Imagine cool, fresh water on your face.
Imagine a refreshing dip in the river waters.
Imagine natural Jacuzzi and hydrotherapy.
Imagine star-gazing away from city lights.

With a weekend getaway at Pelepah Falls,
it’s not that hard to imagine.

This was the poetry I came up with for the publicity of our activity. It's so apt, cuz everything actually came true though I've never been there.

We set off from Kranji MRT by taking 160/170 to Woodlands checkpoint, then to Malaysia's customs, and Larkin. At Larkin, while waiting for the bus to arrive, I went to eat Dunkin' Donuts. It was my first time eating, and guess what, I ate 3 donuts - Double Choc, Apple and Peanut Butter Jelly. Heavenly! though super unhealthy.

The bus we got on was atrocious! Could smell the exhaust fumes, and we could've died from carbon monoxide poisoning u noe. The seats were dusty and spoilt, the glass windows were blurred from dirt and oil, and the bus's suspension was faulty.

Then came the real adventure. b4 I came, heard from the others it wasn't very physically draining, just that the rocks were slippery. comparing Datuk and this trek, the slopes are definitely less inclined, and at least there are both ups and downs, while Datuk only had ups, no downs. I enjoyed this trekking cuz we get to jump up and down the rivers and the rocks. There were several parts which required a bit of rockclimbing too. Though it wasn't physically tiring, could feel the strain on my knees for climbing so much.

When we reached the first large waterfall, we jumped in to enjoy the hydrotherapy and Jacuzzi! The water was hitting down so hard on us that my ears hurt, as the waters seemed to be flicking my ears. The second one we stopped at had a puny cave behind the fall, where it was good for 2 pple to hide and wash their hair. too bad i din bring my camera to take pics, so I'll have to wait for the others to send me the photos b4 i can upload them. anyway the waterfalls weren't that breath-taking. It was juz shiok and fun! :)

When the skies darkened, one by one the stars shone, and soon the whole sky was lit up by stars, just like the last time I had had star gazing at Tasik Kenyir. After the campfire, some of us juz sat down to listen to JJ's life stories, then solved baffling IQ questions, discussed philosophical and political topics, and then gender issues, etc. quite interesting actually.

The next day, on our descent, we met some of the NTU ODACians - Kelvin, Victoria, Renjian and KK among them. Then we met them at Malaysian customs again after our dinner at Tmn Sri Tebrau, in which my table ate 3 chilli crabs, cereal prawns, beggar chicken, sambal kangkong, beancurd and stingray. Just felt like a pig after that.

Moral of the story: Trekking does burn your calories, but u can't slim down from it. juz look at how we feast after and during each trek. anyway, i tink i'm gonna get thunder thighs from it.