wahahhahaha...back in singapore in ONE GOOD SOLID PIECE!!!!yes!!!!and heres the recap

july 8 left for malaysia(where else but there?) again its another school CCA thingy. left at around 2000++ on public transport to Woodlands customs took bus to Msia customs . amazing, the customs were relatively empty at around midnite. hehe...looking at the previous statement, i suddenly realised i made no sense. hahahaha....oops. everything was a breeze, not the kind of 'jam' that i was expecting to get caught in. THANK YOU organisers!!! JIELING...heres thanks to you. [xie xie ni de yong xin liang ku]

when we came out of msia customs the first mission was to get to City Square to wait for our charted bus. heres the part where we came head on and face off with malaysian efficiency. THE BUS WAS LATE. correction, not late. late is often defined by the inability to meet the appointed time within range of time from 5mins to 30mins to an hour. we were at City Square so long, i that i thot we were waiting for the first public transport to get us to mount ophir. cheez...

again, TAS confiscated my super-featured watch. haiz...no more compass, alitude meter, barometer, temperature and TIME!...the bus finally made a stop in its long journey to Gunung Ledang(mount ophir) Resort. the bus stopped at a canteen at Yong Peng for a while. this canteen is practically like my second home when i am in Malaysia.

whenever, i pop to genting highlands in malaysia, the coach will usually make a stop there. not counting the umpteen times that i visit malaysia, you can perhaps tell why that was liken to a second home. well, i guess most singaporean will have come by to this canteen at Yong Peng too. cos i do believe that there are alot of singaporean coaches who makes pit stops here(erm...i mean there in yong peng)

talk about being singaporean. one characteristic i think we have is the ability to be so early, in order to be so kiasu.(please look up Singlish dictonary at talkingcock.com)not forgetting this trait, we reached the gates of Gunung Ledang at the super wee hours of the morning. so early that even the shops situated jus outside the resort's gates were not even open. well, what to do? sleep..zzz...zzz.z.z.z..z

i managed to catch some zees while on the way from city square to yong peng and then to gunung ledang gates. now we even had more time to catch the zee monster at the small side road jus outside of the gunung ledang gates.

i wasnt awaken by anyone, more accurately, i was awakened by EVERYONE. the busy bustling and hustling of everyone, woke me up to a beautiful morning and a beautiful sight. the sight of the roti prata on the pan. not to mention that everyone was quite literally brrr~~~~cold.

jus then i got hold of Myi Myi Tun(aka ah Hua华) to get some prata and teh tarik together. ah hua is from mymanar(hopefully i spelt it correctly) and IS a guy. he is around the same age as my younger brother(3 years). i think we got along quite well due to the small age difference.

the teh tarik and prata really warmed our cold stomach like cure. after the warming welcome of gunung ledang at her gates we proceeded with the beginning of our trek UP! it was actually a rule to have at least 1 ranger to lead a company of 10 person. thus we were introduced our rangers and off we go.

in order to protect the nature and environment, there were specfic rules about littering offences. well since TAS(the adventure seekers), us, were jus there to trek and not to destory, we obeyed the rules faithfully. to the point, that we even had internal rules not to bring soap and shampoo unless these proudcts are bio-degradable. hehe...i guess this is a small effort but at least we are moving in the direction of a greener enviroment.

the rest of the memory is all blurred. i think its probbably due to the mental stress that i subject myself to. even before the trek, the TAS council have on quite many occasion told us to prepare for the trek up physically. haha...being the lazy me, obviously i took the EZiest way out. so was actually pushing my body very mentally up the whole mountain. now...suffer the sores!!!!

i can still remember that we reached checkpoint 4 in the afternoon. we then pitched tent and settled into our 8-men tents. the original H-8 members from the previous pelapah waterfall trek came out short of 2 person. haha...but nevertheless, we stuck together at under the same tent, with 2 other guys.

from checkpoint 4, we rested for the afternoon. this would be our base camp aka headquarters. from this base camp, we are supposed to trek off to the summit and watch sunrise at around 0200 in the following morning. the rangers had arranged to have a briefing session at around 1900 in the evening before the trek. haha...till then, we trashed it out at the nearby river.

the water was FREAKIN` COLD. when i first stepped into the waters, it totally re-defined my definition of cold feet. THAT WAS IT, unbelievable. next i tried to squat down. jus as expected, the chillness totally froze my balls(forgive my choice of words for being so crude, but i jus cannot find more appropriate words to describe fully that sensation). the waters was also very clear with fishes swimming around. liken to the pictures that you would find in screensavers. AND i really SEEN it with my own 2 eyes, hear it with my own 2 ears, felt it with my skin and tasted it with my own taste buds the river water so natural.

H-8(6 present) being the male hormones driven young guys touted each another into a challenge of endurance. we challenged each another to partially submerged our bodies till our neck in the cold river water. the first to rise, shld recieve the ultimatum punishment. as the water froze our balls, we tried to psycho each another to get up, so that the rest may get up too. haha...i guess everyone is too driven male hormones, that none got up. being the eldest of the H-8, i couldnt bear to saw the rest suffer. there was ethan, with the LEAST fat content and luke who has about the same bulid as ethan. there was also shawn with the tall body to maintain body heat. i was on the other hand quite settling into the cold water. hmm...wonderin why too? all of a sudden i concentrated and poof i felt warmth all around my body. the thots of hypothermia crossed my mind. i wont want to be the one to tell their parents or even the council the bad news. not to mention, to snatch their chance to watch sunrise. plus, ruin the mood of the whole trip. so i volunteered to stand up. shawn was always the more mature of the group saw the kind intention behind my actions. phew~~one less accident.


haha...i guess i shall end here. spent too much time here already. time for other things.