morning @ macritchie
my dad had this idea for my family to have an early morning walk at macritchie today, so we woke up at like 6 and headed to macritchie reservoir. we then walked along the board walk, while admiring the morning sunrise view. it was really quiet then, and there was only the sounds frm the insects and birds. i was reminded of the intro to jay chou's latest song "dao xiang", where he asked: 你有多久没有听到虫鸣鸟叫的声音了呢? haha... it is really a good idea to sometimes just take a step back, slow down our paces, and just enjoy these simple pleasures which nature provides us. it feels really enjoyable just watching the sunrise and breathing in the fresh morning air.
along the way, we actually met quite a few people who had arrived at the park much earlier, and were already heading back to the start of the board walk trail. we continued walking along the board walk, and along the way, my bro and i noticed this mass of small flea-like bugs. they formed this huge cloud above the board walk trail, and we actually had to go through this buzzing mass of bugs to proceed on. it was kinda gross and we just dashed all the way through haha. then we started talking about how we will have to face that again on our way back.
after walking for quite a while, we went quite deep into macritchie, and reached this sign, which directed us to walk into this jungle trail to head in the direction of the tree top walk. AND GUESS WHAT, my dad decided not to heed the sign and walked along this muddy path, and our shoes all ended up quite muddy after that. and after going through the mud trial, we realised we were at the exit of that jungle trail, and this duo, who were behind us and took the jungle trail route, was already like a 5 min distance ahead of us. LOL.
we then reached the golf course area, and walked along the skirts of the golf course, towards the tree top walk. along the way, we saw a "BEWARE OF GOLFERS TEEING" sign and i actually thought that this kingfisher that was resting on the sign was part of the design of that signage, until it actually flew when i was just centimetres from it. along the way, we also saw some monkeys, a stork, and a school of fishes that had transulcent skin.
after walking for like 1.5 hours, we reached the jelutong tower, which i clearly remembered to be one of the checkpoints of our navigation exercise in sispec. in fact, i had bad memories of scouring that whole area (and walking through marshes) for checkpoints HAHA. at that point in time, we decided that it would take a really long time to get to the suspension bridge, and we didnt have our breakfast before we came, so we decided to make our way back.
luckily, we didnt have to walk through all the mud and flea-cloud again. haha based on my gut feel, i went in a rough direction towards the golf course, and then cut through the golf course and walked through the island country club, then walked along the expressway, back to the entrance of macritchie. haha thankfully i did not "holland" (lose my way), and so the faith placed in me by my bro + parents werent misplaced, and we ended our morning excursion after walking non stop for 2.5 hrs!
sadly, we all forgot to bring a camera so we couldn't take pictures of all the things we saw, but the experience and memories were definitely unforgettable. :D
consilio et animis
11/04/2008 11:19:00 PM
