Teroka

As much as I love going away for work, but sometimes, I’d tend to get lonely easily. The production team never really understood why I would rather drive 3-hours back home and go to location the next day everyday, for almost 2 weeks now. So as soon as the weekend approached, I realized I had only once scene to do, I asked 3 of my other friends to join me.

We drove up north, and once we got there, they dropped me to do my job (which end up taking 2 hours to finish) and went for lunch. They (rupa-rupanya) went to Teluk Batik while I was away and it was packed.

Soon after that, they picked me up, and we went to the Lumut Waterfront. Although at first I thought we would just have a light tea snack and then maybe head home, I don’t know whose idea it was, but after 15 minutes we were already on a ferry on our way to Pulau Pangkor. RM10 for a return ticket. But after seeing the ferry itself, well, I wouldn’t have expected anything more for that amount. And its only a 45-minutes ride from the main land.

Once we got to Pangkor Jetty, we decided to catch a van [RM10 - 4 pax/RM20 - Fullload] straight to Teluk Nipah, which happens to be more of a touristy beach. Right in front of the beach, there were resorts, and small chalet huts [<RM60 - Non-Peak Season/<RM100 - Peak Season], and a lot of these small shops selling from souveinours to very spicy Laksa and also ‘Mee Bamdum’.

We had our tea and went straight into the waters, which weren’t that bad for a very developed island. There weren’t that many people at that beach at that time, since its 1800hrs and it was a Sunday. Everyone were already on their way back, from their weekend holiday and also school holiday. We had the beach to ourselves! I loved the atmosphere there, and there were even swings and ropes hanging from trees, and everyone knows how much I love climbing on trees and anything that I can actually climb. We saw the sun sets in, and we head back to the Pangkor Jetty.

I learnt that, through our brief session with the van-driver [Teluk Nipah -> Pangkor Jetty: 10mins], when the Peak Season ends, he would go back to his hometown, and he’d let someone else drive the van. There isn’t much to do then. No more local tourist, only foreigner backpackers, who would rather walk or ride the motorbike [RM20 - 1 day].

The last ferry leaves the Pangkor Jetty at 2030, so we had ample time to clean up and have a smoke or two.

As soon as we got to the Lumut Jetty, we bought some dried-up cuttlefish for the people back home, from my aquintance in Lumut, and went searching for dinner. Seri Manjung [from Lumut: 10mins drive] had a lot of places for us to choose from, even McDonalds and Secret Recipe, but we settled for rice, so we went to this foodcourt (* AF was airing, and I just found out Dato’s sister got through, haha).

Right at about 2200hrs, we started our journey, and got home safely at around 0030hrs. And everyone was just half-awake all through out the journey, just like zombies. But I had fun, although tired, cause my friends were there, and I love them for coming along, and the fact we were there, doing what we love the most. Being ourselves..