Anecdotes of my passing...

On the third week of July, I was off to Club Med in Cherating, Pahang. It was all expenses-paid company trip and despite my initial apprehension at the thought of travelling with my workmates, everything turned out fine.

My only complaint was that it only lasted for 3 days. Even as I type this, I’m suffering some form of post-holiday blues.

The place is beautiful enclave of tourism in the middle of nowhere. The sea is quite beautiful, at least by Peninsular Malaysia standards, though the sand is somewhat coarse. What makes the whole place Club Med is most importantly the people. The GOs (that’s the staff....GMs are the guests) are extremely friendly and were helpful all the way. Although some of my colleagues complaint of being marginalised and not treated properly, I personally did not encounter such a thing. That being said, I suppose discrimination happens everywhere.

Back to the people, not only the GOs were sporting and fun, the guests too were clapping to the same tune. Some of the guests stay on for ages from weeks to months even! Talk about affluenza alert. If anything, this trip has served to motivate me to work harder so that I may achieve this lifestyle soon. Very soon!

The drinks were free-flowing from the bar, from juices, to cocktails, mocktails, beers and basic neat liquors. All the meals were buffet with various counters such as Japanese, Korean, French, Western (in general), Italian, Indian/Local, Dessert and Drinks. I basically stuffed myself silly with everything that caught my eye. I was also drinking, though not as much as I would have liked because I wanted to try out the activities as well. I can’t go trampolining after 3 glasses of pina colada can’t I. Not unless I want to decorate the floors with partially-digested food and gastric juices. Not to mention wrecking my GM social life there.

The place is definitely a must visit for the family, if they can afford it. I think it’ll make a wonderful escapade. If things don’t work out for me in the field of letters and notices and applications, I would definitely love to apply to work there. In fact, I think I should go search for some vacancies now.

Bah! Get me out of here!

Warning: Since I have not been posting as much I would have liked, this will take a bit of space. This will be part 1 of 2 for my next post.

The past two weekends have been awesome to say the least. If anything, they’ve been a great respite from the working weekdays that have plagued my life since February this year. This is not to say that the work is terrible but more the fact that nobody likes the work that they do. Well, most anyway. I am actually very thankful that I’m working in an awesome place with great people and am learning a lot. There is proper work life ratio and the pay is somewhat commensurating, at least when compared with most of my peers.

Before this post dwells more on my working life (or non-life, rather) I would like to share my two recent weekend experiences which have been quite simply, fantastic!

On the second weekend of July, I went on this Skytrek circuit with my friends. (The name itself sounds amazing already isn’t it?) It is like a outdoor theme park with flying foxes and obstacles and lots of ladders and ropes. It is located in Shah Alam, some Bukit Cahaya. The park itself is pretty large and I think it is quite the place for picnics and weekend family outings.

Reaching there, we had to take a tram ride along a meandering road up the hill. Along the way, we can see many people (adults, kids...you name it) cycling along the road. I suppose the bikes were rented. After like 10 minutes (or perhaps it was a 7), we came to a stop and proceeded to a small hut to register. We had to fill in disclaimer forms and get our gears. This was also the last stop to snack up or fill up the tummies before the “adventure”.

The gears look pretty high tech and feels like it too. Personally, it makes me feel like I was a professional rock climber. My only complaint was that the gloves that they provided were really icky. They were practically still wet with sweat from previous users. Talk about Yuck!

Once we were geared up, we were taught the basic safety procedures especially when reaching a station. I think I should explain more. The circuit consists of many stations all located up trees. To move from one station to another, one has to go through some form of “obstacle” such as walking on cables, flying foxes and the like.

Moving on, my favourite obstacle was the flying fox and the “tarzan swinging”. They were absolutely fun. I think the first time is always the hardest...making the first move/jump. Kinda like real life and relationships too I suppose. But I digress. Once you overcome the first-timers fear, there’s no holding back.

My only concern was that they should have at least fenced up the stations. The stations were basically just wooden platforms without fences. Of course, we’re harnessed to the cables tied around the trunk but I can’t help feeling that putting up a fence would have been wise.

At certain stations, there is an exit of sorts where a person may “chicken” out by sliding down a netting all the way to the ground. This exit strategy is aptly named the “chicken coop”.

There’s 3 type of circuit to choose from, there’s the first (I can’t remember the name), Big Challenge (that’s the one I went) and the Extreme. Apparently, the Big Challenge is the one which is most fun because of the many flying foxes. Extreme is just tiring with a lot of ladders and whatnot. Of course, this is all hearsay from the people who’ve tried both but nonetheless, from my own personal experience, Big Challenge was a lot of fun.

Overall – highly recommended.