Champagne bottles and sparkling diamonds.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 ;

♥Kota Tinggi Waterfalls.

I signed up for this Kota Tinggi Waterfalls that was organised by the Green Volunteers of BE. Good thing the people there around me were at least fun, and I made some new friends.

Our very first stop was at this place very near to the Causeway Link, to have our breakfast. We tasted the sambal fried rice of one of the Malaysia's hawkers and it was good! Every mouthful was of satisfaction.

Had a great time with the two Gs, Geraldina and Gifford. LOL. We were right at the back of the bus, eating, listening to music, chatting, and snatching for the best seat each time we boarded it.

When we arrived the Kota Tinggi Waterfalls, instead of seeing the expected beautiful mountains and natural landscapes, all I saw was man-made. The waterfall stream had a bridge across, additional rocks, sand, terracing, alterations with slides etc. At least the waterfall was beautiful with the greenery beside it. The only thing that spoils it when you take pictures of the waterfall, is the lamppost on the platform that stands in the view.

We started off the day with treasure hunting around the resort. The resort was super run-down, I could never live in such conditions even for a few hours. The treasure hunting was pretty tough, and alot of clues were found by luck. I think I didn't find a single clue at all, that proves how lousy I am at such stuff. We turned out to be the losers team. HAHAHA. But its okay, there was no prize or anything. That's really sad for the winning team.

Lunch was horrible. Their chicken was as hard as diamond, ok...I think that's a little too exaggerating. The only edible things were the rice and the skimmed egg.

We had our own time after that to move around the place before our next destination. So obviously, we jumped into the water! It was my first time being barefooted everywhere, because I forgot to bring my slippers. The floor was disgusting and rough. It was worse in the waters. The rocks underneath were wet and slimy with algae, and with the current from the waterfall pushing us away from it, we had a hard time getting to the waterfall. It was a pretty cool experience for me, being able to be under waterfall. The water falling from a high distance onto the back was like a really hard massage, and trying to push anyone off the ledge from a sitting position. Some people weren't careful enough and had cuts on their legs, such as careless Gifford who is so dumb.
We swam for awhile and got onto the slides, and that was all that we could do. So we went to have a shower and I was again barefooted up and down the cemented stairs, and on the rocky pavements.

The bathing house was gross. They had no shower heads and the water just poured down from the pipes like pee. The walls had moss and dark cracks, URGH.
Just when we came out from the showers, walking out back to the meeting room where all our bags were, it gradually started raining, like gorillas and chimpanzees dropping on our heads. RUN FOR OUR LIVES! It was so sudden. And thanks to the rain, we were partially drenched again.

We were on a long bus journey thereafter to a really big shopping centre. We were given two hours to shop because it was raining and we were not going to see fireflies. That's like really sad. But at least we get more shopping time! All of us splitted up, and only Geraldina and I were left to walk around. We went to all the shops like Mango, Topshop blah blah. But we didn't buy anything. I got a Hairband and comb at Sinma and Geraldina got a leather strap for her brother at Padini. We headed to Jusco at the last hour, but the only thing we managed to look at was Bras and Panties. OMG, I can tell you, I so want to go back there again. The Bras are like so pretty and they only cost 10RM each, that is like less than 5bucks! The material feels like sloggi and better than La Senza. So cheap so worth! But we had no time so we both grabbed three each and went to pay for them. We wanted to be on time, so we didn't manage to look at the other things. We bought Dunkin' Doughnuts which tasted horrible, japanese puffs and gingerbread man. I still wanted to go into the food department of Jusco and do some grocery shopping because the fruits are so cheap, but they kept pulling me away. SIGH. But what the heck, we were early, but we waited for an hour just because there were three people who didn't keep check of time.

We had dinner late, and we all reached home late.

It may had been a long and tiring day, but I did have quite some fun and laughters.

I'm talking champagne wishes and caviar dreams.