Weekend in KL

It was a great weekend.  Thanks to good buddies, Zi & Peter!  Love u 2!

It was intended as a trip to take Maggie Lee to climb in Malaysia - I used to climb with her in the 石牌climb gym in Taipei.  Roping along Derek, Zi & Peter to make it a comfortable small climb group.

Zi very generously offered her car again, and we got to KL rather uneventfully, Peter's a really steady driver.  Straight to Batu Caves without much difficulties, Maggie, Peter & I climbed Nyamuk ; Zi went with Derek to climb multi-pitches in Damai. 

I had forgotten the path into Nyamuk and led us all too deep, beyond Nyamuk into primary forest.  We were bashing for some 20mins before retreating back to tadah! Nyamuk itself.  It's been 10 years since my last foray into Nyamuk! Thankfully we met some fellow Singaporeans at Nyamuk, so we weren't too lonely at Nyamuk and they gave us some rather helpful beta as well.

I full led 3 climbs quite easily - really happy with the technical nature of the long routes.  3 persons on 1 rope takes a while, so close to 5pm, we started to pack up.  By 5:30pm, we were happily eating ice kacangs at the Malay stalls just outside the crags, adrenaline from our day's climbing still gushing through our veins.  Peter had his first encounter with outdoors climbing,Maggie her first Malaysian climbing and I was reaquainted with Nyamuk after a decade. 

Over at Damai wall, Derek was pleased to climb multi-pitch climbs all afternoon with Zi.  He was saying he normally cannot be hogging 1 rope since we typically climb in bigger groups.

Perfect day 1 for everyone.


Day 2 we climbed at Putrajaya.  Routes were reset for a recent competition, so we had new routes to climb.  I did 5 climbs this time, all leads.  Am pretty pleased with the climbs - I'm happy!

The only down side was stupid Sai hotel giving up our reservations.  Yeah, we got walked.  But it is a small hotel and I didn't leave a credit card number to hold the room. Nontheless, at 12 midnight, with potentially no place to sleep, it was not exactly the best predicament.

Thankfully everyone stayed cool.  Using the GPS, we were led to the Pullman hotel which within the Putrajaya precinct, literally next street from Putrajaya's climb gym.  We had to pay a little more for Pullman which is a 5 star hotel - squeezed all 5 of us into 1 room.  At 1am in the night, none of us really cared too much that the cheapest available room was a "jacuzzi deluxe room" - it had a huge jacazzi by the bed in the open and the bathroom was totally transparent see-thru glass.  Totally no privacy, but then it was just 1 night and we were all too exhausted to care too much.

And my menstrual cycle was spot on.. NOT.  Coincided exactly with day 1 of the trip - no thank you hormone.  Yeah, I was little tired, didn't climb as hard as I otherwise would have.

Maggie had plenty of climbs in, and she just texted me asking me to purchase for her the Climb Malaysia climbing book and to ship it to her in Taipei.  She must like it here!

Thank you Jesus for good friends, good opportunities and good times.