Pangkor Laut Is Bliss
November 21st, 2007
it’s been a hellish time for me, what with college applications and all. Martian has been really stressed out at work too, so we decided to go for a quick weekend retreat where No Work Is Allowed. what’s allowed : a lot of sun, sand, baileys, a good book, and lotsa lovin’! :D
#1 the beach at pangkor laut
he came back to KL and we drove up to Pangkor Laut to spend a lovely 3 days on the beach and in bed and by the pool just unwinding and basking in total relaxation. i must admit that on the first day i was so antsy about spending the next few days not doing anything about my college applications at all (i actually brought my laptop just in case *ashamed* but i managed to refrain from touching it!!), but after a while of allowing that lovely smell of sunblock to settle in, i was really grateful for the rest and relaxation. and most of all, i was glad to have my boyfriend with me after a horridly long 2 weeks of not seeing him :)
#2 by the pool
#3 finally!! some non-SAT related reading
#4 crawling over to his deck chair <3
Pangkor Laut is gorgeous, people, totally gorgeous. YTL really knows how to run a holiday resort. i've been to both their other resorts in Tanjong Jara and Cameron Highlands, but they are nowhere as lovely as Pangkor Laut. the emerald sea, white sand and comfy beach chairs requisite of a beach getaway are all accounted for. the poolside has a great view of the sea, the horizon and the sea villas. service is top notch; everyone from the GM to the gardeners are always smiling and eager to please. you even have a personal guest relations staff attending to you the whole time! ours was a sweet young lady called Casey who totally layaned my love for diet coke and sent some up to our room :P
#5 the resort at dusk
we stayed in one of the Hill Villas that has a fantastic view of the island and the sea. i loved it to bits :) we even had one of those open bathtubs where we could have long bubble baths in the company of starry skies and cricket sounds, heehee. on our 2nd night, the housekeeping staff saw that we’d ran a bubble bath the night before, and they actually ran us another bath, scattered rose petals all over the water and lit candles for us. sigh <3
both Martian and i have heard such good things about the Pangkor Laut spa, and even though i'm not much of a spa person (i know, i know, what's wrong with me, right?), he managed to convince me to go with him. and i'm soooooooo glad i did, because it was a spa experience unlike any other! it was very frilly with a lot of interesting steps to go through - first a Chinese footrub, then a Malay-style bath in a cold 'river' with a 'waterfall', then a Japanese bath where you sit and scrub yourself on those little wooden stools and use those quaint wooden buckets, then a .. okay lah i'm giving away too many spoilers, aren't i! dowan to say oredi, must maintain the surprise factor!
#6 the Malay-style river bath
after the bath house experience, you pick from many diff types of massages and baths and wraps and treatments and goodness knows what else. crazy wan lah, so many options! i didnt know what to pick so Martian picked me the Balinese massage and the milk bath, which we shared. where much Cleopatra/Marc Anthony debauchery went down. ;)
sigh it was such a wonderful holiday. i wish it could have gone on forever. now it’s back to the daily grind, back to Adobe Acrobat documents and application essays, back to Skype, back to hazy skies and aggravating news in the newspaper, and no more nighttime cuddles :( sniff.
more photos :
#7 the sea villas, located just off the beach and slightly into the sea. very tranquil :)
#8 c’est moi who at the time of phototaking was still rather nervous about not doing any work :P
#9 me and the Martian :)
#10 the beach from my deck chair cos i was too lazy to get up
#11 sans wheelbarrow
#12 i think i should be more worried about where i bring my camera! i put it on this banister on the sea villas to do a selftimer shot, really a windgust away from my camera falling into the sea, and Martian had to go like DONT DO THAT before i realized how dangerous it really was. *shy
#13 very cute old couple reading by the beach
#14 hot father swinging his very cute son around
#15 no, not our room, but the library of the resort! they have all these nice sofas and four poster beds in the library for you to read and surf the internet (free wireless!!!!!)
#16 smooches :D
#17 random peacock that keeps popping up around the resort
#18 making use of the camera’s kickass zoom. the peacock’s name, btw, is Richard
#19 me on one of those really intelligently-made beach chairs. i want one!
#20 Martian jogging
#21 woman tanning to a crisp and loving it!
#22 sigh lovely pangkor laut beach, i still pine for you
all photos were taken by the Panasonic Lumix DMZ-FZ18, which has the most fantasmo optical zoom EVAR. still need to tinker with it a bit before i can fully make proper use of its functions, but even with what little fiddling i’ve done with it so far, the photos still come out great! much thanks to Panasonic for the awesome camera, and Wenqi and Tim of Nuffnang for arranging this :D
Martian is going to HK for work next week. i sooooo want to go because i’ve been missing HK like crazy ever since he moved from there to Singapore. and i was going to go with him, but then i decided no lah i should do the responsible thing and stay home to finish up all this college app stuff. but then i keep thinking about all the things that we used to do in Hong Kong, and i’m just so reluctant to let this trip go :( we’ve always wanted to go back to HK together, and this would be a great chance to do so. sigh. advice, please! 4 days of HK frolicking or 4 days of college app-ing?
68 Comments Add your own
1. vvens | November 21st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
4 days of HK! Muahahaha.
Wow, it must be very relaxing to have a vacation in between of those hectic stuffs :)
who named the peacock Richard? you or its called Richard originally. hahaha.
2. pinkpau | November 21st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
vvens : thank you!!! im hoping more ppl will tell me 4 days of HK so that i wont blame myself when i dont get into any college… hahaha. and i named the peacock Richard :P doesnt it look very richardy to you!
3. lisa | November 21st, 2007 at 8:48 pm
omg.the views in pangkor.simply beautiful ;)
i wanna go pangkor too ;)
shud plan wif my baby…hehe…
oh..and 1 more thing.
4 days of hong kong!!!!!
4. entwined | November 21st, 2007 at 9:05 pm
pangkor laut looks gorgeous! if i can’t ever go to bora bora/seychelles/maldives, this will do just fine as a substitute! :D always wanted a beachside honeymoon :D
and 4 days of HK! you can do your college app thingies while martian is at work! win-win! :D
5. Michael | November 21st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Wow. Pangkor in its fullest =.=. Why cant u have a trip in HK with the college app together?
6. pohnee | November 21st, 2007 at 9:43 pm
4 days of hong kong! with a few hours of college app in between :P
7. martian | November 21st, 2007 at 10:21 pm
baby, you shd think responsibly abt yr college stuff before you waste time on 4 DAYS IN HK!!!!! think abt those 8 hrs of work you have to put in instead of spending time eating EGG TARTS, watching LUST,CAUTION in IFC CINEMA, going to FLYING PAN at 3AM. oh and er, that bowl of WANTON NOODLES in that restaurant with intuitive waiters on STANLEY ST. and er, KRISPY KREME up at SOHO.
8. jimmy | November 21st, 2007 at 11:50 pm
wat the.. i went to pangkor last fri..
the beach was horrible! so totally different from ur side of the island..
cos i stayed at some 3-star coral beach motel.. argh..
guess u get what u pay for hehehe….
then again.. darn! darn!…. DARN!
9. missycheerio | November 22nd, 2007 at 12:17 am
hey babe,lovely pictures.
i’m a big fan of yoursssssss.
cheers.
10. jimmy | November 22nd, 2007 at 12:38 am
oh btw!… u didn’t try the herbal duck mee in Bidor, did u..
or u would’ve blogged about it.
hehe
its the best most delicious, fever-curing soup mee ever.
dam good la, really.
11. Jay | November 22nd, 2007 at 12:56 am
Wow, those are really nice pictures! Speaking about pictures and your need to selftime pictures, I think i’ve found the perfect christmas gift for ya. But, it’s too early to tell. =P Anyways, about the HK trip, I’m going to have to go the underdog vote here and say 4 days of college apps just because you’ll be so much happier (and stressfree) when you finish.
12. wow | November 22nd, 2007 at 12:59 am
i really love the place… the bubble bath … did u guys haf sex in it ?. .. must have been really romantic to do it in such a nice place.. ahhh
13. WenQi | November 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 am
hey su ann! no problem! glad that we gave it to u heheh… if u know what i mean ;)
and awesome pics u took, really.
hope to see u soon!
14. kennysia | November 22nd, 2007 at 2:53 am
4 days in HK or 4 years WITHOUT A COLLEGE TO STUDY?!
Which one more important?! You say! You say lah!
15. Dan-yel | November 22nd, 2007 at 3:07 am
What is this?! Everytime I visit your blog, sure something extremely nice come up. Shall I gaga now? No. Shall I compliment? I dunno what to say. Oh life so mundane for me, I wish it could be more interesting, you know, water cannons, tear gas. Damn, I’m disappointed that they didn’t release that on me. I’ll be glad if the government hire me as their Special Branch members to burn the Malaysian flag on their behalf. I’m writing in circles here, forgive me. This is me stayin up too late at night, which is 3.02am if my eyes are not fooling me, and to my horror *gasp* shit.
I shall not reread this comment, nor edit it for I wish and desire above all else to preserve its authenticity, and whatever insults, defamation, libel, provocation, incitement that may be construed from this piece of comment shall not be construed as such and shall not impose liability on the person of me, nor Pinkpau aka Su Ann (or the other way round, Su Ann aka Pinkpau) nor the persons of whoever taking part in this delicate forum, whether directly or indirectly linked.
Damn, I need to sleep now! :0
16. songjun | November 22nd, 2007 at 3:07 am
ahhhhhhhh so nice
i miss the sun haha
17. thegeekinpink | November 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 am
4 days of HK! you know you’re gonna get your college application done anyway! and you know what they say about last minute pressure ;p produces the best work… eh i say only ah, dont know if true or not.
4 days of HK! 4 days of HK!!!
18. Sze | November 22nd, 2007 at 5:12 am
je-SUS. i want some beach toooooo.
19. rachel | November 22nd, 2007 at 5:41 am
you could get your college apps done by this week and go to hk the next!
and even if you were to not get college apps done by next week, you should go to hk.
whichever, you should still go to hk, and fit the college apps in somewhere in time…whoever said you couldn’t have the best of both worlds?
^_^
20. Miss C | November 22nd, 2007 at 8:22 am
just go to HK. you’ll go overseas after this and nothing could feel even more worse than regrets or pondering about what-ifsss. & remember, once you make a decision, you will definitely find a way out to solve it. so just GO!!! unless it’s like 4 weeks then no lah! haha~~
21. shopaholicslover | November 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
nice blog u have !! pls visits us too at http://www.shopaholicslover.blogspot.com..for nice and reasonable price of pretty cloths..
have a nice day =)
22. suanie | November 22nd, 2007 at 9:40 am
go to hong kong!!!!!!!!!!
can do your college apps there ….:P
23. KY | November 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
screw college, SAT is a scam. Just go on holidays forever.
btw i wanna eat some kalbi!
24. pinkshirtz | November 22nd, 2007 at 9:45 am
agree… the bidor duck mee is good… I remember the sleepiness after eating that bowl … so soothingly nice!!
just get urself to hk. no problem. enjoy 3 n a half day and spend the rest with work. it’ll work. if u stay … u’ll just meddle around spending 4 unnecessary days to complete a task.
if u manage to escape to hk … it’ll sort of be like a holiday for all of us.
thanks!!
25. Yappy | November 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
Nice! You deserve this trip gurl! Pangkor Laut is very beautiful…
I have a Panasonic Lumix too and I totally love it! It’s an old model, I’ve had it for around 3 years but it never failed me. :) I especially love the fact that the pics I took without flash rarely turn out blur, unless I really shake my hand while taking pics.
4 days of HK definitely! Its just 4 days.. Think of all the memories you’ll get when you go to HK with Martian. haha… :)
26. dc | November 22nd, 2007 at 11:51 am
if you are afraid of your camera taking a drink, get an olympus. It’s a so so camera for me as I use DSLR’s but Point and shoot-wise, get a waterproof,freezeproof,crushproof,5 feet fall proof camera.
cheers….nice pics.
27. *dAwN | November 22nd, 2007 at 12:34 pm
The beach is so nice! And the Malay-style river bath looks quite interesting.. Hmm ^_^
28. linsey | November 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 pm
empat hari kat king kong!
you’ll be thinking too much of being there when you’re all the way here
hahahaha =DDD
29. foreverjas | November 22nd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
ahh. i din know u can have so much fun in pangkor! lol. i went there with my family, and we’d been tryin to find fooddd. end up eat marry brown. lol
30. miss.cc | November 22nd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
nice pics! =)
31. Ping | November 22nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Didn’t know Pangkor have such great view? How much did you paid for the trip? I’m planning a little getaway from work and now Pangkor seem like a good choice :D
Somehow Martian looks like he is tempting you with all the things you can do in HK. I guess, college application would be more important at this point but if you can juggle it, then going HK sounds good.
32. aud | November 22nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
do u even need to ask! HK la what if u die right after then u will never get to enjoy it again wtf.
33. nick au | November 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
hey hey!!! I want to go also!! how much did you have to fork out for this trip total for the rooms?
I am planning for next years vacation spot!
I want i want!
34. kimberlycun | November 22nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
LMAO @ martian’s comment. out from the horse’s mouth….pigi HK lah apa lagi?
i wanna go to pangkor island!!!!!!!
35. Michelle | November 22nd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Pangkor is that beautiful? The other time I went, I told my mom that I’m never going back to that lsland again…
==
Welll, it seems that Ms. Su Ann here has sucessfully changed my mind.
36. Jun | November 22nd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
HK LAH DUH.. after all, wat’s gonna stop u fr studying for SATS/writing college app essays in hk over an aromatic bowl of steamed chicken and salted fish rice fr 7-11? *grin* (i hope i dun jinx my chances of passing my own exams by being such a devil ;p)
oh, and wat happened to ur canon?? this coming fr a canon-phile, i simply REFUSE to accept the fact that u had “gone over to the dark side” by using a panasonic to capture those pics– no matter how gorgeous they look -__-
37. reader | November 22nd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
hahah i love murakami as well!norweigian wood!!kafka at the shore!!hahaha good book!
38. Gin | November 22nd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
noooo… i havent been here in like forever T_T in fact i dont even remember when was the last time i went there T_T wuwuuww.. they hacked up the price by so much can go outstation wei!!
anyway HK LAR ;p u can stll do ure stuff wid a laptop there wad ;p hahahha
39. Gin | November 22nd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
oh n u can bring me back krispy kreme. mwahahhaa
40. Eley | November 22nd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
go to HK! :)
and haruki murakami rocks! after Anne Rice. heh.
41. TheRealAnonymous | November 22nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Go Hong Kong lah you… think so much! =p Go be a normal kid and HAVE FUN man.
Quickly get ur college app done then go lar… you don’t need THAT long to do the college app man wtf. =p
42. TheRealAnonymous | November 22nd, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Btw… i’m in Bangkok now… truly a shopping city… so much things to see, so cheap summore… but not quite the thing I’d do… so I play PSP in my room when sienz… LoL… Just got my PSP couple days back oni =p
43. pinkpau | November 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 am
to all : hongkong is out the window :( saturday flights are all booked out! sigh such is the downside of last minute decision making :( :( :( :( my college applications had better be damn kick ass.
lisa : pangkor laut, ok :D it’s really beautiful. pangkor is only so so these days
entwined : that was the plan, to do stuff while he worked.. but i guess that’s not happening now :(
michael : that was what i was going to do! but of course staying in KL i would get more done than going to HK, cos martian and i would be spending so much time doing all the stuff we always said we’d do in HK but never did.
pohnee : that was the idea. sounds just nice, right? but no more flights available :(
martian : you forgot BEN AND JERRYS and that super nice PAU and that DAN DAN NOODLES on STAR STREET -_-
jimmy : i went to pangkor laut, not pangkor! diff islands :) and YES i had the duck soup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it’s sooooooo good!! but i had no idea it was famous
missycheerio : thank you! :D panasonic will be happy to hear that
jay : jay, you’re my voice of reason! anyways i’m stuck with no choice but the college apps now. sigh. i’d better get into a damn good school for this -_-
wow : ya very romantic :D
wenqi : hehehe i heart you lah babe :)))
kennysia : SORRY, MUM :(
danyel : hahahahahahhaa GO TO BED daniel. you’re delirious oredi
songjun : nvm lah summer not that far away. and then PINKPAU will be there!!!!!!
thegeekinpink : i’m so sad lah everyone keeps saying hongkong hongkong and now i cannot go :( SIGH. nvm nvm this is an investment for my future!
sze : we trade; you gimme some romanian door and i’ll give you some pangkor sun and sand!
rachel : cant babe, hongkong was supposed to be tomorrow. a bit hard to finish everything by then. and actually, being in HK is very counterproductive wan.. believe me :P i tried studying for my sats there once.. didnt really succeed.
miss c : no lah i wont regret that much seeing how i practically spent the whole of the last year in hongkong :) anyway martian promised another hongkong trip sometime soon, so yay! i still win heehehee
shopaholics : nice plug
suanie : tak jadi liao :(
ky : yalar i swear to god sat is SUCH a scam. all that MONEY that could go into nice juicy kalbi. eh see lah u gave me a craving!
pinkshirtz : OMG you know me so well. my logic was that if i stayed.. i actually wouldnt get much done anyway cos it’s the weekend and i’ll be out most of the time. and that’s when i decided to call the travel agent. and that’s when they told me saturday morning/aft flights are all out :((((( nvm there will be more hk opportunities. i hope :( and yes bidor duck soup = BEST
yappy : which lumix are you using? issit a compact? mine’s like a semi SLR.. a lot of stuff that i need to start getting used to. sigh dont make me think about HK memories oredi la :((
dc : why olympus? are they all waterproof?
dawn : the malay style bath was just the first part of the whole process :P it was really awesome
linsey : THATS WHY :(( and martian will keep doing all these very hongkong things and he will call me and gloat wan :((
foreverjas : marry brown omg poor you
miss.cc : thank u!!
ping : yessssss that’s what i have to keep telling myself now; college apps are more important, college apps are more important! and we went to pangkor laut, not pangkor! diff island. we went for this 3D2N package for rm999 per person, which includes ur bfast lunch dinner for all 3 days and excellent service :))
aud : shit lah now that you put it that way :((
nick au : rm 999 per person for 3D 2N which includes bfast lunch dinner for all 3 days
kimberlycun : sigh he very bad wan lah. ya go pangkor laut! it’s really gorgeous there
michelle : where did you go? we went to pangkor laut tho, which is a diff island
jun : steamed chicken and salted fish rice :(( nothing happened to my canon; it’s still here! i got sponsored a Lumix unit from panasonic, and i suppose it’s only right if i used their camera every now and then :)
reader : i love those two books! the one im reading now, dance dance dance, is not very impressive so far. a bit of a departure from his usual style for me
gin : eh now all the australians coming bak.. tell them to bring KK bak for u la!! haha my friends and i just had this crazy krispy kreme party the other day. eat until die
eley : haha murakami and anne rice are so different!! if you like murakami you should check out banana yoshimoto. similar style
therealanonymous : hahahaha i like that.. ‘go be a normal kid’ hahaha :P sigh damn no life lah these few months, have to keep doing college app shit. eh i’m going to bangkok in 2 weeks time! are you still around then? CHATUCHAK! <3
44. Jeff from LA | November 23rd, 2007 at 1:14 am
Well, I’m going to join the minority voice and tell you to get those college apps done. Why? Because if you spend 4 days in HK, every one of those 4 days are going to be stressful since you’ll be thinking about your college apps while you’re out trying to have fun.
Good luck, Pink Pau!
45. Jeff from LA | November 23rd, 2007 at 1:16 am
Whoops, I guess I should have refreshed before posting, ;)……….
Anyway, good luck, I hope those awful apps are out of the way soon.
46. elaine | November 23rd, 2007 at 1:41 am
how old is martian
47. pinkpau | November 23rd, 2007 at 1:46 am
jeff : that’s exactly what happened in pangkor laut, haha. i suppose it’s a blessing in disguise that all the flights are booked out. but i still cant help but feel sad :(
elaine : you’re quite rude, arent you :)
48. tze | November 23rd, 2007 at 4:06 am
4 days in HK la what are you talking about. what can 4 days do anyway huh huh just finish it all before you leave la wtf.
49. annabelle | November 23rd, 2007 at 8:02 am
how much was the spa ? was it included in ur package ?
50. Jessica K. | November 23rd, 2007 at 11:21 am
what a lovely place! i feel like slapping myself now that when my dad offered to take us there few years back but i declined!! btw, pangkor laut is not on pangkor island, right? or it is? now i’m dying to go there with my bf. :P
owh, and FOUR DAYS HK!! yuu can deal with the application after the trip, right?
51. pinkshirtz | November 23rd, 2007 at 11:28 am
X) … As the saying goes … great minds think alike .. haha … maybe not but at least we’ve got similiar taste buds… Got the cupcakes!!! yums … thanks for the recommentation … currently planning a future birthday dinner for a special someone during december… still looking out for place to dine … whats ur best suggestion (below RM250 la)
52. Ping | November 23rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
*pai seh* hehe, try to log into the website but always having proxy error -_-||
Don’t be upset about the hong kong trip ya? I’m sure there’ll be another chance of going it in the future. Hope you are not so stress out with the apps.
p/s: I like Murakami too :D Have you read ‘Kafka on the Shore’?
53. Gin | November 23rd, 2007 at 2:25 pm
wah omg. and didnt share wid me T_T
54. bs | November 23rd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
4 DAYS OF HONG KONG!!!!! TO HELLLLLLLL WITH COLLEGE!
bwahahahahahaha!!
55. bs | November 23rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
oops.. sorry.. din read the comments first.. you’ll have other chances to go anyway!!
56. Reta | November 23rd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
ooh, I spot a Murakami..
57. zewt | November 23rd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
hey su ann, are u going to say a word or 2 about the hindraff thingy?
58. pinkpau | November 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
tze : cannot go oredi :(
annabelle : i regret to inform i do not know this! but it was not part of our package
jessica k : pangkor laut is a separate island, and much more gorgeous than pangkor is :)
pinkshirtz : hmm many places! try looking at my february archives where i wrote about 10 romantic restaurants to spend valentines day :)
ping : yes i have! i liked it very much
gin : hahaha go study for spm lah u!
bs : sniff :( hopefully :(
reta : indeedy! dont like this particular book too much tho
zewt : not today, but im keeping myself updated on the hindraf ongoings
59. songjun | November 24th, 2007 at 2:24 am
alar say oni la u
60. zewt | November 24th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
good enough…
61. Anonymous | November 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
woah! Like the fact that you read Murakami! I think he’s the best. Period. ( :
62. Kevin Chan | November 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
woah! Like the fact that you read Murakami! I think he’s the best. Period. ( :
63. sz | November 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Dance dance dance is my fav. Going to pangkor laut is like yuki and boku going to hawaii meeting the one arm poet.
64. Ping | November 26th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Same here!!! Hehe, I’ve found another Murakami’s booklover. Cool =D~
65. nadnut | November 26th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
the place looks gorgeous!!!!!
66. Esther | November 27th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
I’m so jealous of you! I want a holiday, spend quality time with the one I love and take pictures of random peacock too!!!
:p
67. quaintly.net » On T&hellip | June 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 am
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68. johnny ong | June 19th, 2008 at 1:34 am
was there last march 2007
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