Salam all,

Two months had gone by since I last wrote. I've been feeling like writing for a while now, but been busy with other stuff, none is important enough tho ;)

Well, today's topic is about my camping trip early this month - Nov 5th until 7th, 2010 and the said Gunung Chemerong is located in Terengganu. It was my first time ever climbing a mountain!! I couldn't even believe myself when I told my best friend, Bart that I would like to join her. hihi..

The climb was DREADFUL, and HELLISH. God, I felt so stupid, keep asking my then-stupid-self why the hell am I doing this again? Why would I torture myself, to throw myself into the deep jungle, carrying the super heavy backpack on my delicate ( :P ) back?? I should be home lazying around, facebooking, watching tv and whatnot. Was I MENTAL??

Haha that was what exactly on my mind after it got dark. Who wouldn't thought like that? Ngee..

We started tracking at 9am. In the beginning, the trekking was so much fun, we chat a bit, started getting to know other members (out of 43 joiners, I only know 7 of them from previous activities), getting breathless, taking 5-es now and then, snapping photos of the people (myself mostly :P) and the nature. It was brilliant!! And after a few hours, we reached our first stop - Chemerong Waterfall. SUBHANALLAH, the waterfall is AMAZING~~

Then we continued our journey, and the trek got tougher, it started to rain. I chose to stay behind with the slowest team, since I doubted I can follow other's fast pace. Huhu I'm a novice, remember? So as the slowest team, we WERE slow.. huhu it was getting dark.. and we kept going. Finally the night fell, and we kept going on slower and slower. That was when all the cursing started. Roughly around 8-9pm, we reached bonsai park. This place has a REALLY amazing view. And we reached there in the middle of the night?? BIG DAMN!! Huhu so rugi.. I am so jealous when I look at others' pictures posing in the bonsai park. uhuuu.. We reached Gunung Berembun summit finally at I-don't-know-what-time-it-was-I-was-damn-exhausted. I was so damn pissed of, the exhaustion was really unbearable. It was so stupid to reach the summit in the middle of the night, I didn't even snap a pic there for memorial :(

After resting for quite sometime, we started to move our a**es to the campsite, we headed to Lansir Waterfall. Huh I tell you.. it was BEYOND hellish. The trek was terrible, the after-rain created puddles of mud, the track was super steep, it was sooo dark, total nightmare. But the team were really helpful, they helped me a lot, all the time.

It was 11pm when we finally reached our campsite. I was beyond wasted. I dragged myself to join Bart to wash up, solat and eat. And finally.. sleep~~ Oh, during the late dinner, gogo - Fendi asked me, how was it? And I was like huuu I don't want to do this ever again.. hahaha they all laughed. Apparently, most hikers say that when they're tired, but soon, they'll be asking for more. Now I totally get it ;)

I started to get that feeling when I was enjoying the morning view from Lansir. It was brilliant.. SUBHANALLAH.. Boy I was glad to be there.

That afternoon we went to have a swim and play around at the waterfall. It was a true bliss... the water is so cold, so pure. Ahh I really had a great time there with the team..

That evening, after napping a bit, I went to lie on the big rocks - star gazing. Shiawase~~ so peaceful. I haven't done this in years!! After a while, a girl who shared the tent together with us, came to join me - Radi. We chatted about this and that, until dinner call came ;)

The next morning, we packed our stuff, clear the campsite and started trekking down. The trekking went rather smoothly, well, it was quite tough, the track is suuuper steep, but we managed to get to base in shorter time than scheduled.

We freshened up, excitedly chatting with each other, strangers two days ago are now good buddies, feasting at the canteen, more photo-shooting, more laughter. Nobody seemed to care that the bus was running late. When it was finally there, we happily, tho tiredly loaded ourselves and our backpacks into the bus and returned to KL.

It was an amazing experience, I'll definitely do that again ;)