a mixture of white chalk and hidden laughters.: The trip up north

so i already got the pictures from hannes.

well the day started with us needing to wake up like super uber early, 5am, to meet up at central park by 6am. met up with brad and company, but they were late. like freaking 20 minutes late! argh!!

anyway we went on our way. the drive to ipoh was really boring. my butt actually became really numb after a while. all i saw during the drive there was this.

when we arrived in ipoh, the first thing we did was to look for a place to eat.

guess what we had?

we had dim sum!

it was real cool. there were loads of us, so we could afford to try allot of dishes.

after the really satisfying breakfast, we headed over to a motel that is located really close to the water park. its called sun inns. after we checked in, checked out the rooms, jumped around a bit, we were off to the water park for some climbing!

we took a group photo right before we entered the park.

person missing, marrianne.

the usual entry fee if you want to go climbing is 26.90 ringgit, and thats freaking hell expensive man! but lucky for us, we were camp5 members. so we get a 5 ringgit discount. all we paid was 21.90 ringgit, which was still FREAKING EXPENSIVE!

come to think about it, why is the lost world of tambun charging climbers so much, when they did not even contribute any money to the bolting of the routes?

but never the less, they were quite nice. we pay the same price that every other people who wants to go to the water park, but we get a free can of 100 plus. not bad huh?

but still pretty expensive.

anyway, we walked till we saw the infamous needle of tambun.

marrianne and hannes took a really cool picture.

click it to enlarge it. it looks so cool! okay, its just cool, not so cool. i exaggerated a little.

so anyways, we set up base on some benches, but decided to move them because they were out in the open, in the sun.

hannes and marrianne decided to go do some lead climbing, and me and the other guys went to go bouldering.

there is this huge cave which has boulders and stuff round it. some really cool problems there.

so yeah we went bouldering.

and bouldering some more.

this was quite a cool problem. loads of under clings, slopers, and crimps.

after alittle climbing, i decided to head over to base and take a nap. when i woke up, it was climbing time!

guess what, i on sighted a 6c+.

thats the route i climbed.

don't know what an on sight is?

an on sight means climbing the route and finishing it without resting on the rope, and without any prior knowledge of how the route goes.

after my climb it started to rain, so we decided to head back to the water park. had alittle food there and just hung around while deciding what to do.

because eujinn, jordan, and chee khan was heading home that night, they decided to jump into the water for a swim. what did me, brad, hannes and marrianne do?

well we sat around and decided to head back to the hotel for a nap.

i don't know why, but time seems to pass by really slowly in ipoh. since the curtains were close, and it was all dark, i thought we overslept or something.

anyway, after the nap we headed over to brad's grand aunties place. she was a really nice talkative lady. she took us out for dinner and all.

after dinner we headed back to the hotel and lazed around abit. me and brad decided to head over the RUM JUNGLE, which was a club that has a jungle theme. it was just right beside the lost world of tambun.

when we got there it was around 1015. there didn't seem to be many people there. so we thought that maybe ipoh was a really dead place. so we sat down, got some drinks and waited. then suddenly, around 1100, a surge of people came in. the band started playing and it was actually quite nice. there was loads of people there.

i think one of the reasons that there are allot of people there is because in ipoh, there isn't many places to go party at night. so thats why everyone comes to the rum jungle to party. i think the whole of ipoh was there. we could see old people, young people, middle aged people, and yes, even old white men that smokes cigars hanging out at the bar all alone checking out girls.

after a while we got bored of sitting down and decided to take a look around the place. it was actually really nicely done up. they have about 4 bars there, loads of space, tons of sofas for groups, and it has 2 levels. i didn't bring my camera with me, so there aren't any photos. after awhile we decided to call it a day. headed back round 12 or so.

the next day, we woke up and had some mamak food. the service there was the ultimate slow and messy kind of thing. they can never get your order, and it seems like they don't want your business. when taking our orders, they just leave even before we finish giving our orders.

such bastards.

anyway, went climbing later on.

on our way to the entrance, i spotted a crash pad that has hands and legs.

the highlight of this day was that, I DID MY FIRST MULTI PITCH!

don't know what a multi pitch is? search it online.

here are some pics of me and hannes multi pitching.

this picture is when i decided to take a crap on the wall.

hahaha... yeah rite...

ok, so it doesn't look like we were multi pitching. but we did it. climbed half way and all of a sudden we lost the route which we were supposed to climb and decided to bail.

while we were climbing multi pitch, marianne decided to take some weird photos.

ok so i'm lazy to type. this is taking way way too long.

after the climb, we headed to the water park, stole some people's tubes, and went on the lazy river, and also some of the slides.

after the swim we got changed and went to meet brads grand auntie for dinner.

she brought us to this cool place which had really cheap food. she also gave us a fish, which we ate at the restaurant.

see the fish? it was deep fried and all. it was so krispy!

then later on, we sent her home and it was back on the highway again.

this time it wasn't so bad, becuase hannes and brad kept me awake by chatting me up.

ok so i'm lazy to type already.

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