just been back from sabah~
hahas, rough timeline!!
First Day :
-pack stuff @ odac
-take bus to airport
-check in, take boarding pass, walk walk w hannah's mum & sis, enter custom(?)
-waited for plane ride
-plane ride
-reach m'sia
-check out (?)
-bus ride > peranakan food > D'Villa Lodge > sleep
@ the D'Villa Lodge, when we first set foot down, omg!!
it's cold~~ :DD
hahaha! damn shiok ahh!
Second Day :
-wake up at 5.20am
-breakfast, early in morning at 6+am, sun's alrdy up!
-bus ride (sleep) > Mersilau Gate (get our trekking sticks and climbing pass, then climb!)
-climb for 12h! 8am to 8pm.
-food poisoning (diarrhoea along the way x1 in toilet x1 off-trail -.-)
-sun set n in dark and cold and rainy weather alrdy by 6+?
-climb suppose to be 8h (8am to 4pm), however, due to above conditions, yeahh..we were damn delayed
-reached Laban Rata Hut to eat and slightly warm up by 7
-after that, continued short hike to place we're staying (Pendant Hut)
-slept at 11+pm, realised cannot go to summit
when i realised cannot go to summit, i was pretty disappointed..
but then, i oso noe that, inside, i was kinda..happy?
cos i noe tht, if we were to persist, i confirm guarantee plus chop cannot reach de.
and also, will be tired like hell. yeahh.. sooo..
Third Day :
-wake up at 5.25am
-wash up and had breakfast etc.
-left Pendant Hut to trek down through shorter route (to reach Timpohon Gate instead of Mersilau Gate)
-were there 1h earlier
when we realised that, we knew that, if not for the bad weather and food poisoning, we might be able to do the same for the trek up :x
-bought some snacks
-took bus to Kota Kinabalu Town
-check in at Borneo Backpackers Lodge at 4.30pm
-free time till 7pm
>bathed
>went out exploring w Hannah, Nina, Ahmad, Jun Wei, Derek, separated w the boys soon after
>played Mafia in boys' room, FUN! :D
-7pm went for dinner at C.H.E.F (delicious chicken rice they got there! :D)
-after dinner went back lodge, had reflection at boys' room (bed bugs filled!! OMG.)
-went back own room (girls' room(: ), bedbug-less, or so we tot xD
-DEET-ed the whole room!! << insect repellent
-put facial mask (Joyce, Hannah, ZM, and I), camwhore-d, slp at 11.30pm :D
Fourth Day :
-wake up at 4.20am
-wash up, breakfast n etc~
-left Borneo backpackers, bus ride to Beaufort Train Station
-took the antique train (damn scary!!, but fun^^ . ) from beaufort to rayoh(end point) to pangi (strt point)
-white water rafting!! damn funnn! LOVE THE RAPIDS!<3
-cool guide we've got there! one with half of his head bleached and the other black can smoke and be in the water and manoevre the boat at the same time! hahas! cool max!
-just a short 2km rafting! ):
-rinsed and had a buffet lunch :D
-trained back from Rayoh to Beaufort
-from Beaufort, bus-ed back to Borneo Backpackers, rest-ed for a while, snack-ed, left for dinner at 7pm
-went back to C.H.E.F, had char quay tiao (:
-went to night market after tht, Hannah vomited ):
-bought odac band :D, (only 2 guys bought =.= ahmad n junwei + zikri oso la..but he nv come for this trip D: )
-walked back to Borneo backpackers
-more of us fell sick
-slpt. super bad night cos i vomited =,=
Last Day :
-keep waking up at night, Hannah vomit a lot of times D;
-Candy/Joyce oso, cannot rmb who...cos was dark, Miss K was really poor thing, keep waking up to help us, thankful much!!
-diarrhoea at night @_@
-morning woke up, showered cos got fever 38.7
-Mr rod n Mr Tan n Miss K brought us (Hannah, Joyce, Candy, ZM, I, Vijey, Leong Yi, Fred) to the clinic, all sick, mainly : vomit, diarrhoea, fever, flu
-went to eat chicken porridge, all our faces ahh..really can die man. haha! miss k said it was funny =.= , quite funny la, to think back now xD
-went back to Borneo Backpackers, pack our bagpacks den slp till 11.30, den check out
-went airport, check in and all, super sick.
-slept through almost entire plane ride
-check out at SG airport, Singapore's like a natural medicine sia! felt better after step on home's soil xD okay, there's no soil ._.
-parents came to fetch, went home, temp still 38.7 =.=
-eat, sleep.
hahas! that's it for my schedule!
rough timeline oso quite long uhh!
alrights, no pics till i upload on fb!
cos cannot let any leak yet till our presentation on fb on wednesday xD
bye people~ :DD
signing off,
p3iy1! :D
P.S. special thanks to all of them :
- MR RODRIGUES
- MR JEREMY TAN
- MISS KAVITHA
- LOCAL GUIDES (THE CLIMB)
- LOCAL GUIDES (THE RAFTING)
- ODAC-IANS (ALL)
Welcome(:
