Swordie Bloggie

On the night of 28 November 2007, the night before our annual workshop, at around 11pm, we were instructed by the resort management to shift our vehicles to a higher ground. Gosh… are we going to be hit by tsunami? We got panic a bit when the news broke… Actually, a week before, the resort was flooded with sea water. They said, on that day, the waves were so high until the sea waters spills into the resort and flooded it for about 2 feet of sea water. Their swimming pool water is replaced with sea water… so much sand inside the pool.

Luckily, nothing bad happened that night. The waves was not so high, only a bit of sea water splashed into the resort ground and but it manage to go back to the sea through the drain.

The photos below shows the waves hitting the ‘sea wall’. In normal day, the ‘wall’ is more than 7 feets high… but here, it shows the sea level is almost as high as the resort ground.

I’m so lazy to write for the past few days… or a week. It was quite tiring to be part of our organizing committee for our annual workshop. Last Wednesday, 28 November 2007, I went to Tuaran Beach Resort. I followed Darius’ VIGO 4×4. I left the office around 1PM for home to do my packing. I have not pack a single item for the 3 days workshop… which ended on Saturday, 1 December 2007… which happened to be the opening of the F2000 Speed Boat challenge at Kota Kinabalu.

Darius picked me just after 2PM. I have not taken my lunch so we stopped at Lido to buy ‘goreng pisang’… wanted to take-away KFC, but the resort is providing lunch. And of course while at Lido, I bought some JackPot at TOTO which did not strike any prize 🙁

Then we detour to KPIM Complex to take some of the workshop materials to take along with us.

 
We arrived at the Tuaran Beach Resort around 4PM… and straight away dived into the food! Two other colleagues arrived almost at the same time with us. They are in charge of the accommodations and we will be in charge of multimedia/sound/photography.

After the workshop, I have loads of works waiting at the office… all are last-minutes request… that caused me more lazy to write… anyway, I will do some photo posting of our workshop later.

Something unexpected… a buffalo (or kerbau or kalabau) running across the road dragging along some trees hooked on its rope which is tied on its neck. Then we saw a bunch of people inside a truck chasing after it… they must be going to slaughter the buffalo.

  
  
The journey…

  
  
The challenging 2KM journey…

swimming pool.

life guard stuff…

volley ball…

the only non-natural play things for the kids on the garden.

the feng shui fountain.

walkway from the seaside…

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They still doing some renovation on the resort… They have been doing it since last year, even during our workshop last year.

Between the main hall (left) and the rooms.

Three bald coconut tree.

Cupid on the right side of the main hall entrance…

… on the left side.

bicycles…

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Four of us arrived first… so we were given apple juice and cakes 🙂

Nasi Goreng

Fried Noodle

Sandwich

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7 of us went to Tuaran Beach Resort to have a look at the site for our workshop at the end of this year. We also had our workshop here last year. I drove my car accompanied by Darius. Two of our coleague arrived a head of us.

 
Tuaran Beach Resort welcoming file

The Arch…

closer.

Opposite view from the arch.

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