Travel Diary : Pulau Lang Tengah

Hi all (or maybe just the future me), finally a holiday/mid-semester break since semester 7 started. In Malaysia's education system- there is no such thing as summer/winter break. What we are having right now is a super precious one-week-long Raya break. (Which, is going to end in 72 hours ermargadddd)

Starting from next Monday I'll be going to the last rotation in this semester : Psychiatry posting. I'm not looking forward to that though. But let's see. And perhaps we will talk about it later. (hopefully hehehe)

So, it had been a kinda hectic 4.5months without any break. *cries* And I told myself I deserved a break/getaway. Did not plan anything ahead until two weeks before this break. At first I wanted to visit Hong Kong again but the airfare was crazyyyyy obviously i can't afford ittttt because im not workinggggg. T^T I then decided to hang around in Malaysia. So I've got my yolo-est buddy K to go with me.

We were contemplating whether to go to Pulau Redang or Pulau Lang Tengah. K chose Lang Tengah and we booked a package at D'Coconut Resort through cuti.my.

The package we got : RM1007.00 for 3D2N, including 2 breakfast, 2 lunch, 2 dinner, 2 snorkeling trip and return boat transfer from jetty in Kuala Terengganu (this is the price for 2 pax). CHEAP OR NOTTTT. if it wasn't raya holidays it'll be cheaper. HELLOOOOO.

However the flight to Kuala Terengganu will cost us another RM500 each so err we drove up to Terengganu. because my parents are paranoia about highway busses. We left KL at 4.45am and arrived at the jetty around 3-4 hours later.

at Jeti Merang. boat transfer is at 10am. I was damn hungry but it the town was so quiet. Probably because it's still Ramadhan. oh well. STARVE LOH.

Oh yeah, they have a sheltered parking area. Need to pay of cz, RM45 for 2 nights.

And and and, not to forget we also need to pay RM5 per person for marine park fee.

We're here! (omg, wasn't expecting it to be soooooo piao liang)

Disclaimers : all the pics were taken with iPhone6/5s/Sony waterproof camera

***NO FILTER***

Checked in. Our room was at the East Wing. D'Coconut has east and west wings; both sides have restaurant, swimming pool, the beach is longer at the west wing. Oh, there's a bar too at west wing.

We settled down in our room at about 11.15am. Lunch was not served until 12.30pm so we decided to take a nap. We pretty much went into coma until 2pm. hahahhahah thank god i woke up for lunch.

Snorkelling tour was at 2.30pm so there we go! right after makan.

The package price does not include snorkelling equipments. Of course you can rent it from the resort, it's RM10.00 per item per day. We took only the goggles because i think our density are not so great.

To the deeper part of the sea

First dive spot. (meh we dont dive, some people did)

I asked the guide how do i tighten the goggles in malay, then he was like WTF YOU SPEAK BM? i'm like uhm yeah because we are malaysian? After that whenever he said things in mandarin i just smiled. (things like 'Be careful' and 'can or not') Then he was like, EHH DO YOU SPEAK MANDARIN TOO? 

*rolled eyes* DUHH

but he's veli nice. he helped us take all the photos. HAHAHAH!! Thanks Raf! 

photobombed by the fishes 

The fishes bit me :(

Then photobombed by the bubbles Raf made

Some underwater view

Some camwhore session on the boat

and at the beach

Back at the beach at around 4.30pm

Then we went back to the room and comatose again until dinner time.

She made me wore a dress ahahahaha finally get to wear this dress i got from Bangkok after a year. lolol

Post dinner chill time at the beach with our own alcohol.

Had a bottle of somersby each followed by a few glasses of brandy under the sky. Such life. 

Day 2 :
Well, there are only 2 resorts on this island. D'coconut and the SummerBay Resort. You can walk to one another's beach. At D'coconut, it's very chilled and not many people la (idk about summer bay) hahaha.
And again on this island, you've got nothing much to do. Eat-sleep-swim-snorkel/dive-eat-sleep-eat... you can watch TV at the public area. Their Astro i think they subscribed most of the channels (except AOD) hahahahhaha

So we went to the west wing on the second day to sunbath after breakfast.
You can swim to west wing. Or you can walk through a trek for about 7minutes.

The view at west wing

I got a model and my model got a photographer.

At the pool. The pool water was salty as well an I couldnt dive. I still float. hahahhahaha (so much fat content mehhh)

Every meal's view

Dont have body to show so my selfies are more of me wrapped up. hahahahhahahhaha

Snorkelling trip on that day was postponed to 4pm so yeah we got our alcohol earlier.

At a spot near SummerBay resort. School of fishes dancing all over.

one last bikini shot of both of us. I guess i have spammed enough. hahahhah

I hate my ribcageee omg.

Same agenda at night :

Chill at the beach with brandy. but we went to the west wing.

Just sat there and talk and drink. at around 10pm some guy was walking and shining torchlight towards us. So we told him oh we're from East wing. Then he said, "It's low tide now! You guys should go out there and see!"

So we did. He walked with us both + the other 4 from Taiwan.

That blue snake-like pattern you see? it's a clam!!

So the guy, he was from Nepal. He explained alot of things in Malay so i just okay maybe I should translate for the Taiwanese. As I spoke,

"EHH? ARE YOU CHINESE?"

*heart breaks. abuden what do i look like?

Day 3:
Breakfast, check out and chill until boat came and get us at 12pm.
This trip is so short but I'm glad I came. Thanks Karen for making this happen!

Note :
1. The food here was okay. What i like about it is that they 'recycle' the left over. Eg too much scrambled egg in the morning, they stir-fry with cabbage for lunch.
2. Staffs are really helpful and friendly :D
3. No phone connection. Wifi worse than Seremban. But don't bother, try to live without fast wifi la! hahahah

Medic Diary : Year 4 Week 3

Hello.

I'm now officially a 4th year medical student. It's never easy, but I thank God for all the luck and blessings.

I started my semester 7 rotations with Internal Medicine. Internal Med is a waaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiddddddd (wide) and broad field. From dengue, stroke, heart attack, lung infections, to hormone problems, joints, kidney/urinary tract, cancer etc. Just when I thought Internal Medicine in semester 7 will be the same as what we had back in Sem 6, *drums roll***

In Sem7, throughout the 6 weeks in IM, we are rotating in several departments - Dermatology (Skin), Rehabilitation and Geriatic Medicine (elderly), Radiology (imaging). I'd say that I wasn't very interested in IM until, I'm in these rotations.

My first posting was in dermatology (2 weeks). Well, it was fun in some ways, something new. Towards the end of the second week where I was slowly getting the hang of it, DEEENNNGGG, bye time's up you gotta leave for next posting. (That's how rush our syllabus is. I seriously think that we wasted too much time back in bukit jalil)

Currently in Rehabilitation and Geriatic Medicine. Again, something very new to us. And this is also what prompted me to start blogging today.

Rehabilitation, (or rehab), is a department where we try to restore someone to health or normal life by training and therapy after illness. I first thought I will never liked this posting, but thanks IMU for getting us a superrrr dedicated and inspiring specialist, who twisted my mind. This is always an underrated department. People don't usually see what this department contributed in helping a patient. But I assure you, every single doctor you see in this department, they are really (really) wanting to help. And not just doctors. I have learnt soooooo much from the patients here too.

Today I went into the clinic while Dr N was having a consultation with this 23 years old male. He is of the same age as I do. But he lost his left leg due to a motor vehicle accident last year. I looked at him, and I thought, "omg, he's so young. He lost a leg. Omg, he is same age as me. I couldn't imagine what i'd do if I'm in his place." etc...

But he doesn't seem to be depressed at all. From the consultation, I knew that he's already back working. And I was like, "shit, and I'm here, thinking that life has been so unfair to me."

I need to stop complaining minor things like that.

***
In the ward, all I see were patients with motivations to be back up walking, or trying their very best to live as normal as possible. Patients there, some are recovering from stroke, some from trauma.

One 15 years old girl, she had this rare disease which affected her nerves and caused her to be paralysed waist down. Her bladder and bowel controls were affected too but she never gave up and she is still trying. I looked at her, my heart sank, and I don't know why should I be bothered by all the things I'm facing right now.

Why else would I be complaining?
My life is beautiful, all this while.

儘管說了  卻解決不了問題

那  幹嘛還要浪費力氣呢

2016，2月24

赤水車站，阿蘇，北九州

And 'sorry' doesn't cost a single cent. That's why everyone uses it. It's easy. It's what we've been taught. It's just a form of manners. It's meaningless.

I switched to flight mode. Because I tried too hard responding to everything that happened. I was afraid. Still, I am. I off the lights. I was…My brain cells all connected acetylcholine has been used up and regenerated and used up and regenerated again… My heart racing. Racing with my mind.

I don’t know if being conscious and reasonable 95% of the time makes me a more lovable person. I have never taken care of my own feelings on top of others’. I think I got it from my dad.

Just feel like..

I owe myself a huge apology. And i don't know how.

There's thunder in our hearts.