Our room
The lovely vieww... NOT. But oh well...
Me and YuWen's morning dresses. See? We match!
My Mom's morning dress
Our cousin, Sarah (Rachel's sister) in the bus on the way to church. Isn't she cuteeee? Don't be deceived though. She can be quite a fierce baby. She scratched me and YuWen and laughed. =.= But she also held up her foot for us to blow because her feet were too hot. Everytime we stopped blowing, she held up her foot again. Soooo cute!
Yen Yen (or Dorcas) and Kuang Seng. Isn't she pretty?
from left: Jessica, Rachel, Daniel, and Sarah. Soooo cute!! Sarah is, like, the cutest baby ever!
YuWen and my dinner dresses
The dinner place.
[Some of] the adults. YuWen's dad, Gary, is missing.
Rachel and the other flower girl collecting flowers outside on the lawn of the dinner place. Chijmes, I think it was called. Yeah. Chijmes.
Ugh. I'm too lazy to tell you all this in detail, so...
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Day 1:
YuWen and my room.
Omg, my legs look so skinny! They're not that skinny in real life!!! Must - eat - more!
Awww... aren't they cute? JiaQing and Rachel
And guess what? The drinks at the bar are free. Well, most of them, I think. The ones without prices at the sides are free. So we kids can just walk over to the bar when we're thirsty, get a drink, and walk away without paying for it. And there are lots of different kinds of food at the buffet, too. The free drinks and buffet are included in the ... what do you call it ... payment-to-stay-at-Club-Med.
The TV in Passworld.
Day 2:There are different "clubs" in Club Med. People who are 2-3 are in the Petit Club; 4-7 in the Mini Club; 8-10 in the Kids Club; 11-17 in the Teens Club or whatever. The activites for the clubs are more or less the same, but at different times. But if you are 13 or whatever age, you don't have to follow the Teen Club everywhere until they say you can go back to sleep. All you have to do is show up, and you can join whatever they are doing.
Me, ShiHao, ShiWei, and Heng Tuan (we just call him Tuan Tuan) went for archery with the Teens Club in the morning. Most of the teens (they could speak French and English) knew how to play already, but we didn't. So the staff taught us. It was pretty fun. But I whacked my arm with the string on the bow once, then a staff told me to bend my arm a little so it won't happen again.
My cousins whacked their arms with the strings several times more, though, so their arms were red. LOL.After archery, they went back down to Passworld for a break. Me and ShiWei played the instruments and played Connect Four for a while, then we went up to my room while ShiHao and ShiWei stayed downstairs. We ate some cup noodles. We made a new friend that day: Chelsea from Shah Alam.
Me, YuWen, and Chelsea went to do batik painting. It was so fun! Chelsea did it earlier that morning while the rest of us were archering, and she gave us some pointers and how to make it fade out.
JiaHe on the bungy-bounce/trampoline.
JiaHe on the trapeze. The guy on the left is Micha (keep reading to know who he is) but I don't know the other guy's name. He acted in one of the shows as the kung fu teacher (go to Day 3 to know more).
How to do a leghang: Grab the bar with your hands with your thumbs under the bar. Curl your body and fold your legs in front of you. Swing your legs above the bar so the bar is under the behind of your knees. Let go of your hands so you are dangling by your legs. Swing back upwards and grab the bar. Get your legs off the bar.
2. A guy puts a thick, belt thing around my waist, then hooks a rope to it. He holds on to the rope. I climb up the ladder halfway, then turn and climb up the other side of the ladder. I stop. There is a plank of wood behind me. I stretch my leg out and step on it, then put one hand on the rope on the wood, then get my other leg and hand on the wood and rope.
The guy on the plank (Micha, his name was. Or Nicha. He looks maybe 19 or 20 and older) asks me my name. I tell him. He takes a while to get it kind-of-right.
Micha or something: Jiayu. Sounds like jail. *the way he pronounces "jail" is like "ja-eel"*
Me: O_o
Micha: How many boyfriends do you have?
Me: None.
Micha: Nine?
Me: No, none!
Micha: Nine?? You have nine boyfriends?!
Me: NO!
Micha: You have nine boyfriends! One for everyday and two for the weekend. Do they know about each other?
Me: Lol!
I get scared, standing on the wood plank. I look down at the net and get more scared. I try to calm down. Micha doesn't help when the stomps on the plank and makes it shake. I tighten my grip on the left vertical rope on each side of the plank.
3. He uses one hand to hold a stick with a hook at the end to get one side of the trapeze. The other hand is holding my belt so I don't fall off accidentally. I lean out with my left hand on one of the diagonal ropes beside me and grab the trapeze with my right hand.
4. Micha asks me to put my left hand on the trapeze. I get very scared and say that if I lean further and grab it with my left hand, I will fall off. He says I won't. I grab it, surprised that I could.
5. He pushes me off.
6. All the fear disappears. It was too fun for me to be scared! Suddenly the net doesn't seem that far below (if you're watching, it wouldn't seem high at all, but once you're up there on the plank, it's kinda scary).
7. The other guy below, holding the rope that is connected to my "belt", shouts out instructions. "Forward [he's talking about my legs], backward, forward, backward, one more time, forward, backward, fold your legs!"
8. I did the leghang wrongly, though. NOOOOO!!! It was a little embarrassing, but that made me more determined to try again. I'm like that. I knew that I would probably be embarrassed, if only a little, for quite some time, so I really wanted to go again to prove I could do it. I did, but the next day.
After the trapeze, YuWen and I went to take a shower in our room. Then we went to eat dinner. After dinner, we went to the theatre to get our T-shirts because, you see, there was going to be a fashion show that night, with the Petit Club, Mini Club, Kids Club (okay, now when I say Mini Club, I mean Mini Club and Kids Club), and Teens Club.
We took a group picture, but as the cameraman was about to take it, Hafiz was like, "Oww! Someone's pinching my ass! OW!!" And the European guys behind started laughing and stuff. Omg LOL...
We went downstairs to Passworld and played foozball. Me and YuWen vs. TuanTuan and JiaHe. I didn't know foozball could be so fun! It rained that day. At breakfast, Chelsea sat with us and kept calling ShiWei "Orangeboy" because he had been wearing orange yesterday night. So ShiWei and the others started calling her "Gap" because of her Gap cap.
Gap and Orangeboy.
ROFL. Nice names!
It was circus day, so we took pictures with a guy (I don't know his name; he's the one shouting instructions at the trapeze, I think) and Claire (the lady at the bungy-bouncing place). They were on stilts, that's why they're so tall.
Haha. Look at Rachel! She looks so bored and cute. So innocent. After the rain, Me, YuWen, and Chelsea went to do some more batik painting, then we joined the others in the swimming pool. The pool was kind of boring. We just swam around and had competitions to see who could hold their breath the longest (my best was 20 seconds. Phuh. I wonder how Daniel Craig does it). We watched Daniel Craig hold his breath underwater for 7+ minutes.
I was disappointed that it rained because I couldn't go on the trapeze, but when YuWen and I went to the theatre - voila! - the trapeze was inside. NO, not the exact same one as outside, with all the nets and ropes! Just the bar thingy and the ropes, with something on the floor to soften our fall.
I sat on one of the chairs and watched as people went on the trapeze. Then Micha came over while I was watching and asked, "Are you the girl with 9 boyfriends?" I looked at him incredulously and laughed, and he said, smiling, "Just kidding."
Nice people. Nice staff. One of the staff, Benjamin, was funny, too. YuWen kept saying that. "I like Benjamin. He's funny. Benjamin is funny. I like Benjamin. I like Benjamin. I like Benjamin. I like Benjamin. I like Benjamin." Haha. But Benjamin IS funny.
The outside of the theatre.
My mom didn't take a picture of me doing the leghang. Don't know what she was doing at the time. In this shot, I've already finished the leghang and is getting my legs off the bar.
The first time I did it inside the theatre, I had to swing 3 times before I got my legs on the bar. The second time, I did the leghang in one try, so after the guy asked me to get my legs off the bar, he said, "Okay, now I'm going to teach you to do a backflip."
I intelligently said, "What?!"
Then he said, "Forward, backward, forward, let go!"
So I let go. Instead of doing a backflip, though, I just fell and landed on my feet like that. Eh. Too bad I couldn't try again. There were these 3 teens whom he taught some of the basic tricks. They could do the leghang, swing, jump, stand on it, and hang by their feet. So cool. We didn't have time to learn all that, though.
This is ShiWei doing a leghang.
We went to one side of the beach, the part outside the theatre. I walked carefully when I saw some moving things in the sand. ShiWei and the others were looking at the waves and crabholes. I stood there and looked down to my left. Then my right.
Worms.
I screamed and ran up the stairs and back to the theatre. YuWen followed. It was so disgusting! But the part of the beach outside our room is clean and free of disgusting worms. There are adorable little, fierce hermit crabs in that part.
Omg, the show at night was awesome. Claire did a rain dance, I think it was, with a red curtain dangling from the ceiling. Two guys, and then a guy (the Other Guy beside JiaHe in the trapeze picture) and girl went on the trapeze in the theatre and did really cool tricks and stuff.
Then there was this act with the Other Guy as the kung fu master and Micha as the stupid student. It was so funny! Then some other acrobats, Ayumi, Claire, and etc., jumped out and they all did frontflips and whacked Micha's butt and stuff like that. Then they put this thing on top of the Other Guy, jumped onto it, and started stomping and jumping on it to crush the guy. It was so funny!!! I felt like screaming with laughter.
It was soooo great. YuWen and I want to go learn gymnastics now! The show was SOOOOO awesome, you guys should have seen it. Omg! Me and YuWen were talking nonstop about it to her dad on the way to our rooms.
The show was soooo great!!! I feel so sad about leaving Club Med... :(
Awww... I wanna go back.
Day 4:
BeChe (YuWen's dad; that's what I call him) knocked on our room door in the morning and asked YuWen if she wanted to go for a walk in the beach. I tagged along. We got dressed and went. Rachel was still sleeping, so she didn't go.
We walked awhile. YuWen and I stood on the sand and let the waves wash over our feet and slippers. When we turned and wanted to walk to dry sand, we had to be careful so our slippers didn't get stuck to the wet sand because of all the water. The sand stubbornly held on to my slipper when I walked away, so I had to get it back.
Then BeChe drove me and YuWen to this kopitiam where they sell really nice nasi lemak. We ate 3 packs there and bought 14 more packs for the others (and 3 more for me and YuWen =P). After breakfast, YuWen and I went to the souvenir shop, called la boutique. We were browsing and tried to decide what we wanted so we could tell our parents later. ShiHao joined us. He had money, but we didn't.
YuWen and I were walking out of la boutique to get our batik paintings when my Dad came and asked if we wanted to buy anything.
Of course we said yes.
My Dad gave me RM200 first (the stuff there are expensive. A pack of Pocky sticks cost RM8), but then later when the others came and wanted to buy stuff, too, he took out his credit card. Then I took his credit card and walked around the shop with YuWen, trying to decide what to get.
I didn't get to use the card, though, because he came back while we were still walking around. In the end, I got a really pretty, blue bracelet that matches my paua shell earrings, a magnet with a turtle on it to stick on the fridge (except the fridge in the dry kitchen is not magnetic, so I'll have to put it on the fridge in the wet kitchen, where they do the cooking), a Cherating Beach pink shirt with a lizard on it, and a green, ceramic frog soap tray that is exactly the same as the soap tray in our hotel room bathroom.
Because of my carelessness, someone dropped the frog soap tray afterwards and it broke into 4 pieces. Awww! I bought it to remind me of Club Med (as if I could forget)!! YuWen bought the same bracelet, but in pink.
Me and Chelsea
Sorry, but I'm too lazy to rotate these pictures. Blogger is annoying. I have to drag the pictures all the way down. It takes SO long. I've been working on this post for hours. I'm not kidding. Ugh.
Anyway, after that, we went for more bungy-bouncing and the trapeze. JiaHe tried the trapeze today. The first time, he couldn't do the leghang. Then my Mom came and asked JiaHe to do it again so she could record it, so he went again, and he did the leghang this time.
We sat on the bench. These two little blonde girls, who were really cute, sat beside me and YuWen. They asked YuWen for 2 sweets each when they saw her eating them. Then the guy said, "Zhu ni fang pi kuai le". The girls laughed and one of them said, "No! Zhu ni shen ri kuai le!"
The guy actually knew, but he was saying that for fun. Apparently, the girls lived in Beijing. My Mom asked them their names and where they lived in Chinese, and they replied her in Chinese. Then one of them asked me my name in Chinese.
Girl: Ni jiao shen me ming zhi?
Me: Wo jiao JiaYu. Ni jiao shen me ming zhi?
Girl: Wo jiao Akhmed (I don't know how to spell it).
I asked the other girl her name and she said she was Louise. I said I was JiaYu and she said, "You're a fish." Then I said, "Yeah." I told YuWen their names, and I said, "Louissse."
Louise was like, "No! No! Loo-ee-zuh!"
So YuWen and I said, "Loo-ee-zuh. Loo-ee-zuh."
LOL. Then the guy threw Akhmed's slippers, just to play with her, and she went to retrieve them. it became sort of a game, so everytime he threw them, she took them and gave them back to him to throw again.
Then we had to go. We were waiting for the adults to come to check out in the bar and swimming pool area (scroll up for the picture of me and YuWen, with a background of brown sofas and back curtains), when YuWen suddenly remembered the batik paintings.
We made a mad dash downstairs to get them (thank God). Then we said thank you to the ladies there who helped us. We did D.I.Y. batiks yesterday. We chose a drawing each over there, showed it to the people, then they gave us cloths and we put the drawings under them and traced.
YuWen chose a cute, pretty, simple flower drawing. Chelsea chose some fishes. I chose this really pretty bird with a lot of feathers and leaves and stuff. Chelsea did the waxing herself, but it looked hard and she was regretting doing it by herself. My bird picture was too complicated for me to wax it myself, I said, so I asked the lady to help me wax it (when they wax, they dip something in melted wax and trace the batik with wax so when we paint it, the paint won't go over the lines). She helped YuWen too, because YuWen was too young to know how.
Batik is so much fun to paint. After we got our batik paintings back, we raced back upstairs and sat on the sofas, sweating (we sweat a lot in Club Med).
Then we had to leave! It was sad. Aww... I feel like crying. ShiWei said he does, too. I hope we can go back. ShiWei says maybe we can go to the one in Maldives, and his Dad said maybe Japan.
Whew! Finally done. It took so long, but I never want to forget this! I love Club Med! Too bad I lost my Confessions of a Boyfriend Stealer book there. It was a nice book. Tash asked me if there were any cute French guys, and I said yes, but I don't know if they're French. They're definitely not Asian, though.
And they're like 18-20-or-older, but still cute. Lol.
School tomorrow. Awww. Too bad. I don't want to go. I'm going to Singapore in 2 weeks for my cousin Yen Yen's wedding. Yay! XD
Wow. I took like almost an hour just to color the paragprahs and delete the unnecessary spaces between the paragraphs.
Well, good night! Oh gosh, it's 11 PM now. I miss Club Med...
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