Finally!

I seem to be missing in action a lot lately, huh?

Don't blame me.

My excuse? My router died after 2 years of service (Sigh...it has served me well). And I just got a new one today. Even so, stream-yx (or as some ppl like to call it, SCREAMyx) has been bonkers for the past few days, so I couldn't upload my pics at all! :(

But nevermind, I'm here now.

:)

So how was my Gopeng trip?

Fantastic! (Sans some, as always :P)


Started out with caving (which incidentally was Gua Tempurung which I've already been to about a million years ago when I was just a lil kid).

I don't like caving.

I repeat: I DON'T LIKE CAVING.

Especially NOT in some cave which had been totally damaged by man made bridges and spotlights and pathways inside. And the icing on top of the cake for that day was that it was the school holidays and the place was PACKED like SARDINES!! :( Takes all the fun out of caving, I tell you!

Nothing like years ago when it was only a few of us inside braving the water and mud armed with just a few torchlights. And camping outside after that with fireflies for company. Ahh... those were the days :)

Now, all gone :(

No pics at the cave, was too pissed to take any (ie didn't enjoy myself at all).


Now, for the fun part :P

Water rafting down Kampar river!!!!!

Less talk, more pics rite? :P Keke

The place where we stayed. Really back to basics, but good enough la. 240 bucks for caving + rafting + food + one night stay. Can la :P Keke

Closer look at the kampung house we stayed in.

The inside. Yup, that's it :P Keke. Illustrates my definition of BASIC. And it was my first time sleeping with *ahem* 10 other ppl :P Keke

The rapids. And this is just the starting point :P

More to show how furious/beautiful it was.

Pics during rafting. Sorry they ARE of BAD quality because they were taking with an outdoor disposable camera (And subsequently taken again with digital coz poor me don't have a scanner :( ). Can't expect me to bring my digital camera along with me during the rafting, do you? :P

As tame as I might make it sound, two from the group actually fell into the rapids (No it wasn't me, fyi). And albeit all that's said, IT WAS SCARY seeing them float away, and you trying to chase after them. But hey, where would the fun be if there wasn't any excitement? :P

Oh, water's brown because it was raining and we almost couldn't go because of it. But all's well, because we had super fast paced water and double the adrenaline rush! :)

The group. 11 of us sans one. All pharmacists except me :P

Mahjong kakis. These ppl really thought of everything, including bringing a set of mahjong to past the time away that night :P I'm impressed!

Just proof that I was there :P
(In case any one of you thought the photos were doctored :P)

Me and one of my closest friends. Luv ya gal!
(Nice pics rite? It's the red backdrop. We couldn't resist! :P)

Anyone interested? Call the number above! :)
(Doing some free promo for them :P Keke)

And finally....




Tada!!!

Need I say more? :P

So.....Water rafting, anyone? :)

Yes ppl...

I'm still very much alive.

:)

(I can hear your sighs from all over here. Just wondering if they were sighs of relief or disappointment :P Keke)

Albeit some scratches and bruises here and there, and A LOT of muscle aching (I'm beginning to think ALL my muscles are aching. And I didn't know I had that many. Haha)... I HAD ONE OF THE GREATEST TIMES OF MY LIFE.

There is nothing more exhilarating than rushing down an ugly-roaring-mud-coloured-kickass-river for 10 kms at who-knows-what-speed! :)

Superb, I tell you.

If you love canoeing/kayaking and can paddle, this is the thing for you.

You don't even need to know how to swim! (Serious!)

Contrary to what ppl think, it IS a pretty safe sport. And sure beats taking adrenaline for the rush! :)

Okies... gtg.. Pics in the next post! :) For real this time :P keke

Whoever said that going for a holiday was easy??!!?

Trust me when I said that my entire life went topsy-turvy since last saturday when I was suddenly told that I was going to Hong Kong and Canada in a few weeks time.

Yes, I'm going HK and Canada.

In which BOTH require visas!

I've been running around like a mad hound doing all sorts of crap just for this!

Grrr... I don't understand why these ppl can't just let me go without all the hassle and haggle about unneccessary details like how big my face need to be on the photo which MUST have a white background (in which I HAD to go and take new ones) and getting all sorts of letters and bank stuff that tells them that I am going there for a holiday and have billions and billions to spent there and NOT because I wanna go there and jump aeroplane!

Argghhhh!

But the icing on the cake would be the THREE hour wait at the visa place just to get my visa done! (Like someone I know would put it blandly, "3 hours??!?! That's a lot of sleep!")

And that's just for the Canadian visa.

Next on, China. But at least that doesn't require my presence, so I'm not allowed to rant about it.

Though it may all seem exciting as I'll be travelling for about a month or so (Do I hear the hurrays now that I'm gone? :P), it's all tentative, and I'm not sure when and where I'll be posted as a doctor yet.

I hate tentatives.

But if you think about it, it's exhilarating to buy just one way tickets to HK and Canada. Like I'm going for an adventure or something and not come back. Haha. (One way because I cannot fix my return dates until I know when I'll be posted. In which I have absolutely NO IDEA. haha) (Oh, embassy ppl, just joking ok. I'll DEFINITELY come back here :P )

Yup, one of the many reasons why I've not written anything for the past week (Not because I'm lazy, but because I'm BUSY :P) Sorry k?

Oh, and believe it or not, I was suppose to do a KL-HK-San Francisco-Vancouver-HK-KL thing (All planned by my mom within half an hour last sat. Not joking. She's a pro at this.) but the plan fell out because I felt it wasn't worth it to pay so much for a US visa. It would indefinitely add more rants here because it would involve ANOTHER round of visa havoc, and this time gotta go for interviews somemore! (And I'm in no mood for any more interviews since the last one was... Ermmm... Interesting. Blek.). Plus, I'm not that interested to go US anyway. Never did, probably never will :P

Finally, I have a holiday! (Everyone's been asking me what I have planned since I finished my exams, and honestly, I didn't have any until now k :P)

Excited? Hmmm... Not yet. But I still have much time till the 16th when 'I'm leaving on a jetplane..' *sings to the song* :P

As for today, I just made my most rash decision ever.

I just said yes to river rafting tomorrow.

Yup.
Me.
The one in which the outdoors doesn't really agree with.
(Just to quote my dearest sis, "My sis is about as energetic as a doormat.")
WATER RAFTING.

I'm screwed, rite?

Bleah.

But it's a gotta-do-at-least-once-in-lifetime-so-die-die-la kind of thing :P

Wish me luck.

Pics, if I have any, the next post! :)



PS: I'm going ALONE to HK and Canada, btw. If you must know :P But then again, it's not the first time I'm doing something like this. Keke. It's me, after all.
PPS: Aeroplane food! Here I come! :P Muahahahah