The dark side of me

Monday, June 20, 2005

Came back from Mount Ophir long ago but was too lazy to update. lol. Time passing fast, my one month school holiday only has about one week left and I've not studied anything for my summer tests yet, so dead. My trip to Ophir with my odac team mates was great, I loveee it. Lol. And I'm glad that there's some plans for us to climb a different mountain next year. However, I'm not so sure whether my team mates really want me to be there though. haha. I'm the weakest person in the whole team man and I almost can't make it. Throughout the journey I was mumbling "Oh shit" to myself when I see endless steps and branches that we have to climb. And halfway through to our campsite, I already felt like I was half dead. I felt so bad for dragging the whole team down. Without me, they probably reach earlier and thus can rest earlier. Guess that I over estimated myself and that's why I didn't train much before the trip. Lol. We met SA's odac team in the mountain, what a coincidence. I was just joking with Gwen that maybe we should bring something nicer to wear in case there's any cute guys or what.. see? At least she met familiar faces. Too bad, dressing up is absolutely out of question when you cannot even have bath.

Day one was really tiring. We set off at Kranji Mrt Station at around 7 in the morning and we then took a bus to the custom. After we all pass the checkpoint and all, we took a bus to Langkin. Then, me gwen and crystal shopped around for food and we finally decided on donuts! Buy 5 and get 1 free.. it's rather tempting and so we got 5. In the end, no one wants to eat the donuts so I hold the donuts all day long looking like an idiot. We took a bus from Langkin to Tangkat and then took our lunch and bought mineral water which we brought uo to the mountain. Then, we took a cab to the foot of Mount Ophir. The taxis were really old and there's no air con! Can you imagine it? I'm a spoiled Singaporean. lol. We started climbing soon after we reached and the whole journey was.. super duper tiring for me. After we reached the campsite, we chose a nice spot and started to set up the tents, me gwen crystal and miss chew in one tent. ha. We have to join our groups and decide whether we should wash up first or cook our dinner after that. In the end, things were not really coordinated as the guys went to wash up first and the girls just hung around doing nothing. The river became girls' forbidden grounds when the guys' there because they are not fully dressed. It was funny hurrying em when we were reaching the river. We girls cleaned up after the guys left and I was pretty disgusted that we have to wash up using the river water. And what's more, there's fishes in the river. But once we come in contact with the water, we changed our mind. It's a wonderful feeling as the river was really really cooling. However, due to the fishes, we girls did not dare to go down but just stayed around at the side, wiping ourselves clean with towels and washing our faces in the water. Then, we went back to the campsite for dinner. And dinner was..... instant noodles. Lol. Luckily I have some really nice group members who helped me cooked. After the dinner, we washed the mass tins and prepare to go to sleep for we've to wake up at 2.30 a.m the next day to climb to the summit to catch the sunrise. We scrambled back to the girls' tent and prepare to go to sleep. Then, we heard singing. Nope, it's nothing to do with horror. The singing came from the odac guys! Apparantly they're having some K-box session to entertain themselves. Gwen put on her earphones and went to sleep and crystal was falling asleep. Soon, i drifted away to my dream world too.

The next day, we woke up at two something and we started changing to our trekking attire. I really took quite a while and I could hear my team mates outside asking me to eat breakfast. Lol. I managed to scramble out of the tent a little too late and start gobbling down my breakfast. My nice team mates cooked breakfast again without any help from me. I felt so bad. lol. As I was really a slowpoke, there no time to wash the mass tins. Soon, we started to trek. It was pitch dark and everyone of us was holding a torchlight to guide our way. Though darkness can be scary sometimes, but it certainly nice to me too as there's less things to scare me since I can't see much. haha. we climbed higher and higher and this was better than day one as we were not holding our big backpack then but just a small pouch. However, I was lousy as usual. The sun was already rising when we reached the summit but the view was magnificiant. We had an hour to spend at the summit and it was getting really cold. Then Mr. Sim want us to climb some ladder down and go to the other side to take photo. I was like.. no way! I'm afraid of heights man! lol. So I just watched them...

Update more on day 2 and 3 tmr.. I'm sleeping!

Just a girl|3:31 AM|

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