Joe's Corner

This is a belated blog entry. A very belated one indeed. Trying to get this up before the year ends, haha...

Anyway, at the beginning of this year, I went to Langkawi with my best friend, Gary. Back then, there was still no direct flight from Singapore to Langkawi, so we took Tiger Airlines to KL, and changed to Airasia to Langkawi. Lo and Behold, after our trip, Airasia announced that they are flying to Singapore... #^%#%$%@!^

Oh well, it was an excuse for us to go to KL and visit KLCC and the Petronas towers.

Let's see, we flew this plane to KL, had to take an early flight, so we did what we always do, stayed overnight at the airport, then took the early flight. This photo was taken at KL LCCT at about 6.30am. Sun was rising soon.

Then we transferred to Airasia after we had our breakfast and reached Langkawi Airport at about 11am. Sure beats taking a coach and ferry.

Can you see how excited we are to be here?

Darn tourists, haha...

This was outside the airport. We decided to save a little money and walked over to Langkasuka Beach Resort, which was about 15 mins walk away.

Langkasuka Beach Resort had a private beach, but it's advisable not to swim here as the water here isn't very clean. But nice place to chill out at night though.

The first thing we did was to crash and sleep once we got there. Loads of mosquitoes in the room, we killed about 50+ within 15 mins, and there were still lots to go around. Had to call room service to get some baygon to solve the problem.

After we woke up, we went out to Cenang Beach. A much more lively place as compared to our side. Should have stayed here, as the good food was all here.

Yes, Langkawi is as beautiful as what you see here in the photos.

Banana Boat rides into the sunset.

We had a recommendation to eat at Orchid Ria Seafood Restaurant, which is at Cenang Beach. And it is indeed good food at great prices. We had a feast, and kept coming back for more over the next few days.

Fried Calamari

Humongous King Tiger Prawns, fried with butter and garlic. There's just 2 prawns here, and it took up the whole plate. We wanted to get 4 at first, glad we didn't, cos couldn't finish if we did.

The next day we went on a package tour to see different parts of Langkawi. Our first stop was Langkawi Underwater World.

Joe Penguin is back...

An anane... annennnn... aneaeaeaeannn... anemone...

Some big fishes swimming towards Gary.
Reminds me of this McDonald's Advertisement.

Sea-Horsie...

This is a fish that I would only like to see in an aquarium, and not in the open waters.
A Picasso Triggerfish, nightmare of divers.

A hairy crab defending its territory.

And we saw a huge pufferfish!!! It was as big as Gary's head, as you can see in this picture.

And some prehistoric shellfish too.

The next destination was the Langkawi Cable Car, taking us to the peak where we can see almost the entire island.

This was the first point, where we could see our resort from up here. 652.5m above sea level, whoo hoo... It really is breezy up here.

We had to get to the other side by cable car too, and get onto that suspension bridge.
And with my fear of heights, I declare this as a victory, haha...

The view from the other side, it's really damn nice man. I would like to go back up there, the cool breeze, the horizon, and can even see mountains out there. They say the sunset is right in the middle of this picture, just imagine that.
Best place to ask someone the "ASM" or "AKYM" question, if you know what I mean.

Then we had a special detour thanks to our chauffeur, he told us that some places are kinda boring, so brought us to see this waterfall instead. Looks small in the photo, but it ain't man.

Then to another bird park or something.
Flamingos up close, haha...

Langkawi's famous statue.
Langkawi means "Eagle Rock" in Malay, and thus the eagle-on-the-rock statue.

When we went back after the day's tour, snow flakes formed in our fridge.

The next day, we went Island Hopping.

First stop was the Pregnant Maiden Lake. As you can see in the photo below, the mountain has a shape of a pregnant lady lying down.

This place was rumored to make women fertile when you drink of the lake's water.

And nah, we are not gonna get anyone pregnant anytime soon.

We took a swim in the lake though, just to cool off.

Gary flying into the lake.

We got out earlier, cos we don't want to get pregnant, or anyone pregnant. So we went to sit by the pier to wait for the speedboats.
Saw some crabs along the mangrove.

Taken with my pair of shades in front of the lens. The pier that we were waiting at.

Next stop was Eagle Feeding. Best time to go is in the morning, where the eagles are still hungry. And within minutes of the captain throwing fishes into the water, loads of eagles came flying down.

Then we went to one of the nice islands where the water was clear and the beach was beautiful.

They have para-sailing here, but that's not me.

After all that, we went back to Cenang Beach for dinner, and walked around to see some scenery. There was this padi resort, and there were some buffalos and birds.