Simple beauty

We were driving along the Jeli - Gerik Highway leaving my father's place at Panglima Bayu at around 5:50 pm.  Rather late for a trip back to Kajang.  But my youngest had enough of our balik kampung trip and wanted to be back in her own place.  We relented though I'd prefer to have a longer time with my father.

It was a long day for us all, leaving our Terengganu house at 9 am.  Stopped for a sumptuous nasi kerabu ayam percik breakfast at a roadside stall at Kg. Gong Pak Jin.  It is a place just after UMT.  We found this place by chance really a few years back.  The name stucked as we were parked very close to the village signage.  We were then on a similar Terengganu - Kelantan trip after a few nights stay in Terengganu.

Arriving in Rantau Panjang at about noon, we slipped into the steaming hot market for a quick purchase of local delicacies, the keropok dip being a must.  Incidentally we bought our keropok in Terengganu from the 007 keropok stall located adjacent to the Kuala Ibai floating mosque traffic light junction.  The stall was strongly recommended by a relative and we were hooked ever since.

This market should be built with a higher roof for better ventilation. 

You can leave your dough to be baked in here!

We stopped at a brother's for lunch.  His abode is atop his shop lot, HWH Entreprise, located just across the Rantau Panjang market.  The stop was more to meet our 6 year old nephew, Wan Mohammad Luqman Al-Hakim, to congratulate him for his first placement in the national PASTI azan competition.  We bought him some school supplies befitting his Year 1 entry in 2012.  Then the trip to my father's place.  A short visit it was but with a promise of a longer trip later.  There will be three weddings that we'll be attending in early 2012.  A retiree will have all the time at hand to commit to family matters.

TAHNIAH!!! JOHAN AZAN ALAM RIA PASTI MALAYSIA 

Hakim receiving his award (Azan Category) from Dato' Sri Ir. Nizar

at the 2011 Alam Ria PASTI held in Perak recently.

The results extracted from pastikelate.blogspot page:

2.    AZAN

NO	NAMA	NEGERI
JOHAN	WAN MOHAMMAD LUQMAN AL-HAKIM B WAN HANAFI	KELANTAN
NAIB JOHAN	HAMMAD AFIFF B MOHD AFFANDI	TERENGGANU
KETIGA	ABDUL MUHAIMIN B ABD NIZAM	PERLIS

Being late in the evening, and with nothing much to do I took a few shots using the handphone.  The outcome surprised us all.  We did enjoy the forest landscape, the cloud formation and the turning skyline.  It is amazing that the sky was so blue at dusk.

The clouds deserve a second look.

The evening lights between the pillars were blinding.

The skyline turning crimson with the sunset.

The camera detected the darkening sky as blue.

A sight to behold.

The glow of the car's headlights agaist the dark environment.

The sky remaining blue.

The contrast at one of the Gerik's traffic junctions.



In this long journey we amused ourselves with name similarities.

Adam has a supermarket to his name (Tanah Merah).



Aiman wondered aloud at this bundle store

that carries her name (Rantau Panjang).

Let's surprise Abang Li with this lot (Rantau Panjang).

My husband inherits this shoplot (Rantau Panjang) from
his late mother.  Neither he nor the tenant ever met.
Would we be getting a free cuppa should we stop by?