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climbing mount…

camping, climbing, mount kinabalu, outdoor

Last year, was planning to climb Mount Kinabalu… It supposed to be a unique climb on 10.10.10 but it did not materialize. This year, there is still a chance to make a unique climb on 11.11.11 πŸ˜€

The fist time I climb Mount Kinabalu was in 1990 and the second time was in 1994. On the first attempt, I manage to reach the summit. But on the second climb, I experienced major muscle cramps on both legs… calf and thigh muscles… having cramps on 4 places on your legs is horrible… virtually I was crawling to Panar Laban… the overnight stop over in the middle of the 4,095 metres or 13,435 feet high mount.

Anyways, this year there are two opportunities to climb… organize by the office. But it is not on 11.11.11 but somewhere in July and September. And I don’t think I can get myself ready for the July climb… maybe the September is possible.

To climb mount, a lot of fitness preparations are required… especially to those who are not active… like me… πŸ˜› And must buy light and thick clothing… the thick or winter clothing must be waterproof too coz the temperature during the summit climb at 3 am is very low and wet… but no worries, these stuff are easily available nowadays from the outdoor or camping store.

If I really want to go for the September climb, then I must get myself fit from now… πŸ˜›

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I did not see the meteor…

camping, hunting, meteor, rv, shower

Our meteor hunting last Thursday on13 August, was not a successful one… well more to myself…

I was expecting a real meteor shower that night… you know, stream of meteors lighting up the sky like star wars… but only my 3 other friends manage to see small meteors… as for myself, I did not see a single meteor on that night… probably it was not my time to see meteor yet πŸ™ Like I said in my previous posting, I did see meteor before… but that was when I was only 15 years old.

I was really not prepared that night… I did read the news about the meteor shower on the net a few days before but did not bother about it because I thought it will not be visible here. Just before midnight, around 11.30pm on 12 August, Rachel SMS me… to take photos of the meteor shower… I was shocked, I immediately run out the house to scan the sky… the sky was clear with moon.

I could not see any meteors… went back inside to continue with my FB. Then Ahaz message me on the FB to take photos and videos of the meteors. I search the net for the meteor showers news… and at the same time checking my digital camera and video camera… dang… both runs out of battery… I charge both of them immediately…

According to the news, the meteor showers will be visible from 1.30am to 4.00am on the 13 August 2009… I was hoping my cameras will get enough charge within one hour… well they did get enough charge after one hour.

Then Ahaz, Rachel, Dony and me converse through YM conference… and β€˜fight’ where the best place to watch the meteors… we decided to meet at Tanjung Aru beach… I fetch Dony and Ahaz. But we change our direction once we met Rachel at Tanjung Aru beach because we can’t view the northern sky from there… so we decided to go to Tanjung Lipat… near the KK port… it was a good location… unfortunately there was no spectacular meteor shower that morning…

We were getting tired and Ahaz was getting sleepy… he actually slept while sitting… he was a bit sick with flu… H1N1?… I asked him to sleep inside my car… I was also very sleepy, but tried to hold… I really want to see the meteors. How nice if I have the recreational vehicle or rv for camping… we were actually like camping on the road side next to the sea. With the rv camping, at least I can get a proper rest or even sleep inside the rv while waiting for the meteors.

Well, I do hope there will be meteor shower in the near future… again… and hopefully I can capture them… and hopefully I’m with an rv so that I don’t have to rush out and back home for the tiring meteor hunting… I can just sleep inside my rv πŸ˜€ Went back around 4.00am πŸ˜›

Back home after getting a short sleep, on my way out to office from the house, my sister in-law from Slovak greeted me and I told her about my meteor hunting… and she said she also read about it on the net… and her mother who is next to her, was saying something, and they talked… they talk in foreign language πŸ˜€ … and said, in their country the meteors usually appears in May and August every year… and I said… HUH?… πŸ˜›

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