The Umpteenth Excursion 01
Moving on,
The Umpteenth Excursion to Penang Hill
So with the recent arrival of the cousin, Harish, things have indeed been a little less dull here in good ol' 49.
Another hike up Penang Hill was planned. It was as good as any other :D
So damn I slept at 2.30 after watching Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (WHICH IS ABSOF*CKINGLUTELY AWESOME btw) (for reasons you should know). Anyways, I was forced awake at 6.30 . F*cking alarms LOL. I was so so dizzy and blur and sleepy and all when we were dropped at Moon Gate.
Moon Gate.The hike up took us approximately 3 hours and 24 minutes which isn't THAT BAD, considering we stopped quite a bit to talk to people. We met this dude at station 84 (halfway point of hike trail) and he was telling my brother and cousin about how the Malaysian Government is full of shit. He was an atheist too. What are the odds, right?
So the following are a combination of random shots my cousin, brother and I took on the way up.
At the top. IT WAS SO DESERTED. I'm sure many of you know that the Funicular Train has been closed indefinitely due to faulty wires and all, so there's no way up to the top except by hiking and by taking a 90 ringgit for a two-way trip up and down via jeep. Effed up, no? So yes, it was completely deserted except for random ninjas (if you catch my drift) roaming around. Hardly any stalls were open. Seriously people, do NOT go up there unless you want to hike for fun. There's NOTHING to do up there at the moment.
With the lack of people, the three of us adjourned to the temple area. We took NAPS, which was SO relaxing.
Me. Just Do It yo.
Seriously Just Do It.Since there wasn't much to do at the top, we hiked down. But wait, there's more. We didn't hike down the trail we came up with. We walked down the TAR road (a.k.a. the jeep trail). It was so so so so so so SO tiring lah. We had to walk backwards for some physics related reason which my brother would be able to explain much better than I would. For further information please contact him at you_know_the_name@hotmail.com . The jeep trail allowed us to reach the bottom faster, around 2 hours. The jeep trail took us out to the Quarry Park area. (the place where the World Music Festival was held)
From there, we took a cab to Gurney Plaza. Watched The Clone Wars. It isn't AS BAD as reviews say it is. Entertaining, but I'd consider it no more than a guilty pleasure at this point. To people who don't know, The Clone Wars showing in theaters right now is apparently the first three episodes of the 3D Cartoon premiering on Cartoon Network soon. Hence, the graphics aren't that good.
After the movie, we WALKED to a bus station because our faith in the T304 line that stops outside Gurney Plaza was non-existent. Took a bus to Komtar and bus home from there.
'Twas a good day. Home now :)"If a task has begun, don't ever leave it till its done. Be thy labor great or small, do it well or not at all. "
Labels: random happenings
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