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This is where our journey begins...

一个属于我们缘分的天空 ~

It has been already 10 years since Chee and Chun last seen each other.

All these while, they've been living in great pain everyday trying to deny
the truth - the relationship that has crossed the brotherhood between
them. Today, they do not want to lie to themselves anymore, they do
not want to live in a life that are not belongs to them. So, they
decided to meet each other at the Cherating Beach at Kuantan....
(What a good cover up)

- Holding tight -

- Touch with gentle -

- Aaaarggghhhhh ! -

The love between them is deeper than the sea and wider than the
sky, they've finally found each other, and live.....

Happily ever after ~

Ooi... no 1 write post here 1... boring liao...

Last SAT, Chun fetch me to Yan swimming pool to swim...
Well... it's a long time since my last swim with all of them...
I bring along my Canon S3 with the UV and Wide Angle lens tht i just bought too.
After swim a while... I start shooting... since it a very nice sunny day.

Macro Mode flower.

Playing with Aperture, focus on the swim eyes glass.


Check out the 'line' and the 'muscle' at Chean back... very nice..
I wanna build tht on my back too...


Chean on the left and Chun on the Right swimming in freeStyle


Get ready for Chean Butterfly Swim Style ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~





Well... Chun and Chean is not the main focus on this photo :p
We was 2 nice hot sexy ladies, 1 is asia and other is western wearing Bikini on the swimming pool tht day..
ah~ ~ ~ uhh~ ~ ~ ~~ JENG (i wanna swim more liao !!!)


Yan come and meet us after we finished swim and bath.
Yan and Chun departure for lunch, me and Chean departure to meet up ex-colleauge.



Lastly, posting myself....

Added the video clips of our last BBQ party... :D
Hope this will recall all our happiness... Cheers....
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Chee Kong Speech...


How to start up BBQ Fire :p

Terry Fox is a Canadian who right leg was amputated due to bone cancer when he was 18. He was then so moved by the suffering of cancer patients, particularly children, that he decided to start his "Marathon of Hope" three years later to run from coast to coast in order to raise money for cancer research.

Unfortunately, Terry was not able to finish his run, and he died at 23 years old because of cancer. Despite the lost of Terry, his spirit is still remain until today. The Terry Fox Run is still running around the world every year to raise fund for cancer research and for all the unfortunate people outside.

The Terry Fox Run this year in KL will be held at 4th November. Venue and time yet to be announced.

Event: Gathering - C.K back to M'sia (4th - 9th Aug 07)
Venue: Wai Yan's place
Date & Time: 5th Aug 07, 5.30pm - 11:00pm
Attendee: Kong, Chun, Chean, Yan, Loong, Jet, Siong, Lee, Jeanie, Elaine, Karen, Sharon & Yvonne.
Photo by: Chean & Jet (photos are taken with Fujiflim F31fd & Canon PowerShot S3is)


BBQ Menu

BBQ Black Pepper Beef (sirloin)
BBQ Teriyaki Lamb shoulder slice
BBQ Black Pepper Crispy Honey Chicken Wings
BBQ Hungarian Sausage with honey
BBQ Cooked Ham with honey
BBQ Pork Cocktail with honey
Mixed Lettuce Green & Red Coral salad (serve with 1000 Island sauce)
Tomatoes cherry (with sugar icing)
Mayonnaise Potato (Boiled US potatoes and boiled egg mixed with mayonnaise)
Fresh local cucumber
Home made Garlic Baguettes (Toasted French bread with garlic and butter)
Home made Cheese cake with chocolate topping (sponsored by Chee's Baker Sdn Bhd)

Comment

Jusco marinated beef & lamb shoulder taste just nice 很入味.
The meet does not taste hard or over cooked. The lamb 口感 quite tender & the fat was fantastic 很香! 真是好吃到飞起. Too bad Chun can't eat, coz his stomach not feeling well for the passed whole week.
Mayonnaise potato cube 薯仔粒 turns to mayonnaise 薯仔泥 mash potato. 错有错着 It tastes quite nice with some egg mixed in it 都几受欢迎.
BBQ toasted baguettes with cooked ham taste superb! Thanks to Ah Lee for his patient and ber-skilled BBQ'ing for us.

The whole BBQ session quite relexing and fun. Everyone have the initiative and keen to help 大家挟手挟脚, the table was well arranged by the girls, tidy and in order. The BBQ fire only takes around 30 minutes, and thanks to windy weather. Lucky the meet did not turn bad this time.

Not to missed out our 大会指定 photographer - Cheany & Jet. They have captured every single memorable moment in the photos 好感动哦. Thanks guys, you've done a tremendous job 你地好嘢! Well done!! Thanks to Siongny also, that he quickly rush home & return with his wine opener. And finally we managed to end our BBQ with Carrefour's year 2000 Lafitte. Yanny feels encouraged with such good feed back, and don't mind to have more BBQ session in future (but not too often la…).

Overall rating : 9/10 Distinction!

Event: Sharon got > 10% salary adjustment & 3 months bonus!! So, we 'wat' her to belanja us makan. BBQ + KK slide show viewing + Video Conference with C.K.
Venue: Wai Yan's place
Date & Time: 28th July 07, 6.30pm - 12:00am
Attendee: Chun, Chean, Yan, Lee, Karen, Sharon, Yvonne & Joell.
Photo by: Chean (all photos taken with Fujiflim F31fd)


BBQ Menu

BBQ Smoked Bacon with honey
BBQ Smoked Back Bacon with honey
BBQ Jumbo Pork Frankfurter
BBQ Lamb shoulder (non marinated)
BBQ Aussie beef cube (non marinated)
Jusco Teriyaki Wings
Mixed Coral Lettuce Salad (serve with 1000 Island souse or expired mayonnaise)
Fresh Cherry Tomato
Japanese cucumber
Japanese sweet potato

Comment:

Crispy honey smoked bacon & back bacon too salty.
Jumbo Pork Frankfurter taste sourly.
Cooked Ham turn bad because exposed outside from the ice box for quite a long period.
Lamb shoulder & Aussie beef cube too thick. Take times to cook. Not suppose to wash it with tap water in the 1st place.
Japanese sweet potato brought back by Sharon.
Yanny was kalang-kabut on that night, due to not enough time to prepare the BBQ stuff.

Overall rating : 3/10 Failed

Hi everyone, finally the KK trip photos are ready to view !! Please go to the KK Trip folder in our Flickr photo album to view all of it. Warn you, there are more than 1000 photos and you might be feeling dizzy or sore eye after watching all hehehe. Enjoy ~!


Note: The slideshow are just showing part of them.

Last week, both Yan and Chun went for their vacation. Yan, family trip to HK. Chun, Company trip to Langkawi.

Don't know why... suddenly I feel very bored. Although I did not usually join them out yam cha, outing, etc etc... But just feel like something is not there...

Therefore, I asked Chean and Kin Loong to play snooker to relax relax :p

Check out the following photos of our actions :p

As some of you know, Chean, Yanny and me are planning to go KK this 19th of June, and all of us lack of a proper backpack. We have been checking around shopping malls, specialized shops, and other places since last weekend. And thanks to that Chean and Jet research spirit, they have found a shop that is always pop up among those backpackers discussion, in forums. Kedai Bag Yoon Hin (Yoon Hin Bag Store in english), at Pertama Complex. With a quote of "Wholesales of All Kind of Bags", we decided to go there and check it out.


Yoon Hin Bag Store. From left to right, Jeannie, Jet, Chean and Yanny (We took this after we got all our stuffs)

At first we only knew there were a shop in Pertama Complex, with shop lot address of G66, and the boss is a lady named Madam Sia, and there are tons of all sort Deuter bags selling there, with the cheapest price you can find so far in KL.


Bags and more bags!


"Holy Shit, so many bags! I dunno what I wanna get!"


Chean and Jet busy checking out the bags.

We only realized the shop name when we finally found it. Madam Sia is indeed a friendly lady, we were asking all sort of questions, playing, wearing, checking all the Deuter bags we were interested there, in the narrow and crowded shop.

Me and Chean quickly laid our hands on a Deuter bag known as Hokus Pokus upon arriving the shop. It is a hip pouch that can be converted into a near 20 liter daypack, the idea is so cool and we just can't resist the temptation to get one.

After lots of trying, testing, playings, checkings, considerations, and all other hassles you can think of, finally they bought the backpacks of their choice.


Ahhh... so tired both mentally and physically.

Chean got his Deuter Air Contact 45+10 Liter backpack, plus the Hokus Pokus.
Yanny finally own his first Deuter, the Deuter Futura 42 AC.
Got a Hokus Pokus too for me.
While Jet, has narrow down his choices to only the Deuter Quantum series and Deuter Traveller series, which he wants to buy for his HK trip on coming November.


Chean with Deuter Futura 42 AC


Check out the 'Quantum 55+10' on me.


"I've found what I want!" Chean with his victory pose.


We tried to attach the Hokus Pokus on Chean's Air Contact 45+10 as a removable daypack just like the Quantum and Traveller series, looks pretty good right?


Everyone got their bags! That's the Hokus Pokus, pouch and daypack mode!

P/S: Madam Sia even offered to help us getting other stuffs like sneakers, sport wears at the next store and other stores she knows, at a discount of 20%! Wow, what a wonderful nice lady! But bare in mind that Madam Sia only accept cash for her bags, so load your wallet with dough before you pay her a visit!

Few days later.....

Jet and Jeanie went back to find Madam Sia and bought the Deuter AirContact Pro 60+15L. It's a new model just stocked in by Madam Sia, it's not even there yet when we visited few days ago. Jet couldn't wait to share this with Chean, he said Madam Sia even agreed to change Chean's bag to another if he is not happy with it. The cheapskate Chean is seriously fluctuate by that. The day itself, the sohai greedy Chean left office earlier and went to top up his bag to AirContact Pro 50+15L, which is bigger, prettier, more features and much more fucking expensive ! - added by the Sohai Chean.

As usual Chean and Chun used to went to Yan house to swim.
And both me and our king which came back from US during Summer holidays joined them.

Check out some of our actions :p

Everybody is hiding in the water. (hiding on our big tyres :p)

Underwater show. Yanny say, I stay longest in the water !!! No1.

AquaMan ....

OK now. Check out the video clips of Loong Yeh attempting to fly the float board from the water to the land. :p
Actual, his 1st attempt is successed. But all the video recorded him fail :p
Attempt 1 (Video Clip)
Attempt 2 (Video Clip)
Attempt 3 (Video Clip)

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