Ulu Bendol

Finally!!We made it to Ulu Bendol!!8 people (4 from HELP, 1 INTI, and 3 kids from Desa Perdana) braved the haze to conquer Gunung Angsi.

Our group of hikers consists of :

1. Goh Hao Wei (The person who organised this trip)
2. Esther Tan (First Aid person)
3. Hum Jo- Shua (Equiptment manager)
4. Michelle Marie (Games coordinator)
5. Koh Yih Hon a.k.a Horny (participant)
6. Nalgulen (participant)
7. Alex (participant)
8. William (participant)

Well actually, we ALMOST decided not to climb up Gunung Angsi at the last minute because some Irresponsible people from our neighbouring country (Hint Hint) decided that since the wind is blowing towards KL, that they start burning down forests since it won't affect them anyways. On thursday, I could barely make out anything out of my window. So, those people that were supposed to go for the trip gathered at A&W at 1 Utama (Yes..there are still A&Ws around here) . For about an hour we dicussed (more like argued) over whether we should still continue our trip. Unfortunately, Hui Xia decided to call her mom at the wrong time and ended up forbidden not to go. So there goes 5 people! And Wei Ping, Lee Yan and Michelle Yew also decided last minute not to go. We ALMOST cancelled our trip when Hao Wei called Esther, and Esther being her excited and stubborn self (in a good way of course) insisted that we continued our trip eventhough there were only 8 of us. Eventually, we made our plans and went on ahead with the trip.

Day 1

I was still half asleep when I arrived at KL Sentral with Horny and remained in that state until we had some breakfast. Met up with Michelle Marie (MM) at the Mid Valley station. Horny told his usual lame jokes to keep us laughing throughout our journey. Later, we met up with Hao Wei (HW) and his gang of scouts juniours and went to Seremban Parade for lunch (BTW, don't order the chicken rice there...Yuck!!) and later bought some stuff to eat during our trip. Then me, horny, MM, and 2 juniours took a bus to Ulu Bendol. There we lepak-ed until HW finally arrived in his van to take us to our "campsite".

Here it is:

Nice Eh?Yup! Nice wheather there...and of course Haze-free!!I mean what do you expect?Its a forest reserve..Anyways, after the initial shock at the state of the toilets there (It was really dirty...seriously...even the toilet bowl doesn't flush) we settled down and made our way to the river. There was an easier way to get up the river (i.e on dry land) but NOO we had a sudden rush of Advanturous Hormones and climbed up the river via boulders and rocks wo get furthur up where there were less people. "If we are furthur up enough, it woudn't matter if other people pee in the river coz we won't get it," we thought. After splashing ice cold water at each other, we started taking dozens of photos. Unfortunately, I didn't bring my darling (my handphone) to ther river so I wasn't able to take any. Later we made our way back to our challet and one by one took "showers" in the disgusting toilet. After that, me and Horny helped out the girls cooking..welll sort of anyway. I helped errr carrying pots and pans all over the place. But at least horny was able to fry some nuggets which to my amazement still looked edible. Around 7.30 pm, we called the 3 kids down and started dinner. Everything was really good, even the nuggets. Soon, we gathered around the living room and decided to play Mafia which was not very successful because:

1. There were only 8 of us
2. We kept forgeting which card represents which characters
3. The Kids kept revealing their characters accidently

We continued lepak-ing until HW's parents came with KAJANG SATAY!! The satay and the sauce was like.....ahhhh *drools over keyboard*...After that, Horny gave me one really ridiculously difficult IQ test on his laptop which Jez scored 160 something (Chee Sin arr??) I only managed to scrape a 117 which was errrr high intelligence? score on the test. At around 1 pm we went to bed.

Day 2

Haihh..another day with not enough sleep firstly because it was FREEZING there and secondly because Nalgulen who was sleeping beside me was talking in his sleep (He was shouting: Nooo!! Not there!!! really loudly). Me and Horny then helped out the girls again to cook fried mee which was seriously tasteless. It was MM's idea to put almost a whole bottle of chilli sauce tofry together with the mee. Soon, breakfast was ready and me and Horny made our own special sandwitch which consists of

1. Bread with butter
2. Tuna
3. Tasteless Fried Mee on top

Wierd combination eh? It was quite nice anyways.

Soon, me and Horny started packing our stuff said good bye to everyone. We weren't actually able to climb Gunung Angsi because Horny had some stuff to do in INTI and my dad didn't allow me to climb up in such hazy wheather. After saying our last good byes, we set of and left the campsite with heavy hearts..Wished I could climbed up Gunung Angsi but oh well..maybe next time

Whoahh..kinda late now...gtg.

till next time