Passed Johore Bahru and the tour guides that was with us brought us to a chinese restaurant for dinner/supper. 4 or 5 course meals at about close to midnight.... Sinful! Heee...The guides treated us... so sweet of them.
After eating, we went back to our mini van to continue our journey to Port Dickson. Most of us slept in the van. It was an ardous journey... eat then sleep for 3-4hours. Sigh.... I'm beginning to feel that it's not "easy" being camp committee. Ha!
We finally reached Tiara Resort, Port Dickson close to 2am. This is a pic of our rooms. Beds are big but I felt the room was a tad claustrophobic in my opinion. That aside, my body was glad that it can sleep horizontally and not 90 degrees like when in the van.
I was so exhausted... I didn't even know that I fell asleep. Hee...
We turned in at about 2ish-3am, had to wake up at 830am to meet the resort's manager for a tour of the place to see if it is suitable for church camp next year. Maybe because I'm not a morning person so I didn't feel inspired at all to take any pics of the place. Heee...*Gomenasai*..not much pics of Tiara Resort, P.D!
After leaving P.D, we travelled to Kuala Lumpur next to meet up with the manager of Palace of the Golden Horses. Exhaustion lingered, once more most of us fell asleep while travelling there. It's tough being the committee. Sigh... hehe..
We arrived and it was here that my senses got invigorated and made me more awake than before. Get this...what seems like strawberry scent at the hotel's TOILET made me refreshed and more alive. Hahahhah. Now I know why I'm sensitive to smells. Hee. This is supposed to be a 6stars hotel I think. Almost everything in this hotel is linked to horses. Spot the horses in the next few pics..Ha!
Ceiling pic..
Think this is concierge section
Huge revolving fountain in the middle of one of their restaurants.
The bedroom.
The toilet (I lurve it! It's so bright.... Yes... for those of you who know... I am VERY particular about hotel toilets... especially those where 1. the lighting is dim 2. the bathtub is directly OPPOSITE the huge mirror. And how huge mirrors get fogged up after a warm shower and it's just facing you when you come out of the shower. Hehe.. when you grow up watching too much horror flicks and B grade scary movies and have a vivid imagination... you'll understand why I end up being particular about such.. I suppose. Ha)
I didn't take pics of the towels in the toilet but if I did... you would be able to see that the towels had horses embossed on it.
More horses!! Quite a nice concept I thought. To use carousel horses to create this in one of the restaurants.
After all that tour, the committe were rather hungry. The manager of Palace of the Golden Horses (this is beginning to be a mouthful.) brought us to this Japanese Restaurant in the hotel to have our lunch. One of the private rooms in the Jap Restaurant, but we didn't eat inside, sat outside.
Sarah & I while waiting for our food.
Peikey asked us to pose a different pose... so okie... we decided to do a vainpot pose. Hahaha..
Ok, enough of us... here comes the real torture. 6stars Japanese food. I told you ..it wasn't easy being camp committee. I had to put up with succulent and oh-so-tender beef bites that had a delightful grilled taste. I had to put up with crispy tempura prawns, fish, and oh yes...lady's finger (For the record, this is the first time in my life I tried a lady's finger. I didn't know it was a lady's finger and thought it was an asparagus or something and popped it in my mouth..until much later..)
As if that wasn't bad enough, I had to force myself to finish the lightly sweetened beancurd with shitake mushrooms that seemed to make me want more! Urgh! What a torture! And the salmon sashimi..... I tell you... I have not tasted such fresh and sweeeeeet sashimi in Malaysia before. And my bento was really huge and I was struggling to finish it.
Prior to that the hotel treated us as well to a platter of Jap raw food like Maguro (Raw Tuna I think).. and usually I don't take raw tuna. Raw salmon was still acceptable. Raw tuna looked too red in its colour to me to be ingested. Anyway I thought, what the heck... just try. And I sOOooOO regretted that move. It was mmmmmmMMmmmmmmMmmMmm!!! It's truly horrible I tell you! The benchmark for raw Maguro has been raised SOOOO high now I don't know if I can find something comparable in Singapore to that piece I tried in the hotel.
Before we left for the next hotel, we were walking past the corridor and I have no idea why I was quite captivated by the scenery outside of the window of this plant & the hotel exterior. Thought it was quite nice so took pic of it for my memory. Heheh.
Our last stop to recce was Grand Seasons, K.L. Here's a pic of their bedroom. Not bad actually. =)
This is one of their ballrooms. Hmmm... pillars seems to be blocking the view of the mainstage eventhough there's TV...Hmmm..
Anyway, tat was our last stop before we made our way back to Singapore. There was a traffic accident on the way back and it caused a traffic congestion of up to 2 hours! We arrived in J.B and stopped at the same place that we did (I can't rem the name!!) when we went up for church camp this year for some dinner.
Sarah spotted this. Thousand Island Egg (porridge) instead of Century Egg. Thought it was quite farnie. Hahah. And that was that for the sacrifices the committee made for the greater good of others. Heheheheheh. There are still other hotels in other parts (e.g. Melaka) of Malaysia as well that are being checked out for church camp next year, but I didn't go for that recce trip though. Anyways, soon we'll know where are we going for church camp next year!
1 comment:
Wah!!! see until salivate liao.. must have been a torture to have to finish all the mouth-watering food... poor thing... ;P
I see the next Church Camp is in good hands.. looking forward to it loh.. hehe
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