3 peaks at Fraser hill

First day to Ayam mountain climbing expedition

lately my mind is being occupied with my preparation for the expedition of climbing Ayam mountain with TNB group. Today would be the day that i and my wife meet them at KL Central and then everybody will take a train together to Dabong, Gua Musang. The place that we'll go for a camp and mountain climbing is also popularly known as Jelawang Waterfall, where you'll be able to camp at a camping site called Baha camp. The place is actual a transit and a mid point before you go on further to climb few mountains; few of which are well-known are Stong, Ayam and Baha. This expedition however only have a mountain peak in mind to conquer which is Ayam mountain.

Today, right after finish my work, i will join the TNB group whom most of them i have never meet before, and the meeting place is at KL central train station. Our group will depart to Dabong at 8:30pm and then will join a 2nd group who will be waiting for our arrival at Dabong, i guess those team members over there are the local people so most of the plan and what to do at the camping site is planned by them. The food, kitchen ware, few tents and the cookings will also be provided by them. Members from KL including myself shall only need bring those stuffs after being divided equally at the climbing base up to Baha camp.

To be honest, i am feeling of sense of thrill to be able to join in this expedition despite the fact that my going to Jelawang waterfall would be my 3rd one already. I guess, it is mainly because the feeling and anticipation that i will meet new faces apart from my old fren Wang Jazmi who currently work at TNB; well he's my intermediary person rather than the experience of hardship and endurance climbing up your ass to the mountain peak. It would be a new experience of me mixing around with new faces and characters  while climbing up the mountain. Apart from that, i think because of several expeditions already that i've joined, my preparation for the luggage rucksack was tremendously better. My target was to make sure the entire weigh must not exceed 15kg cause i need to take into account the additional food and kitchen-ware stuffs that all members must carry at Dabong. and when i last weighted my packed Karrimor bag after endless repacking and rearranging stuffs, it is 15.2 kg. That was the last rearrangement of stuff i made and 40 minutes before mid nite, i rushed off to my office to leave my bag over there. i didn't intend to bring along on the following day, cause it would be me driving my car and mostly is, it will obviously attract attention of fellow employees. So it would be best if i just leave the heavy bag the nite before and i can come to office as usual riding my bike.

A journey to Campbell near Sogo TAR

disebabkan hari ni cuti yang memang aku blur tak tahu sbb selalu sangat delete email HR dan aku pon xde member kamceng kat ofis, maka aku datang ofis mcam sioot. So, i took this chance to do do a long pending task that i procrastinated which is to go to Campbell infront of Sogo Jalan TAR to buy fly sheet of size of 7 x 10 feet. I only managed to leave off the office at a quarter past two. The traffic as expected was always jam by the time i reached the roundabout at National Mosque and towards the historic controversial Dataran Merdeka; this was the place where protestors and demonstrators chose to run their haram rally against government. Jam teruk which make me to ride my bike extra careful from Jalan Raja Laut to TAR and took left turn in front of Sogo to reach Campbell building. Thank god i have performed my Zohor prayers, otherwise i would probably spend unnecessary time here which i didn't have any intention to do so.

 The store at Campbell where outdoor folks always find their cheap gears for outdoors and mountaineering is called apekebende-mak-datuk-nama-dia nih!? Haaah.. Evergreen store. They have website evergreenadventure.com. Those who have in  mind to find cheap with low quality outdoor tools should come here. The sales girl over there memang cam sial, muka ketat all the way, perhaps she was not happy either because she was in her peak of period season or i was being perceived as nuisance as i walk-in and so-called disturbed her having lunch. In short memang mcam sial, aku tanya buat muka bangsat plak, jawab tak jawab. Nasib baik la aku datang dari jauh merempuh jam nak sampai sini, kalau tak memang haram aku tak datang sini!

 I took my time to window shop & scan through what are the things they sell over here; it seems that the products are the same and the way they arranged things have never been changed since i went here more than a year ago. Sungguih pudar kedai nih, totally different from the one Corezone store i just went to. Pusing punya pusing punya pusing aku tak jumpa gak fly sheet, so i asked the sales girl. and you know what... they have run out of the items since yesterday. Bloody hell... memang bazir masa aku je! In the end, since i didn't want to make my effort a total vain, i ended up buying 30m rope and a bunch of tent pegs. In total of RM30.

Cute little korean toddlers playing guitars

Those kids are playing classical guitars and not aquistic. Solute3x. They cannot even hold those guitars properly cause they are too big and heavy.

11km run at Putrajaya on Sunday nite.

i never run on Sunday nite before, in fact never run more than 5km at my gymm. but yesterday was an awesome experience, i ran 11km at Putrajaya my usual running spot. To be frank, i was so exhausted after the run which completed at 10pm but mentally strengthened myself to cook for my late dinner and wash dirty clothes. I burned 1353kcal and maintained an average heart rate of 161, the highest rate was at 181 beats per min. i think that was one of the intense results i have so far. Total time to complete the run is 1 hour 26 minutes. i went out in the morning before, thinking that i must make my usual 10km run. Anyway, because the time was not appropriate, kinda of late already and the whether was not promising. i can hear the thunder and see black clouds coming to Putrajaya so i cancelled off my plan. It was actually because all the running gears were there except the fact that my heart rate detector was out of battery; i was already in my warm up before the run than i realise that the heart rate did not work. I returned to the car and momentarily thought that i should postpone this cause besides the battery problem, there were so many unsupportive signs telling me that i should not run, like i woke up late, couldn't find the route for the marathon at last spending wasted time driving around Putrajaya, whether was bad and it was already half past freaking nine morning. If i were to go on running, by the time i finish it would probably noon. Anyway, yesterday's nite run was something a different cause i took an additional path making a circle around PICC which added up additional close to 2km and the fact that it was on Sunday nite, where today it's a working day and i'm still wasting time not going to office doing my freaking blog. Dah.. dah.. dah time to go to office now!

Berjogging tambah hayat?

i like this hope. i hope it's true.

Janda baik

Two days at Janda baik was totally not a waste of time, i've to admit that i truly underestimate the purpose of going and spending time at Janda Baik for an office 'vacation'. Well, why did i say that it was not totally a waste because of the last program that the organiser has conducted which was the motivational talk delivered by one humble guy named ustaz azizan. huh, believe me.. me myself really admit that a motivational talk can give me some benefits? in those time, it'd be insane for me to like any motivational talk. I never thought that his talk was that inspiring, i was in fact purposely attended half an hour late to the event; honestly speaking i despise motivational talk especially those handled by the company i work for. But this one was different; it was that different that made me took notes and mentally make sure that i will blog about it.

Some of the precious notes i captured:

• Stop blaming other people; those who have succeed are the ones who manage to break the circle of blaming others. remember about the story of kicking a kitten, who actually kicks the kitten
• the virtue of believing. Your potential is only limited by your belief. remember about the story of groups of child living in remote areas who only set their dreams to work for TNB just because they see the tower. remember also about the story of groups of teachers and students whom convince that they are the best.

The last story really touched my soul and spirit was about a teenager girl who suffered from heart and lung surgery and in the end had her legs being amputated because of 2nd level post-surgery complication. anyway the girl died