Monday, February 25, 2008

Back from adventurous island

4 of us, RT, YewHong, kor and i went to Lang Tengah. Purpose is to do maintenance work, to clean up the dive center after 4 months of monsoon season. Of course, during monsoon season, island is close so RT has been telling us that it's messy and all.

1st reaction when in the rough sea (coz still monsoon, so waves still quite strong) reaching the resort, "Ehhh, the jetti also gone??", kor said.

When we touch down the beach....... Lang Tengah is like after Tsunami!!! Everything was upside down... this resort is not the resort that i used to stay man....

- jetti is up on the beach near the resort (worker pulled the jetti up so that it won't be destroyed by the rough sea)
- 3 of the boats are up on the beach near the resort too...
- the beach is super dirty!
- leaves all over the place, so messy and dirty
- SPIDERS ARE ALL OVER THE RESORT!!!! ARGHHH... scary... **i wanna go home d...**
- no electricity coz no one there, only 2 workers stayed back during monsoon season
- AND AHH... THE DIVE CENTER BECAME THE WORKERS' KITCHEN WITH A HUGE SALTED FISH (Barracuda) hanging there left bone only!

Pic 1: Messy. This is the walk-way of the rooms that are on the right

Pic 2: Two of the boats on the beach... never seen this before... hahaha

Pic 3: This is the dive center with dining table in the middle somemore, hehehee, inside the dive center hanged a huge salted barracuda fish. Kkekekeke... funny!

Mission start: Clean the dive center and the compressor room on 1st day itself!

Shifted everything out from the dive center, all the rubbish and junks like salted barracuda fish bone. xp

Shifted everything out from the compressor room like mattresses... :D

Pic 4: Kor washing the dive center.

Pic 5: RT washing and YewHong spraying the water...

Pic 6: Nice, clean...

Pic 7: BCD is back to it's own place! :)

Pic 8: Fins are kept back nicely in the dive center!

Pic 9: Cleaning the place where people rinse themselves after diving.

Pic 10: Finally, our dive center looks like a dive center again!!!! HurraYYY!!!

Other than cleaning the dive center, we also ask the carpenter (1 of the worker there) to help to repair some of the tables at dive center.

Only on the 2nd day, the boss and other 20 workers are in to clean the resort so on the 2nd day, the boss switch on the generator for a while for us to pump the gas tank (for diving ler)... And to check all the diving gears to make sure that all are in good condition.

Interesting part: Our meals! Everyday without fail, we will have white rice with salted fish! ;) Which we find it super delicious. Sometimes they will also cook scrambled eggs and sardin fish for us. We are only eating what the workers eat since we are also like one of them mah... kekekee...

Torturing part: Since no electricity, so all of us sleep at the balcony above the dive center on groundsheet that kor brought with TONS OF MOZZIESSSSSSS at nite!!!!! ....YUcKS... I HATE MOZZIESSSSSS.... **I wanna go home d** All of us will be the mozzies food everynite since we are sleeping in the open air...

Blessing part: On the last day, early morning at 8:20am, we went for a dive... :D Yes, a dive during this monsoon season coz our instructor RT said wanna pick up rubbish underwater and to check if the reefs are still there coz of monsoon... wahahahahaaa... so there we went! At least 1 dive better than nothing lerrr... ;)

Overall: A great trip as i never know how worse can a resort be after monsoon season. So is an eye-opener for me.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Now the whole world know how the resort looks like right after the monsoon...andhow much effort the staffs put into the resort to maintain it as a "nice" resort.

~ HöOVéRBélL a.k.a BéCKz ~ said...

Exactly...