'i.you.we.they": August 2008

I knew that it's been a decade long I didn't update my blog. And the only reason is simply because when you have so much things to share, you wont know where should you start. It's weird huh? But here I am now, trying hard to set the starting point.

Day 1: Pantai Pangandaran (Pangandaran Beach)
A rush in the dawn.
July 7, 4.30 am, I was awake after only few hours of sleep. And obviously my insomnia is caused by the trip which would begins in the next few hours. I'm a kind of person who couldn't sleep when I got too excited, and surprisingly, I would be more easy to fall a sleep when I'm stress. See how fancy is that! We were decided to left house at 6am, and my dad was promised to wake us on 5 am. But I couldn't wait until he knocked the door, on the lights and call our name one by one. I just can't wait! The whole family, including my 'kakak' were still dreaming I think. cz i hear no sound at all.

Finally, after some times, I heard someone doing something and made a noise, and I guesed it was my 'kakak' start doing her daily works. So, I get down from the bed, go to the bathroom, get changed, and eat breakfast. Still, nobody awaked. It was 5 something when dad and mom woke up. Almost 6 am, but the driver not shown up, and we were worried. We got enough experienced wherby our plan being canceled because of irresponsible driver. Thus, dad started making phone calling to find what's going on with the driver. And guess what? He said that he was still on the way from outstation with another client, but he promised that he will only be late for 30 minutes. Can you believe that? We were going to go to a place which needs at least 5 hours to reach, but the driver was not on time and obviously he wasn't went to bed the night before! That was too dangerous. My mom told dad to delay the trip untill tomorow morning. I was dissapointed, all us were dissapointed. But then, the driver did showed up 40 minutes later, and so, we left on 7am.

We arrived there!
Finally, after 5 hours of stucked in the car plus 1 hour of lunch, we arrived at the Pangandaran Beach.It's feel very great the moment you started seeing all coconut trees, then the sands, and finally the beach. It gaves you a feeling of relieves, and you would suddenly forgot all the tiredness of seating inside the car for so long hours. After making survey from hotel to another hotel, we prefer to stay in the same hotel that we used to staye last time. The reason is simply because it is located right infront of the beach, so every room has a perfect sea view. After check-in, we were decided to take a rest before play in the beach, because the sun was hot (as it was 2pm) and most of us had a same of feeling: we felt that we were still in the car, and all the things around us were moving around!

4pm, the sun almost goes down, me, my sisters and Mr.lim + dad went to the beach to enjoy the sunset. It was quite windy, the sky was a combination of blue, orange, yellow and red, it just so perfect. Few groups of villagers and the fisherman were teamed up begin to pull the large fishing net, we stood by the seashore and watch them doing it. Each time the wave meets the sands, I could feel the water on my foot, and then my feet, I just let it soak in the sand. When it was almost 5pm, the villagers and the fisheman started pulling the large fishing net (trawl net), and then most of the tourist inclusing us, started stood around them, feeling curious to see the fishes. After pulling it sometime, finally they done with it, and we could see the fishes! Most of them were small, like ikan bilis, only few were big and got few crab and even sea horses.

* I kissed the sunlight...yeah!

* me and Mr.Lim

*they are pulling the LARGE fishing net

* Fishes....can you see them?

* this is my favourite,nvr thought will get this outcome while capturing. no edit (except the frame).

Day 2: Pantai Pangandaran (Pangandaran Beach)

Yesterday bacause we arrived quite late, so we couldn't enjoy the all the beach activities. So, today, in the second day, we planned to play from morning till nite. There were plenty of beach activities, such as diving, banana boat, and even surving. But unfortunately after the tsunami hit the area on 17 july 2006, an extensive damage was caused, hundreds of people were reported to be dead or missing and thus those activities were banned to prevent and protect the people. So, after the tsunami, only few activities remain.

Bicyle. To begin the day, I choosed to rent bicyle first. Because I didn't know how to ride a bicyle, so I choosed the bicyle which has 2 seats, and I called it "2-become-1-bicyle", so I can shared with others who knew how to ride it. It's not easy actualy, because you have to work co-orperately with your partner to achieve balance. And so, Mr.Lim could not do that, cz it was his first time riding that kind of bicyle, he was not used to it and he gave up. So, my dad replace him. And because we tried that before, so, it was very easy for us. One thing I like about Pangandaran Beach, is that the people are very friendly and kind. The owner of the bicyle rental allow us to choose which one we wanted to ride, then we can try them one by one, and seeing how hard we tried to ride it, he said that "you can just try to ride around the village, and if really cannot, just return to me and you don't need to pay"...see what i mean? So at last, we returned it and paid nothing.

* wat I called '2 become 1' bicyle. My leg looks cacat =(

* dad n mom...riding through the past..

Motorbike. Failed to play with the bicyle, we decided to play with the motorbike. The rental fee is RP 50.000 (+-RM 18)for one hour. But it was actually higher than normal day, cz it was high season, but we didnt wan to miss the fun.Riding along the seashore made me feels realy good, but its quite challenging as so many ppl there, and I had to make sure that I didn't "langgar" anybody. Basically its like driving an auto car.The motorbike that we rent is the medium size, so the capacity is 2 adult only.Feeling bored driving along the seashore, we drove it out and drove around the village.

* he drove most of the time, cz we prefer being the passanger..lol

* my mom is so phunky and she wanna enjoy the fun!

Horse. Besides droving the motorbike, we chosed horse riding before lunch. I forgot how much it cost, but if its not mistaken the rental fee is RP 15.000 (+-RM 6.50). Actually it was also very fun riding the horse along the seashore with the guidance of the owner but I didnt ride cz I thought it was too hot (almost 12pm) as for Mr.Lim he did not want to do so because he said the horse is very pity if he did so(?????!!!!!)....