Ending 2015 with a bang - Langkawi 4D3N Trip

Great friends, great scenery, great trip!

One of the highlights of my year is this trip to Langkawi. 

It was a pretty spontaneous trip, I'm very happy to share this wonderful memories with these bunch of crazy pepo. 

:heart:

Pre-Langkawi 

PY had a great idea to bake some cookies for everyone as a Christmas present.

Being the great chef we are (we totally are), this is what happened that day.

 

It's something!

Langkawi Trip - Day 1

We went there by driving directly into Langkawi. our car was ferried by LangkawiAuto.
It was a very nice experience no less. The ferry provided a nice and comfortable passenger deck too!

Upon reaching

Then we checked into our humble accommodation @ Shaka Langkawi. It was a decent place, but would be nicer if there's aircon. There's a delicious Nasi Kukus right beside the Roomah Shaka, which was a major plus point! Then we went about and jalan around the streets of Cenang Beach.

Sunset @ Yellow cafe.

Awesome food, Awesome beer, Awesome scene...
And that's how our first day went.

Langkawi Trip - Day 2

Twas the day we pick up TPY from the airport.
BUTT! Their flight was delayed, we had waaaaay too much time on our hands to kill.
Hence, we explored Langkawi!
Beer / cider in our hands, we started off our journey!

Breakfast @ Red Tomato Restaurant

Road Trip!

Sun & Beach = Paradise

We found this hidden treasure of a nice a peaceful beach near to the edge of Langkawi OTW to Mount Raya.
James made us vowed to go back for a second visit...
Sadly, that visit was never made.
We went to Kuah Town for lunch and bought these cool hats!

Yey!

Anyways, we then went to Mount Raya and Makam Mahsuri to kill time.

Then, it's time to get TPY

Armored and prepared, we were soooo ready to receive them @ Langkawi International Airport...

Only to found out that their plane got delayed (again). 

Armored and prepared

We almost didn't make it to the sunset @ Cenang, hence The Amazing Race Langkawi happened!

Seriously tho, sorry for the shaky video... Heh...

Langkawi Trip - Day 3

Rise and shine! It was not a pwetty day cause some of us are still pretty hang over from the Christmas countdown party yesterday night. 

We had the bestest time burying each other's legs in the sand and dancing around the beach half drunk. 

BUTT, ready we are, to conquer the islands of Langkawi!

Hopped on a boat and off to Island Hopping we go!

We had a great time and after that, we took a rest, got some food in our tummy and bought souvenirs. 

Fortunately, it was a breeze going back the next day.

Our car was not held up by the Custom check and we went back home tired and happy. 

Thanks guys for the awesome adventure. 

Let's go somewhere else next! 

Hopefully, I got time to write another blog post for my previous Cameron trip too! 

2016 started off with me clearing off my previous videos and photos. 

Lots of editing and cleaning to be done... 

See ya soon pepo! 

Signing off

JCG

Watching JK News - Hater's reactions to cops

I'm a big fan of this channel and I've been watching every video they posted about recent news.
These 2 are the ones that caught my attention.

Scenario

Both these news are condemnation to the cop's reaction in the US.

One of them tackling the cop who said 'I will fucking kill you' to the media during the Brown protest;

the other one being the cop which shot at a black dude when the guy provoked the cops. 

After I watched their comments, I scrolled down to the much heated comment section to check out on what people are thinking of their opinions. 

It's no surprise that many of them are very much in defense of their own opinion and at the same time, bashing the JK crew for supporting the cops. 

Afterthought

While I'm no fan of rude cruel words and name calling, I do take their point of view into consideration. 

And after looking at it from both sides, I think people have this weakness of having to prove to everyone how 'right' they are. 

For example, some of the commentators (haters included) would be outraged by saying that the cops are killing innocent lives and they are the ones we're supposed to be trusting, but they failed us by having "out of the order" reactions. 

They may be right when they say that, but they (being the haters) forgot to think of things from the cops' point of view. 

I had more affiliation to these news story as I had similar experiences when I was a prefect back in high school. 

We, being the law enforcers, are easily the target to blame when there's a mishap at school. 

Teachers or students alike would probably point to us for any misconduct or mistakes done. 

But I was wondering, how would these people hating on the cops or JK crew react when they are faced with the same situation...
When your life is in danger, would you act / react 'rationally' or would you just do anything to keep yourself safe? 

Let's say, these normal civilians or law enforcers met with these crooks who are perhaps high on drugs or threatening them or heckling them...

Would they had stayed calm and grab a taser when their lives are clearly threatened?
Would they had used civilized words instead of spiking off vulgarities?
I know I wouldn't.
But I know many would say that 'we react this way because we are only normal human beings!'
Yea, say that to the cops with families to take care of and are trying to make ends meet.

Looking back at those cops, I'm not saying that what they did is right or wrong, but I'm saying that I understand where they came from, why would they react this way and their emotions or feelings associated with the public around them. 

It's not easy having to stand and do the 'right' thing. 

Hater's gonna hate.

Till another rant.

Signing off
JCG

Belated Krabi Trip post

After 1000000 years, I finally got my hands on this awesome Krabi video taken by Arina! 

Yey! (credits n love)

This video is one of my fav as it captures that do or die moment when we decided to jump into the open sea without any life jacket on. 

Mind you, this sea is approx 10m deep, beautiful place for snorkeling and diving. 

---worth every single penny---

Anyways, these are some snippets from our beautiful trip

A view from where we're staying, cozy lil place near the beach

Mah 2 homies, love you guys for organizing the awesome trip

Mah b*tch, love you to bits dar. :)

Aww, such a lovely room for us

Selfie!

Out for dinner, bikini on, ready for anything!

Aint he puffy

Love birds

Walkin together at this serene beach

Yey

Met our fello kraktoei waiter at a bar, she was super nice to us

Even let us took a photo with her like this!

Early breakfast raid from 711

So we went to this jungle pool

With the most amazing view!

Look at these 2 guys chillin

She's taller than I remembered

Yey selfie

Looks like someone's dead

My hair got caught in my eye in this pic

But I love this one, it's called sharing oxygen... :P

Elephant riding fun

Can't believe how high it is from this view

Arina's hair gone after our previous swim = lion's mane

My hair's not doing so well either = rawr

3rd day we went to 4 islands

We're standing in front of the boat, where the sun is 1 million degrees

But the view's nice tho

Water as clear as crystal

Swimming at the James Bond island Maya Bay *thumbs up*

Up on the boat again visiting the 2nd island

Then we were brought to this awesome place, and we jumped off the boat...

Into the big blue ocean!

It was the most amazing experience ever

I feel like the whole world is a different place...

Friends, fun, freedom.....

Koh phi-phi island for lunch

And a quick dip

Ben's hand's like, look at the view there!

Hence with that finger, ends our boat trips to the 4 islands.

During that evening, we met a bunch of kraktoei scammers. 

I was shocked when they demanded money from us for taking photos with them.

Luckily the rain came and they went away, but we did gave them some cash tho. 

Heartfelt dinner

The day we leave Krabi

Hell yea, went home with mah nails done and a new tiny bag pack!

All in all, it was definitely worth it.

Even the 8 hours van ride there was no biggie as compared to what I've experienced.

So... Where to go next? 

*grins*

Signing off

JCG