Broga Hill and Brands

Me, Alex and Kel hiked up Broga Hill yesterday :)

Truth be told, the night before yesterday, I went out with my family to catch Pirates of the Caribbean 4. The show was at night, at 8.10 pm so it finished at around 10.30pm. By the time we got home, it was already 11pm. I told myself I was going to bed by 11.15 pm but one distraction led to another and before I knew it, I was watching some laughing dog video on YouTube and it was already 1.00 am :P So i quickly cleaned up, got to bed and slept. Before I knew it, it was already 3.00 am and I had to get up again, all tired, unrefreshed and cranky :( The reason for needing to get up so early was so we could make it to the top in time to catch the sun rise. Keeping reading and check out the pictures below to see if we made it in time :)

So I was at Alex's house by 3.45 am. Kel came to pick us up at 4.00am. After about an hour or so we reach the base of the hill. The surroundings were of an oil palm plantation, to someone who hadn't been there before, the place would've been impossible to find as there were hardly any signs there. The nearby towns were more like 'Malay Kampungs' rather than towns because I couldn't spot a single Chinese or Indian restaurant along the way and the place looked and smelled like a kampung :P

We started hiking about a minute after we parked. This was around 5 am. There were only 2 other cars there at that time. I could tell that the 3 of us were the first few of the day hiking up the hill. We started out relatively quick, the the area around us was still mostly oil palm trees. after about 15 minutes, the gradient got steeper. The surroundings changed from oil palm trees to think grasslands. The pathway was also narrower than compared to when we started out. We reached the first checkpoint/ peak about 20 minutes after we had started. We took a breather here for about 10 min, enjoyed the view(almost pure darkness) for a bit :)

Alex resting.

Kel with his torchlight.

Me with my head lamp on :)

Peace much :)

I saw this patch of grass. I don't think its that clear in the picture(phone camera) but that small patch of grass was actually growing out of a rock!!.....thought it was kinda cool :P

The moon smiling at us :)

The town down below from the first peak.

This is the town from the second peak, a little brighter now cuz the sun was on its way up.

This picture was taken at the highest peak on the hill. No good pics of the sun rise because it was cloudy and foggy. Couldn't even find the big orange circle in the sky :(

On our way back down :) Breakfast was calling :)

Doesn't this picture look like a scene from Lord of the Rings ??!! If you look closely you can see Frodo :D

A piece of rope tied to a tree branch. Needed to be climbed to get to the highest peak.

" Look!! Its Sam and Frodo !! "

These pics so remind me of Lord of the Rings :)

LOTR RIGHT?!!? :D

Camwhore :P

Saw a small durian at the base when we stopped to get some coconuts to drink.

We went to USJ 21 to eat dim sum for breakfast :) Was an exhausting morning. By the time I got back, which was around 10.30am , I immediately took a bath and slept til 330 pm. It was a tiring day, but fun of course :)

Went to Ikea jsut now with my mom and bro. Just walked around carrying the Ikea shopping bag mostly. My mom likes to go to Ikea. She seldom buys stuff, most of the time she goes there just to look around. We didn't buy anything major today, just a small mat and some mugs.

We went over to the curve after that, I bought 3 shirts from Brands :)

Frankly speaking, I'm not the shopping type. I really do think its a waste of time and money. You're basically buying more clothes than you can possibly use. Some people even buy them just for a one time use and then leave them in the depths of their drawers of cupboards, never to see sun light again. I shop practically only once a year and thats for my CNY clothes. BUT Brands is the one and , so far, only store that I'd do my casual shopping at. They have ACTUAL clothes that people would ACTUALLY wear daily and not just chuck them aside after wearing them a few times :P

The shirt I got :) :

Chemistry joke :) Nerds can be funny too :D

2 Thumbs Up!! :)

Thats all for now :)