Visual Treats by Liwei

To Mt Ophir n back
Hmm...wat a great trip it was tho I'm physically aching everywhere...Thighs, calf, shoulder, neck all hurt.

25th Night
4 hours train trip down to Segamat. We were all chit chatting on e train almost all e way. Had a minor diaheorra on e train muz be the dinner. Luckily they sold those stomach pills on e train took e whole satchet n I was ok. Upon arriving at Segamat at ard 12 midnight we ate supper at e stall outside e train station. We wanted to head down e foot of e mt ovia cab but e cab uncle got attitude dont wanna reduce e price to 30 initially 40..So instead we slept on e bus terminal on its 2nd level which was a hawker centre. Felt like a poor beggar when nowhere to sleep. Anyway e place was quite clean. But there was this guy who would shout "Bak!!" all nite. WE couldnt really get to sleep. In e morning that guy asked us for cigarettes n some money we refused. He was quite irritating. He introduced himself as a ex-teacher. Haiz poor thing dont noe wat happened to him.

26th
We headed downstair n almost immediately we got a cab. The uncle was quite good. He brought us to a place to eat den down to e mt. He agreed to pick us up e next day 1330. So we began our climb. We registered. Den waited 1 hour for e ranger to check us in n stuff. We read e descriptions b4 tt. 64th highest mountain in Malaysia but 6th most difficult n most climbed. E first part was 532 steps. We tot tt was hard tt we tot wrong. E climb got gradually harder n harder. We stopped at e waterfalls there. To play ard, take photos and wash up. We were in high spirits. Tho e climb was difficult some parts muddy n dangerous. There was no safety, like once u fall off something, tt's it. Checkpt 1 to 5 was quite ok lahz. The worst parts were cehckpts 5 to 8. Wahzz..all e almost vertical climbing. The tree roots were like almost vertical have to climb up n there was 3 or 4 slippery rock surfaces to climb using wet n slippery ropes tt evertone uses. There was one in particular super high n it was on e side of e mt so u can see like a trees below. We were supposed to campsite but decided to camp on e summit. Nicer mahzz.. Finally we reached e summit. There were clouds all over. U will feel on top of the world. U can see very far n e cloubs go on forever. It was beautiful. But hard to take pictures becoz of e cold n the clouds always covering e things u wanna take. E clouds there moved very fast. We ptitched our tents after a while of exploring n slacking. Well. Camping on e summit was a bad idea for tt night. Coz it was like gonna rain dense rain clouds covering us. WE were freezing cold. Cooked our dinner in e cold. Hmm..i brought e least food only 5 snicker bars..well Jeremy's worst he didnt bring anything helpful. Hehe Anyway e tent we pitched e one I, Kelvin n Jeremy slept in, e fly cover kept coming off, n e winds so strong we couldnt get to sleep. We had this fear of being swept away. E other tent haha...my ex pl sgt didnt not pin e pegs down n haha..it almost flew off luckily Jeremy was quick enough to grab it. By 8 plus we went to rest. Wanted to lok at e stars but it was too cloudy n too windy. I went over to the other tent to chit chat. we lamented on our sad love lifes n suan Mark's dad coz he's a professional liar. He's e world famous geomancer haha....We laughed at how one of e other pl sgt asked for his service n had to pay e market rate even tho he was in charge of mark's pl in camp. It was like shoving money into mark's wallet haha...Went back to rest after tt. Couldnt sleep at all. Kept checkig if e fly cover came off. Or tt e zip we open becoz of e wind being too strong...Scary manzz..U n me against mother nature..2am our sgt. tot of a good idea change location to abit farther down at least e wind wasnt too strong there.

Daybreak.
Had a hard time waking Jeremy, we packed shop n eat breakfast shivering. The wind was just too cold. Had maggi mee n uncle toby's n some mocha..oh mocha was last night. Anyway it was very cold lahz. I took off my windbreaker to start moving on but put it bac k on e enxt momnet. WE walked to checkpt 7 b4 removing our windbreakers. E journey down was alot easier. We were almost running at e easier slopes. Abit late for e cab already. Going down those steep slopes were scary esp. when u dont noe how to climb down. coz e footing isnt as steady as climbing up. Ur weight's going down..Climbing down back to e 532steps I fell down at e steps. Too slippery..almost whacked my head against e railing luckily my bag protected me..We reached e foot of the mountain. Took a shower snacked a bit n talked abt our experiences. It was a very great trip even tho it was very cold n tiring...Esp when climbing up. U get really tired n out of breath n looking up u see so much more..wahzz..dao bi..E cab brought us back to e train station had lunch at e same place we slept. Funny thing all e stores sell e same thing..Took e train back to woodlands. Didnt wanna take down to tanjong pagar another 45 mins trip. No way. We shared a cab from woodlands home...
Home sweet home...wee!!!!! Tired..
Maybe I would wanna do it again maybe not.