In the last few days, I’ve had three blogger friends post pictures of sunsets they took. Have a look at them and then come back (or not) to continue reading this post:

Shades of Vermillion by Tarlia
Sunset by Marita Paige
Clouded Sunset by DavidLee

Am I inspired to take something similar? No. For two reasons. One – I don’t have a camera (well, I do, but I haven’t used it in years). Two – where I live, I can’t see the sun setting (no, I don’t live behind bars, altho it feels like it sometimes; I just live in the city, in a double-storey linkhouse where any view of any sunset is blocked by the row of houses in front).

But seeing those three pictures reminded of one I took more than 20 years ago.

I was on holiday in Dungun, Terengganu. A church friend had been posted there for her first teaching job, and had rented a small house that she shared with another teacher. She issued an invitation to visit, and I think BK and I were the first to accept.

The morning after we arrived, we went on a day trip to Pulau Besar. I don’t remember much of that trip, but have at least one photographic reminder of it. Here it is, sunset over Pulau Besar 21 years ago:

I called it “Fishing Boat at Sunset”, inspired by – you guessed it – Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Fishing Junks at Sunset”.