Imperfect me.: Friendship♥

I love Bon Odori!! I've been to Bon Odori twice before this, during 2011 and 2012. I missed last year's Bon Odori cause I was in Singapore :'(
Anyway I finally got to go this year with Crystal! We had a blast :D

Kyee and Evan hired a van for their school's Japanese Club, so Crystal and I went with them. None of us wanted to drive there since the traffic will be pretty heavy and it'll be hard to get a parking.
The van is supposed to leave at 4.30pm, but Crystal and I were late :x

I went to Pertama for band jamming in the afternoon, and only got home around 3.30pm.

In an hour, I tried my best to curl my hair, and put on the yukata Susan kindly lends me. Her yukata's obi is the traditional Obi type, I had some trouble trying to tie it. Took me almost 30 minutes to finally be able to put it on. x_x After that I did Kyee's yukata.

I didn't even have the time to put my makeup on lol. Ended up applying it in the car on the way there.

3 of us!

Anyway, we reached around 5.30pm.
When we got there, it looks like it'll rain. D:
Dark grey clouds is up in the sky.

Bad weather condition

Anyway when we got into the stadium, I immediately took a selfie LOL.

Sorry la I know I perasan xD

Anyway, since I brought a mat along with me, we found a spot near the stalls and setup.

We chilled there while waiting for Kyee and her friends to come over to look after our belongings while we buy food.

So..while waiting, naturally, we took pictures haha. And people took pictures of us LOL.

I counted about 7 random people that just requests for photo while we're sitting there.

And oh, I met Thomas (Hexlord) haha. He took a picture of us.

Photo by Hexlord!

Selfies wwww

And believe it or not, somehow I accidentally took the picture on the right lol

Crystal and me! wwwww

Anyway, Kyee and her friends soon came along. We left the mat to their care and roam around getting food xD

The first thing I bought is their Japanese ice-cream!!

It was delicious!

My favourite grape popsicle! (if that is what you call it)

Unfortunately, halfway buying food, it rained wtf. But Crystal and I didn't really care LOL, we keep on buying food. And on the way back to the mat, I found Taro! That lucky guy had an umbrella with him lol.

Anyway we got soaked, and we got seperated from Kyee and her friends. They have already taken the mat and seek shelter somewhere.

Crystal and I rushed into the indoor stadium which is crowded and stuff. :/

But still, we had some food so we ate while standing at a corner haha.

Onigiri, Hokkaido Melon, and Ramen!

Onigiri was meh. Ramen was quite good.
Hokkaido melon was OMGGGGG DELICIOUS.

It's so tender, so sweet! Ahhhhh and so aromatic. >A<
I miss it already!!! It's expensive though, a whole melon would is RM70 wtf. The small container I got was RM6.

Soaked through

Lol it's lucky that my mascara didn't smudge and makes me look even more like a panda.

My dark circles is bad enough already sigh. Even concealer couldn't hide my tiredness.

Drenched,

To be honest, it was actually fun getting drenched in the rain.

It kind of keep us cool while we're stuck inside the stuffy stadium lol,..

It's a good thing that we didn't catch a cold afterwards though.

Haha getting drenched in the rain, Crystal and I were like, YOLO lolol.

It's an unforgettable experience.

We hang around and ate, while waiting for the rain to stop.

When the rain finally slow down to a light drizzle, we went out again. It's starting to get dark, and the lights is starting to lit up around the main stage.

We took some pictures in front of the stage~

Hahhaha sorry if you find all these pictures too vain XD

Can't help it, how often do you have the chance to dress up and look like that?

Anyway soon after that the dance started. The first dance is always the funniest to me, since a lot of people doesn't dare to start dancing first, or maybe it's because they simply doesn't know that they could lmao.

Anyway I think Crystal was kind of awkward at first, but i dragged her to dance anyway XD It's kind of hard, with the crowd all around standing and staring without a clue what they are supposed to do and why are we 2 suddenly trying to dance LOL.

Then a random girl walks up to us and ask if we could dance together. And that's when people begins to form a line following the dancers on the stage and we all dance!

It's kind of magical to see wwwww.

During the dance I realized the my yukata is too long, I keep tripping over it lol. As soon as the dance session is over, Crystal and I head to the washroom and I re-wear the yukata.

After that it's time for the second dance! :D

The second dance was fun as well wwww. Calvin found me, he told me he was snapping photos and realized that the girl looks like me ahhaha. Well, it's me alright XD

Anyway he tried to dance a bit, so funny to see him dance haha. And he took my pictures as well. It's still with him, though. And oh, Quarshay found me and he dance beside me with his friend as well haha.

After the second dance, Crystal and I went to grab more food wwww. I bought more ice-cream, and bought japanese candies. No pictures, but one of the Melon caramel candy I bought was DAMN NICE! I love love love it, regretted not getting more T_T Baka Kyee stole half of the box from me -_-

We didn't go for the last dance. We decided to just shop for food nyehehhehe.
And oh, guess what? Carlson-senpai is back to Malaysia! Met in after a year of not meeting him.

And oh, one funny thing was that he tole me to pretend to be Japanese when his friends approached us. I spoke to him in Japanese, and I think his friends bought it LOL.

Until....Baka Kyee came along and spoke to me in Cantonese. You should have seen their faces ahahhahahaha. They look stunned lmao. XD

I feel so bad now hahaha.

Anyway, I guess that's it.

Here's some pictures that Crystal and I took when we got home.

I know I look darn tired, and I have really bad dark eye circles lol.

It's gotten worse lately sigh.

Okay that's it, buh bye!

This happened almost 2 weeks ago :x

Had some trouble retrieving pictures from my SD Card, hence the delay in updating.

So, I planned this trip since the MATTA Fair in March lol. I wanted to try scuba diving, so I dragged Stephy, Oliver and Emad to go as well haha.

We went to B&J Diving Centre in ABC Bay, and stayed there for 3 days 2 night.

It was a try dive package, RM430/person. We took the Quad Deluxe Air Cond Room.

It was clean, and quite spacious I guess.

There's a queen sized bed, and two super single bed.

Anyway, we went to Mersing by bus. It was a 6 hours ride -_-

We took the night bus, and unfortunately I could only sleep for around an hour during the ride fml.

We reached Mersing around 4.30am lol. Then we spent around 30 minutes searching for a toilet. Emad was desperate for the loo, but the toilets at the bus terminal was locked, which is just plain stupid.

In the end we managed to find a 7-11 and borrowed their toilet.

Anyway, here's a random picture of Oliver and Emad while we were waiting for the bus in Bandar Tasik Selatan.

Anyway after we went to the toilet, we roamed around trying to find the jetty. It was a 10 minutes walk from the bus terminal. We failed to do so though, since it was still dark. In the end we went back to the bus terminal waiting for sunrise. After the sun rise, we went to a nearby KFC. It was only 6am though, so we chilled outside the KFC haha, using their wi-fi to keep ourselves entertained.

Slightly before 7am (the time KFC open), we got bored and wandered to this little port behind the KFC.

Beautiful sky

Selfie!

Chilled there for a bit and took pictures, then when we walked back to KFC, it's opening! Yay!

Went in for breakfast, and finally when it's almost 8am, we walked to the jetty to catch our ferry ride to Tioman Island.

The ferry ride lasted 2 hours :(

I was getting really sleepy since I didn't sleep much, so I tried to sleep in the ferry, Couldn't sleep well too. Only got another hour of sleep sigh.

The ferry wasn't too comfortable, and there's kids in front of me -_- They were noisy :S

When we reached the island, I was glad because I was starting to get dizzy lol.

We walked about 5 minutes before we reached our resort. We checked in, and actually we were supposed to have the dive on that day, but since we were all tired, we postponed it to the next day.

Instead, we just chilled around the beach and explore the bay.

It was mostly rocky beaches. We had to walk for around 10 minutes to the other side before we get to a fairly sandy beach.

Rocks everywhere

The water was clear though

Horizon!

It's a nice island, with the rainforest close behind the resort.

There are no fancy fancy resort there, mostly 2 stars or budget chalet. It's nice though, feels very...Earthly? No idea how to explain it lol.

Oh, and there's quite a few pond (idk if it's really a pond or what) there as well, which we have to cross. Looks kinda eerie, especially at night.

There's trees along the beach as well :D

More random pictures.

Dead moth

We found a swing as well :D

The string is long, so it makes it even more fun than a regular playground swing hehe.

Plus, it's only one string.

Hahahha Oliver tried to go on it, but he had no idea how to sit on the sing lmao. I was laughing so bad watching him try to get on it hahahaha.

He tried sitting on it crossed leg lmao xD

Emad was patiently explaining how to sit to him.

I was too busy snapping photo and laughing xD

Lol Emad swinging

Me taking a turn as well, and Emad running to push me -_-

Stephy's turn!

We strolled further after swinging, the we turned to go back to our rooms to get changed into bathing attire.
Here's more random snaps on the way back.

Coral stuck on the branch

Pretty shell

Saw a erm....dunno what species of lizard as well.

After getting changed, we walked all the way to the end of the bay and swam there.

We had fun swimming :D There's a huge rock by the beach as well, and the tide is rising up towards it. The rock is slippery with moss, and it was slanting down at a perfect angle for a slide.

Emad got the genius idea of climbing up the rock and sliding down it xD

Was freaking fun :D

We spent close to 2 hours bathing I think. Can't really remember, but when we finally went back to our room, it was almost sunset and we had our dinner after we took our shower.

Around 9pm, I went out alone and took a short walk outside.

I expected to see stars, but the sky was nothing but just plain darkness. It was kinda creeping me out, so I walked back lol.

We slept around 10pm that night, since none of us had good sleep the previous night.

Next morning, I woke around 7am. I went out and took a walk by the beach by myself, since the others are still sleeping. It was cool, almost cold even. Kinda wish I brought my jacket out with me haha.

I sat down on a rock, watching the waves and relaxing. I just love the sound the waves make, and feeling the pebbles and sand on my feet. The tide was rising as well, and I sat there until the tide started to reach me. After that, I walked to the jetty, and just stared out down to see the fishes below me.

I walked back when the sun ray started to shine across the rainforest behind and reach me.

When the others woke up, we went for breakfast. After breakfast, it was time for our dive!

Well, not exactly haha. We had to watch a video, sign paperworks, and be taught about scuba diving. That took around an hour, before we were brought to the pool to try it out.

Spent another hour plus there.

The first breath that I took underwater was kinda magical.

It was kinda scary to me as well for some reason. I took a few breaths and for I don't know what reason, I started to panic. I rushed to the surface and spat out the regulator from my mouth, and got told off by my instructor, Megan.

But then, after that it was alright.

After we were done practicing, we went to a nearby cafe and had a snack.

After about 2 hours break, we went back, geared up, and make our way out to the sea. :D

It was a pain going out though, cause the tank was so heavy, and the shore was very rocky. But then in the end we made it to the appropriate depth to actually start swimming, and that wasn't that bad.

Until we started diving down.

Megan deflated my BCD (Buoyancy Control Device), and I started sinking at an alarming rate. (Well, to me at least.) About 1.5m down, I panicked for I don't know what reason again, and inflated my BCD. Well of course, I shot up to the surface, and for some reasons, the others shot up after me as well lol.

Next thing we know, Megan was screaming at us, cause if we do that below the depth of 5m, we could get decompression sickness.

Anyhow, when she calmed down, we attempted again diving down again. This time I get to the depth of around 4m, but I couldn't equalize my ear, even after 3 to 4 attempts. In the end, Megan told me to go back. Obviously, I was upset. I felt so unaccomplished, but what could I do? My stupid ear wouldn't equalize and it hurts. I don't want to risk anything by ignoring it. Damn, and I was so close as well, another meter and I would have reached the bottom :( Sigh. I'm still kind of bumped that I didn't manage to dive to the bottom completely right now ._.

Meh, one day I will do it again.

The reason why I couldn't equalize is apparently, I had a cold damn it. I'm guessing I caught it when we had our snacks after our pool learning session. I just walked to the cafe, dripping wet in my bathing suit and sat there with wind blowing at me. Fml.

Oh well, anyway I went back into our hotel room, and kinda emo at the corner reading my novel waiting for my friends to come back lol. I expect them to be gone for around 20 to 30 minutes, but surprisingly they came back early, around 15 minutes after I got back.

-_- They told me I didn't miss much, so I guess I had that going for me lolol. But then, I guess there wasn't that much to see as well, a lot of the corals there are dead :(

Later on, we went to swim at the beach again, and we hiked a short trail over to the next bay. There was nothing much there, so we went back to the spot where we swam the day before. We actually swam till sunset, and continue swimming in the dark. It was creepy, yet there is something very satisfying and tranquil about swimming in the dark. We went back shortly, and went to a barbeque restaurant for our last dinner at the island.

There was this cat that climbed onto the railing beside me, and it had the guts to do this lol.

Being "mean" to it

After the dinner, I somehow got into a pillow fight with Emad back at the room -_-

Forgot how exactly it happened, but I remember me trying to snatch the air-cond remote from him, but he won't let me cause he don't want me to adjust the temperature lol. We were being really childish, which was fun xD I can't remember the details, but I think it includes being rolled in the blanket, getting tickled, and flying kicks? lolol.

In the end I just steal his blanket, with the help of Stephy xD I think Oliver was just playing his Ipad, ignoring us and facepalming at us hahahhaa.

After the chaos ended, we played cards and just chillax.

And slept around 1am lol.

The next day, it was time to leave :(

We have to catch our ferry at 9am, which sucks cause that leaves us no time to do anything on the last day. In the end, it's more like a 2 days 2 night package sigh.