Redang!

last thursday me and 6 of my homeboys set off on a trip to Redang, Malaysia. it was Daniel's birthday-trip. it started with a 9 hour bus trip to Merang, in the far north of malaysia. due to seat availibility we had to divide our group into two busses. me and one more went on a separate bus. the better bus it turned out. we arrived on time and started asking around for a ATM. we didn't have a singel ringgit from before. we found out that there was one 2 km up the street. fine. we'll just wait for our friends arriving on another bus we told the taxi driver.. he laughed at us. and told us that their bus had broken down on the way here. they are delayed for three hours.

so, we set of for the ATM without them. it turned out that it was out of service. the closest other ATM was 1 hour drive away. we had no choise but to ask him to drive us there. they drive like crazy in malaysia. and there are no seat belts in the backseat. i'm glad i came home in one pice. anyways, we knew that none of the others had any ringgits eather. so we emted our accounts.

when we came back from the car-ride from hell. we found a nice man that knew where our resarvation were and told us that the boat will depart as soon as our friends arrive. when we got on the boat it turned out to be dave chappel that was the driver. cool. maybe he has retired from being a comedian.

when we finnaly arrived at tha island we checked in to our hotel, then lunch, then the beach. in the eavning we found that there was a music festival for yooung, underground, tiwanese, hong kong and vietnam bands. pretty nice they set up a stage on the beach. to bad it rained in the eavning. but it was fun as long as it lasted.

saturday was spend by taking a snorkeling trip to some marine park. it was nice, lots of fishes. in the afternoon we wanted to try the real thing. so we did a descovery dive with scuba equipment. that was cool. really nice. the night pretty much rained away. beaten after a hard day in the water we called it a night around 1 o'clock.

sunday it was time to go home again. the 9 hour bus trip turned into a 12 hour bus trip. due to traffic jam at the boarder to singapore. after crossing the boarder of singapore a couple of times now, i realised that it takes time. nothing you want to do in a hurry.

that pretty much sums up my weekend. all and all it was a really good weekend. in between all our activities we just hung out on the beach.