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

General Information:

1. date: from 30/7/2008 until 4/8/2008
2. no of days: 6 days
3. flight: lcct-solo: ak996, 655 am, 30/7/2008 ; surabaya-lcct: qz 7613, 835 am, 4/8/2008
4. total participants: 9
5. CHANGE OF ITENARIES: please take not that the itenaries have changed. This is to accomodate Mas Arey late arrival on the 31st at Jogja. We regret that we could not proceed to Ijen. Instead, we will replace ijen with The highland of Dieng ( Dataran tinggi Dieng ). Kelud is an option, if we have time, we will take half an hour detour at kelud.
6. exhange rate: rm 355 : 1 juta rupiah, please bring sufficient money. Sometimes it is better to change your currency at malioboro, we can get better rate overthere. will show you the ‘toko’. The chick is not bad either…hahaha. — updated: kabul managed to get today’s exchange rate: rm 350 : 1 juta rupiah. considering that this rate does not change much next week, we can save between rm 5 to rm 30 every 1 million rupiah. got it skool children? FYI, exchange rate in penang is rm 385 for 1 mill, and in shah alam rm 360 every 1 mill. SO…LU PIKIR LA SENDIRI NABIL…
7. please take note that, souvenir shopping will take place at malioboro, jogjakarta. not at surabaya.

participants:

1. remi
2. arey
3. todd
4. jamal
5. ali
6. jasni
7. waje
8. sani
9. nizam

friendly reminder ( especially to WAJE )

1. please be at the airport no later than 5 am.
2. DO NOT LEAVE BEHIND YOUR MEDICATION IF ANY. I only prepare general medication needs.
3. Dr Jamal and Mas Arey will bring 2 tents of 2 man capacity
4. please do not forget your PASSPORT.
5. i will email the tix slip to those who bought the ticket thru me. Others are encouraged to email their tix slips to me at: remiglobal@gmail.com as i will compile the tix together.
6. please bring sweater @ jumper @ pullover and sleeping bag. It is also advisable to have sleeping matress.
7. remi, please do not forget your battery charger. You are the only canon survivor here…hahaha.
8. do not forget to bring tons of batteries and memory cards.
9. please read the general guideline at http://ecotravelogue.com/2008/04/08/lawu-bromo-ijen-preparation-check-list/

chelsea vs malaysia

1. we know that this match will happen on the 29th of July. for those with Dr. Jamal, if you want to proceed to shah alam, i strongly advise you to reach shah alam before 6 or after 9 pm. i can guarantee a heavy traffic for this match.
2. for those who watch, good luck.

itenaries

1. please view the pose before: http://ecotravelogue.com/2008/07/25/dieng-lawu-bromo-finalized-itenaries/

that’s all for now, see ya at the airport.

 remi