Broga Hill Escapades

February 19th, 2010

A couple of days ago I got dragged from my nice comfortable not so fluffy bed by my long time friend Sean who is back on a holiday for the Chinese New Year from his Masters course in RMIT Australia for something unexpected. Hiking. Mountain hiking + jungle tracking + zero visibility exploration to be exact. The place? Broga Hill. Located in Semenyih. Home of the infamous Semenyih Detention center where ISA detainees are kept under lock and key.But its not like we were tracking up the detention center anyways.

Woke up at an ungodly hour of 4.30 am to be picked up by Sean at 5-ish. We overshot the Broga Hill makeshift parking lot and got lost at the Broga Village. Almost hit a couple of dogs in the process too. Finally got our directions right after referring to the Broga police station who’s police officer on duty was nice enough to kindly paused his facebook session to direct us to our destination. No, I did not add  him on FB after that morning thank you very much.

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Happy Chinese New Year of the Taiga

February 13th, 2010

From me to all my friends and fellow readers I wish you and you family a year of prosperity, a year of jpy and a year of good health. GONG XI FA CAI!!! Kong Hei Fatt Choi!!!

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Bye bye Year of the Ox and welcome to the Year of the Taiga Tiger. XD