I spent 4 days and 3 nights in Desaru last weekend. It was the first time in my life albeit the place is just a short journey away from our island.
The sole purpose of the visit was we were there to cover Monsoon Mayhem, a surfing competition organized by a group of dedicated Singaporean fellas whose passionate about the sport. Everything from accommodation right up to food was being sponsored by the kind people of Tourism Malaysia.
Despite the normal frustrations due to work, I had so much fun there!
Let me highlight the "awesome-ness" in points:
- To soak into the surfing culture; with music blasting on the beach it was almost like a beach party. Grooving to the sounds of nice remixes of hip hop, rnb, reggae, house and trance music.
- Basking in the whole new atmosphere and observing my surroundings broaden my horizon.
- I got myself a tattoo y'all!!
(And I am so estactic about it!)
The sole purpose of the visit was we were there to cover Monsoon Mayhem, a surfing competition organized by a group of dedicated Singaporean fellas whose passionate about the sport. Everything from accommodation right up to food was being sponsored by the kind people of Tourism Malaysia.
Despite the normal frustrations due to work, I had so much fun there!
Let me highlight the "awesome-ness" in points:
- To soak into the surfing culture; with music blasting on the beach it was almost like a beach party. Grooving to the sounds of nice remixes of hip hop, rnb, reggae, house and trance music.
- Basking in the whole new atmosphere and observing my surroundings broaden my horizon.
- I got myself a tattoo y'all!!
(And I am so estactic about it!)-Getting my morning fix-es of 'whoa' when I saw the raging waves which was awaiting hungry surfers to ride them on.
- I have mentioned it before and I'll repeat it now, I love having my breakfast with the sea view as the serving.
- I have mentioned it before and I'll repeat it now, I love having my breakfast with the sea view as the serving.
- When you have great company who can come up with crazy things to do, it was simply a whale of a time. Created a ruckus playing poker games with deadly dares for the losers, my luck wasnt so good when I ended up kissing not 1 but 4 arse. And I cannot believe I just revealed that!
-Getting Freebies(!!)
-Last night in Desaru was a tale to share. Whatever stress and grim issues I had in me was forgotten as the guys did the unexpected when I among some of my team members was being thrown into the swimming pool after one another! It was crazy, insane! I thought I was safe and before I know it I was struggling and screaming, since I am not capable of saving my life! I am definitely not a swimmer! But when it happens, it was one of the most elating episode in my life by far :)
- Parting away with work being accomplished in fact more then we had planned! Fond memories and some new friends. What more could I ask for?
On the last day before we all return to Singapore we had a post tour for the media,the encounter can be described as really humanely engaging. To let the city woman in me loosen up and embrace the much more simple things in Life when we visited Kampung Temenin at KotaTinggi for half a day.
-Early morning breakfast under the the trees with the company of the morning breeze and the warmth welcome from the village people set me at ease immediately.. The best nasi lemak with the most excellent sambal I ever tasted sprinkled with crunchy ikan bilis, rendang chicken you wouldn't want to say no. Hey! We even had lemang! Still hot and piping straight from the bamboo and some traditional Malay Kuehs. Even the tea and coffee was heaven sent :).
-We met people from the village who were more then happy to show us around. I reveled myself on visiting fish ponds, goats farm, chicken farm, look at many plantations. Speaking of which I must share with you guys one of my wish came true! This may sound absurd but I have always wanted to tap a rubber tree..no joke! So when I was told that we were going to visit the rubber tree plantations imagine the instant glee of excitement I was feeling! There was definitely no doubt I was the first eager participant to volunteer and try tapping the rubber tree! It was really cool, and I was feeling like a kid all over again who just got on her first carousel ride! I even have a video of that to prove you!
That is if all the photos and video will not take half a year to be send to me. We'll see how ;)
And Ok ok ok, just in case if it bothers you, I did not get myself a real tattoo. It was cool while it last and furthermore it was thrilling to see how my parents reacted to it. Mama went ballistic for awhile and was confident that it was real. The dad, however was nonchalant about it and I took it he has a lot of faith and trust in me that I will never resort to such things. He knows right away it was fake. Haha, nevertheless it was a kick just to see mama's over-reaction! I swear she almost disown me!
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One of the songs which I could not get enough of when it was playing at the Desaru Beach!
p/s: Ladies cant wait to see you guys this Saturday!! So many things to share! La la la! See ya!!
-Getting Freebies(!!)
-Last night in Desaru was a tale to share. Whatever stress and grim issues I had in me was forgotten as the guys did the unexpected when I among some of my team members was being thrown into the swimming pool after one another! It was crazy, insane! I thought I was safe and before I know it I was struggling and screaming, since I am not capable of saving my life! I am definitely not a swimmer! But when it happens, it was one of the most elating episode in my life by far :)
- Parting away with work being accomplished in fact more then we had planned! Fond memories and some new friends. What more could I ask for?
On the last day before we all return to Singapore we had a post tour for the media,the encounter can be described as really humanely engaging. To let the city woman in me loosen up and embrace the much more simple things in Life when we visited Kampung Temenin at KotaTinggi for half a day.
-Early morning breakfast under the the trees with the company of the morning breeze and the warmth welcome from the village people set me at ease immediately.. The best nasi lemak with the most excellent sambal I ever tasted sprinkled with crunchy ikan bilis, rendang chicken you wouldn't want to say no. Hey! We even had lemang! Still hot and piping straight from the bamboo and some traditional Malay Kuehs. Even the tea and coffee was heaven sent :).
-We met people from the village who were more then happy to show us around. I reveled myself on visiting fish ponds, goats farm, chicken farm, look at many plantations. Speaking of which I must share with you guys one of my wish came true! This may sound absurd but I have always wanted to tap a rubber tree..no joke! So when I was told that we were going to visit the rubber tree plantations imagine the instant glee of excitement I was feeling! There was definitely no doubt I was the first eager participant to volunteer and try tapping the rubber tree! It was really cool, and I was feeling like a kid all over again who just got on her first carousel ride! I even have a video of that to prove you!
That is if all the photos and video will not take half a year to be send to me. We'll see how ;)
And Ok ok ok, just in case if it bothers you, I did not get myself a real tattoo. It was cool while it last and furthermore it was thrilling to see how my parents reacted to it. Mama went ballistic for awhile and was confident that it was real. The dad, however was nonchalant about it and I took it he has a lot of faith and trust in me that I will never resort to such things. He knows right away it was fake. Haha, nevertheless it was a kick just to see mama's over-reaction! I swear she almost disown me!
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One of the songs which I could not get enough of when it was playing at the Desaru Beach!
It's gettin late
I'm making my way over to my favorite place
I gotta get my body moving shake the stress away
I wasn't looking for nobody when you looked my way
Possible candidate (yeah)
Who knew
That you'd be up in here lookin like you do
You're makin' stayin' over here impossible
Baby I must say your aura is incredible
If you dont have to go don't
I wanna take you away
Lets escape into the music
DJ let it play
I just can't refuse it
Like the way you do this
Keep on rockin to it
Please don't stop the
Please don't stop the music
I'm making my way over to my favorite place
I gotta get my body moving shake the stress away
I wasn't looking for nobody when you looked my way
Possible candidate (yeah)
Who knew
That you'd be up in here lookin like you do
You're makin' stayin' over here impossible
Baby I must say your aura is incredible
If you dont have to go don't
I wanna take you away
Lets escape into the music
DJ let it play
I just can't refuse it
Like the way you do this
Keep on rockin to it
Please don't stop the
Please don't stop the music
p/s: Ladies cant wait to see you guys this Saturday!! So many things to share! La la la! See ya!!
Yours Truly Lis @ 9:00 AM
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