Articles for June 2006

Electronic Insect Repellant and more about Kinabalu

Yesterday evening, I was just walking around and I bought an electronic mosquito repellent. It is powered by a single AA battery and it is quite handy! Well, I don’t know how well it works to shoo away mosquitoes, so I’m bringing it along with me later when I leave for my Mount Kinabalu trek. [...]

Ready for Kinabalu!

Yeeeah! Tomorrow I will be leaving home for the trip to the peak of South East Asia! So excited about it! Well, training has not been as often as I have wanted to, but nevertheless, I think with the right mindset, I can overcome whatever it takes to get to the peak before sunrise! Will [...]

Longer trekking trips

I was meeting up with the people who were going on the Kinabalu trip with me, and one of them was from an earlier batch from the NUS Rovers Adventure Club. In our conversations, she shared that during her times, she had went for the Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) trek with one of the companies [...]

Trekking first aid kit

I’ve been looking around Singapore to find the first aid kit bag that used to be selling for $6, but its been a few months and I guess I will have to settle with a more expensive one before I leave for my trip next week. Of course, the better alternative would be just to [...]

I bought my trekking boots!

I finally purchased my trekking boots yesterday! Its a Columbia Frontier Peak. Well, I guess since I will be going for a number of treks these coming years (so much inspired by the “Journey to the Ends of the World” book), it would be an investment. Its great, because just right up in a month’s [...]

14 days to Kinabalu!

I’m so excited about what is going to happen in the next few weeks! In 14 days time, I will be in Sabah and standing on the peak of Southeast Asia! Heh! The few of us met up yesterday to discuss stuff with regard to the trek. There are a couple of things I am [...]

Protection from insects during trekking

I think one of the main reasons some people dislike trekking is because in the wild you are prone to attack by insects, and while mosquito bites and sand fly bites are bearable for some, other find them really really irritating – at least, enough to keep them off the wilderness. Personally, I expect some [...]

Jerangkang Waterfalls

Just two weeks back I met up with some of the Cynovate facilitators, and one of them suggested that we go for a short trek… and I suggested going to Berkelah waterfalls since it is one of the nicer short treks. Its been some time since I’ve been to Berkelah! Later we were discussing and [...]