Happy Belated April Fool day man.anywayz,spent the entire april's fool day together with 4 others from ODAC climbing mountain and waterfall in a single day!thx for the company...(eleanor,reina,zebin and lek)im very sure we did enjoy ourselves.anywayz,the expedition started off with us meeting 7am @ Kranji MRT station.and as usual,im always the first to arrive!well,only eleanor and zebin were late lah.as long as 20 mins!!!hahaha...then we took a bus 170 to the customs and went over to city square over at JB to catch a public bus to get to Kota Tinggi.It was pretty interesting as we seldom take those public transport(bus) to get to places.Instead we usually pay for coach buses to get to our destination.well,wasn't very much diff in either case except the fact that the public transport keeps stopping every now and then to pick ppl up.once we reach Kota Tinggi town,we went to some local coffeeshop to have breakfast.As usual,we always order food that will never go wrong man.ROTI PRATA and TEH TARIK!!!ahahaha...after eating the prata,i concluded that the prata can nv beat the one that me kenneth and lek ate at Tampin town!after breakfast,we took a cab to get to the dirt track which lead us to the trail head of Gunung Panti.after some walking,we finally reach the trail head.the place was filled with damn lotsa mosquitos man.even the mosquito patch that eleanor provided us with couldn't get those mosquito buzzing off our backs.i swear its damn alot cos i was right behind reina at start and start damn alot of mosquitos buzzing behind her.its to the extend that i can juz any how clap my hands in front of mi,behind reina,i could simply kill at least 1 everytime(even if i clap slowly).well,it was my first time to Panti for the fact that i din join the march expedition when i was in j2.so onli zebin and lek knew where to go.at first we kinda need abit more time to process the route cos the place is abit messy!well,in case u dun know,G. Panti was the mountain where one of our few singaporean adventure leaders that actually got lost within the forest.anywayz,back to the trek.it was a pretty easy trek to follow.however,i did had some problem for the fact that i was tryign out my Kg. Adidas aka malaysian trekking shoes.as it was the first time i was wearing it,it actually caused abrasion for my feet.it even managed to scrap off some skin tissue from my heels man.but i juz carried on walking knowing that we have other objectives in mind which is another waterfall trek 3km away.at some point in time,it reali hurts but all i know was that walking will ease the pain!!!hahaha...juz get to the top and tape more tapes to prevent the cut lolz.nearer to the summit,the key indicator was the rock climbing part.we gotta navigate our way up this 5m cliff.it is super fun.rock climbing is realli so much more fun than plain walking on forest trails.though its much more dangerous and tiring,its definitely worth it.then when we reach the summit,rest for awhile and took a couple of shots until we hear voices coming from the other side.it was actualli another group of ppl climbing up.exchange a few words with them and we start descending.the descend was pretty fast.nothing realli happened during the descend except reina running into a fallen trunk.there's this protruding piece of wood that actually jab into her knee cap area.but it wasn't realli anything very serious.luckily she could still manage to walk on her own.

the cliff part near the summit

this picture taken on summit.camera mounted on a tree!!!

another point on the summit

view from the summit

reina treated for her injuries!medic and mi,the tape provider!!

snake that we saw flat on the road while walking to pelepah kiri waterfall

after descending G.panti,we went another 3 km to the plantation which will lead us into the trail head of Pelepah Kiri waterfall.when we arrived at the plantation gate,i could vividly recall wat happened 5yrs ago while i was here with a group of frenz planning to camp at the summit of the falls.one of us slipped and fell and died.it was really a terrible experience.that was my very first adventurous journey but im glad it didn't mark my last.i still managed to join ODAC in CJ and get to go for the many many expeditions!im really glad my parents did not forbide mi to join ODAC and go for expedition ever since the accident.in fact im thankful that they did allow mi to go(even though i persuaded them to give mi the permission) so that i've made so many good frenz and enjoyed the journey that i've been to.anywayz,we started the climb pretty late lahz.ard 3 plus?then as we walked,i could slowly recall bits and pieces of sceneries that i've taken fotos at!!!but then again,the place was so so different from how it looked like 5 yrs ago.in terms of physical deforestation or erosion,the volume of water wasn't as much as what i've encountered before.but there were certain parts where i will nv forget.well as we climbed and climbed,the route was getting abit more technical and tougher to navigate.we reached a point whereby we couldn't see any more markings to indicate the route.and by then,it was already 5pm.it was getting dark as the cloud was getting darker as if its gonna rain anytime.and at the moment,im kinda stress cos i wouldn't wanna stay overnite at this place or even have nightwalk when only one of us have a torchlight.we couldn't afford to stay there also because we dun have food for us to bring us thru the nite.wat's worse is that we only had some biscuits for lunch!!!so i was like telling them we better turn back and start descending as its getting dark and drizzling plus we're here for the first time.im just afraid that we might miss a turn or something and get lost in the forest.wat im even more scare of was the rain and slippery surface plus the power of flash floods.Nv underestimate the force of nature man.and i always remember this phrase i think i heard from my odac teacher,mr lim.a good adventurer will always know when to turn back.something like that lahz.so we turned back esp when we couldn't realli see markers along the route to bring us to the summit.well,we managed to get out of the forest before sunset.played ard with the water at the lower course splashing one another.i swear i had lotsa fun in just that one day.glad that reina came along too for the fact that she's pretty interested to join us for expeditions on our own but missed out the berkelah and jerangkang trip.and with her around,there's always someone ard to suan!!!thus making the journey less tiring and more fun.im glad she enjoyed herself and im sure there will be many more expeditions she can always join us.dun need to feel upset even if she can't join us for the coming titiwangsa expedition when she can be having fun trekking ard in US too.hahaha...well,after we reached the trailhead,they kinda bugged mi to tell them more abt the incident that happened 5yrs ago.im glad i din tell them at the start of the journey cos they might not be able to concentrate on the journey and take the stress bah.cos after i told them,they were like abit shaken for the girls lahz.and they did say they won't wanna go back to pelepah kiri anymore.hahaha...well,i guess im going back this sat to complete wat's been left out.this time round i wanna get to the top!!!well,one thing i forgot was to thank both the mountain and waterfall for giving mi such a good trip and being merciful on us.anywayz,let's juz let the fotos do the talking bah!

first river crossing at pelepah kiri waterfalls.(area whereby big foot sightings were reported recently)

me and my kg. adidas shoe

first small fall that we encountered

look at this pic.its not easy getting on top of the SLIPPERY LOG!!!

the fall with a longer cascade

one of the longer waterfalls

this is some near where we decided to turn back.its getting very dark

at the start of the trail splashing ard!

at marrybrown's fast food rest. in kota tinggi town

well,we managed to get back to singapore at ard 10 plus and reached home ard 11 plus bah.objectives were met and we enjoyed ourselves very much!and to think we had the chance to trek in the rain which is wat we haven been doing for such a long time.hahaha...well,going on to sunday...

had my salsa lessons today!its pretty fun cause we are going into more complicated routines.when i reached there,none of those that i know was there lah.instead of seeing our usual instructor allan,this time round we had jessie instead.she's quite a nice teacher i muz say.made lessons more interesting and relax in a sense.well,she taught us quite some stuff.it more of varying wat we have learnt.this time round i told myself to be more confident and muz go do the leading properly.muz really let the lady feel the lead if not she wouldn't know wat's gonna come next.meanwhile,i'll try my best to memorise the steps.anywayz,kenneth and alvan didn't come for lessons!kenneth overslept and alvan was out of town!the girls came late!but they didn't miss out much too.anywayz,next week muz get there earlier to help kenneth with his dance steps liaoz.hahaha.before i forget,juz before i rushed down for salsa class,i was over at padang to check out the singapore adventure race.from the turnout,im pretty skeptical abt how interesting it can get.there was some stalls selling adventure related stuff and i bought this waterproof case at one of these stalls.hope it wont spoil so easily.besides that,saw the ntu odac booth trying to promote their adventure trail challenge.immediately i picked up the registrationg form and thought of competing in it.its been a long time since i've did my last adventure race.i swear its not abt winning.i juz like the challenges put forward to us in the race and how we actually encourage one another to push on and hold on to the end that's making mi so interested in this.it also gives mi a chance to practice the various skills that we've learnt.the adrenaline rush is something that make mi feel very shiok.and i wanna complete the race no matter wat.swear its not for winning but more of like the sense of achievement,being able to complete the race as a team despite our differences!now its up to lek mauricette and kenneth to help mi fulfil my dream man.if they're willing to come together,it'll be like the urban challenge team that we raced in before.the same group of peeps!im so looking forward to this man.

after salsa lessons,went down to cheer my batch mates on for their swansong performance.im realli glad they're finally doing their last performance and we did the typical ord personnels ORD cheer before they marched off for istana.well,it was a good show for the fact that no one dropped weapon.but then again,i would say the standard is not good...seriously dropped alot since our juniors took over.hopefully someone can do something abt it.alright that's all for now...shall update once again lahz.