Hey guys..Thanks to Kok Hong, we are finally able to plan for FRIM!!..it will be on the 2nd weekend of May 2009 (either 9th or 10th May)..Those interested to attend, please confirm your names with me as we need to book the place..No book, No enter..





Here are the details:
Venue : FRIM,Kepong
Time: Morning (will tell you the time later)
Difficulty: Noob...haha..i mean should be "Easy"
Basic things to bring: Water, extra tshirt perhaps, mosquito repellant!
Entrance Fee: Around RM 13..
Required group: Around 12 ppl only..we dont want it to be too big..

It will be a nice experience.. esp the canopy walk and the suspended bridge..there will also be jungle musuem visits, monster lake and a small waterfall..

22 March 2009, the following day after attending Balloon Fest with Suli and her sis, Mushtaro, Meng and I met up with Suli and her German friend, Frank at Batu Caves for a visit. We were there to also meet up with my pal Eugene and his KK hiking group.

The composition of the group was very weird this time; Eugene's group was there for endurance training, while my group just wanted to visit. The result, one group was leisurely climbing the stairs, frequently stopping to take pictures while at the backdrop, the other group was training , scaling the 272-steps of stairs for several rounds.


It was nice to be able to visit Bt Caves again. So much has changed except for the smell of sulphur (if you know what i mean). Surprisingly, the climb wasnt that difficult, considering i have scaled KL tower which was 2000 steps (7 times more). However, i was quite disappointed with the management of the cave..The exterior seems okie, but the interior seems a little shabby. I think they could do better than that.. More frustrating was the dark cave which we wanted to go next. The entrance to the gave was locked shut. Entrance fee was required and you need to make prior bookings and arrangements for a guide before entering..oh ya, and entrance fee is RM 35 per person ya! We'll probably try it next time.

Next, we headed to the park beside the cave. Don't ask me what the park was..it was like a rojak type of cave musuem cum reptile zoo cum dance performance type of park..but beats me, it was a fairly interesting place to go (with reasonable entrance fee of RM 7). We managed to see the phython which laid an astonishing 120 eggs that came out in the papers not too long ago(usually they lay about 30 to 100, never exceeding) and also held her eggs!..it felt as though that we were holding soft potatoes..interestingly, we were told that the gender of the snakes could be told from looking at the shapes of the egg; females were of bigger roundish size while males had a slimmer oval like shape.

Our tour ended with the rest of the guys waiting for us outside the entrance. Most of them had scaled the stair a few times, having their legs feelin wobbly..next on their mind was to have food! But what's famous here? Har mee (prawn noodle) was said to be good..and there was also the porridge option..We decided to go healthy that day and so we went for porridge..The place recommended by one of the girls in our group was Pan Heong Restaurant located not too far away from Bt Cave (5 minutes drive)..I never knew that people could queue up for porridge as i never was a fan of porridge anyway..but frankly, it was okie..to get a rating 'okie' from a porridge-hater like me would be considered a 'good' from others..Best sellers here are their fish porridge and prawns..but the prawns cost RM 35 for 2..and mamak mee..their fish porridge had a unique combination of fish with 'pei tan'

I was told three things when my friend asked me to go Bukit Gasing: (1)Got many chicks...(2)got many cute dogs..and (3)its a very easy climb.. But honestly, i was there for the nature...really leh -.-" (sure many ppl dun believe)..

I went on to call the other guys for this trip and their responses were: "Bukit nia seng?" .."go for wat? protest isit?"(considering the controversy of Elizabeth Wong)...but we weren't there for all that crap..For the locals, the place is just the usual place for your daily morning walk routine. However, for us, we were excited that day cos the place was a new entry into our hiking encyclopedia.

I managed to grab 2 neighbourhood friends for the trip and the rest of the gang consisted of MBA part timers (mostly invited by the organiser Eugene), many whom which i have met during my course of study..It was nice to see familiar faces again. We reached Bkt Gasing around 815am that day..there were dozens of cars parked all along the road.The road was congested!

Bukit Gasing is located somewhere in PJ..in the middle of the hustle bustle of city life and tiba-tiba...aik, why got bukit here wan? The climb took about 40 minutes (depends on your level) and coming down was way faster. If you asked me, the climb was indeed easy BUT hmmm, there is really nothing much to see (as in scenery)...But i enjoyed the trip nontheless because of the company of friends i was with (the guys were really jokers), the hanging bridge, the nice workout and the free distribution of 100 pluses by someone..haha

Pic: there were 11 of us that day..


Bukit Gasing is actually a Taman Pendidikan set up but the local municiple councle together with co. HITACHI and WWF..On the day we went, i think we saw dozens of kids hiking up with their, erm, parents? or teachers?..the thing is, there were alot of kids! An article of Bukit Gasing came up recently in the papers stating that this place needs refurbishing..well, i couldnt agree better..Pls trim those trees at the peak-i cant see anything..