Frankly said, I wasn't really ready yet for Angsi trip after seeing the invitation send out. 1 day Siew Ting came to my house and talk about it. Afterward she took & open my wallet & some $$ flyout for the registration fee. I went blank and just said OK. After few days of clossing date, Cik Chianii sms and informed that I had been selected as group 1 leader. How surprissing, it seem coincidence that at work, my sales manager had resigned & I have to play some leadership role in managing KL office. I started to think that the opportunity of leadership been placed upon me and should take charge of it. Nevertheless, I try my best to work thing out in the trip planning that been sent to me. Distribute some load among group member and lead out during discussion on briefing day.
On day 1, I feel exited seeing everybody. Every time I joined ODA trip, my car will be ready to serve and drive some participant to destination(best part~drive drive drive). Never left out. This time get to play with my little GPS gadget (HTC Diamond). I manage to find Ulu bendol in the map & route it. Just for reference. I do not worry so much as Kak. Lim know the way. Really blessed. Kak. Lim is Pro than the GPS( No wonder she bought HTC Pro~wakaka ). Sure find way. Ha. Reach park at night, so have to night walk. It very challenging and get to enjoy darkness in jungle trail. Nobody is lost during the trip. all safe. Reach Kak Lang site, rest a while, set up tent, masak, makan, cuci pinggan, mandi, enjoy watermelon while preparing next day lunch, dengar TATA buat joke, laugh. Lepas tu, tidur.
Day 2, yeah, start trail to Angsi Peak. Heard from Kak. Lim trail is naik turun, naik turun then naik naik. I sikit bimbang due to not enough physical trained. Anyway, jalan saje whatever the trail like. Akhirnya tiba to 1 part where we have to climb using rope (Takde foto to show~but others will have) this situation required arm strength and proper footing ( 1st time climb using rope while carry backpack ) All berjaya tarik tali naik. Then rehat and eat eat eat. Lepas tu, jalan lagi kecerunan yang melebihi 45 darjah seketika. So tired. Tu Ah SAM pula, kepenatan hingga nak buang backpack, but she really determined and climb to peak. Coz I noe, she only join this trip after find out that no need to carry backpack to Peak. (Change of plan, she misti Y Y Y backpack sticking to her belakang all d way). Kat peak, pokok jarang. Banyak panas tapi syok coz got nice grass, boleh terus baring. Masa masak dinner, my group tertinggal soy sauce & gula. But fellow group member member geng, boleh masak sedap sedap juga. Eng Boon pula goreng potato sampai minyak limpah kat tangan...but he still ok lar coz got Medic team in ODA. Never worry. All taken care. Night time chat chat chat...Chiak hiong phone pula asyik berdering..Ganggu betul. Then wind blew and midst appear of nowwhere...this is so enjoying, just like in movie.
Day 3, turun gunung liao. all d way down down down. I really love downhill, can fly down. test my leg respons and stepping accuracy. (Ha~joking ler). Haiz, really excitement everytime go mount climb. Nice water river to bath bath after sweat sweat.
Wah, how come I wrote so lengthy this time feedback? mayb too stress wif workload. It is possible. Anyway, thanks for the great trip & opportunity!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
2008 Oct 25th - 27th Gunung Angsi
Fifteen of us :-
2008 Oct 25th Gunung Angsi - Yeah !!!!
A special thanks to Chian Ni, Siew Ting, Miing Rueng and Andy who have work so hard to push and pull the Angsi trip through, on day 1 when the invitation been sent, follow by the precise preprearation, briefing, meal plan, equipments and 100% support during trip. They have gave each of us zero worry on everything!!!
For most of us, Angsi is not easy to climb, briefing is not convenient to attend, rucksack packing is complicated, rucksack is too heavy to carry, dinner is difficult to cook, dome is too small to sleep in, water is too cold to bath. Look at the sunset picture on the right at Angsi peak on 2008 Oct 26th, 6.45pm..... it's definately worth it !!!!
Gunung Angsi is the first mountain in my hiking bookmark. Without Gunung Angsi, there will be no hiking activity in my life. Each time when i reached Kak Lang campsite, i will make sure i dipped into the waterfalls, no matter for long or short moment. It reminds me of 16 years ago, i was brought by my teacher to this place, and few of us been half forced, half dragged by teacher to dip in the cold waterfalls at 2.00am.
My teacher said to me," 20 years later, if you have chance to visit this place, you will find out that this waterfalls might be no longer here, or maybe the water flow been changed, probably you will feel regret and sorry to yourself, that actually many years ago, you have the chance to
try out this water, but you have let it slipped away from you. So grab the opportunity whenever you have to try out anything that is new to you, or you feel afraid of, so that you get to know how far you can face challenges in your life and how much you can tolerate and accept."
Until today, i feel thankful to my teacher, that he has insisted few of us to take the challenge of dipping ourselve into that cold water at 2 o'clock in the morning. My life changed ever since that 1st Angsi trip, no matter in my education, life, ODA or career.
16 years later, Kak Lang waterfalls remains, waterflow have changed, toilet been built exactly on the spot where i slept 16 years ago. Campground area getting wider, trees getting taller, from a hyperactive kid to hyperactive adult. Things keep on changing everyday, the world will not stop spinning because of one person's problem, other people will still keep on proceeding no matter
you feel that your backpack is too heavy to carry, or you would like to quit, the trip still keep on although you have give up.
“虽然我们不能事事顺利， 但我们可以样样都尽力”
The trip schedule is not the same as how it appears in trip planning. However, each of us have prove that we are ready to react and response to any unpredicted changes in plan/life. We have let go the "It's All about Me, I am important" attitude, and have contribute each of our effort in order to accomplish the whole team's mission and goal.
Few days after Angsi trip, there are several significant incidents that still remain fresh in my mind, and through these incident, i have once again learn some good values from each of the members.
Vivian plan to carry the watermelon to peak, but we have finished it on 1st night. 2nd day, he carried 5 bottle of water to substiture the weight.
Pooi Kuan glasses is missing, how she reach the peak and back to KL without clear vision? I admired her Strong Determination - Nike spirit. (No Excuses, Just do it)
Eng Boon is getting more and more fit each i met him, i still
remember his 1st mountain trip :)
Jai Wong didn't have much picture in the whole trip, because he too busy captured all of our pictures, which is total of 400 ++ trip picture
in his camera
Sam told me, "she will never ever climb mountain with backpack again." I am pretty sure that i will keep on seeing her again and again in ODA trips.
2008 Angsi Expedition, i hope it will not be your 1st and final hiking trip in your life chapter. I do hope this trip has bring some good values, joys and great memory in your life album. Thanks to each of you for the great companionship, It's nice meeting each of you in the trip :-
Thank You, We'll Meet Again !!!!!
2008 Oct 25th Gunung Angsi - Yeah !!!!
A special thanks to Chian Ni, Siew Ting, Miing Rueng and Andy who have work so hard to push and pull the Angsi trip through, on day 1 when the invitation been sent, follow by the precise preprearation, briefing, meal plan, equipments and 100% support during trip. They have gave each of us zero worry on everything!!!
For most of us, Angsi is not easy to climb, briefing is not convenient to attend, rucksack packing is complicated, rucksack is too heavy to carry, dinner is difficult to cook, dome is too small to sleep in, water is too cold to bath. Look at the sunset picture on the right at Angsi peak on 2008 Oct 26th, 6.45pm..... it's definately worth it !!!!
"Welcome to the hiking world"
Gunung Angsi is the first mountain in my hiking bookmark. Without Gunung Angsi, there will be no hiking activity in my life. Each time when i reached Kak Lang campsite, i will make sure i dipped into the waterfalls, no matter for long or short moment. It reminds me of 16 years ago, i was brought by my teacher to this place, and few of us been half forced, half dragged by teacher to dip in the cold waterfalls at 2.00am.
My teacher said to me," 20 years later, if you have chance to visit this place, you will find out that this waterfalls might be no longer here, or maybe the water flow been changed, probably you will feel regret and sorry to yourself, that actually many years ago, you have the chance to
try out this water, but you have let it slipped away from you. So grab the opportunity whenever you have to try out anything that is new to you, or you feel afraid of, so that you get to know how far you can face challenges in your life and how much you can tolerate and accept."
Until today, i feel thankful to my teacher, that he has insisted few of us to take the challenge of dipping ourselve into that cold water at 2 o'clock in the morning. My life changed ever since that 1st Angsi trip, no matter in my education, life, ODA or career.
16 years later, Kak Lang waterfalls remains, waterflow have changed, toilet been built exactly on the spot where i slept 16 years ago. Campground area getting wider, trees getting taller, from a hyperactive kid to hyperactive adult. Things keep on changing everyday, the world will not stop spinning because of one person's problem, other people will still keep on proceeding no matter
you feel that your backpack is too heavy to carry, or you would like to quit, the trip still keep on although you have give up.
It's not an easy trip for most of us, since we have credited our bank account to join the trip and have tortured ourselves with uncomfortable sleep, food, trail, heavy backpack, hot sun, cold waterfalls. Why not we grab the opportunity to truly enjoy the trip, build our inner strength, “ seeks for joys and happiness out from the challenges. “全力以赴“
"Stop looking what you can't do, start searching on what you can do"
Throughout the years, one of the thing i truly have experience from mountain climbing activity is our mindset. During difficult situation,facing tough trail, if i think of tough, the situation will remain tough, and the tough climbing memory will planted in my memory and follow me forever. Therefore, i started to change my "self talk" when i hike. Slowly, i able to use my mind/thoughts control my movement, and not letting my movement or organ sensor control my thoughts whenever i hike nowadays.
“虽然我们不能事事顺利， 但我们可以样样都尽力”
The trip schedule is not the same as how it appears in trip planning. However, each of us have prove that we are ready to react and response to any unpredicted changes in plan/life. We have let go the "It's All about Me, I am important" attitude, and have contribute each of our effort in order to accomplish the whole team's mission and goal.
Few days after Angsi trip, there are several significant incidents that still remain fresh in my mind, and through these incident, i have once again learn some good values from each of the members.
You Don't Need To Be Important, You Just Have To Be Significant"
- Tata demo on setting up dome alone had inspired me that "there is nothing we can't or
don't know how to do it, it is about whether we want to do it or not."
- Pei San introduce a new breakfast recipe
- Ah Thoo's phone has the most meaningful songs
- Chue Ling didn't give many cold joke, but i remember hers' the most.
- Chak Hiong is very popular with lots of phone calls
Vivian plan to carry the watermelon to peak, but we have finished it on 1st night. 2nd day, he carried 5 bottle of water to substiture the weight.
Pooi Kuan glasses is missing, how she reach the peak and back to KL without clear vision? I admired her Strong Determination - Nike spirit. (No Excuses, Just do it)
Eng Boon is getting more and more fit each i met him, i still
remember his 1st mountain trip :)
Jai Wong didn't have much picture in the whole trip, because he too busy captured all of our pictures, which is total of 400 ++ trip picture
in his camera
Sam told me, "she will never ever climb mountain with backpack again." I am pretty sure that i will keep on seeing her again and again in ODA trips.
2008 Angsi Expedition, i hope it will not be your 1st and final hiking trip in your life chapter. I do hope this trip has bring some good values, joys and great memory in your life album. Thanks to each of you for the great companionship, It's nice meeting each of you in the trip :-
"天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，
Nice people + Nice mountain + Nice waterfalls = Unforgettable memories 
Thank You, We'll Meet Again !!!!!
2008 Oct 25th - 27th Angsi Trip Most Significant Joke:
2008 Oct 25th-27th Gunung Angsi Trip
This trip is a very meaningful and unforgettable trip for me. There are many first times happened in this trip. My first time being a trip leader, first time to Gunung Angsi, first time experience night walk, first time being feed watermelon by a new friend in front of so many people, first time my bag ate by rats...….
Before the trip, I always feel very doubt of myself whether I can organize this trip or not. But since I already an ODA now and being appointed by lao shi as trip leader, so I tell myself that I have to do it! Whether success or not, that is behind story, but I have to step out first.
My first step is to send out the invitation and start find participants. This is a very tough job for me. Those 2 weeks, everyday my first job is to check mail see whether there is any participant email me. Thanks god! There are 16 participants who register for the trip. Thanks for all the participants. Ok, I have passed my stage 1. Now comes the stage 2.
I start doing planning. Thanks for Lao Shi, Siew Ting, Miing Rueng, Andy and Fu Yaw. You guys help me a lots and I learn many things when I do the trip planning. You guys didn’t miser to teach me all your knowledge. Whenever I face any problem, you guys sure will tell me the proper way to do it and settle my problem. My stage 2 settled smoothly with the help of ODA.
Now, briefing day reached already. Along the way to Wangsa Maju, I keep repeating my speech in lao shi car. I spoke to myself in a low voice. Repeat Repeat and Repeat… I think for don’t know how many hundred times I repeat already. When we reach Metro View, some of the participant haven reached yet. So we set up the projector and arrange the chair. There are some participants who cannot attend for the briefing on that day. So we decide not to bring them to the trip. The briefing carries on smoothly on that day. Every participant looks excited and gets to know each other on that day. My stage 3 PASSED!
Finally, October 25th reached!!! Gunung Angsi, the name that I have listened to since Form 3. Today, I am going to explore you. When we reached Ulu Bendol Recreational Park is already night time. Me so excited because I will experience night walk tonight. Night walk is quite interesting and challenging as what I imagine before. But also dangerous and easy to make us lost. And we also can’t see the trail very clearly like day time, so every step also needs to be careful. After we reached Kak Lang Campsite, everybody starts to prepare for our dinner, spaghetti.
My group members are all funny girls and boys, Vivian, Tata, Eng Boon, Pooi Kuan, Chue Leng, Andy and me. And my group members are all very clean and tidy person. All the messtin, cup, spoon, chopsticks need to wipe before use, especially Tata. Tata brings a lot of fun to our group. He talks many cold jokes and make us laugh. He is a very funny guy. And he feed me eat watermelons!! I thought he only jokes to me… That night all of us are having fun at Kak Lang. But I didn’t sleep well on that night because there are so many agas bites me!!! Until now I still feel very itchy.
A big surprise waiting me in the second day morning….
I walked up and want to open my backpack to take the box for gas lamp. My backpack is lean on the pondok, so I put it straight and want o open it. Wahhh….. I can’t believe it. My backpack has a hole on it and there are many ants on it. I see properly. The ants are eating my corn... At that moment, I feel so sad and depress. That is my first backpack. And the backpack is Siew Ting help me deal with her friend. It’s very meaningful to me…I likes that backpack so much. Now think of it my heart still feel very painful. Then lao shi told me is ate by rats, not ants. I hate the rats. After that the whole day when I see of my backpack, my mood will be down. But luckily when I carry my backpack, I can’t see the holes. So I didn’t think so much already when breakfast and along the way to peak.
Angsi peak is different to other mountain peak that I have been gone before. One side of the peak can see t
he Seremban Town; another side can see other mountain’s view. The sunset is very beautiful with people standing and taking photo there. Hehez… So romantic. That night at peak is a wonderful night, we having tea, chatting about the buy peanut and wash hair story. That night I sleep very well.
The last day morning is a good weather. When we are preparing our breakfast, there is one guy walk in the peak and say hello with us. lao shi say that guy’s body looks like the Banting police Tan. I look properly… really got 80% look like him except for the hair. Today afternoon that Police Tan came to office again and make me think of that guy at the peak… When reached Kak Lang Camp site, we bath at there. That is one of the biggest enjoy for me in this trip. The water is warm and I can bath and play water here. Can you imagine when your body is sticky and full with sweat smell, then you steep inside the natural water there…. Wow, that’s so great!!
Along the way back to KL, all of us in Hilux enjoying and talking story about our trip. I like this feel. This is like after we accomplish our mission, we sharing what we saw in this trip and tell our story. Then you will find out that what you do is in everybody’s eye, are just we choosing to keep it or say it out.
Before farewell, we have a great meal at KL. There are 3 of the dishes is pork. I think participants look us is like one group people who already long time didn’t eat pork. Therefore order so much pork. I enjoy this meal and the feel we having meal together. This is the only one time all of us eat together among this 3 day. All of us feels like not willing to go back although already finish eat. Still sitting there and chatting.
This trip brings lots of fun, knowledge, sweet and sour memory to me. I am having fun when chatting with you guys. I learn lots of things from all of you guys. From you guys, I see many things that I never see before and learn many things that I don’t know before.
At last, I wish all of you will learn something in this trip and always remember the fun in this trip. Happy and healthy always. Hope to see you all again in the future. Thanks
Before the trip, I always feel very doubt of myself whether I can organize this trip or not. But since I already an ODA now and being appointed by lao shi as trip leader, so I tell myself that I have to do it! Whether success or not, that is behind story, but I have to step out first.
My first step is to send out the invitation and start find participants. This is a very tough job for me. Those 2 weeks, everyday my first job is to check mail see whether there is any participant email me. Thanks god! There are 16 participants who register for the trip. Thanks for all the participants. Ok, I have passed my stage 1. Now comes the stage 2.
I start doing planning. Thanks for Lao Shi, Siew Ting, Miing Rueng, Andy and Fu Yaw. You guys help me a lots and I learn many things when I do the trip planning. You guys didn’t miser to teach me all your knowledge. Whenever I face any problem, you guys sure will tell me the proper way to do it and settle my problem. My stage 2 settled smoothly with the help of ODA.
Now, briefing day reached already. Along the way to Wangsa Maju, I keep repeating my speech in lao shi car. I spoke to myself in a low voice. Repeat Repeat and Repeat… I think for don’t know how many hundred times I repeat already. When we reach Metro View, some of the participant haven reached yet. So we set up the projector and arrange the chair. There are some participants who cannot attend for the briefing on that day. So we decide not to bring them to the trip. The briefing carries on smoothly on that day. Every participant looks excited and gets to know each other on that day. My stage 3 PASSED!
Finally, October 25th reached!!! Gunung Angsi, the name that I have listened to since Form 3. Today, I am going to explore you. When we reached Ulu Bendol Recreational Park is already night time. Me so excited because I will experience night walk tonight. Night walk is quite interesting and challenging as what I imagine before. But also dangerous and easy to make us lost. And we also can’t see the trail very clearly like day time, so every step also needs to be careful. After we reached Kak Lang Campsite, everybody starts to prepare for our dinner, spaghetti.
My group members are all funny girls and boys, Vivian, Tata, Eng Boon, Pooi Kuan, Chue Leng, Andy and me. And my group members are all very clean and tidy person. All the messtin, cup, spoon, chopsticks need to wipe before use, especially Tata. Tata brings a lot of fun to our group. He talks many cold jokes and make us laugh. He is a very funny guy. And he feed me eat watermelons!! I thought he only jokes to me… That night all of us are having fun at Kak Lang. But I didn’t sleep well on that night because there are so many agas bites me!!! Until now I still feel very itchy.A big surprise waiting me in the second day morning….
I walked up and want to open my backpack to take the box for gas lamp. My backpack is lean on the pondok, so I put it straight and want o open it. Wahhh….. I can’t believe it. My backpack has a hole on it and there are many ants on it. I see properly. The ants are eating my corn... At that moment, I feel so sad and depress. That is my first backpack. And the backpack is Siew Ting help me deal with her friend. It’s very meaningful to me…I likes that backpack so much. Now think of it my heart still feel very painful. Then lao shi told me is ate by rats, not ants. I hate the rats. After that the whole day when I see of my backpack, my mood will be down. But luckily when I carry my backpack, I can’t see the holes. So I didn’t think so much already when breakfast and along the way to peak.
Angsi peak is different to other mountain peak that I have been gone before. One side of the peak can see t
he Seremban Town; another side can see other mountain’s view. The sunset is very beautiful with people standing and taking photo there. Hehez… So romantic. That night at peak is a wonderful night, we having tea, chatting about the buy peanut and wash hair story. That night I sleep very well.The last day morning is a good weather. When we are preparing our breakfast, there is one guy walk in the peak and say hello with us. lao shi say that guy’s body looks like the Banting police Tan. I look properly… really got 80% look like him except for the hair. Today afternoon that Police Tan came to office again and make me think of that guy at the peak… When reached Kak Lang Camp site, we bath at there. That is one of the biggest enjoy for me in this trip. The water is warm and I can bath and play water here. Can you imagine when your body is sticky and full with sweat smell, then you steep inside the natural water there…. Wow, that’s so great!!
Along the way back to KL, all of us in Hilux enjoying and talking story about our trip. I like this feel. This is like after we accomplish our mission, we sharing what we saw in this trip and tell our story. Then you will find out that what you do is in everybody’s eye, are just we choosing to keep it or say it out.
Before farewell, we have a great meal at KL. There are 3 of the dishes is pork. I think participants look us is like one group people who already long time didn’t eat pork. Therefore order so much pork. I enjoy this meal and the feel we having meal together. This is the only one time all of us eat together among this 3 day. All of us feels like not willing to go back although already finish eat. Still sitting there and chatting.
This trip brings lots of fun, knowledge, sweet and sour memory to me. I am having fun when chatting with you guys. I learn lots of things from all of you guys. From you guys, I see many things that I never see before and learn many things that I don’t know before.
At last, I wish all of you will learn something in this trip and always remember the fun in this trip. Happy and healthy always. Hope to see you all again in the future. Thanks
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
2008 Oct 25th 27th Angsi Trip
15 of us :- Yoon Wah, Chue Leng, Pooi Kuan, Chak Hiong, Jai Wong, Vivian, Yoon Hah, Kian Guan, Eng Boon, Pei San, Siew Ting, Miing Rueng, Andy, Ms Lim and Chian Nii.
We have eat, sleep, hike, bath, dao bao, torture, laugh, sun burn and finish Angsi trip together on the past 48 hours..... there're so many topics we have talked about and laughed together, and there are still many topic we have missed out from each other. Therefore, This post is to combine each of our's thoughts, feeling and stories on Angsi trip.
Here is to recapp some of the topics in the trip:-
" Corn ate by rats, Sardine is not Meat, Meat is Flour, Endless Climbing Trail, BMW Argument, Cold Jokes, 1/2 burger sharing idea, Want to Buy peanut, Wash Hair Story, KPA Formation, Full Moon Butt, Waiting for time to pass, Sun Set Romance, Wonderful night view on Seremban Town, No bath for 3 days....etc etc etc and at last Farewell Meal full with porks"
Although we started to miss each other again even just a day after the trip, and there will be quite impossible that 15 of us physically present to visit Angsi at the same time/together again in future. Therefore, we will be once again, do it together in this blogspot.
Posted by Chian Nii
Monday, October 20, 2008
Gunung Chamah
Posted By Sia on Oct 19th - http://living-life-as-a-devil.blogspot.com/search/label/ODA
Gunung Chamah Expedition 30th September to 4th October 2008
Recently went for a G7 trip wit Outdoor Discovery Adventure on 30th of September until 4th of October.8 people go for this trip… 4 guys(Fu Yaw, Mr Voon, Ah Boon and AhSia) and 4 gals (chiannie, Miss Lim @ Teacher, BeeSuan and SiewTing)
G7 Mountain = Gunung Chamah, Kelantan
Mountain specialty =
From Gua Musang to Pos Rekom(an orang asli settlement)… 20 mins drive to a school and from there… Kenari need to park beside school as the remaining road can only use a 4wd where in this case… hilux.
Supposedly take 5 hours of 4wd(3 guys, Ah Boon, AhSia, Fu Yaw is the VIP for hilux, our seats are reserved at the back, cargo area) we bounced and bumped and groaned for 3 hours before we face a problem. The remaining 2 hours of drive cannot be completed as the roads are impassable by 4WDs…
So… gung ho… take our backpacks and hike to the orang asli settlement. Hot blazing sun scorched our heads and minds for 3 hours. And the road we treading on is logging trails… as you can see from the pics in the photo album. 3 hills and one mountain size peak we need to go thru before we reach Pos Rekom.,
From the orang asli settlement, POS REkom to Kem Tongkat Ali, needs 3 hours of hiking thru the jungle.
From the Kem Tongkat Ali to Gunung Chamah Peak… need 6 hours of hiking and climbing.
What SPECIALTY??? From Tongkat Ali to Chamah Peak… 6 hours of rigorous hiking, and Tongkat Ali is the LAST WATER POINT to boot. And WE plan to spend the night at Chamah Peak… so we need to bring enough water for all of us(cooking) and for individual drinking… In total… around 20 hours without any water source…
Lastly… there are 6 ‘false peaks’ before we can reach the real Chamah Peak… meaning one need to climb up and descend down from false peaks before you can reach the real Chamah Peak! Nice leh… haha…
And please check out some of the photos I posted in the album…
So overall… for this trip… 3 hours to Pos Rekom, 3 hours to Tongkat Ali, 6 hours to Chamah Peak and add it all when we come wan to leave the place adds up to 20 hours of trekking. Cool isn’t it?
Gunung Chamah Day 1(no pics)
Day 1…30th Sept 2008Meet up at Shah Alam wit the rest of the gang around 5pm for a last minute hoo hah and briefing and packing before drive to Gua Musang, Kelantan.
2 cars…
Hilux equipped wit off road tires – MissLim, SiewTing, AhSia, Fu Yaw.. (If I not mistaken la.. quite poor memory these few days)
Kenari – Mr Voon, Ah Boon, Chian Ni, Bee Suan
Nothing eventful happened on the way there… jus tembak tembak(ejek) sesame sendiri, eat Loh Mee at Ulu Yam(the vinegar damn lousy), stop at rest area(loads of people!) and one meaningful thing happen.
On our way into Kelantan, Gua Musang area… there is a car… Honda Jazz… apparently the car’s battery sizzles out after being left wit car lamp on for half an hour. The group of people are fellow mountain climbers it seems, on their way to Gunung Yong yap. Apparently they are helping car accident victims for half an hour and flag down passerbys to bring the accident victims to nearest hospital before finding out they are also victims too… wit their car’s battery dies out.
Luckily for them, Mr Voon aka McGyver(all of us thinks same way as me too) helps them to be on their way in few mins time(haha.. exaggerates a bit).
We, ODA are helpful in times of emergency and always we dun ask for anything in return except a few “thanks mate!” or shake hands and exchange information bout mountain climbings…
And in this incident… the Honda Jazz guys just watch in awe of our McGyver and after the small operation on their battery… they jus ask “ can I know your name” to mr Voon.. and well… jus left!
From my hearing and some of our gang… they never say any thanks or any gestures that they are grateful for our help( or in this case, Mr Voon’s help.) How we know they are going to Yong Yap? Apparently, Miss Lim need to ask them 2 to 3 times, “where you all going tonight?” before the leader of the gang says ”Yong Yap”
Lucky Mr Voon helps them or there wil be no Yong Yap for them until morning… that time is around midnight wit very very few cars passing by.
That night we reach Gua Musang around 2am… and spend the night(or morning??) at motel..
Gunung Chamah Day 2 - Oct 1st
Woke up at 7am, bath(forced to) and head down for a hearty breakfast.
After filling up the petrol to the fullest, we begin our real adventure to Gunung Chamah.
20 mins drive to a school, Kenari was forced to be left behind as the road are meant for 4wd vehicle only
8 people in one HILUX??? Luckily for 3 guys, they are the VIPS for Hilux… ODA reserved 3 special seats for Fu Yaw, AhSia and ah Boon at the back of the Hilux.
So 3 of us… bumped our way for almost 3 hours. On the 3 hours hell of a ride, we met wit 3 obstacles
1st stage – First time here…all of us really dunno the way to Pos Rekom as the guide that we find earlier has not shown up. So Mr Voon as the driver wit 4 gals inside the car and 3 VIPS on the back, we jus follow our
instincts and jus…drive into the unknown.
Lodging trails, fallen timberss, big gaping holes and panoramic vieware part of our journey until we accidentally met a Chinese middle aged guy who was very helpful and nice. He offered to lead us to Pos Rekom so happily(painfully for the VIPS) as Mr Voon follow him closely. And when I say closely is the Chinese guy drive his Hilux at neck-breaking speed and Mr Voon followed closely in pursuit of the fast car. So that is why I say it is painful for the VIPS. Haha… “OSIM’s saddle chair will not be able to fight this ride” is wat I remarked to Fu Yaw.
2nd Stage – Fallen timber blocking the way, there is a narrow gap jus perfectly fit for Hilux to go through. Perfectly fit means if you navigate the car a bit off less than 1cm, kiss the paint goodbye. Hehe… look at pictures for better view.
3rd stage- Supposed to be 5 hours ride, the remaining 2 hours ride are not meant to be as the road is too full of big gaping holes. We are forced to abandoned our Hilux by the roadside and trek the remaining road to Pos Rekom. Thanking the Uncle happily, we embarked on our first phase of Chamah Expedition, walk on barren logging trail wit hills to reach our first checkpoint
Pos Rekom.
We walk under blazing hot sun carrying the backpacks… and well… it really sapped our energy and mind. Jus after half an hour… my skin is all black and tanned. Until now I can still feel the scorching sun on my skin.
We took 3 hours to reach Pos Rekom, where the orang asli says our speed is quite fast as there are many groups of mountain climbers who take at least 4 to 5 hours to reach Pos Rekom from the place we left our Hilux. Terror le… haha
That night we spend the night at Pos rekom, sleeping in the Kongsi settlement( a kongsi is like a resting place and sleeping place for workers, and in this case, it is for logging industry workers)
After filling up the petrol to the fullest, we begin our real adventure to Gunung Chamah.
20 mins drive to a school, Kenari was forced to be left behind as the road are meant for 4wd vehicle only
8 people in one HILUX??? Luckily for 3 guys, they are the VIPS for Hilux… ODA reserved 3 special seats for Fu Yaw, AhSia and ah Boon at the back of the Hilux.
So 3 of us… bumped our way for almost 3 hours. On the 3 hours hell of a ride, we met wit 3 obstacles
1st stage – First time here…all of us really dunno the way to Pos Rekom as the guide that we find earlier has not shown up. So Mr Voon as the driver wit 4 gals inside the car and 3 VIPS on the back, we jus follow ourinstincts and jus…drive into the unknown.
Lodging trails, fallen timberss, big gaping holes and panoramic vieware part of our journey until we accidentally met a Chinese middle aged guy who was very helpful and nice. He offered to lead us to Pos Rekom so happily(painfully for the VIPS) as Mr Voon follow him closely. And when I say closely is the Chinese guy drive his Hilux at neck-breaking speed and Mr Voon followed closely in pursuit of the fast car. So that is why I say it is painful for the VIPS. Haha… “OSIM’s saddle chair will not be able to fight this ride” is wat I remarked to Fu Yaw.2nd Stage – Fallen timber blocking the way, there is a narrow gap jus perfectly fit for Hilux to go through. Perfectly fit means if you navigate the car a bit off less than 1cm, kiss the paint goodbye. Hehe… look at pictures for better view.
3rd stage- Supposed to be 5 hours ride, the remaining 2 hours ride are not meant to be as the road is too full of big gaping holes. We are forced to abandoned our Hilux by the roadside and trek the remaining road to Pos Rekom. Thanking the Uncle happily, we embarked on our first phase of Chamah Expedition, walk on barren logging trail wit hills to reach our first checkpoint
Pos Rekom.
We walk under blazing hot sun carrying the backpacks… and well… it really sapped our energy and mind. Jus after half an hour… my skin is all black and tanned. Until now I can still feel the scorching sun on my skin.
We took 3 hours to reach Pos Rekom, where the orang asli says our speed is quite fast as there are many groups of mountain climbers who take at least 4 to 5 hours to reach Pos Rekom from the place we left our Hilux. Terror le… haha
That night we spend the night at Pos rekom, sleeping in the Kongsi settlement( a kongsi is like a resting place and sleeping place for workers, and in this case, it is for logging industry workers)
Gunung Chamah Day 3 - Oct 2nd
We wake up at 4.30am, getting everything ready and wait for our 2 guides that we managed to secure from the orang asli settlement yesterday night, thanks to McGyver again. Haha…
They apparently scared of the brisk rain, which starts at 4am, and the orang asli turns up around 6.30am later. So hurriedly we set off for our 2nd checkpoint.. Kem Tongkat Ali which is 3 hours away.
Around 10am we reach Tongkat Ali, stopped for our brunch and filled up our water bottles for the assault on Chamah Peak. As I said earlier, Kem Tongkat Ali is the last water source for Gunung Chamah so each of us need to carry at least 5 bottles of water. And my frenz, please dun forget we need to carry our own stuff in the backpack as well such as shirts, rice, veges, eggs(rice, veges, eggs are all for cooking, and ODA pride themselves on enjoying themselves wit fine healthy meals while mountain climbing, not maggi mee every single day). Thankfully for the assistance of the guides, they helped to carry the 2 heaviest bagpacks…
Kem Tongkat Ali specialty…
EXTREMELY FULL OF AGAS!!!!!!
Our legs and arms are full of bites…
We rest for an hour or more… and we start our final mission in mind. To Conquer GUNUNG CHAMAH!!!!!
Despite carrying the heavy load(even I shudder to think of the backpack), our guides doesn’t even break a sweat while climbing for the first few hours… and if they want to… they can even break into a run., leaving all of us behind. Haha… thankfully they really wait for us. Walking by the ridges, crossing booby trapped swamps
(me and Fu Yaw kena, where booby trapped means if you are not careful you will fall into mud, and you need to spend unnecessary strength to pull yourself and your shoes out from the mud). There are many fallen trees I noted, which is very challenging for me as sometimes I need to literally crawl under the tree… or bend very low… for more than 5 times. Wit the backpack. A pain in the ass for tall guys like me.
6 false peaks… and they really took a toll on your mentality as one needs to climb for 6 hours… go through 1st false peak… and descend down for few hundreds feet again before we need to climb another few hundreds feet for the 2nd false peak.
1st false peak… “aw man… climb so long now only see the 1st false peak???”
2nd false peak “ hmmm, this site is big enough for campsite”
3rd false peak.. “wow… so many bushes man!!”
4th false peak.. “ we are nearing the real peak!! Yeah!!
5th false peak “ should have bring my camera phone.. so pretty here”
6th false peak.. when we reach the last false peak, the guide told us it is around 15mins hike to the chamah peak. “YiPPEE!!!”
And at LAST…!!!! Around 5pm… I am the first one to reach GUnung Chamah Peak!!!! (I mean first one from
my group, as the gu ide al ready reached much more earlier than me, haha) 
I putted down the backpack and feel the cold air and cold breeze around me!! I inhale deeply… and suddenly feel that… G7…. Under my feet now. A feel of euphoria and sense of proud, achievement, happiness surge through me….
Fu yaw emerged among the bushes a few mins later… smiling broadly. We shake hands and proceed to put up the fly sheet and set up the six man dome first.
After that, Miss Lim appears, followed by the rest. That night we laughed and smiled, eat happily and drink hot ginger water(we left the tea sachets at Tongkat Ali, haha)
as you can see from the pics… most of us are wearing snow caps(I dun have snow cap) wear gloves, and wear thick jackets as that night is a cold night. We even wear socks…
I can still remember vividly during the middle of the night, I woke up trembling with my teeth chattering to the fullest speed. Even my hands are numb from the cold. Hehe… that is the coldest I ever felt in all my mountain climbing trips…
They apparently scared of the brisk rain, which starts at 4am, and the orang asli turns up around 6.30am later. So hurriedly we set off for our 2nd checkpoint.. Kem Tongkat Ali which is 3 hours away.
Around 10am we reach Tongkat Ali, stopped for our brunch and filled up our water bottles for the assault on Chamah Peak. As I said earlier, Kem Tongkat Ali is the last water source for Gunung Chamah so each of us need to carry at least 5 bottles of water. And my frenz, please dun forget we need to carry our own stuff in the backpack as well such as shirts, rice, veges, eggs(rice, veges, eggs are all for cooking, and ODA pride themselves on enjoying themselves wit fine healthy meals while mountain climbing, not maggi mee every single day). Thankfully for the assistance of the guides, they helped to carry the 2 heaviest bagpacks…Kem Tongkat Ali specialty…
EXTREMELY FULL OF AGAS!!!!!!
Our legs and arms are full of bites…
We rest for an hour or more… and we start our final mission in mind. To Conquer GUNUNG CHAMAH!!!!!
Despite carrying the heavy load(even I shudder to think of the backpack), our guides doesn’t even break a sweat while climbing for the first few hours… and if they want to… they can even break into a run., leaving all of us behind. Haha… thankfully they really wait for us. Walking by the ridges, crossing booby trapped swamps
(me and Fu Yaw kena, where booby trapped means if you are not careful you will fall into mud, and you need to spend unnecessary strength to pull yourself and your shoes out from the mud). There are many fallen trees I noted, which is very challenging for me as sometimes I need to literally crawl under the tree… or bend very low… for more than 5 times. Wit the backpack. A pain in the ass for tall guys like me.6 false peaks… and they really took a toll on your mentality as one needs to climb for 6 hours… go through 1st false peak… and descend down for few hundreds feet again before we need to climb another few hundreds feet for the 2nd false peak.
1st false peak… “aw man… climb so long now only see the 1st false peak???”
2nd false peak “ hmmm, this site is big enough for campsite”
3rd false peak.. “wow… so many bushes man!!”
4th false peak.. “ we are nearing the real peak!! Yeah!!
5th false peak “ should have bring my camera phone.. so pretty here”
6th false peak.. when we reach the last false peak, the guide told us it is around 15mins hike to the chamah peak. “YiPPEE!!!”
And at LAST…!!!! Around 5pm… I am the first one to reach GUnung Chamah Peak!!!! (I mean first one from
my group, as the gu ide al ready reached much more earlier than me, haha) 
I putted down the backpack and feel the cold air and cold breeze around me!! I inhale deeply… and suddenly feel that… G7…. Under my feet now. A feel of euphoria and sense of proud, achievement, happiness surge through me….
Fu yaw emerged among the bushes a few mins later… smiling broadly. We shake hands and proceed to put up the fly sheet and set up the six man dome first.
After that, Miss Lim appears, followed by the rest. That night we laughed and smiled, eat happily and drink hot ginger water(we left the tea sachets at Tongkat Ali, haha)
as you can see from the pics… most of us are wearing snow caps(I dun have snow cap) wear gloves, and wear thick jackets as that night is a cold night. We even wear socks…
I can still remember vividly during the middle of the night, I woke up trembling with my teeth chattering to the fullest speed. Even my hands are numb from the cold. Hehe… that is the coldest I ever felt in all my mountain climbing trips…
Gunung Chamah Day 4 - Oct 3rd
We wake up at 7am, feeling damn cold. We clear all the tents… and as a saying goes..“we leave nothing but footprints in the mountains” so we carry all the stuff that we bring in out again. But I personally think that saying should be change a bit…
“ we leave nothing but footprints, urine and faeces in the mountains” haha…
After taking many pictures, we prepared to go down from Gunung Chamah again to our Kem Tongkat Ali checkpoint… feeling good and happy… we stopped briefly at every false peaks for photo sessions..haha…
A few hours later… we reach Kem Tongkat Ali… eat our lunch… and carry on our way to our Pos Rekom checkpoint…
We reach Pos Rekom in the afternoon… very happy despite exhausted and the gals quickly go for their bath first as it’s been one whole day we dun have any.
We guys promptly searched for some dry woods to build a fire to keep the dreaded AGAs at bay. That night we cooked a sumptuous dinner… blah blah blah until 10pm when they all decided to call it a night and go to sleep. Fu Yaw and me… still full of energy…decided to sleep at 12am. So we jus chatted… dry our clothes, shoes and bags by the fire… and keep the fire burning brightly.
That night is a special night as both of us saw a very spectacular sight…
Sky was full to the brim wit stars and galaxies and universes…!!!!
A few shooting stars flew past….
And the stars in the sky…
Was truly a sight to behold…
And all this time… I was thinking…
“Only if my girlfren… YeeLing.. can see this stars…
Wish you were here….”
12pm sharp… went for some shut eye. However.. at 2am I was woken up by sounds of MissLim taking 5 and Siew Ting chatting away. Drowsily we talked and after tat I proceed to sleep again. Haha…
Day 4 - Oct 4th - Teh Tarik Adventure!!!
Final Day… Teh Tarik Adventure!!!12.45pm.
Stuck inside the mud. As you can see from the pics.. the wheels of the Hilux is submerged until half inside the mud… the moment we see this…
Hahaha… “damn it!” “*&%* it” “I got a date tomorrow”
That is all my personal thinking… not others… although they may be feeling the same too. hehe…
Again… the sun is blazing hot… and the mud is very muddy… hence the name “teh tarik adventure”
Grabbing the cangkul and one more stuff *dunno-the-name* (like a big spoon, use for gardening also) we proceed to make a mess of ourselves…
1st war plan – Put planks or stones below the tires so they can get traction
and hence we will be on our way in no time… Scramble everywhere for wood.. stones.. big or small doesn’t matter… we put our first plan in step… on the engines… we pray while Miss Lim or Mr Voon(dun quite remember.. jus know we are hoping for the best) steps on the pedal and after a few seconds… Hilux in same spot!
1st war plan = Fail
2nd war plan – Dig a trail for the tires to go through. So we execute the plan diligently… scrapping and digging away 2 small tire size trails for the front tires.. after that Miss Lim proposed we also try to dry the muddy road with the hot blazing sun as our backup. So 4 gals dry the muddy water or affectionately known as “Teh Tarik”
as the color and water is same as Teh Tarik and the guys dig up the trails… after an hour… Mr Voon on the engine again.. and the rest of us tried to push from behind… result??2nd war plan = Fail
3rd War plan – All of us felt that the teh tarik still too muddy so it mus be dried completely. Proceed wit the 3rd war strategy… dig dig…dig dig… and while digging I realized that I can straight away dig a trail for the back tires… proposed the secondary objective to general in charge… Miss Lim … Approved! So I jus dig dig dig…
Stealing a look at Fu Yaw… I am really amazed at how white his skin still looks although he was spending way more time in the sun than me that day… I looked at myself.. charcoal color.. damn! What I was thinking now?? So I proceed to dig..
And suddenly one of the gangs proclaimed… “we need to clear all the soil and teh tarik underneath the Hilux… it’s piling up until the steel *dunno-wat-the-name* and that makes Hilux basking inside Teh Tarik.
3rd war plan = Fail4th War Plan – We proceed to dig and clear the soil underneath the Hilux.. wit ChianNi paving the way by wriggling herself completely below the car…
After that I tried to imitate her which… of coz… fails tremendously.. haha…
Bit by bit… we clear away the soil and debris that stuck below the car and block the steel pipe*dunno the name* and wit the dark clouds looming overhead us… this is really one last chance for us to break free…
Mr Voon step into the Hilux again… and all of us gather behind Hilux to provide a push… and 1.. 2… 3… PusH!!!!
Vroomm… vromm.!!!!
The Hilux breaks free from the mud.. leaving trails of destruction behind where in this case.. teh tarik on us…
First reaction – Scream wit joy
Second reaction – take pictures
Third reaction – board the Hilux and drive out ASAP as it shows the sign of raining and if we are stuck inside other mud again… we will be stuck until tomorrow as that time already 3.30pm.
So VIPS behind roared wit laugh
ter as we chat and make fun of each other while Mr Voon drive like there is a Tyrannosaurus is chasing us… we hardly feels anything except the rain is painful… macam stone hit us… and also when suddenly three of us are thrown into the air.. and back to the VIP seats again when Mr Voon flew past a small hill or mound. That was officially painful!!!Call us crazy or something but.. the 3 of us… were chatting non stop… talking bout gals, mountain climbing experiences, gossiping while being pelted wit rains and also being thrown around like cargos…
Around 6pm we were out of the 4WD trail… and VIPS all change place into Kenari… and Fu Yaw really is a true gentleman… me and ah Boon is a mud man wit very wet clothes… and he still can smiles when we bundled into his car…. A true gentleman…
Taking off our wet clothes… we 3 guys followed Hilux into Gua Musang to find a place to eat dinner… and passerbys was eyeing us curiously as 8 muddy guys and gals… walk to a restaurant… to find food. The tauke is a kind person… allowing us to use his bathroom to clean ourselves and change into clean clothes…
But after paying for the bill… we felt that he charges for the usage of his water and bathroom also. Haha…
Afterwards we stopped by Miss Lim’s teacher’s fren house at Tapah for a brief visit before continuing our way back to KL…
We reach Shah Alam that morning around 1am…
All of us spend the night at Teacher’s place that night… and the next day.. we bid our goodbye and go back our own homes…
And truly… Gunung Chamah is an adventure that is hard to forget…
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