Photos Uploaded

hehe.. I know many have been waiting long for the photos we took during Langkawi Trip!

so... finally, I've uploaded them in my Windows Live Space! Not all of the photos lah, I'd picked some of them out of few hundred photos!

you just need to click the link below ya:
http://hedwigelaine.spaces.live.com/photos/

most of the photos were taken by Goh, our cameraman, give credit to him!
Some were taken by ai feern and me...
I'd collected photos from Benny, Jenny too...

Langkawi Trip: Day 3

2oth December 06

at 7.30am, we woke up, again, we switched off the air conditioning system and slept for half hour more. Today was the last day, we had to pack our things! wah... so fast huh?!

at 10am, we walked to the 'Zon', the duty free shop to buy some chocolates.

the chalet we stayed...

at 10.30am, we checked out, put our bags to the bus. By bus, we went to jetty, placed our bags at somewhere near the door of Kastam Diraja Malaysia of the jetty. Then, we took some group photos.

the group photo, everyone was inside~

We were given free time till 1.30pm. Hoon, Teng and me went in a group to visit the shops in the complex. I had bought some more chocolates there too... but I was regretted that I didn't buy more on the first day in the town, the chocolates there were of more varieties and were cheaper!

wow... so many ferrero rocher! I've just checked the price (few days later), in KL, it is RM26.50, in Langkawi, it is RM18.50 !

Then, we wanted to have our lunch at KFC nearby, but there was no place for us!

Aha! Because of that, we ordered the food and ate them at somewhere else! hehe... we went to the Dataran Lang, Langkawi and searched for bench. We ate our KFC there, lalala... it's even better than eating inside the restaurant~
Besides, we ate fast, as the time left was not much, then we took some photos at Dataran Lang there, with the big big Eagle~

Hoon & Teng, nearby the Dataran Lang

the huge Eagle, the 'tiny' Hedwig Elaine,

hahaha

Luckily we were able to be back in time to gather at the Customs there. hey, since we are under 20 years old, we were not required to be checked! ahahaha...
We took the ferry on 2.00pm.
hey, while we were queueing to go on board, I saw someone familiar, who was not joining our trip! She.... was U6A student! In our trip, there was nobody from U6A! She was Shazwanie! haha... I stared at her for a while..... then... she also looked at me, and greeted with me. What a coincidence!

took at the Jetty, while waiting our bus to go home.When you see this scene, what can you imagine?

After we reached the jetty of Kuala Perlis, we went on our journey back to Kepong by that familiar bus. This was a long journey, we watched a movie -- Superman Return. I was not sleepy at all, I had tried to sleep but the sound of the movie made me hard to fall asleep too, because the speakers were just above my seat....
We did sing Karaoke together, but the VCD was so lousy.... most of the songs were not popular ones. During this trip, I did argue with someone over some very little things, and he liked to attack me verbally! Luckily I am no longer need to see him now... I'm bad, I know...

We had chatted a lot in the bus, we felt like the time was passing so fast, we wished the bus could continue travelling.... infinity.......... haha... wuliao huh...
Overall, the trip was very fun. I had many of my 'first time' too. We reached at our lovely school at 12.30am on 21st December 06!

oh... bye bye, my dear Langkawi ~

- I had used almost reached RM300 in that island, excluding the trip fees RM160! About RM150 had been used to buy chocolates!

- we were lucky, there were not raining on the first and second day we were on the Langkawi Island; While on the 3rd day, there was only a light rain by the time we wanted to go home.

Langkawi Trip: Day 2

19th December 06

We planned to wake up at 8.00am. Woke up, and it was very cold! We switched off the air-conditioning system and continued sleeping, haha.....
To eat cup mee, we need hot water. Hot water could only be obtained from the 'canteen', it was prepared by the chalet's worker at 9am. We were not allowed to boil our own hot water. I had a very full breakfast, I ate a cup mee, drank a cup of coffee and ate 2 pieces of roti with tuna! I ate so much just to clear our stock.

Hoon and Teng having breakfast in front of the door of our room

At 10am, we went to the Oriental Village Langkawi by a bus. Since we were out of budget, everyone of us needed to pay RM12 for this transport... something kinda 'complicated' mistake occurred loh...
While those 'leaders' were buying tickets for the cable car, we walked around there, and found that there was a rabbit farm! yo, they were so cute! I tried to pat their head, they were not really scared of me, then hor, I picked it up, and held it close to my body, and hey, it was not nervous, it didn't kick me or struggle, hehe.... it was even more obedient than my pet (rabbits) last time!

we are cute rabbits~!

Next, we were queueing for the cable car. You know, the system was not good at all, I shouldn't say it as Q-up, because there were few queues for only one ticket checking machine. So everyone of us needed to fight for our own turn. After that, then we had to queue up on the 2nd floor. Luckily, that was indeed only a queue, a very long queue... so we had to wait for a long time. We could see many foreign tourists there... luckily that there were many cable cars, the long queue became shorter fast haha..

May Jing, Jian Wei, Weng Hong, Wan Bie, Goh, Benny; while waiting for the cable car....

physics guys...

6 of us -- Hoon, Teng, Huey, Feern, L.M.Kuan and me were in a group, we went up the top of the hill by the same cable car as each of the cable car can carry 6 people. All of us were so scared, because it was moving fast, and it was high!
This was not my first time riding on a cable car though, my 1st time of this had given to the cable car in Genting Highland, which was within the buildings, not the one from the hillside to the Genting! The 2nd try was given to the one in Penang, that one wasn't scary of course.
wah... how if the one and only cable was broken? ! That was the cause of the fear...

this photo was taken in the cable car, while we were moving up to the top of the hill~

Me, L.Mei Kuan, Ai Feern, we were in the cable car, 'flying' in the air

the Curved Suspension Bridge, taken from the cable car

There were 3 stations (if didn't remember wronlgy), but we could only stop at the last one. While we were at high altitude, the temperature dropped, and there was strong wind which shook our cable car! This increased our fear. Fortunately, we reached the top of the hill very safely (of course lah..), phew~

Took at the top of the hill, wow, can see the beaches and sea from here...

You will be regretted if you do not come up to this cloudland! One must visit this place if he comes to Langkawi! The mountain scenery was super nice! And the wind was very strong too, I didn't tie my hair up, so... my look was so messy..

me, see my special hairstyle.... blown by the fresh wind.... behind me was sea/sky

hoon = cloud (in hokkien), her name is Yap Hoon = leaf+cloud = leafcloud, it was once her nickname in internet... haha

where is the skyline? nice huh this scenery!

There, at 710m above sea level, we could see that the sky and the sea were kinda undifferentiated. The skyline was kinda blur, it was like the sky and the sea were one body! Nice! RM15 was not wasted, it's paid off.
Besides, there was also a "Curved Suspension Bridge", at first Hoon didn't dare to walk on this bridge, but then since we all insisted on going, she had to follow us lo.... when strong wind blew, the bridge shook too! This scared Hoon.. haha.... if you go to KLCC, you can feel the same too, the building would shake actually. This is logic, ask physics student? haha..

Min Huey and Me on the Curved Suspension Bridge ~

walking back from the bridge to the Cable Car station on the top of the hill. Does it look like FRIM?!

In the station, took this before we went down the hill. cute leh...

After taking many photos, we took the cable car again. Since this was the second time, we were no longer that scared, however, it's a bit different from the one coming up. When we reached the 2nd station, it was very very steep! We didn't feel the steepness just now but we could feel it by the time we went down the hill! We were screaming as if we were riding on a roller coaster! It's because when it was going down, the speed was faster (should be? not sure...). How exciting!

Next, we visited some shops in the oriental village and bought some souvenirs before going back to our chalet. 28 of us paid RM25 and went on island hoping! Others stayed in the chalet and had their own activity. Hoon, Teng & L.M.Kuan were not following us.
This was my first time riding on a speedboat. It was a 10-people speedboat. We felt secure as we were required to wear life jacket.
We felt so good to ride on a speedboat, the wind was very strong too! (wind again... 'makan terlalu banyak angin' lah..). Sometimes, I couldn't open my eyes as the wind was too strong besides spraying by the salty sea water.

Our first destination was Pulau Dayang Bunting. The shape of the island viewed from side was indeed looked like a pregnant woman. The speedboat stopped by the pier, then we walked to the Lake of the pregnant maiden. Although the lake is nearby the sea, its water is non salty. (although I think it's a bit salty..) Some of them played banana boat there. Almost all of us do rent a life jacket and was 'swimming' in the lake, it's just like a swimming pool.
The rental fees was RM3. When I wanted to rent one, there was no more life jacket for rental. Then there were 2 kind foreign tourists asking us to use theirs as they were leaving, yay~ saved RM3 haha...

my dad said that this photo looks like those people wanting to rescue their life in Titanic oh.. haha

In a small pool there, we lowered our feet into the water and let the catfishes did massage for us! haha.. they are soft, slippery and whiskery, so when they moved around our feet, it tickled us, so geli ~ imagine if one jumps into the pool full with these catfishes, is he able to bear with the itch and can he swim? hmm

After spending about 2 hours there, we rode on the speedboat to the next place to see eagle-feeding. The waves by that time were strong, as it's evening already and the tide was on the flow. It was breathtaking, I could say that it's even more exciting than riding on the banana boat! Since the wind and wave was strong, most of the eagles were not able to come down to catch the food (the skin of chicken, how to call it as? eh...).

Then, we continued to go to the 3rd place, it's Pulau Beras Basah. However, we didn't land at the pier. The surging waves were too vigorous, we thought it's better to go back. Safety first... haha... thanks to our boatman, he was so skillful, even though our boat was the last departed always, but it would be the one leading then.

After this island hoping, my gang went to the beach nearby our chalet to wait sunset at about 6.30pm. hmm.. the Sun was 'moving' fast huh, it 'disappeared' in a short while !
*I didn't take any photo by using my aunt's camera as I didn't bring it since I went island hoping..

nice! Min Huey & Ai Feern were the models holding the sun!

At 8.30pm, we had BBQ in chalet (not in our room of course). It was prepared by the workers there. However, we didn't need to do anything, we just needed to take the barbecued food and eat.. yuck, almost all of them were not cooked enough...

After eating, we thought wanna go to the 'pub' nearby. It was suggested by the tour guide, an uncle. Was he a 'gam yu lou'? I didn't know. However, he brought along another 2 uncles.
At first, almost everyone was thinking to go. Then, few of the lower 6 (the society AJK) told me that they thought it was quite dangerous to go with them as we didn't know what would they do to us, and the 'pubs' here were not under control of police.
Aiks, seems like my juniors are even more mature than me! Aiyo.... so, after we had a 'meeting', and we finally decided not to go.

We were very boring, wuliao leh... didn't know what to do. Then, we found that many of them were not in the chalet. They had gone to the beach! so... we also went to the beach. We met most of them and sat on the beach in a circle, and were chit-chatting...
Ken Fai helped us to buy alcoholic drinks! hehe... this was my first time to drink a 5% alcohol drink oh..., the same to Hoon too! Mine was a Fruit juice (apple) + 5% Vodka, it was RM5 only.
5%, is nothing big matter, the only thing was I could sleep better and the throat was at higher temperature.

We went back at about 2am.

The night was so wonderful, the sky was full with stars.

*may add some photos afterwards...

Langkawi Trip: Departure Night & Day 1

17th December 06

Tonight was the departure day. We were required to gather at the big gate of SMK Taman Ehsan at 11pm.
I was rushing back from Midvalley after few hours I spent with my family together and took few photos at the nicely decorated Midvalley.
I brought 3 bags, for 3 days 2 nights! 2 for clothes, food and some other things like toothbrush etc... and another one was used to keep my water bottle, wallet, mobile phone etc....
My younger brother teased me saying that I looked like going on a trip for a week.. lolz..
At 11.52pm, a group of us (42 people) departed from Taman Ehsan to Langkawi! There were about 10 juniors (lower 6's), some of our ex-classmates (form 5's), most of the U6S2's, and 9 of us from U6S1.

oh ya, I'd almost forgotten to mention that we were going by a BUS, and this was the 3rd time I went on a trip by the same bus, the same driver!
The 1st time was during the trip to Fraser's Hill last year to catch insects, the 2nd time was to travel to Penang in December 05 with my seniors, and this was the 3rd time to Langkawi (Kuala Perlis lah...)
so, I was not so worried about the trip on the road, because he is a good driver! He brought along a lady too, I guess she is his wife lah... they were going on the same trip with us!
By the way, as expected, we failed to fall asleep easily... I think most of us had had only about half hour sleep.

18th December 06

At 6.30am, we reached Jetty of Kuala Perlis. We took the ferry at about 7.30am to Langkawi!
This was my very first time riding on a ferry oh! Finally at 8.30am, we reached the Jetty of Langkawi safely!!!! yoyoyo~ This was also my first time to step on the land of Langkawi =p
I regretted to bring so many things as we had to carry them on our own while walking for a long distance from the jetty to the exit of the complex! So heavy!

while waiting at the jetty of Kuala Perlis
jian wei, may jing, goh, wanbie, hwee huat

these are the life jackets in the ferry, we were not asked to wear them, huh?!

The ferry we took... it looks like an aeroplane without wings huh

Hoon & Me at the jetty of Langkawi, Pulau Bebas Cukai!

From there, we went to our chalet by 'kereta sewa' a.k.a taxi, but in fact it was a van which could carry 12 persons of us!.... haha.
Our chalet was "Lagenda Permai Chalet" which is located in Pantai Cenang Langkawi. It's nearby the beach, we just need to cross a road and walk a short distance to the beach, opposite of our chalet.
We arrived at the chalet at about 10.00am. It was out of our expectation. We thought it would be a luxury chalet.... After dividing into groups, we took our key and went ahead to our chalet /room respectively. Some of the rooms were occupied by 3 persons, some 4 persons and some 5 persons.

Description of our chalet [Hoon and Teng were staying in the same room with me]:
- the door couldn't be locked from inside, except by using the key, and it's hard to open.
- the water shower heater in the toilet couldn't function, which means we didn't have hot water for shower.....
- there were lots of mosquitoes, according to Hoon and Teng; I didn't know because they seldom bite me, blek =p, they don't like my blood haha...
- the mattress was not really clean
- there was a small square refrigerator, but we didn't use it as it's smelly (beer's) inside it...
- it was quite dark in the room, because there was only a yellow bulb producing dim light...
- the floor was made of wood, and it was rotting away, so if we jump on them hor, I think we would make a hole on it, and fall into the hole, lolz..
- there was an air-conditioner in each room except one didn't have.

After settling down and facing the 'truth' of the room quality, it was about 11.30am. 3 of us went for a walk nearby, and had our brunch at a chinese restaurant "Lucky", we ate fried rice which cost us RM5 each, hmm.. about the same with the price in KL loh...
Then, we went for a walk at the seaside, with Liow Mei Kuan (have to specific the name, too many Mei Kuan.. lolz..), Min Huey and Ai Feern. wah... it was very hot! beh tahan then we went back to chalet.

Not long time later, it was no longer that hot. Goh asked us to go to the beach. However, it was a trap, 'set by the sun' haha... because it had become so hot again after a while! We had to hide ourselves from the BIG sun under the big umbrella there for a long long time. Luckily we did apply some sunblock on our skin, if not we would get serious sunburn!
The scenery there was very nice! And the sand was very fine, soft and white~ we felt good to stand on this sand!
3 of us had bought coconut drinks, each for RM2, the price was still okay lah.
When the sun hid itself behind the clouds, it's time for us to be active!

Goh, Kesavan, Eng Mei Kuan (this is another Mei Kuan, our junior), Jenny, Zeming, Min Huey, Teng & Me had played BANANA BOAT! Each of us paid RM10 only, it's cheap lah ... we had much much fun! It's too bad that nobody helped us to take a photo! By the way, I did play it, ok! It was my very first time to ride on a banana boat oh!
We had fallen into the sea for 3 times... at first, he failed to make us falling, then he gave us a 'stronger turn' and finally we dropped into water lo... definitely we would fall as we are not experts, and we would only have fun by dropping into the water, haha...
During the 2nd drop, the polystyrene pieces of one side of Min Huey's life jacket had been floating away! which means her life jacket was not a good one, and Goh helped to support her in the water, then exchanged the life jacket with her after we all climbing hard up to the banana boat again.
During the 3rd drop, I was having leg cramp, very painful =.="... but I was still okay lah... Overall, it was fun fun fun!

dead jelly fish?


oh ya, there were many jelly fishes! This was my first time to see a real jelly fish. We could see some dead ones on the beach.... and some alive ones in the sea! So, we didn't play water, had to walk carefully..... bad lah, although the water was clean and clear, the sand was white and fine.

lengluis~ Zeming, E.Mei Kuan, Min Huey, L.Mei Kuan, Jenny, Ai Feern, Hoon, Me, Teng

the white sandy beach, with blue sky, cute white clouds and clean clear water!

We took a lot of photos there too... but something bad happened to me. When I was walking on the seaside, something sharp (maybe it's a stone...) pierced into my sole (I didn't wear my slippers). T_T so bad, both of my feet were in pain!
We were so tiring then, so we went back to chalet and took shower.
Next, at about 7.30pm, we had our dinner at Lucky Restaurant again. There were 7 of us, and we had ordered 4 dishes. The total cost was RM70. Each of us just needed to pay RM10, not really expensive too, and it was a delicious and full dinner.

Then, 7 of us and Wei Jie took a taxi (the van) to Kuah Town, with RM10 each person for go and back. From our place to that town, it's far, I think 20 minutes was needed. We bought many chocolates there.

In fact, there was an activity at beach organised by juniors for us at the same time, but we didn't go.
We back to the chalet at about 10.10pm, and we gathered at the room next to us (L. Mei Kuan + Huey + Feern's). We had some chats and played cards. We slept at about 1am for this day, as we were tired enough although it's actually quite early.

*I've had many first time during this trip! more coming up....

Pre-Langkawi Trip

now is 1am on 16th December 06! hehe.... I will be going to Langkawi soon -- tomorrow night!
yet... I haven't prepared anything except the list of the things I need to prepare... so many things to bring!

wah... too excited! I will be going to buy some mee cup, junk food etc for this trip with Min Huey later, lalala...

As far as I know, most of the form 6 students like me have their vacation in Langkawi too! haha.. but if we can choose, surely we wanna go to Redang ler, it's just that we are not allowed to go, it's monsoon season now =.="
It's raining heavily here (KL) almost everyday, with super thunder... I hope that there will be no rain in Langkawi, if not, we will have to stay indoor then?!
By the way, a net friend of mine who is also a form 6 graduate has just back from there, and he told me it's hot, no rain at all!
Wow, it is a good news huh, hope it will be the same then...

Actually I'm quite worried about something....
Everytime I go on a trip, I will worry about this and that, for this time, I worry for accident (bus and ferry), natural disaster (tsunami!), the unfortunate to be bit by a jelly fish (which is always visualized as a cute creature in cartoon, in fact, it's a deadly one!).

While I'm in the world of worries but being excited at the same time, YZ sent me this (click the link below) as a testimonial in my friendster! Bad YZ! anyway, thanks for her WISHES

"good luck and enjoy ur jelly fish holiday coming soon"
http://www.friendster.com/hedwigelaine

so... my dear readers, friends and whoever you are, please pray for me!
阿弥陀佛。。。啊。。。
我自问平常没有做亏心事 (really? ya gua..)，请保佑我。。。
Tragedies please stay away from me... shoo shoo...
seems like I am over-worried huh...
In fact, whatever will be happening is my destiny, my fate, I can't predict it, so... just let it be the way it should.... choi choi choi...

hmm... surely we will take a lot of photos during this trip! hehe... don't forget our cameraman is going!
ngek ngek, Langkawi is a duty-free zone! so hor, I will buy many many chocolates!

I will blog about it after coming back from the trip, will upload the photos too, so... fellow readers, stay tuned!

to go or not, Pulau Langkawi

I've just received my own copy of the STPM 2006 Timetable just now, well... it's the same as what I'd posted few days ago (of course the same lar.. haha).

Then, few of the committee members of Form 6 Society (new batch's) entered our class just now too, to tell us about an activity post-STPM -- TRIP!
Trip is organised annually by the society, especially for Upper 6 students to have fun after sitting STPM and to gather for the last time before getting busy again for working and maybe pursuing our study.
*Trip is one of the must activity to be organised by society, just like the prom night, haha.... we may say it as the tradition of the form 6 society? Everything was first created by the Pioneer batch, our seniors.

ok, finished crapping, the details about the trip?
Destination : Pulau Langkawi
Date : 18-20 December 2006
Fees : RM160 for SMKTE Form 6 students & RM170 for outsiders
------- excluded food
*edited on 13th October 06*

I've never been to any Pulau (island) before, except for ---- Pulau Pinang... muahahaha....
yes, I went to Pulau Pinang for the very first time in my life last year, it was the trip organised by my batch's society for my seniors after their STPM.

Aiks... they asked us to decide by next week, so fast huh? We cannot confirm 100% by that time actually, because many of us do not have mood to think about it (I have though...), and are uncertainty about many upcoming events.
I want to join this trip but depends on my friends' decisions too, if none of them are going, I will not join too, of course...

The price is affordable, in fact, it's quite cheap lar....
so... my decision will be dependent of my friends'...
Ok, I will study dont' worry, I haven't switched my study mode to holiday mode!

46 days to STPM
--is counted till 15th Dec -- although my exam will be starting on 20th Dec.