Outing War; the return of the Broga~

Long long ago... in a galaxy far far away... Joe and his army of... friends... organized trips to many of the local places in Galaxy Malaysia...

Okayyy... let's come back to reality. Haha... this time round, guess i should post one up earlier than usual. This is a post is about the second trip to Broga Hill, this time with my Uni friends. This trip starts as early as the other one but we're late for the sunrise for this one time. Tried to wake at 4am but unable to this time. I was late to get all of them. First, went to get KaiSien from his place and from there FanSheng and PeiLing.

Attendees:
Me
KaiSien
FanSheng
PeiLing

My new phone played good role in guiding us to our destination and that includes to KaiSien's house. As we got there (Broga) and parked my car. We started our climb around 7am roughly. As i am used to the hill hike... i was trying to get to top quickly... really sorry PeiLing, I'll remember to check on every members' condition before continuing like a mad fella.

Here comes the picture part of my blog

And we're at the top... somewhere near peak

Yea... i know... funny cap i got there

Conquering top... 1Malaysia style

Me and Kai

The guys in the trip... PeiLing not included, not guy ma

After the photo taking session, it's already about 12pm. That's when the sun is directly above our head. It's that bad and hot, we rush ourselves to my car. After getting our asses down... of course i'd brought them to a nice dim sum place in Taman Connaught, Cheras. Nice dim sum, ask PeiLing, KaiSien and FanSheng about the dim sum.

I guess that's all for this time, this is quite a simple one.

Joe out~

Berjaya Hill a.k.a. Bukit Tinggi~

Hi,

It's yet another late post. But as promised this one will be about Bukit Tinggi. Some of you may have already been there but some of you might not have even heard of this place. It's as the title says Berjaya Hill also known as Bukit Tinggi (we'll just call it Bukit Tinggi as it is more familiar to the locals). To tell you the truth... i was having a tough time looking for these photos.

Here we go~

These are the people involved in this lunacy
From left: Kai, Auntie, Me, Mama Ling, FanSheng

The above 2 are what I thought out and thanks to FanSheng for making it happen

Me having nothing better to do

Let's take photo... JAPAN STYLE!!! BANZAI!!!

Me trying to get myself a nice picture

Too many pictures to share, so... maybe i should just crap something in the middle. Towards the top of Bukit Tinggi, you'll notice there's 2 road both leading to a place with unique culture/environment. One to the Japanese Village while the other to Colmar Tropicale, a French-themed resort. First, we got ourselves to Japanese Village just to satisfy the heart of the girls in my car (so that they don't torture me and the teddy, this is so that they let both of us go).

There's a parking lot before getting there. It is advised to park here and wait for the shuttle to get you there. We didn't figure there's a shuttle service and yes... you guess it right, we walked up the hill. It's somewhat a healthy exercise and well worth it.

There's plenty of green here, there's even a Japanese style restaurant just to feed some hungry soul. We have yet to give it a try and to honestly tell, there really isn't any hungry soul in there besides the employees. Leaving the restaurant and heading further away from the entrance will lead you to some garden and to some rest huts (see picture on left).

The further you get from the entrance, the more exciting it becomes as you will see more and more Japanese style houses. These houses are there to serve as spa house. If you had successfully follow what i'm writing until now, you would end up at two old wooden Japanese style shacks. Here is where the ladies go crazy. These shacks provide kimono renting service and also serene environment for photo taking. See how our girls become Japanese beauties.

We really spent most our time taking photos in Japanese Village. Next up, the French neighbourhood. You'd have to drive back to the forked road and take the other way now. It will take a short drive there and sheltered parking spots are provided. The place wasn't as huge as I expected and it only took us about 10 minutes walk from the entrance to the very back of the village where the clock tower is located.

Climbing up the tower is no problem, but when we got up there. Wind gets stronger and rain starts to fall though not a heavy one but you can see how the condition is (<--). As things get a lil dangerous, we decided to leave the clock tower and get ourselves to safety. Honestly the foods and beverages there doesn't impress me. The options are quite limited, we've chosen a restaurant in the middle of the village which serves food similar to Kenny Roger's Roaster but in a larger portion. Quite delicious i would say, I enjoy the mashed potato and chicken of course ( I love eating chicken).

One thing that i'm not quite satisfy with Colmar Tropicale is that you will have to listen to loud hip hop music as they have hip hop, break dance performance on the stage in the middle of the village. That's really a little out of place, i was expecting soothing music away in a beautiful photo taking location like this. Even the clown is a little disturbing to me. But none the less we still enjoy our photo taking around Colmar.

It is a truly enjoyable place for photo taking session. Overall, I enjoy this place very much with my bunch of crazy friends. Would be happy to do this crazy thing again but not so soon. We've still got many more place to visit and enjoy. I still have a lot of places that I'd visited that i wanted to post up. It'll take some time, hope all my friends who still visit my blog could bear with me.

By the way, if you enjoy this post and wanted to see more photo of this trip. Please do check them out at facebook. They should be posted up by KaiSien and PeiLing. Hope this post tempted you to do outing with your friends. Make it happen and make them happy.

Joe out~

Broga Hill Hike; First Trip~

Hi,

This post will be about the first trip to Broga Hill on 23rd of August. At first, I was thinking of putting both trips in this one post but i noticed the post got a little bit too long when i haven't even finish talking bout the first trip. So... let's split them in two ya. This is the trip that starts it all, my liking to adventure and healthy type of outing. So... let the story begins~

It was a sudden trip for trip 1, as we got our plan finalize just the night before or more accurately 2 hours before we set off. The trip was planned in a yum cha session we had prior to the trip. After the yum cha session i got my butt home at 2am and went to sleep with intention of waking at 4am so we would be able to make it for sunrise. And so, i set my alarm up and got myself wake on time. Start driving at 4:30am, and the first person i picked up is Timberson. After getting him on my car and we went to get PoE. This trip is really funny as we mistaken where this Broga Hill might be at and rushed ourselves towards the wrong direction. Just halfway then we asked each other again where this place is at, then we knew something is wrong.

Luckily we are able to get ourselves there on time before sunrise. When we reached the place, i was a little surprised to see so many cars parked in the palm oil farm. I too got myself a parking there. When i turn off the headlights of my car, what i see is pitch black. And so, we got ourselves ready (with flashlights). Started our hike in pitch black condition following some other hikers there. The hike is quite dangerous as the condition of the hill is wet and slippery. But none the less, we managed to drag ourselves up to the resting place up top (still not the peak). When up there, the only logical thing to do is PHOTO SESSION!!! We are crazy enough to do all senseless photo shot including some jumping shot (dang tired still need to jump a few dozen times to capture the perfect jumping moment). Here are some other shots taken by PoE, i don't think i have the rest yet.
This is how it looks up there, calm and serene, away from the urban jungle

We've conquered the TOP!!!
With a cloudy blue sky behind us. Even sky can't be a limit to what we want to do in our lifes
My shoes... T-T... they were very clean

The conquerors!

As you can see from some of the pictures, the view is spectacular. You gotta come visit here with your friends, love ones, family or whoever you want. I highly recommend this place for those adventure seeking newbies as it is an easy climb to the top. Took approximately 30-60 minutes

After we're done with our photo shots, got ourselves to our ride. After a climb, nothing can be more satisfying than a delicious dim sum at the famous dim sum restaurant in Connaught with your bunch of friends after a good climb. The day turn out to be a sunny day and lucky us to be able to get ourselves off the hill before the sun scorches us.

Overall the whole trip is really fun and we did enjoy ourselves to the fullest. Got there on time before sunrise but too bad the cloudy weather is not suitable for us to catch the sunrise. We only managed to see the sky turning bright and an orange gleam of light behind the clouds rising. It's a good spot for photography fans too as the hill is good for scenery shots. Once again, recommended place for adventure lovers.

The next post will most probably be about the trip to Bukit Tinggi, Broga second trip, Malacca trip or even on a picture i'm working on using GIMP. So... stay tuned.

Joe out~