Mt. Gading

Yes, time to get crazei again! This time to Mt. Gading. A mountain with 3 waterfalls in it.

This trip was organized by Phui, a master student in my lab. So, when it comes tolab trip, it gonna involve many peeps. 2 cars 11 people!

Mr Anthony was the driver. Having such a great driver, we were so relaxed till ZZzzz...

 

 

 

Upon arrival,  we unloaded all of our baggage and food then checked into our rooms. Ladies and gents in different rooms of course!

 

 

 

 

We have got the kitchen to ourselves and all the girls started to prepare for dinner..BBQ!

As i could not help much, i was with my camera taking down all their actions...many potential housewives here! ghehe... 

 

 

 

After the preparation, we took a short break by visiting to the nearest waterfall to chill out. Although this one is small, but the impact of the water splashing down on us was great. I had my Gua Sa the day before i came and i was not suppose to go into the water. HOW CAN I CONTROL MYSELF?? haha...

 

 

Finally, time to BBQ our food. Starving!! 

 

 

All the pretty ladies...

 

 

OMG...this scorpion was our the BBQ chamber when we were almost done!

 

 

 So we changed place. Still inside is safer...

Pic (back): Miss A, Sing Yiing, Robert

(Front): Anthony, me, Phui, Fu, Boon Ling and Pei Sing

Day 2: We went ups and downs and finally did the complete trail in the jungle. The trail always seem shorter when you have friends to walk with. Because we will be having each other talking, eating and supporting.

 

 

 

 

As Boon Ling is not feeling well, she and Liew stayed back at the camp preparing our lunch. STEAMBOAT. yeah!!

 

 

 

We had our sweet time finishing the whole bowl of steamboat because it was still too early for beach.

The best beach ever...Palm Beach. Sound like the one in Florida? ha...this one is the Kuching version.

 

Best, isn't it?

The beach maniacs..

We had a blast of our time. But sadly enough, i was having fever that night and coughed terribly. My baby was caring enough sms-ing me from next door. His car broke down too because of the old battery but luckily we managed to get back to town and have it changed.

Bako National Park

12 Nov 2009

 

Chris: Hey Pauline, i am coming to Borneo!
Me: That's great. I'll pick you up!

Chris, my supervisor in Perth. He will be spending his year end holiday here in Borneo. So i arranged his accommodation and activities for his 9 days here. One of the programme was 5D4N visit to Bako National Park. I invited Nikson and Mei too...

Pic (left to right): Chris, me, Mei and Nikson

We registered ourselves at the counter and bought the boat tickets. As students, we were entitled a discount on our entrance fees. Yeah~

Here, we excitedly boarded on the boat. Didn't realize in the first place that it was end of the year, so the boat ride out to the sea was a horrible experience. The wave was fierce and kept hitting on our boat which at some point my mind kept preparing for the worst case scenario because we were not provided with life jackets!! The guys were pretty steady especially Chris. Nik did showed his concern too but cool enough. Mei and i screamed all the way......till we reached. Phew!

Felt just SO LUCKY to be on the ground again, ALIVE. The boat could not reach the jetty as the water level was very low so we hooped out of the boat, into the water to our knees level, grabbed our baggage and walk all the way to the land. We felt like the Survivors in the movie (wing blowing our hair).

 

Look at the black and red big square trolley luggage, black was Chris's and red was Mei's. We were into the jungle on an island and we brought trolley luggage?! Laugh not...we have got loads of important stuffs in there which included clothes, many many repellents, bite cream, detergent, and most important, our 6 breakfast for the next 5 days!

This is where we got ourselves registered. Got the key and checked into our room. We had a room with 4 beds. We were warned to keep our window and door closed as the macaque is everywhere and they can open doors and windows.

Once we got ourselves ready and put on many layers of insect repellent, we were ready to do our first trek..Telok Paku.

This was a 2 hours trek. Just nice to warm up our muscle for the next few days.

I love this rock!

The rock look so much like an oyster. Thanks to Chris who pulled me up.

 After the trek, we got back and supposed rest early. Somehow we got very excited and decided to do put on one tattoo on each of us. I chose this which means Star.

Presenting to you our daily breakfast. Milk, raisin, muesli, chocolate bars, walnuts and almonds. Healthy eh...

 

This was our Day 2 trail. Telok Kecil. This is a long trail of about 5 hours return trip.

See the crystal clear water down there? There was where we got into the embrace of the nature. Very unfortunately, my camera got "drowned"!! I put it at one side before i went into the water but when i got up, all my things were floating and i could not find my camera. Nikson fished it from the water. sob..sob...i hate the sea!!

My camera gone...life still goes on. Nikson got a shot of me when i was just so down.

But when we back to town in Kuching, Chris bought me a NEW camera!! :D

Mei was not with us in this trip cause she has got asthma due to the tiring trail we went on the first day. So, Chris insisted she rest in the room. Anyhow, she was enjoying watching the wild boar and macaque in the canteen!

On that night, despite our tiredness, we joined a group of people to a night trek. It was very dark, many weird noises. So damn creepy. Nikson managed to catch some nice insect shots.

 

 

 

Well, after for just staying there for 3 days, we gave up. Too many love bites from the giant mosquitoes. Mei and i could no longer take it so we quit and went back Kuching on the 4th day.

Mt. Santubong

I love Jungle trekking!!...with FRIENDS ^.^

Pic: Arjun, Nikson, S.Ying, M.Fang, Mag, H.Chuan, Aman, Ray and me. (sorry about the rest cause i can't recall)

This was on the 29 Nov 2008 when we had done our final exam for  the 5th semester. We called this the de-stressed trek. See, we were all so relieved.

27/11/08
2100: Preparing tuna and sardine sandwiches.
2200: Bed time.

28/11/08
0500: Preparing ingredients for fried rice.
0520: Started cooking. ( End up Grandma did most of the cooking..hehe..)
0600: Picked up by Nikson and the journey started!

We reached at the foot of Mt. Santubong at around 0730. We gathered around and distributed the work to the guys. What work? Basically, carrying the girls food and drinks. We were all so excited having all sort of junk food and "proper" food for the trip. Then we wanted to pay the water bill before heading off. Guess what? The toilet was bloody expensive. RM 1 per pax!! OMG..urine is just liquid that is degradable and some more nutritive  to the plants *blink* yet it cost so much to release it. No choice..chopped. (Unless you are blinking now).

Going in...realizing i brought my camera without battery in it!!! T.T

Poor bridge collapsed...but we managed to go through as the ground was dry.

       Half way up...

           As we saw this huge tree, we stopped to pic again...

Going down the slope to the waterfall...

Finally, time for a break. It was like 2 or 3pm when we reached this part and all of us were tired and hungry.

so we took out the sandwiches which i made. It never tasted so good!

Time to chill out a little while after the break so we had a visitor to take this.

Lovely...

No time to waste, we hurried up and FINALLY...yes finally, we reached the top!! OH YEAH!

It rained quite heavily when we came up. The trail was very slippery. It just doubled the work of our calf muscles. Happily, everyone was doing great.

             One for MY record! Just so scenic.

Our lil hut for the final dish...Grandma's fried rice *.*

                    Best thing on top of the mountain!

                 One for the album! We made it!!

                           The mist came...

Well, time to head down. It was already like 3 or 4pm then. We must get down to the foot before the sun goes down. So, the trip back was actually more energy consuming than when we went up. Most of our legs started to shake and we have to be fast some more. Torturing T.T

                 Just nice...it was 630pm when we reached the ground. Praise God!

We all slept soundly that night and had the muscle pain for the rest of the week. lolx...