had to hold on really tight in order to save ourselves from falling off (especially at the deep ends of the ocean). I think I kinda emphasized a little too much on my tigh & arm muscles when I held on to the boat, coz I woke this morning all zombi-fied. I couldn't even move properly. Aahhh but it was all no doubt, worth the pain ;)
So yeahh, Penang was awesome, I also met up with my Penang cousins, including baby Nisa!!
Okay, obviously Nisa hates me, LOL.
Together with the Sarawak clan, we had HUGE dinners during the 2 nights that we spent there, and I was bloated as heck! We had oysters, char kuew teow, spring rolls, pesembur, pasta, fried prawns & squid, lime chicken, laksa, etc. My family members are always champions when it comes to food. That's why we always have fun together, who gives a crap about dieting when we're at it together, we eat, experience the variety of food,bond, bloat, no regrets. It's not that we're ignorant of our health, we just know how to have fun & we know our limits =)
Speaking of family bondings, a couple of days before the Penang trip, we attended a family gathering in Sunway Lagoon. It's an annual thing that we have, so that the children, grandchildren & children of grandchildren and so on, of Za'ba would be able to mingle & bond. This year, was pretty much happening as ever. Kind of a challenge for me in the beginning, coz it was the first time since I started wearing tudung, that I had to go swimming, and I had no idea, what to wear, plus, I was a lil uncomfortable about it.
I had always felt that it looked dumb to wear tudung when swimming in a pool. A lot of people suggested that I just take it off. But there was NO WAY in the world, I was gonna do that. Coz the day I decided to wear tudung permanently, I made a commitment, and there's no excuse for me NOT to wear it in public. I have nothing against people who like to wear em off & on, coz that's THEIR choice, and this is MINE. And so, I wore it anyway, and fortunately gained knowledgde on dressing up as a tudung-wearer =) I know there's that special swim-wear for tudung-wearers, but puhh-lease, I prefer not to look like Super Woman when I swim. So, I managed to come up with something comfortable, and low-profile-lookin ;)
Just get any dark-coloured long sleeve t-shirt and tudung, and wear em with long tights. Or if you wanna look more beachy, u can always get those thin long leggings and wear surfer shorts on top of em, like I did. They look really cool ;)
Okay, back to the gathering. So after all the tele-matches, and lunch, we went to Sunway Lagoon's Scream Park, together with the Sarawak cousins. HAHA, you should so try out the Scream Park. It's a 20minute walk. You're divided into groups of fives, and you're suppose to walk in this really REALLY dark room. The path way the prepared was FREAKIN small, so whatever ghost or monster, can come reeaaaally close to you. It was scarry okaaay!! At the beginning, they'll bring you in this dark room with a big screen on top. You're required to watch the screen which showed quite a lot of disturbing videos of ghosts, & blood for about 10 minutes. And while you're busy concentrating on the screen on top, there'll be like several different types of ghost wandering beside you. As for me, there was this one ghost who put his face so close to mine I could feel his breath at my neck. Haha, I kept looking the other side, but everytime I looked back to check, he was still starring at me. It was freaaakky!!
Then, we were moved to the next room, and that was kinda shitty, coz the second I stepped into that room, a ghost jumped out from the dark right next to me & screamed, and I screamed my lungs out (reflex!!) I almost deafened my uncle infront of me. LOL. Then, there was this one section where they gave us 3D glasses, and we had to walk in this room full of mirrors. The scarry thing was, instead of seeing our reflection in em, the ghosts were in the mirror following our reflection, they'd just folllow us the whole time, till we reach this one point, where they'll suddenly jump out of the mirror so close to our faces. Must've been the 3D effect, but that was pretty creepy.
The last part of the scream park was Prison Break. I didn't know what to expect, coz all I know about Prison Break is sexy Scoldfield & his plans of breaking out. LOL. So, we stop at this steel door, with a prison guard infront of it. He was like, really serious, telling us "When you go in, DO NOT touch the prisoners, therefore they will not touch you". Creepy, I know. I was expecting to pass cages with different prisoners INSIDE of em. But when the prison gurad opened the door, the cages were all open & the prisoners were wandering around like nobody's business. And the minute we stepped in they all stared at us, and started coming towards us. It was pretty scarry at the beginning, coz they were like growling & shouting so close to us, some were hanging up the cages and screaming down on us. But I started feeling a lil relaxed when I noticed that most of the prisoners were hott!! Hahahaha. And also, there was this one part when my uncle didn't know which way to go (he was leading us), and he asked one of the prisoners, "Nak pergi kiri ke kanan?", and the prisoner was like, "Kanan" and he continued growling back at us, which totally spoiled the whole creepiness of the place, LOL.
When we got out, I saw some of my cousins who went in before us outside, and they were crying, hahahahahahahahha. The gathering was so much fun, sadly it rained after that, and we ran in the rain a lot. Our whole family of like 50 people were like , "Okay, 1, 2, 3, GO!!" and we all ran in the rain back to the harbour deck where our stuff were, and everyone else who were under the sheds wer just staring at us, and some even applauded, LOL. Fun times :D
I've got about 2 weeks left till classes start again. Sighs. Back to reality.
But with a whole lotta memories ;D
1 comment:
a very action-packed holiday!
jeles nye..
ni terperap je kat rumah, wat thesis.
=)
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