A breakaway it was!

Contributed by Rtr Vivien Kuah

If you've read our previous blog articles, you would know that RAC Port Klang Centennial had a 'Breakaway cum Club Assembly' in Port Dickson during the last long weekend.

Things were very relaxed and enjoyable. There were loads of food, drinks and laughter throughout the trip; the latter being mostly due to the contributions of our fellow guest, President Harley Ooi of RAC Subang.

There were 3 guests who were with us during this trip; President Harley Ooi as mentioned above, Rtr Tracy Hah of RAC Pudu; a contributor to our blog ("What's important in life?") and YM Chew; also another contributor to our blog ('Do ghosts really exist?').

We started out in 2 cars comprising of Feldman, Diana, and I in one car; and President Toh, Timmy, Shawn in another after lunch in Berkeley Corner, Klang; whilst Harley, Tracy and Zee Kin went up directly from Subang in another car. Chew went directly to PD from Johor to join us.

Day 1 started right on schedule! We rested a while upon check-in, awaiting for our apartments to be cleaned (we were informed by the resort to wait for their 'jerit' or shout to let us know that the apartments are ready!) and started our indoor game after. The game we played was "007 Piang!" and was introduced by our president himself. If the name of the game is not funny enough, the game itself left most of us in laughing stitches, thanks to several victims (more of blur cases actually!) during the game.

Beach time was quite enjoyable and relaxing. The scenery towards the sea and outshore was not bad, though the beach itself was sprinkled with bits of rubbish due to irresponsible beach goers.

Dinner was taken in a Chinese seafood restaurant nearby, made out of dishes such as fried la-la, sweet & sour pork, yong tau foo, bitter gourd fried with egg, etc. After dinner, we headed out to PD town to have a look and also buy some groceries and snacks. Entertainment for the night was singing session with our president playing the guitar, nibbling on sunflower seeds and snack foods, as well as 'Madam' Tracy's Love Predictions using poker cards, which were said to be quite accurate (most of the guys were taking numbers to be next in line for their turn). The incoming board then went over to the other apartment for their board meeting while the rest of the group continued swarming around 'Madam' Tracy. Upon completion of their board meeting, in came the Board holding a bottle of Johnny Walker and Vodka and our little chat and drinking session began.

Day 2 saw most of us awake by 10am when we had breakfast of tuna sandwiches and cup noodles (thanks to Rtr Diana!) and proceeded to a swimming session in the pool where teacher Diana taught us how to flip and turn upon reaching the edge of the pool. During our swim, a nickname 'Bloop Bloop' was introduced as well. After bathing, we proceeded out to 'loot' [pun intended and as invented during the first night of our trip ;) ] for lunch, and decided to follow very attractive signs leading to the Central Market to have a 'loot' around.

We had a lunch at a Chinese restaurant again, which unfortunately had limited dishes. Below is a short snippet of our conversation with the waitress who served us.

(In Mandarin)
Rtrs: What chicken dishes do you have?
Waitress: We have Kung Po Kai Ting and the rest lor.
Rtrs: The rest? What's the rest?
Waitress: Thai Chicken, Sweet & Sour Chicken, Mango Chicken........... we don't have.
Rtrs: You don't have? What else do you have then?
Waitress: Errr...just Kung Po Kai Ting lar....
Rtrs: (~~~sweat)

After lunch and a little bit of shopping at the Central Market (which was actually just a few stalls outside and a food court inside) we headed back to our apartment. On our way back, we even stopped to buy some durians which were delicious! We went to the beach for a stroll during sunset and the sky was beautiful! We decided to take some pictures and even climbed a tree. Unfortunately, poor Tracy cut her leg while climbing and had to be sent to the clinic for stitches (ouch!).

While some of us went with Tracy to the clinic, the others stayed behind to start the BBQ. Rtrs Eng Tee, Soo Ling and Hui Hui only managed to join us in time for our BBQ on Saturday night as they had to work on Saturday, whereas Rtr Shawn left on Sat afternoon. BBQ went pretty fluently and the chicken wings were delicious (thanks to Eng Tee and President Toh)!

After the BBQ, we had our Assembly which was followed by another drinking session again. The night ended late and we only retired to bed at around 3.30am as we were having too much fun and laughter.

Our final day started with breakfast again and then we started packing up and tallying our costs (we were right on budget!) before we checked out and headed for lunch in Pizza Hut. After lunch, we finally said our goodbyes and headed home respectively.

Although we did not follow exactly as our planned programme and there was the series of unfortunate events for Tracy (breaking 2 slippers, losing 1 bracelet and cutting her leg), I'm sure everyone enjoyed themselves as it was certainly a very relaxing and enjoyable trip. I do look forward to a next outing!

Tracy, I hope the trip wasn't too bad for you and that you did enjoy yourself after all! Get well soon!

P/S: Puns inside the article were merely to remind the participants of the good times and laughter we had. I hope I have not offended those involved ya? ;)