Mount KK climb - 16th - 20th June

18th of june.. 18 of us start our mission to climb the highest peak in Malaysia... mount KK. 4095.2km high.

This is the detail of our trip :

First day - 16th June (weather : Raining & cloudy)
Arrive at KK , free and easy. We went to Centre point and Millenium square for our grocery shopping for the KK climb.

Went for city sight seeing by foot at night to look for good food. At the end, we settle with Sabah "bak kut teh" which is so so only.

Second day - 17th June (weather : Sunny and no rain)

Proceed to Mesilau park in preparation for the climb. We stop by a hanging bridge (Jambatan Tamparuli), and Pekan Nebalu. Bought souvenir , some local desert and banana in the Pekan Nebalu. The souvenirs are cheap and the deserts are cheap and delicious :)

We have 2 bedroom with 9 in each room. Went for some tea in the cafe in the afternoon and everyone start our "show hand" and packing for the bags to bring up to the mountain next day, and the bags to pass to porters.

Have dinner in Mesilau park and went to bed by 10pm to prepare to wake up "very" early in next day.

Third day - 18th June *the CLIMB DAY* (Weather: Extremely good, only rain on 3pm)

Wake up at 5.30am, have our early breakfast and one last check for the climb. Proceeds to the Mesilau gate at 7.30am. They splitted 18 of us to 3 group -

AC18
Shirlee, Lai Tee, Mei Chien, Fatma, Ezreen and Tony
AD18
Yen Erl, Annie, Poh Wai, Jee Ing, Bee Hong and Kok Foong
AE18
Me, Tze, Wee, Ben, Cham and Ki Woei

AC18 start at 7.30am, AE18 start at 7.45am and AD18 only start at 8am due to their guide was late. Anyway, the group separated and merged together according to our pace. The hike was tough in the first few hundreds meter due to non-stop steep climb and became better after 1km . It was continously down slope , crossing water fall and river. We enjoyed this trail very much by chatting and taking photo along the way.

The trail become harder after the hanging bridge. That was never endling of slope and stair cases. This part of the trail was really testing our mind and stamina. However, we still try out best to keep chatting , taking photo along the way to forget bout the toughness of the trail.

After a while.. we arrive at a flat ground with the breathtaking and spectacular view which I call this the "heaven" of the trail . We were among the trees, flowers and the cloud.




And later.. it lead to the Layang-Layang site (which the junction between Timbuhan trail and Mesilau Trail) . We enjoy our short break here and of coz photo taking again. Ben remained in that spot for an hour to ensure everyone move up of the mountain instead of choosing the path to go down . (which we called "patah balik" in malay)

The last few 500m to Lapan rata was the toughest trail that we had experienced as we were all tired but still had to climb the rocky trail. However, with our toughest mind , we successfully concur it and reach Lapan rata by 1.45am (the earliest) and 3pm (The latest).

We stay overnight in Gunting Laganan (the non heated hostel). We slept around 7pm in prepare for the 2nd day climb up to the peak.

Fourth day - 19th June (Weather : Rain in 12am until 2am, good weather until 12pm in the afternoon)

We woke up at 12.30am and discover Ben was having fever. Except Ben and Wee (who complained bout the pain and decided not to climb the day before)... the rest of us get ourselves gear up with jacket, gloves, headlight..etc and start our journey to the peak.

Our all girls team (AE18) start the journey 1st and leave around 2.30am. The starting was always hard due to our legs were not warm up. The trail from Gunting Laganan to the peak pretty steep and rocky. With the cold weather.. it was torturing and can dampen our spirit easily. Tze, Ki Woei and I were together along the journey and try out best to take photo in each KM. We reach the peak at 5.30am and able to capture the sun rise. We only stay in the peak for half an hour and see most of our team member reach the peak before we move down.

Going down the trail was more tough than climbing up as the sky were bright now and it can clearly see the gradiant of the trail. People with height phoebia may have a problem to get down from the peak. We arrive back at Gunting Laganan around 9 am and we had breakfast in Lapan rata and continue our journey down to Timbuhan gate from 10.45am.

As this is my 2nd time to KK with all the training before this climb, going down was actually easier for me and I separated with the rest of the team and use my fastest speed to go down the moutain. I took 2 hrs 45min .. which reach Timbuhan gate around 1.30pm. Ben was there while I arrive as he uses his climberton speed and ran down the mountain. He took 1 and 1/2 hrs from Lapan Rata to Timbuhan gate.

Tze arrive around 1.45pm , which is only 15 mins later than me .. not too bad !! We waited for the whole team to arrive and leave KK park and back to KK town .

Fifth day - 20th May (Weather : Sunny)

Finally , this is our last day. Walk with Ben to look for public bus to airport at 7.30am and check out by 9am. We went to Manukan and Sapi island in the afternoon. I did some snokelling in Manukan, and had BBQ lunch in Sapi. Hang aroung in the San Frac coffee house for 2 hrs in KK town before heading to airport to go back to KL.

My personal test result

測驗結果
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Last day at work @8th May

Finally come to the "DAY" when I have been waiting since last year September. I have been doing a lot of farewell with other colleagues and always trying to imagine how will be my own farewell ...

When the "DAY" really arrive, the feeling is very normal because there is still emails to reply, issues to handle, reports to prepare, vouchers to sign.. the only different is I have a very relax mind and only worry all the issues until today and as tomorrow issues will be handle by my best friend "Cham " :)

This day become special and unforgettable due to my most respected staffs ... Nafizah, Ezreen, Ellyani, Raihan and Siti .. thank you for the surprise... flowers and gift .. and the farewell dinner that you have held for me . I will never forget all of you and thank you again to be my "guinea pig" for the past year to try on different managerial style and to train myself to be a better person.

From TTDI 14th flr, move to 19th flr, move to uptown, move to Bandar Utama now, this is my most unforgettable 5 years... earn some trips to Singapore, Thailand, Australia and US.. I have never thought this will be my journey when I joined the company . Although there is a lot of times we does not agree with the company but I can't deny that it is a place that groom me and train to become the new "me" now :)

I know a lot of friends here.. Cham, Ki Woei, Yen Erl, Shirlee, Ti Jean, Carol... really happy to know you and I enjoy all your companion in these years . Hope the friendship will not stop here and will continue forever.

I m looking forward for the break and staying at home to be slack... This is the only time where the time is 100% belong to mine ..

Ipoh Chinese Chamber Centennial Half Marathon @ 6th May

A memorable run for me as this is my first time getting 2nd prize from a race, but this is pure lucky as there is 10k bomba run in KL where most of the talented runner participate in the KL run and did not travel 3 hrs to Ipoh for this run.

I believe this is the least crowd that I have come across among all my races, and I think only total 15 to 16 women participate in the open category... thus it is very lucky for me to get 2nd prize using 1hr 48 mins. The total distance is less than 21k , someone told me is 18 or 19K... anyway, I do enjoy the prize giving and the additional income that earned from this race :)

As usual, it is enjoyable when we run around the town and able to sight see Ipoh town .. but it get tougher when we come to the highway as highway is always dry and boring that you can only a long road with many runners and have nothing to sightsee.. I only have the chance to run with the woman champion in the open category ( a indian lady from Ipoh Brooks club) & Wai Man from pacesetter on the first 3k and was running alone with a lot of runners taking over me after that :) The suffering part is after the U turn point as I already feel tired, but still able to complete the race with partially walking and running.

Will have to say thank you to Yen Erl's friend --- Hui Yen and her bf for bringing us to Ipoh for this run and enjoy the nice food in Ipoh. Tau foo fah, ipoh ho fun, nga chai gai, local biscuit,salted chicken... we will be able to enjoy all this food without them :)

Gunung Datuk @ 1th May

1st of May is the labour day and we are all discipline citizen that follow the government rule that "not" be working on the labour day and went for a short hiking trip on Gunung Datuk, Rembau.

I slept at 3.30am on the night before due to David's unfinished ARMS.. anyway, still able to wake up at 5.30am before the rest of the hiking mates (Shirlee, Yen Erl, Jee Ing, Mei Chien) reached my house at 6.30am. We leave home at 6.45am and meet Kelvin and Ann at Senawang toll at 7.30am.

This is my 2nd time up to this hill and already set the expectation that it will be tough and steep in the beginning. I start with a more relax pace this round and take my time to hike to the top. Very fortune that Kelvin join us for this trip and he volunteer himself the be the sweeper and take care of the slowest hiker :)

Ah Tze and I take around 1 1/2 hr to reach the peak and the rest reach within the next 1/2 hr. It is misty on the peak this time and can't see much view and most of us afraid on going up the peak as we need to climb through the steep rock. Again, need to thank to Kelvin again who help all of us to reach the peak.

Going down is always the most difficult part of this climb as going down the steep rock really hurt our knee. Yen erl and tze are expert in going down hill now after the every weekend training in Gasing. Ann and I were pace together and after a few slip and fall , we slow down our speed and were very careful while going downhill .

All of us reach the car park by 2.30pm and we proceeds to lunch at Seremban. It is an enjoyable climb and all of us enjoys it especially Shirlee and Jee Ing ** .