White Water Rafting @ Kuala Kubu Baru

Went to Kuala Kubu for White Water Rafting last Saturday. Another small personal record. Surprisingly the whole experience did not appear to be as scary as I thought it would be. All you need to do is to follow your leader, forward.. Back.. left.. right... and most important command will be HOLD and SIT-IN! Simple English, but as usual, execution is always more difficult than theory. 40 of us went on the same trip, and we were split into 7 groups, and together with me on the same raft are mainly my BFFs Kalel, ShiMin, Lia, Ilham and Yoong How, commander Pie, and his assistant Along. (What BFF is? Take a good guess).

Group photo before the journey started (Still very dry)

My BFF team

Journey began... We went through quite a number of drops, each of them has a very unique name, e.g. first canon, second canon, chicken drop, broken nose.. These names definitely sounded "welcoming" and comforting, but unfortunately these weren't revealed to us earlier before we started, and the only way back was to climb over the moutain, down another hill, through another forest, on your slipper, or in some case bare foot. I think, the best option is to close your eyes and hold tightly to the string on the edge of the raft. Surprisingly, my raft did not capsize throughout the journey, even with the black sheep (me) on it. My lucky day indeed.

Here come the splash...

This is apparently called the "Chicken Drop" .. Brave little chicken we are indeed.

Another drop - 2nd Canon

Woohoo! Look @ that man..

Everyone's paddles up in the air... So guess who was the one doing the rowing? Thank god we survive.

Don't worry. She is only practicing her "self-rescue" technique

Vincent - Attenpting to "knock-on-the-heaven's-door" twice the same morning.

We had a break mid-way - icy waterfall ...

Group photo :D

Enjoying the apples, sneaker bar, muesli..

Our BFF group photo again.. (Left to right: Yoong How *ahem*, Shi Min, me, Ilham, Kalel - tall guy, Lia)

First time Swimming in the river

OS: Released from the prison?

Lunch place after rafting

Overall, this is a very enjoyable trip. I'd love to do this again, despite the sleep deprivation and bruises everywhere.

Art Gallery Opening

Went back to Penang last weekend for Kim's gallery opening ceromony. The gallery is located at Sun Zhong Shan's musuem, opposite Umno building PG. Met a few artists .. They are quite noticable from my pictures below. Just check out for those grey hair! ;)

Mummy and her happy look Auntie Bee Koon, Auntie Siew Ling and her Daughter, Mummy
Gallery View Auntie Mee Lin's Art Work

Very busy preparing

Kimmie smiling Naturally!! Rare!! Kimmie smiling Naturally!! Rare!!

Kim Soon

More of her Rare Smile! :) Love this photo!

Hot Babe as MC of the day!
Is there no other black-hair artist in PG?
Note:
My new housemate, Siao Wen, very young and cute girl from Muar. New student @ Raffle's Design School, 80% similarity to Ah-Wei's Fren - Si Ting.. hahah! No joking, especially their voice!


Look like i forgot my hairpin when I left home

Accenture Annual Dinner 2008

Accenture Annual Dinner 2008 - 4th April, Sime Darby Convention Centre. Was a magical night! Amazing, well done committee! Event started @ 8plus.. There are some usual dancing, singing, magic show etc. Food.. hmm sux..

Can u guess who are they?

On my left are Leng Lui Huei Ching & Adrian

On my right is Havier (Believe it?)

Rahayu

Angel & beast bear?

Fong

Kalel, my new "BFF"

Sally.. Alwiz the GTC Chick

Chen Chow... First few persons i met in Accenture

Jes :) Same "species" of the nite.

Chin Ai, another same "species"

Fairuz

10km KL Marathon

I have made two personal records last Sunday. Firstly, I got up at 5am (Gosh… I can’t even remember when I last did that.. Probably in high school). And, why 5am? Unbelievably cos’ I was heading to the KL Marathon. I was kind of “pulled” into this (Still trying to refrain using the word “con”). There were 4 categories: 7km, 10km, 21km and the ultimate full marathon 42km. I was put into the de-facto 10km category, although I did very-much-wish to join the 7km which was only open to High-School kids. BUT, one of our project teammates actually took part in the 42 km. So, who says Accenture folks are unfit?

The run started at 7am sharp. I did not study the running route map beforehand, hence every turn I made was a good surprise that morning. The marathon brought me from Dataran Merdeka up the hill to Jalan Pudu, then passed through Times Square, then continued to end of Jalan Imbi, then turned left to Jalan Bukit BIntang (Pavilion’s corner), then made a right turn at Jalan Sultan Ismail, continued to end of Jalan SI and turned left into Jalan TAR…continued to the end of road and that’s the finishing line… (Sounded damn easy here IF you Drive!) Worst thing is that my IPOD is left at home, hence I was running without any music tempo.. It just doubled up the level of difficulty.. man.

Nevertheless, I did enjoy the run, mainly cos’ I was running with such big group of people, and running on road is far more interesting than on the gym treadmill where my focus is largely distracted by the ticking of timer and calorie counter… Crossed the finishing line at 8.15am … YAYY!!!… I actually completed the marathon. Even I find it very difficult to believe that. (I thought I’d wave for the taxi mid-way). Received a small medal which says “10KM Run Finisher” … I’m so gonna frame this up and show it to my grand-grandkids.. and tell them about my weishui marathon story.. (LOL, my grand2kids are so going to like me :P)

Some photos of the heroic group from Accenture..

All in red vest standing by @ 6.30am *Yawn* (From Left: Annafi, Walter, Denis, Kalel, me, Ilham, Ilham's Hubby)

Annafi with our 10k Run Finisher medals

Victorious Smile - Everyone completed the run.

Freddy

We are not alone! :P

The 42km Hero Chin Kee after the 5 hour run! (Geez.. I could drive back to Penang liao)

Calories Pump @ Devi's Corner Bangsar after the run. (Ps: Just when you thought we lost some weight from the 10km marathon… but who cares?)