Beraya kat PD

Raya hari pertama - Got up early at 7am to do the necessary early-morning matters that my mum usually does. After ensuring my sister will bring the whole bunch of relatives out for breakfast, I got into the car with KF and DL to pick KP up for breakfast in Sri Petaling with JY, MY, YL and JT (the acronyms drive people up the wall with curiousity lehh). Dimsum One exceeded my expectations, probably because I didn't expect it to be better than usual. However, it was better than usual, and rather cheap, with the har kau and siu mai coming in slightly larger-than-usual sizes. Not bad at all.

Arrived at Glory Beach Resort in Port Dickson at about 11-ish. Since the reception counter refused to check us in until 3pm, we then drove to the Blue Lagoon. JY, MY, YL and KP went swimming-cum-snorkelling, while KF, DL, JT and I played Taboo. Blue Lagoon is said to be one of the best beaches at PD where you can still snorkel and see fishes.

We then drove into town to search for food. Ended up at Restoran Hai Chiew, which was the only Chinese restaurant opened. And of course, we ended up paying more than we should for taufu, chicken and vege - no seafood at all. I guess that's bound to happen when you go out on a major festive occasion.

Finally went back to Glory to check in. And spent a very fruitful afternoon watching 2 rather good movies - The Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift and Take The Lead. Tokyo Drift was good for the revving action, and Take the Lead was good because of the dance moves. And since it was raining quite heavily, we stayed in to play a group round of Taboo. That game is good la, no wonder the BU boys love the game.

We went to this Restaurant Bee Hoo in Lukut for a seafood dinner of fish, crab, la la, vege and egg. Amazingly, this dinner cost us less than the lunch we had. By the time we finished dinner, it was already 10pm. We then settled down to another movie (JT's portable hard-disk movie player is really useful la) - The Benchwarmers. Funny funny, typical Rob Schneider movie.

After this 3rd movie of the day, a bunch of them decided to take a night walk to the Legend Water Chalets nearby. A few of us stayed in just to chit-chat. After all, that's what the trip should be about - hanging out and catching up with friends. We all tumbled into bed by 2am. Since it was past my usual bed time, I was still quite awake and had to toss and turn till almost 3 before I could really fall asleep.

Raya hari kedua - Woke up at 7am again! Was the 2nd person up after JT, who went out for a morning traipse. I sat down and finished my book Dark Angel by Sally Beauman. (I'll review this book another time, along with the movie The Prestige which I watched on Monday with KF and DL). Everyone slowly started to wake, bathe and pack up. We checked out at about 9.30am and drove to a nearby Medan Selera in Lukut for a completely tasteless breakfast. Headed back to KL and arrived at Subang at about 11.30am.

Someone suggested karaoke, so we went to Galaxy at SS15. Not a bad package, at RM12++ per person you get a drink and a semi-buffet lunch plus the room for 3 hours. KP spent his time utilising the free wi-fi to chat on his new dopod. But it was quite a good singing session, because everyone joined in a lot of the songs, rather than individual singing sessions. We finally dispersed home at 3.30pm.

I got home, dropped the bags and went out grocery shopping at Giant Kelana Jaya. JT's successful diet influenced KF to start on granola-bars-snacking. After that, we had dinner in Kepong with YL, DL and the other KP who just returned from New York. Dinner was quite good. We had la mian at this Dragon-i spin-off. But the prices were reasonable and me, not a noodle fan, quite liked it too. But dinner was actually for the benefit of KP who's leaving soon for Melbourne, and we were trying to stuff her up to a reasonable BMI. By this time, I was already quite exhausted. Aiya, old already, cannot have so many late nights and exciting days anymore. Glad to finally drop into bed at 11pm, after a truly good 5-day weekend.