Walk of Life

With the new Council President come new activities. Now we have mass walk every third Sunday and mass cycling on the last Sunday of the month. Some goodies thrown in as well as lucky draw prizes. I thought it's a good thing to get people out of bed early on a Sunday morning. A couple of hundred people today but there were a lot more last month, are people still away on holidays? They scrapped the 8km event so we went for the 5km, quite a number went for 3km only. Felt some pain on my leg and lower back -  not a good day for more strenuous exercise. One female walker passed out, luckily they have an ambulance on standby, I hope she's ok.

Whitewater Exprerience

10th Feb. A new experience but rather unexpectedly. The plan was to go for a picnic and dip in the cool stream in Ulu Slim, our second trip here, and perhaps a hike up the hills. There were no enthusiastic response to the hike proposal but quite a number wanted to try whitewater rafting. So rafting it is and I didn't know really what to expect except to be ready to get wet. Turns out that it's an enjoyable group activity though  more difficult than I thought. Difficult because we got stuck numerous times and us - 5 in the raft+ the 2 guides have to move around a lot to tilt the raft left, right, front and rear to get out of the sticky situation and get us moving again.
The rafting took more two hours and I didn't think we travel very  far. There were rapids all along right from the word go! At one point all 5 of us ere thrown out of the raft but the 2 guides amazingly did not! We got back on again quickly but not before swallowing some water. Helmets and life jackets are definitely a must! At RM160 a head not exactly cheap and that's after a RM30 discount but  I think it's worth it for something you don't do very often.

Genting again - with a diference.

This is the first time up Genting this year. The difference is that we didn't actually go up to the top where the Casino and the theme park is, we just content to be half-way up the mountain and lepak in a largish house courtesy of a friend's relative. We stayed just one night, enjoyed our stay in the cool weather and eat simple hot meals cooked we cooked ourselves. Managed a 3km hike around the hilly area and that's about the only physical activity done on one morning. Cool surrounding and good company makes for an enjoying weekend. Simple formula. It rained heavily in the afternoon and we left while it's still drizzling. Thank God nothing untoward happened any of us though we saw at lest two accidents on the way down towards Gombak.

It's getting hot!

These past week have seen very little rain. Hardly any cloud in the blue sky. The result being very hot days and nights. Our bedroom faces the afternoon sun and stays very warm even at midnight. If not for the air-conditioning we would not be able to sleep well.
With weather like this it'll worry the authority wrt the water supply situation. Consumption will increase no doubt and it'll not be a surprise to see some areas not getting their usual water supply. Good days for cycling though - no rain to interrupt us.