Trip to PD

The folks wanted to take us out on a holiday cause its been some time since we all just went somewhere for fun without it being Christmas or a prayer meeting in Taiping. Which is quite depressing now that I think about it LOL.


So anyway, this trip to PD could not have come at a better time seeing as I had 3 tests last week and another one on Monday :S I hope no one else is unlucky enough to feel my pain :)


So we left KL right after my test on SATURDAY (:@ curse UTAR) and arrived at Glory Beach Resort way before check in time. We were lucky though, our room was ready and we got to go in. First impression was good. Then we reached the room..


The 'kids' (as we're still known, even though we've all been officially over 18 since Joash's birthday last month) room was so small that sis, Joash and me could barely stand in it at the same time. There wasn't even any floor space for a mattress :S And the shower was so tiny that I would have knocked my shoulder or elbow into something if I attempted to move. Well that was still excusable, its not like we were gonna be spending too much time indoors anyway.


So Joash and me got all excited to check out the beach and immediately garbed up and ran out with sis.


Utter disappointment.


There was dirt all over the beach. It came from the water :S We tried to ignore it and stared at the horizon....where we saw an oil rig and lots of huge ass boats :S We walked further down the beach in an effort to ditch the dirt...the dirt came with us :S


At this point I started taking photos and the development around us kinda ruined most of em lol

You can just see the oil rig and huge ass ships in the distance :P And the plastic bag on the beach obviously :)

These 2 photos would have been so nice if there wasn't a stupid building there :@

And these 2 would look so nice if we were walking on a nice beach :(

I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for Dad's Selangor Club membership!! They're affiliated to the Yacht Club in PD which has an awesome beach and pretty great food. The Yacht Club saved our trip I'm telling you..


We spent most of our time there after the disastrous beach at the not so glorious Glory Beach Resort. Did I mention that the pool was green by the way? And yet people were gladly swimming and playing around in there :S The family and I were deeply disturbed at everyone's apparent lack of hygienic concerns.


Which is why the photos of the pool are all not in colour ;)

Dad looked like he was surveying the place for future purchase :P
And yes, that's the green pool :S

We had a good time at the Yacht Club :) Went for a dip, had our showers and eventually had dinner there. The showers there are glorious, you just have to stand there and its like a hot water massage :)


This was when we were all having tea after a nice dip in clean water off a clean beach :)

















We had a nice long dinner and then went back to "Glory" Beach Resort and pretty much just crashed after a nice lazy day.

It was country mix night, musicwise so Mom and Dad had fun :)

Check out the SIZE of the plate

Next day we just couldn't wait to get outta there so we checked out early. We took our time waking up and stuff though. We were just way ahead of checkout time. I'm sure we had no regrets when we walked by the green pool and the changing room that reeked of the garbage collecting next to it *shudder*


So we had breakfast at the Yacht Club obviously. Oh something interesting happened after we finished breakfast and we were just sitting around talking and lazing.


I was watching these 2 Indian kids playing at the playground. They looked like they were having a good time and I was reliving my childhood in my mind and being all serene and at peace. Then these 2 foreign kids came along and they wanted to play on the swings. The Indian kids were playing on the slides and sharing the playground shouldn't have been an issue. I mean come on, there were four of them and they were all tiny :)


Next thing I know, these Indian kids turn into thugs and are chasing the foreign kids away :S


I got a little irritated I guess cause I can't stand this typical indian behaviour. So I suddenly became a champion of children's rights and decided to go over there and help them out. When I asked the 2 foreign kids if they wanted to play on the swings, they both gave me the most adorable puppy dog faces and nodded. So I told them to go ahead and I would sit close by and make sure the Indian kids didn't bother them.


It was hilarious when this small little Indian boy tried to intimidate me when I told them to let the foreign kids play on the swings :P


After that when we were leaving the little foreign girl waved at me and smiled and I thought that was really sweet of her :)


So after a relaxing morning at the beach and a lazy lunch, we headed back for KL. Back to tests and stress and studying...


But I'm glad we had that weekend away. It was especially nice since nobody was getting on anyone's case, we all just wanted to relax and have a good time. So yeah, it was great :D

Michael's Farewell

Yes I know Michael's farewell was last week and I'm a little late with this post but better late than never :)


It was fun to plan a surprise party after so long. Stressful but fun :) We were given a golden opportunity when Michael had to cancel our karaoke outing which was supposed to be his farewell. So me, my sister and Joash were trying to plan another outing or something special we could do for him. Shockingly, Mom of all people was the one who suggested we have a party here at our house. We all got crazily excited...ok fine I got crazily excited and we only had about a week to throw everything together. So sis called Auntie Jennifer who also was very enthusiastic about it. Then we invited people and all.


So on Friday suddenly people are telling me they're gonna be late and all. I was panicking cause I was thinking, oh damn is anyone gonna be here for the 'surprise' part? :S


So sis made an emergency call to Auntie Jennifer to stall Michael for another half an hour or so. Thankfully they hadn't left the house and Auntie Jennifer said no problem. So there were people arriving and we ordered the pizza then just sat around making a lot of noise waiting for Michael to get there. Hannah and Beth were REALLY excited that they could be up late so they spent their night being way too excited about everything lol.


Then when Michael finally got here with his family, CRISIS!! The pizza got here at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME :S


So Auntie Judi said she'd get the pizza cause there's no reason she can't get pizzas on a Friday night. And there were like 4 or 5 pizzas there lol. So Mom went downstairs to let them in. And it seems Auntie Jennifer also panicked when she saw the pizzas so she created some bull about Auntie Judi must be having bible study and the pizza was for them hehe.


Then when Michael came up we were all like crazy excited. He took AGES to take off his shoes all so we almost yelled SURPRISE when Auntie Jennifer walked in. Luckily we managed to control ourselves. Then when Michael walked in we all finally got to yell SURPRISE!!!


And there was zero expression on his face.


LOL


He took a few moments to stare blankly at us then he suddenly regained his senses and went "............oh?"


Then he asked us what this is and we were all laughing and telling him that its his farewell party and he was pleasantly surprised I hope. Well he was surprised anyway :)


The rest of the party went pretty smoothly. Everyone was having fun and we watched Brazil versus Holland which was the entertainment. Brazil's performance was the entertainment I mean :)


So yeah it was good. Its been a while since we had a party at our place. And we got to do something for Michael before he left so that was nice.


Anyway he left for Australia on Tuesday. So he's probably settling in now. And we're all gonna miss him I'm sure. Auntie Jennifer in particular was pretty emotional about it :) Oh well his mommy what...


Anyway the photos unfortunately are with sis so I might post some if I'm semangated enough later :)


For now, I'm glad we got to say goodbye to Michael..for a couple of months at least :) He'll be back for Christmas. So we'll be looking forward to his return :) Til you get back here, g'day mate :P