And here comes the second post of my Krabi trip. There isn’t any third post because I’m gonna spam 50 over pictures in this alone! :) It was the 14 of January when we had a full free-and-easy day to do anything we want with our own money in Krabi. Some of them wanted to shop around, some of them wanted to stay in for massage, some opt for Aonang beach, some wanted to challenge the ATV but I wanted to go for island hopping!

I’ve never done that and I’ve never visited any pretty beaches with clear water and clean sand. I insisted in the programme and my colleague were so sweet. They gave in and we ended up with my plan :) The other 10 and I were up for it! They gang included me, May, Rachel, Advan, Daryl, Shirley, Lei Hun, Evelyn, Ching, Yuhanis and Caffee. And because we were in a big group, we get to rent a private speedboat – all by ourselves! We get to schedule ourselves!! I was so excited about it the whole night before the actual island hopping.

Each of us had to pay only 1530 baht for the whole trip, speedboat and lunch. It was worth it. And again, I wanna thank May, Shirley and Yuhanis for the 1.5 hours bargaining at Aonang, the night before.

We started off the day with breakfast in the hotel at 8am. I was the earliest at report. I was the earliest for all the 4 days and I’m secretly proud of it. LOL. We then got on the bus at 8.30am heading to the beach for the speedboat.

#01 That’s me in white and short denim, posing for the camera with the dear colleagues behind me.

#02 The colleagues with our speedboat captain.

Ahhh if you didn’t know, it was my first experience on a speedboat like this. I was so excited about it like a little kid. I took my way and sat on the front of the boat without the rest of the girls who chilled at the back part. As I sat there, I look everywhere. I looked around at the sea, the boats, the islands, the skies, the everything I can spot there. It was awesome. I do not know how to express and explain my feelings of the moment but it was calming. I wish to feel that way every now and then. It was really sunny but the breeze and the wind around was chilling. It was love!

That day, I decided to hate the city for a day. Haha. I’m afraid of the sea but I decided to shift my love for it.

#03 Hahaha Lei Hun, Daryl and I were posing right in time with the island.

#04 That’s me, Lei Hun, Shirley and Yuhanis.

#05 This picture was taken by Advan but I find it cute! Haha I’m the one holding another camera in the edge of the picture above.

#06 Peace and calm. Period.

#07 It took us less than 30 minutes to reach our first destination, Bamboo Island. Upon our arrival, there was no sign of any other tourist or boats. It felt as if we booked the whole island for ourselves too. It was beautiful – whether the beach, the sand, the sea, or the weather. Everything was perfect… until the other tourists arrived.

#08 Me smiling for the camera. And it was me while I was still as fair-skinned.

#09 Look at what I meant by BEAUTIFUL.

#10 Totally awesome, beach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#12 Colourful Caffee and Shirley posing for the camera with the colourful speedboat behind them.

#13 All these scenery pictures are definitely wallpaper material, no?

#14 Ahhh clear sea water! No pollution! I love Bamboo Island. Forget about the local shores with pollution.

#15 The only thing I’m still wondering is that why are the shells in Krabi are all so tiny. I can find bigger and nicer ones in the local beaches tho T_T

#16 That’s pretty May. I took this picture when she wasn’t aware. Yes, I like to take pictures when the friends are not aware because I want to snap natural expressions on them. I took so much and this is one of my favourites.

#17 A natural Shirley.

#18 And it was also my first time to see fishes at such a distance at the shore. It was awesome! I used to see these in only friends’ Facebook pictures, promotional materials and movies. Lol.

#19 Rachel, who went snorkeling at the beach itself.

#20 Together with May.

#21 I don’t know why but I was kinda afraid to go in the water with the fishes so I gave up snorkeling for this trip.

#22 While the snorkel, I relaxed myself at the beach side and took tons of pictures. For the whole trip, I took around 700 pictures with the company’s DSLR.

#23 I was busy doing my own stuff, wandering and wondering until I see this guy lying flat on the sand. I had an idea…

#24 … to bury him! Yay!

#25 Then the other colleagues decided to come over and gave me a hand. They gave him boobs and other parts of the body too.

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#27 Completing the piece of art. Hahahahaha.

#28 Rachel and I were half posing and half relaxing in this picture. I’ve never lied on a sand like this and the feeling was awesome. Hahahahahaha. I feel like a little girl who just came out from a village; experiencing little things and they made me excited but true enough, I really felt that way. The temperature and the texture of the sand was just nice for us to do so!

#29 Pretty Rachel. My so-called lesbian couple. No, she’s straight :)

#30 More poses…

#31 More selcas…

#32 Lol. Superman by the beach.

#33 Advan and I, the two out of the three camera persons of the day.

#34 I think this was the only island where we took tons of pictures because we went for more activities later and just couldn’t bother to hold the cameras anymore. So just bare with a few more of my shots.

#35 A beachy jump. Nyek nyek.

#36 Another favourite picture of mine. The perfect jump in Krabi. Wee!

#37 Group jump number one.

#38 Group jump number two.

#39 Ahhhhhhhhhh. Super pretty picture that made my self-esteem decreased a little while at the beach. If you noticed, I was the only one still wearing a tee T_T

We spent for almost an hour to two at Bamboo Island before we left for the second destination.

#40 Things that happened during the journey to the next destination..

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#42 And me again.

#43 I don’t know what’s the name of the spot but we stopped in the middle of the sea for snorkeling! I did not snorkel but I plucked up my courage to jump in the sea, joining the colleagues who were enjoying. Maybe the next trip.. I just couldn’t do it that day. I couldn’t put on the goggles and throw my face into the sea……… Yeah.

#44 The fed the fishes too! It was so cool of them doing it. I just can. Just yet maybe.

#45 The place where bird nests are produced.

#46 Jeng jeng jeng, the next beach we visited – Maya Bay. Another very pretty beach full of people and Caucasians. A very happening beach huh.

#47 The ladies and their lunch boxes.

#48 The lucky guy and the babes in bikinis. Hahaha.

#49 A candid shot of the random five people.

#50 And finally, tee removed because I had to get in the sea. Actually it was also removed while snorkeling but I’m a bit shy la.. Hahaha. Maya Bay was very cool too! The sea water has such a nice hue and gradient that looked so fake and artificial. Ahhh..

#51 Ching and I with the guys.

#52 Another lucky guy with the girls.

#53 A random guy meditating in the cave. Lol Daryl.

#54 It was another one hour spent here before we move on to the next location for snorkeling again. At that point of time, we were all a little too wet and sticky to hold the cameras for pictures already.. And that was when the photo count stopped gradually.

#55 After snorkeling again, we headed to Phi Phi Don! The last location of the day. I think it was already 3pm when we reached the beach. It is yet another happening beach, but less awesome because I thought it was kinda polluted by the happenings on the beach.

#56 The colleagues went for kayaking too!

#57 They were so adventurous :) I just stayed and rested by the beach side. Ate ice-cream and drank lotsa beer again. Ahhhh I never knew that drinking beer by the beach can be so wonderful. Lol.

We were then supposed to leave the island by 4pm but we missed the timing a bit. The few minutes lost in between actually caused quite a big problem for us when we were heading back to Krabi port, plus it rained. We took the same speedboat back but with different feelings and emotions. We were no longer as excited as the journey earlier instead, we were very much worried. Imagine us travelling on a speedboat with very strong waves, wind and heavy rain. Neither us or the captain could see where we were heading too. All we saw out of the boat was just a piece of gray skies.

It was terrible. It was scary and it was cold. Very very scary. I took us almost 2 hours to reach Krabi, sound and safe. It was really scary and I can never forget how it felt like. I thought we could not make it back T_______T Thank God we are all safe :)

We were supposed to continue the evening with ATV activity but I guess the speedboat experience was challenging and tiring enough for the day. We gave up the next activity. We went back to the hotel, get ourselves washed up and headed for dinner at Aonang and a night marketing shopping at Krabi town.

Shopping in Krabi town was fun. There were lotsa food and clothes to buy. The clothes were pretty and cheap so I got a few of them for this coming Chinese New Year :) :)

We ended the night around 11pm.

#58 The next day, Sunday was the last day of the trip. We went no where else but the nearest beach in Aonang. Hehe caught a few little crabs and let them off alive later. It was fun.

#59 A shot of the very nice beach and sky.

#60 Last but not least, a final picture of us in the plane while heading back to Kuala Lumpur. It was the same time when Jay Chou came to Pavilion KL to promote his movie, hence the reason why I missed it. NO regrets tho. I enjoyed the trip very much! <3 <3 I hope you enjoyed reading and seeing pictures of my trip too!

The only thing I do not like from the trip was the tan and sunburn I’m having now. Wuwuwuwuwu. A tanned Vivien for the year of Dragon. Roar.

Since most of the people voted for Krabi post, so here it is! I’ll break the trip down to 2 posts because there are just too much of pictures to share. And I shall blog a bit about the first 2 days’ happening in Krabi and the next 1.5 days will be continued later.

It was my first trip to Krabi, and I have to thank my company for this incentive trip. I loved and enjoyed it, very much! It was a 4 days and 3 nights trip with the first two days of team building and work brainstorming session. The rest of the days were free and easy.

#01 There were a total of 20 of us who were in for the trip. And these are the all of us in LCCT. Spot me!

#02 And these were my traveling partner, Daryl and Shyen. Both for both ways. Meet Kuan Marn, Jun and Soo Yee who sat behind us. I am wearing my current favourite hoodie… inspired by Running Man ;p

#03 Me and the favourite colleague, May at the hotel lobby.

#04 We stayed in a very nice hotel named Centara located at Aonang. I do recommend this place for your to stay if you are travelling to Krabi.

#05 There are shops, massage centers and restaurants around the hotel. It’s oh-so-convenient and the best thing is, there are beaches nearby too! :) It has always been my dream to go to the beaches…

#06 This is the view from my room on the second floor. I love the swimming pool too!

#07 The same view, during the night! <3 So lovely...

#08 After checking in and having our first meal in Krabi, the 20 of us gathered at the hotel lobby for the very first team building. 15 of us were involved in the games and 3 groups of five members were made out of it. Picked randomly, I was in a group with another favourite colleague of mine, Rachel (also a regular face in my blog already), Daryl, Jun and Caffee. Similarly to Amazing Race or Running Man, we were given missions to complete based on a few words of clues and guides. Some involved us to take pictures with Caucasian hot hunks and some……….

#09 …. made us throw ourselves in the pool. I will not be elaborating further on the missions and games considering that it was part of the work and some pictures are really ugly and obscene. Hahahahaha I’m not lazy to blog about it but there are just some restrictions :)

During the game, it was really fun and challenging. We had to do so many missions and compete against each other. For the first two rounds, my team was the last. We were a little disappointed but we did not give up. It was really frustrating too when we couldn’t understand or solve the questions given.

However, we caught up with the other teams miraculously and won the game!!! :D We were surprised by our results as well. It then took the other teams another 10-15 minutes to end the game.

#10 This is the victory picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check out our happy faces. I’m very sure all of us enjoyed the process very much and I have to admit that the bonding among the 5 of us who are from different departments did grow! But unfortunately, there isn’t any prizes prepared for us. Else, it would be perfect. LOL.

We then end the night by swimming in the pool for another hour, dinner and massage. I can’t describe how much I love original Thai massage! :D :D The only thing I didn’t like in Krabi was the food. I think food in Bangkok are much better.

#11 On day 2, we spent the usual working hours from 9am to 7pm for work meeting and brainstorming session. At first I thought it was a waste to stay indoor the whole day for work in Krabi but it ended up fruitful! Having meetings during vacation can actually produce better results with fresher minds and clearer thoughts. I enjoyed it too, and this is really rare for me to enjoy a work meeting. Lol.

Above is a group picture upon dismissing from the meeting.

#12 And after the meeting, the 20 of us then met up for dinner at a restaurant located up the hill. I wouldn’t say that the food were good but they were definitely crazily spicy!

#13 During this trip, I drank a lot of beer too. Hahahaha because I knew I do not need to drive :) And I thought they tasted better too.

#14 A supposed to be lesbian picture with my lesbian couple, Rachel with Jun and Evelyn behind. Hahahaha.

#15 I think I had a lot of first times during this trip. One of them is gonna be riding a motorcycle! It was cool but I wouldn’t do that again especially in KL. I felt so insecure during the whole journey on the bike but I overcame it a bit.

The other first times are such as visiting a clear water beach, snorkeling, going on a speed boat, wearing a bikini (lol), this and that! All these happened on the third day of vacation; the free-and-easy day which was spent on island hoping and it will be blog in the next post with 50 over pictures taken in beaches and sea!!!

This post is a little boring, a warm up post but the following one will be ensure with a lot of pretty pictures… maybe with pretty people in them too! Just wait for it! :D :D