Kuantan, Cherating - Drama, Drama!

17 Dec'08 - 20/21 Dec'08


Hubby and I drove up to Kuantan for a short holiday.

After scouring the internet, we decided on Holiday Villa as it looked rustic and reasonable. We don't like those hotels where they all kind of looked the same.


The reception area



We stayed in a 'villa' - hmm.. more like a hut. It was rather quaint.


A cosy room with a small sitting area.




There are 2 swimming-pools.






The breakfast area by the beach.



We drove up to Trengganu to visit the classy Tanjong Jara Resort








Inside the spa's compound.





The sea were a bit rough as this was the monsoon season.





The beaches are rather disappointing. The sands are coarse, not soft and white like in Bintan.





After our lunch at Tanjong Jara Resort, we started to drive back to our hotel.


Drama no. 1
The traffic light was flashing orange and so hubby slowed down to stop.

I saw this public bus from my passenger side mirror. The bus got closer and closer, hmm... how come so close har? I thought to myself, maybe they're like those S'pore buses where they like to stop very close behind another vehicle? Hey, that's really, really close.

Before I can say anything - bam!

Both of us jerked forward. Luckily, we were wearing our seat-belts.

Guess what the bus-driver said to us in Malay? Aiyah! why you stop? Just go lah!
Huh? the light was turning red and also it was very dangerous to run the red-light as we were at a cross-junction where there are many cars coming from front, back and also the side-roads.

When we got bumped - hubby let out *&#@ softly - wah, in all the years we are married, he had never utter any bad words - he's really, really upset.

Here's hubby looking visibly upset.


It wasn't that hard a knock but as you can see, the car was already being pushed from the white line onto the yellow box.


Another close up look of the damage.


Hubby saw his baby bashed up, wah, so heart-pained leh.

But we are learning to look on the positive side of things - it could have been worse - at least we are not injured or caused anybody to be injured.

Thank you up-there for looking after us.



Went to one of the hotels (The Legend) along the beach for batik painting.


I chose to paint turtles. The turtles are already being outlined in wax.


Painting in the colours. Hubby helped a bit.


My finished turtles! Hubby said it looked like "Turtles in Outer-Space" instead of "Turtles Under The Sea".




Drama no.2
Had some emergency back home. I went to the Kuantan airpot the next morning to try to find a flight back to S'pore immediately.

Had to pay full fare on Malaysian Airlines. There were no direct flights and I had to connect via Kuala Lumpur. Unable to book the immediate connection flight from Kuala Lumpur to S'pore, so I had to try my luck at the transfer desk in KL. Luckily, managed to get a seat.

Thank you up-there again, for helping to get my flight to S'pore smoothly.

I felt rather bad to leave hubby behind to drive back alone to S'pore. We were unable to drive home on the day that I had to leave as hubby had to go to the police station the next day to collect his accident report.

Hubby said that we shouldn't drive up to east coast of Malaysia anymore cos always got something negative happen.

The last time we drove up to east coast, Mersing, the car that we drove (his fren's malaysian car) could not start after we want to drive back to S'pore. We ended up having to take a taxi from Mersing to Johore where his friend is staying. As for the car, his friend drove up to Mersing with a mechanic to fix it and get it back.

No more east coast Malaysia for us anytime soon.

All in, a very drama holiday.

Hamster Drama 2

How to tell your hamster is getting old? - by his ears. If his ears are getting dark, it means he's getting on in years.

Bob's ears was turning kind of blackish around the rim of his ears and it was expected as he has been with us for about 1 and half years and hamster's life expectancy is about 2-3 years.

So I was not surprised that his ear was turning dark. But after the falling into the drainage pipes episode - his ears turned even more black and was dry and crusty (i touched his ears) which I think was due to the soapy water he was soaked in.

So I was looking into his cage to see how his ears are and I saw only 1 black ear.

OMG!!!!! his the other ear dropped off??????????

I kept looking for the other ear and I saw a big hole at the side of his head - yeeeek! his ear really dropped off and left a big hole?????

I looked closer and there is a flap, not just a gaping hold. I think he's grown a new ear!!!!!!

But it looked kind of big compared to his original ear. Hubby said that it's most probably the same ear, just that the black crust had dropped off and that the ear is that size - just that his fur covered the ear before and so it looked small.

You be the judge of it........... I still think he grew a new ear........



see his normal left ear which is kind of tapered? It is still dry and crusty.




see his new right ear? - it looked much rounder and bigger like a funnel.



I wonder if his left ear is going to drop off too.

Bob is back to his normal self and wanting to run around.

I noticed that when I handle or touch him now, he is not so unwilling anymore - I guess he know that we 'sayang' him as we had saved him.