Camwhoring Around Lumut

Short note: This entry is overdue for more than two months already but I only manage to post it up now. Expect lots of pictures ahead.

Being a Perakian, I have never visited Pangkor Island, not even once. They say the nearer you live to one particular place, the chances of you going to that place will be much lower; in which I cannot disagree more. Anyway, after stopping at Teluk Batik for some time, we headed to Lumut where the jetty to Pangkor Island is located. It took us roughly thirty minute to reach this town, which is under the management of the Manjung Town Council.

Forty cents per hour. Damn cheap lor.

There are no parking meters here, which means you have to get the parking tickets from the shops and scratch the details like the date and time on the card. We started our walk around the place almost straight away. The area surrounding the jetty has been given a face-lift recently, and there is an unique rooftop to act as a shade from the sunlight for the pedestrians, which leads to the jetty at the end of it.

Look at the short little yellow signboard. Damn cute, right?

Finally, we came to the jetty. There are three ferry companies operating there; one of them was closed on that day. The moment we stood in front on the counter, they started asking us whether we wanted to go the the island. "Mari! Mari! Mau pergi mana? Pangkor, Pangkor..."

We told them that we would swim there.

The jetty in Lumut.

Too bad time constraint made me unable to go to the island for a day or two, so in the end I just settled with taking a picture in front of the information board.

I was still in Lumut, not Pangkor.

From there, we walked around the jetty and watched one after another ferry taking off to the island. For the locals, they even use the ferry to transport the bikes to the island. As for those who are running restaurants on the island, we saw them transporting fresh vegetables and meat in huge bulks using the ferry as well.

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There were some group of teenagers waiting under the shade of the rooftop at the jetty. Looi told me that they live on the island, and they are taking the ferry over to the mainland to attend tuition classes. Apparently, the people who live on the island hold some special season pass that allows them to take the ferry on a very low rate. One ringgit per ride, something like that. Normal one would cost about ten to twelve ringgit one way.

We proceeded to the souvenir shops along the jetty, and I made a stop at one of the shops to try on the cowboy hat.

Super stupid shot.

The whole jetty area is called Lumut Waterfront. It is a promenade by the sea which has other facilities like souvenir shops, restaurants, rest house, and recreational area, besides the jetty.

Even you are a Merz, you are still not above the law.

An uncommon zig-zag yellow line, or it is just to decorate the road?

There is one five-storey building, which was build specially for the people who are living on the island to park their car there. They cannot take their car over to the island, hence they have to park them on the mainland.

Medan Letak Kereta.

Another shot, from a different angle at the waterfront.

When I was browsing through the pictures we took here, most of it are camwhore shots at the place. So, from this point onwards, there will be quite a lot of them, something which I do not do usually. Just bear with me for once, okay?

It took us some time trying to look for someone to take this picture for us.

By the water promenade.

Another jetty which I reckon is for people who own personal boats.

My catch for the day.

I purposely ran up this tower just to have this shot taken.

Since I was already there, I went to one of the shop selling the local dried seafood and grabbed two big plastic bags full of those products. Too bad that I only managed to bring back one bottle of Kampong Kok's garlic chilly sauce, one packet of dried fish fillet and one packet of ikan bilis to Japan. The others? I left it behind for my family.

Okay, actually I asked Looi to take this for me, and he asked me to act as normal as I could.

Thinking how many packets I should get. This was taken without my knowledge, I swear.

After finished shopping, Looi were supposed to send me back to Taiping already. But we passed by the Marina Wing and we decided to drop by a while.

Lumut Waterfront Marina Wing.

That gave us more camwhoring sessions.

How I wish those lobsters, crabs and fishes are real ones; that would supply me seafood for the whole year.

One huge anchor.

One tall windmill.

One half-bodied dolphin which I would ride back anytime.

Told you this post is polluted with too many of my camwhore pictures already. I think I better stop before the cow gives birth to a duck. After that, we continued our journey and we talked non-stop for more than an hour. Here are the remaining of the shots along the journey from Lumut back to Taiping.

The road that leads to Lumut Port.

Tunku Permaisuri Bainun bridge.

Pantai Remis town.

Colourful umbrellas which would turn into Ramadhan bazar in the evening.

That banner says, "Yahoo! Mai Kita Kawin!"

Thanks Looi, for the short trip around your hometown.

More Food

These are what I have been doing for the past few weeks.

Curry puff - second attempt.

The skin turned out to be crispy yet soft, just like the curry puffs I used to buy from the mak cik in my school canteen. I made this because there were leftover of potatoes which was meant to be used for making samosa during our college festival. Without margarine or butter at that time, I searched for alternatives and I found out that the dough can be made using wheat flour and oil, as a replacement of margarine or butter.

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Instant pizza - random attempt.

I call it instant pizza because the crust is made of bread and I was too lazy to search for the recipe for making a proper dough. There were some leftover of cheese, so I thought of putting slices of cheese, onions and chicken fillet and toast it for a couple of minutes. When it's done, sprinkle some pepper and mayonnaise plus some chilly sauce and you are done with your instant pizza in less than five minutes.

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Mashed sweet potato - first attempt.

This was made using the leftover of sweet potato that we planted last May. It might look disgusting and like a baby's food, but it was not bad. After all, I will never have any problems taking anything which is made of potatoes.

If you notice, all three food above are made because I wanted to finish the remaining ingredients in my fridge and not because I purposely spend my time on the kitchen to prepare them. But there is an exception. All this while, I only help my mum to beat the batter when we are making cakes at home, but I never do it myself even once. I thought of trying to bake a cake recently and here is the result.

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My first cake - Milo was used to replace chocolate powder.

What I learned from my first baking attempt:

• Always remember to separate the ingredients after measuring the required amount needed for each of them in different bowls. I only realised that after I pour the sugar into the flour after measuring it. So, I quickly scoop out as much sugar out as possible from the bowl of flour while cursing myself at my stupidity.
• Never beat the sugar with only the butter, because the whole kitchen will turn into a room which look as if it was just hit by a tornado. The wall and floor will have butter sticking on them. Lucky thing I wasn't that dumb this time when I saw some of them started to spill out everywhere. My solution - beat them while pouring the beaten eggs and milk into the bowl.
• Bake the cake for thirty minutes, not thirty seconds. I didn't see properly the timer on the oven when I turned it on. I thought it was set to thirty minutes already when I saw the three and zero digit on the screen. Just when I stepped my foot out of the kitchen, the oven made it's "ting ting ting ting" sound. I thought Japan's oven is damn high-tech because my cake was done that fast, only for me to find out that I set the timer wrongly. Damn sweat you know.

Anyway, it was a happy-ever-after ending. I'm glad my first cake was neither too hard nor wet.