Feb'13 Chap Goh Mei Island Getaway

The Lantern Festival in China is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the lunar calendar marking the last day of the lunar New Year celebration

 In the olden days, young people were chaperoned in the streets in hopes of finding love. Matchmakers acted busily in hopes of pairing couples. The brightest lanterns were symbolic of good luck and hope. As time has passed, the festival no longer has such implications. There is another tradition practiced, where the young maidens or spinsters would throw oranges inscribed with names and telephone numbers into rivers in search of a boyfriend. It is known by many as the Chinese version of Valentines’ Day.

So it is with this idea, that 5 hot and single ladies vacationing in an island decided to celebrate the Chinese Valentines Day in style. With our 2 beloved and ever handsome chaperones of course.


We managed to stroll around Kuah town and pick out some pretty dresses/parios for out special night out.

Telaga Harbour at night is the most perfectly romantic spot for such a night and we decided on Tapaz and yummiest Sangria at Bar Centro. The prices here isnt too expensive as they have dishes for sharing and the ambience is really nice.

Apart from being lured into almost stepping into cowdung by one of our chaperones( in a failed jealous attempt as I looked prettier than him), there was no disaster to be reported.
One odd thing though, the docked yatchts were similar to those we saw in the last visit 2 years ago.

The only unfortunate bit was that we had no oranges on us to throw into the yatchts. Couldnt even find a good sized coconut.

Dont get me wrong, we werent going to capsize the 'boat' but i think coconuts would have a better chance of being noticed than tiny oranges. They would rock the yatcht once they hit the floorboards and after all isnt KUKUNUT shake the best thing ever?