Journey to Perhentian Island P2

Just after finishing our lunch we will begin our journey to my cousin sis resort. Before boarding the boat we need to pay a small amount of money for entering the island. Perhentian Island is a marine park and the money they collect will help to maintain the marine park and besides that we also need to register our name and the duration of our stay at the jetty entrance. This is to monitor the crowd entering the marine park so that the marine park will not be overcrowded and hence destroying the coral around the marine park. The picture above you see is the scenery on the way heading to my cousin sis resort. Perhentian Island is not an island, it is combination of different island but the biggest island is called Perhentian. My cousin sis resort is situated in the Perhentian besar.


Once we board the boat we need to do a boat transit at an island called Kampung. That kampung is a small town with basic amenities such as water supply, shop, school, electricity and clinic. We need to do a boat transit there because there is only just me and my cousin bro were going to the my cousin sis resort. We need wait at the kampung jetty for my cousin resort boat to come pick us up to go to her resort. Actually if there a large number of people are going to the same resort the resort will provide a boat to pick you all up at the Kuala Besut jetty and head directly to the resort. Once you arrived at Kampung you will be greeted by a board saying "Welcome to Perhentian Island" just like the picture above. Besides that the sea water there is so clear until you can see a group of anchovies (ikan bilis) swimming around the jetty.

Journey to Perhentian Island

Just a few week ago I and my coucin brother went on a trip to Perhentian Island to pick up my cousin sister. This is the 2nd time I had been to the east coast. The first time I went to east coast to attend a programme organized by my university. We can choose from 2 route to reach the Perhentian Island. The first route is the route that passed through Kuantan to arrive at Terengganu (Perhentian Island is situated in Terengganu state). The second route will pass you through gerik and then enter Terengganu through Kelantan. The travelling time for both route is almost the same but on my trip there used the gerik road to reach Terengganu. Along the Gerik road you will see a elephant crossing road sign, this is not the typical road sign that you can see.

The first 2 picture is the surrounding of the jetty. Right after we arrive at the jetty I and my cousin went for lunch and as you can see from the picture above. The shop is famous for its soup ekor. The soup is boiled by using cow parts and it is very tasty. The other famous food is the peach colour gravy you see on the picture above. I do not know what it is made from but the taste sure is special and tasty. After finishing lunch is time to continue our journey to the island.

Beijing 2008

Cannot wait for the arrival of Beijing 2008 summer Olympic game to begin. I as a chinese is proud because for the first time the Olympic game is held at China and organised by chinese!!!!!


THERE IS ONLY ONE CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please improve the quality of your service!!!

The sentence above you see is one of the many service declaration you can see at every KTM station. I know what is the feeling of taking KTM commuter train and trust me their service is indeed improve by a little bit but is still far from become good. In the past you cannot trust the timetable of the commuter train and also you cannot trust the announcer that announce the arrival of the commuter train. The train will be late from 5 to 10 minute after the announcer had announce but now the train will arrive on time or late by 1 to3 minute and the train will arrive just after the announcer finish announcing the arrival of train.

The KTM service still has a lot of thing to improve such as the working of their air cond. I still do not know why most of the air cond on the commuter train is neither not working nor cannot provide adequate cooling for the passengers inside the train. Another problem need to be improve is that the KTM commuter train tends to delay, I also do not know why the commuter train tends to delay and the estimate arrival time of the delayed commuter train announce by the announcer is not accurate and some time when the delayed arrive it is usually packed like sardine. This make the passengers that had not board the train to accumulate until the platform is full of people.

Although all these problems I still like to take commuter train since it provide a fast and cheap route into KL city center.

InTra dinner

Not long ago my university organised an industrial training dinner for both of their students and also their supervisor of the students. I sure will not let go of this chance to eat free and the dinner is held at Dewan Felda inside a remote area of KL. I also do nor know where is that place without the help of Google Earth and that place is actually a malay majority village in the middle of KL. With the help of the Google Earth also I had a hard time finding the right place. The hall is very grand and classy but the food and service there hmmm............... What to do, already got chance to eat free but still want to complain. This is the first time I attend malay style of dinner and their dinner style is quite same with chinese. Chinese like theri dishes to come out one by one to the table while malay style is they serve all the dishes on the table before the dinner and they only serve rice when the dinner start.

I dust off just after I am full (have to eat also because that time I am very hungry). I really love the classy feel of the hall, it feel grand and I really cannot believe this hall is situated away from the main road and it is not easy to find the right way into ir because it is very secluded.

Banjir oh banjir

So long I never update my blog because due to my industrial training and also preparing my final industrial training report to send back to my university, now I already complete my final report and have time to start blogging again.

I met my first flooding during my drive back home after work. The flooding venue is Jln Duta near parliament building. The traffic that day I also have no idea why there were traffic jam start from the Sg besi army air base. The traffic is crawling along the way until the traffic became stagnant near the parliament building. The traffic remain stagnant for a long time makes me feel angry and uneasy and foul language start coming out from mouth scolding here and there (is a norm for unfolding foul language when driving in KL).

During my drive home at that day the sky was drizzling at the Sg Besi army base and the rain become very heavy along the way up to the parliament building. Then the truth unfold in front of me, gush of water flowing out of no where and in a short time no vehicle except heavy vehicle can go over. Moments after that heavy vehicle also cannot get across because of high water level. This flood block the all the traffic on both side. Since the traffic is stagnant I come out from the car and chit chat with other drivers. The flood come fast and also end fast, after some 5 minutes the water level begin to go low. I take this picture during my drive over the flood water and that time the water level is still quite high although the water level is subsiding and not much vehicle can cross over except heavy vehicle and 4WD vehicle. Thank god my vehicle is 4WD and with high ground clearance I can easily cross over and all the picture above I snapped it during the cross.

I see a rainbow!!!