A Memorable Trip To Port Dickson

FUN,FUN,FUN!!! That's what we had at Port Dickson over the weekend from 14th to 15th May 2011.

Fourteen of us from Mid Valley Toastmasters Club decided that KL was too much to bear, and escaped to a beach side private bungalow for a break. Our journey started with a stop at Dunkin Donuts by the Sungai Besi toll for breakfast, before heading to Port Dickson. When we reached Port Dickson, we were clueless on where the private bungalow was, and had to make an emergency call to the owner to find out the exact location. After finally locating the bungalow and checking in, we decided to start our first activity of outdoor games, organized by Leung Wan Choong. We warmed up by the beach, led by Leung WC. But before we could even start our outdoor games, we started experimenting with our cameras, and decided to go with the flow with more photo shooting sessions. We thoroughly enjoyed the photo session, with jump, flying kicks, hugging, and just "stoning".

Next, we headed to a famous spot in Port Dickson about 10 minutes drive away from our private bungalow for the local Nasi Ayam Panggang. Arriving at the Nasi Ayam Panggang tent, we found waiters with friendly smile and cow-boy hats, creating a little cow-boy theme to the tent. The lunch was superb with nice tasting juicy BBQ chicken served with steamed rice.

Done with lunch, we headed to the famous Teluk Kemang beach. It was quite an experience going through shop after shop at the beach side, selling items from bikinis to chicken- branded soda drinks! We finally settled down and relaxed by the beach at a nice little stall with coconut drinks and "keropok lekor". It was fun hanging out with the breeze from the sea while watching the crowd enjoying themselves by the beach under the hot sun. Kids were screaming and laughing, but the breeze was making us sleepy.

Next, we headed back to the private bungalow for a little rest, with indoor Jenga game, organizes by Leung WC,our Game Master. We learnt from the urban planner Kalvin on how to build the tallest Jenga tower, and learnt from Lewis how to knock on the little Jenga pieces to see if they were really removable. It was all fun and relaxing.

Beach was where we headed next. A beach boy by the name of 'Ah Ching' was already waiting for us. We pre-booked him to bring us for banana boat ride and to guide us through our first sea fishing experience. We never knew that the banana boat ride would start a string of accidents. On the second round of banan boat ride, our Vice President of Education, Ang Chee Yong, lost his balance and fell into the water. Within seconds, he was pulled into the water by the banana boat rope on his neck. He struggled for a few second, and luckily managed to free himself. As Chee Yong swam to the shore, he found himself bleeding on the neck. We knew that we had to send him to hospital and our Treasurer Rae, Immediate Past President, Gerard Peter and Vice President Membership, Travis Lai came to the rescue. They quickly got Chee Yong into Rae's car and drove to the nearby hospital. Unfortunately, before they could reach the hospital, Rae's car was hit from the back by a small little car. The small little car was completely stalled, but Rae's car suffered only minor damage. Gerard and Travis stayed put to handle the accident, while Rae continued his journey to send Chee Yong to the hospital. Fortunately, none of them was hurt from the car accident, and Chee Yong suffered only minor external injury to the neck. We learnt our lessons from the accidents, and enjoyed somehow brought all fourteen of us closer. We went back to our bungalow after the accidents, and enjoyed our BBQ session while listening to the full stories from Chee Yong and Rae.

After the BBQ session, our Game Master Leung organized a mind game by splitting us into 2 groups, and assigning us with the near impossible task of saving an egg from breaking with straws! We never thought it was possible, but with creative thinking and team work, both the team managed to save their eggs from breaking, with genius designs to break to break the eggs' fall. We had difficulties in deciding the winning team, but Leung decided that it was the team that took lesser time to complete that should win.

Next, we headed to a chill-out place at Thistle Hotel. We went dancing by the pool before finally jumping into the pool led by Gerard Peter. It was 1 a.m in the morning, but we all excited swimming in the pool ( and pulling the girls into the pool)!

The next morning, all of us woke up late (obviously from the partying the day before). We packed our bags, checked out, and headed for food in Lukut. We had the famous curry bun at Lucky Restaurant and nice seafood. The curry was niely wrapped in a big bun and is certainly something that we do not get in KL. Before we went home, we headed to the Port Dickson food court for ABC and Cendol as dessert.

The trip was great, filled with fun. Special thanks to Travis Lai for being the organizing chair. The trip was a very successful trip.