The Pine Tree Trail

Posted on September 24, 2012 by jipp

Before you read any further, you may want to check out my previous post on Weekend Dash-away to Fraser Hill.

Now, due to some work commitment for which we had to go back to KL before midday, we planned to get up early in the morning and be at the starting point of the trail before sunrise.

Then we thought may be challenging the trail with an empty stomach was not a good idea after all so we decided to negotiate with time and wait for hotel to open its door for breakfast at 7.30am. It was a decent breakfast really.

It really was funny. I don’t know what I did in the past to deserve it but I tend to underestimate things quite so much nowadays. There are at least 8 trekking trails in Fraser Hill with different levels of difficulty. Of course with all the egos that we had, we knew we’d go for the toughest of them all. Heh. Continue reading →

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Taiping International Marathon 2012

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jipp

If you’ve been following me on twitter, you’d expect me to write a lot about the just concluded Taiping International Marathon 2012. I’ll try to make it as short as possible though.

First, the race-pack collection.

The race pack collection as stated on the website was to take place at an MPT Hall. I didn’t know that a field is also called as ‘hall’ in Taiping. It was so hot there there was no way I could stay there longer than necessary.

But then, it wasn’t easy NOT to stay there longer than I probably wanted to when the race pack collection was so messy and disorganized. There were no queues and participants of all categories had to pool around a very small counter to check their names on the paper list (or rather a few paper lists). Continue reading →

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A Weekend Dash-away to Fraser Hill

Posted on September 10, 2012 by jipp

Another weekend didn’t just slip by without me doing something quite out of the ordinary. This time, I went to Fraser Hill to do a little bit of trekking, something that I’ve been quite crazy about doing since – well – not so lately. As one of those names that I kept hearing about when I was still a school kid, I had always wanted to go there, together with the likes of Penang Hill (checked!), Cameron Highland (checked!) and Langkawi (probably soon).

My imagination of Fraser Hill had always been that it was located somewhere in Johor and it had remained so until I checked it out on google map and found out that it was actually in Pahang. So, off to Pahang we went. Continue reading →

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