30 November 2006
back.i am back from batu!
i think one word that could summarise the trip up would be dream. (:
as what bz said, as fast as it started, this dream is over. it ended too fast.
but maybe what mr yong said was true, u have to end things on a high note so that it will be remembered and it definately will :D
day one:
we started out earlyyyy at 8am in the morning! and i was awoken by mr yong at 645 in the morning and then had to start calling everyone. thank god no one was late! thank you eunice for sending us oofff :D:D:D <3
so we waited and waited for our bus outside school! i made a mistake of taking the motion sickness pill and ended up worse than if i hadnt taken the pill and felt damn dizzy the whole time! eek! but felt btr aft abt an hour of sleep on the bus!
ahaha sorry to all those sleeping ppl on the bus that i woke up when i was feeling btr!
we played cards! ate and ate and ate! and alvins singing was wow! haha spent half the time laughing my head offfff :D:D:D:D thanks all on that bus for the entertainment! (:
....aft what didnt seem like a 5 hour bus ride! we reached our hotel.
wasnt expecting much! and it was REALLY not much at all! the doors had no latches and some rooms didn't have hot water and others aircon!! haha. but it was really an experience!!
slept with BZ!! :D
aft putting everything down! we headed to camp5! haha one word. WOW. maybe just a little sad that we couldnt spend more time there! the boulder gym was fabulous. fell in love with all the colourful tiles and the clean lightgrey very very very rough walls. was like heaven esp with the big glass walls! (: the man in charge of the place was niao. and we had loads of admin stuff to do before we could even touch the wall. i think everyone left abit of skin there while climbing! haha but was v v v v v v fun! :D i dont think any place in singapore can measure up to that. not in the near future at least. i will definately miss that place LOADS! (:
aft we climbed till closing time we had dinner at secret recipeeee! lambstew and chicken something something with emmme! (:
aft which we went to the supermarket and bought water and headed back to our hotel !
:D had a birthday surprise for haidar! happy seventeen my friend! ((: glad that u are happy *winks
was really funny how everyone taupoked him and yihao's attempt to smash his face in the cake! haha quite an eventful one! (: it was nice seeing everyone cramped up in one little hotel rooom! :D:D aft that bao and i went back to our room to have our much needed sleep (:
day2!
we woke up bright and early and rushed around! and went downstairs to have our breakfast only to find out that we were the earliest! hotel breakfast was sucky and just made me feel horrible aft eating it.after that ! we headed off to batu cave to climb the damai wall :D mosquitoes were the first thing that invited us!
first time on natural rock! was v exciting! something v new. and i like it even more than when climbing on an artificial wall! the amount of things you can do on natural rocks. wow. nothing can compare really! alot less emphasis on hand holds and strenght ! alot more on foot work (: alot like climbing stairs actually. fun fun fun.. the company was great! (: (: (: talked and ate and climbed. what else could one ask for right? :D
"just enjoy your climb, no pressure, no expectations (: "
this sentence made me think and slow down when climbing to enjoy it. eventhough it only happened on a few routes. haha. aft that i was back to the kancheonging. i will try to think of that more next time. routes today were good! completely 5 of them! a waste i didnt try the rest! :D i think on this day i saw alot more that i didn't see previously (:
we had lunch at some indian food joint!! we had a lot of problems ordering! haha thank you to francis (the malaysian natural coach and climber!! ((: ) for helping us! (: aft that we went back to climbing! (: haha lead up one wall. exciting stuff. hah when u are climbing on natural rock... you really.. WONT DARE TO LET GO. haha had problem with the last carabiner as i had to unscrew it ! and i screwed it instead of unscrewed it and paniced! and ended up spending a good few minutes fiddling around with it. haha but all in all it was goooooooooood! :D i think that was one of my favourite routes(: will find out what it is called soon! (: (: (:
...and i am glad that somehow it made me look at things differently. like how i shouldnt always look at things so specifically. (: aft all the sand in our eyes! moss on our fingers and scratches on our knees and elbows and what have you!
we headed back to our hotel for a quick shower! and then went SHOPPING :D
KLCC than sungei wang! then time square! :D didnt buy much! wasnt exactly in the shopping mood! We A&Wed at KLCC and the oil killed my stomach! haha i think we should have had a little more veg or fruits the next time we go! haha. sungei wang didnt have much! neither did timesq! at least i didnt see much! haha we then had kenny rogers at timesq! (: cheap! but still btr in sing! haha today was a good day! haha and also the day mr yong became the love doctor! hahaha my deepest apologies for calling him a bastard! hahaha. i just didn't agree with whatever he said. nvm! haha guys will be guys! owells!
aft the shopping! we waiting quite abit for our bus! we sat outside timesq! teased and chased and played and what not! haha then wendy and i counted the number of emo songs in yihao's ipod! we put it on shuffle and played and counted! 9 out of 10! haha ohmy! had a nice time laughing!! hahaha the poor guy is lost in love. haha. kan kai lah! :D many other fishes in the sea! no worries! (:
"good cows won't eat the grass behind them" -translated from chinese to eng-
so this was the first time i heard of such a phrase! ok so i am a suku! but.. (: hhaha we learn new things everyday. it is really thought provoking. owells. will not elaborate! (:
back to hotel again! (:
we gathered at yihaos room to talk some cock and stuff. can't really rmb what we talked about. i think we were talking randomly about diff ppl!
haha but the night ended rather early because we were all feeling kinda tired... bz and i went back to our room! i had a quick shower while bz went to bed. haha
but when i came out. haha she still wasnt asleep! and we ended up talking and talking and talking about everything under the sun! (: i really enjoyed the talk with her! we got to know a little more about each other! (: thanks for everything baoooo! (:
day3!
up later today! haha (: we were smart this time. skipped breakfast! was too..... for me to take! (: then we headed to batu again! brought my mosquite coil there! all 20 of them! :D haa. and mr yong went around lighting like 10 of them all over the place! haha :D less mosquitoes today as compared to the prev day! this time the routes we were doing were much much much higher!! hahaha about 30ms high? very very coool! hahaha. tried the two highest ones. :D omy. its really <3!>
next up was the other route w the crawling. haha i think that route was the route i enjoyed the most! (: alot of footwork! must less on strenght! and alot on trust! u had to crawl up this part! (: had a problem with that part! but was good aft that when i found out how to do it. wow really wow! will nv get that on an artifical wall really! route was fabbbbbb.... (:
one good thing about climbing on natural rock is that u will nv get pumped! :D and there are alot of rest points! i havent got enough of it! would have been great if we got to stay there longer :D
aft that we had ice cream! which was damn cool. hahaha could turn it! hahaha :D ok. simple pleasures in life <3>
aft that it started raining heavily! got drenched! haha thanks to kelvin for NOT sharing his umbrella. haha shoes were damn mudddy! and everything got wet! ahah but was so fun jumping around in muddy puddles and what not!! hhaha. was our last day at the site! so we took a group photo before we left. and bid farewell to that lovely mosquito infested place! (: i will miss alot, definatly! (: dont worry, i wont forget the times. nothing can compare... (:
went for dinner! had nandos! (: food wasnt too bad! :D we then headed to petailing streeeeeet :D
omy so happening lah! (: put my mouth to some use! haha. bought 2 pairs of shoes. haha quite nice :D bargained like mad. was damn tiring! aft the first shop i was damn tired! hahaha. and it made me realise how rusty my bloody chinese was. haha but was quite fun! we all went in a whole big group walking in and out of lanes and lanes of shops selling fake watches , shoes and what not! enjoyable! really! hahah and v funny too! (: (: aft that! we headed for some late night prata! :D haha a whole long row of us eating prata and drinking milo at 12 plus at night. hahaha :D:D was good. haha but was feeling a little moody! but was still goood! with all of them talkng cock and doing rubbish like passing around funny rumours and what not! haha. doc love also know as mr yong was giving more advice. hahaha. funnny. i seem to disagree w what he says alot. owells.............................. haha.
back to hotel! for the last day of late night fun! haha (: first was at hoons and stellas room playing mahjong and cards and what not! :D then we sat and talked and realised that it was a bit too crowded so headed back to my rooom for a talk! hah that was when stella canice and adriel fell asleep! hahaha so yihao hoon and me moved to the lift lobby and sat and talked. hmm. details were quite sad? but what you don't know wont hurt u right? we then moved up to kelvins and zg 's room to collect bz cos i wanted to sleep. but ended up playing bridge there? is that even how its called! ahah i won 2 times out of 3 :D haha. beginners luck! yes! and of course with wendy behind me telling me what to do! :D haha thanks reg and wendy for educating a v v v slow me :D at bout 3 plus haha kelvin wanted to sleep so we moved out and down intending to go back to our room for a much needed rest! haa only to find a v messy and noisy room 309 and room310 filled w many sleeping ppl. decided not to disturb them and headed downstairs! to sleep in haidars and alvins room while they played mahjong and cards w bz, kings and emme till the wee hours of the morning! (: yihao joined hoon and i in the room where we cont. to talk and talk and talk.. was a v.......talk. but i guess everyone has to face reality. stop running away. we ended up talking till 5plus! the min we stopped. both hoon and i fell into deep sleep w yihao curled up into a ball on the floor! haha. woke up 3 hours later! and went back to pack our stuff! (:
day4!
the end.. it really didnt feel like it. esp since the fun had just started. this is like the time my blog should break out in a sad ending song that they usually play when the curtains close or when the movie ended.
prata in the morning! and camp5 aft that! (: couldnt keep my hands off the tiles as usual. :D
dynoed abit.haha (: i like even though i cant really do it! and did some of amirs routes. i dont like doing routes that dont have a constant grade. like how you do half with little effort and half way through find a tile that is quite out of ur reach. i prefer routes that make me struggle up at least even if you dont finish it you come out with a sense of satisfaction and you actually want to try it again and again! cos u know if u push alil harder you will get it! owells! :D
mr yong took a few videos! haha. quite funny ones. i should upload them on youtube one day! (: (: aft the v rushed visit to camp5! we ran around for donuts and lunch! and then headed back to sing! was in the other van back! (: watched vcds! talked! slept! and then had a break at the malacca stop for A&W! (: talked more! then headed back to our van! where we didnt sleep this time and just talked! kaiyang shared his life story! hahaha quite funnny! (: i am glad i got to know him and phillip a bit btr during this trip! cos this yr i didnt really get to know them! :D:D hahaha both v interesting ppl haaha :D in no time we were at the checkpoint and back in sing on the SLE heading back to the point that it all started from. (:
bid our short goodbyes and headed home...
it could have been longer. but all things have to come to an end (:
thank you to my sleeping partner (: i really enjoyed ur company!
thank you ms lam and mr yong. during this trip i saw real ppl in you. haha (: i have learnt alot, reallly! and it would have nv been possible without u!
thank you j1 team06! without you, this trip would not have been the same! thanks for all the laughter, joy, love, and what not you have brought along and shared. <3>
emmelineadrielcanicepuayhoonbaozhenalvinhaidarstellazhaoxuanzongrongyihaodaorankingsly(:
thank you j2, haha i am glad i got to know you all better. even if it wasnt during this yr during training! at least it was during this trip! (: btr late then nv right? thanks for everything!
regwendyphillipkaiyangzgkelvin (:
amir,hasbi(?),drivers,francis!
thank you all. haha you all have been great company! (: (:
so this is the longest entry i have written so far ( I THINK)
and hah to end off! i am glad that we had such a wonderful trip! :D and i hope we can do it again next yr. really learnt alot from this trip and aft 4 days of living tog as a team. i must say! haha i really wont know how i am gg to have to leave you all next yr! (: <3<3<3>
anw! it has come to an end! (: thanks for everything. now we have to get back to reality! (sadly)
get back to training! (:
see you all at training on monday.
love,
suemay
the curtains are closed, and now we move on.
sm at 11:35:00 PM