Port Dickson-Pretty much a road trip

I'm Back!
Quite bushed after 3 days of "holiday"
This short trip consisted of E & ZK, D & myself

Friday
We set off at about 9am towards Tuas Checkpoint. JAM. For almost an hour...
Zoomed off when we reached the expressway
Finally reached Port Dickson at around 4plus. After putting down our stuff, we're off again...looking for the TOWN of Port Dickson... It was definitely no Orchard Road... We then went to the supermarket to grab some stuff.

We had dinner at Mexican restaurant near our resort. Tried sthing called Fajita which is more or less making my own Pita (poh pia) Taste pretty good, i must say.

Mexican Restaurant

Went back to the resort after dinner and had wanted to go to the pool... but it closes at 7pm! Duh... So went dip water in the sea instead. The sky was absolutely gorgeous- so many stars! Nice, bright and clear and dotted across the entire sky. This could never happen at beaches in Singapore coz its far too bright here...

Went back- had red wine and some snacks.


Saturday
Woke up at 5.56am according to my hp.. *yawn* All the rest are still asleep and I simply couldn't sleep anymore..
So took camera and decided to try snapping some pictures ...

Moon at 6.00 am and Moon again at at 6.30am

(gave up trying to upload more photos....)

D woke up at 7 plus. At least I have company! Haha... watched cartoon for a while and went for bfast at about 9. Watched this really stupid show called "Evil Woman" on TV. Had wanted to go for a morning swim, but pool too crowded la. Went for buffet breakfast, but it was nothing compared to those international ones we expect in other beach resorts. They didn't even asked for our breakfast coupons. We had to ASK to pay... gosh. We were just too honest haha. D and I then took a short walk around the condo.. and sea... nothing very much really... Sand was pretty coarse and there was not much of a view.

We just stoned and watched TV (boring) while waiting for the other 2 to wake up, which was 12pm ... by then me and D were starting to fall zZzz ...

Plans for the day- HUNT for Pedas Hot Spring which is probably about 30km or further away from our resort. Not knowing the way, we just drove around,asking for directions.
Was on the road for about 4-5 hrs ... and we still didn't find the hot spring
Finally, we found this "re shui hu" (hot water bottle..according to one of the person we asked for direction...)... Its actually just a fishpond-like thingy. Water is ReALLY hot. But its still a far cray from the nature, waterfall-like hot spring we were imagining...

pathetic "hot spring"

beautiful landscape

Went back to resort to wait for sunset... (still no swim, in case we missed sunset..) actually could have gone la.. coz we waited for quite a while. Anywayz, some pretty nice pictures taken. But was abit freaked out when my Ixus went dead after taking the sun pictures. Everything was bLACK. No matter which ISO or mode i used... thought dieded liao.. like my camera offended the sun or sthing...

Anywayz, some shots on how the salted egg yolk disappeared...

At nite, we had dinner at this TOM YAM place. Nicest soup i have drank in a long time... not those sweet kind of soup we have in Singapore. Sour and spicy, just nice. And they fried Kailan in salted fish. YUMMY! The beehoon goreng and kway teow were pretty nice too. All for 34RM divided by 4... its only abt 17 Sing dollars for 4 persons.
Went to stall next door to buy fruits. Bought this HUGE halved watermelon. Plus some logans.
Returned to resort and tried to do some work on my laptop. But was snoozing in front of it by 11 plus.

CONCUSSED.

Sunday
Wakey early again at 7 or so... went to make myself coffee and did a little bit of work. FOrtunately D woke up at 8 plus. So had company again. Watched a series of cartoons (finally some decent ones...) Oggy and the Cockroachs, Mr Bean and Ne Zha in MALAY. E and ZK woke up at ard 11 plus. Slightly earlier haha!
We drove to Melaka which was about 86km away when we started... D took the wheels all the way there... must be really tiring...
We had intended to eat chicken rice but Had Ba Kut Teh there instead(Hokkien style) It tasted slightly herbal. A little funny...

Heading Back to Singapore... and to our horror JAM even before we reached expressway.
We were stuck for almost an hour... D who still was driving had to accelerate and brake repeatedly... felt bad that i couldn't help to drive despite having a license, skills far to rusty! Realised later that the jam was not due to expressway. traffic lights spoilt! JEEZ!

Smooth on expressway. But really had trouble trying to keep awake while watching the straight road ahead... D drove almost 200km non-stop. Zzzz

Finally reached Tuas at about 9pm... Luckily there was no jam, hence went through customs quickly

D drove back to my place. And then had dinner with me while E & ZK drove back first...
Nice little chat over "dinner" at the prata place. Though i was also grousing over the yaya-papaya pple at the prata place... GrRrrR

I commented "Hope u come back spotting a nice tan!" She'll be really disapointed haha.