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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Random Post
YO people. For those who religiously follow this stinky blog, I'm off to HongKong, the shopping haven tonight. :) So won't be updating till I get back.
Enjoy hols.
Random pics taken yesterday night.
Wonder who took that one...
(Blue) Tongue wars.
Iris playing Bubble Breaker in bed.
My awesome custom made Barbie. :)
Theory certs from Grade 1 to 8, nice colours :)
Piano certs from Grade 1 to 8
Books I bought
Evan Loo Hsien Rong.
Aileen.
Enjoy hols.
Random pics taken yesterday night.
Wonder who took that one...
(Blue) Tongue wars.
Iris playing Bubble Breaker in bed.
My awesome custom made Barbie. :)
Theory certs from Grade 1 to 8, nice colours :)
Piano certs from Grade 1 to 8
Books I bought
Evan Loo Hsien Rong.
Aileen.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
KC2 Annual Gathering
HUMANS:
Ali Baba (Aileen Loo)
Osama bin Laden (Olivia Tham)
Sherlock (Erina Lim)
Timantha Tiffany (Tim Koh)
Zucchini (Zen Tan)
Samantha (Scott Koh)
VENUE:
The Loft, KL Sentral
CONCLUSION:
110% FUN!
Please click to enlarge the pictures to see them clearly :)
Aileen :)
Ali Baba (Aileen Loo)
Osama bin Laden (Olivia Tham)
Sherlock (Erina Lim)
Timantha Tiffany (Tim Koh)
Zucchini (Zen Tan)
Samantha (Scott Koh)
VENUE:
The Loft, KL Sentral
CONCLUSION:
110% FUN!
Please click to enlarge the pictures to see them clearly :)
Aileen :)
Friday, December 4, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Mount Kinabalu
DAY 1
We left the house at around 9 to catch a bus to LCCT. Then the flight was around noon. We reached Kota Kinabalu around 3and spent another 2 hours drive up the mountainside to the foothills. We checked into Kinabalu Park Resort, the temperature was so cold and we had a 1km walk back to the room. So we ate dinner first, then went back to the so big room to pack and sleep for the next day. Oh, and I saw my beloved Emily! She came to visit my room and stayed with her cute brother, who's obsessed without monkeys, mother and aunty ( who saved my KH shirt). :D
DAY 2
We rose early, ran to breakfast 1km away in the bitter cold, without jackets as to get acclimatised to the temperature. After breakfast, we went to collect our park permits to climb the mountain and meet our guide, Kounggin Kolinang. Armed with our huge rucksacks, my brother, Sarah, an economist/Londoner on a gap year backpacking in Asia and I left for Timpohon Gate to begin the long climb. We started climbing at around 8. Climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and CLIMB until so exhausted.
The whole mountain is 10 vertical kilometers high and our whole trek up was a total of 30km. Every time we passed a sign saying KM0.5 or KM1.0, we'd feel so happy. But then there were so many more kilometers stretching endlessly on until the summit. along the way, the guide picked wild raspberries for me which were so sour. But, at least it was something to eat. I kept asking the guide for ways to reach the summit without climbing. There was a helipad, but I found out that it cost RM6,000 to airlift someone. *Gasps* And its RM200 per kilometer for the Search and Rescue to carry you down. Gosh...
Anyway, the higher we got, the colder it became, the thinner the air became, the harder it became to breathe, so we had to stop even more to catch our breath. It was so hard to breathe. I thought the climb up would never ever stop, and it almost seemed to be like that. But, at 11.30 we managed to be the first to reach Laban Rata, the base camp of Mount Kinabalu, where we would bunk for a night before resuming our climb to the summit the next morning! So overjoyed and thankful that we reached at long last! Gawd bless me.
Then once we checked in, we staggered to our room. And SLEPT until dinnertime. So damn exhausted. We shared a tiny tiny room with another male and there were 2 bunk beds for the 4 of us. It was around 10 degrees Celsius. When we woke up, it was so freezing that Sarah refused to get out of bed to pee, even though she was literally bursting. Haha. Then dinner and back to sleep because we had to rise at 2a.m. the next morning, or shall we say, night. Heh
Day 3
Woke at 2am, SO SO SO COLD. It was around 4 or 5 degrees and our breath could even fog up. :) We had to trek down 150metres to Laban Rata from our Gunting Lagadan hut for breakfast. We all drank cup after cup of steaming hot Milo. So warming. But once we got out in the cold again, we froze up again.
Started climbing in the pitch darkness when all of you guys were sleeping so soundly in your warm beds. HMPH. Anyway, yet another long long long climb up. It got so cold that I had to wear 6 layers of clothes and my finger couldn't even hold on the rope where we had to climb up steep granite surfaces. Thank God my so nice guide held my hand all the way through and guided me up the mountain. we took loads of short cuts. Haha. After a long long while, WE REACHED THE SUMMIT! So happy. But we couldn't stay long at the peak if not we'd freeze to death. I couldn't even turn on the camera to take a photo of the breathtaking view or even drink some water.
Rested a few minutes to get our breath back and we started off AGAIN. This time down the mountain. Our knees hurt so much because they had to keep bending to keep from slipping. I had to keep standing in the sun to get warm. But, it didn't help and I was still cold. Going down was a little easier but it was still hard. It was so steep. When I looked up again from climbing down, I couldn't believe how I had got up to the summit in the first place. There were some so steep places where we had to hold on to a rope to climb down and up. So steep. I slipped and almost fell (to my death) because it had rained the night before and the rocks were really slippery and wet.
Reached Laban Rata. Slept for 1 hour. Then packed up and set off for Timpohon Gate again. I felt so sick with a high fever. But well, I had to get down anyway. So I just gritted my teeth and climbed. It was very steep down also. Climb climb climb climb climb, our legs all turned to jelly and we couldn't even walk straight, just like drunks.
CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB without rest for 3 hours straight. And we had another 3 more hours to go. So CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB again. It was like the a never ending flight of very uneven stairs.
Finally, we reached Timpohon Gate. God, so tired. We just collapsed. Then 5 minutes later, it started pouring heavily. Thank goodness we reached in time before the rain. It was bad enough being cold already, but it was even worse being cold and WET.
Anyway, we were on a real high because we CLIMBED MOUNT KINABALU!
Day 4
Stayed in Uncle Anthony's house. Left the house at 8 for White Water Rafting at Padas River. So exciting and nice. Our boat capsized and everyone thrown into the water. Plus it was raining also. So we were all wet. And there was a mini war going on between the 4 dinghies. Everyone was busy trying to push each other into the water. Push here and there. FUN!
Day 5
We stayed in Anthony's house because our legs were to painful to walk. Watched television the whole day in his huge TV Room. Anthony's really into Home Stereo and big Plasma televisions. The whole room is filled with super complicating electrical appliances. After that, our flight home was around 8 at night.
So sad to leave Sabah. I'm definitely coming back next year. We're going diving off Sipadan. But first I need diving lessons and a permit! And I need to get that infuriating PMR over and done with.
VENI VICI VIDI. I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED Mount Kinabalu!!!
(Pictues in the next post) :)
Aileen
We left the house at around 9 to catch a bus to LCCT. Then the flight was around noon. We reached Kota Kinabalu around 3and spent another 2 hours drive up the mountainside to the foothills. We checked into Kinabalu Park Resort, the temperature was so cold and we had a 1km walk back to the room. So we ate dinner first, then went back to the so big room to pack and sleep for the next day. Oh, and I saw my beloved Emily! She came to visit my room and stayed with her cute brother, who's obsessed without monkeys, mother and aunty ( who saved my KH shirt). :D
DAY 2
We rose early, ran to breakfast 1km away in the bitter cold, without jackets as to get acclimatised to the temperature. After breakfast, we went to collect our park permits to climb the mountain and meet our guide, Kounggin Kolinang. Armed with our huge rucksacks, my brother, Sarah, an economist/Londoner on a gap year backpacking in Asia and I left for Timpohon Gate to begin the long climb. We started climbing at around 8. Climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and climb and CLIMB until so exhausted.
The whole mountain is 10 vertical kilometers high and our whole trek up was a total of 30km. Every time we passed a sign saying KM0.5 or KM1.0, we'd feel so happy. But then there were so many more kilometers stretching endlessly on until the summit. along the way, the guide picked wild raspberries for me which were so sour. But, at least it was something to eat. I kept asking the guide for ways to reach the summit without climbing. There was a helipad, but I found out that it cost RM6,000 to airlift someone. *Gasps* And its RM200 per kilometer for the Search and Rescue to carry you down. Gosh...
Anyway, the higher we got, the colder it became, the thinner the air became, the harder it became to breathe, so we had to stop even more to catch our breath. It was so hard to breathe. I thought the climb up would never ever stop, and it almost seemed to be like that. But, at 11.30 we managed to be the first to reach Laban Rata, the base camp of Mount Kinabalu, where we would bunk for a night before resuming our climb to the summit the next morning! So overjoyed and thankful that we reached at long last! Gawd bless me.
Then once we checked in, we staggered to our room. And SLEPT until dinnertime. So damn exhausted. We shared a tiny tiny room with another male and there were 2 bunk beds for the 4 of us. It was around 10 degrees Celsius. When we woke up, it was so freezing that Sarah refused to get out of bed to pee, even though she was literally bursting. Haha. Then dinner and back to sleep because we had to rise at 2a.m. the next morning, or shall we say, night. Heh
Day 3
Woke at 2am, SO SO SO COLD. It was around 4 or 5 degrees and our breath could even fog up. :) We had to trek down 150metres to Laban Rata from our Gunting Lagadan hut for breakfast. We all drank cup after cup of steaming hot Milo. So warming. But once we got out in the cold again, we froze up again.
Started climbing in the pitch darkness when all of you guys were sleeping so soundly in your warm beds. HMPH. Anyway, yet another long long long climb up. It got so cold that I had to wear 6 layers of clothes and my finger couldn't even hold on the rope where we had to climb up steep granite surfaces. Thank God my so nice guide held my hand all the way through and guided me up the mountain. we took loads of short cuts. Haha. After a long long while, WE REACHED THE SUMMIT! So happy. But we couldn't stay long at the peak if not we'd freeze to death. I couldn't even turn on the camera to take a photo of the breathtaking view or even drink some water.
Rested a few minutes to get our breath back and we started off AGAIN. This time down the mountain. Our knees hurt so much because they had to keep bending to keep from slipping. I had to keep standing in the sun to get warm. But, it didn't help and I was still cold. Going down was a little easier but it was still hard. It was so steep. When I looked up again from climbing down, I couldn't believe how I had got up to the summit in the first place. There were some so steep places where we had to hold on to a rope to climb down and up. So steep. I slipped and almost fell (to my death) because it had rained the night before and the rocks were really slippery and wet.
Reached Laban Rata. Slept for 1 hour. Then packed up and set off for Timpohon Gate again. I felt so sick with a high fever. But well, I had to get down anyway. So I just gritted my teeth and climbed. It was very steep down also. Climb climb climb climb climb, our legs all turned to jelly and we couldn't even walk straight, just like drunks.
CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB without rest for 3 hours straight. And we had another 3 more hours to go. So CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB again. It was like the a never ending flight of very uneven stairs.
Finally, we reached Timpohon Gate. God, so tired. We just collapsed. Then 5 minutes later, it started pouring heavily. Thank goodness we reached in time before the rain. It was bad enough being cold already, but it was even worse being cold and WET.
Anyway, we were on a real high because we CLIMBED MOUNT KINABALU!
Day 4
Stayed in Uncle Anthony's house. Left the house at 8 for White Water Rafting at Padas River. So exciting and nice. Our boat capsized and everyone thrown into the water. Plus it was raining also. So we were all wet. And there was a mini war going on between the 4 dinghies. Everyone was busy trying to push each other into the water. Push here and there. FUN!
Day 5
We stayed in Anthony's house because our legs were to painful to walk. Watched television the whole day in his huge TV Room. Anthony's really into Home Stereo and big Plasma televisions. The whole room is filled with super complicating electrical appliances. After that, our flight home was around 8 at night.
So sad to leave Sabah. I'm definitely coming back next year. We're going diving off Sipadan. But first I need diving lessons and a permit! And I need to get that infuriating PMR over and done with.
VENI VICI VIDI. I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED Mount Kinabalu!!!
(Pictues in the next post) :)
Aileen
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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