Wednesday, July 05, 2017

*Mini Honeymoon to Langkawi Day 2 & Day 3

Dear Diary,

Langkawi Day 2 - 25th May 2017

Initially our plan was to stay in the hotel room and not do anything - to relax. But I thought how wasted it will be to just sit in the resort room (we could have done a staycation in Singapore instead) and not explore some parts of Langkawi. So, we decided to venture out probably not a lot of places but one or two.

We woke up in the morning at 0700 hours to have breakfast since we booked the hotel together with free breakfast included.

Sidetrack:- My smart husband bought his praying mat, wore Bermuda to Langkawi and didn't bring long pants or kain to do his prayers. 

Picture credit. We buggy to the map in number 7 known as the Spice Market Restaurant where all the breakfast are served as well as where the lobby are too. D and my resort room is located near number 15.

The breakfast buffet spread in the resort was superb I would say. The ambience is nice too and we were greeted nicely by the resort staff as well. So the staff checked our room number on their list to confirm our breakfast before letting us in.





Just as well we booked the hotel that has complimentary breakfast because we just cannot imagine to go out & drive out so early in the morning to look for food since everything is quite a distance to walk to. Plus I'm the kind who is always so hungry in the morning - I need my breakfast immediately. Hehe!






That was all the breakfast I had. Hehe! After breakfast, D and I decided to walk back to our room instead of using the buggy service. We wanted to take a look around the resort that we were in. Plus we were too full from breakfast and we are in need to do some exercise. Hehe!

We usually just chill and watch HBO on TV while in our room and about 1200 hours, D and I both headed out for swimming. Hehe! What's the purpose of taking a room with a swimming pool view if we don't swim right? Hehe!

D happily swimming.

Truly miss my henna by Zubhahenna! Love the swimming place too because the water is not too cold. Hehe!

After swimming and washing up, we decided to venture out to the other parts of Langkawi. We couldn't cover much of Langkawi places of interest as we are short of time. So we decided to explore the Cable Car since my colleague told me that I have to try their cable car there.

Picture Credit. It was at least a 50 minutes drive up from our resort to Oriental Village where the Cable Car was located.

Anyway, before the trip, when I google for the cable car in Langkawi, these 'Sky Cab & Sky Bridge' name always come up together and I thought that is what the cable car is called until I was there. Speaking about noobies who travel. Lol!



This map gives a better understanding. The Sky Cab is actually the Cable Car and the Sky Bridge is actually a bridge that is suspended on top of the mountains called Machinchang. razz Which you can choose to go or not go when you're riding the cable car. But of course, apart from the Sky Cab, you need to pay for the Sky Bridge.

So this is the combo package they have. You can buy just pay for the Sky Cab without taking all these combo but I thought, since we are here and going to be here the whole day, might as well do a little bit more. I chose the cheapest & little package - Basic Combo that cost us RM55. Funnily, the staff at the counter ask for my Malaysian pass to get a discount. Ermmm...I look like a Malaysian now?
 
Both D and my tickets. Yay!

1) Sky Cab Langkawi

The first one was the Sky Cab. Unlike in Singapore where the cable car just go from point A to stop before making a turn back to your original point, this Sky Cab Langkawi has 3 stopping point. 1st is the 'Base Station' - the point where you ride your first cable car, 2nd is your 'Middle Station' and 3rd, is the 'Top Station' where the Sky Bridge is located.

-Base Station

Before riding on the cable car, this is at the 'Base Point'

And slowly heading up to the 'Middle Station'. I am not very good at heights and D is even worse but I truly brave myself that day. Hehehe! We got a cable car cabin together with people from China and sadly, they were making so much noise and not behaving.





Hi. Lol!



All white and misty before heading to the Middle point.


-Middle Station

So basically at every stop, there will be their staff taking your pictures and asking you to buy the cable car souvenir and they really printed it out for you already. I always don't fancy when places of attraction does that. Can you imagine how much damage they do to the environment? Wasting papers and resources if tourist do not want to buy them. Truthfully, I rejected quite a few of souvenirs.

 
 

D enjoying the sight up there.
 


Heading to our last stop and it gets higher and higher.

-Top Station



I decided to get the cable car souvenir here since it was quite practical, a cute keychain of both D and my picture, and I thought it could be of a good use to hang it at my bag. Just that even after 1 month of our honeymoon, the keychain is still hanging at home unhanged. Face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes

Since the cable car ride is less thrilling, I wanted to check out the Sky Bridge. It is only at the Top Station you can buy the tickets to the Sky Bridge. To head to the Sky Bridge it's either you walk (FOC) or you can take the Sky Glide (you have to pay). The walking part is a crazy "hiking" up and down, thus D and I decided to just hop on the Sky Glide to save energy & save time. Lol!


We decided to walk around and do some sight seeing at the top station first before heading to the Sky Bridge.






Cooling and beautiful.

D was feeling quite thirsty and so, we chill at the café up here first before continue walking.

This is the other side
 

Didn't know they had this lock & key thingy here too. I thought it only existed in Korea. Hehe!


And so we are here ready to hop on to the Sky Glide.
 
The Sky Glide track

Now the Sky Bridge. Hehe! D has been here once before with his family years ago. The moment he stepped onto the bridge, he was feeling afraid because it was high. He kept telling me that the bridge will shake and move but I kept telling him "Yeah rightttt." But yes, the bridge did "shake" a little but not the extend as if it's a vigorous one.

I stunned a little when the bridge "shake". I was feeling afraid too but my will power to walk to the end of the bridge was greater. And I know I had to be the bigger person than D. So I told him that everything will be okay and that I am here for him. LOL! (Drama ke apeeee niiiii.) So yes, in the end, we did it!



We are finally at the end of the bridge.


Now the problem is walking back. Hahahaha! But we wanted to get it over and done with. I'm amazed at how unafraid little kids are. They were running and jumping on the bridge, mind you. My heart couldn't handle. Lol!
 
They had few patches of transparent glasses like this at the side of the bridge. You have to remove your shoes to stand on it and you can take a picture. This reminded me of the see-through bridge in China! Hahahaha! I wanted to feel daring that I tried. I stepped onto the transparent glass, while D hold my hand on the other side. (I guess he was feeling afraid if his wife were to drop down. Lol!) I took a picture and moved away quickly. HAHAHA! Phew! I survived! There was this kid that took a picture after me, SITTING on it. Oh my gosh! So braveeee, I CANNOT. :zonked:
 

We were feeling tired by then, so we hopped back on to the Sky Glide and pass back through the 3 cable car station and came back to the Oriental Village. This time we almost got into the same cable car cabin as the China people again but we quickly hopped on and we got the cable car cabin to ourselves. Hehe!

When we were at the Oriental Village, we realized in our Basic Combo we still have other 3 more attractions to go. The SkyRex, SkyDome and the 3D Art Museum. D was feeling tired and wanted to skip the rest but I told him, it is just for experience sake. We had lunch first here before proceeding to the other 3 attractions.

My Virgin Shirley Temple

D had Garlic Bread and Mushroom soup. I LOL-ed so hard because their Garlic bread is literally Garlic + Bread. Heeeeee! And furthermore, D don't eat garlic like that on it's own but he was too hungry, he finished it.

My Fish & Chips. Hehehe! More of Nuggets & Chips but well, I was thankful for food. The weather was truly hot on that day.

2) 3D Art Langkawi

We proceed on to the 3D Art Langkawi since the place was nearby the Café. I didn't know what was the 3D Art Langkawi about. I thought it was some kind of Langkawi Museum until I enter and saw it was almost the same thing in Singapore that is called the Trick Eye Museum which I have been wanting to go but haven't got a chance yet. So mission accomplished here in Langkawi.

These are a few shot we took. Hehe!


Beautiful.


 


I enjoyed here the most! The place is 3 storey high and it wasn't much of a crowd either. Alhamdulilah!

3) Sky Rex


I was feeling quite nervous because of all the warning sign etc. Don't know what to expect and since it says it was a 4D ride. The ride is almost the same like Transformer ride in Universal Studio Singapore. But this is a story about Dinosaur, something like your Jurassic Park kind. The first few seconds of it was like "Wahhhh!" fun and intense, got water splashed and all but suddenly.....it just ended. LOL! I was like "Eh? Like that only?" Hehehe! But for the amount we paid, of course don't expect much. But we were still thankful for the experience.

4) Sky Dome

Last was the Sky Dome. Okay this, seriously. Don't bother. We were placed in a room that has a rounded shape screen on top. They projected a video like as if we were in space, something like Shrek 4D would turn out to be in Universal Studio Singapore but all it gave me was headache and it was nothing far from that. Thank God we did this last, or else, I don't think we would have venture the rest of the attractions, thinking everything will be this '______' (insert own words)

We ended everything almost at 1730 hours. By then we were feeling really lethargic. D drove back to our resort but before that we stopped at Cenang Mall to buy ourselves a Starbucks drink and dinner at Manhattan Fish to eat in our resort room.


Too tired for bath bomb but I still had to do it because I still have like a lot of bath bomb and bubble bar left. Hurhur!
 
 And again I was feeling unwell, vomited all my food and....
Thank you dearest husband.

So sad that we are going back home tomorrow.  But we have to since the day after is the start of fasting month. Time flies pretty fast when we're enjoying and having fun.
 
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Langkawi Day 3 - 26th May 2017

Feeling slightly sad that today was our last day but there isn't anything much we can do. Hurhur! We really hope we can extend our stay here but well....nevermind.

I had my last bath bomb and bubble bar session while D was sleeping away.

D woke up after half an hour later and we were ready to head down for breakfast. I took a few last pictures here and there.

View outside of our resort room at the 2nd floor.
 
Staircase leading to the 1st floor.

Our resort room number 25. The place where we always wait for our buggy.

 
And again breakfast was superb! Unlike some hotel, they actually change the menu from yesterday's. So we didn't get bored of the same food everyday but sadly, the food I wanted which is their mutton curry (super super soft and tender meat) wasn't available today, instead there was fish curry instead. But they win my heart when they had pumpkin chutney instead of potato. So so happy!

My breakfast choices for today,



 


 

We came back to our resort room and started packing before resting our own bed while waiting for our time to check out at 1200 hours. The staff actually gave a call to remind us that it is our checking out day today and to check out by 1200 hours. Smirking smiley Yes we know.

So by 1155 hours, we called for buggy services and headed off to the lobby. Thank God we still have our car with us to drive around. We don't have to return the car till 1 hour before our boarding time and our boarding time is at 1800 hours. We had like 5 hours to stay in Langkawi before flying back to Singapore.

I did some research yesterday on places to go since we had that few hours to drive around. I wanted to go to another Langkawi attraction like the Underwater World, the Crocodile farm etc. but I was afraid that we might not have enough time. So D suggested to head down to their shopping centre at CHOGM Park. It was an hour drive from our resort.

I took pictures of Langkawi surrounding along the way when D was driving. Hehehee!






Locals coming back from Friday Prayers.
 
This is Langkawi Hospital.
 
We didn't do much shopping at CHOGM since I wasn't left with much RM. Hehehe! But the place is definitely cheaper compared to Cenang Mall. Bought some souvenir back for our families and friends.

Cute Nutella right. Hehehehe!

We still had like 2.5 hours left before our boarding time and we were feeling quite hungry too. I finally thought of this place called the Yellow CafĂ©. I have read one of this blogger who went to this cafĂ© in Langkawi. I navigated the direction for D. Surprisingly, the cafĂ© is just behind Cenang Mall only. Hehe!



Cenang Mall




Walked the opposite of Cenang Mall and slightly behind, this is where the Yellow Café is.




 
But the moment we reach here, I was so disappointed that the cafĂ© are still close and will only open in half an hour's time. I wanted to wait but I was so hungry and they were still preparing and setting up the cafĂ© which I doubt the food will be served in half an hour's time. So D and I decided to settle down for lunch at Cenang Mall again. Cenang Mall have been our favourite eatery place since Day 1. Lol! If I would have known, I would have had dinner at the Yellow cafĂ© the day before after coming back from our Cable car trip. But I guess no rezeki.

Back again to Manhattan Fish for lunch,

We bought other food of course but I forgot to take picture. Hehe!

D and I chill and had a heart to heart talk at Manhattan until it was almost nearing to our boarding time. We drove past our resort (have to drive past there also) to bid our final goodbye for an amazing 3 days 2 nights stay.


And here we are back to the airport.



We return back the car back to the rental car company and did our check-in before boarding our flight with Tiger Airways at 1830 hours (they had some flight delay).

Goodbye Langkawi. See you next time, Insyaallah.





XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥

Tuesday, July 04, 2017

*Mini Honeymoon to Langkawi Day 1

Dear Diary,

I finally managed to squeeze in some dear time to do a short update on my blog. As all of you have known, it has been almost a month plus since #TeamRNAxWedding.

Honestly, I am still not over my wedding yet. Everything about it was just full of beautiful & sweet memories. Yes, the preparations was crazy but the end product, the wedding ceremony itself is something that I would not even exchange it for the world.

D and I are happily married now, Syukur Alhamdulilah. I no longer have to feel the "pain" of his absence whenever he send me home after our dating days. Hehehe! Thank you Allah SWT for making this wedding possible. I get to see him every day and we get to come home to each other every day too (minus the days when he does night shift. Tsk!) Most of all, I get to cuddle & kiss the person I love every single day halal-ified! Lol!

So to cut all the sweetness of this post, I shall do my wedding update details the next time and go into details about our mini honeymoon. Yay!

D and I decided on Langkawi for our mini honeymoon. We had like 3 short days to travel because the week after was the fasting month, Ramadhan. We wanted to go to somewhere that doesn't have anything much to do but more of relaxation. We didn't want to do any water sport activities or any kind of any activities (too tired from the wedding) but just to lay back & relax after a long months and months of wedding preparations. So, after much research and asking around from friends & colleagues, that is when we decided on Langkawi.

Langkawi Day 1 - 24th May 2017

Our flight to Langkawi via Air Asia was at 1015 hours and so by 0730 hours, we did a grabcar all the way to the Terminal 1, airport from CCK which cost us $35. We were too lazy to go public. LOL! We reached the airport approximately about 0830 and we did a check-in via the machine. We did not have a luggage to check-in since we don't think we need any luggage to go along for Langkawi. And pardon us, it was our FIRST time traveling, so we were both quite a noob looking for the counters in the airport to check-in, but we did with some help there, we finally got our boarding tickets printed. Hehe!

Since we were early and I am quite a morning person, I wanted to have breakfast and we settled down for Coffee Bean for breakfast. D were telling me (feeling-feeling gitu) about how this is his first trip without his parents. Oh sure, it wasn't my first to travel far without my parents (second actually) BUT...it was definitely my FIRST to travel without any "adult supervision". Hahahaha! After breakfast, it was just nice for us to enter the boarding gate.

While waiting,

We didn't have to wait that long before we get to board the flight. Hehehe! Both D and I was so excited yet nervous at the same time. Excited because we can't believe we are both adult and qualified to travel just the two of us (without having our parents to kill us because we're both married now). This show how strict our parents can be. Hehe! And nervous too because we don't know if we can manage ourselves there without getting lost.


I didn't get the window seat but oh well, I still managed to capture beautiful shot of the sky.

It was a smooth 1 hour 30 minutes journey straight to Langkawi and I slept throughout. (I declare myself airsick) I always worry about the immigration part when I'm at a foreign country because I've been to Australia and I notice some of the immigration officer can be quite strict and scary. And I've heard from some friends who travel to other country too having problems while at immigration, but Alhamdulilah Langkawi was fine.


So happy to be in a foreign country when I touched down. I look around here and there and it seems like there are many tourist compared to local when we arrived. Hehehe! The airport is nothing much to look at even compared to Singapore's budget Terminal 1, we even had to alight and walk on the ground floor to enter the immigration checkpoint. Singapore make us pampered in a way when we enter is right through the checkpoint and it's air-conditioned. Heee! But we were still so glad and happy to be there.

After we got our passport 'Langkawi' stamped, we were greeted by a few people at the arrival hall (no, we don't know them) who offer us to rent cars during our stay in Langkawi. A lot of my friends and relatives who have been to Langkawi, told us to rent a car because it will be wayyyyy much easier for us to get around with car in Langkawi. I was afraid if we will get ourselves lost while driving, but everyone convinced us that Langkawi is only a "small island" and we will never get lost there. Besides, there is always a first for everything right. And so we did!

We accepted the offer from the first man who approached us to rent from his car's rental company at RM60 per day, which was really a good deal. Even that man told us not to be afraid, assuring us that we won't get lost because Langkawi again, is just a "small" island. Smirking smiley The guy then took D's driving particulars (since he will be the one driving) and we were good to go.

Our rented car

Side track:- I actually borrowed a Malaysia prepaid card from my bestfriend, Hernie for GPS purposes. There is actually a prepaid and phone counter the moment you stepped out from the airport and you can get them at 10RM or even 15RM for a week of GB. Unless if you prefer to use the map to navigate yourself, else GPS & google map from the phone is so so much easier. Another plus point with prepaid is that, I was able to do whatsapp update on the go without needing the hotel wifi too. Hehehe!

We could only check-in into our room at 3pm, so we had an hour to do what we wanted to do before checking in to our room. So, D decided to top up the car's petrol first at a nearby petrol kiosk since the car rental company only gave us a 1/4 petrol filled. We drove and asked a local nearby for the nearest petrol kiosk and they said it's nearby, giving the directions like it's near. The thing is, the local are used to this place that everything to them is near. Lol! :lol: We drove around but still couldn't find the petrol kiosk when D told me to start using the GPS to locate the nearest petrol kiosk. He was already annoyed by then because truthfully, he dislike driving but had no choice to drive around here. I had to calm him down and told him not to spoil our holiday, since we are here to enjoy & have fun. And so he apologized.

I was trying to ease D's burden, so I helped to navigate the GPS on behalf of D. I forever sucks at directions & navigating but I did it! Hehehehe! The nearest petrol kiosk was like 15 minutes drive away from the airport and we have been going around the circle. Hahaha!

So after refilling the petrol, suddenly the car couldn't start. Can you imagine how mad D was at that point of time. image It was already hot plus he dislike driving and now the car couldn't start. Hahaha! Thank God I had a Malaysia prepaid with me and the car's rental company number, and so we called the guy to let him know the problem. He came about 20 minutes after and got the battery of the car fixed and we are good to go again. Meanwhile, I bought ice-cream just to calm the both of us down. Hehe! The sales person at the petrol kiosk was nice too, he tried to help us start the car and when failed, he said, we could park here while waiting for the person to fix our car come.

I told D prolly there's a blessing why things happened because now it's just nice to check-in to our room - Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort & Spa, Langkawi.

Picture Credit. Our resort is like 15 mins drive away from the airport.

This resort is slightly pricey compared to some other rooms/hotels/resorts but not the most expensive one here. But I was telling myself, why not pay slightly more for a comfortable room since we are going to stay inside the room most of the time to just relax and not go anywhere.

We park our car at the carpark (I chose this hotel too because they had free parking) and we were greeted nicely by the resort's staff at the lobby. They prepared us a drink and cold towel for us to clean and freshen ourselves from the hot weather while they processed our application etc. before giving us our room.

15 minutes later, we were given a room number and pass. The staff was nice to inform us the nearest eatery and where are all the other nearest places are located for us to get around easily. We were then told to wait at the back of the lobby, which then a buggy driver will fetch us to our room. I was like "Wahh! Buggy?!" And their buggy services is free. They can fetch you from your room to any location in the hotel you wanted to go. So happy I cannot because our room is a distant away from the lobby to walk.

Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort & Spa, Langkawi

Our room was located at the 2nd storey and I remember to say my prayers before entering the room. Hehehe! I fall in love with my room. The King size bed is so comfortable! We had a balcony and I chose the swimming pool view plus they had bath tub in the toilet, so happy I wanted to do my bath bomb and bubble bar. Hehehe! The toilet is huge, I cannot. Everything about the room is nice and cozy. I got myself change and lay down on the bed and look at D (he didn't see this). I cannot explain with words how bless and happy I am now married to this man, blissful reality snap me hard too, that we can travel anywhere just the both of us from now onwards without people telling us no. Hehe!

Sidetrack: I guess our parents did a good job in "controlling" us. So children out there, unmarried couples... Please keep things special to only after marriage. Travel only when you're married and not before you're married, because that feeling is special that I could not even explain. You feel it yourself. Hehe! 

D and I were tired to travel out yet so hungry at the same time, the last meal we had was our breakfast. So, we ordered room service for food even though it was expensive. Hahaha! A plate of kway teow cost us RM45, approximately S$6. HAHAHA! But heck, we are here to finally ENJOY.

After lunch, we both accidentally fall asleep and wake up at around 1700 hours. D, said we have to drive out to get our toiletries and small bites for us to munch in our room, plus we wanted to get dinner as well. Heee! I navigate the GPS to drive out to Cenang Mall (since it's the nearest to our resort), half-way up we saw a provision shop and we stopped there to buy our shampoo, soap and I needed my coffee while D need his Milo.

We then drove up to Cenang Mall and I was so happy that this mall is not exactly outdated as I think it will be. Lol! They have Starbucks, McDonalds, Guardian store, KFC, Manhattan Fish Market too mind you. Lol! D and I decided to get a drink from Starbucks, food from Manhattan Fish Market for myself and KFC for D. We wanted to try the local food there but the food are mostly street food and we weren't too daring to try food from most shop, not because we think it's not clean (you know I', not that kind because I rembat all food) but we don't see much tourist at the food places, mostly local compared to places like those in KFC, Manhattan Fish etc.

Cenang Mall
 
Both D and I bought slippers

Bought these at Cenang Mall

Bought our food back to our resort and we had dinner in our room, while letting time past and watching TV.

I was that tired that I didn't wish to start my bath bomb and bubble bar activity but I had a lot of it and I don't think I can finish all of it tomorrow, since I have only left 1 more night left to finish up the bath bomb and bubble bar And so I did it, drag myself into the toilet, watch the bath bomb colour disperse inside the water in the bath tub and had a one hour long.

My bestfriend bought for me these cute bath bombs!





I wasn't feeling quite well on that day, I guess I had stomach flu and I vomited non-stop especially before bed time. So basically, I didn't really have anything left on my dear stomach. But D  was the sweetest, never fail to make for me Milo, so that I at least have something in my tummy before bed time.


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Stay tuned for the next update..

XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥

Thursday, June 08, 2017

Selamat Berpuasa

Dear Diary,

I have been so busy ever since D and I got married and even days before when we were about to get married. So many things to prepare, so many things had to be settled that I didn't have a chance to blog about anything. Hehe! So truly sorry about that.

Syukur Alhamdulilah!

Our nikah & majlis or rather our solemnization & wedding reception went well. Everyone was happy with the food, they love my deco and just about everything about my wedding. Alhamdulilah! I still remember how worried I was few weeks before my wedding if everything is going to be okay and if everything will go smoothly.

I still remember too, how I wanted my wedding to be over soon but now looking back, well minus the bitter and sore things part about my wedding preps, everything is just beautiful - my kind of fairytale + twilight wedding. Hehehe!

I will blog slowly bit by bit about my wedding preparation when I have the time (hoping to find time now that I'm now actually a wife to someone - still feeling so surreal about this. Hehe!) And also to update on our mini honeymoon trip. Yassss! I'm actually blogging at work and I totally forgot to bring my hard disk to upload the necessary pictures. Blogging without pictures is boring.

So happily married to the man of my dream. Syukur Alhamdulilah!

And to all my Muslim friends,



XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥