Labquip Group Family Day at Pangkor

Day 1
15 October 2010

Bus arrived at 11.00 am to pick up Tan, Ann and Farida from LabIVF and head towards Labquip. By 12.00 pm, the bus reaches Sunway Damansara and everyone from Labquip and family members except Mahendran board the bus. After a heartfelt goodbye to Mahendran, everyone settled down for a long ride to Pangkor Island. In the bus, everyone get their share of Subway sandwich with mineral water as lunch.

Our bus

All aboard~

*From left: Ms. Tee, Yani, Asmadi and Ms. Tee's son*

Ready to take off~

*From left: Marina, Yani, Farida, Ann and Rita*

Little Haikal can't wait to get there

Around 5.00 pm, after a tired ride of 4 and half hours ride to Lumut Jetty, everyone is eager to get off the bus. Then at 5.15 pm, we all board the ferry and head towards Pangkor Island. We got off the ferry around 6.00 pm and there were already transportation waiting for us at the jetty. Everyone is in high spirits and can’t wait to get to the resort.

Waiting at Lumut Jetty

*From left: Tan, Farida, Saiful, Ms. Tee, Rita, Uncle Thom, Haikal, Yani, Mazwan, Khauchelia, Asmadi and Marina*

LabIVF rules!!

*From left: Ann, Farida and Tan*

The four young girls~

*From left: Marina, See Wah, Yani and Rita*

Poor Asmadi being thrown offboard by Mazwan, Muraly and Jaya.

And now, Yani also joined in to make sure Asmadi is thrown over the railing.

And now they became best friends again

*From left: Muraly, Jaya, Mazwan and Asmadi*

My little family

*From left: Muraly, Shamala and little Vishallan*

The sweet couple

*From left: Saiful and Faizah*

*Behind from left: Ms. Tee's son and Ms. Tee*

At 6.15pm, we checked into the resort. Some of us just went into our room and changed then head out to the swimming pool for a quick swim.

Teluk Dalam Resort main entrance

Our group is called Rita's group.....made so many people wondering what type of company is that...

Our schedule for our whole stay here

This is the lobby of Teluk Dalam Resort

Our home for the next 3 days

The best part of this resort....SWIMMING POOL!!

Splashing around~

*From left: Yani, See Wah, Rita, Ann, Marina and Tan*

Around 7.30pm, we had our buffet dinner of scrumptious seafood with delectable desserts. Since nothing was planned for the night, at first we were listening to a band near the hotel lobby which soon became a battle in karaoke at a different location. After the karaoke session, we all head back after a tiring but exciting day.

FOOD!! Nom nom nom~

*From left: Ann, Yani, See Wah, Rita and Marina*

Karaoke time!! Mazwan dueting with Yani for Dua Insan

Day 2
16 October 2010

We started early where most of us already eating our breakfast by 8.00 am. The breakfast consist of must have Malaysian cuisine with mixture of Western breakfast food.

Our bus provided by Teluk Dalam Resort

Heading towards the snorkelling bus. All of us already wearing our life jacket vest.

The bus to pick up us to beach was already waiting for us in the lobby. We were given a set of life jacket and head towards the beach where a speed boat would take us to a small island for snorkeling. When snorkeling, most of us have scratches due to the sharp rocks and strong waves. However, this did not deter us from having fun and a lot of photos taken underwater due to Yani’s handy waterproof cover for her camera.

Heading towards the small island especially for snorkelling

Our snorkelling site. Note the sharp rocks that causes small injuries to all of us who went snorkelling.

Ann in her snorkelling gear.

Tan

Uncle Thom going solo without his snorkelling gear.

Yani and Rita

Marina acting her namesake by going into the sea.

No idea who is this but my guess is Rita.

Fish...there were a lot of them in our snorkelling site, most of them is out of reach but somehow this one got interested in Yani's camera.

While some of us were having fun snorkeling, others were lounging at the small spot of the beach. According to Ms. Tee, the wave was so strong that even though she stayed at the same spot, after 15 minutes she could feel the spray from the ocean reaching her. Though there were injuries, everyone was still in high spirits when heading back to the resort.

Ms. Tee

Asmadi

Grandfather and grandson

Say cheese!!

Once we reached the resort, most of us just jump into the swimming pool for a second round of splashing around before lunch. When we had splashed to our hearts content, we head back to our room, changed and then go for lunch. Around 3.00 pm, we all waited at the lobby to go for our round island trip in their touring van which is pink in colour.

Yani in the pink van which is our means of getting around the island

First stop, Eng Seng Pangkor Food Industry and Trading where they sell all sorts of knick-knacks, most popular are the dried seafood. Everyone came empty handed but left with their mountain of sea treasures.

Our first stop, Eng Seng Pangkor Food Industry and Trading

Farida choosing some snacks to bring home

Everyone busy choosing their snacks especially those that can't be found back home.

Next stop, Fu Lin Kong Temple where we split off with some taking photos in the surrounding area while the others went for prayers. According to the van driver cum tourist guide, there is a miniature Great Wall of China in the temple.

The front entrance to Fu Lin Kong Temple.

Front view for Fu Lin Kong Temple

Posing with Mr. Tin

*From left clockwise: Yani, Marina, Rita and Haikal*

*From left clockwise: Muraly, Tan and Ms. Tee*

After that, we swing by a historical place that has been there for more than 300 years. The Dutch Fort left by the Dutch’s was originally a place to store tin but now it was made into one of the main tourist attraction in Pangkor Island.

Kota Belanda aka Dutch Fort

Used to be an original canon the Dutch used during their occupation on Pulau Pangkor

(unfortunately removed for the time being)

History of Dutch Fort.

A hole in the fort

Our last stop is the haven for shopping for souvenirs and foodstuffs. More things to cram into our luggage bag and luckily we did not take flight as it would surely be over the weight limit. After that, we lug our purchases into our pink van which have automated door (door that can close when the driver brakes suddenly) and head back to our resort.

Auntie: This fish is very good!!

Faizah: Hmmm....okay, I'll take it!!

Once there, we organized ourselves a little beach volleyball which was a huge disaster as most of us have no idea on what we are doing. Most of the time the ball went into the sea and poor Tan from LabIVF have to go down to collect it. In the end we decided that beach volleyball isn’t our cup of tea and head back to the pool to try out our version of water polo.

Beach Volleyball + Labquip + LabIVF = DISASTER

 Since we did not decide on the team name at that time, the writer shall name the teams’ red and blue team to differentiate these two teams. On the red team’s side, there was Faizah’s husband, Saiful as the main attacker, Yani, Rita, and See Wah at the beginning and was joined by Muraly during half time. On the blue team’s side, there was Tan as the main attacker supported by Ann, Faizah and Marina. The aim of this game is for anyone from their team to go to the opposing team side and use the ball to touch the ladder of the swimming pool to be considered as scoring a goal. Uncle Thom was at the sideline working as the referee and also the person who throws in the ball without bias. Both team fought aggressively and some even used dirty tactic such as distracting the opponent. After a while, everyone was tired and just laze around the swimming pool till dinner time.

Everyone is standing when supposedly in this game they are supposed to swim.

See Wah: Rita, CATCH!!

Rita: Block block!!

Tan: Ann, SHOOT!!

After dinner, we all gathered around the stage where a live band played and we all celebrated 4 people’s birthday, Faizah, Tan, Ann and See Wah. We all had some cakes and even have an impromptu dancing and singing around the stage. Jaya and his wife, Khauchelia danced to a Hindi song called No. 1 Punjabi. Later Uncle Thom also joined in the dance fest for a Chinese song called Xiao Wei with Haikal, Faizah and Saiful’s 5 year old son. Jaya even sang a song called Sweet Child O Mine dedicated to his wife. Later on, Farida also sang a song called Memori Daun Pisang whereby everyone cheered at her nice voice. I personally think that we demonstrated the OneMalaysia spirit right then and there.

Cake cutting time~

Happy birthday to Tan, Faizah, Ann and See Wah.

Let's dance!!

Sweet Child O Mine....Ohhhh!

Memori Daun Pisangggg~~

Day 3
17 October 2010

The next morning, after breakfast, everyone went back to pack their things and later meet up at the lobby. After checkout, we were divided into two groups heading towards the jetty. Once both parties reached the jetty, we realized that we actually missed out someone after doing a head count. We left behind Uncle Thom because each one of us thought he took the earlier bus or the later bus. Luckily the ferry is waiting for more people so Uncle Thom managed to catch the next bus to the jetty. According to Uncle Thom, he didn’t mind being left behind as he considered this as the extension of his holiday.

This is the jetty heading towards Lumut.

Our ferry

Our bus for us to go back to KL.

We reached the Lumut jetty around 1.00 pm and had lunch at the shops nearby. After more souvenirs hunting, we were ready to leave. After a tiring 4 hours journey back to Kuala Lumpur, Tan, Farida and Ann were dropped off first at LabIVF. Then the bus head towards Sunway Damansara where we all bid our farewells there. Overall we had the most amazing time of our life and hope that there will be another trip soon. This is a hint if you didn’t get it.

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Writer signing off.