TITI ECO FARM

After months of planing and liasing with the Eco farm the day finally came. We left klang around noon, Being too dependant on waze, which took us to KL town before going back to the Seremban highway again. Stop over at a nearby town enroute to have our lunch .We were suppose to check in at 3.00pm but arrived half an hour later. Another couple who left earlier in the morning but was on food hunt arrive an hour later. Anyway we had a good fellowship and wonderful sharing and  got to know each other better. It was so refreshing to get away from the busy city life and work and just enjoy nature. Our trip was a  2 Days 1 Night stay at the  Wood Lodge - RM230 per pax (Adult) A good value for money. Will definately come back again.

our room which could fit 12 pax. but only 9 of us could make it.

bread making on our arrival day one.

this was what we made and was our breakfast the following day.

one of the dish we had for  dinner

the zip line ride, but it was too short a distant.

SAD TO SEE YOU GO...

Was rather disappointed that I could not attend the last class with my sifu, but I did manage to join her for dinner. If I have to propose a toast it would goes like this.

May I propose a toast to the most amazing girl I ever met.I remember when I saw her name on the schedule at the gym, I sent her a message to check if she was indeed the one who was to replace the outgoing Body combat instructor. I sent her a friend request immediately once acknowledged she was. That was November 6th 2013.Even though I have know her only for a short period, but I felt like I knew her for a long time.That's why she will always be my favourite body combat sifu.
 From day one I met her, I just knew she would find a friend in her. Over the years she have proven to be a warm, and caring person that she is. I am really blessed to know her. All the best to you sifu as you and till we meet again.

I must say I really enjoyed her presence and  have  many opportunities to be around her in some of the activities we did together. Hope we can do them again in future.

at Damai wall, rock climbing

Rock climbing at Damai

at Pcp, rock climbing

Hiking with her at Tabur East

another picture taken at PCP

Body combat class with Irene Ang

At Miri Airport November 2016

Her last class at Celebrity Fitness, Subang, November 11 2016

Her farewell dinner at TGIF , Pavillion with hikers kakis. Nov 14 2016

I would like to dedicate this song to her, Goodbye girl by David Gates

TIME DOES HEAL

Well its been a month since I terminate my gym membership. As much ad I loved Body Combat and I enjoyed sifu's class the most, but it is necessary to leave all that behind to allow me time to heal   my hurt and to forget  the bitter memories due to some incident that I do not wish to remember. Anyway I had a wonderful workout at sifu's class this evening. Met one of the ex member of the previous club. True to her word when she said she will dropby on my invitation to catch up with sifu. It was nice to see her again. Prior to tonight's workout I was invite to another club by another club member. She greet me with a hug just as she did to other  club members whom she is close with. Wonder what would my haters says if they saw what she did. ? Though I had not know her that long she is such a nice person and so friendly. I will treasure such Friendships

ROAD TRIP TO SOUTH

Originaly this trip was suppose to happen last year during one of the holiday with sifu, but she feared the heavy traffic jam on our way back, so it was defer to this year. The new plan was she will attend her company's meeting at singapore and meet up somewhere at Johore Baru, before we head to the Rockworld climbing gym. Anyway that did not happen, so I inviting another rock climbing friend and another good hiking friend. We agreed on the date and all was set to go. Then just a few days before our planned trip the hiking friend informed her boss required her to work on the day of our trip, so I offer to another hiking friend who on the morning of the trip did not pick up my calls. Later she replied saying she never mention she wanted to go in the first place. Then why she did not say so from the very start and why she asked all kinds of question. I just don't understand this type of people. She was in our group chat and during the chat should have make it cleared and then exit from the chat if you have not interest.You can be sure she will not be invited for my future trips  Anyway I am thankful for the girl call moon, who was good with her promised and kept her appointement and turned up on time at my house. Just the two of us we make our way to Johore after our breakfast. We left around 8.30am and reached  past noon at the restaurant where our friend Eric was waiting. After lunch we make our way to Rockworld which was nearby the restaurant where we had our lunch. I was very impressed with this new gym. This was my first visit to this new place since they moved in.Previously they had two gym ,one at Desa cemerlang ,where both Eric and I had our training course. For me it was a refresher course as I had attended one at camp 5 before except for the lead climb which was an additional.  Since I had never done  a lead wall course before , I took the course. The other gym they had was at kulai jaya sport complex. I was there on their official opening a few years ago.
We had to leave around 6.00pm as the gym had a private fumction around 7.00pm.  Eric had to accompany his father for dinner, so we  make our way to Johor Jaya where we had our dinner and wait for him to finish his date with his father. He came around 9.30pm and followed him to his house where we stayed for a night.  We got up around 8.00am and after shower went for our breakfast and then off we went to Pulai Hill 2 for our climb. We got there around 11.00am. This is the first time I had ever hike so late in the morning. Good thing it was shady in the woods,  This was my revist to this hill after leaving Johore for more than 3 years.   Here are some of the photos of our trips.

SWITCH ON OR OFF?

A Friend just shared with me, she falled out with a friend all because of a status she posted on facebook. Why do people get so upset with what one share? So what's wrong if one get emotion a bit? I think that is what makes us human. We have feelings , sometimes we just speaks what is in our hearts. Is that so wrong? Being human means we have feelings, sometimes we can be sad, we get upsets, and angry even. It's better to share out than to keep it inside as it will exploded one fine day .

Feeling for someone we care for is quite normal and especially if it is a friendship built over the years. One cannot just shut  it off like a switch. Wish it can be that simple then we don't have to go through the hurt and sadness. It will take time to heal, but  on and off the feeling will be there when ever we come across places, or things that remind us of the person.

So to those hurting out there. Be strong and leave it to fate if your path should cross again.

MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

Today is a sad day for me, as I got the reply from someone . The reply was long overdue ,but I do respect her for her response. At least I got the answer from her, though, not what I wanted to hear. Anyway everyone is entitled to their choice. I am writting not to critise her.What has been done cannot be undone. But if I can turn back time, I  would certainly not write what I wrote, which was at the spur of the moment and done in haste. As per her request I have taken down most of the post which has some negative impact. Others which are of general view, I had left it alone.

 I was not aware my presence at our last gathering had cause some unhappiness, and I had offended them. Anyway I sent my appologies to them(hopfully did not left anyone out) It was not my intention to hurt anybody. Maybe I am a bit blunt and insensive and not smart enough to read their body language.  I had lost a good friend, one whom I respect, admired and very fond of. I do not want to lose any more friends. But it is their choice and if they choose to unfriend me or avoid me, nothing I can do. I have done my best and my conscience is clear. And I do appreciate friends who can point out my fault.Sometimes we are unaware our actions can be an offend to others. Thank you for your honesty. Appreciate it really.This is from the bottom of my heart and I wished you the best.But i do missed her terribly and really wished for a miracle. 

Ps: Lesson learnt. sometimes our best intention, can be misinterpreted and the same can be turn against us.

A HUMBLING LESSON

I was supposed to visit sifu, a few days ago, but was not able to, because she had visitors and prior dinner enggagement. So last nite was her free day, as she was not suppose to do extreme sports and excercise. We made an appointment for dinner around 7.30pm or so but I was caught in a bad jam and worst I overshot passed her house. Usually I will totally rely on waze to take me to places I am not familiar with. I have been to her place a couple of times and passed by her housing area when ever to go to putra jaya, so I was so confidence I could find it.  Unfortunately I bypassed it and only reliase it too late and there was no u-turn back.It was a long drive all the way to putra jaya before I could get to her house. By the time I got there, it was too late and we had to wait for anothter rock climbing friend, who was to meet up to inspect some of her rock climbing equipments which she had bought on line. We chat abit while waiting for the friend to show up. Over the years, we had gone beyond sifu-member relationship. We had become very good friends .Further more we shared some similiar hobbies, like hiking and rock climbing. Having a meal after her class with some other members was quite a regular thing. I have  read it is not advisable to have our meal after 7.00pm or so, but sleeping on an empty stomach is hard. I tried eating a meal before class a few times- big mistakes, it makes me so uncomfortable during the class.Not only I was not able to enjoy the class, I was not able to put in my best. So now I will have my dinner after class. Finally the friend arrived.
Together with went through inspecting them and learnt some fine points of checking and taking care of the equipment. After an hour we were done and the friend left ,since he had dinner earlier.Only the two of us had dinner at a nearby Indian restaurant.
What lesson did I learnt ? Well never to be over confident and never be afraid to seek help if you need it.


Note:Good friends are hard to find. value them.


some of the items she bought and we did the checking.

carabiner

Quickdraws

Climbing rope

RUN WITH THE WIND

Sure I do run a bit, but not as possionate as I do Hiking. Just like a leaf being blown  by the wind, I will run when there is a reason or situation. Last week, Nov 9th I ran with a good friend ,Clover. Since she wanted to do something special on her birthday. Instead of the normal birthday celebration, she wanted to make it a memorable special day on her birthday. She had make this known weeks before her actual birthday. Since she made an effort to celebrate with me on my special birthday, I was oblige to return the favour.I blocked that date on my calender. immediately I registered for the Great Eastern Live great run, which was the run she had choosen. When I gave my word, I would not go back on my word. On the week before the run , I was not well, and even as the days draw nearer I had not fully recovered, but a promise, is a promise, I was prepare to just walk if I was not able to run, but Thank God ran I did and I was surprise that I did not do too bad as far as the timing concern. It could had even a better timing , had I not stop to snap photos and doing some other stuff like selfie etc. But I had learnt from previous experience, not to put pressure on myself ,but just to enjoy the run, after all I was not there to compete,but to fullfil a girl' s birthday wish.  I caught up with birthday girl at the 9km mark. and almost at the finishing line, I took out a special birthday banner and ran backward with the banner facing her. I could see her surprise look and when she smile it was priceless.

Photo credit:Aron Soo. With Birthday girl at 9km

Birthday girl, with the special birthday card(banner)

photo taken by yours truely.

after the finining line, photo with super heroes

Birthday girl with some of the super heroes.

JUMP START 2014

While thousand of people and revellers were excited on the last day of 2013 to ursher in 2014, I was resting at home due to my bad cough, which I had days before the last days of December 2014. Every year I had attended the church watch night services to welcome the new year. I was suppose to join a friend to spent the last few hours of 2013 at a beach, it was something different and I was really looking forward to it but due to my poor health I had to give it a missed. Anyway what was the funfare all about.? Personally I felt it was just a date on a new calendar. Some people would have made resolutions while taking stock of their life at the last day of the year or even begining of the year. Resolution is only good if you  can follow it through or at least intend to, otherwise might as well don't have one. You can have a simple one which are realistic and achieveable. It can be based on your career, relationship or even health. Well I had past my retirement age, so careerwise there is not much I can set goals for, but for relationship wise I want to have closer and better and closer ones with my family and friends that I treasure.Drop some that are not worth keeping. Healthwise I want to achieve more. In ten months time I will turn 60. I want to hike more, climb higher(in door rock climbing) I want to have a leaner body which I think is achieveable. 
Today is the 1st day of 2014.What does that means to you? For me I know my road tax, passport and Gym membership is expiring.  I have an option of not renewing them and thereby not be able to use the facilities or I could renew them and continuing to use them. It is the same with our lives, we can stay comfortable and remain where we are or move forward and brace ourselves for the future. In the past months we would have read about the coming hikes  there will be heading our way. We just have to brace ourselves and prepare for it. Maybe we need to trim some of our spending or give up some of the things we used to enjoy. Whatever it takes we can make it.
Have a good year ahead folks and let's make it a good year.!
  

BECAUSE YOU ASKED..

Got a private message in my inbox on facebook yesterday from someone I knew a few years ago.She need my phone contact because she has something urgent to discuss with me. As soon as I gave her my number, my phone rang. It was her alright. Apparently she need a favour, she wants me to remove some of the old photos which I had taken of her from my blog. Since she her reasons was valid and legitimate I had to obliged her. She told me she is now in the film industry.Wow, that is good for her and I wished her every success. Some of the photos does not make her look good. You know image is important to a up and coming star. I spend sometime looking through some of my old blogs to removed those photos requested. It was not easy looking though the archive and our internet connection is not making it any easier. I deleted one blog site as it was already "dead". Better to have one which I can post regularly than maintaining so many right? Now I have one password lesser to remember.
Never knew my friend had  rose to a star so quickly. I was aware she did some commercial, but now a movie? It's so hard to believe. I can't wait to catch her movie soon.
All the best to you my friend and hope to catch up with you sometime to have a cup of tea. Oh yes, you owe me one autograph.

A DATE WITH A LOVELY LASS

Months ago, I pop the question to her and she said yes. So after weeks of waiting, the day finally came. Yes ,this morning I finally met up with her at Empire Gallery, Subang Jaya and had lunch together. Oh did I lead you on?  If you were thinking that kind of question of course not.  I had a good lunch with a warm beautiful lass from Kota Kinabalu. She is none other than my blogger friend Caroline Ng.This is her blog  I found her to be warm and friendly and took a liking to her immediately. She came with her boy friend Eric Lee .  Wish we could have chat longer, but I have another date with a group of hikers friends at Putra Jaya Challenge center for wall climbing. I had a good time Caroline and Eric, Thanks guys for coming.

Caroline and Eric

Caroline recomended this. Very nice I loved it.

Here is a song just for you caroline.

FRIENDS OR FIENDS?

Saw this on my friend's facebook status

time for list clearing....why having FB when he or she hides everything??? weirdos

so I join in the conversation by saying I delete you can or not? And her response was:

"mr lim...delete me, then u'll see me the nxt day giving u a warm smacking right on ur face....good morning n good day to ya^^"

LOL This is one friend for keeps.

another one ask Johnnie I add you did I not?-oops actually I deleted her sometimes ago. Either she is unaware or have too many friends that she dont even know I exist.

I have been clearing some of my so call friends, but new one keep adding me, cannot bring down the number. Keep adding up. Now I only keep those I have contact with or share a common interest be it, blogging, hiking or photograhy apart from church network.

There are friends I know but I don't add them and they likewise.

What kind of friends do you have and what are they to you? Care to share?

Here is an interesting statement about friendship.

Anaïs Nin 

 puts it beautifully when she said, "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Though some natural loners are happy without them, most of us depend greatly on the company of true friends. As with any relationship, friendships bring support and joy and occasionally strife. Here's how to make friends, understand friendship better, and be a great confidante to others.

He makes Friends easily

It has been quite a while since I went hiking, so last sunday I arranged with my friend Peter to climb at a nearby hill which is just a short drive from where I stayed . Gunung Pulai which stands at almost 700m high is a very popular recreation forest where folks comes far as Johor Baru and Singapore especially during holidays and weekends. Our Plan was to scale the hill then on our way down to go to the water fall,

but there was a changed of plan when my friend Peter met some new friends and offered to bring them to a nearby shop for lunch. I noticed my friend seems to know everyone and everyone seems to know him. He  is ever ready to makes new friends and quick to ask them for their contact number and they don't seems to have any problem in giving out their contact number. I really admire him for his guts. I could never do that. By the way he is a teacher by profession.Could that be the reason for his boldness? I make it a point that I must at least have met a person after three meetings before I add them or accept them when they add me on facebook. As for contact number unless it is necessary, or if they offer request for mine first. What do you think?

Peter with some of his new found friends