Group outing to Gua Tempurung (30th April '05)

Ok. I think I procrastinated long enuf. The longer I put this off, the less detailed the account will be!

Yes, we went to Gua Tempurung last Saturday. It was indeed a great time. Praise God!

When I arrived at our church car park on Saturday (all bleary-eyed from a mere 2 hours of sleep), I was surprised to find out that I was the last to arrive! More surprisingly was that Yu Jin was earlier than me!!! ;-P

The second surprise was that it turned out to be a No Fear group outing!!! Yeah, even tho it was a yaf activity, all who turned up were members from our group. There were 2 exceptions - one was Connie. She's Theresa's fren so she is considered as our group member too. The other was Sheau Shin - whom we welcomed into our group wif open arms!!!

The Fear-less members who went were our fear-less leader, Kenny, Fany, Theresa, Yu Jin, Kok Choong and me.

The journey there was pretty uneventful. I was in Yu Jin's car along wif Sheau Shin & Kok Choong. We made it to Bidor listening to musicals, had breakfast there (excellent chee cheong fun) and then we headed off to GT!

We were late as the guide had left wif another group but we were allowed to go in and catch up wif them.

Suffice to say, we had a great time. Sumhow, being in the cave has weird effects on individuals. Kenny was suddenly so talkative (hey, but isn't he always so???), Fany found me amusing and laughed every time seh saw me, Yu Jin had steam emanating from his body while Kok Choong was having fun time wif his torch, making Bat-signs, having light saber duels and showing off his wonderfully BIG torch. There were suspicions he was trying to compensate for .... nvm.

Various pics of the inside of Gua Tempurung!

We oso managed to make frens wif members of the other group. It was overall quite fun. Lame jokes were made all the way, I tried to spontaneously break out into song once in a while but din get much enthusiastic response (where is Weng Soon when you need him). We all tried our best not to "PK" and not to be "PM" (go figure - only of you know Cantonese dialect of the chinese language)!!!

It was oso a good experience as we had to rely on each other and helped one another thru some tricky parts. Of course we made our Fear-less leader take the lead. Kok Choong and I took turns being the last guy - always remembering that the person at the end always ends up being eaten/killed/decapitated by the alien/cave creature/ghost!!! But no fear!!!

Yu Jin had the florousent lamp (ciplak one - it's free) and helped to light the way. Kok Choong wif his BIG powerful torch helped provide the lighting for everyone. me? I had the Adidas kampung wif excellent grip - so there was once when I had to be the ledge for everyone on a slippery slope. Yeah, people were clambering all over me.

The girls clung on to each other and helped each other keep their balance.

It was pretty encouraging - even members from the other team helped us too (must have been cuz they were thankful for Kok Choong's BIG torch). We were giving each other encouragement and spurring each other on - especially on some scary moments for the younger girls.

Oh, there was a 3rd group too - almost forgot bout them. They were photographers - one of them was the son of the owner and they were there to take some pics to be used on the website- of course we gladly obliged to have our pics taken - for a fee of course! 10 sen for each click on the web page!!!

So dun be surprised if you "Google" the words Gua Tempurung and find pics of us (and Kok Choong's BIG torchlight) on it!

The fear-less members who did it!


The super multi-studded "addidas kampung"! I fully endorse this product!!!

We started off after 11 am and finally made it out close to 4 pm, tired, but feeling good! A quick lunch at Kampar and then we were back at Bidor. That was where Kok Choong fell in love!

Kok Choong's new love! Oops - it is a "he"!!!

Meal and bath time simultaneously!

Time for mummy to clean herself

Picture of contentment! :-)

We rested while Kok Choong played with the cute lil' kitten.

Oh yeah, our adventure did not end there. For dinner, our fearless leader took us 10 km out of Bidor to this little comminity called the Coldwater town ... or sumthing like that. We had excellent steamboat there! Slurp!

When we got back to Bidor, we waited for the others to come and still manage to go to the "Mutabak Coners" to watch Steven Gerrard score his wonder goal against Middlesborough.

Not surprisingly, we were all wasted and had a good nite's rest.

At nite - totally wasted!!!

We truly thank God for the brilliant time we had. We truly grew closer to each other and got to know each other better. Even Sheau Shin joked of shifting to our group! Well, you are welcome to!!!

We oso thank God for safely helping thru - the safe journey on the roads and in the caves.

It would have been better of course of more went. But there'll be other opportunities.

p/s - we stayed on and spent the Sunday at BGC. Read about it here.