KAYUH LASAK 2007
PENANG MOUNTAINBIKE  JAMBOREE

I DID IT! ALL 8 CHECK POINT

Day 1-Friday-bag?check,bike?check,passport?check

I woke up all excited and ready to go!okay not really.
wayen had to pick my bike up at L&T(Thanks man)
as his mum was sending us over to the bus interchange.
I had lunch at home before heading down to L&T to get
tubes,tires,rear-d and some co2 inflators.I quickly got all
my stuff and left for wayen's place,had dinner there with
his family and angela.After dinner we hang the bike's up
and left.Once we reach we meet collin,hui min,max
and the rest.After loading all our bike's/bag's we were
all ready to leave for Penang.

Day 2-Saturday-10 hour bus ride and carbo loading

After having problems entering malaysia,I finally had time to
sleep.The bus air-con was on full blast mode and I was
shivering.The bus ride wasn't as bad as I thought it would be,
I manage to sleep thru all 4 pit stops without knowing.haha.
I woke up around 7.45am and turned towards the window,
the bus was halfway thru crossing the bridge and I could see Penang!!
The bus made 2 stops,we (wayen,angela,andrew,janice and me)
got off first at Sri York and the rest headed to NAZA hotel
we all quickly unpack and had lunch at anson road.yummy dim sum (:
OH,and there was this aunty who calculate the bill like that
"eh $1.20,$3.40,$6.70,$10.30,$14.50 till $170++"
with one short of breath,amazing isn't she?
once lunch was over we went to penang biggest stocked big shop.
to be honest,it wasn't much.but just before we leave we saw a
Belgium couple with their one-of-a-kind recumbant.
Then we went to have a bowl of chendol,
before going back to sri york to bath and change.
we had dinner just down the road from waterfall hotel,
and I got to say the food there is greattt.the briefing at youth park
was really boring and after getting our tags,goodie bag ect ect
we went back to sri york to get our bike's ready for the following day.
once the tagging,filling of hydro packs ect ect was done we were all
zonk out.

Day 3-Sunday-"200m boy"

"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep" 700 over cyclist rush out of the field
towards penang hill(check point 1-Beyond Limits)andrew,hui min and I
manage to stay together,when I saw the first climb,hui min told me
to take it easy.And just when I thought it was another kent ridge up hill climb
I saw Lim cranking up.so I decided to follow him,
sneaking pass a truck which blocked andrew,hui min and the crowd.
I felt a sign of relief when I saw a turn,I burst towards the turn thinking it was the end of penang hill.every ounce of energy was wasted on that turn.I thought I could recover
but I was wrong,very wrong.I was gone,a goner.
I sat on the tarmac with great dissepiment,looking at people with
pi pi,has and all kind of bike passing me.15 minutes later
wan and max came along,they motivated me to carry on.
after pushing my bike up 2500feet for an hour I thought
I would not make it beyond the 5th check point at the rate i'm going.


to be continue