Friday, December 12, 2008

Pangkor

Just finish eating my nasi lemak. I am at home now. Just came back from Pangkor last night at around 9pm. Thank you Wei Sim for sending me back home^^

9th DECEMBER
Woke up at 5.30am and started to prepared myself for the trip that we had all waited for too long. The luggage has been packed the night before and i just kept hoping i had packed everything just fine. I still can't figure things out if i forget to pack my underwear with me ! LOL. So, have breads for my breakfast and waited outside my house at 6.30am for Xiau Sa. His pop will be sending me, K Sheng and Pei Seen to Puduraya. Got on to his car at 6.40am and here we come Puduraya. Took us just 20 minutes to reach there. You might asked how the hell we arrived that fast. Well, you might just guess things right ^^ At there, while waiting for others, the four of us headed ourselves to the KFC restaurant nearby. Just across the road. The funny thing is we seems to be the center of attraction the moment we step into the almost full KFC. Every pair of eyes seems to be staring at us as though we are special aliens visiting the house. The feeling of being a ciplak star does seems to be weird... Anyway, found ourselve a good spot at the corner end of the restaurant and started our waiting. K Sheng and Pei Seen went for their morning breakfast by ordering of course. This big group of people is complete after half an hour of waiting. Friends who were hungry ordered food while those who have business to settle were fast to settle them all. So, me,Ming Han, Kok Wah and Man Soon walk our way to 7/11 to buy some stuff and then to MayBank to bank in the cash that we will all be using for the trip. The trip fee that includes all has been paid earlier. The amount was four digits which started with a one. By the time each of us were done, another half an hour has passed us by. So, we move our feet to the arranged bus platform. Another half an hour of waiting till the bus is ready for us to board. Though this trip has just started, there were already so much waiting to do. Lol. So, we board the bus at around 8.30am. Then, bye bye KL. The journey to Lumut was a 4 hours trip and it was a fun one. Man Soon, me and Teoh just keep playing card game for 2 hours plus. Laughter, chit-chatting and snozing just fill the bus itself. Many heads keep turning back to look at us everytime a laughter explode behind the bus. Well, we are youth. Can't blame us for being alive ! WAHAHA. Four hours gone by. I managed to have a bit of a half concious sleep in the last hour of the trip. Just to keep myself fresh. Arrived at Lumut around 1pm. Dear toilet was the first place we all visited since nature's call must be answered. Later that, we walk ourselve to some stall nearby and have our lunch. While the other order and eat, me, Ming Han and Man Soon went to the ferry counter to purchase our ticket to Pangkor Island. Back to the stall we went and have our lunch. Malay mix rice was the menu. Nyam Nyam Nyam... When we finish our lunch, we walk ourselve to the ferry platform at around 1.55pm to board the 2.15pm ferry. Wait wait wait. Look look look. Take pictures, laughing, chit-chatting and fooling around were the things we done during the wait. It was happy memories. Haha. Yay. Without realising how fast time passed us by, the ferry arrived and it is time to board it. Took around 20 minutes for the passengers to fill up th e ferry and make sure everything was ready for take off. We make our way to the open area of the ferry. Great views of islands and ships can been seen everywhere. Well, time for the engine to sound and here we come, Pangkor. Excited is the word that decribe me during that time. Along the half an hour journey to Pangkor Island, I felt great. Taking pictures with my friends around the area as well as enjoying the seawind that blew my face were the experience i will treasure. Nature and friendship does seems to be the most beautiful thing is the world during that time ! We reached Pangkor at around 3pm and we walked our way to the taxi area to board two taxis to Coral Bay Resort. Rm 10 per taxi a.k.a pink van. Check in to our apartment at around 3.15pm. I booked two 3 rooms apartments for our 3D2N stay at Pangkor Island. Overall, the apartments were nice and clean. The only sad point was both apartment were separated too far. Anyway, i thought let's just have fun when we are here. Ha ha. Unpack our luggage and make ourselves comfortable the moment we went into our rooms. We separated ourselves into boys one apartment and the girls the other. After unpacking, we rest ourselves in our apartments. Later, we make our way to the beach to have some fun. Unfortunately, things does happened. Me, Teoh and Kok Wah volunteered to wait for the blankets to be send to us by the housekeepers. We waited and waited. One and a half hour passed and 3 phone calls to the management have been made. By the end of it, Kok Wah gave the reception counter a hard say and later make our way to the beach since we are all tired and angry of waiting. Well, too bad it does not spoil our day. Me and my friends have great time together playing sea water and beach volleyball. My... i am rusted in my game ! LOL. We make our way back to our apartments at 6.30pm to take our bath while the girls went for shopping at the shops nearby. Fortunately, the blankets were sent to our apartments by the time we got back. If not...So, the boys took their bath and waited for the girls who came back at 7.30pm. Some of the boys are starving already. But well, since most of the boys are simple minded, we waited steadily for almost 45 minutes for the girls to clean up themselves. Then, dinner time ! We make our way to a seafood restaurant next to the resort. Just a stone throw away. At the restaurant, the boys discussed and decided to ordered a package menu that cost rm140 for one table. We ordered two sets of it since the girls were sitting one table and the boys the other.The food were great and we all have fullsize belly by the time we finished our food. The time was almost 10pm by the time we finished our dinner. Ming Han a.k.a chairperson paid the bill and we make our way to the beach again for a walk. Spend a great time walking along the beach side. Hmmm ... Memories... After spending some time at the beach, we walk back to the resort. Card games, snacks and chit chatting were the activities.

The trip begins...

The ladies...

I just love their hairs !!! LOL

Waiting for the ferry ...

Yooo !!!

The face of starving boys ...

Walking along the beach...

Their happy feet are hydrophobia...

Lao gong, suang bo ? LOL *just joking*

No !!! Please don't leave me... You can't !!!

10th DECEMBER

It was already few minutes passed midnight. We are all still awake. So, a group gathering was held to talk about ghost stories. Lol. It is the girls' idea and by the end of it, they are all scared to their wits. It was funny to see Jia Hui to walk into her own room and came running out to say that it was too dark. Honestly, i was a bit scared myself. But it was after seeing Mei Yen's expression. She was the one that got shocked the most and she was white in colour by the time the light is switched back on. Well, funny and scary moments ei... So, to bed we head. While Teoh, Chin Fai and Ming Han went to the girls' room to sleep, the others went back to our room to sleep. Three gentlemen volunteered to make sure nothing will happen to the girls at night. Just in case. Great lads. Great boys. Xiau Sa was asleep by the time me,Man Soon, Kok Wah and K Sheng went back to our apartment. He was the first to went to bed and it was before midnight. Looks like the others including me are all night crawlers. Lol. Anyways, since i am a bit scared and still feel awake, i can't get myself to sleep. I am on one bed with Man Soon. The time was 2 plus in the morning and i saw Kok Wah still up in the living room. So, i just get myself up from the bed and went to have a chat with him. Two boys chatting through the night till 4.30am where in between both of us care for our sicked friend, Man Soon. He was not really sick but he was not really in a good shape so we gave him some stomachache pills since he was complaining of stomachache. When he fall asleep, me and Kok Wah was back chatting again. We chat through many things. Friends,future and family. Well, friends talk^^. By the end of it, both of us are tired and we retired to bed. Zzzzz

Woke up at 8.30am but i was lazy so i slept a bit more till 9.30am. Then, up i came and prepared myself for the day. We had planned to have an island tour today.The time planned was 9am but since most of us went to bed late at night where me and Kok Wah at 4.30am while the other boys and girls at the next apartment slept at around 5.30am, the time was delayed to 11am. When all humans were ready, Ming Han leads the group the seaside and find one of the operators of the island tour. Rm15 per person. That is the price of the island tour which does not include the snorkelling. None of us pay for the snorkelling. So, total up of payment made will be RM 225. Weee ... Island Tour ! At first when i was on board the boat and it is floating, i was feeling a bit seasick. Fortunately, that does not last and it just went PUFF when the boat started to move at high speed. Seawind... I just love it ! So, we were brought around islands which are around Pangkor Island. Rocks and marines life were the main attraction. Nature always blows my mind out. Why ? Rocks are formed like turtle,human's leg and whale. Funny yet a beautiful sight. I am amazed at what the sea can do to rocks. For the marine lifes, they are just as wonderful and great to be seen. I was starting to look forward to future trip to Redang Island where i will be promising myself to pay for the snorkelling ! Lol. As the touring ends, we were landed on a place called Monkey's Bed. No worries, not really a monkey's bed but just a beach. It has been long since i last seen such pure white sand and clear seawater. So, we played on the beach. Too bad we can't own the beach to ourselves. There were just so much younglings around the beach. Ho Ho Ho. Anyway, we played throwing sands, burying human and building nonsense things with the sand. Of course, we spent most of the time in water except for Miss Siew Ling and Teoh. Unfortunately, she was unable to play in the water and Mr Teoh has an allergic to sea water. Anyways, they seems to be having some great time talking with Kok Wah who finally bury himself in the water after staying on land for one hours and more. So, you guess it ! He is no longer dry by the time we were done with him ! WAHAHA. Great times lads... Great times...

So, the boat that fetched us to Monkey's Bed come back to us at 2pm. The journey back to the resort was yet again filled with laughter and screams when the boatman turns the boat around corners. Still, i was amazed by how vast and beautiful the ocen spreads and shines when sunlight falls upon it. Just breathtaking view. i was once again fall in love with nature ... Sounds gayish though.^^ Back at the resort, baths were taken by everyone and rest is much needed. Although we planned to go shopping in the town by riding bicycles but the scorching sunlight and heat has bare us from going out. So, we decided to sleep through the evening. While me, Ming Han, Man Soon, Xiau Sa and K Sheng slept, Chin Fai, Kok Wah and Teoh play Chor Dai Di . Meanwhile, the girls although given the chance to sleep, they prefer to spend it by talking or more accurately decribed is gossiping. Well, girls are girls and boys are boys. Ha ha. After having good sleeps,talks and plays, we headed to a different restaurant behind of the resort to have our dinner. Since i lost three games in snap, i was asked by Jia Hui to do 3 deeds for her. LOL. The food this time were not very good although the price given were around ok ok. Man Soon did not join us tonight since he is still recovering from his stomachache. Poor guy. However, we did not really enjoy the service given at this restaurant and by the end of the dinner, we canceled a dish and did not even sit to have our usual tea session. After dinner, we rent 13 bicycles and a motorbike to begin the night activity that was to ride around the island. It was a great feeling to be able to ride a bicycle again since it has been 2 years since i last ride my dear bike. So, testing the bikes for the girls was my job that night and testing testing testing ... Most of the bike are not in good shape but was good for riding. Only a few of the bikes were not safe for riding. After picking our bike of choice, the journey begins. Most of the shops are closed and the shops that left open were the ones that sell food. Ming Han is the leader of the pack while i am the last biker back at the pack. Teoh, who is fetching Pei Seen since she does not know how to ride a bike was the one patrolling. Haha. Anyways, we rode for one and half hour. Unfortunately, just two to three kilometres before reaching the resort, my bike's pedal gave away and i was left with no choice but to jog back to the resort. I was running rather fast so i was able to catch up with the group. However, it has been a bad decision since i was feeling a bit drowsy when i finish my marathon. Haha. So, the bikes were all being return back and we headed to the beach again for the last night. It is around 11pm by the time we headed to the beach after everyone of us has done with his or her business. This time, Ming Han brought along his guitar so we can sing at the beach together. Haha. We found ourselves a good spot in front of the Sea View Restaurant and started to open up beers and sing along the guitar played by Ming Han. Songs are picked. We have a great time singing and laughing as well as taking pictures. Happy memories ... happy memories... After a while, i lay myself down on the beach to look at the sky above. It was dark but brighten up by the moonlight with stars as its companion. Beautiful is all i can say. Then, there was this one dog that came to us. I think it was attracted to us because of the merry times we were having. So, we played with it for a while then back to our singing. Since the dog is sitting at my feet, it lie down and fall asleep at there. Meanwhile, i lie down on my back facing the sky with my kai xun, Jia Hui and Kok Wah lying on my chest and dulam. Haha.


Turtle Rock

The Whale Rock

Fishes !!! Lovely sight ^^

I WAS HERE !!!

~lonely, i'm Mr. Lonely...~

~Cheese~

Our guitarist

Yooo !!!

11th DECEMBER
The singing continues until 1am in the morning. During that time, the beach was almost empty and filled with only our voices. Went back to our apartments and bath at around 1.30am. After bathing, we went to the girls' apartment to chat and play cards. Haha. We played heart attack and the one who lose were given toothpaste to the face by the winner. I was the one that got most of it. Everyone thought i was losing on purpose but too bad i was not. I was too slow in reflex to be exact. Haha. Anyway, the toothpaste did make me fresh through the night. Haha. We are all done by 4am and went to bed. Zzzz

Woke up at 9.30am. Took my bath and went for breakfast at a chinese stall nearby the resort with the lot. After that, we went to town to do the last shopping since the girls stills want to shop till drop^^ Came back at around 12pm and pack our stuff. We check out at 12.30pm and went for our lunch. We did not eat much since most of us were full. So, we ordered some fried noodles, fried rice and an osyter egg for lunch. Board the ferry back to Lumut at around 2pm. Well, bye bye Pangkor Island. We boarded the Transnasional bus back to KL at 3.30pm. The usual 4 hour journey to KL plus one hour of traffic before we reached Puduraya. Back at home by 9pm. Thanks again to Wei Sim.

Ming Han was reluctant to leave Pangkor

Waving bye to Pangkor Island
They were all down ...

Dont't cry girls, we will be back together in future ^^

Kok Wah's does seems to be about to cry

The girls new found father, Teoh !

There, the diary of my Pangkor trip. Although it ends on a sad note for all of us but the happy memories gathered makes it all worth it.

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1 comment:

kokwah said...

hmmm....quite fresh for me now.every thing u have been write is like a story and pop out in my mind..no idea how long could i remember with all the details..
BUT...GAMBATEH OOOOOO..DUN FORGET or FORGOTTEN ME!!!!!