Monday 26th March 2012 - Perhentian Islands

Today I walked over to coral bay as long beach had massive waves that made it pretty unsafe to swim. Coral bay was nice but tide was pretty high making the beach really small. Also I noticed how much more brick there was on this beach than long beach- brick hotels, brick huts, brick resturants and a massive eyesore brick pier. I much preferred long beach and was extremely thankful at that moment for having met Sara as if it wasn't for her, I would have been staying on Coral Bay. Upon arrival back at long beach, I sat there just peacefully watching the waves. I was there for maybe two hours when along came Zook. I had seen this man the night before whilst watching the band - he knew Burung.

Zook was a 52 year old Malaysian man with a massive grey beard. He's originally from the mainland and used to be a fisherman. Now he lived on the island and earned his leaving building and doing maintenance work. I discovered that he has ELEVEN children, the youngest just 5months old!! What a gangster!!! Hahaha! His wife is just 40 and he married her when she was 18. His family still lived on the mainland so he goes back every two weeks to see them. He asked me when I wanted to get married and all I could say was when I met the right person to which he flatteringly replied in broken English "you are very beautiful and I think a lot of people like you so you will find someone". It was very sweet to hear that but given my time in Malaysia, getting them to like me doesnt seem to be the problem, keeping them is :-(

The sweetness of the comment soon turned to disgust when later that night I was watching the band again and Zook came and sat with me. He spoke about how much he loved his wife but when I told him about the rat in my room he sleazily offered to sleep in my room to "protect me".