TM Amazing Race - Check In

28 November 2008 @ Regency Hotel, Port Dickson

After all the obstacles and the hassle we have been through, we finally were able to go to Port Dickson to take part in TM Amazing Race 2008!!

Forget the bad stuffs and let's head to PD. We left office early on Friday to start our journey.

See the Minangkabau design on the roof

We stayed at Regency Hotel which is also our starting and ending point.


Before we reach Port Dickson, we stopped at Seremban for lunch, famous siew pao and buying a map of the town. It's essential for us to get the map as none of us are familiar with the roads here.

Swimming pool and restaurant @ Regency Hotel

Once we reach, we checked in to get our t-shirts and freebies. Then move our stuffs into the room.


Someone requested to exchange room with me so that he can stay with his team mate. I reluctantly agreed and I made a good decision. My new room is way better!


See I got an extra single bed with 6 pillows all by myself! =)


That's the living room. The apartment has 5 rooms, with 2 of them on the first floor. Yes, it's a 2-storey studio apartment.

My balcony

The only bad thing about the place is the lift shucks. It's very slow and it can't carry a lot of weight.

View from my balcony

From the balcony, I saw tennis court! Gah, I should have brought along my racquets... Missed playing tennis.

Another view from balcony

After snapping pictures and throwing everything into the rooms, we changed and head for the water!

Cheryl, my colleague and me
[guessed I'm lucky to have a chinese colleague and a chinese superior in my department]

We checked out the sea and as expected, looks pretty dirty. So instead, we swam in the pool.


The pool goes into 9m deep! And I get to play a few times of human cannonball! Don't know why I like to jump into the pool nowadays.


After bathing, we went down again for dinner.


There were also these annoying bunch of people playing the traditional Negeri Sembilan music, Caklempong. [we get to play this in one of our tasks in the race]


Dinner is served and it's buffet style. Though the food looks very tempting but it wasn't as tasty as its look is. The best one I think is the honeydew.

There's also a chef who fries the fish on the spot for you

Right after the dinner was the official briefing for the race. We learnt about the format of the race and got our stickers for the car. My team is team number 30! [there were 48 teams in total]

Before we call it a night, we had to arrange the cars in order so that there won't be any havoc during the start on the next day. But before that, we went out to buy some drinks and food in case we got hungry throughout the race.

The sky was pouring heavily and everyone got a good night sleep. Get ready for RACE DAY! Billy, out.

Note: Ooopz, seems like I forgot to introduce my team members, will do it in the next post. Stay tune~