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Last entry on Cebu and lots of pix!

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I love the idea of just chilling at an awesome hotel and in this case, the Pink Hotel, Cebu Hilton. They have some fancy restaurant too!

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A dolphin-themed restaurant!

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This is Manny’O the signature restaurant, named after the owner. He’s a big fan of pink. So this whole restaurant is also pink color.

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Wagyu burger that cost a bomb!

#5 Ebifry

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The next day we decided to do some island hopping! The way out to the dock.

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I don’t need to tell you which one is our boat!!!!

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A bloody big boat just for the two girls. We felt like some royalty truly living life on a pink boat wearing bikinis and thinking of nothing but what to eat next.

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Royalty sunglass.

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We reached this little island called the… i forgot and can’t be arsed to find out. But let’s just say it’s a quite and isolated private island for royalties like us to pollute.

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Suddenly Joyce was surrounded by some locals who were trying to sell her some freshly-caught shellfish.

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I went and kepoh.

And they were trying to sell some stupid sea thingies they picked up from the sea for an abominable price!!! Just because we look like some royalty doesn’t mean we want to get ripped off okay . (Ok i need to stop this royalty thing. I’m annoying myself).

Only stupid people would pay 300 pesos for for some stupid calms!

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Which was us.

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But ZOMG got Sea urchin!!!!!!

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So exotic! I feel like we’re in LOST or Surviver or whatever!

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Giant shellfish! You have to yank the whole thing out.

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Nah.

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Stole from Joyce’s blog. She loves the sea surchin! Actually i quite like it also!

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Then we go rendam in water and camwhore!!!!

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Ok that’s about the end of my water-rendam. Told you i’m not a sea person. So i stayed under the shades and bought some stupid coconut.

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And read some crap book.

Seriously, Sophie Kinsella was funny for just like awhile, then you get used to her jokes. The first one was awesome. 2nd one was like, ummm. 3rd one was YAWN and 4th one was just bloody atrocious and now i dunno what to do with the 5th one.

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Left the island and went for lunch. OMG i didn’t know it was so nice to sleep on a pink boat. I think i’m really made to be some kind of royalty.

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Floating restaurant in the middle of the ocean!!!

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Set lunch for the two of us. Freaking lots of seafood. Made us feel really really stupid buying those overpriced clams what turf.

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ZOMG MANGO WAS OMFG GOOD.

After that we went back hotel and just chill. Order room service etc. And left the next day.

They are so nice to arrange transport to send us to the airport.

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And needless to say, the car is pink.

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Flying Malaysia Airlines back to KLIA.

Thanks to MAS we had a chance to visit this rather less traveled island by Malaysians. MAS flies two times a week to Cebu.

Like the previous flight, there was a 45 minutes transit in Kota Kinabalu. And throughout the 5 hours flight we were fed twice. I felt like some atas hamster.

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OMG how do they know i like Ferrero and Loacker (and Milk flavor)!!!!

Flying with MAS has made me realize a lot of things. All we used to do was complain complain, food not ngam our appetite, flight delay, whatever. Wait until you are forced to fly budget airlines, then you know how much you have taken flying with luxury airlines for granted. You will really, really miss flying MAS.

Like i said before, when i flew back from Kansai, i went all overwhelmed like OMFG GOT FREE PILLOWS AND WATER! Now i really appreciate everything especially my experiences with MAS. The effort the put in a meal, and making the passenger feel comfortable. Got Ferrero Rocher summore.

I used to think flight food was shit until i actually had to pay for it in budget airlines and i found myself gobbling up the last morsel of my nasi lemak. lol. Now i really feel horrible for wasting any in-flight food. And i wonder if i don’t use the fork and toothpick, would i help save the earth in some little way? Does anyone know if airlines recycle those stuff?

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The second morning, we checked out and gonna move to our pink hotel!

Hungersss and we just decided to walk in a little restaurant at the roadside.

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Very home feel! Only Joyce is able to capture such artsy picture!

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Food (from left): Something in between fried fish and salted fish. Some pork and veggie soup. Some mung bean stew. Stir fried bitter gourd.

I guess you can use the word “fresh from the sea” to describe the taste of everything. Not because they were such yummy seafood or whatever, but they tasted like sea water.

But apart from the salt overdose, the taste was really good! We both loved the bittergourd the most!

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Haha bet Joyce didn’t even know i took this picture.

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These colorful vehicles are called Jeepney. The Cebu version of a bus.

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Just like Bangkok, they sell puppies at roadside also. And so not well maintained

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Passed by a really unique looking church on the way to our pink hotel.

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In the hotel cab. Hilton Cebu is so awesome they sent a car to pick us up!

And some scenery from the car. Traffic in Cebu is mad! Jam from morning till evening. Jammer than Bangkok Jam what turf.

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Kids in the car next to us. Just took out our camera and they started posing! Damn cute!

After we checked in to Hilton, which is about 45 minutes (including traffic) away from the city and go all omfgexcited about it, we were stuck with nothing to do.

The weather was gloomy and we couldn’t go to the beach. So we were only left with one choice–go back to the city and do some sight seeing!

Cebu is the place for culture! All we cared about is a nice tan (Joyce) and gorgeous hotel (me)! What about monuments!! Churches!!

Exactly!

So we took a 45 minutes cab back to the city -_-. And the cabbie was really mean. He insisted 600 peso for 3 destinations. And we discovered two of the destinations are just next to each other. Bloody hiao. Cheat One™.

So if you go the Cebu, make sure you only go for the metered ones.

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First destination was Fort San Pedro.

Eh very similar to the Penang one leh.

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We couldn’t stay long because the cabbie said if we take more than 15 minutes there will be an additional charge what turf.

Second stop, which is also the last stop (really sly lo the cabbie!) was Magellan’s Cross.

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The dome is so beautiful!

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Couldn’t resist it hehehe.

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Then walk across to our third destination, Basilica of Santo Nino.

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There was a mass going on.

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I thought only in Buddhist temple got red red candle one.

Anyway, i’m gonna end this post yummy!

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If you ever go to Philippines, cannot miss Lechon—famous roast pork!

It’s omfg yummy!

Got beach post! Stay cheesed!

Or you can go to MAS and book a flight there right now. ^^

Cuz my inernal hard disk is gone case already FML. Why everyone says Dell so good so good. Most of my major agonies are caused by it ok. Besides having to deal with PMS blues, i have to dell with random bluescreens summore.

Anyway, Cebu!

It was a 5-hour flight via MAS from KLIA, with a 50 mins transit in Kota Kinabalu.

And en route we saw some of the most beautiful islands from the plane.

The plane was smaller than the usual one, but it was very comfortable! And they fed us nonstop with yummy food! So awesome!

The first night we chose to stay in a really budget place. At Granprix Econotel Cebu, it’s only 1,200 Pesos per night. That’s about RM80 for one room.

It’s really very basic, just bed and shower and a small hanging tv. But the good thing is it is really new and clean. I always go for small but new hotel, instead of luxurious old hotels.

But the lack of window is really quite depressing, and the wall is so damn thin you will be awaken by an ant’s yawn from next door.

We’re all dressed up and ready to go!

But the first day was quite tragic really. I think the previous trips i relied on people like Keju too much already. People who come up with a complete and detailed itinerary weeks before a trip.

I did some half-arsed, kinda, sorta, not really research before we flew. All i know is Cebu is in Philippines and their currency is called Peso and there’s this huge shopping mall called SM mall which everybody said i should visit.

So, happily we took a cab there. it’s really near our hotel.

Then we went to the mall and both of us just -_-’ed at each other. I think Malaysians are too spoilt for choice when it comes to shopping malls. I mean, fine, SM Mall is like the biggest mall in Cebu ,whatever. But Jusco is also the biggest mall in Seremban. Doesn’t mean we should go like WA OMFG SHOPPING!

Disappointed, we left the mall and wanted to go to the night market.I mean, night markets are interesting and you can’t go wrong with the night market can you?

The thing is, we just knew we wanted to go to a night market. We didn’t know where the night market is. (To be fair, i vaguely remembered a mention in wikitravel somewhere that says something about some night market. Or was it a market. Or a night spot. Whatever.)

So we hopped into a taxi, and the driver doesn’t really understand our version of night market.

“Clothes. Erm. Food! Erm, market. Mar-ket!”

(I dunno why i had this thought that explaining in another language might help?! I almost said Baju! Makan! I guess Cebu looks too Indonesian to me. I get confused when i panic.)

Finally after our frantic gestures at our own clothes and bags and whatnot, he said Oh Okay nod nod then drove us to the market.

It is a run-down supermarket that sells boxers and milk powder.

FML.

Frustrated, we gave up and said, we want to go back to the hotel. Then he asked where we stayed, and i said Granprix Cebu. And he didn”t know where it is!

Why hadn’t it occured to me that a taxi driver might not know where a dodgy RM80 hotel is???? I really expected them to go like “Oh okay, certainly maam, i know precisely where it is.  My grandma owns Granprix Cebu!”

I tried to search for the address in my bag, then i discovered in sheer terror that i have left it in the hotel.

Double FML.

Then finally, to cut the story short, the taxi driver stopped at a trafic light, wind down the window and shouted to the taxi driver next to us, and he shouted something back, and 5 minutes later we were back in our hotel.

All these, was my half-arsed, sorta, kinda, not really fault. I totally deserved it.

We then made damn sure we triple checked all the addresses, i copied them all down into my note, and if the Doraemon Memory Bread was an option at that point i might even have had pressed it against the computer screen and swallowed it.

Luckily the night ended awesome because we then went to an awesome bar!

It’s called the Z bar.

It’s located at The Tinderbox Restaurant, Crossroads Arcade, Banilad, Cebu City.

Cheese counter at Tinderbox. Who would have thought that Cebu has so much cheese.

Z Bar is really ze beautiful!

The first thing Joyce and i simultaneously thought of was “if only we had shroooooooooom!!!”

It would have really been damn ze ahwshoome.

Having a Magarita.

The deco somehow made me think of a gigantic spiderweb with shit loads of wishbones stuck on it.

Hmm. Come to think of now it that’s quite a scary thought. Like anytime you may find an enormous 8-legged ogre staring greedily at you with a zebra carcass in its hand and blood dripping from its chin.

Choi. Nvm. it’s still an awesome bar.

The table is reflective it is damn nice to camwhore!

Anyway i really wanna continue but i think my head’s gonna touch the keyboard so we continue tomooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

(Ya i know. But i miss being lame. Too much serious posts lately.)

Courtesy of MAS we are sent to Cebu to have a holiday! Keju was supposed to join but he was too busy chasing chicks. He’s going to regret it.

We’re damn lucky to have Hilton Cebu Resort & Spa to sponsor our stay for two days. And it’s a damn awesome resort! Much to our my shocking surprise (and Fairy’s dismay), the hotel is pink.

I don’t mean pink like, “oh look they painted it pink”.

I mean like, everything.

For example, paint (of course).

The welcom drink!

Shuttle Buses. It says “The Pink Icon”.

The Packaging. The hotel’s room card.

There’s also a restaurant called the Pink Lobby Lounge. And in Hilton’s menu they have their signature Pink Cocktails like Pink Gin, Pink Bay Breeze and Pink Passion.

Apparently Hilton Cebu’s owner is a man called Manny O and he’s a huge fan of pink

Fairy said maybe the reason why they sponsored us because they read my blog and it is pink all over. Next time whoever ask me why i decide to have sickening pink skin for my blog i’ll answer well, that’s because i hoped to get sponsored by Hilton Cebu one day!

Anyway, view from our hotel room!

And this is what we wrote for Keju, who’d rather chase chicks than to come holiday with us.

(stole from kinkybluefairy.net) (and we twitpic’d this photo to him)

This is our hotel room. Fairy decorated it with her scarves. It looks so holiday mood!!

Her studying the colorful Hilton map.

It is damn nice just to stay in the room and laze around!

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Coming back tomorrow already!

BTW OMG CEBU’S MANGO IS OMFG GOOD.