me and todd are going to climb mount yushan in late March until early April 2010. Both of us have never been to taiwan before but luckily todd has a friend who works for Malaysia embassy in Taipei.

Below are all the resources that i have found on the internet.

hi,

i have just successfully restored this blog tonight. Fuhhhhhh. The version of the currently installed WP is different from the one that i have used before. Thank god i have spotted one missing database column in wp_posts table. And yeah, now i’m with all the contents that i have written before, smiling, and cant wait to write further

ok, for 2010, here is my travel schedule:

1. singapore – done
2. cameron highlands, malaysia – done
3. taipei and mount yushan of taiwan - 27 March – 4 April 2010
4. saudi arabia – may or june
5. annapurna circuit – october or november 2010

will post some photos from the recently concluded singapore and cameron highlands trip.

cya peeps

remi

will try to find time to write something on our journey.

ok, this is one pending writing that i have not finish for months. i’ve been involved in 4 months contract work that requires ridiculously high concentration as i had to learn 2 new programming languages + delivering another project late last year.

mount rinjani, lombok, indonesia

we went to rinjani in late june. My entourage consisted of 8 extraordinaire comrades from KL and Kuantan. Me, arey, emran mt, abah, pahat, doc jamal, doc ali and not to forget mr nizam.

sunset at jimbaran beach, bali, indonesia

sunrise on the ferry from lombok to bali, indonesia

buffalo race at banyu biru, jembrana, bali

mount agung of bali from the crater of mount rinjani, lombok, indonesia

emm…as usual, i have the habit of writing “the 2nd last post” before writing the “the last post” article prior to any travel adventure. hehehehe. but i think, its ok, since its kinda like a list of things that i have to take into account before travelling.

Issues

we actually have a big issue at hand. rinjani becomes active since may 2009. This is not welcomed at all. i think they have raised the alert level to level III. basically, at this warning level, you have to stay away from the center of eruption at a radius of 2-3 km. this means that we cannot camp at plawangan sembalun. we can go up to plawangan but have to go down as soon as possible. this makes all planning go hairwire.

change of plan

so…we have to change our plan. we have few choices. 1st choice is to climb up to the 3rd post, camp there, and go up at the wee hour of the next morning and try to catch the sunrise at plawangan. after that, we descend to post 3 or maybe we can go out straight to sembalun lawang. if we choose this option, we are going to take 2-3 days in rinjani alone.

2nd choice is like the 1st one but originate from senaru. its gonna be hell of a journey since it is longer. just imagine, the last time that i went to rinjani, we took like a day to trek down from segara anak to senaru. And the best part was… we were running. cant u imagine if we were not to run and…we trek up from senaru. Its going to take, not twice but thrice the amount of time to get to senaru plawangan. we have to camp somewhere. So the plan will be 2 days of trekking up and 2 days of going out to senaru. this will taxed up the time in bali. basically, we will not have time in bali. maybe 1/2 to 1 day only.

3rd choice is to scrap rinjani. proceed with plan C: bali touring…emm emmm…so hard to resist

GR – General Reminder

I have to get the following things done before the trip:

1. repair shoes, trekking trousers, repair flash?
2. charge slr batteries
3. settle pending jobs….arrghhh. actually i have 2 pending jobs… :-p
4. locate my sleeping bag
5. what else…emm…will write them when i do remember.

ok guys, this is not a new news. this is a confirmed trip. will be flying to bali and lombok at the end of the month ( next month ).

arey suggested that we elongate the trip to 2 days extra. would love to do it. i think, i have to extent. i dont want to miss bali like the last trip. the 2 days extra will make way for photo shoot out of an event in bali. and of course…i dont want to miss a thing.

i have been longing for a new lense. thinking of an ultra wide angle (UWA). ding-dong-ding between canon 10-22 and tokina 11-16 f2.8. reviews tend to favour tokina. missed the oppurtunity to buy tokina at sim lim square. it was just rm 2100++. That was cheap. i have thought twice and i really hate it. i have been used to make purchase instantaenously, without thinking further or plan before hand. kind of like impulse buying. but i did not do it, and i really regret.

this year, i have purchased the following travelling gears:

1. deuter .. a big backpack, more than 60L
2. sony handycam
3. coleman trekking poles x 2
4. smaller backpack that i use everyday to carry my laptop and cameras
5. toothbrush holder
6. a deuter cargo back

and im looking forward to buy

1. tokina 11-16 f2.8. must buy before rinjani, or i will lose the much needed wide angle views
2. tempted to buy 18-50 f2.8 as well as 70-200 f2.8, work hard and i will get this
3. a new shoes. my acg is experiencing tearing down
4. cooking stove…the liquid one. would love to get coleman stove instead of MSR. MSR is damn expensive here in malaysia.

emm…that is my wish list. hopefully to get it done this year.

if i dont get married next year, i will be planning an australia-nz trip next year. so .. cya ozie girls.