We had a nice hot "Tokyo Chicken Soup" at the Soup Spoon in Changi Airport before the trip starts...
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And also shared a nice cup of Tea-C in Changi airport before boarding the plane to Maldives. We took MAS flight, so we had to transit at KLIA.
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After a long flight and speed boat ride in the dark, we finally arrived at our Beach Villa (BV). It was already about 12am in the morning (3am in Singapore)
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This is the toilet of the beach villa. Nice mosaic tiles on the wall.
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Open-air shower! There is also a covered area for shower in case it rains outside. On the right is the "bath-tub" - when you turn on the tap, the water flows from the slit on the right.
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We were asked to drink water from the supplied bottle cos the water from the tap may not be safe enough. We had 2 bottles, then 4 bottles after we kept asking for 2 more in the days ahead. Haha.
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External view of our beach villa. There is a hammock and a "chill-out" area. If you look at the glass, it's facing the sea :)
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Took a walk in the morning along the beach. Saw the water villas in the distance. This is what we will be staying at in a few days' time. (3 days beach villa, 2 days water villa)
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As it was early in the morning, my shadow was extra lloonngg...
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View of the Water Villa (right is the board walk, left is a unit)
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Hermit crab - his name is Harry! He is saying - pls let me drop. I hate this sense of being suspended in the air! ;p
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Another poor hermit which I "caught" and put into a colourful blue mosaic bowl. When I came back from the inside of the villa 10 minutes later, it was gone - presumably somewhere out there on the beach already.
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View of the chill out area (day bed, hammack, tea table)
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We took a leisure stroll along the water edge and came to the swimming pool area. This is the old jetty that remains from the tsunami - it was left unscathed.
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Number 1 beach villa (BV). This is the closest to the swimming pool and breakfast area. It is a very nice day - blue sky and white beach.
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View of the pool and cafe area, walking towards breakfast restaurant.
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Bed sofa/bed just a stone's throw from the breakfast area. Many of the guests would bring their barang to brekfast and proceed straight to these after makaning.
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This is the breakfast/restaurant building - interesting design like a "botak" head! :)
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Pei took a snapshot of me while I was sipping on my morning coffee..
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So I got shot before the photo shoot of her starts..
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Pei said this shot, which she took of me, is very artistic. So I kept this in the album :p
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Pei in the water having fun posing! Nice to see to the blue sea and sky. Hmm.. I wonder why this shot don't have blue sky - maybe clouds moved in?
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Moments later, I took a picture of the swimming pool. It's little like infinity pool. There is a water sports centre just beside the swimming pool.
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Pei lying on the beach chairs and posing for a photo. Thank God today's weather is pretty good!
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What is she going to put into the bottle? Message on a piece of paper?
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Haha. I like this. It's like someone just got hammered flat, leaving only a hat, some body (bag), and the slippers...
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Red sail creates a strong contrast with the yellows and blues in this composition.
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Extreme angle shoot from the hammock's edge.
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Another special angle shoot. It's experimental, and it work pretty nicely.
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Pei had her fair share of shooting too.... :)
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We went to the water villa area to take a peek at what we will be going to in 2 day's time...
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Taken using the IXUS camera, this is the walkway which leads to all the rest of the water villas.
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Nice white beach with chair facing the roaring ocean. Reefs breaks the waves in the distance...
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This is a rendition of the water villa.
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Saw a lizard on power box while we walked on the beach.
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This Kandooma resort prepared 6 oranges every day for guests to squeeze using the special orange juice press. Henry is demonstrating the use of the pressing machine. Keke.
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There is also a peacock on the island. Nice life... every day at the resort walking around - no need to pay money haha..
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This is the part where there is no reef breaking the ocean, so the waves are very strong, breaking onto the shore. Dramatic effect, though.
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Is this an egret? I am not sure, but it was happily along the coast line when I was strolling along the beach front.
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Blue sky and breaking waves. You may get a little sick of the blue sky, sea and beach, but it was too nice. Plus, that's about all you see on an island, right? ;p
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Bathroom accessories and toiletries provided by the resort. They were minted. Pei seemed to like them, but I am not a mint person, so I did not use them.
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In the afternoon, they were fumigating some of the places in the resort. While the fumes were clearly, the sunlight created special 'sunlight' effect.
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We walked to the more expensive restaurant in the late afternoon to find out what's for makan there. But it was not yet open for dinner, so we took some photos there instead...
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Still life version of the table, this time with more sky.
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Pei and I took a rest on the wooden bridge leading from the guest arrival jetty to the reception.
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This was taken with a little 'creative' idea. Haha... We didn't know it seemed to work pretty well....
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Visited the reception, and on the second level were a handful of Apple Mac stations where we can surf some Internet, read books and relax.
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These are some of the relax chairs available for guests to sit down and have a leisurely read or rest.
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Pei's castle! Actually, she did not build it (would you think she would mess her hands and nice clothes??). She "borrowed" the castle from a kid and posed for it. *lol*
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The rest of the day was spent at the jetty hut and playing a fool with cameras.... such as this...
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