Tarikh / Date: 7 Feb 2009 - 9 Feb 2009
Lokasi / Location: Tiara Beach Resort & Ilham Resort, Port Dickson
Hari/Day 1: 7/2/2009
8.00 Seperti biasa hari-hari minggu, ibu biarkan kita bangun lewat. Ayah dah keluar, ibu kata ayah pergi servis kereta. Kita main PS2 sambil ibu mengemas rumah
8.00 as usual on weekends, Ibu let me sleep until late. When I woke up, Ayah was already out to service our car. Hmm I heard that we’re going on a holiday today but Ayah is not around… hmm are going or not. After bath I spent my time with the PS2 while Ibu still doing her chores of laundry and tidying the whole house.
10.30 Ayah balik. Ibu buat breakfast favourite kita, macaroni & cheese. Ibu mula pack-pack baju, ayah suruh kita charge PSP untuk perjalanan nanti.
10.30 Ayah came home. We had a sumptuous breakfast of my favorite macaroni & cheese that Ibu prepared. After breakfast Ibu started to pack our belonging then ayah told me… “Pack your toys and charge you PSP for the journey. We’re going to PD.” Yahoo!
14.++ Bertolak ke pd. Baru jalan kita dahaga dan mintak ayah berhenti beli air. Ayah marah sebab sebelum bertolak tadi dia dah pesan suruh kita buat air bekal tapi kita tak buat. Tak best la air bekal ayah... Ayah ikut jalan Putrajaya lalu klia lalu cyberjaya lalu salak tinggi. Nak tiba salak tinggi ibu pulak lapar, ayah berhenti kat bandar baru salak tinggi. Kitorang berhenti makan kat gerai-gerai kat situ. Ada banyak gerai, yang tutup pun banyak juga. Mula-mula jumpa deretan gerai cina, lepas tu gerai-gerai india then last tu barulah gerai-gerai melayu, ibu kata muhibbah sungguh. Lepas makan kami sambung perjalanan semula menuju ke arah klia dan seterusnya port dickson. Kami lalu masjid KLIA, lalu Litar F1, lalu simpang enstek, lalu area estet kelapa sawit dan mana lagi entah, sebab kita lalu tidur je.
14.++ We depart for PD (Port Dickson). I asked to stop at a petrol station to buy some drinks but he declined. Actually, he already asked me to pack and bring my own favorite drinks for the journey which I did not do he he he... We took a route passing Mines resort City, UPM Serdang, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya and then Salak Tinggi towards the KLIA. Ibu asks ayah to stop for lunch as it is already 13.30pm. Ayah decided to stop at Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi for our meal. It was a food court near the ghostly bus station, but businesses were brisk. First we found a stretch of Chinese food stalls, then the Indian and lastly the Malays. After our so and so meal, we continue our journey. Ayah drove toward the KLIA mosque then turns left toward the LCCT and then another left towards Sepang. We went pass the F1 circuit, then some traditional village before a huge area of palm estate. We arrived at Lukut and later Port Dickson at around 16.00
16.++ Kami tiba di Port Dickson. Macam biasa, Atuk, Wan, Maklong & Family, Acik & Family serta Maksu & Acik Shahrol semua duduk kat
Ilham Resort. Paklong memang selalu book Ilham Resort ni utk kami semua sebab dia kerja kat PNB. Ilham Resort ni PNB punya jadi Paklong dapat harga special kalau kami duduk kat sini. Tapi kali ni kita, ibu dan ayah tak duduk kat Ilham Resort tu. Kami duduk kat
Tiara Beach Resort, kita panggil tempat ni hotel tiara. So kami terus ke Tiara dulu. Tiba-tiba je ayah dah ada kunci bilik, tak payah ambik kat kaunter pun. Ayah kata bilik yang kami duduk ni kawan ayah punya, tapi tak jumpa pulak kawan ayah tu.Entah la, kita pun tak faham la, yang penting kita dapat mandi swimming pool. Tu aje.
16.++ Arrived in Port Dickson. As usual, all family members from Ibu’s side will check in at Ilham Resort. PakLong works at PNB whose owns Ilham Resort. Therefore, he always gets a special discount here. The different this time is that we are not going to stay in Ilham as Ayah had already booked us a room in Tiara Beach Resort. Which later I will refer to it as Tiara. Upon arrival in PD, we checked-in at Tiara. Not actually check-in as normally we did at the reception, but we just went into the hotel building and get into the room to put our belongings. I do not know where Ayah got the keys from but he told me that the room belongs to his friend. I do not quite understand as we did not meet anybody downstairs but the view from the windows made me forgot all that… wah a huge swimming pool with slides, ice cream bar etc etc.
17.++ Ayah dan ibu letak barang je kat Tiara tu, terus ke Ilham. Sampai je sana kita terus berkubang kat swimming pool dengan sepupu-sepupu kita yang lagi 5 orang tu; Fitri, Iqmal, Azrai, Hakim & Hadi. Cuma Hasib je belum sampai sebab Acik pergi ambik Atuk kat Hospital dulu, Hakim dan Hadi Acik suruh ikut Mak Su, sebab tu dah sampai. Kita mandi sampai dah tak tahan sejuk, masa tu pool tu pun dah nak tutup. Kat pool tu ada pool bar. Ada jual ais-krim, abc/cendol, burger, popcorn dan makanan-makanan lain. Tapi kali ni kita tak beli apa-apa sebab tak lapar la pulak.
17.++ After putting our belongings, we straight went over to Ilham. Maklong’s family, Maksu and Acik Shahrol were already there. Maksu brought Along Hakim and Hadi as Acik and Acik Farid will be coming late. After changing clothes, the all of us 6 boys jump straight to the swimming pool. We bathe until late, until I shiver all over. It was almost the closing time for the pool when we went up, even the pool bar which usually serves snacks, ABC, cendol, ice-cream etc had already closed.
20.00 Lepas maghrib Acik, Acik Farid, Hasib, Atuk dan Wan pun sampai. Acik suruh budak-budak jangan kacau atuk sebab atuk sakit. Atuk baru beberapa hari lepas operation. Apartment yang PakLong sewa ni ada 2 tingkat. 2 bilik kat atas, 2 lagi kat bawah siap dengan meja makan family size, living hall dan kaunter dapur tempat memasak. Cuma dapur je takde. Ada balkoni untuk tengok-tengok luar. Astro pun ada cuma sayangnya takde channel cartoon, tapi lain kali kita nak bawak vcd kita sendiri sebab kat sini siap ada hi-fi yang boleh main vcd.
20.00 Right after Maghrib Acik, Acik Farid, Hasib, Atuk and Wan arrived. Acik told us kids not to disturb Atuk as he is not well yet from an operation a few days back. About the apartment they’re staying on: It is a double storey apartment lot with 2 rooms upstairs and downstairs. Complete with family size dining table, a minibar and kitchen cabinet. The living area is completed with TV, Astro, VCD player and even a hi-fi unit. The only setback is that it doesn’t have cartoon channel on its Astro. Anyway we kids brought along our games and PSPs for the holiday, sigh.
20.30 Semua pakcik-pakcik termasuk ayah dah turun utk bbq. Budak-budak dan ibu-ibu turun lambat sikit. Bila kita turun makanan dah siap. Paklong kita order package bbq dimana pihak resort sediakan nasi goreng, mee goreng mamak, buah-buahan, air juice dan juga ais kosong. Diorang juga sediakan aarang untuk bbq tu, siap pasang api lagi. Acik Farid dan Pak Long pulak bawak benda-benda yang nak di panggang. Ada ayam, daging, daging kambing, chicken wing, hot dog dan kentang. Ayah tak bawak apa-apa, tolong bakar je. Kita tak berapa sangat nak makan, tadi lepas swimming dah makan kat bilik hotel. Kita nak main je... main dan main yahooo... bukan senang nak lepas main malam-malam ni kat luar. Kita main badminton, main bola dan main pasir... err sebelum kena marah la. Dah kena marah, ibu panggil makan, kita pun makan la sikit. Lepas tu main balik!!
20.30 All uncles including ayah went down to prepare for our barbeque session. Mums including Ibu, Wan, Atuk and the kids will have to wait until everything ready. He he the mums doesn’t trusts the dads to watch over us the kids. When we arrived at the gazebo, foods we already served. The men are still cooking some other food on the grill. We have bbq chicken, lamb, beef, hot dogs and potatoes. These we bought/prepared by Acik Farid. The resort prepared us some fried rice, mamak fried noodles, fruits and drinks. They even prepare the charcoal and fire. I and my cousins were more interested to play. We already have had our meal after swimming, so nobody cares so much of the dinner. We played badminton, rugby and soccer on the sand. We even tried to build sandcastles before scolded buy one of the mums.
22.30 Atuk suruh semua orang balik ke bilik. Atuk kata dah malam, tak elok budak-budak main kat luar. Semua orang pun berkemas balik ke bilik/apartment. Ibu, Ayah dan semua makcik/pakcik sembang-sembang kat dapur. Kita main lagi dalam apartment tu sambil tengok tv. Pukul 1 lebih kita, ibu dan ayah bertolak balik ke Tiara. Kita tak tau pukul berapa tiba tiara, mungkin tak lama kut sebab dekat je. Tapi kita dah tidur dulu sebelum tiba tiara tu.
22.30 We start to pack up things and went back to the apartment. The adult chats until late as we kids drift one by one asleep. We went back to Tiara at after 01:00 am.
