Celyn Resort Kinabalu

A couple of months ago when the bosses suggested the office staff to go to Federal Territory (F.T.) Labuan on the Hari Raya weekend, only one colleague and I were keen on the idea. And therefore the idea was totally scrapped. After that, they decided to go to Celyn Resort Kinabalu in Kundasang.

I preferred we went to F.T. Labuan as compared to Celyn Resort Kinabalu. The reason is that I had only been up to Kundasang during the National Day long weekend for the church retreat. I have not been to F.T. Labuan for more than 30 years.

Nevertheless, I am thankful that we were able to spend overnight at a cooler place than KK.

For those of us who work on Saturday, we still went to work. There were five people who drove with one car coming from Kota Belud to Kundasang.

All of us could not go into one single shop in Tamparuli for lunch because altogether there were 18 adults and 7 children. Therefore we split up into four groups. Our group went into a corner coffee shop called Mui Hong. My colleagues and I had sweet and sour fish, Sabah veges with eggs and bittergourd with chicken. Though the service was quite slow, the food was worth waiting for.

We arrived at Celyn Resort Kinabalu around 3.30p.m. I was already hungry by then but had to wait until 7p.m. for dinner. The resort was fully booked and therefore we could not upgrade our rooms from the Valley Wing to the Kinabalu Wing.

Steep Road Leading up to the Resort

Lots of Flowers

Reception and Restaurant Building

Lookout to the Valley

Property under Construction

Valley Wing

Kinabalu Wing

Our Accomodation

Kids Playing with the 'Gongs'

I shared the room with colleague JL. Before we rested in the evening before dinner, we sat around and chatted. The weather suddenly changed to a bit cold for only ten minutes. That was when we all decided to go back to our own room.

Everyone was so hungry by the time the b-b-q buffet dinner was served. We had red wine brought up by the boss to accompany our dinner.

The menu consisted of the following.

1. Salad – I skipped

2. Chicken and Cream Corn Soup - tasty

3. Potato Wedges – had about 10

4. Fried Rice – first round finished, had to wait for second round

5. Stir Fried Cabbage – my favourite veges

6. Stir Fried Mixed Veges – Brocolli, Caspicum, Mini Corn Cob, Carrot

7. Chicken Wings – No taste at all

8. Lamb Chops – the best dish for the night but I only had three

9. Beef Satays – Delicious but only had one dipped into an extremely hot and spicy peanut sauce

10. Chicken Satays – Had two but did not have any taste at all

11. Corn Cobs – I skipped. Did not look appetizing at all

12. Hot Dog Skewer – Tasted ok

13. Mixed Sliced Fruits - I skipped

After dinner some of my colleagues went to the karaoke room and started to sing. We discovered that two of them are fantastic singers. The rest of us chatted until 10p.m. before going to our room to shower and then to sleep. Some of them who were in the karaoke room saw that most of us had left and started dancing. We managed to take a peek and realised that some of them must be drunk due to the red wine from the way they were dancing.

My colleague JL was tossing, turning and waking up the whole night and therefore I kept on waking up as well. But I still could sleep for a few hours. The weather was not cold at all even in the middle of the night.