(a) Datuk Susan Wong (standing extreme left) in a group photo with the Council Members and their families at Sipadan Water Village, Mabul Island.
(b) Datuk Susan Wong (third left) with (from left to right) Ms. Leena Toyoi, Datuk Kong Kwok Wah, Hajah Juita Haji Drap, Dato’ Jimmy Pang, Haji Zain Bin Abdullah and Mr. Calvin Teo Poi Loi at the SHAREDA Fellowship Breakfast Gathering.
SHAREDA’s trip to Mabul Island
KOTA KINABALU: Mabul Island, the beautiful luxurious holiday and diving resort located in an island just about 45-minutes’ speedboat ride from Semporna is a paradise not to be missed by all holidaymakers especially the scuba divers. The 19-member group from Sabah Housing And Real Estate Developers Association (SHAREDA) led by its President Datuk Susan Wong Siew Guen made the right choice of having their 5th Council Meeting on May 7, 2010 at the island.
SHAREDA had earlier in the day held a Fellowship Breakfast Gathering for their Tawau members at the Promenade Hotel in Tawau and later proceeded from there to Semporna to take the speedboat ride to Mabul Island. The SHAREDA group consists of its President, Immediate Past President, Vice President, Secretary General, Treasurer General and Council Members and their families.
Upon arrival at the Sipadan Water Village resort in Mabul Island, the group was received by the resort Manager, Mr. Ravindran Isperan and his staff. The welcoming reception to the guests makes the group so thrilled and excited and were looking forward to more adventures ahead.
“This resort is really a very beautiful place. It’s a place to make a retreat and enjoy the sun and the sea,” said Datuk Susan Wong. “We are glad we have made the right choice of having our 5th Council Meeting here”, she added.
The Sipadan Water Village is beautifully constructed with 45 water chalets reflecting the Bajau architectural design. The entire resort is built over the water on stilts made of belian woods, commonly known as ironwood. Its splendid water cottage accommodation with flowered walkways has impressed the many foreign visitors from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and United States, just to name a few. The floor of these chalets is less than a meter above the high water mark and they are spacious with wide sliding doors that open onto the room’s private deck.
Scuba diving is the popular water sports there. The Dive Centre, which is responsible for all the in-water facilities especially scuba diving and training is open daily from 7.00am onwards and is equipped with lockers, shower facilities, toilet and a common area for resting between dives with free snacks, hot coffee and tea for the guests. All the Dive Masters are also specially trained in the marine ecology of Mabul Island.
SHAREDA’s group went on an exciting speedboat ride to the nearby Sipadan Island in the afternoon of May 07 and the trip of going around Sipadan Island enabled the members and their families to see the beautiful corals in the water and the many small and big turtles swimming in the sea.
Just after a delicious and sumptuous dinner of BBQ seafoods and a mixture of local and continental cuisine that evening, SHAREDA 5th Council Meeting was held at the Function Hall, an open space area in the island at 8.00pm. A “Happy Birthday” cake-cutting was held immediately after the meeting and SHAREDA celebrated the birthdays of Datuk Susan, Mr. Chew Sang Hai, Ms. Salina Lee Abdullah and Datin Annie Ng (wife of Dato’ John Chee) whose birthdays fall in the months of April, May and June this year.
On the following morning, a nice and simple breakfast was served at 7.00am and immediately after breakfast some of SHAREDA’s group members went on snorkeling. They were all so thrilled with the underwater experience and were very proud in swimming along with the big fish underwater.
The group returned to Semporna that morning at 11.00am and proceeded to Tawau airport for their flight home. It was indeed a very well organised and memorable trip and will always be remembered forever.
Ends.
KOTA KINABALU: Mabul Island, the beautiful luxurious holiday and diving resort located in an island just about 45-minutes’ speedboat ride from Semporna is a paradise not to be missed by all holidaymakers especially the scuba divers. The 19-member group from Sabah Housing And Real Estate Developers Association (SHAREDA) led by its President Datuk Susan Wong Siew Guen made the right choice of having their 5th Council Meeting on May 7, 2010 at the island.
SHAREDA had earlier in the day held a Fellowship Breakfast Gathering for their Tawau members at the Promenade Hotel in Tawau and later proceeded from there to Semporna to take the speedboat ride to Mabul Island. The SHAREDA group consists of its President, Immediate Past President, Vice President, Secretary General, Treasurer General and Council Members and their families.
Upon arrival at the Sipadan Water Village resort in Mabul Island, the group was received by the resort Manager, Mr. Ravindran Isperan and his staff. The welcoming reception to the guests makes the group so thrilled and excited and were looking forward to more adventures ahead.
“This resort is really a very beautiful place. It’s a place to make a retreat and enjoy the sun and the sea,” said Datuk Susan Wong. “We are glad we have made the right choice of having our 5th Council Meeting here”, she added.
The Sipadan Water Village is beautifully constructed with 45 water chalets reflecting the Bajau architectural design. The entire resort is built over the water on stilts made of belian woods, commonly known as ironwood. Its splendid water cottage accommodation with flowered walkways has impressed the many foreign visitors from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and United States, just to name a few. The floor of these chalets is less than a meter above the high water mark and they are spacious with wide sliding doors that open onto the room’s private deck.
Scuba diving is the popular water sports there. The Dive Centre, which is responsible for all the in-water facilities especially scuba diving and training is open daily from 7.00am onwards and is equipped with lockers, shower facilities, toilet and a common area for resting between dives with free snacks, hot coffee and tea for the guests. All the Dive Masters are also specially trained in the marine ecology of Mabul Island.
SHAREDA’s group went on an exciting speedboat ride to the nearby Sipadan Island in the afternoon of May 07 and the trip of going around Sipadan Island enabled the members and their families to see the beautiful corals in the water and the many small and big turtles swimming in the sea.
Just after a delicious and sumptuous dinner of BBQ seafoods and a mixture of local and continental cuisine that evening, SHAREDA 5th Council Meeting was held at the Function Hall, an open space area in the island at 8.00pm. A “Happy Birthday” cake-cutting was held immediately after the meeting and SHAREDA celebrated the birthdays of Datuk Susan, Mr. Chew Sang Hai, Ms. Salina Lee Abdullah and Datin Annie Ng (wife of Dato’ John Chee) whose birthdays fall in the months of April, May and June this year.
On the following morning, a nice and simple breakfast was served at 7.00am and immediately after breakfast some of SHAREDA’s group members went on snorkeling. They were all so thrilled with the underwater experience and were very proud in swimming along with the big fish underwater.
The group returned to Semporna that morning at 11.00am and proceeded to Tawau airport for their flight home. It was indeed a very well organised and memorable trip and will always be remembered forever.
Ends.
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