After the gruelling presentation on Thursday (Yesh, it’s finally over!!!), I had to make a short 2D1N business trip to Melaka with my treasury manager.
I got to know about this trip almost one week exactly before and according to my FD, i had little to prepare for this trip. It was more of a getting to know the finance team at the Melaka team to facilitate the taking over of the a few ledger in a few months’ time. So for me, it was a pretty less stressful trip this time round.
So after the presentation which ended at 1pm, we had a quick lunch and wrap up of the necessary before our car came at 230pm to pick us up from the office. Even though we were both pretty exhausted from the presentation, but we were both chatting and “gossiping'” all the way till we reach Melaka!! Quite a good time of catch up and chatting with a dear friend. In Singapore, we barely got time for this type of chit chat time as we were both super busy in office and off work time are all given to our kids!!!
Finally we reached Melaka and checked in to our hotel at Hotel Equatorial Melaka. Our Melaka FD helped us booked the club king room and the room was a lot bigger than what we expected!! My jaws almost dropped when we checked into the room. The room had a huge bed, a side table, a small dining area and the bathroom was huge!!! I seriously think that the room was good enough for a family of 3!
The view from my room.. I wish i had more time to enjoy the pool!!
My club room. Too big for one.
The spacious toilet.
After exploring the room and settled down, we both went down to the business lounge. They serve pre-dinner cocktail and this was covered with our room package.
Not a bad place to chill and relax. Simple tea time snacks.
We were supposed to go for dinner. But after the snacks, we were kind of full up.
Thus we decided to go to the nearby shopping malls. Visited the Makotta Parade and Palawan Shopping mall.
The 2 Libra-ians were very good at shopping and within 15 mins, we both left the first mall with a pair of heels!! 
We finished looking around the 2 malls in 1 hr 30 mins…. actually we were just more of window shopping cos both of us were already exhausted TTM.
So we decided to call it a day and Go back to the room to rest, in anticipation of the long day ahead the next day.
So back to the hotel room, we realised we had not had dinner!!!!!
And so, we ordered room service.
I ordered a soup and a sandwich.
And i was shocked at the size of the portion!!!!
Look at the pictures and you will understand why.
Seafood soup. Yummy!! Finished every bits.
Manesto Sandwich. Resembles French toast but the bread was huge in size!!!
So I only manage to finish 2 of the 4.
That’s the end of Day 1. Day 2 started at 630am and we started at office at 730am and worked all the way till 330pm before the car came and fetched us all the way back to Singapore.
A short and tiring trip. But a very fulfilling one cos’ we achieve most of the things we plan to do and met the people.
Foresee a few more trips to Melaka in the coming months.
