As a quiet means of celebrating my birthday yesterday, I'm heading over to climb Mount Ophir with Uncle Yeo and few of the NSmen in coast guard. I was never a fan of all the hoo ha to celebrate my birthday, often insisting to pass it quietly. It feels weird when people I hardly know sing me a birthday song. Maybe not weird, at the same time, it feels really odd.
I hope I have packed everything and not left out something vital to my survival up there. I guess with my backpack hitting about 15 kg, that might just be a remote probability. Yet, sometimes, that nagging doubt that I might have forgotten something hangs upon me until the whole trip is done for.
As I'm not in physically great condition, I guess this trip will be a real eye opener to the level of my fitness as well as a test of my strength and endurance. After all, it is just 1257m high, and Buki Timah is about 167m high. I guess it won't be such of a problem since I've mountain-biked up Bukit Timah with Mervyn before, often pushing up my bike on the steeper slopes.
Hopefully, I'll be able to capture some nice shots along the trip. As the group is planning to hit the summit by friday afternoon and then camp over on till saturday morning, I certainly hope I can get some breath taking photos with regards to the sky as well as the sunrise in the morning. And hopefully I'll get to experience a little bit more of the great outdoors, something that has been severely lacking in my life thus far.
I have a weird feeling that after my current hobby - Photography has blown over, the next one will be mountaineering. I'll see how things go, at the same time I agree it would be great fun to climb as many peaks as possible and I believe my next target will be Mount Kinabalu. Now that I've seen the photos, I really wished I had followed some of the juniors on their trip earlier this January. So much fun!
Then again, I wouldn't mind using mountaineering to build up my physical fitness, since it would be a lot more realistically fun than just pounding a hundred rounds on the track. There's the challenge as well as the pushing factors not to give up along the way. Maybe I'll be a mountaineering photojournalist. Just follow expeditions up to climb mountains and snap photos along the way and finally writing a report all about it after the whole thing is done.
All in the name of pure fun and enjoyment. It is always good to soak into a little bit of the beauty of nature. After all, it is God's greatest evangelist.
I hope I have packed everything and not left out something vital to my survival up there. I guess with my backpack hitting about 15 kg, that might just be a remote probability. Yet, sometimes, that nagging doubt that I might have forgotten something hangs upon me until the whole trip is done for.
As I'm not in physically great condition, I guess this trip will be a real eye opener to the level of my fitness as well as a test of my strength and endurance. After all, it is just 1257m high, and Buki Timah is about 167m high. I guess it won't be such of a problem since I've mountain-biked up Bukit Timah with Mervyn before, often pushing up my bike on the steeper slopes.
Hopefully, I'll be able to capture some nice shots along the trip. As the group is planning to hit the summit by friday afternoon and then camp over on till saturday morning, I certainly hope I can get some breath taking photos with regards to the sky as well as the sunrise in the morning. And hopefully I'll get to experience a little bit more of the great outdoors, something that has been severely lacking in my life thus far.
I have a weird feeling that after my current hobby - Photography has blown over, the next one will be mountaineering. I'll see how things go, at the same time I agree it would be great fun to climb as many peaks as possible and I believe my next target will be Mount Kinabalu. Now that I've seen the photos, I really wished I had followed some of the juniors on their trip earlier this January. So much fun!
Then again, I wouldn't mind using mountaineering to build up my physical fitness, since it would be a lot more realistically fun than just pounding a hundred rounds on the track. There's the challenge as well as the pushing factors not to give up along the way. Maybe I'll be a mountaineering photojournalist. Just follow expeditions up to climb mountains and snap photos along the way and finally writing a report all about it after the whole thing is done.
All in the name of pure fun and enjoyment. It is always good to soak into a little bit of the beauty of nature. After all, it is God's greatest evangelist.
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