Time to break the ice after making my last posting here about a week ago. Continuing straight from where we left off in On to the summit of Gunung Jerai to close a chapter...
What happened was, after I went down the mountain, I hitchiked (or did I stopped a taxi? I forgot) to the nearest town of Gurun. What I do remember is I was in a rush as the time was almost 4pm while I have to be in Manjung, Perak some 300 km away as early as possible the next day.
From Gurun, I got the bus to Sungai Petani then to Butterworth. From Butterworth I wasted no time by taking the express bus to Ipoh where I planned to spend the night before taking the morning bus to Manjung. As it turned out, I was not allowed to sleep at the surau (small praying hall) at the bus station and there's actually one early morning bus at 2am to get to Manjung.
The bus is actually the express bus from Kuala Lumpur to Manjung which must go through Ipoh. Suffice to say, I took it and arrived in Manjung for the Subuh early morning prayers.
Now why the rush to Manjung? Well, actually there's a gathering of more than 20 people who got to know each other including me at a forum in the Internet. It was fun and informative for everyone - most of those who attended knows (and practice!) a measure of silat, the Malay art of self-defence and some Malay magic. Strangely, I don't feel like taking pictures... Maybe because there were many others snapping pictures for the record?
As I was already in Manjung, the next stop on my list is the island of Pangkor just a few kilometres off the next town Lumut. A few forumers decided to follow me. So here are the pictures for posterity (at least I feel like taking pictures, that is when there's not so many of us around). Here it is...
Posing at the jetty in Lumut... In the picture (just mention the nicknames used on the Internet ya) from left are Pendita Gila, Diamond Archer, Abnormal Suam and Master C-Fu...
It is Pendita Gila's turn to snap a picture especially since he's not going to Pangkor. That's me, the third from left...
We got a nice chalet at the west side of Pulau (island of) Pangkor, can't remember the name of the place off-hand... Master C-Fu (left) having a romantic moment with Abnormal Suam... Haha! :]
The guys playing cavemen at one part of the beach...
Abnormal Suam is positive, he just found the 65 million year-old fossil of a trilobite! Yeah, sure...
The 'monkeys' settling down after enough playing cavemen...
Looking at such a view can sure turn grown-up adults into gaping apes or instant philosophers and Michelangelos!
Ah... Pangkor is surely a gem... Next!
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