24Dec~Christmas Eve~First Day
Woke up at 3am!!! Slept at 1am and woke up after sleeping 2 hours!! Well, 10of us including my whole family (Father,Mother,Brother & Me) went with friends of my father's. We start our journey by 4:30am. Seriously,I don't know how long it takes to go to Kedah's Border,since I slept whole way through! xp
We stopped at the immigration thingy at 7am. Quite a lot of people there already which surprises me,well after a queue of 20minutes. We continued driving to Hatyai. Again,I slept whole way through~ We ate mee at AhPek's coffee shop which we will always go there whenever we go to Hatyai. The one which there are many signatures or names on the wall.(Remember? BC&JEN? We wrote something on the wall too!They are still there!) Then,we buy some fireworks in Hatyai to bring to Koh Lipe. From one of my mother's friend who went there before,she said that the fireworks in Koh Lipe are way more expensive than the ones in Hatyai. We bought them to celebrate Christmas! Of course~
Then,another 2hours drive from Hatyai to Koh Lipe. Due to the villagers in Koh Lipe,it takes only an hour from Koh Lipe to Malaysia's Pulau Langkawi,so it wasn't very far.
After 2hours,we reached the dock. It was 8am(9am M'sia) then. The earliest boat to Koh Lipe 11am(12pm M'sia). That means we had to wait 3hours!!!
The speed boat arrived at 11am as said. But,they needed to have the boxes of vegetables and fruits or whatever in to the speed boat first! So,we waited about an hour before all the boxes and our luggage were in the boat. Yet,we couldn't enter the boat yet!! The ones who had the ticket number 30 and above had already went in! And,the speed boat seemed full already! We had the ticket number 50+,wondering we would have space in the speed boat or not.
It's already a quarter to two,yet,we still couldn't get to the speed boat and the speed boat was still there. You know why? Because they had to full the tank with fuel! Well,it was very boring to wait there. Luckily,there were 2 cats! An orange cat was sleeping there,and a white skinny kitten purring on the bench. A tourist bought milk for the kitten,it was so kind of her! But,the kitten seemed it didn't know how to drink the milk!
After an hour and a half of a boat trip we reached Koh Lipe,finally. The boat trip wasn't too dizzy. It was just like a car on a rocky road,and very windy. There were a couple 3places by 2 of them. The other one was for a luggage! Did the luggage have to use life jacket?! My mother asked them to let me sit on that place instead of letting that luggage sitting. They somehow let me to sit it. I think the boat was overloaded,since half of the people in the speed boat didn't have a life jacket! You know? The 2 couples scolded my mother after a few minutes with rough and unpleasent words. It was them who were wrong!! How could they? It made me soooo uncomfortable siting there. Well,I wasn't the type who would scold back at them loudly,so I just sit there and acted I did not hear anything.
The sea in Koh Lipe was very clear indeed! And very salty too!! My brother,three other friends with the age like my bro and I went to the sea to play! Throwing sand balls there and here! We could easily float without any life jacket! It was really fun!
We went to have dinner in a restaurant. We were the only HUMAN customers there! The FLIES customers were extremely more than human customers! The flies were so annoying!
After dinner,we walked through The Walking Street which was really ONLY walking. No cars were seen there! Only a few motors. The things there were really expensive! A roti-canai-like-pancake even costs 80B(RM8)!! But,there was something special! There were MANY dogs on the street! The tourists were friendly as well as the dogs too! I rarely hear them barking!
We sat on the beach for awhile. I played sand castle myself at the first.I was trying to build a beautiful castle. But,it was really hard. A couple of tourist tried to lid the white big lanterns(孔明灯). It might be their first time and it was windy there,so it was quite hard to have the lantern flying. We gave them a hand. Finally,it flew!! The woman suddenly squatted down and pray. The lantern was almost falling down to the sea,then flew up again,fell to the right side,then turned a SOMERSAULT! Luckily,it managed to fly up high and far! The woman just suddenly burst into tears!I wonder why and my mother said that she was making a wish.
Some of the fireworks were really not exciting and totally boring!!I continued my sand castle while my father just wanted to use all of them since no one in our group wanted to play it was wasted just throwing them. A few children which were not Asian looked at us as if they wanted to join us. My father just let them have one. I wonder why,they looked at the fireworks as if they were first time seeing it!! And they really like it! Well, we became Santa Claus that gives fireworks! Ha ha!
Later,we played Empire.I wasn't sure that it was a game my bro really created by himself or it was already existed before that. Anyway,for short it was a game played between the waves and human! The aim of the game was not to let the main hole filled with sand! To do that,all we have to do is keep digging holes on the beach! Finally,we won! The wave started to decrease,and that means we won! It was Christmas already when we won. But,they didn't seem to countdown or have Christmas songs.
Our hotel's name was Varin Beach Resort.(Not Very Bcith Resort! XD) I took a bath and laid down on my bed. I saw mosquitoes flying there and here,I was exhausted,I didn't even care to hit it. I fell asleep.