well we have spent 4 or 5 or 6 pretty sweet days exploring around palau pangkor (thats pretty close to the correct spelling). they have no Internet except for in the chinamans guesthouse, and we didnt want to give him any more money than a severe example of bad communication necessitated. but enough of that. we rented motorbikes as per the amended masterplan, and did several savage high speed burns around the island, which is probably not more than 18 km right the way around. we discovered many unexpected wild animals, and all contracted sunburn that made todays move all the more difficult. we found some place that was building big fishing trawlers out of wood, and entirely by hand. awesome. thats a skill thats been lost in most places. and our guesthouse owner dude looked exactly like morgan freeman. with a motash. mok reckons he looks more like morgan freeman than morgan freeman does. like when hes not in films being morgan freeman, he is just himself, which is to say that he is not morgan freeman. and this dude is. anyway, he is obesessed with birds, and this is a good place for that kind of behaviour. they have no seagulls on this island, instead they have sea eagles. quite incredible birds that laze around the sky and occasionally have mid air beak fights or swoop down to catch fish and small children. as far as land animals, the odd huge iguana lying just around a hairpin bend that was taken at slightly too high a speed anyway without the sudden distraction and loss of concentration that comes with the sudden appearance on the road of a massive reptile. biking at night, getting howled at by a pack of monkeys while crossing one of the many forested patches where the streetlights arent. in fact most of the animals there seem to exist solely for the purpose of scaring the crap out of unsuspecting whiteys. then there was the roach in mok and ross' room that refused to flush. too big for flyspray or even an aerosol flame thrower, much to moks obvious consternation. and the unidentified (possibly fictional :)) lizzard/snake that fell on lissa from the trees. and the gigantic centipede. and the kittens in the roof. why are there always fucking kittens??? but we seem to be getting lost down a tangent here.
so i just looked to my left and there is a temple in our guesthouse that i somehow failed to notice when we checked in. they just lit the incense.we are in penang, and im pretty impressed so far with the overall goodness of this city. they have cheap morotbikes, good beer, cheap guesthouses, and nasty slow computers. and i think some monkeys just started howling and screeching outside. its time for another tigerbeer. i may continue this at a later date.
