expedition

it meant to be from 1st to 5th june. but due to unconfirmed train tickets we were held back for one more day. actually i dont mind staying one day longer. it was just that the others had quite dampened moods. so it was quite sian since no one was like how they were on the first day. for the actual trekking part.. i cannot say much. you just have to imagine yourself out in the open. the jungle. the wilderness the really rural places.. carrying either a really big and heavy haversack which weighs 17kg ( according to graham ) or a smaller backpack with food, torchlight and your other daily needs. for different trekking trips. we carried different bags. but one thing is common for all the trips was there the journey was always long and never-ending. i bet most if not all of us did thought of giving up at one time or another. thats human nature. but none of us voiced it out. and none of us really break down and gave up. for that. i salute everyone of the yr1 climbers. woohoo. the main event would be trekking up the summit of Gunung Stong. which is supposedly 1.5m above the ground. but trust me, i dont think we trekked a mere 1.5m alone. its much more than that. we took alot of pics during this trek. courtesy of thoes who brought thier cameras. and weicheng is supposed to upload his pictures and has yet to do so. hopefully the pictures will be our source of rememberance of the place. its the only proof of what we have endured. waterfalls, hills, moutains, caves, summits, fallen logs, muddy ground... we've been through it. not to mention the war against the URINE ANTS each time you want to use the makeshift toilet to do your business. big or small it doesnt matter. what matters is the crawling gigantic ants the size of half your finger on the floor waiting to climb onto your feet. for girls i dont know, but for the guys. we pee standing. and have to constantly shake out our legs for fear of any ants crawling onto our feet. they say i look like a dog with one leg shaking in the air. i dont give a damn. lol.

the food is so very nice im not complaining at all and i bet no one is. its way perfect meals for such a scary and tough period out in the open. mashed potatoes, porridge, mee sua, milo, NATA DE COCO (courtesy of mr tan muahaha) chocolate, sweets (mentos) NATURE VALLEY ENERGY BAR ( peanut butter flavour rocks) and of course our "ALL TIME FAVOURITE" LITE BIX..

Ernest: climbers, pls take your lite bix, its not about the taste, its about the nutrition value...
XiaoYong: ernest how many lite bix did you take..?
( ans is none. )
Everyone: burst out laughing

Haha. yar right. nutrition value. and you're not eating them yourself huh ernest. haha. FOOD IC summore. hahah. but anyway. in the end me weicheng and ernest came to like lite bix. its nice when u mix it with your milo. its like cereal lor. just.. tasteless. lol.

mr tan likes to poke fun at me. he suan me. he niao me. he pull my hair. he hit me. he does everything a teacher shudnt do to a student. haha. lets nnot treat him like a teaacher then. i treat him as the BRIDGE SHI FU. yea his bridge rocks. and apparently he trains at YAHOO! bridge. haha.

Anglican high ppl are god damn gamblers. pull anyone of them out. shove a pack of cards into their hands and you see them do their tricks. be it shuffling, handling or playing... they are all damn good. the play damn pro. and shuffle damn pro. after seeing kelvin shuffle and handle the cards, mr tan says "he puts me to shame." lol. eleanor and ee lin are supposedly the pro ones in bridge. still got code words summore. zz. and through out the expedition, from time to time whenever possible, you see a group of 4 to 5 huddling in one corner playing cards. needless to say. its the AHS gang.

we travelled from spre to msia and back on train. its my freaking first time and its damn cool. i think everyone else hated it. but i loved every moment of it. you can either get the sleeping deck or the sitting seats on the train. i experienced both. i had a bed to sleep from spore to msia. and a seat to sit on my way back. haha. strangely i slept betetr on the seat than on the bed. haha. maybe because mr tan's bed was opposite me. talking about him. i slept opposite him on the train. and slept in the same tent as him at the base camp. zzzz. talk about fate.

CCB stands for climbing chior boys. we got the idea from our yr2 seniors who also have ccb tatooed on their arms during pumpfest competition. the ccb entertained everyone during the trek by, of course our singing. we sing every songs possibly imagined. whether issit off tune or not. i think it was freaking cool. some kind hearted souls enjoy our singing and even dedicated songs for us to sing. others just have to shut me up with their mentos. (hor eleanor)

theres one time when we were trekking down with our freaking heavy haversacks when i heard kelvin shout: " darren!" i tot what happen to him cos we were paired up as buddies and were supposed to look out for each other. so i replied " yeah?" to which he replied " turn up the radio..!" (blast the stereo, right...) its the lyrics of Pump it by black eye peas. its funny how i tot sth happened to him while he just wanted the ccb to sing sth. haha.

i hope everyone enjoyed this expedition as i have truly did. the caves and holes we climbed to get past.. the long trekking journeys. the sweat. the slidings. the wet mud soil. the falling down. the crying part. the freaking out part when we were sharing ghost stories. the slide down the water fall. the part where guys get to take off their clothes in the water when we bathe. the part where ernest haolian his 8 pacs. the part where the guys show off their muscles and pull ups at the water fall. the part where the girls tried to follow and rolled up their sleeves to show off their "unflaterring" arms. the KAMPUNG ADIDAS aka imba friction shoes. the "guys come to collect your food with your mess tins" food call. the countless cards games. countless bridge games. countless noob calls. ( at me ) the laughing. the CONTOUR RULE. BASTARD RULE. the stupid pose when you take fotos where you give a twist and you stick out your tongue. ( my trademark ) the "FRONT MAN SLOW DOWN" or " CATCH UP CATCH up ( ketchup) " or the big lies of " 5 mins more" when its actually 50 mins more. or when you say reaching already. but you havent even covered half the journey. the actual meaning of PUNCTUALITY. the meaning of self AWARENESS. oh my. i can go on and on. haha.

i wanna thank each and everyone of the climbers who made this expedition so fun and enjoyable. thank you.

( ps: tag if you cried after reading this post. )