Day 4: To the Mountain!

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Finally is day 4, the scheduled climbing day~

Thanks to Mr. Weather, the sky is clear, no rains.

So here is the plan:

1. Get transport to Kinabalu Park,

2. Start hike.

Of course step one is quite troublesome: take taxi to Kinabalu Park is about 2 hours, cost about RM180; or take minivan, RM15 per person. We took mini van for sure. However, mini van will only start when the vehicle is full…

waiting. It’s 6am in the morning.

There will be daily mini van to Ranau from Kota Kinabalu, which will pass by Kinabalu Park.

Our talkative van driver who likes to share his experience with us. He shown us his saman, his rubic cube, his 8 times Mount Kinabalu hiking experience etc. (Locals always hike Mount Kinabalu, like pass time)

Finally the van is full, start driving. On the way saw this Mount Kinabalu from far. It looks small, I know, wait till you climb it.

This Mr Russian is teaching me how to solve Mr. Driver’s rubic rube. I am noob, I still can’t remember the steps.

Reached Kinabalu Park! Nana, Bobby, and Kelvin, and camera man Me. FYI, Kinabalu Park is located at roughly 1950m above sea level, higher than Genting Highland.

This is the closer look of Mount Kinabalu, marvellous.

What the process at Kinabalu Park?
This is the place we report our arrival, hire a mountain guide, get our packed lunch.

There are 2 trails for climbers to chose, 1 is from the Timpohon Gate (left side), and another is the much harder one from Mesilau Gate (right side).

Mesilau Trail is 2km longer, but with more beautiful scenery than Timpohon Gate.

Since this is not the always opportunity, let’s take the hard one up, and come back down from the easy one, hoho.

To start from Mesilau Gate, we need to take transport to there for 20 minutes, cost us total of RM85 per van, kena chopped…

 
Reached, Mesilau Resort signboard.

Hiking Starto~ It’s already 11am, quite late.

The trail consists of all sort of surface, like the above one.

 
Our mountain guide, Simpson. He is like a super human, won’t tired one.

 
Nana with his super camera. The scenery is very beautiful, and there his camera start working.

 
Look down at KM1. HAHA.

 
KM2, hoho, still can smile.

 
Some random waterfall in the forest.

 

Starting, the road is going upward, after 1km, it going down until starting altitude… then going up for about 1 hour, then going down again!!!! Shit, this is killing my knees!

 
KM4.5, out.

 
This is the packed lunch from Kinabalu Park, not something special, but in hungry time, anything taste nice, plain water can taste like 100 PLUS, tea can taste like beer.

 
Along the trail can easily spot this kind of toilet. I wonder where the waste flush to….

 
My hiking permit card.

 
With names one, precious~

Like Alice in Wonderland.

 
Can’t smile anymore…. tired.

 
Big flower!

 
The background is awesome, we are above the cloud finally~

 
This is the water tank that can be seen along the trail. It written: “Air tidak dirawat; Untreated Water”. but it is safe to drink.

 
Beautiful…

 
Turn left to Timpohon Gate, turn right to the peak? Turn Right!

 
One of the hell terrain. Our steps are getting heavier and heavier, slower and slower, and the terrain is getting harder and harder… where is the end point?

 
Kelvin with his “lunch”.

 
Another terrain. The trees are getting shorter and shorter..

 
This is the white tree.

 
The air is getting thiner, breathing is getting harder. I need to inhale and exhale faster, else the dizzy feeling strike on me. Finally, reached Laban Rata Resthouse! It is already 6:08pm, a 7 hours non stop climbing, just to get our dinner on time, because the dinner will close on 7pm.

 
My first proper meal of the day, not very special, but is super delicious when hungry!

 
People playing sepak takraw on the cloud.

Check in, get room key, put down stuff… huh, tired! I shall bath first before sleep, the water is… VERY FUC***G COLD! The feeling same exactly like soak your hand into ice water, 5 seconds can make your hand numb!

So… It’s the fastest bath I ever had in 21 years.

Slept at 7:30pm, got to wake up at 2am tomorrow morning to conquer the rest of the mountain.

Stay tune!

Another Live Example: Ants can Teleport.

While I work on my code on my desktop, suddenly, I notice an ant walk across my screen.

So I use finger to sweep it away.

Ei? It’s not on the screen..??

Damn, it’s in the screen! I got no idea how it dig into there.

Ant is on Firefox.

Ant is on IE.

On MSN chat. 

On Desktop.

Ant on Facebook.

 

This little creature is walking inside the screen, somewhere between the light source and the crystal display, I don’t know.

Sadly, by the time I write this post, the ant is dead. Maybe too tired after crawling for 8 hours without food. So now it left a “dead pixel” that occupied 10 pixels on my screen… shit.

Another solid prove that ants can teleport, into your air tight jam container, your fridge, and now, your LCD screen.

No plastic bag, no no no.

Went for a huge shopping with family at Jusco Seberang perai.

My family has a weird trend, we only shop once a month, or every 2 months. So for every “stock buying” day, the trolley will be filled until it is full.

Maybe was in Cyberjaya for too long, I don’t know that the whole Penang is having a very large scale anti plastic bag campaign, participated by all major hypermarkets. All the items in trolley being carry home without taking any plastic bag.

If want plastic bag, pay 20 cents lo~ Since 6th July 2009, every Monday is no plastic day, and saved more than 1,000,000 plastic bags. (The day we went is not Monday, maybe they expanded the days)

I love this new Penang government.

The Maze

Maze game that we played since we small had been lost count, and In fact, all mazes are play on paper, or newspaper.

My ex-housemate, Carls’s  Cyber-P project, call Labyrinth: The Dead End, is really a real size maze~ OK la, quality is not like those world class using brick one, but still playable la~

This is 1/3 of the maze only~

“I am lost… How?”

Went there with Calvin. Our sense of direction is just so dumb. At least used 15 minutes in the maze, visiting the same place again and again. Next time should use maze algorithm to exit~

Quite some surprise in there, try it out yourself.

Location: In-Door Badminton court, MMU. (beside stadium food court)

Time: 3pm to 10pm

Date: 24 – 25 Nov (means tomorrow is last day)

Entrance Fee: RM3

If want some excitement, try go there at night~

One more funny thing:

See rules number 7.

HAHA.

Tiger Woods says I suck

This is my first time try out golf.

The weather at 3pm is just nice, cloudy and windy. The place? Cyberpark.

The price is really cheap, RM4 for 50 balls, and RM5 to rent the golf stick. It’s ok, the golf stick are all in good quality, no bend.

Calvin’s pattern.

My pattern.

Wong Kok’s pattern.

Why this world is so not fair… They never provide golf stick for left-hander…

It’s a very nice game to release stress, while swing the stick, say the name of someone or something you hate. F**k exam!

Aiming. For a first timer, it’s quite hard to accurately hit the ball in right position, always swing the stick, but hit nothing, hahaha~ Purposely wear a white Polo Shirt like a golf player, but it didn’t add my skill points, haha.

Among all, I am the worst~

There are field for short distance goal too.

Almost!!!! (Fake one actually)

Almost!!!!! (This one is real..)

When get bored with normal golfing, try snooker style. Shit Wong Kok is behind me doing all those nasty postures…

Also found out they have all sorts of facility in the park, like cheaper pool table games~ HAHA.

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Hoo… hectic semester, need some rest once in a while. Jia you!