KLCC @ sunset

A view of sunset over KLCC, taken last week from my apartment.

Sunset @ Santika Premiere Beach Resort Bali

Spent my birthday in the year 2012 in Bali. Had a very relaxing 3 days by Kuta Beach.

The hotel was awesome. It was nearby a busy road & the airport, but once you are inside the area, the noise disappears. The staff was very helpful & friendly, the food was good, the 2 swimming pools are comforting.

The picture was taken at my favorite spot in the hotel - the walkway to the beach. :)

For more information on the hotel & reservation, go to their website or check out their review on Tripadvisor

Pantai Leka, Muar.

Caught up in laziness, I haven't written about my recent visit to Parit Jawa with cousin Nur, Fatin & Syami. Let me call it Exploring Muar - a mission I had when I first came to know about Pantai Leka from a friend of mine on Instagram. It's basically a fishing village where the air is filled with the smell of dried fish. Yikes!

Very relaxing environment with ah pek sitting down by the banks having conversation and families having drinks at the small shop nearby. Youngsters with huge cameras-hanging-down-their-necks positioning themselves in weird ways, trying to capture the "moment". Local youngsters of boys and girls flirting on their motorcycles (yea, you better snatch one while somebody wants you!) giggling over some so-called-funny-jokes.  A lot of boats & herons, I guess. Sunset is beautiful, as always.

All in all, I'd say it's an OK place to go for a nice evening out with the family. For now I'm still loving Bandar Maharani's own Tanjung Ketapang.

Pantai Leka playground view from it's Menara Tinjau

On my next Exploring Muar activities, will head over to Sri Menanti - Pantai Mesra. Can't wait! But in the meantime, you might wanna browse some photos on Pantai Leka before you plan your trip down to Muar for a weekend-getaway.

Pantai Morib, Selangor

This was a post of mine somewhere in 2012, taken from my old blog.

Yesterday was one fine Saturday, and I really wasn't gonna spend it sulking at home. So I googled Pantai Remis & Pantai Morib. Both are beaches that's nearby the city, about 1 1/2 hours away. Google search for images showed me that the crowd of people are less in Remis compared to Morib. Also, Morib has a nice, decent recreational park and so I made my choice to go there.

Wearing my new and oh-so-soft tshirt from Addini, I head out for my adventure (yea, rite!). But of course, 1st stop - lunch. At Wong Solo, Ampang. Ayam penyet is the best! After all those crispy chicken are safely inside my tummy, I continue on.

Ayam penyet

As I was closing in to Cheras, I decided to drop by Spermajalang's crib. To give him coffee from Bali & to say hi. Yeah, kinda missed him. Anyway it was kinda early to head out, I don't wanna have to sit in Morib alone while waiting for the sun to set - I needed a place to crash. After about an hour of watching TV & getting to know his soon-to-be-lawyer housemate who is also good looking & rich, I continue my journey.

I had my Google Maps on, but unfortunately I was brought to an unfamiliar area - somewhere in Putra Perdana, Puchong. On a nice evening & very much no traffic at all, I am glad I got lost. Driving around, seeing new things. 

Almost decided to cancel my trip since it was already close to 6pm when I reach Putrajaya, but my feet just continued on stepping on the gas pedal. So there I was, driving through Dengkil, on towards Banting and finally reached Morib at 7pm.

The sun was absolutely amazing! I was so happy I got there in time before it disappears. There was a lot of people, but parking was easy anyway. I had about 20 minutes there - paid a visit to the loo & then walked slowly to a spot where I had a full view of the sun and the sea.

Masya Allah, it was so breathtakingly beautiful.

That's about it. I went home after Maghrib. The journey home was scary, coz it was very dark and not a lot of cars passing by. I didn't know the way, just went with the signboards - my phone battery was completely gone. After about an hour of driving in the middle of nowhere, I found myself at KLIA. Thank goodness!

So I drove home on my usual route. On the way, my stomach was growling, so I decided to visit Ely at work in Subang SS 15. A whole lot of food there, plus I needed some updates on our girl issues. 

All in all, I had a great day. Very tiring, tho.

Lexis Hotel Port Dickson

I was in Port Dickson recently for a weekend break. Decided to walk in to Lexis Hotel Port Dickson and try my luck if there's any room available - and it did!

RM580 inclusive of breakfast for an Executive Water Chalet. For 1 night. The spacious room comes with a very comfortable king bed, a day bed, a spacious jacuzzi that fits 2 & a balcony.

Other plus points about this hotel is that it each room comes with an iron & board, a safe & an umbrella - which are rare. Normally we will have to request for these things.

Room service is good - from the point of the variety of menus, time of food being delivered & presentation. The taste of the food, however, is only an "OK" to me. Our lunch as captured above, cost us RM82.

The beach is clean, and that's all I can say about it.

We did't jump into the swimming pool, bcoz of the many families with young children hanging out there & the pool size is not as big as it may seem in the pictures.

There's kareoke center, gym & other sports activities that you can try out - with a price, that is. Since we're single travelers who just want to chill out, we decided to just sit back & enjoy the sun.

One of the must-do thing if you're staying here is catching the sunset. Walk along the chalet area until the very far end where you can get an awesome view.

At night we went to Port Dickson town to check out the Waterfront area. It's still new, I guess, but there's a lot of restaurants to choose from. Fast food, western, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and the list goes on. There's a Starbucks nearby Maybank. And then there's another Starbucks with drive-thru just nearby.

Apart from eating, I don't think there's much to do there. And the town is pretty much quiet after 9pm anyway.

For breakfast, choice of food wasn't bad at all. Of course they have nasi lemak - every hotel in Malaysia does - with different kinds of sambal. Then they have confectioneries, porridge, western, salad, fruits & cereals. There's about 5 types of juices if you're not a coffee/tea drinker.

All in, it was a very good stay. From the helpfulness & friendliness of the hotel staff to the cleanliness of the hotel grounds.

 

So if you're in PD & looking for a not-too-expensive hotel to wind down, be sure to check out Lexis Hotel. It is formerly known as The Legend Water Chalet - in case your GPS can't find it (like mine did).

It's fun for family & comfy for couples. For more info, log on to lexispd.com . Alternately, you can look for offers to this hotel in Agoda website.