Hv not been to Kukup Laut? Get some flavour of it here..

Kukup Laut may sounds new to many Malaysian, especially those stay in central or northern peninsular Malaysia, just like myself. But, it is definitely not new to many Singaporeans. It is quite a popular place for Singaporeans to stay for a weekend there, doing nothing much, but for gathering, relaxing and eating.

It was being organized and sponsored by our Product Marketing Department heads (2 Deputy Directors) for a 2D1N trip to Kukup Luat on 9 & 10 Sept.

We departed from our office on Sat morning, about 9am and reached Kukup for a seafood lunch.

Kukup is a fishing village.

After the lunch, we checked in to the “holiday resort”.
However, the place seemed to me more a house than a holiday resort.

This is the ‘resort’ that we have rented, it has 5 bed rooms with air cond and 3 bath rooms, with water heater. Quite comfortable and spacious. As you can see, it is floating on the water. As it is built with concrete, I guess, PL is OK with it, as you won’t feel that it’s actually floating.

This is the path we took to walk from main road to our ‘resort’. A narrow walk way, with houses both sides. All are floating on the water during high tide.

The back yard, quite spacious, where we can have a few mahjong tables & do BBQ at nite.

During low tide, we can see the trees, the ‘tiang’ of the kelong, and the ships are ‘parked’ on the sea bed. It is quite interesting to watch the water to flow in so quickly during high tide.

As mentioned, nothing much we could do in Kukup besises indoor activities. So, thanks to 2 of the colleagues, that had arranged some games for everybody. The games were very ‘childish’, but everybody enjoyed it very much. It was really a good one to blend everybody together.

The resort was also equipped with Karaoke and DVD player. But the majority were more interested in playing mahjong and 荷兰牌. I hope my colleagues would not mind me putting up their photos here (I purposely make the photo smaller in size, so that you can't really see their face, can you?)...Or, if I get any ‘objection’ from them, then only I take it out loh! Anyway, none of them know about this Blog, guess, they will never discover…heeheeee


There is another exciting event, that is playing firecracker and fireworks! There was a stall selling all stuff of 非卖品。My colleagues from Singapore are all stunned with these firecrackers not to mention the fireworks sold there. Finally, they all spent a few hundreds buying all kinds of firecrackers and all were so enjoyed playing with it.

The next day, we went for 游船河。We were brought to see some of the fishing kelong.


After it, we went for another seafood lunch and then left Kukup for Singapore.

It was quite a fun & relaxing week end spent with colleagues that were normally fighting and struggling together during working hours. It not only helped us to foster better relationship, and understand each other better. Try it out with your colleagues too!

Something else...

Well, they could hv done too much BBQ and caused fire! See the photos below. We were told that 5 kelongs were burnt down. The fire was too fierce to be put off and the villages were being evacuated from the kelong near to the fire scene.