I Do It Because

I drink less water everyday because I'm afraid of getting lost in a desert someday, and not have enough willpower to go days without water.

I don't eat breakfast because I don't want to have a habit of eating it, then suddenly not doing it due to time constraints and ending up with gastric.

I don't eat Panadol because there will come a day when I really really need it, only to find myself immune to its effects.

I replace the expensive antennae on my new car with a cheap fake one which don't really work because I'm scared the expensive one would be stolen.

I don't buy genuine branded goods because I'm afraid someone might steal it

I leave the plastics in my new car on because that way the seats won't get dirty

I practice to poo once every 3 days because that way when I go camping, I can hold on a few days without needing to poo.

I drive like a psycho bitch every day because I know there will come a day when I need to drive that way when rushing to a hospital.

I hold pee in my bladder for hours sometimes because I'm training for days when I'll be stuck in traffic a long time. That way I'll be mentally prepared.

I still eat at dirty restaurants because I think that it keeps my immune system strong.

I'll borrow my friend's Manual Transmission car for a drive every once in a while because when there's a killer zombie chasing after me, and the only car available is a stick, I'd be able to drive off with it.

I hurt myself sometimes to train my resistance to pain because there will come a day of war and I might become a prisoner of the enemy.

I would skip meals every now and then to train my mental strength because there might come a time of famine.

I sometimes fill myself silly with alcohol and drive home because I'd like to train my perception to surpass the alcohol's influence.

I never watch the very final episode of all my favourite TV series because if I do it'll be over... Forever.


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Inspirations

Pictures from 

http://godessofsmallthings.files.wordpress.com, http://www.solarnavigator.net and carsmods.blogspot.com

The world is an inspiration. Honda took 2 famous icons and made the Freed. But to make it less obvious, they put the design at its backside. 

Moral of the story is..... there is none to be found here. 

A Prayer to God

Dear God of Climbing. Bless Your Soul. Bless the Limestones that were erected in your name. Bless the Jugs and Crimps and Slopers and Pinches and Pockets and Over Hangs and Under Clings that were molded in your form. Bless the nylon harnesses and the dynamic ropes and the titanium wire-gate quick draws that allow me to connect to You. And bless the Carbon Magnesium chalks that allow me to prolong that connection.

I have a confession to make. A few weeks back I posted something on my wall. I posted that thought out of anger and spite and frustration and disappointment. I posted that thought by mistake.
I lied. I lied to myself and to my friends and to my friends' friends and to the people all around the world who saw my post that day and the day after and the day after that. I lied. That was not what I really meant. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, O Holy God of Climbing. I'm sure you saw it that way too.

If you alleviate me of this disability, I make a solemn promise. I promise to uphold the codes of Climbing to the letter. If you return me my Godly powers, I promise to pass down your wisdom to others. If you bestow upon me your gravity-defying blessings, I will ensure your efforts will never go to vain. I will make known the legends of The Figure-4, The Figure 9, The Egyptian, The Double Dyno, The Double-Step Dyno, The Two Finger Pull Up, The Hand Jam and the Under Cross-Hand Dyno. The world will hear of these mythical movements. They will gasp in awe. They will embrace these movements. And they will once again applaud your existence.

Hear me, O Holy God of Climbing. Return me my Demi-Godness and I shall return you your Glory and Immortality.

Going Green: Responsibilities.

Little bit of important details one must know and get accustomed to when entering a jungle. If you find all these items down here troublesome and tedious, drop your bags, hang your shoes and forget about ever going into the jungle until you've learned to respect it. Trekking and camping in the jungle comes with responsibilities.

Trekking

1. Guys (the male kind), kindly keep your egos out of the jungle. If you have problem doing so then you should really reconsider entering in the first place.

2. Bring your own trekking poles. It's not cool to go into the trails with a parang and happily chopping up tree branches to use as walking poles when your knees start to give way. Know your limits. If you're weak in the knees, bring your own poles. The cheap ones from China barely costs RM 50 each. Don't be cheaper than that.

3. See the trail, follow the trail. Some trails have red and white ribbons tied onto tree branches, some have yellow or red tags stuck onto tree trunks. Bushwhacking is not recommended under all circumstances, unless you're very experienced. But if you're experienced, you might not need to read this post anyway. Every once in a while turn around to check the trail you came from, in case there are forks you could not spot from the other angle.

4. Engraving your names onto tree trunks? Seriously? Who LOVE who else? You probably didn't cause the tree it's life by engraving your less-than-uneducated names onto the trunk, but please!

5. Avoid using bushcraft in the trails, unless absolutely necessary. Don't know what's bushcraft? Good. Keep it that way.

6. If travelling in a group, stay in a group. There's no shame in asking for a break, even if that girl in front of you is clearly better than you. It's more important to stay in the group.

7. Trek Leader (in front) and Sweeper (at the back), always do a rough head count of everyone in between. Make sure everyone is accounted for, and if not, call for a search immediately.

8. If lost, stay on the trail and stay where you are. Blow the whistle if you have one. If not, call for help without reciting your friends' full names along with their fathers'. Of course the first thing to do if you have a Celcom network is try using your phone.

9. Please keep ALL your rubbish to yourselves, biodegradable or not. This is not negotiable.

10. If you have to take a poop or pee while trekking, I suggest you do it out of the way, as in NOT on the trail. But make sure you have another friend or two to stick around just so you don't get lost while looking for a good spot. You might smell bad, and it'll help now more than ever if you or your friends are smokers.

11. The squirrels are cute, those wild mushrooms look cool, could I take that fuzzy little thing home? No, no and NO! Imagine if 5000 people go past that section of Mount Kinabalu and all want to take home a squirrel as souvenir. What's left there?

12. When going into nature and enjoying it's beauty, please enter ONLY with the same nature we have all been given: with legs (or anything similar in kind). 4x4 truckers have no respect for nature whatsoever. You'll agree once you've seen how much damage these people have caused the natural balance all in the name of 'sport'. If you guys wanna learn problem solving, go to Club Med.

13. Hashers you're not forgiven as well. Shame on you, throwing all those papers around the trail. Biodegradable, yes. Eye-sore, also yes!


Camping

1. Bring tents with adequate poles and pegs to avoid using materials from your surroundings. Yes, the idea of camping is not to McGuyver your way through but to enjoy nature while doing as little damage to it as possible. Which also includes skewers for your little marshmallows.

2. Some damages are inevitable but can be minimized. When selecting a spot to lay your tent, please remove all dried leaves and twigs. This will disturb the balance of the site, but it will also ensure you don't sleep on scorpions and centipedes.

3. Contrary to popular beliefs, boxing your campsite with yellow sulfur will not keep snakes and scorpions out. I've seen sulfur lines stained with snake's slither marks. And did the shopkeeper tell you it's poison to people as well?

4. If you're camping at the beach, avoid having your tent's entrance facing the sea or the opposite. You'll be catching the worse winds into your tent and eventually damaging it's structure.

5. Avoid starting campfires. They consume too much wood, generate too much fume and you only sit around it to talk cock. If you have to use campfires, keep them small. Small enough to generate enough ambers to bake that cake or chocolate banana, and nothing more. Harvest fire fuel only from dead trees, as it should be. Keep fires well away from tents, and sheltered from winds. Keep a pail of water and/or sand nearby. Fires are more unpredictable that you think. Before sleep, please make sure the ambers are cold to the touch. I've seen fires restart by strong winds with almost dead ambers. Many times. Feel like it's a tedious task? Then don't start fires.

6. Do not start fires using those white-colored solid fuel. They're very kuno and extremely poisonous. Challenge yourself to a 3 match-stick start, or use those organic fire starters satay guys use on coals. Cap Ayam.  I've seen people use kerosene or petrol. This is what will happen: Big ignition, much black smoke, fire  returning to it's original size. Because all you're burning is kerosene, not the wood.

7. Set bio ditches for excess food and the other bio ditch for your pee and crap away from tents. Pee and crap have to be down stream from the spot where you pick up river water, and at least 200  yards (180 m) away from any water source.

8. It's dinner time, and it's raining. Should you cook in your tent? Why not? But do you want to cook your tent instead? More so if you're using an MSR. So under no circumstances shall you cook in your tent.

9. I know. The Marlboro Man sleeps outside his tent at night. He's also dead from excessive smoking. Snakes are cold blooded. When the night gets too cold, they need to find a warm spot to adjust their temperature. And guess what? You're nicely cuddled in your sleeping bag, warm and cozy. You wake up in the morning and feel something cold and scaly wrapped around your legs inside the sleeping bag. Good riddance.