Non mountain climbing photos

We were going to Poring Hotspring. Passed a small stream.

WV and EK on the canopy walk.


Poring Hotspring.

The water was pretty hot, it's from 40-60 degrees depending on what is going on underground. The sulfuric water can be clear, can be milky, again, depending on what is going on underground :)

We had been walking for over 1km, I think? To reach the canopy walk. After a soak in the hotspring water, it felt so good.


Dinner at a restaurant at er.. was it 1500m or 1800m above sea level? I forgot.... We've never had so much crabs till we couldn't eat no more. My stomach wasn't feeling that well half way, darn, else I could have eaten more crabs. I loveeee crabs. But this is really too much for 5 person. If I remember correctly it was 3 full plates, not 2 plates of crabs.





After climbing Mt K, we went Lok Kawi Wildlife Park.

THeir animals are really fat and healthy, unlike the poor animals in Johor zoo... There are 3 elephant babies.

I fed "Boy" some vege, as permitted by the staff. These are pygmy elephants. He's really sweet.



This orang utan is 6years old. I thought it's just 4 or 5.

An orphan civet cat. It's still a baby.



Have you ever seen a cow this fat???

A deer with "eyebrow". haha.

EK and me~
This is near Philipino market. Lots of seafood. Lots of huge tiger prawns, ranging from RM20+ to RM40+.


Big squid bbq.

We tried these seaweed.


It wasn't that awful, hahahah. Just salty, like fish egg. Slimy when you touch it, like everything else in the sea.



It was extremely sunny and darn hot. THere was no cloud at all.



Video-ing sunset.

EK giving local children some fried banana~

Lots of shells being sold, very heartpain to see.

I video the whole sunset process~


It was such a great trip~ Everyone enjoyed themselves and we had so much fun~ Happy!!!

More Mt Kinabalu photos

Here are some more photos of my Mt Kinabalu trip.

This was the climbing day, I swear by my Columbia trekking shoes from now on. Walked for so many hours, apart from muscle sore, the soles of my feet never hurt!
Our mountain guide Arnold showing us the trails map.

EK and me~

WeiVoon, Janice, EK's bro KeeKeng, EK and me.

At the beginning of the climb. We kept stopping to take photos, I think the guide thought we stopped too many times haha..

EK looking fresh still. I like this photo~ Very natural and scenic.

Power Gel energy booster drink, the verdict... taste like shit. And I didn't really feel any energy boost.. I prefer 100 Plus.

This is our lunch box. It's included in our package. We were told this normally cost RM45....

Starting to feel tired.....................

"Muka busuk" ("black"/foul face) ya? haha... I thought I looked like a cameraman at rest, as I was shooting video. haha..

Finally reached 5km.. Still 3km to go... SEriously I had not much energy left.

It was very scenic here, very very beautiful. The trees are different here and lots of moss.

I thank God, or rather I thank the natural world, for giving us a perfect weather, very clear sky. I am really really grateful.

This is why I wanna go back there again.

On the way to Mt K, we saw a big billboard, a Celcom's advertisment, featuring Mt Kinabalu on it. We decided then to see if there are coverage on the mountain, if there's not, we will throw shit on the billboard. hahahaha. But! There was! I didn't expect that. When EK asked me before we left for KK, whether there's phone coverage on the mountain and I laughed... hahaha... I was so wrong.

Up, up and up.

About to die..... I looked horrible....

About 1km to go. It was very cold here. But EK never felt the cold, she's still in one t-shirt only. Strong woman, she is.

This is just sooooooooooo beautiful. I felt like I was in the land of fairy tales.

No wonder the mountain guide said plenty of people said they won't come to Mt K again but he always see them again. hahaha.. I swore I will never do this again, I swore I don't wanna pay money to suffer again but 2 days later I changed my mind. hahaha... I wanna go back there!

I was literally in pain at this point. I could only muster the strength to continue 5, 6 steps at one time now..

无语问苍天？？hahaah..... I could not talk, I could not even smile now....

Finally... Laban Rata... The guide kept saying 50m to go, 50m to go, but I still haven't see it! I was so angry. hahahah..

I was in tears in this pic.. I was really angry at how tough it was as I mentioned in previous post. kekekekekek... irrational feeling but hey, I am a woman.

Looks like heaven.

Still in tears during dinner!!! hahahah... It was really hard for me. I had been saying I exercised more than others, but I didn't attempt summit. I wonder, if I never exercised as much as I did, could I even reach Laban Rata? Probably not.

Early morning at 2:30am. These photos are from WV, KK and EK.

They managed to reached before sunrise.

Great view.

They made it!

After seeing their photos, I really really regretted didn't try summit...

I will be here next trip! SOON!

I like this photo.

This is sunset when we're trekking back down via Timpohon Trail. THere really was NO views at Timpohon trail. Just steps and steps and steps and trees and trees and trees.

Our certs!!!! It's really nice and beautiful. Mine is black and white, sadly. haha...


I will be there again soon~!

Mount Kinabalu trip

I came, I saw, I failed to conquer. HAHAHAHAHA....

Just came back from Mount Kinabalu trip. It was a greatttt trip. Even though I didn't reach summit. I was happy with myself because it was really really really tough for me. EK and the rest reached the summit, very happy for her~ I have a bit of a contribution to that you know~ I didn't sleep the whole night at Laban Rata. So when we woke up at 1+am, I chose not to go summit as I was wasn't very confident. EK's shoes was tearing apart. So I let EK wore my Columbia trekking shoes and she conquered the mountain. hehe.. Then when we were trekking back down she had to wear her own shoes, this was what it looked like when we finished all the trekking/climbing, whatever you want to call it.

Amazing right? It's all torn. hahaa.... I didn't reach summit, my shoes and EK reached there for me. ahhahahahahaahha... The irony was, I was the one who exercised the most, yet I was the one who didn't go summit. Hahahahaha... I sort of foresaw this anyway. I am not very strong. But I was even weaker, 4years ago I probably couldn't even reach two third of the trail.

This photo was taken on the first day, on the way going up to Poring Hot Spring, not the actual climb day. Our guide said we were really lucky, for the sky is seldom this clear that we can see Mount Kinabalu so clearly. It's really majesty.

We were really really lucky throughout the whole trip. Our guide said it had been raining for days right before we came, very bad weather. It was sunny and extreme clear sky since the day we reached. There were lightnings on the night they were to climb to the summit but it never rained. On the way back down, it was still sunny but thick fog started to form, allll the way down to the starting point. I guess it rained after that day (on the mountain). It still never rained when we left.

We began our climb the second day we reached Kota Kinabalu, via Mesilau Route, the tougher route of the two (another is Timpohon). The Mesilau Route is about 8km long. At 4km, I already felt like dying. I was already asking myself, why did I pay money to suffer??? At 5km, every step was a struggle. SERIOUSLY.

At one of the rest stop, still nearly 3km to go before reaching Laban Rata, the resthouse we were going to stay, our guide pointed to us where it is. I almost fainted. IT WAS STILL SOOOOOOOOOO FAR AWAY!! It's like one mountain's distance away!

Frankly, at that time, I wasn't confident that I can make it... Every step from now on, I had to tell myself "you can do it". SEriously, every step. At about 500m before reaching Laban Rata, I started tearing. Ek was about same speed with me, it served as an encouragement for me to keep going on. I guess it was the same for both of us. We kept going when we saw the other walked another few more steps... WHen I finally reached Laban Rata, I avoided eye contact with others, cos my eyes were red. hahahahahaha... but can tell from the pic. I haven't got the pic yet, it's in another camera. Will upload it later.

When we were resting and having dinner, I was still a bit overcame by emotion. I said to EK and the rest "I want to cry already." and I cried. Hahaha... Well, not exactly cried, but tears rushed out from my eyes. And the guys took photos of me tearing. hahaa.... I didn't mind. CK asked me how I felt when I reached Laban Rata, I answered "ANGRY.". hahahaha. "Angry why was it so tough" I said. hahahaha... CK said one of his friends who went Mt K with him also felt angry. She even hit the tree with her walking pole. hahahaha.. I said at least she didn't cry, CK said he heard she did. I really should "high 5" with that girl. I didn't expect someone else also felt the same anger. Hahahahahaha... It's unreasonable but hey, I am a woman, I am supposed to be unreasonable. kekekeke....

I forgot how high this was..

Couldn't remember how high this was either.

Sunset soon after we reached Laban Rata. We spent about 9 hours to reach there.
I did some calculation, if I were to try to reach the summit, it's at least another 6hours up the summit and down to Laban Rata. And then another 5-6 hours to reach back the starting point. That's 10+ hours of walking. The first day's 9 hours already took every ounce of my strength, I was worried even if I can reach summit, I won't have the strength to trek back down... So I decided against going up the summit. Also, I was a bit scare of the height, frankly. hahaha. By the way, if you were to be carried by a porter, it's RM400, PER KILOMETRE.

This was taken when they were going to the summit.
I feel that it's a bit "rugi" for me to climb moutain. Because I'm short, I have short legs, it takes more strength for me to walk up the steps which were really high. hahahahahaha... Excuse? No, I don't think so, it's true. Because some steps are knee high.

THis was taken at the Timpohon station when i was waiting for EK and the rest to reach (we trekked down via Timpohon).

Pretty, isn't it? WHen I was trekking on Mesilau Route, I told myself NEVER AGAIN. But now I'm back, I'm not very sure about that anymore. kekekeke....

We also went Lok Kawi Wildlife Park after we went back to the city. It was great fun. Also went to the night markets, tried seaweed we never saw before, and ate HUGE tiger prawns. I don't have a lot of pics now as I mostly took videos. I will be editing the videos and make it into a short movie. Along with other friends' photos. Watch out for it soon~!

The Ren Ci saga

Everyone in Singapore knows about the Ren Ci Hospital saga that is going on now.

I donate to Ren Ci every month. People are not happy to know that Reverend MingYi was being charged with 10 counts including forgery and misuse of funds. I feel cheated as well, at least in the beginning.

I do not believe he is an evil person and that he used donation money for his own pleasure like the NKF saga's "leading character" TT Durai (gold plated water tap in his office!) who was jailed in the end.

I believe like he said, he trusts people too much to do the right thing and he himself never checked.

HOWEVER, for the record, he likes Montblanc AND Louis Vuitton.

I'm like... WHAT??!

His arguement was :
*Quote*
Ming Yi's explanation for his lifestyle was: 'I think we are living in a modern world.'
When asked what he meant by that, he replied: 'The modern world. I think the world is different, right? The world has changed. It's different.'
He added: 'A lot of religious people, not only myself, are very different now.'

and :
Justifying his preference for brand-name goods, Ming Yi said: 'You may say some of these things really last for a long time.'
*Unquote*

Yeah, the worlds is different now alright. It is alright for monks to have mobile phones and laptops because he will need these things to communicate with people faster and do thing more efficiently. But LV???!!!!

A monk is supposed to be 六根清净 and 四大皆空 (something that means free of desires), isn't it??! That's the basic understanding of being a monk! Granted people are not perfect. A monk is a human too. He might have times where he succumbed to the temptation of this material world. But still, I cannot agree to a monk carrying a LV on the street. It is NOT a necessary item.

I think we should have LV robes. He'll definitely be the first to buy them. Like those all black robes that Arab women wear which could cost up to thousands, stitched with Swarovski crystals, hundreds of crystals.

Anyway, Rev Ming Yi is not what I want to talk about here.

Some people and friends are saying to me, it's ok for monks to have branded goods. That, he is a human too. He, is NOT just a human. He is a MONK. A monk is not a normal person like us. Why do people think that it is ok for monks to have branded goods? I have to repeat myself here, I know monks have temptations too but as an outsider, why there are people among us that see nothing wrong with it?

Yes, I am opinionated. But this is such a common sense! Is it not? That a monk should try not yielding to temptations! Whether he successes or not, is one thing. But why are we agreeing to him need not try??

If it's perfectly ok for a monk to own branded, materialistic stuffs, he might as well go and get married and have kids (a buddhist monk does not get married).

Half of each slippers

I finally went salon to have my hair trimmed a little. It's too long and doesn't look nice anymore. I went out and after I parked my car, I realised... I wore half of each slippers.. LIke this :
Gosh... So embarrasing. I didn't want to go back and change... I walked as fast as possible to the salon. And I said to my stylist, "Look at my slippers!" LOL. I told him the first thing after I entered the door because I don't want him to realise that by himself and then laugh at me in his heart. kekeke...