Wednesday, September 13, 2006
9:48 PM

Berke!

Yay! Finally got a chance to go berke over the weekend!

It was a good break from all the readings (which, unfortunately, I was still unable to catch up with) and assignments and stuff. Yj was like saying I'm kinda "schizophrenic", cuz when there's serious stuff to do, I'm more toned down and, yes, serious. But when it comes to play, I transform to a madwoman. Sheesh... I know that actually. I've been like that since I remembered.

I dun always transform into a madwoman when it comes to play tho. It depends on the crowd too. But it's mostly when I engage in outdoor activities, which explains y I like outdoor activities despite my incompetence. In which mostly I'll have the good company of 29th or the Gossip Club. (Anyway, we'r recruiting. Interested parties need not apply, as this is an exclusive club. The 4 current founder members will nominate, interview and elect eligible candidates into the club.)

You know, I just like the feeling of being high, and happy, and laughing from within. Perhaps, this is what pple call "escape". It is therapeutic, and prepares me for the many weeks of sch to come. But well, this weekend there's another "getaway" anyway. Then, I'm so looking forward to the following weekend's kayaking session w 29th and nite bike! I alr promised geok, but DAMN! I received a stupid letter asking me to go for a stupid function! I can turn it down, but I'm obliged to attend, the failure of which will result in a blacklisting of me and my dad. Sucks. Which means I can only meet 29th later, which means I'll skip the whole kayaking session! Oh talking abt kayaking, PC is closing down! Came as a shock to me as I always thot PC has been over-charging and shud be enjoying big bucks. So, there goes the last chance for me to kayak at PC and reminisce the old days when we trained in/ drank the chlorinated, purified, seawater twice weekly. Sigh.

So back to Berke. The first lobang for bus transport I got for Merv failed, but luckily vonvon n I managed to source a pretty good charter service at Larkin, in cannot-make-it Bahasa. So well, we set off to Kuantan on the sangat cepat dan ekspres Cepat Ekspres express bus, without getting my buy-5-get-1-free Dunkin Donuts which I was supposed to share w xinyu, cuz it closed b4 we reached Larkin. So we reached in less than 5 hours where I slept on the groundsheet outside the restaurant while waiting for it to open. I guessed I looked damn unglam when I was sleeping, and had my mouth open, cuz I heard there were many pics taken of me slping. Rawr

The trek was damn short. It was like walk, stroll, hop, rest, continue, then rest and eat trail mix, then walk again, then all of a sudden, we'r there! Unlike other treks where we reach campsite abt late aft, we reached at abt noon. So we spent sooo much time nuah-ing in the waters, and bitching too! whoa! That's really life mans.

I called it a get-fat trek cuz we had sooo much to eat! Fusili in carbonara (in fact clam chowder), fusili in tomato sauce, kailan n mushrooms in oyster sauce, furong egg, lychee and longan chap, char mee, scrambled egg and hash brown, pancake with maple syrup (tho it looked like mashed potato to many), thick milo w marshmallows, etc, the total calories of which could not be matched by the calories burned during the trek. Some of the food turned out to be quite unpresentable, but well, still tasted pretty good. hehes.

So here's alph, xinyu and me presenting our unglam plunges into the pool:

hot gurls on hot rocks

And so before we had to face the (harsh) reality again, we ended off the trek w a wonderful chatting session on the bus non-stop (the milo and pot saga is so super hilarious. *winks...) and a seafood dinner at Tmn Sri Tebrau. ooh