Mount Ophir

Just realised i havent blogged for more than a week. Have been really busy for the past week. Visited Mount Ophir in Malaysia together with NCC. I think i should just briefly state what happened.

Wednesday

Went to NCC HQ in Yio Chu Kang. Stayed there overnight with all the things required for camping. Damn dumb, went there at around 8 just for a briefing, take attendance, bag check etc. Total waste of time.

Thursday

Set off for Malaysia. Took a bus all the way to Gunung Ledang Resort. Ok la, not too bad, afterall it s a resort. Suppose to stay there for a night in the room. Not bad, got TV, air con, proper beds. But standard not high. Good enuff since I m gonna suffer much worse fate later the next few days. Lots of briefing, collected food items etc. Meals were great. Held in an indoor banquet room with food pretty decent.

Did some dumb 'warm up' practices for the climb. Rock wall, team building games, flying fox, obstacle course. Waste time la. At the end of the day, sorted out everything what i m suppose to bring up the mountain and what can be left behind. Then went to oink.

Friday

Woke up freezing thanks to the air con set full blast at around 15 degrees Celsius. Nightfall made it worse. Got ready for the climb after breakfast. Did warmups and some silent prayer (a tradition) then walked up the mountain with a bag weighing about 8kg. I m super kiasu, brought two 1.5 litre bottles plus two 500ml bottles. They gave us another 2 litres of water. In the end i brought up 4.5 litres!!! Haha, i m nuts. Others brought around 2 litres but i brought more than twice of it. Reason being, i scared of contaminated water, dun wanna waste my time squating beside a tree to sh*t. Dun wanna fall sick.

Yep, the water made life difficult for me. It was so damn heavy. but i still managed to carry it up 621 metres above ground to checkpoint 4 where we would stay overnight in tents. Had meals there simply by adding hot water to cup noodles. Took water from the stream and made it 'pure' by adding 2 tablets of puri tab or sth. Cant trust the 2 tablets rite. Anyway just ate and bathe in the stream (it was freezing) and went to sleep in the bloody hot tent. only managed 4 hours or sth. So damn uncomfortable.

Saturday

Woke up and got ready to continue climbing to the summit. Checkpoint 4 was only halfway up. Brought only food and water up there. It was more challenging but more fun. The first part was all walking, so sian, but later part had ropes, ladders, bridges. more adventure. Reached the summit at around noon then ate lunch there. After some prize presentation, gave out the badges, then we left the summit and trekked back to CP 4. Damn dumb, it took a longer time to go down. Thanks to some people some scared to walk down 'stairs'. In the end reached CP4 then cooked noodles again and then went to bathe in the the stream. Got back up, ate another round of noodles then it started to rain. So ran into the tent for cover and slacked for 3 hours or more waiting for the rain to stop. Slept at around 11 after another briefing. The place was still raining and the tent started to flood. Lucky i was wise to layout the garbage bags in the tent to sleep on or else it would have been a water bed.

Sunday

Woke up after another bad night, couldnt sleep well, floor so cold, place so damp, no space. Anyway, packed up and went down to the resort again. So much easier this time. Then had a bag check, made sure did not leave rubbish up there or else have to pay 20 ringget as fine. Aiya it s just a scare. Washed up, packed, ate lunch, received cert then went on to the bus and headed home. Slept all the way until customs. Reached Yio Chi Kang Mrt around 4.40. Waited for family, went out to eat. Went to Junction 8, Cafe Cartel. First time there, a bit noob. Ate some maccaroni thingy and found out about the match going on.

Damn sian, missed a match, a screwed up match haha. Nvm, too tired now, gtg to sleep ald cant tahan anymore. Blog another time.