Malaysia Montage OWNED. It rocked la. I mean, I got sick at the end of it with a horrible cough, but it's still damn pro. =]
First day:Lunch at Orna Golf Course was not bad. The wind was vicious, but the view was awesome. The food wasn't that bad either. Then we went tree planting! xD I planted my own tree w00t!
And then.. GROUP PIC! Haha.. it was the opening of the reserve, so we were the so-called VIPs. =D
Then we went back to Tiara Beach Resort (which has an artificial beach for your information) and had DINNER! =D Then go sleep duh. But I didn't sleep until much later! Because SOMEBODY's fan was not working, and it was uber hot.
Second Day:Had to wake up damn early coz of physical training.. dam tired la (read above). Haha Jordan's whole room was late.. somemore part of my group. Oh, did I tell you? I'm group leader! ;P But PT was quite slack.. they said it was to wake us up o.0 lol. I had to stop halfway through though.. asthma came back due to my lack of sleep.. =(
After which we had breakfast! Normal fare: bread, bee hoon, the like. Coz my group's in cluster 2, so we climbed a damn tall hill to get to a lighthouse. Asthma came back. Again. So I had trouble breathing. On the way up there was this makeshift swing.. DAM FUN! Haha.. and near it was the
rumored footprint of Hang Tuah. I dun have the pic coz it's in my phone.. but if you wanna find out more go to www.google.com and search Hang Tuah's footprint. xD
At the top the view was crazy.
The path was very narrow, so one slip and you could say byebye. Up there we could see the Straits of Melaka, whirlpools and all. We made a "flagpole" using bamboo poles and string, and raised a Quicksilver shirt on it. Then we stuck these post-its with leadership qualities written on them haha. At least I got the shirt. =P
And after the lighthouse we went back for lunch! Another normal affair.. Before we were driven to Kampong Pelegong for some cultural exposure. Evidently the kampong's name was derived from to Malay words which mean "play" and "gong". This embodies their tradition of playing on gongs. We were entreated to a warm welcome and had a small tour there which included egg-basket weaving, traditional games, a tour of the rubber and sugar cane plantations etc.. Too bad I was sick with a horrible running nose. No tour for me. After that we literally attacked the teachers! There was a bout of what seemed like all-out war between the teachers and students. I didn't participate. =.= But there wasn't much to it. My group pulled out after 10 seconds? Coz we already had the balloon which we were supposed to get. Lol. To quote Zack, "We were chionging to attack the teachers but then Cal suddenly shouted withdraw." Mr. Koh was bent on attacking Zi Heng and Ryan lol... After that we had a round of car-fighting. Darts and balloons were attached to the cars and whoever burst whoever's balloon won la. So simple. But we lost, because although we flipped over a car, the facilitators flipped it back. And our balloon got burst. =( Then we went for the homestay. For about an hour we got to see what a Malay home looked like and so on.
And then on to the highlight of the day = Mush's (is that how you spell it?) wedding! xD We sabo-ed him to go marry this Malay woman haha. The ceremony was quite elaborate, with performances by dancers and a gong team. But the visit was actually quite beneficial, and I learned a lot from it.
Third Day:Today we went to FRIM! The Forest Research Institute of Malaysia la bodoh. We walked through an hour of forest and gravel paths and steep steps (I still think the lighthouse trek was more challenging) before reaching the much anticipated canopy walk. Great view up there -- we could see KL city from the bridge. Way cool, dude. My group was quite disappointed though... no leech bites! I mean, they looked way cool la. Brandon Kang and Dom Loh both got one... I'm jealous. xD Nah I'm joking. I wanted a leech, just to see how it looks like, but I bet I would've freaked the moment I saw one haha. Plenty of pictures later. =D
Then we went to KL. First things first: Batu Caves. I've always wanted to visit these caves, but I never had the time.. so I'm gonna talk ALOT about them xD. Did you know there are 272 steps exactly to the main entrance of the caves? They numbered them.. so boliao.. There's also this HUGE statue of this Indian god. Biggest in Malaysia, the guide said. Took 3 million and 3 years to complete it.. wonder why they like 3 so much? Anyway the caves are uber cool... Pictures abound too later! We visited the temple cave, which was the main one. But there is this other cave which I saw behind a gate, the Dark Cave. Sounds eerie? Ms Aishah the guide said there were bats there and from my viewpoint it looked dam freaky la. She also said the people who discovered the caves liked the smell of bat GUANO LOL. Weird, huh? Ok. So maybe I didn't talk alot. Doesn't a picture speak a thousand words? You'll see tons later lol.
Second things second: Chocolate house. People were sooo interested in the Tongkat Ali chocs la... =.= I'm poor so I didn't get anything. So sad. Oh ya, the Tongkat Ali chocs are fake. Or at least Aaron says so. "I ate 7 pieces and nothing happened lor!" HAHA.
Third things third: High Tea at Menara KL. Literally. It's the 4th highest telecommunications tower in the WHOLE WORLD. Ain't that cool? More pictures later.. the view up there.. pure imbaness. Kenneth Low's tower is going to be 30 meters shorter.. so sad. Interesting fact: It takes the lift exactly 1 minute to reach the top of the tower! Before we went down a group of us were telling each other racist jokes lol. Then pick-up lines. Then just plain jokes. So wuliao! xD
Last things last: Chinatown! I was freaking scared of pickpockets, so to prevent that, I put my wallet and phone into my waist pouch and kept my hands on it every moment.. lol. I think a few pickpockets tried to palm my group mates to no avail. The people there look very gangster sia... but some of them were quite reasonable with the prices.. Some of us managed to cut the price of an RM80 jersey to RM20. Maybe they were prepared to sell it at that price, maybe not. If there was a skill I learned there, it would be bargaining. I didn't buy anything myself because I didn't really have much money left and anyway I go there almost every year.. so might as well wait for my mom to get me a better deal next time! There was this 100m flagpole somewhere near Chinatown.
After our shopping, we went for a steamboat dinner at some restaurant. I felt like vomitting after the dinner. Not attacking the quality of the food; I just think I ate too much. And I got a pic of Wang Kuan talking to SOMEBODY. Hmm.
Fourth Day:
Our last day in Malaysia.. we packed our stuff and got on the bus for Putrajaya, the new administration area for Malaysia. The tour guide said it was still in the building stages, but it looked modern enough. One attraction was the man-made lake, the other one the super high spire on the Masjid Putra. At the shopping centre I watched hopelessly as Parry and Hiok Yang got ripped off. How sad. Lol no, I actually watched them buy an ice cream cone consisting of one scoop of ice cream, two wafers and tons of sprinklers. I mean, I can make that myself! Lol. Afterwhich we had lunch at this condominium place. Our bus driver ROCKS, kay? He made this illegal U-turn just so we didn't have to cross the road, unlike the other groups. Then we went home. Home sweet home. Singaopore! xD Pictures and reflections in my next post haha.
