Just got back on a short weekend getaway in Port Dickson with SharBear, RaeBear and PeterBear. It was short and lasted 2 days and 1 night. It was pretty spontaneous, brought up on Thursday night and arranged on Saturday night. Somehow, I managed to obtain leave on Monday. Obviously, Friday had already been an off day so it was a pretty long weekend.

It got off a little on the wrong foot, with the beginning delayed by about an hour or so. Then, in a freak accident (sort of) we rammed the toll booth arm. Fortunately neither car nor arm was hurt so we continued on our journey with a change of drivers. After that, it was pretty uneventful until we got to Port Dickson. Looking for the Yacht Club, poor SharBear was hard pressed to find it, but we just kept on going along the coast until we found it. A little lunch, a lot of bridge and a short walk on the beach later we were shown the apartment where we would stay. It was a nice little 3 bedroom apartment. Very nice. For short stays only. I would die if I had to stay longer as both kitchen and bathroom were small. Very small. Then we unpacked, went off to the beach again, walked a while and went off for dinner at a small place. Later, we drove around in search of DVDs to buy to watch during the night. We went to a few places before finally locating The Store PD where we got Ice Age 2 and Over the Edge. It was then commented that we had spent a very Ah Beng day, in shorts and tees, while going around town shopping in village stores.

After a shower, we settled down to watch TV only to find that the DVD player was not working. ~Stress~ We had to resort to PeterBear's laptop which would only play Over The Edge. We had 2 whole plates of watermelon, cut first by myself and then re-cut by everyone else into neat pieces, as well as a bag of chips. I fell asleep halfway through the movie. It was not as interesting as I had thought it would be. Since it was a small screen and I had a fair bit of Malibu and pineapple juice in me, I was not impressed with the movie at all.

We spent the rest of the night, about the next 3 hours, talking in bed. By which I meant the three of us were gossiping on the big double bed. PeterBear joined us again after trying to sleep in the next room and failing. We talked about everything and played bridge until only our mouths worked. Somehow, we fell asleep. About 3 am, I crawled to my room and slept till about 10 am when some Prudential sales person called me to set up a meeting for Friday. I agreed, just because I wanted to go back to sleep. At around 12pm (what a waste of a holiday, but then a slack holiday is exactly the right type) we left for the beach. We tanned and bathed in the ocean. After a very fulfilling lunch, I had a nap while the rest went for a swim. Later we rushed back to the apartment to shower, pack and leave.

Unfortunately, we went the wrong direction and went 18 kilometres going the wrong way. We had a great view of oil palm plantations. At the first turning we could, we turned around. Only to realise that we forgot to turn off the water mains. So off we were again. So this was about 54 kilometres of travelling, for nuts. We turned it off, and finally set off for home.

Ended up in Subang having dinner at Sakae Sushi (again) with soft shell crab for company (again) and then had some ice cream at Swensen's. Had a very nice phone call from Central Australia with several people and am now exhausted. Arms are tiny bit sunburnt. Feel better. I should do this more often.

Shit. Work tomorrow.

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