Cameron Highlands 金馬崙高原, fresh air, tea, and strawberries! – part 2

posted by look.eye on 2010.01.13, under Adventure, Event, Friends, Outdoor, Outing, Photography
Jan
13

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Day 2 of our Cameron Highlands trip. We slept quite early yesterday to woke up this morning at 4am+ to visit Gunung Brinchang. It is located near the same area we went yesterday, the ‘BOH’ Tea Centre. Hamyu, our information source lead us here because he came here before when he was exploring alone in Cameron Highlands last time.

But seriously have to thank Hamyu for bringing us there. I really really didn’t expect to see what I was going to see… and feel. Never knew Cameron Highlands got such beautiful sunrise. I tot the only place was in Sungai Lembing.

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Cameron Highlands 金馬崙高原, fresh air, tea, and strawberries! – part 1

posted by look.eye on 2010.01.12, under Adventure, Event, Friends, Outdoor, Outing, Photography
Jan
12

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After the screaming and ouching new year celebration from Skytrex, we went to a more serene and relaxing trip at Cameron Highlands, Pahang, on the 9th of January 2010. Thanks to Siewmei and Hamyu for planning the trip. 12 of us, Siewmei, Hamyu, Jacque, Leslie, Sue-ann, Brian, Jook, Shyng, Justine, Dawn, Yippie, and me, in 3 cars, woke up too early at 5 in the morning, started out journey to Cameron Highlands.

After some stops and makans, we reached Tanah Rata at around 11:30am. Went to find the owner of our apartment, took the key, put our stuffs in the apartment, off we go to explore Cameron Highlands for our first day trip.

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A SkyTrex Adventure new year celebration!

posted by look.eye on 2010.01.06, under Adventure, Event, Friends, Gathering, Outdoor, Outing
Jan
06

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Been planning to go SkyTrex the 2nd time for quite some time after knowing that their Extreme Challenge has open. So after an attempt of failed planning by someone, I’ve decided to organize one myself. The group this time is a lot bigger than the last round. The groups have been divided into 3 different categories. The Extreme Challenge group: Waihoong, Eli, Hamyu, Lay, Leslie, Syam, Aivee, Siewmei and me. The Big Thrill group: Justine, Yippie, Dawn, Zaheer, Tay, Faris, Jook and Shyng. And the picnic group which consist of Jacque, Karen Wong and Ben.

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Pulau Ketam, 吉膽島, a colourful little fishing village

posted by look.eye on 2009.12.21, under Adventure, Friends, Outdoor, Outing, Photography
Dec
21

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Sorry again for the late updates. Been busying and lazying :D . On the 12th of December 2009, Siewmei suggested to go Pulau Ketam for a short shooting trip, so we had an impromptu mini shooting trip of this small group (Siewmei, Angeline, and me), to this little island call Pulau Ketam.

We started our journey from Subang LRT station, took the train to Port Klang (around half an hour), and from the jetty took a ferry to Pulau Ketam (another half an hour). Reached Pulau Ketam around 1pm. At first we were thinking of renting bicycles as our transport, but then ended up we thought maybe we walk walk first and see if we need to rent the bike. It was a good decision for us because the island itself wasn’t too big and we wasn’t in a rush.

Basically just me and Siewmei brought our camera there, Angeline just wanna walk walk around to see some kampung life. So here are the photos. Enjoy~

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Ipoh, good scenery & great food!

posted by look.eye on 2009.11.03, under Adventure, Food, Friends, Outing, Photography
Nov
03

Sorry for leaving the blog un-updated for so long. Been really busy lately with work. But still manage to squeeze out some time to do some local travelling. 3 weeks ago, Andrew, Siewmei, Kokwai, Eddy, Sherinna, and me went up to Ipoh to do some shooting and eating. Had some very nice food from there. Guess I don’t need to intro the food from Ipoh anymore since there are like tonnes of information online already. Not gonna write much. Here are the photos. Enjoy.
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Friendly people, good food, fantastic sunrise, a small and colourful town call Sungai Lembing

posted by look.eye on 2009.03.12, under Adventure, Outdoor, Photography
Mar
12
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On the 7th of March 2009, Clive organized a trip of 25 city dwellers, to this friendly little small town Sungai Lembing, 林明. Sungai Lembing is a town that used to mine Tin Ore (Bijih Timah). And now it’s famous for it’s sunrise view with sea of clouds below your feet! My closest gang of people is in one car, which is Andrew, Aivy, Siewmei, and me. The objectives of this trip for a few of us is to photographs the nice sunrise. We did the photographing, I’ll leave you to judge. :P

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First stop of the places to go when we reached Sg Lembing is Gua Charas. Is a big cave within a rock mountain, and there’s an abandoned tin mine inside too.

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An outing to Broga Hill

posted by look.eye on 2008.12.08, under Adventure, Event, Outdoor, Photography
Dec
08

Invited by Clive, me and Siewmei were joining Clive for a photography trip to shoot a very nice sunrise at Broga Hill near Semenyih. The trip was organized by SK, and the total headcount for the trip was around 16.

We started our ascent from the foot of the hill around 6am(so can you imagine what time we woke up!). The path was slippery and very dark. Torch light is a must because it’s total darkness there. After the initial palm tree plantation, we were walking in the jungle itself. Luckily we were wearing our long pants because there’s a lot of tall grass and branches which can cut. Around 50 minutes later, we’ve finally arrived at the 1st stop point. A rock which indicate it is the 1st stop for us, we stopped(of cos) to rest, and prepare our cameras to wait for the sun to rise.

Unfortunately the weather of the day was not very nice. It was drizzling a bit on our way up, and it was cloudy when we reached there. So after some waiting, we figured that there’ll be no sunrise shooting that day. Too much clouds was blocking the sun. Damn it. So, we started shooting everything la, since there’s no focus already now.

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1st stop, we were waiting for the sunrise, but dissapointed.

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Clive bought McD for breakfast that day, and he really knows how to enjoy his McD. :)

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The way up to another stop.

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A view from the top.

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Weirdly there’s some flies flying around at that high. Wonder that they’re up to.

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After we reach the 2nd peak, we discovered that a lot of uncles and aunties, some bringing their family up there for morning walk! *Respect yo!*

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Siewmei brought her brother’s camera there to play play. :)

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Look at Clive, so happy.

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Let’s go up there.

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The grass does look like padi.

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On the way up to the 2nd stop.

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This is a higher view.

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The rock there are quite nice as photography background.

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Clive performing some flying kicks with his hand firmly gripped on the rock. But the image shows that he’s more like falling.

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Sometimes photographer tends to ignore their own safety for a good shot.

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3 photographers 1 model.

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Everyone waiting, taking pictures, and chit-chatting there.

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Looks at the lower clouds, not enough to make the whole scene nice. And look at the upper clouds, too much to be blocking the sun.

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Tired and resting.

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Getting a nice pair of climbing shoes are quite important.

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Say “chiiiiizzz”~

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Patriotic Clive.

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It was my 1st experience going up this high for shooting. Although we didn’t manage to get a nice shot of the sunrise, but then it’s still a good experience for me.

Trip to Tioman Island (day 3)

posted by look.eye on 2008.11.23, under Adventure, Event, Outdoor, Work
Nov
23

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Last day here in Tioman, felt the time passed too fast. Haha. Woke up a little later, head to foyer area for breakfast.

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Chicken porridge. Not bad for resort standard. :)

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Designated area for our company.

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Bumped into Sue-ann, so asked her to be my test subject for a while. Hehe.

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Back to room, need to pack everything and prepare to leave already…

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Zaheer, can said he’s in-charged of this whole trip (of cos with the help of Tiffany). He lost his slippers somewhere, so he had to wear the room’s slippers.

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Waihoong, brought his laptop there to play World of Warcraft. He even missed the group photo just because he wanted to play game so much. Anti-social~

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So here’s the committee of the Swingers. President: Eve, Vice President: Zaheer, and Treasurer: Tiffany. Thank you guys.

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Group photo before leaving the place. Me and Aivee was not in this picture because both of us are shooting using our own camera. But we appeared in Sue-ann camera’s group photo. :) She got the most complete one.

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Going through Custom before waiting at the jetty area. A lot of people doesn’t know that Tioman got duty-free shops also. So that’s why we need to pass through the Custom.

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Sue-ann cut queue. Brian pissed. Sue-ann don’t care. Brian can’t do shit. Haha.

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X-Women 1: Yippie

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X-Women 2: Justine

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Waiting for the ferry to load up before we can get in.

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Tired smile from Tiffany.

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Brian and Sue-ann sat next to me on the ferry ride.

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Aivee and Jook sitting behind me.

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Motion sickness pills. I’m not sure whether this actually works, or I’m better in dealing with motion sickness already.

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Oopsie~ puke alert at “Kuantan 192″ road sign. Peishan suffering from motion sickness.

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That’s it. 3 days 2 nights of Tioman trip. Of cos not enough. But better than nothing.

Trip to Tioman Island (day 2)

posted by look.eye on 2008.11.23, under Adventure, Event, Outdoor, Work
Nov
23

Woke up quite early on day 2 trying to take some nice morning photos. Since the day before i slept quite early, so I’ve walked out from my room around 8am. Very nice feeling, warm sea breeze, quiet, and the sound of wind blowing against the tree.

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A very quiet morning at Tioman. I’m not sure whether is it normal with no people on the beach so early in the morning.

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Of cos have to shoot some floral photos… hehe…

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I think that’s the Clubhouse for those golfers.

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This kinda small roads can bring you all around Berjaya Tioman. It’s their main road inside the resort.

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Goal post waiting to be strike by footballs.

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This pic gives me the feeling of a university field more than a sea side.

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A nice shot of Tiffany posing with her “beach-ready” bag.

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Silhouette of flowers.

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Aivee, another DSLR bearer in the office. One of the most experience.

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Pickers’ colour very contrast with the background.

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She trying to be patriotic. Hehe…

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Yippie waiting for the bus to go to the diving centre.

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Ben acting cool with his snorkle gears on.

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Sue-ann, afraid of water, but still want to take the challenge of going snorkeling. Respect.

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Yippie acting cute with the snorkling gear.

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Tiffany adjusting her snorkle gear very seriously.

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David laughing at Brian on how he looks with the snorkling gear.

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Waihoong been very pissed of all the waiting and people coming late.

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The one with the official diving license going for a snorkling trip. Piece of cake.

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The jetty to our rides. 12 people on one boat. Going out in 2 boats.

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Quite a long ride, Yippie took a nap on the boat.

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Latest fashion in town! Life jackets!

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Waiting tired of waiting again before we got to our spot.

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Everyone went down to snorkle except for me, I was just there to take some pictures. Hehe.

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Pickers shooting waihoong swimming towards her using her Olympus water-proof camera.

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A white beach near the place we snorkle.

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See how clear is the water!

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2 boats parked side by side.

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One of a rare shot that Aivee actually look like a girl! Hahaha…

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Jook was nicknamed Mer-Jook after this snorkeling trip.

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Yippie, afraid of the fishes, screaming like mad when the fishes swim near her.

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Those people on the boat was eating mixed-rice, they keep on throwing food down the sea, that’s why you see so many fishes here.

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A shot of David creating a small scale Tsunami in Tioman.

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Ben trying to fly without wings. Lol.

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This is Jook with the pose of a bird after being struck by lighting. Hahaha…

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John with a perfect backflip dive.

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Next spot for snorkeling is near those rocks.

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Tiffany resting on the rear of the boat.

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other shot of Tiffany having a fish spa therapy.

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Sue-ann and Ben enjoying themselves.

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Going to the 3rd snorkeling spot. That’s the other boat.

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Sue posing on the boat.

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We asked Aivee to give us a pose. And this is her best.

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Sue asked me to take a picture of her and Brian.

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Group picture of my boat crew. Haha…

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Reached the Jetty and damn hungry. So we headed for lunch at the foyer area.

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Me cam whoring in front of the mirror with Chinling’s camera behind me.

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After lunch, went back room to shower, then come back out again to go swimming. Before that, I heard some of the going shoot some hoops, so I walked to the basketball court to check it out.

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Syam didn’t go out to snorkle with us, here she is renting a bike to ride around the resort.

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After swimming, went back room again to shower and prepare for dinner, passed by the game room and guess who I saw. Hehe. Yippie, David and Meng there playing Mahjong la. Yippie said she didn’t know quite well how to play, but ended up she won. :

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Dinner time! Steamboat! Didn’t manage to take many shots from the dinner because don’t have a flash gun and the lighting was too dim there.

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After the dinner, there’s the bonfire session where everybody drinks again! haha… Here’s the 2 pile of wooden planks for our fire.

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One of the pile of woods fell early, creating this unbalance fiery shot.

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On the ground, there’s actually writings of “Arachnid” and “Slipknot”. Took this shot after the fire died out because you can really read it with the fire on.

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People warming up. before they became crazy.

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Some people chilling at the pondok there.

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Tiffany didn’t get drunk tonight because she was moving around dancing and having fun. :)

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Drinking on the beach. Nice.

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Aivee trying to jump over the fire posing like Mario.

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More people sitting on the beach drinking and chit-chatting…

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Tiffany performing her fiery dance. She’s really a performer as you can see from her expression. Smiling all the way.

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Jook the parkour lover. Jumping over fire? Not a problem.

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Ben’s turn. Can’t imagine that he actually jumped quite far.

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Hahaha. Sue-Ann acting fear. Quite bad acting! Lolz…

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Aivee helped me shoot this one, but the timing was wrong. :(

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There’s a lot of things happened on that night, which i didn’t manage to shoot. But Aivee got a lot of those not so proper shots.

Trip to Tioman Island (day 1)

posted by look.eye on 2008.11.15, under Adventure, Event, Outdoor, Work
Nov
15

Went to Tioman Island last Friday on the 7th of November for a 3 days 2 nights company trip. It was quite a nice trip (for me to try out my new camera). Was a bit messy on the schedule, but can see that Zaheer and Tiffany trying all their best to sort things out.

Quite a bit of funny, gross, and new stuffs happened on the trip, adding to the experience of the whole trip. Took damn lots of pictures, but only can share so much here. :) hope you’ll enjoy them.

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Bus depart from office around 6am in the morning, had some mamak breakfast on the way to Mersing jetty.

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Reach Mersing around 12:30pm but missed the ferry. Stranded there for around 2 hours to catch another ferry.

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A nice shot of Sue-Ann eating her burger while waiting for the ferry ride at the jetty. Quite a few of them bought the burger there. The taste was not bad.

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Finally got into the ferry after hours of waiting. The air-conditioning system was blasting like crazy inside the cabin. Freaking cold.

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A shot of the back of the ferry, a patriotic ferry ride. :P

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Finally reach Tioman Island after around 1 and a half hour ride of the ferry.

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In a bus, on the way to Berjaya Tioman resort.

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10 minutes of ride, reach the foyer of the resort, where we had hour super late lunch. Food was not bad.

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This is where we’ll be eating for the next 2 days.

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Sharing room with Brian and this is how the room looks like. Quite comfy.

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Before going out for the duty free shopping, manage to get some evening shots of the beach. After hours of rides, finally touch the beach. Haha.

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Crazy shopping, cigarettes, alcohol, cigarettes and more alcohol, then cigarettes then alcohol again. Crazy!

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Dinner time when the lunch still haven’t fully digested. Not much appetite to eat. So walk around and took some pictures.

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Close-ups of the foods! Hehe

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After dinner was drinking session, got my tripod ready, and shot some long exposures. This pictures looks a bit fake, more like a stage backdrop than a real photo. Weird.

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Of cos there’s light trails playing time. Took a lof of tries to get this right, 2 copywriters work on this one. Hehe. Jook wrote the “arachnid” and Justine wrote the “tioman”.

End of day one, went back to room and slept early to prepare for the next day.

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