skee's daily happenings: I'm back...

5/02/2004 12:10:00 AM

Sunday, May 02, 2004

I'm back...

back finally... from STONG
1st trekking trip with sophy (other than panti comm trip for 18th exco)
1st trekking trip with sophy and i organising
1st trip i sang so many songs (non-stop)
1st trip i sat on a 2m natural slide and even did a 2 person train down (with liling)
1st trip i did a tarzan swing
1st trip i actually like the guides (not girl guides) very very much
1st trip i did jungle snorkelling
1st trip i took such a long train ride (12 hours)
1st trip tat is so noisy (Lihui + Ronghui + Sophy aka the shampoo girls or the shower girls) lethal combi

Cast
Lihui.. think sophy found her match in terms of noisiness...great girl. like her very much cos she very our kind. so garang. maybe going to tahan. 16th odac com. punkish. loud. drama mama. sophy and her sang almost all the way when there's a chance. even uphill. damn power...

Zhuzhu lotsa personal concerts to train her for singapore idol. glad tat she's in my group.. practically juke box.

Ronghui my new "girlfren" cute. petite. loud. looks like shannon a little. gets pangs of craziness at night when she talks to herself or when she's the storyteller of polar bear.

Carol long haired monster no.. of cos not.. hahha my best fren on a trip with me again. somebody said she look very pretty.. hahha..oops

Liling with Lihui, sings too. a little quiet but still very nice and really high mental strength. thigh so pain already still try to walk. pei fu her man.

YY... the usual her.. radio channel.. takes care of things etc..

Sophy. my double S buddy. lost her voice again. only last day dun worry. even with ai xin honeywater of mine the posion cannot be purged. hahha..

Ivan. DHS Mr Nice Guy. Cute.. eligible bachelor. teacher-to-be. very observant. so be careful next time he's watching u.

Dennis. the nice legged guy. diligent leader of the Tahan team. jotting down pts during the trip.

Dan. tahanner-to-be

Desmond. subdued this time. not much crap. prob overpowered by the shampoo girls

Derek the runner. damn slim legs.. would prefer it to be more meaty then it would be fanstatic.

Keith the bumper bee.. impression tat he's always wearing yellow and black.

Wenyan aka Gollum from LOTR. jumps and treks like smithgo.. damn crappy and eats like nothing can stop him. black face when hungry. but very nice guy. although he schemes to get more food always. haha..

David. akido sub club pressie. perfect house husband material. does household chores. potential europe travel mate next year. seriously traunmatized by the singing.

Zhi Long. Big Eyes. tall. and he was in TPJC air rifle. part of the 3 some of david, wen yan and him.

Johnny. has jie pi. (cleanliness fetish) swept all the leaves away from our campsite. needs to be squeaky clean. but initiative when u need him.

here goes the story.. forgive me if some parts are simple and summarized.

Day 1
bought food, had lunch at suntec. went sch to collect stores. packed, dinner at city square. boarded KTM train bound for Dabong. sang songs (any song, singapore national day songs, er ge, yes any song) until somebody complain (maybe it was wrong choice to sing singapore songs on a malaysian train in malaysia then we headed towards the cafe to sing. after we are done, the cafe was almost empty. went to bed. 1st time zzzing on a train on a sleeper berth. woke up with a headache and dizziness.

Day 2
had breakfast at the coffee shop near the train station. met our guides, qee and wan. finally understand why my sophy is obsessed with qee for the whole 6 months after she came back 2 years back. then went caving. pretty interesting. some parts have to crawl, bend, rock climb etc. then return to coffeeship to eat lunch. nasi lemak. very nice... then started to head towards the base camp. took a "sanpan" to cross a muddy river then took a van which was threatening to open the door to the stong hill resort. started to trek up. seriously die-d... hai.. learnt my lesson no matter wat role i play on a trip next time, at least i must be physically fit so tat i can take care of myself and other ppl at the same time. but well we reached the Bahar base camp. qee and wan stay there. it's like a small village, very cosy. though backward but they have a decent toilet, tables for us to cook. etc. went to see the view.. it's really smth. the climb up was worthwhile. qee suggested we camp at the ayam/bahar summit the next day but sophy and i decided against it cos thought our group is quite weak with their load so 2 day trips for the next 2 days and we stayed at the base camp for 3 nights. wise choice lah in the end i think. food for my grp may not be fantastic as sophy's cos they were quite elaborated, but well adequate. maybe portions a bit small for the guys. but well we are satisfied. zhuzhu personal concert at night and we were talking getting to know each other. quite nice and cosy. went back to our tents when we were almost dead..

Day 3
was a tough day for me at least. the trek at stong is like long and smelly like wat i told sophy and carol. going up is like steep all the way. we were the grp behind sophy's. not much view on both bahar summit and ayam summit. had the chance to talk to qee find out more abt him. he got married last year and now his wife is pregnant. talked abt where he's been etc. then he started to sing. though his malay and english all a bit slang but he's seriously cute and funny and out to make u laugh and enjoy the trip. he will always say "smile, relax, enjoy." enjoyed myself behind with him. he let me eat this rantan fruit tat looks smth like longan and explained some stuff. saw wat he called mountain coral. which i dunnoe how it forms but it looks like a coral from the sea and it's red. then night fall and we still had quite a long way from our camp. maybe it was the trauma from titiwangsa lah. and i apologise to sophy for overacting on this trip. maybe my mood for this trip is still pretty much tuned to the siong kind and the need to get things done fast and there's no time to waste kind. i'm sorry. tend to hurry ppl when they are having fun sometimes. dun mean to be a spoiler. guess i must learn how to tune to every trip. tat's why i was frustrated and a bit black-faced on the first day of real trekking.. sorry sorry da jia. Liling was already limping so the journey back was even longer and i slipped quite a lot of times trying to help her shine the torch on the way down from behind. luckily johnny the man came to the rescue offering to help liling. at times like this i will always see the usefulness of guys and realise tat i still need their help to help the group. hai.. like my mama always say i'm too hao sheng. always wanna win. maybe in a sense tryign to prove myself to be an equal? hai.. guess already learnt titi mus learn to give and take lah. mus apply. guess everybody was tired and we ended dinner pretty late. there was thunder and lightning. scary.. was going to rain already, but well we still washed up. sophy had a nose bleed.. hai.. scary too. was rather sudden. hai.. sophy's gonna be sick. anyway zhuzhu and derek was opting out of the next day's trek cos zhuzhu mentally drained and derek's knee problem (operation b4). retired early (not very).

Day 4
was kinda demoralised for this day b4 the previous day already quite jialat but guess all of us more mentally prepared. qee led our grp this time first. liling walked with us for a while but in the end she can't take it so went back to base camp with wan and des. pei fu her becos think she really max her mental limits cos i know her thigh really hurts. she was tearing when she had to turn back. really appreciate this kinda ppl. he says we are going hardcore while wan and sophy going sentimental the previous day. hahha.. he pushed me quite hard lah. going to have nightmares with "skee faster!!" once he saw johnny, then we'll jus push on, din wait for sophy's grp. but he did teach us a few things abt plants, wild ginger, smth for pregnant women which i forgot the name and yes let us taste tongka ali which was damn bitter. zhi long was walking between qee and me. then the 2 of them will wait for me then go. shit.. they rest then when i reached they started again already. can't even take a breather. reminds me of the theory of contraints in OM. hahha.. the bottleneck along the production will always have to work non-stop. crazy rit? have this kinda thought when trekking. haha.. but zhi long is quite a gentleman. helped me over big logs and rocks twice when i couldn't up myself and also asked whether i needed help. let me be independent when i wan and help when i really can't. our stomachs were growling halfway already and qee asked me another 20 mins can? i was like "do i have a choice?" then suddenly he said "i give u 10 secs to run up to the summit of stong." zhi long and i were like "huh?" then we ran (ok he ran i ran a bit) til we reached this big rock which was the summit. not bad.. finally torture was over. the 2 of us too hungry so i asked zhi long to take out our lunch and start first and offered some cheese and biscuits to qee. wait for the others.. they appeared after maybe 5/10 mins. really have to thank qee for pushing me cos we reached the stong summit pretty early. good thing abt qee is tat he gives us the real timings so tat we can try to acheive his target. after lunch and photos, we went down. now the order of the group was qee, david, zhi long, me, wen yan, carol and johnny, qee and david disappeared like for dunnoe how long b4 we saw them again.

yawning like mad and tearing like waterfall continue again tmr.. sorry.. =)

skee the great

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