omg! i can't believe that i'm doing this. travel on my own to meet my friends at sabah. get myself organized things to travel. get someone to send me to the airport. and everything. alhamdulillah that i'm used to travel a lot before this. ok, back to the sabah story. i went there with a purposed which is to conquer the mount kinabalu and via ferrata. according to my friend, abg joe. i should go for it because it is the best and most challenging extreme activity ever. so, i told my parents that i'm going to go for it. at first they didn't allowed me to do it. because, well you know. travel on my own and climb the mountain and what ever. but after a few persuasion, they finally insisted me to go.
day 1 - 7/10/10
my flight was on thursday night at 9.15pm. i took air asia. after i finished all my lectures on that day. i asked my friend permission to send me to the airport. thank god, he insisted it. by the time i was theres. i have 3 hours left before i departures. took my dinner then went for solat maghrib and isyak. by the time i finished praying, it was about time for me to departure. i warmed my seat up and try to get a goodnight sleep before i arrive to sabah. my watch shown 10.30pm sharp. oh! it's about time the plane to fly. yet i'm still at kuching airport. gee, air asia? do they always have problem with the service and the flight thing? gee. lastly, after waiting for almost 3 hours in the plane. finally they called it flight cancellation. astagfirullahalazim. me and the rest of the passenger rushed went to the counter to get the next flight. shit! the next flight available was the next morning on the afternoon. i was a little bit panic at that time. yeah, because i'm not used to travel alone. so, i didn't know what am i supposed to do that time. luckily, the lady at the counter said that air asia is going to provide me a place to stay before tomorrow flight. i said "cool then. and where would it be?". she said "at the four point hotel which near to the airport. there will be a bus waiting for you downstairs to bring you to the hotel. no worries." i can't tell whether i'm happy about it or not. but what the hell. i can't do anything about it but just to stay at the hotel until the next morning. later after arrived at the hotel, i was amazed about the treated. the hotel was awesome. my room flew me away in the air.
two beds only just for me. all mine. haha
two beds only just for me. all mine. haha
big tv? all mine. haha
day 2 - 8/10/10
good morning people. it was friday morning. supposedly i have lecture that morning. but what can i do, my flight it's on the evening. so, the answer to it is i have to skip it purposely. hehe. later that, i got a mail from the front desk. it says,
as usual. get on the bus and got myself straight to the airport. alhamdulillah, there is no more cancellation happened. amin. the flight took for 1 hour and 45 minutes. seat doing nothing in the plane. on my own. haha. interesting. by the time i arrived at sabah airport. my watch shown 3.50pm. my leader, abg laili, told me to give abg yus, my driver on that day, a call to send me to the bus station where it leads me straight to kundasang. kundasang is the place where the rest of my climbers group were stayed. he charged me for rm30. no doubt about it, it's a normal price for airport taxi. beside, abg yus helped me so much at that time. without him, who else going to fetch me at the airport to kundasang. thanks abg yus. before i went to the bus station. abg yus drove me around sabah city. wow! it reminds me of bandung, indonesia. like serious. while wondering around the sabah city, suddenly my mom called. omg! she just can't give me some space to learn to travel on my own. she worried too much making me feel uncomfortable and panic. haha. abg yus started to wondering why my mom acted so furious and worried. so, abg yus asked me "your mom called? yeah, mothers. no mothers not worry about their daughter traveling on their own right? this isn't your first time in sabah, right?" then i said "unfortunately, this is my first time travel on my own and my first time in sabah. hehe." he said "ok! then i need to make sure that you need to be at kundasang. i also started to worry. haha". by the time we arrived at sabah bus station, alhamdulillah there was a bus wanted to go to kundasang. my luck was there. and god is watching over me. thank god. abg yus also was there to keep me safe and make sure that the bus driver didn't charged me more than the original price. the trip from sabah city to kundasang cost me rm15 a trip. kinda far actually. it took me almost about 1 hour 30 minutes. it was raining heavily. i started to worry because the roads were slippery and there was a landslide happening. omg! my heart started to beat fast. it was still raining. only god knows how i feel that time. around 4.00 to 5.00pm, finally i met the real abg laili and the rest of the group (adek, abg atan, abg zul, abg mi, sabri and ruby). they welcomed me with a heart warming greeting. omg! i feel like home. why? because all of them are semenanjung people. hehe. before we heading to have our dinner, we were having a ice breaking. hehe. feel like a camp. later that night, abg laili gave some briefing about the next day activities. while that night, all of us started to tell everybody experienced in climbing gunung tahan, mount kinabalu and so on. even the ghost story also included. haha. so funny. all of us went to bed at 10.30pm.
day 3 - 9/10/10
we have to wake up early before 7.00am. i opened the window curtain and looked at the scenery in the morning. wow! sabah is a great place.
it caught me breath away. i started to fell in love with sabah. hehe. we had our breakfast and a few shoot in front of our homestay. OH! we didn't get our shower that morning. hehe. all of us. because the weather is so cold. too cold. hehe. kantoi!
the kinabalu park is around 500 meters from our homestay. the price for the homestay was quite affordable. we all here were doing cost sharing. so, its good if we travel with our friends not on our own. hehe. seriously talking. by the time we arrived at the kinabalu park, abg laili busied handling the activity agenda. the rest of us were busying taking pictures in front of the mount kinabalu. hehe. then there goes another briefing. this time, the real one.
at the same time, we met our porter. meet our porter. in the middle one. isn't she cute. so small but tough. huhu. she brought our things straight up to mount kinabalu on her own. without a minute of rest. fuh!
we are set to go!
step by step. we were tired like hell. we took 5 hours to climb to laban rata where were all of us satyed for the night before heading to low peak. it was a hell of experienced. but managed to take some picture and of course, smile!
rest point like everywhere people. so, don't worry much if you pancit everytime. as long as you manage to get yourself up to the top. that is the main thing. hehe. i even got myself a short break to full fill my tummy. i'm always hungry during my climbed to pendunt hut, laban rata. dang! thank god i brought something munch before we were set to go. hehe. still keep walking..
finally, we have arrived at our destination. the pendunt hut. it was 7.5km to pendunt hut. argh! those pain. my legs were in pain. my body was tired. can't bear with the cold weather and the climbing. my tummy still hungry. huhu.
at 4.00pm. there was a briefing for via ferrata activity. then after that, we went to grab our dinner at the the cafe. again, we have to climb down to get there.
briefing for via ferrata.
i just love the environment at the cafe. later that, we went back to our room for a good night sleep.
day 4 - 10/10/10
the time has come. we all woke up at 2.00am in the morning. we all climbed up to the highest of mount kinabalu. hehe. i'm so excited. eventhough it was tiring, but at that time in my mind. i just got to be on the top of the mountain. thank god, there were a few people supported me at the back. gave me tons of motivation to be on the top of the mountain. they kept pushing me and pushing me. there was a 1 old man, kept motivated me. he said "come one girl. you can do it. it's just a few minute to go. you are young, you suppose to be strong and healthier than me. come on, push yourself harder. you can do it." i was touched and forced myself to be up there. i kept climbing and climbing eventhough at one stage, i felt like to puke because of pressure. but i kept pushing myself just to be on the top. so, i can make my family proud of me. finally, i made it to the top. i was given a chance from god to enjoying the pleasure of sunset of HIS creation. omg! i was speechless. i was amazed. thank you ALLAH, i'm finally got on top of the mount kinabalu. thank you.
she has made it too. everyone made it. everyone happy.
after made it to the top of mount kinabalu. i'm supposed to join my team for via ferrata. too bad, maybe god didn't insisted. i didn't made it to do via ferrata. i was left behind because i was too slow to catch up with my team. but it's ok. i'm happy for them. really happy for them. congrats you guys! all of us went back home safely and happily. ruby, sabri and adek have to catch their plane. so, again. i was the only girl who left alone with the other 4 guys. alhamdulillah, they managed to keep me safe and organized. thank you guys. later that night, all 5 of us stayed at the step in hotel for 2 nights because we have another 1 activity going on the next day.
day 5 - 11/10/10
this day was my last day of doing the extreme sport. guess what? the 4 of us (me, abg laili, abg atan and abg zul) were going for paragliding. we woke up early in the morning and get ourselves ready for it. to be frank, i didn't feel excited or happy about the paragliding. i just feel empty in me. maybe i'm still thinking abut my lectures at unimas or maybe i'm scared of flying. haha. so, that morning abg laili introduced me to richard and en.sulim. both are pro paragliders. richard droves us to the bukit tokol where its located at menggatal area. it was windy heavily and cold. brrr! how am i going to enjoy paragliding if the wind situation are bad? but i still wanted to go for it. at first, the wind was too heavy and fast. richard told us that day wasn't a good day to fly. too bad. i was down already. so, we went to take our lunch because as usual i'm always hungry. after a 30 minutes of lunch, richard called out that we should try again to see whether the wind is already cool down or not. so, we all went up to bukit tokol again. but still for the second try out. it didn't worked. the wind was still heavy. so, we sat on the side of the road praying and hoping that the wind will let us fly that day. lucky me and the rest, we managed to fly because abg amin (another pro glider) said the wind was ok for flying. so, we climbed up again to bukit tokol and get ourselves ready for praragliding. wee, i can't wait. abg zul was ready with richard. while i was ready with abg amin.
abg zul with richard
me and abg amin
unfortunately, i was too light according to abg amin. at that time,the wind started to become heavy and traveled too fast. so, we were blew away before both of us were ready. we both got injured. i don't know about abg amin whether is he ok or not. but as for my. i got a few cuts on my lips where my face was dropped and hit the ground so hard. iskh! but i end up to be fine. alhamdulillah i'm still alive. for en.sulim. too bad for him. he twisted his ankle because he accidentally stepped on a small roller and he slipped on top of it. fuh! it's hurt so bad. so, i was given the second chanced to fly. but that time, i'm with richard. kecoh la lu brother. aiyo. haha. i didn't purposely grabbed the rope from the parachute because it was a sudden start. richard started to scream at me saying "let go of the rope...now...let go of the rope...". i spontaneously loose the rope and there we go. we flew away. hehe. it was the best moment of my life. finally i got to fly freedom. thanks richard. oh yeah! my parents didn't know about this. if they know about it, definitely i didn't get the chance to do it. sungguh jahat punye anak. huhu. sorry mom and dad. but i'm happy doing it. while for abg atan, he finally got himself fly that day with abg amin.
me and richard were about to take off. while abg amin is helping both of us to fly.
abg amin and abg atan.
the crocs as a proof of me did the paragliding. hehe
after 15-20 minutes of flying. richard and i started to land a the exact landing point. unfortunately the wind was too fast. we weren't able to reach the the landing point as what he was planned to. guess where did we land? haha, at the rock. a big hard rock near to the village people. richard jahat. hehe
it's hurt ok. really really hurt. but fun is the best thing to say. after 3 of us (abg atan, me and abg zul) done flying. it's about abg laili's turn. but too bad, the wind started to travel faster than it's normal reading. abg laili was ok with it. so, we all called it off and took a final picture together. it's ok abg laili. the will be a next time. i'm pretty sure that you will get it and you wont want to go for only once but twice eventhough you are afraid of height. hehe.
the best memory ever. thank you so much you guys.
yeay! en.sulim managed to walk again. alhamdulillah. get well soon, en.sulim =)
later that. richard brought us to his favourite stall. well, the kelapa puding was delicious. it tasted like kaya. hehe. and the clamps? omg! it was finger licking good. thanks richard. at the same me, abg zul and abg atan were busying filled up the agreement form. baru nak kasi? and we will be given a certificate for participating the paragliding. yeay! horey! thanks again people. my day was full of laughter and smile on my face. heart you guys a lot.
abg atan busy filled up the form. hehe
after hangout at the gerai kelapa salut. we all went back home. get ready to go back to semenanjung and sarawak (as for me, unimas) tomorrow. meanwhile during the night, we all went out wondering around the sabah city for the last time and we had our dinner with bakso ayam. wow! it's good. never taste a bakso before. that time was my first bakso ever and i like it. thanks abg laili for the treat. the price is rm3.50 for one. which located near to the philipine market.
finally. end of our day trip.
last day (day 6) - 12/10/10
it's about time for me headed back to unimas and start to study. i couldn't believe my eyes that eventhough my watch shown 6.34am. i can see the sun rise quickly. it was amazing.
final -
well, that's all for our crazy trips. hopefully there will be next trip same as crazy as this one. take care guys. keep in touch. what is next for "my must to do list"? i'm still hunger for adventure.
good morning people. it was friday morning. supposedly i have lecture that morning. but what can i do, my flight it's on the evening. so, the answer to it is i have to skip it purposely. hehe. later that, i got a mail from the front desk. it says,
as usual. get on the bus and got myself straight to the airport. alhamdulillah, there is no more cancellation happened. amin. the flight took for 1 hour and 45 minutes. seat doing nothing in the plane. on my own. haha. interesting. by the time i arrived at sabah airport. my watch shown 3.50pm. my leader, abg laili, told me to give abg yus, my driver on that day, a call to send me to the bus station where it leads me straight to kundasang. kundasang is the place where the rest of my climbers group were stayed. he charged me for rm30. no doubt about it, it's a normal price for airport taxi. beside, abg yus helped me so much at that time. without him, who else going to fetch me at the airport to kundasang. thanks abg yus. before i went to the bus station. abg yus drove me around sabah city. wow! it reminds me of bandung, indonesia. like serious. while wondering around the sabah city, suddenly my mom called. omg! she just can't give me some space to learn to travel on my own. she worried too much making me feel uncomfortable and panic. haha. abg yus started to wondering why my mom acted so furious and worried. so, abg yus asked me "your mom called? yeah, mothers. no mothers not worry about their daughter traveling on their own right? this isn't your first time in sabah, right?" then i said "unfortunately, this is my first time travel on my own and my first time in sabah. hehe." he said "ok! then i need to make sure that you need to be at kundasang. i also started to worry. haha". by the time we arrived at sabah bus station, alhamdulillah there was a bus wanted to go to kundasang. my luck was there. and god is watching over me. thank god. abg yus also was there to keep me safe and make sure that the bus driver didn't charged me more than the original price. the trip from sabah city to kundasang cost me rm15 a trip. kinda far actually. it took me almost about 1 hour 30 minutes. it was raining heavily. i started to worry because the roads were slippery and there was a landslide happening. omg! my heart started to beat fast. it was still raining. only god knows how i feel that time. around 4.00 to 5.00pm, finally i met the real abg laili and the rest of the group (adek, abg atan, abg zul, abg mi, sabri and ruby). they welcomed me with a heart warming greeting. omg! i feel like home. why? because all of them are semenanjung people. hehe. before we heading to have our dinner, we were having a ice breaking. hehe. feel like a camp. later that night, abg laili gave some briefing about the next day activities. while that night, all of us started to tell everybody experienced in climbing gunung tahan, mount kinabalu and so on. even the ghost story also included. haha. so funny. all of us went to bed at 10.30pm.
day 3 - 9/10/10
we have to wake up early before 7.00am. i opened the window curtain and looked at the scenery in the morning. wow! sabah is a great place.
it caught me breath away. i started to fell in love with sabah. hehe. we had our breakfast and a few shoot in front of our homestay. OH! we didn't get our shower that morning. hehe. all of us. because the weather is so cold. too cold. hehe. kantoi!
the kinabalu park is around 500 meters from our homestay. the price for the homestay was quite affordable. we all here were doing cost sharing. so, its good if we travel with our friends not on our own. hehe. seriously talking. by the time we arrived at the kinabalu park, abg laili busied handling the activity agenda. the rest of us were busying taking pictures in front of the mount kinabalu. hehe. then there goes another briefing. this time, the real one.
at the same time, we met our porter. meet our porter. in the middle one. isn't she cute. so small but tough. huhu. she brought our things straight up to mount kinabalu on her own. without a minute of rest. fuh!
we are set to go!
step by step. we were tired like hell. we took 5 hours to climb to laban rata where were all of us satyed for the night before heading to low peak. it was a hell of experienced. but managed to take some picture and of course, smile!
rest point like everywhere people. so, don't worry much if you pancit everytime. as long as you manage to get yourself up to the top. that is the main thing. hehe. i even got myself a short break to full fill my tummy. i'm always hungry during my climbed to pendunt hut, laban rata. dang! thank god i brought something munch before we were set to go. hehe. still keep walking..
finally, we have arrived at our destination. the pendunt hut. it was 7.5km to pendunt hut. argh! those pain. my legs were in pain. my body was tired. can't bear with the cold weather and the climbing. my tummy still hungry. huhu.
at 4.00pm. there was a briefing for via ferrata activity. then after that, we went to grab our dinner at the the cafe. again, we have to climb down to get there.
briefing for via ferrata.
i just love the environment at the cafe. later that, we went back to our room for a good night sleep.
day 4 - 10/10/10
the time has come. we all woke up at 2.00am in the morning. we all climbed up to the highest of mount kinabalu. hehe. i'm so excited. eventhough it was tiring, but at that time in my mind. i just got to be on the top of the mountain. thank god, there were a few people supported me at the back. gave me tons of motivation to be on the top of the mountain. they kept pushing me and pushing me. there was a 1 old man, kept motivated me. he said "come one girl. you can do it. it's just a few minute to go. you are young, you suppose to be strong and healthier than me. come on, push yourself harder. you can do it." i was touched and forced myself to be up there. i kept climbing and climbing eventhough at one stage, i felt like to puke because of pressure. but i kept pushing myself just to be on the top. so, i can make my family proud of me. finally, i made it to the top. i was given a chance from god to enjoying the pleasure of sunset of HIS creation. omg! i was speechless. i was amazed. thank you ALLAH, i'm finally got on top of the mount kinabalu. thank you.
she has made it too. everyone made it. everyone happy.after made it to the top of mount kinabalu. i'm supposed to join my team for via ferrata. too bad, maybe god didn't insisted. i didn't made it to do via ferrata. i was left behind because i was too slow to catch up with my team. but it's ok. i'm happy for them. really happy for them. congrats you guys! all of us went back home safely and happily. ruby, sabri and adek have to catch their plane. so, again. i was the only girl who left alone with the other 4 guys. alhamdulillah, they managed to keep me safe and organized. thank you guys. later that night, all 5 of us stayed at the step in hotel for 2 nights because we have another 1 activity going on the next day.
day 5 - 11/10/10
this day was my last day of doing the extreme sport. guess what? the 4 of us (me, abg laili, abg atan and abg zul) were going for paragliding. we woke up early in the morning and get ourselves ready for it. to be frank, i didn't feel excited or happy about the paragliding. i just feel empty in me. maybe i'm still thinking abut my lectures at unimas or maybe i'm scared of flying. haha. so, that morning abg laili introduced me to richard and en.sulim. both are pro paragliders. richard droves us to the bukit tokol where its located at menggatal area. it was windy heavily and cold. brrr! how am i going to enjoy paragliding if the wind situation are bad? but i still wanted to go for it. at first, the wind was too heavy and fast. richard told us that day wasn't a good day to fly. too bad. i was down already. so, we went to take our lunch because as usual i'm always hungry. after a 30 minutes of lunch, richard called out that we should try again to see whether the wind is already cool down or not. so, we all went up to bukit tokol again. but still for the second try out. it didn't worked. the wind was still heavy. so, we sat on the side of the road praying and hoping that the wind will let us fly that day. lucky me and the rest, we managed to fly because abg amin (another pro glider) said the wind was ok for flying. so, we climbed up again to bukit tokol and get ourselves ready for praragliding. wee, i can't wait. abg zul was ready with richard. while i was ready with abg amin.
abg zul with richard
me and abg aminunfortunately, i was too light according to abg amin. at that time,the wind started to become heavy and traveled too fast. so, we were blew away before both of us were ready. we both got injured. i don't know about abg amin whether is he ok or not. but as for my. i got a few cuts on my lips where my face was dropped and hit the ground so hard. iskh! but i end up to be fine. alhamdulillah i'm still alive. for en.sulim. too bad for him. he twisted his ankle because he accidentally stepped on a small roller and he slipped on top of it. fuh! it's hurt so bad. so, i was given the second chanced to fly. but that time, i'm with richard. kecoh la lu brother. aiyo. haha. i didn't purposely grabbed the rope from the parachute because it was a sudden start. richard started to scream at me saying "let go of the rope...now...let go of the rope...". i spontaneously loose the rope and there we go. we flew away. hehe. it was the best moment of my life. finally i got to fly freedom. thanks richard. oh yeah! my parents didn't know about this. if they know about it, definitely i didn't get the chance to do it. sungguh jahat punye anak. huhu. sorry mom and dad. but i'm happy doing it. while for abg atan, he finally got himself fly that day with abg amin.
me and richard were about to take off. while abg amin is helping both of us to fly.
abg amin and abg atan.
the crocs as a proof of me did the paragliding. heheafter 15-20 minutes of flying. richard and i started to land a the exact landing point. unfortunately the wind was too fast. we weren't able to reach the the landing point as what he was planned to. guess where did we land? haha, at the rock. a big hard rock near to the village people. richard jahat. hehe
it's hurt ok. really really hurt. but fun is the best thing to say. after 3 of us (abg atan, me and abg zul) done flying. it's about abg laili's turn. but too bad, the wind started to travel faster than it's normal reading. abg laili was ok with it. so, we all called it off and took a final picture together. it's ok abg laili. the will be a next time. i'm pretty sure that you will get it and you wont want to go for only once but twice eventhough you are afraid of height. hehe.
the best memory ever. thank you so much you guys.
yeay! en.sulim managed to walk again. alhamdulillah. get well soon, en.sulim =)later that. richard brought us to his favourite stall. well, the kelapa puding was delicious. it tasted like kaya. hehe. and the clamps? omg! it was finger licking good. thanks richard. at the same me, abg zul and abg atan were busying filled up the agreement form. baru nak kasi? and we will be given a certificate for participating the paragliding. yeay! horey! thanks again people. my day was full of laughter and smile on my face. heart you guys a lot.
abg atan busy filled up the form. heheafter hangout at the gerai kelapa salut. we all went back home. get ready to go back to semenanjung and sarawak (as for me, unimas) tomorrow. meanwhile during the night, we all went out wondering around the sabah city for the last time and we had our dinner with bakso ayam. wow! it's good. never taste a bakso before. that time was my first bakso ever and i like it. thanks abg laili for the treat. the price is rm3.50 for one. which located near to the philipine market.
finally. end of our day trip.last day (day 6) - 12/10/10
it's about time for me headed back to unimas and start to study. i couldn't believe my eyes that eventhough my watch shown 6.34am. i can see the sun rise quickly. it was amazing.
final -
well, that's all for our crazy trips. hopefully there will be next trip same as crazy as this one. take care guys. keep in touch. what is next for "my must to do list"? i'm still hunger for adventure.
