14 SEP 2011 WED - 4th Formal Training @MacRitchie for OCT Nepal Trekking Trip

i think last night got rain but not my area, i think i heard thunder [soft ones not loud] around my waking up time... i was thinking whether to wake up so early or not... is it going to rain that we cannot trek today?... if so might as well continue my sleep... paisay hor lame excuse... then i thought to myself if rain cannot trek in MacRitchie, we can still go any HDB flats around there to 'climb stairs'... so stop finding excuses to be lazy ;)

lucky i managed to stop the lazy thoughts... st told me first thing she did this morning when she woke up is to check her cellphone to see if i sms her to say it seems like going to rain... let's take a break today... haha if any of us initiate to cancel today's trek, we would not have covered this today [ H A B C D E C B K J A H ==> about 10.3 km + approximately 1 km ]

0832 monkeys 'jumping' from tree to tree to welcome us ;)

0834 pools of water, indeed it rained here:

0920 me :)


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0941 the beginning of the UP UP UP to tree top walk:

0944 nice hor

0945 UP

0946 UP

0946 reaching the tree top walk, at the mini slim white board at end of this road

0949 from the 'orr-yew-lor' down down the wooden stairs to tree top walk

0949 the indian uncle attendant at his work place, see his umbrella?

0949 as usual, chatted with him for a while... he said it was raining this morning, i asked if any visitors this morning, he said got a group of european aunties this morning, wow this group of aunties age around 50s trek every morning! he said they very FIT!

1004 wow we up these stairs without break!

1007 we down these stairs without break! aiya 'down' no need break la

1022 raining

1131 new route for today, returning to A via K and J [ref to the map at the beginning of this post]

1131 so... this is how this route was created

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1138 wow wow chewing gum tree [my favorite chewing gum... from tree?]

this is the HUGE chewing gum tree...

... the upper portion of the HUGE chewing gum tree

1142 wow another tree growing horizontally? but kanna chopped! dunno if this is the same kind of leaning tree that we saw last thursday

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1204 the water clear hor... near ending point

as usual, milo no ice, then shower, then take 130 to jalan besar, lunch then meet raj (chariot) for the briefing of our nepal trip

1352 lunch at new century food court along jalan besar, heehee this is the only stall with queue, so we joined the queue... prawn kway tiao with pig tail and ribs... not bad but the soup very sweet, a bit artificially sweet...

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