Serendah II: I'll Huff and Puff and Blow your House Down

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Swiped from williamnyk.

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The living quarters for our trip was the Glass Shed. As you can guess, the concept is transparent living. A whole lotta glass, wood and metal mesh. Stark. Semi-spartan. IKEA. Smack dab in the middle of a forest. Upon entering the place, we dumped our bags and immediately the shutters were clicking. True cam-whores. Only after a while did it hit us that we should be putting the perishables in the refrigerator (what camping trip has a refrigerator you may ask? Well, this one had. And a microwave too!). The pictures in the website are better, but I guess that is to be expected. The hammock and the stretched canvas awnings were missing. Oh well, macam gambar depan mee maggi, serving suggestion only.



Upstairs is the bedroom with 2 queen-sized beds and whole lot more glass. The bathroom has a large gash in the ceiling (open shower concept) and anyone upstairs can just pull up a chair, munch on snacks to see the free show that starts during every shower time. We made a quick dash back to Rawang to do some last minute shopping and have lunch at the McD there. :P. Back in Sekeping Serendah, we lounged by the poolside and eventually dipped in to avoid the heat and sleepiness. Tried teaching the Little Bull how to swim, but we kinda failed. Our pool frolick was ended by the arrival of a whole murder of pesky kids and their parents, so we dried off and prepared the barbe.



Everyone chipped in, but DanielH had the most important task of getting the fire roaring in the BBQ wok. Yes folks, a wok. If it was on a metal tripod, it wold have looked right at home in a Conan the Barbarian movie. Anyway, DanielH's uncanny lung capacity had the charcoal at peak temperature in no time. It was a dinner of chicken wings, fish, squid, prawns, corn, sausages, starfruit, green tea and beer. The smell of fat dripping into open flames eventually brought the caretakers bitch (which we dubbed Maria, suspected as Bibik's distant cousin, twice-removed) a-sniffing. She had the scraps and the occasional carbonized and carcinogenic chicken wing.



Dinner ended by 8:30pm and we were already starting to get bored. Too full to do anything, we just sat around, not even bothering about the grill. No TV. No handphone coverage. Kinda stumped about what to do next (no wonder orang kampung banyak anak :P). Feeling too full, Little Bull and I went for a little walk. I found the big family in one of the bigger units near the entrance, accompanied by the clacking of mahjong. One by one we washed off the stink of smoke and then proceeded to play Twister! My first time and I must say that the game gained much momentum when we decided to do away with the stupid spinner and use a more evil method-- decide what goes where for the next person. We kinda screwed each other over. Never been so contorted in my life. Had my knees bucking too. Too many double entendrees? Well, stay tuned for the finale...



...to be continued...