Monday, November 20, 2006
Day 3 - Highlight of the whole trip

Finally, after 2 days of boredom, the highlight of the whole trip was here. Waterfall abseiling and white water rafting. Hmm.. one thing I don't get about the place is that the weather can get quite hot sometimes, but the water is always freaking cold. And not as though it's flowed down from some high mountain with ice caps or anything. But anyway, the abseiling was fun, pity no photos though, the 3L ppl brought along a disposable camera but the rest of us.. 把那次难忘的经历深深地刻在脑海里 or is it 心坎?

*Edit* Lol.. Here's two photos koped from Ruth Ngo's photo album before she password protected it <>.<> Haha, managed to find it cause of wen hao's name.. lol.. she thought the guy in orange was someone else XD. But er.. Ruth, if you're somehow reading this or got to know abt this, lol... er.. paiseh...

Anyway yes, *cough*p*cough*j*cough* the guy in white is wen hao. Feel free to crop.


lol.. ok, not that dramatic but it was quite an experience, abseiling down a waterfall. It's a small 15m one but the feeling of the water gushing against your legs as you rest against the wall, the way the water splashes against your face and the rest of you as you slowly make your descent. Ah... But that aside, it was freezing though. Lol.. by the time we dried up we were kinda reluctant to go a second time already, in the end we procrastinated abt it until no more liao.

Oh well, but next up was white water rafting. Lol.. our raft screamed like mad at the start. Then somehow my side whole day go down the bigger drops last, so we get tossed into the raft. Then start floating around inside as the water drains and we scramble back to our seats. Ok, I think that's more like me the first time it happened. The second time not bad alr but still hit some people I think. Haiz.. apologies ppl.

But the rest of it was much better, can't decide if it's cause we managed to get our side to go down the dips first or that we just held on to the tug line and hecked alr. lol.. Or maybe it's just that the ride was less hiong after the beginning. Still it was pretty fun, stopped halfway to do bodyrafting, basically just sit up and float using your PFD. Heh... our group first to go, then after that just keep splashing water at people. Then that wen hao go pull me backwards into the water. Haiz.. poor guy, kept trying to sneak attack ppl, in the end when he try to pull we gang and pull him first. Lol...

So the rest of the day was spent playing more cards. This time the black jack came in with push-ups as bets, then end up we look like idiots pumping ourselves for no apparent reason, but well, it was quite fun lah. Haha, that night we also got to sleep in the big hut which had pathetic mattresses but lots of sleeping mats, so just pile the mats and dump the mattress on top and sleep until song. Ah.... lol.

*Edit* Here's a picture I took the next morning:

Er.. anyone notice the mega thick mattress at the far end? Hmm... I wonder who it belongs too.... *cough* lol...