July 6th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Awkward Moments While Traveling
To make up for lack of updates on my travel(s) – in fact, I don’t travel much this year due to a lot of things that I would share later, I think I will come up with something that I didn’t mention in my previous posts on my travels, which I find rather amusing.
Taman Negara, March 2003
While taking slow cruise into the deep jungle on a shallow boat, we were all feeling drowsy under the hot sun. Most of us slept in the boat. It was more than an hour journey to the jungle, I kept adjusting my seating. Then, I farted. The soundless and killing kind. Since I sat right in front of the boat, the rest of the people behind me could smell my generous expulsion. Dennis kept slapping my head and asked me if it was me and I pretend I couldn’t wake up.
Langkawi Island, July 2003
The 10 hours journey by bus was killing my back. When we reached the jetty to take a boat to Langkawi Island, I was feeling a little groggy due to the long journey and lack of sleep even if my fellow travel buddies complained that I snored so damn loud behind the bus.
The moment we got into the boat, I was already feeling sleepy and slept the entire journey to Langkawi. I remembered that Chubby was sitting in front of me and my other friend, Yvonne was sitting on my right.
When the boat docked, I woke up immediately. With blurred vision due to sleep, I saw Chubby was still resting her head on the seat. I immediately slapped her head hard to wake her up.
To my horror, the head belonged to a stranger, a Malay man. Before he could look behind to check who hit him, I quickly pretend to sleep. I am sure he was very shocked that he felt someone just bob him on the head when everyone seemed to be sleeping.
I suppressed my embarrassment and giggle till we got very far away from the boat and then, burst into hearty laughter when I related this incident to my friends.
Perhentian Island, August 2004
I just got out from my “fresh water” shower and was relieved. As I was walking to the verandah to towel dry my hair, my travel mate, one of the demented duo was sitting there to ogle at some chicks.
I sat down with him and had a chat. Then his gaze slowly turned to the bottom half of my body then he quickly looked away.
I realized I didn’t zip my pants.
As I was down with fever and the attacks of virus seemed adamant, most of my bodily functions went hay wired. While waiting for Popiah to bargain for some souvenirs, I was already in dire need to go to the loo as soon as possible. That resulted in me, putting up a really sour face and almost barked at her for taking her own sweet time. She was supposed to pay 15,000 VND for one book mark but ended up giving the man only 10,000 VND. I was already turning purple trying to suppress the need to shit. The moment I reached the hotel, I think I just created another Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The following day, the same thing happened. I needed to go to the loo badly and we got lost. AJ insisted that we were on the right track, when Chubby decided to take another route. TC on the other hand, refused to get into our squabbles and decided to venture into the night life on his own. I was telling them, what if we really got lost and TC reached the hotel before all of us did. I was right. TC was there sitting in the lobby waiting for us while we were still squabbling over the shortest route to take back to the hotel.
These are some of my awkward moments while traveling. I will post more if I think of anything else. I guess everyone would have some amusing stories from their trips to share. 