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Monday, January 21, 2008

^Road Trip^

Holiday Part II
16th & 17th Jan '08
Port Dickson - Cameron Highlands - Malacca

In attendance: Abhinav, Lianghan, Michelle & Penny

Nt: Travelling with four photo-adversive people makes photo-taking a challenge. This was the best we could do.

~Abhi - Car provider & Main driver & RM provider~

~Lianghan - Backup driver 1 & Cameraman~

~Michelle - Backup driver 2 & Navigator~

~Penny - Permanent Backseat Passenger & Camera Provider~

It started out as a desire to travel once more with the Middle East peeps before school starts. As known procrastinators, we naturally dragged the planning process till the semester started. Finally, the group decided to only have our mass holiday during the mid-sem break.

However, my dear Abhi decided to pursue our dream of holidaying by suggesting a short road trip to savour the good food across the Causeway. Roping in three others, we finally embarked on what was suppose to be a simple trip.

It was amazing I actually convinced my mom to let me go. Or rather, I insisted my way through. Well, I can't blame my mom considering, we had no idea where we were going (I mean..we consider PD and Malacca but ended up at CH) and we had no idea where we were staying. We only knew we wanted out. The night before departure, we did not even know if we were confirmed going. *haha*

So yea...the very exciting 2D1N simple trip in simple sentences:

Abhi drove rather quickly to PD where LH & I didn't really feel the room rates were worth it. Michelle suggested Cameron Highlands so we all said "Go!" We had lunch and got into a car accident that left Abhi S$120 (plus S$2k more to replace his back sensor and bumper) poorer.

We arrived at CH safely and picked the Century Pines Resort cause LH stayed there before. We stayed in a Duplex Suite for 3 which costs RM410. The double-storeyed apartment was really nice! We had a lovely night outing at the road shoulder in the middle of nowhere (cause we missed our initial destination Blue Valley) with the backseat all huddled up in comfy blankets and pillows. We also had a bag of spoilt pineapples which killed Michelle and a bottle of spoilt wine which gave Abhi double vision.

We spent the next morning plucking big red strawberries for Michelle and Anderson.
We visited the BOH factory and climbed to its Viewpoint. With a beautiful view, cool weather and nice company, I lost myself on top that boulder. We ran out of ringgit by the time we reached the BOH factory cafe as only Abhi changed money, a mere SGD200. Lunch was therefore some tuna sandwiches and water for me. :)

Payment for tolls on the way back was true excitement as we never knew if we would run out of RM. Happily snoozing on the way to Malacca for dinner, the right back tire burst. *haha* So we ended up changing tires in the middle of a very windy nowhere with huge scary trucks speeding past.

With a fresh tire, we all piled back in only to find the fuel gauge at E - empty. *hmm* So we had to off the A/C to conserve energy as we did not know when the next petrol kiosk was. Thankfully, we were saved. Alas! No cash. *haha* Michelle and her credit card to the rescue.

So we finally made it to dinner at Malacca at 9pm after stopping at KLIA to change money. On the way home, I told Abhi, "This definitely felt longer than 2D1N man..."

The details above and the rest of the trip can be found in the photos here.

An eventful trip indeed...looking forward to Holiday Part III. *hee*

|*t@tty snoozed off @ 3:04 am*|

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