According to the weather forecast, it was thunderstorm throughout our 3 days in Tioman, but thank god, it rained around 5am every morning and stopped by the time we finished breakfast.
Accommodation at Berjaya Resort was pretty and spacious. We got a normal room and a GM suite that comes with 2 room, a living room, a kitchen, a high-fi set and 1 TOILET!!~ Hahaha. The beach attached to our resort wasn't exactly beautiful plus there were plenty of stones, but the other places we visited during our half day snorkeling tour were amazing.
1st stop - Coral Island (Fine and white sand, clear light green water with lots of "Hai Sim"):
We had a narrow escape here. All of us were so eagered and excited that we didn't realized that we were being swept away by the current. You probably won't believe me if I tell you that all these happened within a few minutes, but it did! One moment we were snorkeling happily and the next moment we were too far away from our speedboat. No matter how hard I swam, I couldn't make any step forward. My life jacket was giving me problems and the snorkeling mask was all over my face. Baby signaled me to try swimming against the current...God!!~ They were all having problems and they were even further up from where I am. I started panicking and ended up exerting more energy. Baby and Haiyen managed to reach me and Baby held on to me and at the same time, encouraged me to keep swimming. Upon reaching the shore, we quickly got our guy to chaffeur the speedboat and pick up the others who are still stuck at sea. Though we were super exhausted, we still went ahead to the next destination...... (-_-)"
2nd Stop: Monkey Bay (Clear dark blue water with lots of little fishes)
Haiyen and me were too seasick and exhausted to hit the water again. Yi ling had a major leg cramp and had to stay on board as well. Baby tries to entertain me by drawing the fishes to me. The little ones were so cute and pretty, but they were twirling around so much that I threw up eventually....
3rd Stop: I don't remember the name of this place. (Clear blue water with fishes that's slightly bigger in size)
Shengdao and baby managed to drag me and Haiyen onto a little platform where we could sit and feed the fishes. Poor Yi ling got to stay on the speed boat filled with our vomit smell (contributed by me and Haiyen). Shengdao got poked by a fish while trying to perform the "flying fish" act. There's also this little boy who keep asking me for bread to feed the fishes. He did it without a word of "please" or "thank you". Worst still, when Haiyen places her bread in the water, he dived in and grabbed her bread. We were both astonished and concluded that we were feeding little boy and not little fish. =P
Actually, for RM500, the speedboat we chartered was supposed to bring us to 6 destinations, but Haiyen and me were too sick to stay on the boat, so we ended up making our way back. Sorry guys (-_-)".
Later in the evening, we were approached by one of the local guy and he suggested that we head out for dinner. Since there was nothing much to do after dinner, we decided to take his suggestion. We forgo our initial reservation at one of the chinese restaurant which we visited on our first day and paid RM30. We ended up disappointed cause the so call "he guarantees that we will be very please with our dinner" was just an"edible" and slightly cheaper dinner and the so call shopping place was only a little souvenir shop. Argghhhhh....we missed our chilli crab by the beach and ended up eating maggi mee for supper!!!~
It was worse the next day, which was also the last day of our trip. Due to some overloading problem, we were stranded at the ferry terminal with hundreds of people for 4 hours and ended up reaching Singapore at 11 plus at night, instead of our original schedule - 6pm.
Though our trip this time was filled with lots of unexpected situations, but I guessed the people you traveled with really matters a lot, cause despite so many "issues", I still enjoyed myself tremendously and I wanna say "thank you" to the following people.
Hanlin (My dearest twin):For graciously lending me her sarong, so I got enough clothes to last.
Haiyen (The pretty princess):For bringing your camera along when we were doing all the water activities
Yiling (My Cutest "Daughter"):For the selfless act of sharing her PSP, so we were all entertained
Haiyen, Yiling, Hanlin, Shengdao and Baby:For taking the risk of being bitten by sharks just to go snorkeling with me Hahahaha
Baby:For saving my life and not giving up on me when he could just saved himself
^^
Pictures will be uploaded later