Port Dickson Trip

My family, relatives and I .. went to Port Dickson for vacation during 1st and 2nd October 2008..
During the Raya holidays..

On our way to Port Dickson, we took our breakfast at a restaurant .. vegetables, soup and sotong rings ! and also Milo =)

We followed this computerized map to Port Dickson..this GPS(Global Positioning System) will lead you to any part of the world.. okay...now you should be thinking it is a waste of money to get this..

Explanation : If you go to an unknown place, or lets say you are looking for a food store in a place you do not know. You would be driving around many times to look for it.. Therefore, wasting petrol and time... Petrol = $$(Don't forget that petrol price is increasing) , Time = $$ ..Petrol + Time = More $$.. Petrol is depleting soon, we should save petrol for the sake of mankind. After several months...you will see that it is worth getting one of these...

Raya Holidays... Traffic jam...

Reached our destination : Glory Beach Resort..

Time to check-in the hotel... ^_^

A great view from the balcony of our hotel room...

At the balcony, preparing to swim ~

The swimming pool, lots of people were there..

It is cold, see.. I am shivering =P I also took the underwater cubing video in this swimming pool..The Beach Activities

Volleyball...many people were playing volleyball at the beach.

Banana boat... it overturned due to a big wave... well, they have this activity where people can ride on it and the guide will take them on a tour to the deep sea... when coming back to the seashore, the guide will overturn the boat and all the passengers will be thrown out to the sea..(with life jackets of course).

Some people were flying their kites at the beach, beach is a good place to fly a kite due to the sea breeze that occur around that time..where wind from the sea blow towards the land..

It is getting late... night time..

Swimming pool : Night time..

During the night, sea waves become more aggressive.... I would be washed away if I go further out..

Many people were having BBQ beside the beach... it made us hungry...

Therefore, we went to a restaurant outside of the hotel to take our dinner..

My dinner, rice + vegetables and satay...and tea

Time for bed, this was my bed during the trip... so lonely T.T

The next day, we took our breakfast at Maybo Kopitiam near our resort...

My breakfast was Chow Kuey Teow.. as in fried kuey teow... and a cup of Milo..

Back at the resort, I saw this artificial ship...it significant the middle ages.... where people do lots of trading with ships, they also battle with ships, transportation were mainly on ships... just imagine life being on a boat, like in the movies... so nice and relaxed...

Lets have some beach activity before checking-out..

Frisbee... a circular piece of plastic with a curved edge which is thrown between people as a game.. played it with my cousins..

Time to take our lunch in the resort... buffet lunch..RM18 per person.. argh...

Well, everytime I eat a buffet meal..I will surely try my best to eat as much as I can and pick the most expensive dish they serve..

Here, the curry chicken turns out to be the most worth dish.. ate lots of it...and drank lemonade too..

After we checked-out, we went to a public beach in Port Dickson... this is the place where I rode the horse...it is beside the public beach..

This is the public beach... lots of tents..

And also lots of PEOPLE !! This is just part of the beach...haven't include the people that are at the stores beside the beach..

For the ships and boats to park?

When I saw this water tower, it reminds me of the Roman Empire... they had lots of reservoir to store their water supply... and linked it from one to another with aqueducts connecting across the cities of the Roman Empire...

When I passed by the stores beside the beach.... I saw this t-shirt...

Immediately I can see two meanings of life in it...

One of it is Yi San You Yi San Gao(One Mountain Got Another Mountain Higher)..which means even how good you are, there will be another person better than you.. Even if you are the current champion of the world, it doesn't mean that your title will last forever. Someday, somewhere... another person would catch up and claim your title... =)

The second is Backstabbers... See the small red fish on the right? It is luring the black fish to eat it.. by luring the black fish to eat it, the yellow fish spotted the black fish and now the black fish is in danger.. meaning that it is backstabbing the black fish... The world have many backstabbers, beware of the people around you..they might be a backstabber one day, you wouldn't know =P

Time to end this trip....

While on the way back, we passed by the highway and I noticed lots of palm trees beside the highway... now you know why Malaysia is one of the top country for palm oil supply? =)

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First horse riding in my life..

Today, afternoon, I went for horse riding when my family, relatives and I were on the way back home from port dickson..passed by a public beach and we decided to spent our time here a while.. there were many things here, one was this horse / donkey riding thing.. I picked the horse...

Yup, it is my first time riding a horse (I know many people ride it before, but it is my first time =P)

The Donkey ! Much shorter...this donkey looks lonely
The Horse ! Much taller.. =P ..RM10 per ride (Haiz, so expensive..but nvm..first time experience) -.-"
During the ride....
Lol...the horse shitted...look at bottom left of this photo...
Horse rider's point of view...

The ride was abit shaky, like going to fall off...there wasn't anything to hold..only able to hold the thing I am sitting on..

Time to go back into history....during the war ages long ago... horse riders usually have something to hold to control the horse, some of them take horses to war...they hold a sword on one of the hand and the other hand control the horse..

The greatest of all were the Mongolians...they were once the largest country/empire in the world(even larger than the current Russia, Mongolia was the largest country/empire thoughout human history).. they were able to win a battle with less amount of soldiers while the rival have more.. one of their specialties was the horseback riding skills they had... their archers ride horses and control them with only their legs..while both of their hands are able to control the bow and shoot their rivals... they were hunters and accurate in shooting..

Now look at the current world...not many people are good at horseback riding...it is because we have vehicles and more, horses are not important anymore...that is why this is my first time riding a horse. ^_^
After the ride..... =P

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Underwater Cubing Attempt....

Tried my first underwater cubing solve(in one breath solve underwater) during vacation at port dickson...

Took a photo before trying..

In the swimming pool...Doing some warm-up solves before doing it underwater...
Factors for underwater cubing : nervous, can't think properly, slower in turning due to in water, red and orange stickers looks almost the same(it is because my goggles was blue in colour). I was also using my one-handed cube(high pop rate), 2 stickers were replaced with double-sided tape(1 month+ ago) and it got wet and hard to see..there was also a small pop during that solve, but fixed back in 1 or 2 seconds.. around 35.xx seconrds solve.. anyways, not that bad for first try.. ^_^ (If you want to watch a higher quality version of the video, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOe4JDycP4k and click the button "watch in high quality", located at bottom right of the video)

Drying up the cubies and core(cube pieces + center).... =P
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One day before school holidays..

Last friday, 26th September 2008.

It was the last day of school before 1 week of school holiday for raya..

Everyone looks so relaxed after school...the students were playing some card game...
They were playing UNO card game...
While I was walking around the school...I could find a lot of people cubing..

Some students were playing basketball..

And for those that were not in the basketball game... they spin the ball !

While in the scouts den, some of them were playing monopoly...

Few hours later, I sense that there would be a great storm coming...

Look at the dark clouds !!
Few hours later, HEAVY RAIN... VERY HEAVY !! But the photo do not look as if the rain is very heavy..

In the school bus, traffic jam !! Reached home around 7.30pm... quite late..

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