Two Hands One Foot: Door Step To Paradise

Event: Sumatec Family Day & Annual Dinner 2007
Location: Laguna Resort, Redang Island, Terengganu.
Date: 10th to 12th Mar 2007
Participants: 140

Redang island was the venue for my company’s Family Day & Annual Dinner this time around. It was organized by the Sumatec Sport & Recreation Club. I tell you it is a real headache to organize 2 events at the same time. However it was really a good experience in organizing such an event with that many people going.

SSRC

Day 1
We started our journey from Sumatec office on the 9th of Mar at 10:00 pm. We had 3 buses for the trip. The entire journey from Shah Alam to Merang Jetty took us about 10 hours, we had 3 stops during the journey. Reached there at 8:00 am then took the 8:30am ferry to Laguna Resort.

The sea was really choppy, the boat was swaying like crazy and yes I was seasick and so was raspal heheh *bbblluueehhhh*! the mee hoon goreng & sambal ikan bilis that I had 1hr ago for breakfast was the culprit! Man that was the worst feeling in the world. Anyway the ferry ride took 1hr, the longest 1 hr of my life.

When we reached Laguna there was a short briefing at the jetty by the hotel staff then made our way to the hotel. The hotel was facing the most beautiful beach I have ever seen in my life, it was GORGEOUS! CRYSTAL CLEAR water. But I was still feeling shitty & so was Raspal. It took about an 1hr for my body to stabilize itself. Then it was time to enjoy!!!

PARADISE!

Part of the package, there were 3 snorkeling trips but we only took 2 cause the other time slot we had the telematches. On the 1st day we had deep sea snorkeling. My 1st ever snorkeling experience. Once again had to go through that damn boat ride on the rough sea but this time It didn't do any "damage". After a 20min boat ride we reached our snorkeling point, it was near an island. When I got into the water I couldn’t see any corals or fish, could only see the sea bed. It was damn deep! Had to swin a bit towards the island & there they were the corals & fishies! It was incredibly beautiful. It’s like a giant aquarium. There were fishes that came so close that I could almost touch them. Sad to say most of the corals there are dead, no thanks to our beloved mankind. It was not as colorful as it should be, but still amazing to look at. We spent bout an 1hr there before we headed back .

Ready For Snorkeling

Deep Sea Snorkeling

At night we had our Annual dinner. We had performances, games & lucky draw. Me & Raspal got Hamper worth RM150.

The Organizers

Day 2
Morning there was a snorkeling trip to the Marine Park but I & Raspal skipped this. Instead we walked along to the beach to take some photos, relax & enjoy the view because we wouldn’t have any time to do this later.

Me & My Baby

Laguna Resort

"Paradise"...yummmy

In the evening we had our Family Day Telematch for adults & kids. I tell you...it was hilarious! We all had so much fun. The kids telematch was even more interesting. Its got nothing to do with the kids, it was the parents that was kecohing so much *sigh*. We really had a hard time controlling the parents, they took this telematch abit too seriously. At the end of it all we had fun...that’s the main thing.

Telematch was hilarious!

Day 3
We checked out after breakfast & took the 9:00am ferry ride. The sea was still choppy but this time around no seasick (THANK GOD). It took us longer this time to reach Merang, cause halfway our ferry was stopped by the Marine Police, to do a lil spot check. We reached the jetty at 10:30am & boarded the bus & left about 11:00am. It was a long ass ride back! We reached Sumatec office at 9:30pm. Well this was because we had 9 bloody stops!!! Well that’s a whole different story, don’t want to go there (Controversy!).