Kerala trip

Despite being in a foreign country, I didn't go travelling around much cuz sometimes I just don't feel like it, or timing isn't right or these could all just be silly excuses haha. Anyways, I did take the chance to go to a place called Kerala. It's basically another state of India located in the southwest part. There were quite a number of us who went and it was for 3 days and 2 nights.

So we left at 3 am on Saturday, we were suppose to leave at 2 am but some miscommunication occured between the travel agent and us which led us to waiting around for an hour, feeling tired, hungry and sleepy at the same time ( well for some reason I felt hungry haha)

Finally the 2 coaches and a car came, all of us got settled for the 7 hour ride. Everyone just wanted to sleep obviously but it wasn't a very comfy ride.

Reasons why it wasn't comfy :

1. Roads were extremely bumpy for some reason

2. Air con temp was so low, it was freezing and we had no idea how to turn it up
3. We were a bit squished here and there and legs got crammed

Despite it all, we still managed to dose off- effect of tiredness. By the time I woke up, we were entering Kerala state.

Check post

We still had around 2 more hrs on the road....

Some random shot


Then, we finally stopped somewhere, on the corner of some street. I was looking around for our hotel but didn't see one, instead I saw a dirty street. Thought we were stranded until we found out, that were going ttravel by a bus to our hotel. The bus was quite a big one, and very comfortable! Didn't know that kinda bus exists in India haha. So it was a 15 mins journey to Marina Regency( the hotel). Marina Regency sounds so Malaysian don't u think?

Tired faces after a long journey

Interior of the bus

The Hotel

A huge saree shop right in front of the hotel

We were practically starving after that long journey, so after checking in, we headed out for lunch. They took us to another hotel which has more of a British Colonial theme. Had a lot of western dishes on the menu, a breath of fresh air actually after seeing Indian food all the time. I was in the mood for a little Italian, so I ordered the spaghetti. Pretty good actually considering the fact that I'm eating one in India haha. Some dishes looked intriguing cuz they came on steaming hot plates with smoke rising out haha.

Stephanie, Yee Sim, Yik Ming and me

During lunch

Supposedly right after lunch we were suppose to head to the theme park but since we felt like stuffed turkeys, it didn't seem like a good idea cuz thoughts of ppl puking arose. Instead, we took a walk around Kochin city. Not much to see but well it helped us pass time. For dinner we had a seafood buffet.

A church




Wye Luun trying to channel Baywatch
Note the word trying ;)

Kai Ling getting her henna tattoo

In the end, others decided to get one too

Fascination with the revolving door haha


The next day, we went to the boathouse. The boathouse is pretty cool in the sense that it has the basic facilities of a house. On the lower deck there were 4 bedrooms with attached bathrooms, a small kitchen and at the front of the boat, there were a few chairs and a small coffee table. But personally I liked the upper deck better as there was a large dining table, a tv with dvd player ( talk about a high tech boat) and the best part a place where u can sit and enjoy the scenes of the lake. The boat takes us around this lake for one whole day and night. Along the way, we stopped by this small village to get sea critters for lunch and dinner.

The boathouse

The upper deck

The bedroom

Lazing around and enjoying the ride

The lake

We met an old man, whom to our suprise knows who Tunku Abdul Rahman is but we had to burst his bubble by letting him know that our very first prime minister passed away sometime ago.


Anyways, some of us spent the afternoon taking pics, watching a dvd ( thanks Yik Ming for bringing it along), playing cards, not to mention the usual activity of talking. The boatride also invoked some thoughts according to the pics below :

Calvin probably feeling a lil nostalgic ;)

Brotherly love (interpret it however u want :)

What happened to brotherly love??!

Me just admiring the beauty of nature ;)

Brokeback mountain alert!!

So the boat finally stopped at another village area for the night. We took a walk along the river, exploring the place a lil. After a dinner of prawns, chicken and fish, we played an intersting game known as Mafia. Ok to ppl who aren't familiar, it's practically a game where person elected mafia kills an innocent citizen by just winking at them. There is also a doctor who can revive dead ppl( miracle worker haha) and a cop responsible of catching the killer. Man we had loads of fun with this one, cuz after every round, we had a discussion where we tried to figure out who played which character, and some ppl were quite convincing in trying to prove their innocence. Some unfortunate souls like Calvin was found guilty rather quickly. As in, it was his first round and ppl already accused him, well the accusation was correct anyway haha.

Paddy field at the village

Everyone was a little worn out, so we retired to bed as the next day was suppose to be a thrilling one cuz it was a visit to WEGA LAND, India's version of Sunway Lagoon I guess.

Entrance to Wega Land

It wasn't too bad actually, had some interesting rides. Especially the ride which was just literally sickening. Sorry no pics cuz I kept my cam safely in the locker but let me describe it. It's some machine which spins like CRAZY!! It practically spins 360 degrees around and all the way to the top. Ok, so this ride was suppose to be 3 mins long but somehow each of us felt like those ppl wanted to play around since were tourists and let it run for 5 mins instead. Some of us like yours truly were screaming our heads off till we were so tired that we just gave up. Some like Brian and Calvin lost their glasses in this puke inducing ride. Everyone was wobbly, some were even a bit sick after the ride. It was our 2nd ride and some of us just gave up on other rides due to it.


After that we hit the wet park which had everyone sliding down and splashing into polluted water haha. Anyway, dinner at Pizza Hut was next and right after that we headed to home sweet hostel.

In conclusion, it was one of the most fun trips I ever had! Seriously! Sometimes I wish that we could go back to that time again, sigh.....

Well good times sure pass by fast....

So a big thank you to all those who made this trip really memorable!! I had an awesome experience!!