Desaru Beach Trip

NUS Riders Desaru Beach trip was held on 9th January. The pre-semester trip was done to let the riders have a good break and short tour before the school starts. Initially, plans included a stopover at Kota Tinggi waterfalls and then going over to Desaru Fruitfarm, Desaru beach and pengerang for seafood. But apparently, the locations are quite far apart and due to a day trip, we were limited by the time factor. After driving with Haikal for the Recce, we decided to skip Kota Tinggi and Desaru Fruit farm and just head to Desaru for more beach time.

The morning started with the meetup at Woodlands Ave 1 Esso, and a short breakfast at Al-ameen Marsiling. After having our prata, we headed of to Desaru via Tebrau / Kota tinggi highway. The journey was about 90km from SG and the traffic was thankfully light towards Desaru. We chance upon several big bikes (several hayabusas). Awesome machines. Saeed obviously couldnt resist.

Upon reaching the beach, we immediately unload and changed to splash in the big waves. Apparently, there were red flags indicating strong currents and we're told that recently, 2 swimmers drowned and that we were to swim at our own risk. Heck, those are not going to stop us. We braced the waves prolly about 2-3 metres high. It was indeed exhilirating but still we were cautious througout.

After that, we relax by the beach and played "Tebu" (actually taboo pronounced intentionally by Hafiz) where we formed teams and described words but not being able to use "Bike" or "motor". It was indeed a very funny game as we find ourselves repeating those forbidden words again and again. Quote from Saeed, "Vehicle, vehicle, vehicle, vehicle... Bike!".

After a while, we went on to play the nearby Go-Kart, which was going at $35RM for 15minutes. It was actually a small road circuit and only a max of 4 players are allowed to play at one time. It was definitely worth the 35rm, we took turns to outrace and outcornered each other during the circuit. There were of course "incidents" where drivers, knock each other off, and crashed. Luckily no one was hurt, well, all in the spirit of competition. :P

Soon after the adrenaline-pumping karting, we headed for a late lunch at the nearby seafood restaurant, overseeing the beachline, and headed home. We initially planned for a stopover at the nearby "Special Chendol" stop, which apparently was closed as it nears 5pm. Nonetheless, we had a final pitstop at the bike wash and had a small dinner at the coffeeshop reminiscing the day. It was definitely a trip well spent, before the start of the semester!