Pangkor Island - in search of memory

Where about: Pangkor Island, Off Lumut, Perak

When: 13 - 14 Sept 2008

2 weeks back to back, I’ve spent my wonderful weekends at 2 different islands.

Followed to my memorable whale shark encounter, we’ve head north to Pangkor Island . The island where we’ve frequent most during young days….
I have not land my foot on Pangkor like ages….it not 10 years then it should be 8 years….

My initial plan for things to do in Pangkor:-

Cycling – failed
We were being teased by one souvenir shop auntie…you think you girls still young like 16 yrs can cycle around the island under this weather?? Forget about it…you will be half dead…might as well rent a van and bring you around...aihhh…of coz its not bcoz of this we didn’t cycle…its becoz we didn’t manage to go to the place where they are bicycle for rent and somehow we found that its even more pricy to rent a bicycle than a motorbike. Furthermore, we were running out of time…..

Pray pray – failed
Initial plan is to cycle to Fu Ling Gong to see the ‘mini great wall’ and pray pray….since cycling tak jadi…so the praying session also not happening la..

Food – huge success
Despite our main objective there is to shoot photos….but I think the food part was the highlight of the trip! We woke up as early as 7am, took a RM30 cab to the town just to have a taste of Shy Shy’s childhood nasi lemak and yes Shy Shy finally get to eat her nostalgic pangkor nasi lemak with a piece of fish with sambal. Its even simpler than the RM1 nasi lemak we get near the street….but it really taste nice and exotic.
Next would be Pangkor rice noodle a.k.a. ‘lai fun’ – super nice! We had 1 full bowl of lai fun just 2 hours after our lunch! No matter how full, we still sapu~~
The good food are – nasi lemak, lai fun in clear soup, asam laksa, otak-otak, coffee

Photo shooting - not quite satisfied
First day: weather was good, bright and sunny....manage to get 2 or 3 pictures that i like.

2md day: i dont see any cloud details in the sky....pictures came out as pale as a piece of white paper....still got lotsa things to brush up..

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Kayaking - unexpectedly done

First time experience, it was fun provided water surface condition is calm and u dont need to paddle against the current. Quite tiring as well and most of the time we just relax and let the kayak drift to where it wanted to :P definitely going to do this sports again!

Birthday suprise

My mates light up candles for me on the beach...tried so hard coz beach was windy...

after numerous attempt...only managed to light up my name with a egg cake 'gai dan gou'. Thanks mate :)

I would definely plan more such short trip - 2D1N or 3D2N to somewhere with my mates...enjoy chilling up and do nothing...like it!