-> Ophir trip 08.06.08 / 09.06.08

We meet up on sun night 08.06.08 7pm but all was late as usual esp farhan our tarzan haa. I brought wei zhen’s bag but when I reached, all brought trekking backpack.! I’m e odd one out. Steven saes we will be carryin our bag up ophir and ask how am I goin to carry my bag up when I already have difficulty tuggin my bag when we are walkin haa. While waitin fer farhan to arrive, I faster go buy one cheap trekkin backpack and transfer all my barang barang into e backpack. During transferin, I felt so paisei lor haa. All the things I brought were seen by everyone helpin mi to pack. Wei zhen’s bag ended up at fad’s hse nw coz his dad help mi to take home 1st.

Train to sekamat and hitch a ride to somewhere mt ophir. Stayed there e rest of the night. In e morn, man, the place was like infested wif flies la. So many everywhere. This is one of e reason why I dun like Malaysia although I am born there. It’s dirty.!

We ride to e foot of ophir on 09.06.08 morn. Hang ard e base fer quite some time to get things done and packed to trek up ophir. But we gt a bad news and a gd one following that bad news. The bad news is we cant camp at ophir so we have to faster trek up the summit and down to the base b4 night falls. The gd news is we dun nid to bring our stuffs up le wher we can only just bring some simple stuffs like food, water and torches in case of night trek.

Trekkin was a tired process. E walk up was exhaustin. Esp those sloppy slopes up. Poor steven, he was sick fer this trip. To him, this trek was more difficult fer him than fer us as he is having fever n headache too. Steven gave up at check point 5 in e end coz he really cant take it when goin down fer it worsen his headache. We part wif steven n zatd fer zatd stayin to take care of him while e rest of us continue to trek to the summit.

Check point 5 to 6 was nt a gd one. It was durin that time wher joyce n I regretted why we didn’t stay behind wif steven haa. Jeremy motivated us a lot and aft some time I get e hang of that terrain trek, I motivate joyce too as she feels like givin up.

Aft check point 6 was e trek I like most. Climbin up big rocks and I really used a lot of climbin techniques to climb up the rocks haa. Joyce sae I took out all the climbin technique terms lol. Haa.

I hurt my knees and gt a few bruises ard e knees. On e right knee was one bruise that is e most serious where it gt swollen and felt pain even without touchin.

There’s this part wher we gt to climb up this big rock wif juz a rope. Behind us is juz like a cliff wher we could see the whole valley way below. If we fall, death was e word to describe. That was scary but e view was nice. Juz like lookin at a paintin that is painted usin pastel colours. But I could look at e view n climb up coz I need to concentrate to climb up. If nt, I will lose my balance and fell to that paintin wif pastel colours hee.

Heng yi was scary durin that part coz he let go both his hands b4 he is safely on the top landin. Couldn’t imagine if he were to lose his balance…..

The view at the summit was magnificent. But, I am really very hungry so the 1st thing I did when I reach the summit was not to take photos but eat haa. Ate oreos, choc biscults n tuna spread bread. Ate n take pics so can see so of e pics gt traces of oreo biscults? Hee. When I reach e summit, was like half dead la haa. Couldn’t be bothered to check how I look and juz take pics la. Guess my pics are damn ugly durin that time. We only hang ard that place like fer 10 min coz we have to go down quick b4 night fall else we will haf difficulty trekin down le.

Trekkin down was like hell to mi. I always know how to climb up but duno how to go down. It’s like so easy to climb up but difficult to climb down and so this applies when we are trekin down. I had a lot of difficulty trekkin down and e guys were really very helpful and carin. Whenever I haf difficulty, they will help mi. or if I slip suddenly, they will be there to grab or help mi. ask if I am ok and check on mi. slippin was what I did e most. Dun think the rest can win mi with the most no of slips ba haa. while comin down, joyce was in front of mi but i kept havin e vision wher she was zhen. duno why oso haa.

We meet up wif zatd n steven and check point 3 and trek down together. Night was fallin n at that time, my brain totally cant function le. I just simply walk n slip. Zatd was there leadin mi down. Night came and aslam lit e way fer mi wif his torch and help mi a lot when goin down. Nothing was on my mind except down down down.

Reachin e foot of ophir was like whoa… it took us 6 hours up and 4 hours down. Been walkin fer 10 hours and our knees doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any more as it was achin. Stairs was like a bane to mi fer 2 days.

We set up tents at the base fer e night’s rest b4 headin to kl the next dae. Dinner that night was self cooked pasta through mass tin by zatd n biscults. Some of the rest ate cup noodle. Slpin soundly was easy as we are tired out. Joyce and I share a tent while zatd, fad n aslam in one, the rest in the other.

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