Saturday, September 03, 2005
I guess u guys been missing mi rite, cos i din write anything recently. Actually i was "secretly" training for what i was gonna try conquer today, the HSBC Tree Top Walk. This morning mi and my adventure kakis decided to meet at 8am and take a bus to MacRitchie, although i was late cos i turned back when i was half way down my blk, cos i think black suits mi better. So i i went back to change my white polo tee to black, wahaha (Vain!). Anyway took the LRT then the MRT to the meeting place, reached there and took the bus to MacRitchie. On our way tok abt the "missing" member who went to "fly aeroplane" (u shld know who u are!) Anyway reached there, woh there was so many people, so we were hoping they are only here for run not walk the Tree Top. Soon we embark on this hike to the Tree Top, at first it was only a causal pathway to the hiking route. When we reached the end of the pathway we decided to take the "forest" walk instead, cos it will seems more interesting. During the hike saw many pple ran past us, so an question pops up! Why do these pple choose to run in these kind of terrain? My kakis told mi, train for "cross country" mah, den i asked again since when S'pore has a national compeition abt it? Along i continued with many other questions of mine, my kakis answered them, we also tok abt things ard us in the nature reserves and also abt things not ard us at all. Din get to see any monkeys in the "forrest" as we expect, but manage to get a glimpse of a squrriel or what we think it is lah. After ard 3-4km we are out of the "forrest", we continued on the tar road until we went into the "forrest" again. This time quite a short one, soon we reached the ranger station, woh many people were there resting, so we decided to just take short rest and proceed on. The path was quite tiring cos it was a slope up, our constant pace soon slowed down as we proceed on, finally we reached the plank pathway to the Tree Top bridge liao. We then took the pathway to the bridge, first moment on the bridge was not as scary as expected, cos the bridge wasn't very shaky but there are times the bridge swing a bit lah. Along the bridge wasn't much to see, as we din see any birds or animals except a monkey which jumped from the bridge onto a tree nearby. Soon we reached the end of the bridge, we saw quite a number of steps to take, haiz...! We carry on with our journey back, soon we reach a junction which could lead us back and to Bukit Timah Hill. We decided to take the route to bukit timah to adventure some more. It was quite rewarding for us, cos during the journey we saw a pair of butterflies mating other than that we also saw large group of monkeys. At one point i thot i saw a monkey crawling among the grass, then to our surprised it was a monitor lizard trying to "ambush" the monkeys. With great excitement we carry on watching, but seems like the monkeys knows of it and went up to the trees. Nothing as a result we carry on the long route until we hit the road, it was then we decided we will end the journey and have our bruch at KAP Mac. And so this marks the end of my (ard) 8km hiking, but this isn't the last cos we've decided to try even tougher route this year end.

  Scribbled by Genki @ 9:55 PM - [PL]




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