A FORTNIGHT AGO..

.. I went for the last Expedition meeting in Rakan Muda Club House and met up with Joe, Shirleen and the rest of the venturers. Adrian, James and Sam was there also. We went through our kit list, important things to bring and learned how to tie our shoe laces. Then we went to shop for our equipments but most of the shops that we went to were closed; well, including the restaurant we were suppose to have lunch.

We called it a day after tea time around 4 and I headed to town again to get something for the office. It was a good day, productive and all. Then, I called Al up and promised to meet up after some work in the office.

2:00 a.m., the next day. I was 6 hours late and Al was annoyed. Had to sleep outside on the couch, and works beginning at 7 in the morning with 200 people to tend to. It was madness to actually think I could go to sleep with such heavy feelings, guilt and flirting mosquitoes!

I didn't sleep. And it was a long, long day... It was a bad day.

Then, suddenly I met Zach and his friends, and it kinda just picked up again from there. Met his friends during dinner, a big one. Most of 'em are quirky in their own ways. Loads of laughs, dancing to the 80's and getting my sleep. These few days will probably not mean anything to anyone, but it certainly does for me.

It was about friends, promises and everything in between..

Al called.

AN ADVENTURE AFTER SO LONG...

7:00...

... and we've waited for about half and hour now. Qing Yee's nowhere to be seen. I browsed through Ming-Fei's dad's National Geographic magazines and chose one for the trip.

We made our way to Taiping, picking up our last man, Jenn Woei before making our way to the North-South Highway; north-bound. Passing through were some of the landscapes so ingrained in my mind, however so they appeared cold and distant. Marbles..

We had our breakfast in a small town, Kampar. One of the best beef noodles ever, before traversing back on the same way we came to the highway and then the town of Everlasting Peace.



It rained for most part of the afternoon, after an unsucessful wade in the waterfalls. We were confined in our rooms of Panorama Hotel. Dinner led us to the famous Taiping Lakes, where the branches of the Methuselahian raintrees edge toward the waters, caressing it softly.

Then, we took some innocent drive around the town... mazing our way back to the hotel where we dozed off without a countdown while we watched the first installment of Lord Of The Ring.