//___twinns forever*.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

hey folks. this place is a little dead, because im too lazy to type. some things cant be described in words AND in pictures.

tioman was really beautiful. as in really, not like beautiful as a over the top adjective or anything, but for those who want lurid descriptions i leave them to amass in regret because they DIDNT GO. ahah (but for monkey i can give her the link to patrick's pictures because the poor ape had camp and couldnt go aww)

and we found out that animals are really (t)horny, like the barnacles, whose sexual organ is seven times as long as themselves. barnacles mate by fate, so if you happen to be the barnacle next to another barnacle you just have to mate like forever as you can see barnacles cant get up and move to another place(forever faithful to those around it o.0) imagine being stuck with your irritating wives/husbands forever until you die. till death do us part, barnacle and barnacle (they are haemaphrodites) lolx. and we have loads of other sea animals that can be both male and female, which i cant really remember anymore actually.

and i will never NEVER eat sea cucumbers again. this is a fact. and sharks fin. and guess what was on the menu when i arrived back in spore...SEA CUCUMBER. runs away. poor bugger! sea cucumbers die a bashful death - literally, because the last thing they will even remember is getting hit all over the place. and squirting sticky liquid (their defense mechanism) and going hard all over. (now dont think sick please) And that is how you precisely kill a sea cucumber. Slap it, kick it, punch it, until its hard like some rock, and then suntan it and bring it to the market.

concerning sharks fin, this is serious, because a scuba diver (friend of our guide, or mamasan karen!) went out to a few hours and then came back, and then she saw sharks dumped on the coral reefs.(our guide showed us the photo). and if you think they only remove the dorsal fin from sharks, thats not it, because they remove the PECTORALS, DORSALS, TAILS and EVERY FIN on the poor creature. and dump it back in. so basically they stripped the whole shark of its fins, which is equivalent to taking off you arms and legs, and tailbone, and then leaving you to die o.0 its cruel and necessary and basically you are just eating cartilage, which can be easily found in your ears and nose. o.0 and in a few years there would be no more sharks if this keeps on, and all because humans WANTED to eat their fins and did not NEED to do so. ><

but basically the diversity on Tioman is dying out because of human development, which is so sad, because in my dad's time to see dolphins near tioman was common, but now to spot a dolphin, or a sea turtle is like even more worth than striking lottery. they did see a sea turtle near tulai the week before we went, but we didnt see it, we saw the eggs only.

tioman sunsets are spectacular because of the water, but god knows whether the water will still be aquamarine when i manage to get back there.

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and i hope they dont build an international airport or anything, which would 1) destroy their magnificent rainforest 2) destroy the coral reefs 3) destroy the peace. the place is so quiet that you can hear all the bird calls, cicadas, crickets, mountain stream, and RGS girls yelling. and the view is spectacular. it's practically the westerner's view of the tropics: lush vegetation, yellow sand, blue sea, coconut trees dadada. and ramly burgers and ice kachang and village folk who call out hello everytime you pass the shop/house.

its all in the ambience, so fie on those who could go and didnt.

the twinn posse x
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