emm…yeah. we have already confirmed that we are not going to jade mountain of taiwan. The track is closed due to thick layer of snow.

so we switched to snow mountain and as the name suggests, it snows. right now i’m preparing the list of the must have mountaineering gears that we have to prepare for this snowy mountaineering trips.

one of the good read: http://www.abc-of-mountaineering.com/articles/gearlist.asp

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. Supposedly mr jasni from muor should have joined us in this photo adventure travel but he withdrew at the eleventh hour due to some immediate ‘job’ offer he managed to clinched just before the journey.

so basically, in short, the travel itenaries were like these:

1. gathered @ klia. tuesday
2. flown to bali via airasia
3. took fokker to lombok
4. arey’s friend waited at selaparang airport and we hopped in a van to go to senaru
5. overnight @ senaru village
6. the next day, we climbed to post IV and camped there. wednesday
7. woke up at 3 and ascended some 2-300 meters to reach the crater of rinjani.
8. descended at 8/9. lunch @ 11 am/12 noon. 12.30 descended and reached senaru village like 5 pm. thursday
9. the friend took us back to mataram. overnight at mataram.
10. the next day, went to kuta beach, and senggigi. had a beautiful sunset there. aha…i remembered that this day was friday because this is the first time that i had jumaat prayer in indonesia.
11. overnight on the ferry to bali…smashing sunrise on the ferry @ ship. saturday
12. trimen and forend picked us up at padang bay. we did not manage to get a hotel at kuta. i’m not sure where it was…trying to cope with my not so stellar memory management…heheh

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