Mabul oh Mabul.

Assalamualaikum.

huahahaha.

seperti biasa, kalau dah namanya farah diana yang memegang kamera, sehabis yakin lah gambar gambar yang ada itu diperam paling sekejap seminggu.
sebab tu aku malas bawak kamera.
lagi lagi yang bagak. fuh! dulu rasa besar kepala habis fun lah explore the camera functions setting apa semua, sekarang? tun tun tunnnnn!

baiklah.
memandangkan semalam tidur tidur dan tidur,
maka, hari ni semacam tetiba nak update blog.
specifically; on the mabul trip! wahlalalala!

yooo! otak dah karat kot. after two weeks baru nak cerita ye farah. dush dush!

*sekejap. browse gambar gambar percutian berkenaan ambik feel skejap*
wait. i did make a short note dalam BB aku. kwang kwang kwang.

ok.
to start with, i waited for Sham (Nurhidayah Shamsudin) at she decided to leave her car at my house and off we went to KLSentral that afternoon. met the rest (aida, shepa, kepah, & pia) at KLSentral, but terlepas the targeted erl train at 3. so, tunggulah kami sehingga 3.20pm camtu, which later on, mas pun join us from Putrajaya Sentral punya erl station.

terkedek kedek si tujuh gadis manis ni check in di LCCT. and went for makan sementara menunggu boarding. lapar part 1. *pffft! lapar pon ada part kannn!*

cut short. flight delayed a bit and we arrived approximately at ....err....told ya, otak dah karat!kahkahkah. *sah! kalau nak bikin travelogue aku neh memang confim FAIL! sobs*

a shuttlevan from Scubajeff menunggu kami si tujuh gadis manis *ecehhh* di airport tawau dan straight went to Semporna. sebelum ambil bag dan lalu imegresen apa semua, sempat berbalas pantun dengan Dr. Syamil yang bertugas di Tawau, dibantu assistant beliau, encik gomen azmir. fuuuuh! sesuka hati kau syamil nak suruh kami ke Tawau dulu baru gerak ke semporna lepas tu bising apahal g semporna terus. padahal, event dah setahun melekat kat facebook, hujung hujung kami dah nak berlepas baru hang bunyik soh dok tawau kan. selamat lah anda kena bebelans si farahdianabebelbobo nehhh!

*tengah membebel kat syamil on the phone. habis tetiba keluar loghat kelantan walaupun hakikatnya kelantan celup ajo!*

since Airport Tawau to Semporna take up to 2 hours la jugak, so instead of menziarah si Dr Syamil yg oncall itu, kami teruskan juga perjalanan ke Semporna. Before check-in di City Inn, kami singgah makan dulu. Lapar part 2! fuuuuh! sebat je apa yang ada, time tu pun dah agak lewat kan. terima sahajalah apa yang ada.
so, since masing masing penat macam dorang je yang jadi drebar van dan kapalterbang tuh, krohhhhhh je lah. dalam penat penat pun, sempat pillow talk sampai jam 3.30am.

tetiba.
setelah masing masing lenaaaa terdengar salah seorang on the phone. tuh diaaa.....dalam vacation pun answer calls from office. apa ke tak berdedikasi cik mas kita. heee *fyi, mas burung hantu, dia kerja malam. time org tido, dia berhempas pulas kerja ikut timing US.ciaaan mas.*

and the next morning, HUJAN!! T_________________T
maka, disamping sedikit kecelaruan perkiraan pakej dan bayaran bagai, dalam jam 11 jugak lah baru kami menaiki boat transfer dari jeti Semporna ke Pulau Mabul.
berikut merupakan cute facial expressions secara kronologi. read:captions.

1. smiiiiile! eceh. masing masing muka excited habis


2. masih overly ceria

3. ok. dah makin tunduk

4. and BAM!! kroooooooh! (sbb atas boat lama sangat. sejam. ok. agak lama kan)

hahaha. akan tetapi, setelah menghampiri pulau destinasi.... jeng jeng jeng!

ha kau! tersembul bijik mata tengok air laut cantekscomels! Subahanallah! kehkehkeh!

Baiklah. sebelum menyambung cerita, nah, sila hafal gambar ini dahulu:


ok. now boleh sambung. fyi, notis di atas ni di tampal di beberapa sudut chalet yang kami duduk itu. er. sepatutnya duduk. haha. more on that later.

so, by the time we reach the island, it was already noon. so, we took our lunch first. bilik yang ada pun baru satu sahaja. sebab the other two rooms masih occupied. well, belum jam 12PM lagik kan masa tu. fine fine fine.

we were (or at least, me, sebagai penyelaras program ngoh ngoh ngoh) a bit lost what should we do, who should we meet etc. my bad, komunikasi @ PR aku gred C doh! *sobs*

then, after bermesejan dengan agent bagai, sambil ambil giliran tukar pakaian di SATU bilik yang available itu, sambil berposing feeling habis fuh fuh fuh, boat man came and were ready to take us for our snorkeling trip.
well, this is my second time snorkeling. first was during the unplanned KK trip last deepavali hols with nana. but this time, di tengah laut. oh. excited dan nervous at the same time.
dan diselit kisah sedih AKU, bahawasanya aku tidak berdaya mengenjoykan diri snorkel dengan jaya nya disebab kan ini yang berpunca daripada ini.
sedih bukan.
but nevertheless, the others seem to enjoy the snorkel sessions. Alhamdulillah. and they get to meet PENYUUUUU!! *sobs. nangis setempayan frust sebab time depa kecoh penyu lalu depan dorang tu, i was stuck on the boat lagik. sobsssss*

selepas snorkeling, kami dibawa kembali ke chalet.
sila visualize kembali gambar tadi yang aku suruh HAFAL itu. lekas. kalau tak terbayang, sila scroll ke atas dan tonton kembali gambar tersebut dan view kembali perenggan selepas ini.

al kisah. kami masih berteduh di bawah satu bilik itu sahaja lagik. can u imagine, 8 of us (unfortunately, seorang tidak dapat join, terlepas flight katanya.), 7 girls and a guy, had to share the room. wait. A room. ONE room. so sad, bukan? nak kena take turns bersihkan diri di SATU bilik berkenaan.
well, bilik kami memang dah secure, THREE rooms. cuma at that moment, we had only ONE since the previous customer is not back from their scuba @ snorkel trip.
kenapa aku suruh hafal gambar tadi?
please be informed, by the time we finished snorkeling, it was already about 3pm. i repeat, THREE PM. and there were no signs any rooms was about to be given to us.
sabar lagik bah. sabar bha!
*i dont know, but in these kind of situations, i prefer to just keep quiet and wait and see. i prefer not to add in the oil to my already panas friends. i myself have started to feel guilty, because after all, i was the organizer.*
jam makin beranjak ke jam 4 lebih.
ding dong!
terus post status FB (nasib baik ada coverage dipulau mabul tuh)

"makin lama tunggu makin stress neh! berani mereka meragut masa emas kami! grrrr! ada jadi naga pulau mabul neh!"

means, my patience has hit the critical level. dan untuk tidak melakukan perkara bodoh, aku pun mengajak sham jenjalan explore kampung, sehelai sepinggang. dengan baju basah tak berapa kuyup tuh. whatever, janji hati tak panas sebab geng geng yang tak menurut pesanan notis yang aku suruh HAFAL tu dok kalut bersiap2 berkemas kemas. huh,. hegehhh!

well, baiklah, walaupun dalam ic aku tertera alamat KAMPUNG *****, tapi tak kampung pun kampung aku tuh. *perasan kampung girl tun tun tunnnn! pffft*
jadi, it was quite an experience seing how a real kampung life was. even a shortwhile, it was worth a thousand mile. tengok bebudak main guli, makcik makcik lepak sembang2 (petang kan....) senyum2 genyit2 mata sket kat the villagers, the babies. well, that was soothing enough for me. tapi sekejap je. sebab dekat satu tiang tu, aku dan sham buat u-turn (yes. we actually pusing tiang tu untuk patah balik. cacats!)

sesampai di chalet, bebudak yang tinggal menyuarakan pendapat. actually, we booked our package with other chalet's punya agent, but somehow, it was a bit messed up and they replaced our accommodation with the ones mentioned. since the chalet we liaised with was just a few blocks away, we decided to go straight to them and meet any personnel yang boleh help us out.
since semua dah sehati sejiwa seraga sebakul nak balik time TU jugak, since semua dah patah hati nak stay on the island, the Scubajeff people agreed to adjust our package into a daytrip package. Alhamdulillah. *personally, i feel their service was ok la, cuma since ada sedikit miscommunication, AND because the irresponsible previous customer yang agak selfish to clear up their rooms (which should be ours but 12pm, by right) ON TIME, itu yang membuatkan kami tawar hati nak stay for the night. urghhht! makciks, i hate uols! *
NOW, do you get WHY i asked u to HAFAL the notice?
despite the repetitions of the NOTICE telling check out is 12PM per notice in a few corners of the lodging, they STILL clear up AFTER the stated time, up to FIVE PM baru kami bisa dapat bilik. no no no! they were the ones who should pay the late check outs, bukan kami kan. so, we insisted to be transfered back to Tawau then.

which after all, was not a bad idea at all. since Dr.Syamil is in Tawau, we decided to stay in Tawau. called a few hotels and settled with Heritage Hotel. a very nice hotel, by the way.
disebabkan syamil did not join us to the island (on call), so, HAHAHAHA *gelak jahat* kami paksa Dr. Syamil open table. kah kah kah. THANK U SYAMIL! ^.^v

thank you SYAMIL!

dua gambar di atas adalah the ahli geng MATAKEDADA* haha

syamil (dan dibantu pemandu satu lagi, azmir) brought us pusing pusing tawau. the BEST destination was........
































































































yes.
syamil's house. T_________T

haha, but anyhow,syamil brought us pusing tawau and tunjuk which place we could go for souvenir hunting the next day. sampai sampai hotel, masing masing flat, namun masih ada melayan movie tv tuh, but aku rasa aku dah gol awal malam tu. penat. siap ada yang terus pengsan tanpa menukar pakaian tidur.

the next day, went shopping at Pasar Gantung kat Tawau. but before we start souvenir hunting, masing masing menggelupor cari makanan dulu sebab kebulurandah nak tengahari baru nak cari makanan. lepas shopping dan makan at Pasar Gantung, syamil and azmir mengutip lah cik tujuh gadis manis ni jalan jalan lagik. plaza apa tah (shopping complex) dan kemudian ke Plaza Tanjung Tawau dan kemudian ke Indo Cafe, melayan Pisang Goreng Cheese dan Mango Sago. *ok. now is 2 am and terbayang those two dishes and terus jadi lapar. nangis*

selepas itu, kembali ke hotel to pick up our luggage, bid farewell to syamil and azmir (azmir flight pulang ke semenanjung was a day later than ours) and hopped into the shuttle van and off we went to the airport. agak awal juga kami tiba di airport. check in apa semua and bye bye Tawau. *sedih*
safely landed at about 12.30 am, aida's mum fetch aida, mas, sham and i, and pia's bf jemput pia, shepa and kepah back home. mas sham and i overnight at aida's and joined her little family gathering, and aida sent mas back to hers and the rest berkumpul kembali kat Mali's Corner nak layan nasi lemak and char kuey teow. TAPI, melayan dalam hujan yang AMAT lebat. haha.
nasi lemak air hujan satu kak! :P

lepas layan nasik lemak, sambung sembang kat Oldtown White Coffee Sri Rampai skejap, exchange gambar gambar dari kamera masing masing dan bid farewell. sambil itu, mengumpul idea untuk next year's trip, which insyaAllah, to the East Coast Malaysia. dan selepas itu, aida send me and sham to my house and we were all back to respected homes.

well, to conclude, even though the planned trip went a bit haywire, it was still a blast.
sebab apa?
sebab ada a cool bunch of people yang back up each other and turned the trip a super blast. i truly feel blessed with these angels. thank YOU, Allah.

personally, i thank all of YOU (aida, mas, sham, syamil, kepah, shepa, pia and azmir) for those beautiful moments sepanjang trip tersebut. really, one of my favorite so far.
in the end, it's not where u went, but who u went with.

the girls

and the guys.

*explanation MATAKEDADA: one of us tried to imitate the local act from Oh Yeah!, mata ke atas, tangan di dada" on our way to the LCCT, tapi, unfortunately, instead of mata KE ATAS, she mistakenly did MATA KE DADA and we had a great laugh out of it. therefore, MATAKEDADA terus lekat sepanjang trip and the phrase seem to be one special one for us, itu pasal la kami regard ourselves as GENG MATAKEDADA! haha.