Sun.Sand.Sea

The past two weeks have been hectic.. Work’s been ridiculously busy and every after-work day is just filled with things to do, people to meet.. My weekends are busier than my weekdays.. The whole month of April, every weekend was taken up.. I’m looking at my calendar for the month of May and June and every weekend has already been filled up.. Weeknights in May are also being blocked really quickly with just different items..

Much needed rest awaits.. 1 day to go…

Mask - Checked!
Fins – Checked!
Booties – Checked!
Snorkel – Checked! (Just bought mine yesterday – RM30 – low profile)
Sunblock – Checked!
Monopoly Deal – Checked!
Boat Transfer - Checked! (Phew!)

We nearly didn’t make it for the weekend though cos we forgot to book out boat transfers.. Plan was to just head to the jetty and buy our tickets as we always do.. Forgetting that it’s peak period and not knowing that Blue Water Ferry operator has monopolized the entire operations at Mersing and Tanjung Gemuk jetties.. I called them up yesterday to just check out timings of the boats and to my horror they told me that ALL boat are FULLY BOOKED! There is no possible chance to get a transfer for Saturday… That’s not acceptable.. Tried all other possible avenues including hiring a private boat (which is priced at RM2.5k per way – no way we’re using this route), calling up dive owner friends at different island to see if they had any ‘kaki’ in Tioman who could help us out but all these failed..

So after much negotiation with the operator, managed to secure a 230pm boat from Mersing jetty to Tioman on Saturday.. We’ll only probably reach the island at 430-5pm depending on conditions.. Whole day is lost! But I’m thankful that we even managed to get the 230pm boat.. Of course I had to pay up front the full amount.. Now we just got to pray that the weather conditions will be good and the boat won’t be cancelled or delayed.. We just have to now make the most of our Sunday and Monday there.. Managed to secure the last boat out from the island on Monday which is at 430pm so at least we have quite a bit of the last day to be spent on the island..

Best part of this weekend’s break – Free accommodation at Berjaya! I’ve not been to any Berjaya resort before but have only heard great news about it so am really looking forward to it..