Post 101

Wow... reached post 101...nice

a quick one.... might add to this later... but about to leave to send my brother off to Singapore for a short visit.

Got up at 4:30AM this morning *craziness* to climbing some hill in Sungai Lembing...for the sunrise. up early, physical exercise and NO BREAKFAST... Quan was a little cranky (no coffee = death!). We nearly started our decent because we thought the actual sun wasn't going to make a photogenic appearence (it was already light and not sign of the big yellow thing) when it popped up. Which resulted in lots of shouting from my mum and aunts to make sure that a good enough photo was taken of the occasion.

If this sharp climb wasn't enough we went to Panching to a Karst cave to have a little look at a buddha. This involved lots of stairs, but wasn't half as bad as the one we did in the dark for the sunrise. after the cave we took a little detour up to a little view point higher up...where we got to glimpse some monkeys! hurray! I made a good attempt at tryin to coax them closer for a decent photo. Quan and I spent a good length of time trying to take a decent photo, much to the annoyance of all 5 people who were waiting for us at the bottom. In an attempt, I can only presume, to make a faster decent, Quan, cunningly, to take the 'faster' slimy green route down from the thing that we scrambled on to...the route I had made a point of avoiding on the account that Quan had just witnessed me slip on some of the stuff about 2 mins earlier.
[Okay... sent Quan off now...and back at aunties place]
Where was I? hmmm...slimy green slide. yeah...so, he'd done this lovely fall...well slip, and he'd obviously very quickly managed to make the whole slipping thing stop. But was now in an awkward position where he couldn't really go back up because it was too slippery and couldn't go down without sliding. So he slid...down the lovely slide. I found it hilarious.

Somewhere in between we managed to pack in a museum and a suspension bridge thing...oh yeah. And finally Breakfast!

But that wasn't the end of the day... we went shopping for stuff. and then had dinner with my aunts and uncles again (yes, stressful, I know! such a hard life...) sent Quan off to Singapore (not before saying goodbye to everyone).


Tomorrow, hopefully, will spend some time with 婆婆 (well technically 外婆...but hey...) . Quan spent some quality time with her today, and she went on about him needing to find a wife. Apparently, 28 is a good age to be married. :P hahahahahahaaaa poor Quan! She also said that he should get married in KuanTan (she'd even consider travelling to KL if pushed) because she ain't going over to England for no wedding...