I can't wait for next April (or May) to come. Have a trip planned out with Ahhhzzzzz to either Kota Kinabalu, Fraser's Hill, or Medan. If worst comes to worst, we'll just go back to Cameron Highlands and go hiking and climbing again (with better boots, of course >.<).

I have to admit that things screwed up quite badly on the first day of our trip to Cameron Highlands back in June this year. I won't say things, but what happened made me so pissed I almost wanted to either cancel the trip totally or go on my own. But I guess it was a mistake anyone could've made (even if it was one I'd never have made), and I knew it. So through the anger, I forced myself to accept, and to try to make the best of things, especially since we'd gone to all the trouble for secrecy and planning so both our folks wouldn't find out we're going together. And we pulled it off after great trouble.

Even after six months, thinking back on that incident, that waste of one whole day, I'm still angry now, though slightly less so. I keep wanting to demand repayment of sorts (well, my feelings do, anyways), for me being short-changed, for me having to waste time and money like that, and for me having to endure shit like that, but I guess what's done is done. I accepted it then, and I'll have to accept it now.

At least I learnt valuable things from the mistake, such as bus-hopping from Singapore all the way to CH, haggling prices for the cab rides, how to be careful in the KL interchange, and how to endure, endure and endure. And oh, of course, being lulled almost to sleep during a cab-ride in which the OLD driver was driving literally like the cars in Initial D because we felt so safe going up the mountains at that speed in an old rickety-rick-rack cab...was priceless. It-was-whoa.

That trip changed the way I looked at certain things. And while I'm sure I wouldn't be ready to conquer Mount Everest anytime soon, we learnt how each other work, how each other functions, compensating for each other's lack of abilities in some areas, working together to make sure we were both safe, both enjoying the trip, and both forging a stronger bond because we'd fought almost nail and tooth for the trip.

Plans, plans, plans. To climb a mountain or to explore a volcanic crater (though I've been to Medan before)?

And Az, I still demand compensation for the CH trip! I want Subway sandwich. =D Hee.