Tuesday, September 14, 2010

ICSE (Part Two of The Trip Was Awesome And Depressing)

It's an acronym for I Can't Stop Eating..
Like honestly, sincerely? nah i'm using it wrong, so seriously..
The first day, after an agonizing pain of sleeping in the car and desperate hope of waiting for the ferry to arrive on such a weather, did i mention that already?, no? well i'm suppose to mention that on my previous post, well i'm gonna make an exception just this once, and cause i'm lazy.. so what sue me..

So it was dark, at night, it was raining with thunder and lightning striking to make the sky so bright for a second, so here's how it went, with excruciating detail, well i'm gonna try..
So i was waiting with my cousin in the car, in the rain, while my parents and my aunt went to the counter to ask if we were still able to get on board.. so after a few times, we actually missed the ferry, here's the situation.. Pointing time*
*We could get on the ferry if we took the car with us, but we can't get on board without the car.
*It would be more expensive
*The getting back would be harder cause it's festive season and there's no slot for coming back.
*That means no car after we went back..

So we were left for false hope that a ferry would be arriving at 3 in the morning, this actually feels part two of my previous post so i'm gonna rename it in brackets..
Continuing.. So we tried to find some accommodation to sleep while we wait, but we were looking around on a nearby place, we weren't so fond of that place, so it was my first night in Menombok, kinda actually means punching if it was corrected to Menumbuk..
So we search for a rest house,
*note, it was 12am..
we search till the very end, but it was all dark and the gates were close, so we went back to the ferry place.
Around ferry place there were a lot of parking spot that of course were charged for people who went to Labuan and left their car in their care, so we park at one of the stop nearly on the corner of the port, so it was nearer..

We had no choice but to sleep in the car, believe me it was my first experience sleeping in a car.
* i was neither broke of got evicted..
It was excruciating, tried to sleep but i can't the first few minutes were okay cause they were still air conditioning, but afterwards my aunt ask my dad to turn the vehicle off so that we would save some gas.. so that means no air conditioning, damn it was friggin hot, and i was friggin sweating all over my body, it was raining, i never thought i would say it, but i hate that it rained on that night, cause it was hot, and the rain kept spitting near me and it made me wet..
I could barely sleep while trying to sleep in sitting posture, i never slept while sitting before, so i couldn't, although there were times that i did manage to get to sleep for a couple of minutes but that was it, and the worst part is, you thought it was long but it has only been an hour, but gladly, my dad turned on the air conditioning every hour to keep us ventilating properly..

So we waited, and finally the clock strikes 5AM, my aunt called the counter to see if the ferry has arrived.
But it didn't, the ferry was stuck in the middle of the sea due to unplanned circumstances, so we have to wait till 7 cause that's the time the counter said that it would arrive, so we woke up, all of us, then my aunt suggest that we go to a family member place that we know to visit and to go to the bathroom, lets face it, it's not pleasant sleeping in a car..
So we went, we were actually quite uncertain if we were going to go cause, we were still hoping on that ferry to arrive on time, at that time it seems like we're kinda running out of, but we went anyway, so we used the bathroom for a little while, my aunt manage to take a bath and bathe her daughter, i just take a loo..

So we went back, and the sun is starting to shine, after an agonizing night of sleeping in the car, i thought the worse was over.. but as we went there, the ferry was still in the middle of the ocean, we were actually expecting the ferry to be a little bit closer, but it was still far away, so i thank god there's a speed boat, so yeah we took the speed boat, long story short, my mom and my aunt actually bought the ferry tickets before we went on it, thankfully we got refunds, so we took the speed boats, noting time..
*Ferry = RM5/person = 3hours to arrive
*Speedboat = RM15/person = 20-30minutes to arrive

So yeah we took a speed boat, my image of speedboat was actually like this


but it's actually like this


It's actually a little bit better with cover so the rain can't come in..
So we were standing there where the boat wait for customer to go in, but we didn't know that he had to get tickets, so we sort of waited there, till we ask people that we had to get tickets to go on the ride..
So my aunt went to buy it, at that time, there was no more boats left, finally a boat arrives, i thought it was our boats, but it wasn't, they just stopped to send some passengers, so we waited some more, then a boat appear, but the boat was friggin late, they did some test like the boat wasn't working or something, but it was probably cause there wasn't a lot of people so they were obviously waiting for people. that kinda pissed me off, cause i've already waited in the car for only god knows for how long..
So yeah i kept waiting.. Then the boat finally arrived, at that time it starting to rain, but not heavily.. yet..
Then we got in, my dad was actually funny when he got in, he kinda crawl like a baby, my dad has issue with boats, cause boats always kept wobbling and that made my dad dizzy..
so yeah, i was in the boat, the boat was packed.. i was okay when the boat wasn't moving, then i saw outside, the water was actually at our level, well not wholly, it looked like we could drown, the water is just in front of me, it was friggin scary, that's not the scariest part..

The boat move, and the first few minutes it wasn't so scary, after that it went faster and faster, and that's the part that was scaring the crap out of my, the boat was so friggin fast that i thought it was gonna fly like the video i saw on maximum exposure.. so i was friggin scared, and i grab the chair like i'm grabbing for my life, i was actually praying to god repeatedly to end the ride as fast as possible, i even closed my eyes, that's how scared i was, it was my first time, didn't thought it would be this scary, it's not about the speed, but the boat kept making noises when we were moving, when it's heading front, the boat jump a lot of times, so the boat moved a lot, only god knows how scared i am, in my heart i was screaming for god.

So there i was scared, but after a that, we finally arrive, i would've kiss the ground after we arrived, but i think that would be a little too dramatic, i was actually dizzy, drunk if you will, no sea sick from the boat ride, that gave me the feeling of a how a drunk people would be, i can't even stand still, well it was a hell of an experience for me, and i was afraid to take the same type of boat to go back, thankfully we didn't so that's the depressing and exhilarating part of my trip, there's more, the awesome part, but i'm gonna do that in part three...

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