6am … funny I start my blog like the 1st song from the new Marilyn Manson album … oh where was I? Yes. Yesterday, I have received a text message from my buddy Kae Fong telling me that he and his friend have reached the Laban Rata Hut safely. 6am … this morning, I have received another message saying that they have reached the summit of Mount Kinabalu! Hooray! I have been to one training session with Kae Fong and I knew he can do it (not only because his legs are relatively longer than most people around him). He trains ten times harder than Cynthia, Tong Kiat, and I combined. Can’t wait for him to get back to Singapore and hear the stories.
Talking about Mount K, we have still yet to publish our journals. The next day after we have returned to Singapore, Cynthia has completed her journal. I have completed mine a week later. And we are still waiting for Tong Kiat to complete his. But he is not really a writer. Don’t get me wrong. He can churn out thousands lines of codes that are further compiled into millions of ones and zeroes that do the most wonderful thing in the world such as estimating the bus arrival time via satellite coordinates but when it comes to writing English …
So I have a new idea. Actually my friend GS’s text message this morning gave birth of this new idea of mine. One of her friends is heading to Mount K soon and she asked if I can recommend any stores that sell trekking gears. Tong Kiat was the one who brought us for gear shopping so I am going to liberate him from the nightmare of journal writing and instead, contribute an article on “Where To Get Your Gears Before Heading To Mt. K”.
Okay. I can’t wait to see Tong Kiat’s reaction when I ask him to write an article … with the pictures of the shops. Too bad. I don’t think it is possible for him to write a computer program to churn out what I want. Not yet that is.