A long overdue entry post on my Langkawi trip... This was a trip which had the few of us scrambling making several last minute decisions - and at times, I would be wondering why I agreed to go in the first place... things that went wrong were mostly communication problems such as...
1) A commented that the air tics were bought wrongly and hence, we ended up paying S$20-30 more. It's only S$20-30 more. No one was complaining and A was just informing. But B, who volunteered to book the air tickets, was obviously offended and became rather defensive.
2) Everyone wanted to have a say in the kind of accomm they wanted to stay in. That is too dirty. This is too far. The rooms don't look comfy. etc etc.. Why don't we get a suite so that everyone can stay together instead of two rooms? Which option is cheaper? bla bla bla...and in the end, by the time we decided on one, it was not available anymore and we realised that there were not many options left.
3) Even the kind of car that we were to rent also became a small issue. A preferred to drive a manual car. B was upset that we kept mentioning to leave the driving to A, and no one remembers that he can drive too, and when A offered B to drive, B said he's not that confident in manual car...
4) N the worst thing that made me roll my eyes was that A sms-ed everyone to change more money so that we could pay the hotel in cash, and still could say "Lucky I tell everyone - cos no one thought of it. Otherwise, everyone is just going to bring a couple of hundreds for daily expenses..." And honestly, I had question marks written all over my face. HUH? I could not understand why we could not pay the hotel by credit card and must carry so much cash with us. Luckily, before I could start screaming , B (who still was sane, called me and asked why must bring so much cash) offered to pay by his credit card first.
But all in all, I guess it was just the hassle and logistics of planning for a trip. We still enjoy one another's company and everything went well and it was fun during the trip .
The days were spent exploring the island, while the nights were spent chatting, playing games and being real naughty (heh heh)...
Welcome to Langkawi sign at the airport!
The plane was just behind us... For some reason, Vern kept thinking we took JetStar instead of AirAsia...
The iconic eagle at Langkawi (@ Eagle Square) of course must pose for a group picture!
The cafe opposite our hotel which we thought was quite cool!
Our breakfast! Yummy, right?
The boats for island hopping. It was rather difficult for the gals to get onto and off the boat, actually. At one point, Vern was kinda stuck on the boat and had no idea how to get off the boat - even with the guys trying to hold her. Quite a farnie sight though... But after a few times getting on and off, we kinda learnt the trick - and by the last trip, none of the gals needed the guys' help.
We reached one of the islands!
The green padi field we saw when we were on the road. We liked it so much, we actually stopped by the roadside to take photos and look at the cows that were nearby. Typical sua-gu city gals and boys... 
I guessed our trip was quite unique, because people usually go to Langkawi to nua at the beach. Our group, on the other hand, decided to visit all the atas villa hotels on the island- one after another - until I lost count, and then have drinks there... Because the weather was damn hot, we have refreshing fruit juice almost every day!
The 2nd photo was at Datai, in which a prince was seated supposedly just a table from us. Anyway, the waiter there was quite friendly and chatted with us throughout our time there. But everyone was surprised when he asked for my number when we were leaving. I thought he would never call anyway, so I stoopidly just gave, in which I was being scolded by the guys in the car. But, who knows? He called me just a few days ago, which was like - almost five months down the road, and said he wondered when he can see all our faces again (huh?) and he missed all our faces! (huh again?) Freaky.
The guys had a game of pool, while the gals (or rather, me, cos the gals had a game therafter too) just waited. What's new? More than one group of friends had tried to teach me, but I'm like forever "catch no balls"... hahaha..
Think there's really nothing much or things to wah about on the Langkawi island... it's really nua-ing, and enjoying a slower pace of life. So it was good that we still enjoy one another's company and we didn't end up in cats' and dogs' fight! We are trying to plan for another short trip early next year again, so let's see how the logistics will go this time round again...
Alrighty, next up on the post should be the also long-overdue Malacca trip with the girls! =) Hope the blog works well then...
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