The World is Just Awesome

Saw this advertisement in the cinema recently and I find it beautifully done, makes me loves the world even more.
Watch it.


Lyrics
I love the mountains,
I love the clear blue skies,
I love big bridges,
I love when great whites fly,
I love the whole world,
And all its sight and sounds,

Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da

I love the ocean,
I love real dirty things,
I love to go fast,
I love Egyptian Kings,
I love the whole world,
and all it's craziness,

Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da

I love tornadoes,
I love arachnids,
I love hot magma,
I love the Giant Squid,
I love the whole world,
Its such a brilliant place

Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da
Boom De Ah Da

Have A Great Day
Dennis

Sungai Ampang Disaster?

Paying everywhere we go

Aurelius and I has made plan to make a 2 man trip to Sungai Ampang Falls earlier and Saturday was the day we choose to execute our plan, left early for Setapak and had our breakfast by the road on the way to the entrance of the trail to the waterfall.
At the guardhouse near the entrance we got in to our gears, not knowing that this time there are people in our way. Usually we need to sign our names and details at the guardhouse before we can proceed, but this time it's not as simple as that. The guard asked us to call a phone number written on a signboard and inform the person that we are going to the falls. We couldn't make the call so we leave it to the guard to do it because some tel co thinks that it is important to have coverage in the jungle for some reason. After the call the guard asked us to wait for a while as somebody is coming to meet us.
Within 15 minutes a Malay man riding on a motorcycle came, he introduced himself (but I didn't want to remember his name) and before he can say anything else I asked him what is going on here?
He explains that he's is from the village near by and the village chief has made it a point for visitors to pay to enter the waterfall saying that it is needed for the trail up keeping cost. He explains that the villagers had took up the responsibility to remove any waste, fallen trees and clear the path so that the visitors will have easier access. I actually think that it's fair so I asked how much are they charging but I got the shock of my life when he asked for RM35 per person. Aurelius and I complained that it is too much however the guy told us that a guide is provided for the price.

"We don't need a guide! We've done this trek before and we have everything we need." I said
"Without guide we charge RM15." He replied
"Still you have no document that states that you can collect money from visitors and this is no private property" Aurelius argued.
"We are waiting for approval for that, it's up to you, if you want to pay a lower price you can go see our village chief." The guy said to us.

At that point, Aurelius and I were already pretty weird out by the situation, having to pay for a waterfall trekking trip is unheard of and the last time we visit the place, the trail don't have much plants to clear and I prefer that they just leave the fallen trees alone.
After a long talk with the fella, Aurelius and I decided not to go because it makes no sense for us to pay for something like that. So instead of trekking, we go hunting for the chief of the village to get more details on this and give him our feedback.
Along the way we asked some of the villagers opinion about the fee that is imposed to go to the waterfall and we found out that only the village committee members knows about the fees while most of the villagers know nothing about it.
"Mahal tu! Mana boleh macam ini?" One of the villager said.

Have a Great Day
Dennis

Have You Seen This Dog?

Dude, can you lock up the gate? I dont want to lose Eddie within a day of adoption.

Those were the exact words I said to Linus before we go out for lunch, fate or jinxed, I now learn that sometimes I got to keep my big mouth shut.
That morning I got a phone call from Eddie's owner who had him put up for adoption, I made an appointment with the owner and gone out to see Eddie right away.
Long story short, I decided to adopt Eddie it was near lunch time so I brought Eddie to the office and allow him to run around and "play" with Foot Stool while waiting for the rest to get ready to go out for lunch.
When we got back from lunch Eddie was already missing, I suspect that he may have squeeze out of the gate. Spent the rest of the day driving around looking for Eddie with no luck.
I am still pissed at myself for taking things for granted and being so reckless.

Call me if you seen Eddie.
Dennis

SkyTrek Adventure @ Bukit Cahaya

Lazy to flip, tilt your head to view

Lack of sleep, legs with multiple swollen wounds that have blood oozing out off which is also itching madly and starting to hurt in some part. What can I do in a condition that I'm in now?
Normally people would rest, take a break until they are fully recovered but no! I cannot do this as it is against the "Dumb Ass Code of Conduct". the consequences of breaking this code is a punishment so bad that no one can imagine. (Which is nothing, because no one can imagine one.)
That's why I decided to go do Sky trek adventure at Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam organized by Aurelius (aka Kung Fu Panda).
It is basically a series of elevated obstacle course high up the trees, one must move from 1 check point to another, basically from tree to tree until you reach the end "lah".
At the place we were given harness and a briefing on the basic use, methods, do and don't. While we were at it, we had out hands on a "closer-to-ground" version in order for us to get a better understanding before the real deal.
The obstacles are quite simple but I must say that it's a bit of a challenge for me because I am afraid of heights(that's why I'm short), and I hate the feeling of having my feet off the ground.
I was having second thoughts right after the first obstacle, as I watch the others going from point to point my mind kept playing tricks on me, I kept imagining that something bad might happen.
"Dennis! You can come over now!" A friend yell out to me, signaling that it's clear to take the challenge.
I replied and prepare myself for the challenge, made it clear that whatever that's in my mind isn't real unless it happen, it didn't take me long to clear my mind and make my move.

Nothing can boost my morale more then being with my friends

Pictures by Vit Ping

Have a Great Day
Dennis

Valley of the Leeches

Both my feet are in pain, some parts are swollen, it's itching badly and spots of blood and liquid are flowing out of my wounds that I got from my trip to Jeram Perlus, or like I prefer to call it "The blood falls".
Despite the restless night, I manage to wake up for the waterfall trip to Jeram Perlus, located in the Hulu Langat region of Selangor. I admit that I was a bit late and because of that the 8 of us group up at about 7am and proceed to have our breakfast in a little stall at Hulu Langat where we had our roti canai and nasi lemak, after satisfying our need for food we made our way to the starting point located near Sungai Gabai Waterfall, where a small native village is found.

Welcoming party for Josen

We had the cars parked at the native village and then proceed to head to the starting point, which can be identified in a form of a spiky rodent called the porcupine, it is actually a pet to the farmer who lives in the house at the starting point and to me, an exotic pet keeper, this has to be one of the coolest thing a person can keep especially for this one because it actually interacts and responds to people.

Seems to be smarter compared to Foot Stool the Basset Hound

We started off in a farm trail which quickly leads to the jungle, it is said that this trail is used mainly by the natives for hunting however trekking on this trail would be challenging to people who have low stamina and patience because this trail is mainly uphill climb and to make things interesting it is slippery, it is a good thing that everyone was in good spirit, the most important thing in every trip.

Like in life, sometimes you gotta really make that climb

Posers in the jungle

from right to left Aurelius, Aries, Ping and myself (Dennis)

"Aurelius, I regret poking fun at how horribly ugly and sissy looking you are when you put on your leech socks will you forgive me?" I said to Aurelius as we trek on the leech infested trail.

I dislike leeches but usually I wouldn't even worry about leeches because I don't get them on me, but this trip was turning out to be different, the leeches were everywhere on this trail it's as if someone bought a million leeches and litter them all over the trail. Linus who is like some sort of lover of all lifeforms and the environment who usually welcome and allow the leeches to drink his blood (Sounds like Jesus), however this time I guess it was unbearable because he too was complaining and pulling out leeches. It was insanity! The leeches never stop coming and there was no way to avoid them, even those with leech socks too have their blood sucked out of them

Leech inspection

Salted leech and pool of blood

It is a good thing that Aurelius had his hand held GPS. Probably the main reason why we no longer get lost for anymore waterfall trips nowadays although sometimes we still wander off course thanks to Aurelius, will take him some time to get used to his new GPS.
The torture last for a good 2 hour and 30 minutes, and finally saw a wall of white hidden by the trees, at that point I was paralyzed with the the view, It was what we came for...

Worth the blood we lost? You decide

The Hardcore posing with the falls
from right Josen, Linus, Aurelius, Chris, Vit Ping, Donny, Dennis and Aries

There it was ,Jeram Perlus waterfall, tall, strong, and beautiful. To me it was worth the blood I lost during the trek, every single drop of it. Right after posing for the group picture, everyone got in the pool to cool off, cam whore and do things people usually do at waterfalls. (You can tell I'm quite lazy to type now)
we spent about an hour and it was about time to leave, the one part I dislike, going back to civilization, we got even more leeches while trekking back since it was raining this time.
I look at my leech ridden legs, instead of pulling leeches off I moved on and quietly say to myself

"The blood I lost this time is not worth losing for the trip back to the Hell called civilization."

Have a Great Day
Dennis