SWG HITS PD - CASA RACHADO RESORT

Continued from my last post on SWG HITS PD Part I, we went to check in at Casa Rachado Resort around 4pm.

The Entrance

Me posed at the lobby...

While Nor did all the check in business for all of us!

BEACH CALLS @ CASA RACHARDO


Hoyyey... finally we got our room keys. This hotel got a few blocks and luckily all of us were in the same block, only in different levels. ZT who was pregnant got the 1st floor, Kak Maz and Fizah on the 2nd floor while Nor, Dhiya n me who shared one room, suffered the top level among all. Mind you no elevator, we had to climb to the 6th floor, plus it were only 2 rooms available on that floor and one was empty. Very high and isolated.. Nasib baik bertiga, if just two of us sure creepy....

Oh ya, to go to our block was another story. Previously we parked at the field in-front of the lobby to check in. However, it was a bit far to walk from our car to the block so we needed to drive out from the resort and take another exit to our block. There was a parking space provided but very limited.

The view from our room overlooked the beach. Aha... story about room, actually our room was facing the Recreational Park of Tg. Tuan (means view hutan je la yg nampak). However it was connected with the next room which a family type room. How did we know? Because the door connected the next room with ours was unlocked. We could freely went to visit there, and that room was fully equipped with 2 bedrooms, kitchen, hall and balcony facing the beach.

And that was how this picture came from. At the family room balcony, we took the opportunity to enjoy the beach view and cam-whored.

One more view utk tatapan anda!

Finally, saat yg di tunggu2. We changed our cloth and went down to the beach for outdoor xtvt at 5pm.

Semangat, even nak kena menapak turun balik tangga. Tinggikan bilik kami?




Baby Danial also ready to support mama & papa!!

Lots of group had their outdoor xtvt as well...

SWG to the beach!

Found a strategic port for picnic and to play a game. Bentang tikar and prepare ape yg patut.

As ussual all the xtvt was organized by the one and only, Abg Yus (Kak Maz husband). As a jury, he was independent and cannot be influenced even by his very own wife. Baguskan. Very firm and strict.

As you can see, before the game started, we had a short briefing by Abg Yus.

Focus la plak bdak2 nie, ke pretend jer tu... :D

Apa2 pun before main, we needed to form 2 groups. Since there were 8 peoples of us (with 2 men), and one of the rule was each man cannot be in one group with their wife. So the result of group division was like this...................

TEAM A : Fizah, Nor, Dhiya and Hero, Abg Mau (Muka excited masing2 dpt satu grup):)

Which left of course Kak Maz, Zetty, Me and Hero, Fairul in TEAM B.


Guess what was our first task...?? Huh, each group was assigned to present a group cheering. Hahahahaha mmg benefit to TEAM B la. Dah namanya ZT and I was in the office's cheer-leading group. Nak2 lg all of us are "sporting" type of person and mmg kaki layan hiburan. Kira "entertainment-literate" la nie. We also had no problem to cooperate with Fairul coz he already joined SWG xtvt few times before. Familiar faces.. :D

Hahahaha, TEAM A obviously got some difficulties. I knew they had a tough time to create the steps and chanting. On contrary with us, all of them mmg "badan-kejung" type. How to dance......? What's more, Abg Mau n Dhiya just joined the SWG grup so "the ice was still didn't break" yet that time and they might be "shy2 cat" to each one of them.

10 minutes given ended. We were about to present our cheering.

Fasten your seat belt peeps as we are going to enjoy the performance from...........TEAM A!!!




Clap...clap...!! Not bad huh. Nampaknya aksi melompat dan melentik badan di ketengahkan. (sape kata diaorg kejung.. HAHAHAHHA)


Next... don't move just yet, because you will be entertained by a performance from second group....... TEAM B!!!




Boombastic kan...?? Nampak sgt bias kat group sendiri.... :P

The cheering was recorded by Abg Yus and he will show it to few public peoples for them to review and evaluate our performance (habisla performance kami yg memalukan itu di jaja ke sana ke mari)...


Next we continued with other games.




We played about 4 games that evening and each game got few rounds. Unfortunately TEAM B only won 3 times out of 8 rounds if I'm not mistaken. Bad performance uh!

The sun had almost setting down, and everyone...... one by one left the beach back to their room. We ended our game and had a picnic first to enjoy the sunset scenery.

Local fruits (mangosteen and cat-eye "mata kucing") di taja oleh Kak Maz. She brought it at the PD toll and the taste was satisfactory. Isi tebal and manis!!

Sweet moments with the So Sweet Grup!!




Went back to our hotel, prepared for dinner. Buli Dhiya tolak troli sblm menapak balik naik tingkat 6. Huhuhu.....

NIGHT AT PD WITH SWG


Our xtvt at night began with dinner of course. After had our bath & performed Maghrib prayer, we were ready to go out and explored for the best place to dine.

Struggled, it was a school holiday so every places were full of people. We went to more than 3 restaurants but no seats for us. Nak entertain kitaorg pun x sempat. From Teluk Kemang to PD town, at last we went to one restaurant opposite the Rumah Zaitun which not to be so congested with people.

We ordered set just nice for 10 peoples...

Dan ini hasilnya!!!




Gelagat di meja makan. Dr muka ketat, kembali ceria setelah meja makan penuh dengan aneka jenis hidangan. Conclusionnya, pepatah "kenyang perut suka hati" mmg betul2 tepat!!




Nie la kedai makannya. BARAKAT TOMYAM SEAFOOD. The food was not bad. Service ok. Kerana membuatkan kami kenyang, I wish U "barakah" in all your business. Amin...

After dinner, we went back to our hotel. Not yet straight to our room, we hanged out at the cafe called SAMBA CAFE.

But not inside the cafe. We chose to sit outside near the hotel pool area..

While listening to the amateur singers "menyumbangkan" suara at the karaoke lounge..........

We had a final battle between TEAM A & TEAM B. However Fizah & Fairul, member from both team couldn't join us that night as their baby already fell asleep.

Perjuangan harus di teruskan. With the remaining members left, we proceed with the last game of that day......... BINGO.




It was the biggest lost for TEAM B that night. OMG!!! It was not our lucky day indeed. Asyik kalah jer. All the accumulated points from the first game were collected by Abg Yus and he will announce the winner only on the closing day which of course on the next day la...


We went back to our room late that night. XTVT was packed so once our head touched the comfort pillow, we quickly entered the dream zone. It was coincidence that none of us could pray that time due to the "period" of the month. At least if someone can pray, we felt a bit protected coz all the "Shyaiton" will run with the bacaan2 ayat Al-Quran rite? Alhamdulillah and tired maybe... even our block was near the forest, we didn't encounter neither bad experience nor unease feeling at all. Ade dgr2 jgk yg area tmpat kami tu "keras". Not in our resort exactly, but resort next to it... (Its a hint, you find urself...), however baby Danial pun xde meragam. Syukur sgt2.. We had enough rest and woke up freshly on the next day.

So peeps, this is the end of SWG Trip to PD part II. I will continue on the final chapter next time. Stay tuned and have a good day!!


REGARDS,
LOVELEEN...

SWG hits Port Dickson - Part 1

It has been a yearly activity for SWG to go for holiday. Furthermore with the existence of "Tabung Ade-Ade", we kept about RM10-week into the fund and by the end of the year the lumpsum amount of our collections will be used for SWG vacation.. Brilliantkan...?? :D

For the year of 2011, we managed to get total RM500/each from the fund (we started a bit late so the amount was not much). However that still considered a big figure and sufficient for our vacation trip.

So where was our destination this time? Any Guess....? :D Alrite I tell you... This time, SWG finally "roxx" Port Dickson!! Why PD?? Even it's a common beach in Malaysia, nearer and I already went there twice this year smpai nk termuntah dah..... it's a majority decision. This was due to our consideration toward SWG member, ZT yg preggie that time. Of course further destination would not be suitable for her. As for me, I believed every holiday will bring a different experiences. Apetah lg pergi ngan group lain, lain org mesti lain ragamkan....

Oh ya, we also stayed at the different resort than I went with my family before. It was a school holiday so we couldn't find any available house/apartment. All were fully booked so the only choice was to reserve a hotel and the only hotel available was Casa Richardo Resort near Teluk Kemang area. This resort is famous among visitors to conduct a training/gathering/conference or organizing any events. Price was quite affordable and located at blue lagoon near the Casa Ricardo Fire House.


We departed from KL at 10am where I, Dhiya and Nor in one car followed by Fizah-hubby & Kak Maz family. Traffic was a bit congested near the Nilai area however we managed to reach PD as per estimated time arrival around 1pm.

Updating the other members on location. (Ignore my nail color. Perasan camtikss)





LUNCHEON AT NASI KUKUS AYAM PANGGANG, PD


It was already lunch time, so first destination we went was of course a place to fill in our stomach. We got attracted with one restaurant which full of customers and looked unique. As we got the typical mentality that "Full means Best", so we parked our car and joined the crowd. The mentioned restaurant was .....

So Sweet Grup without ZT yg masih belum smpai ketika ini..

Duduk2 trus amik gamba...

As you can see, this restaurant had an unique theme that made it outstanding from other restaurant (even in term of taste wise, it just in average level). The decoration was very cowboy like.


Left : Presenting to U our new member of SWG Junior, Danial! He is Fizah new born son and this was his first experience joined papa+mama for holiday. Nasib x byk ragam. Cayalah...Yay!!

Right : We had their recommended specialist dish, chicken BBQ rice. Most of the menus here were grill-based dishes.




Menu yg so-so and a bit tasteless... (frankly)

After had our stomach filled, we took a picture in front of the restaurant where they displayed varieties type of cowboy hat. Enough for us to took one each and had a photo shoot. Presented to you... Cow-babes!

More and more group photos....




Cow-babes and Cow-baby..

Ok, last pose!

PD OSTRICH SHOWFARM


Xtvt after lunch, we went to the Ostrich Farm that located along the way to our Hotel. Usually when Port Dickson is mentioned, the beaches will come into mind first since it is mainly famous for that. So, I wouldn’t have guessed that an ostrich farm would be here as well. To be honest I wasn’t too keen on visiting the farm at first but since it was recommended by many people who visited it before, I went anyway. It is just a small area but having quite a lot of ostriches in here. (Well dah nama pun Ostrich Farm kan, xkan nak ade unta plak kt sini..)

Took Danial stroller for a walk

Welcome note

The entrance fee is RM8 for adults and RM4 for kids, quite pricey for a mini zoo if you ask me.. We could tour all the area to watch the animals, feed them and took photo.

Motif...?? Konon ala frame gambar la nie..

Funnily enough, the first animal we went to see was the goat at the petting zoo instead of ostriches lol.

Yes U saw it right, kambing pun ada. Khas utk uptown people yg jakun x pernah tgk kambing. And yes... foreigner too. Meet local goats peeps!! (Psssttt... the black goat was so macho, x layan gua amik gamba.. serius je muka)




Next, ostrich hot chicks.. (ok saje tambah "hot" tu)

The nicest looking male ostrich, handsome looking but big bald spot, lack of feathers at the bottom.

We bought some animal feed at RM2 each box which contained yellow corn and proceeded to the feeding area. Funny thing was all the adults were scared to feed the ostrich. This is because ostrich has a rather long and sharp beak that would hurt your fingers when they peck the food from your hand. We just scared if the ostrich bite our palm when it wanted to grab the foods so we just threw the foods to the ostrich instead.


Only Trisya yg berani, yg besar suma hampeh....

Ok Fairol too... kena jaga air muka gak kan. Tunjuk berani la.




Other adults just took photo with the junior ostrich.

Ok, when there's a junior, there must be senior right?? Lets take a look!!!

An Ostrich with a flirting eyes.

Aiks... what da hell I was doing right there??

Owh... skodeng (peek) ostrich eggs rupanya!

This is called a "shy-shy" ostrich poses.




Keeping an eye contact with the ostrich

Emergency room...

I think the management should add "for children only" note here. Imagine the thin ostrich legs to support our (adults) weight?? Pity...

Cute little chickens however I don't think I have to travel this far just to see it. I can watch it straight from my house since my neighbor also breed the chickens. :)




After feeding session completed, we went to the cafe located inside the farm.

We saw this sign ... Satay ostrich an had a try. It's fair what... td kita bg dia makan skrg kita makan dia balik. That is a cycle of life. Hahhahahaa!!

Posed at the cafe

Ade displayed old trishaw kat cafe tu, so jd props bergamba la nampaknya

Believe it or not, the ostrich egg can support the weight of a grown up man, up to 120++kg!!




You can step on it with your bare feet. Confirm x pecah!

Heavy duty egg. Tgk pun dah nmpak solid jer...

Daging ostrich agak tebal and liat so membakarnya juga mengambil masa yg lama. Luckily they got the electrical fan, klau x nak mengipas manual jenuh woo...

Check the price babes!!

Excited faces except Fairul who looked a bit bored. Hungry perhaps?

Yezar... finally it's ready!

Unsur2 ke"tamak"kan berlaku di sini..

Ostrich meat is one of the best meat you can eat in the world for being low in fat. The meat was tough, dry and had a rough texture however in taste wise, it was good!

Once we finished the satay & bought some souvenirs (fridge magnet of course).... we went out from the park. Its nearly 4.30pm where we needed to check in at the hotel and getting ready for the outdoor games at the beach. Yeay... cant wait!!


But before that, our visit will not be completed if there's no group photo of us..

One moment ZT wasn't here...

And one moment she was here.. Hoyye cukup korum!!

Final picture

Where was our next destination?? To be continued in PD Trip with SWG Part II.

Till then, stay tuned peeps..............