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This is where our journey begins...

一个属于我们缘分的天空 ~

yeah... i know this happen long long time ago.. (since 2007 Chinese NewYear).
hehey hey.... found tht this should share out all everybody.

This was organized by Yanny.
Contacted everybody out to have steamboat dinner for 2007 Chinese NewYear Celebration.
Of cause we got "low Sang" lo....

forgot wht kind of fish is this liao :p

Check out some of the action before the food is serve....

(up) Shong Chee, Jet, Jeanie, Elaine, Siong
(down) Kong, Chean, Chun, Yan


4 very yeng chai bachelors. Wondering wht are them thinking at tht time?? mmm. ..


Get prepare !!! Gonna start EAT EAT EAT !!!!


nice couple...


Oh yeah... check out the "low sang" .... VERY NICE !


One eye dragon.


Eeee... I use Colgate. I use Kodomo Lion.


oh yeah... yam yamm... can start eat liao !!!!


Lastly, guyz... really appreciate and thx for your all to come out and celebrate BDay with me.
(although i know it's celebrating CNY too :p)
But i'm really thx. Cause I always 'fong' u all 'fei kei' :p
cheers... everybody !!!

We finally made it, reaching the summit of Gunung Nuang, on Saturday, 12th of May 2007, around 2pm.


We have made it!

It was truly a memorable day, not only because now we can proudly tell everyone, we have been there, done that (OK OK, big deal, many people did that numerous time, and more even do it like twice a month, nevertheless, it was really an achievement for amateur like us), the unbearable test on our mental and physic, tormenting deep into each of them, and pushed our determination to its limit, it was the hardest thing we have done so far! And not to mention we have also made the headlines!

25 people, from our usual guy group of Chun, Yan, Chean, Yen Han, and added up the girls and their friends, with 9 more Chean's motorolan colleagues, started the long and crazy trekking journey at 7am, and for everyone to safely came back at the starting point, it was at an unbelievable time of 230am! No, there's no typo error, it's really AM we are talking about here! A total of almost 20 freaking hours of journey, which around 15 hours of trekking if excluded resting! Catch the whole story here.

The last few of us to arrive summit was around 2pm, almost 7 hours taken. At this point, you can see we were really out of schedule, night trekking was inevitable, if consider we need 7 hours more to go down. Although some of us did bring torch lights, but it was unquestionable lack of equipment for night trekking, thus, making the journey incredible harder and longer. Guess what, the most powerful torch light we have was not even a torch light, it was the camera LED of a Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone! Really ironic.

Separated into 3 groups, we were only able to reach the starting point, the registration area, for the first group, at 930pm, second group at 11pm and the last, 230am. The big gap between the last group was due to the misunderstanding incident. But everyone arrived safe and sound, that's most important.

And why an estimated 8-10 hours trekking and hiking took us that much longer to finish? Almost 6 hours over schedule, if consider only the trekking time. Some of the reasons I can think of:

1) The group was too large.
We were jamming each other at the beginning, where everyone waiting in queue to climb up those steep and hard slopes. For every obstacle like this, it took us almost 20 minutes to get everyone up and going. And there were dozens of them along the journey!

2) Too relax at the beginning.
Everyone started at a relax pace, we took our sweet time to relax and took photos. We tried not to get our shoes wet when crossing water streams, and that really contribute a lot in our relax factor. Lack of timing sense, sense of crisis also causing us to not aware of our time schedule.

3) Stamina difference and injuries.
Everyone has different stamina, the stronger one has to wait for the weaker one. And the weaker your stamina, the most likely you will get injured. Adding the factor of bad hiking equipment, especially shoes, the weaker one becomes weaker. I can assure you that because I was one of those injured people that dragging the whole team to slow down!

4) Last but not least, all were amateurs!
No one had experience, that is none of us had reach the summit before, so we can't estimate how hard the journey, how long is needed. We just "heard" it was like this and that, and 8-10 hours need. Probably this is the main factor that causing all of the above! Assumption is the mother of all fucked-ups!

The experience of this Gunung Nuang Expedition really showed us something that beyond our imagination! And the lesson we've learned really unquestionable very valuable for any future activities, planning, and our day to day life. I'm sure all the 25 of us has just made an unforgettable chapter in our life!

Related links
1. Conquering Gunung Nuang - The whole story
2. The "Lost in Gunung Nuang" incident

Event: Training
Vanue: Gunung Nuang at Hulu Langat, Cheras
Date & Time: 12 May 2007, 7:00am - 13 May 2007 02:30am
Attendee: 25 people
Check point: Pondok, Empangan, Kem Lolo, Kem Pacat & The Peak.

Team A: Chean's colleagues (9 ppl)
Team B: Sharon's colleagues (2 ppl)
Team C: Yan, Chean, Mr Pang, Chooi Wai, Sharon, Chooi Wai's friend, Chun, Taiwan Guy, Ah Lee, Janet, Yvonne, Cheng Hoon, Karen & Yen Hong (14 ppl)

06:30am arrived at Gunung Nuang base. Could not found registration book, so we started our expedition without registering ourselves. (Please do not do this)


Group photo before the expedition.

07:00am Began our Gunung Nuang expedition.


A group of 25 people, 好轰动！

07:30am Track became tougher and tougher.


30° slope. No problem, we are a group of marching army. Grrr....

Slippery track made Yanny fall down on the pothole. His pant & both legs were covered with mud.


Chun: "Yerrr...you dirty thing, don't come near to me".

08:00am arrived at the Pondok.


Smile at the camera while still catching our breath.

08:30am arrived at the Empangan. (team A, B & C) We have breakfast together & do some cleaning beside the stream. Yummy tuna sandwich prepared by one of the member from team A. Thanks ya! Tasted good & Cheanny like it very much.


25 of us, included the camera man.

09:00am after 30 minutes break, we carry on our expedition.


Yooo.. crystal clear & cooling icesy water at the waterfall.

09:30am arrive at Kem Lolo after getting our shoes wet.



10:00am Carry on our expedition.

10:30am here we come to a spot where all gigantic bamboo has fallen down. I wonder what happen. Hmm...


King Kong's been here before?

11:00am Ah Lee have to stop the fellow members from behind, because limited space in front.


Ah Lee, our traffic martial: "STOP! Ladies first...Oiii, up there, move faster lar! 散步啊？"

11:30am arrived at Kem PACAT. We had our lunch & rest for a while.


Yan holding an apple, Chean & Sharon.

While resting at KEM PACAT, we met up with 4 uncles who're super-duper energetic. One of them had nasi lemak for lunch, I wonder will he 搞肚痛 & 噢辣椒屎 after he reach the peak? And another uncle paid tribute to Ah Lee when he saw him wearing Nike sandal, and of cause to Chunny as well.


Energetic uncle: "Walau~ You dare to wear sandal to climb Nuang, very keong. 好嘢！"


Energetic uncle: "Wah~ There's another one!" - Pointing at Chunny.


Chun's knee support, courtesy by Chean.

12:00pm facing 70° slope. OMG!!!Mama-miya, are we going to make it?


Yan: "Hey, Cheanny, how you got up there?" Chean: "You short leg creature, give me your hand la..I'll pull you up."

12:30pm stand facing 90° slope. Holy S****!!


Yeah!, finally we're up, but how are we go down later?

01:00pm arrived last check point to the peak.


Anonymous: "Are we there yet?"

01:30pm no more rock climbing and dificult slope. Just normal jungle tracking with wet mud.


Ha ha.. LOOOSSSEEERRRR!!


We saw the fog and we know we are near.

02:00pm Hooray~ we made it to the peak! We conquered Gunung Nuang, and K.K you are the next! By the time a step our foot on the peak, team A & B were on their way downhill.


You are the best! 你系最好嘅！


We are the best! 我地系最劲！

How many people would this pondok can accommodate, 5, 10?
There was total 14 of us, and we squeezed ourselve in like in a tuna tin prevent getting wet from the rain.


The little pondok

02:30pm Check out the paradise view 仙境 from the peak!


Fresh & cooling air blow towards us.

Team A: Chean's colleagues (9 ppl)
Team B: Sharon's colleagues (2 ppl)
Team D: Yan, Chean, Mr Pang, Chooi Wai, Sharon & Chooi Wai's friend (6 ppl)
Team E: Chun, Taiwan Guy, Ah Lee, Janet, Yvonne, Cheng Hoon, Karen & Yen Hong (8 ppl)

03:00pm started to head downhill.


"Gosh~ How to go down wor?"

3:30pm - 5:30pm Yanny runs down the hill, no one could stop him, he just continue runs & runs like a mad cow. 上山没力，落山没 brake.

06:00pm arrived at the waterfall (team A & C) clean our scars & shoes.

06:30pm team C continue their downhill journey, team A decided to wait for their fellow team mate, and team B already arrived at the base.

07:00pm The sun set and the blue sky rapidly turn darker & daker. Most of us didn't brought our torch light. Decided to use our mobile phone - SE K700 & SE K750i. (Nokia stand a side la...)

08:00pm A member of team A sent a SMS to her family member, saying 'finding our way back'. And that triggered the rescue alarm.

09:30pm team C arrived at the base.

10:30pm Policemen, reporters & family members of team A arrived at the same time.


Policemen ask for info, so that they could direct the rescue search team.

11:00pm team D arrived at the base.


This scar has made him forever 刀疤强！Hurrah!!


Karen was exhausted & tired. Feels like fainting, pity her.

11:30pm Rescue search team arrived.



12:00am We offered whatever we could & there's nothing we can do/help. So we decided to leave & back to our home.

02:30am At last, team A arrived at the base, and they're on the major newspaper headlines for the next 2 days.

And that’s all for now, folks. Now you can visualize the extreme toughness of 16 long hours Gunung Nuang marathon expedition.

Congratulation to those who made it to the peak! You are the champion!!

Bravo to those who’s the fastest made it to the base! You rock!!

♫ Music plays [ We are the champions - my friends, And well keep on fighting - till the end, We are the champions, We are the champions, No time for losers, cause we are the champions - of the world ]

Note: Please refer to The "Lost in Gunung Nuang" incident for the full incident write up.

Related links:
1. Gunung Nuang - Conquered!
2. The "Lost in Gunung Nuang" incident

- The Incident -
"Twenty-five went hill trekking, nine lost", "Hikers lost during hill trek", "SMS to dad saves 9 lost on mountain", "9 hikers found after lost in jungle for 9 hours".....etc

These are the headlines showing up on different local newspapers today. Some even taken up half of the page to report it alongside with nice photos. However, we found most of the reports on the incident were not accurate. Some claimed that the twenty-five hikers aged between 20-25. Some said they are all working in Motorola and worse, said the hikers lost in jungle for 9 hours ! Thus, we felt that we shall let our friends knew what had actually happened up there and why the nine people who were with us would eventually "lost".

- The Meet Up -
It was around 7pm when the last group met with the Motorolans at waterfall. The place was getting darker and darker. The last group which including Chun and friends led the way from the waterfall and the Motorolans followed behind. They're going down fast, trying to beat the time and reached the dam before the sky was all dark....

- The Break Up -
As night took over completely, Chun and friends reached the dam. They realised the Motorolans were not with them already. Nobody remembered when and how did they broke up, tiredness and home were the only thing in their mind. They did their best by waited for few minutes, sadly they were nowhere to be seen. Chun and team decide to move on.

- The Missing Motorolans -
The Motorolans were still at the camp site, in front of the river and not sure which way to go. They couldn't catch up with Chun's gang. They too waited there for some time, hoping the other team would be back to look for them, but it didn't happen....In this critical moment, they asked for help from the campers and the campers were kind enough to bring them. At the same time, an sms which played an important role in the whole incident, sent out to the girl's father, written "We are still finding our way out". It was around 8pm.

- "They're confirmed lost !" -
9:30pm, second team (Cheanny, Yanny and friends) finally arrived at base. Chean first called up to Chun's gang, and confirmed that they were coming down safely. Around 10:30pm, cars engine brought the exhausted Cheanny and Yanny out of dream. A man with worriment all over his face came out from the car, he is father of one of the Motorolan, asking us about her daughter's situation. He told us she was "lost". Within half an hour, the pondok already flooded with people, including people from the rescuer team. We were in shock and felt it was a little exaggerated. The worried father showed us an sms written "We are still finding our way out", sent by her daughter. Immediately Cheanny called up Chun's gang, and confirmed that the Motorolans were not coming down with them. Chean then tried to call the Motorolans, but just couldn't get through any of them. The father told the rescuer, "They're confirmed lost!"

11:30pm, Chun's gang finally reached base. We said adieu to the worried families there and headed home.

- The Rescue -
The Motorolans were on the right path, walking down step by step extremely slow as one of the girl's knee hurting badly. They reckoned at least another hour to reach the base. Somehow a phone call managed to sneak in through the weak signal, it was the girl's dad ! They realised that the rescuers were already on their way up to look for them. They've been told to stay at where they were. An hour passed, they finally heard the Jeep's engine not far in front.

It was almost 3am when the two Jeeps back to base. Reporters from different papers already standby there. The Motorolans finally came out from the jungle safely.

The rest, is history.....

p/s: The victims name and photo are blurred out to protect their privacy.

Related links
1. Gunung Nuang - Conquered!
2. Conquering Gunung Nuang - The whole story

Does that mean our Yahoo Group is dead now that we have our very own blog here ?

Please to announce that Wie Siong has joined DF0042 blog.
Let's welcome him.

A video has been updated to the Video blog. Click to view it

Incredible! The poor victim must have been hypnotised by that guy.

Event: Sending Kong off to SZ
Venue: KLIA
Date & Time: 02 May 07, 05:00-08:00
Attendee: Chun, Yan, Chean, Jet & Jeanie
Absentee: Chee, Siong, Marvin...

Chun fetched both Kong and Kong's colleague with his MyVI, Yan car pool with Chean and Jet with Jeanie.

Kong's flight on 8:00am, depart from home at 4:30am, arrived KLIA at 5:30am and managed to check-in all luggages at 6:00am.

We had our early breakfast at McD KLIA where Chean & Yan decided to be rebellious, they went to tapau Burger King and dare to have it in front of McD!