back to my nightmare

my biggest nightmare of trekking--gunung nuang. highest mt. in selangor.

back to 1.25 years ago,we conquered gunung nuang. and i swore i wont come back to this place.never ever.

[a victory pose at nuang peak.1.25years ago]

but 3 days ago...i broke my promise to myself and ended up torturing myself along the trek.mentally and physically.
it took us abt 9 hours up and down, including lunch time and waterfall break. to my surprise, 9 hrs ?! i expected to complete it in 12 hrs.

gunung nuang trek is sth like this:
when u feel you have walked a lot,drenched in sweat,muscle getting sore and asking for how long more you have to walk to reach the peak, the answer will be: "if you really feel u're tired to the max d, you will have to walk/trek 2 more hours to reach kem pacat.kem pacat only.not even the peak.

[victory pose at kem pacat.present.with lots of sweat bees]

i'm not sure whether this happens to everyone,but it happens on me:
whenever i have trekked for a long distance(and it must be a strenuous trek), i could hear "thud thud thud" sound only from my left ear. at first i thought my heart is pumping so vigorously until it bangs my rib bones and causing "thud thud" sound. till that day i finally figured out the real story. it wasn't "heart sound", what i heard was actually the pulses on my vein(neck). the blood is pumping so fast and so forcefully in the arteri/jugular vein and resulting audible pulse-even without sphygmomanometer. can imagine how strenuous the trek is?
the key point to unravel this "mystery" is--i cant hear the sound with my right ear, only the left ear.

although nuang is notorious for it's trek, it do have sth nice as attraction to make it a famous spot for camping. waterfall! nature massage! "swimming pool"! it's so nice to get back to nature.into the jungle and enjoy a moment like this. it was really really nice and very very relaxing. i quickly washed my boots, straight away i laid down letting stream water flow. whenever u feel like s1/sth is fanning you, undoubtedly it will be the wings of sweat bees(the annoying one).

[nth better than enjoying nature music like this.laying down is one of my favourite pose@everywhere,ANYwhere.]

[surrounded by rocks and greeneries.notice the swimming pool behind?]

[we hereby provide a way to avoid the annoying little creature]

after the waterfall break, another 1 hr walk spent on never-ending road back to carpark. and we get this pose.

[here we are again at the entrance.safe and sound before night falls.]

washed up,headed for ikan bakar then hot spring to rendam kaki! reached home late night and rushed for moral studies mid term exam the next day. i'm not iron man.

part of me

sent boss shih chung and xintong off at LCCT two days ago.
huh, not really sad cos they're leaving for only 1 year.to aussie land.the land of kangaroos and koala and also the blacklisted country of wide spreading AH1N1.

shihchung, once our boss who taught me many things and can get quite emo sometimes.
xintong, the one who brought me into raleigh again by organising 168tahan. i basically just disappeared after my aug07 iw and if it wasn't the 168tahan trip, today you wont see me in raleigh.

[farewell party at crystal's]

raleigh ppl has always been so special to me.
raleigh= hiking, outdoors, expedition, crazy stuff, crazy frens, legendary stories,environmental work, community services, last-minute-call-yumchar, mid night waterfall slide,hot spring, work, responsibility... raleigh is much more than all these. without raleigh and raleigh frens, i cannot imagine how life is.

[08/09 comm trip to pangkor island]

and if i wasn't part of the committee, i wouldn't have involved so much in raleigh activities. working with all these young working adults were pretty nice. Compared to working with ppl who are at the same age as myself, working with them is sth very different to me. i will always learn sth new each time i meet them.
eg. "oh, this is the way how i should approach a prob",
"oh, this is how u can reply a harsh criticism email politely",
"oh,rupa-rupanya there's a stall in petaling streets tat sells tasty sang cheong with delicious lou shu fan",
"oh, this is how useful is an ordinary gaffer tape" ,
"oh, this is how ppl protest for stopping global warming in the uk"
.....etc.

anyway, committee 08/09 is gonna dismiss soon at the coming agm.this will be one of my raleigh journey that i treasure a lot.

[comm's water ballet at pangkor island]

[ARC dinner at nagas]

although i am quiet at sometimes, i see i listen and i feel.

new toy

tadaa !!

i have finally bought this--the long awaited papa gorilla is now mine.
the papa gorilla(big one) is for myself and i bought 1 baby gorilla(small) for my sister as well.

i wanted to get a coloured baby gorilla. just as the same day after i bought grey&black baby gorilla at kotaraya, i saw shops selling red color baby gorilla at lowyat!! super pik chek.

at night when i was reading the operation instruction of the papa tripod, i finally managed to spot the main difference of papa and mama gorilla. a bit regret that i bought papa tripod instead of mama.

[photo editing by sister's phone]
[the colors of the clock and wrapping paper looks nice,aren't they?