Beginning of the end of uqr2311

I'm back from the Japan trip!! Great people.. Great memories... haha.. back to the start of a new semester. Don't think i had much time for a break this hoiday ): Well, i'll probably take one or two weekends off to sentosa or sth to recharge. OR I'll go for long walks/runs. Should be moving into PGP by the end of next week. AND I've not received any mails from the residence guys yet. Why is it so last minute?? ahhhh!! 

hee, guess i can go down and ask tmr, since i'll be going down for uqr lessons anyway. 

Another thing that is super last minute that really gets on my nerves and makes me laugh is the announcement for the ECE2 groupings. I'm someone who depends a lot on my pre-existing knowledge to learn stuff. And so, i need some time to read up about the things i'm going to learn, before i actually start to attend lessons. I had the 'JC advantage' for the first year, so i didn't have to read up much. But it's not going to be the same this year.

Last but not least, i've to get down on journals and stuff to finish up this uqr thing. Pics later!

Kinabalu trip

I'm back from kinabalu! haha.. My legs are almost done recovering. I had a great time up there. Not much injuries. Just some minor scratches from a minor fall against the rock face, together with the regular muscle aches, which my dear tiger muscle rub is working on :P

I'm too tired to post up the pics. So, i'll just add in a little description about the entire trip and the more significant pics, like the strong me frozen on the summit :D

Well, I thought that the whole trip went too fast. Too fast for me and my body to get used to the thin air at the high altitude. Firstly, we reached the kota kinabalu airport in the evning, after sunset and it was raining. We gon onto a van and headed on a 2hr journey to the kota kinabalu park (~1.8km altitude)at which we stayed at for the night, together with our team mates, who got there earlier. The next morning, after a big breakfast with a view of the mountain playing peek-a-boo behind the clouds, we went to our starting point at the Timpohon gate. (alt. 1.8km) ?/\

And then, we started climbing!!! haha.. Half way through, our team split up: my friend and I chionged up as the rest(4 ppl) took it more leisurely... Later we came to learn that my friend and I reached laban rata resthouse (altitude: 3000m) an hour before the rest of us did and also, we were the first tourist to reach it on that day! Our journey up took 3h 39mins...That's 7 bukit timahs, with an avg of 31mins per climb! Oh man, i could hav done better, My shortest timing up bukit timah during pracs was 10mins :(

yupz! and after having a snacky lunch and checking in into our accomodation for the night, we came back down for dinner. And went back up for the night. Like some of the others, i had trouble sleeping due to irregular breathing. I had to keep breathing hard! how to sleep?? haha...A warm milo helped me a bit though :P

And then, we woke up at 2am, and got ready for the summit climb. We started at about 2:30am, i think. There were already ppl who started climbing and because of this, the path up was a bit crowded. Anyway we reached the top in time for the sunrise and even managed to find a good spot to sit down, despite the crowd up there. Well, the sunrise was blocked by the clouds but we managed to catch some excellent pics of the sceneries from the peak. At that time, i was pretty much frozen, after having reached the peak earlier than others, as usual. My hands were quite unmovable and I began to feel tired, breathless and cold. There was once when i began to feel like vomitting, but managed to quickly distract myself :D


We began our journey shortly afterwards. And with help from the big and shiny sUn, my hands were soon back to normal. This was when i really began to snap shots like crazy! haha..


great sceneries mah... things that i was blind to in the darkness during my summit climb... We reached the starting point for the via ferrata thing and went down on harnesses and helmets. so cute, right! hee.. and then, we reached our accom. place.We packed and continued our way down to kinabalu park, where a taxi was waiting to pick us up to traveller's lodge at KK city. At KK city, we went to a restaurant for our dinner (I had my fav vege pasta in tomato sauce. NO MUSHROOMS! my gosh! how much better can it be? )


The next morning, with my aching legs, i joined my roommate for breakfast at a nearby place: 2 pratas at RM1 each! my gosh again!! hahaha...

Then, we packed and left for the airport... and BOOM! we were back in Singapore with the roaring merlion!! YaY!!

delayed flight

My flight today was delayed to 425pm from 245pm. So i managed to attend the first day of lessons! It was wonderful, but i was a bit quiet, i think :( Takes some time to warm up after the hols...Think i've a lot to catch up when i come back. and oh, i'm blogging from the airport now! waiting for my flight.. hehe..
yupz.. that's all for now!