Addicted to Climbing Hills?

Yesterday morning, my family and I went to climb the Bukit Gasing Hill with Uncle Ong and some of our usual hiking friends. We arrived at around 7.30am and started hiking at 8.00am. 

Uncle Ong gave us a briefing about the types Bukit Gasing trails and the difficulty for each of them. There were flat trails that we could walk in a relaxed manner, but there were also steep, stair-like trails that we had to give out our energy and climb on. 

We walked up the hill for quite a while, and stopped by our first rest station. Uncle Ong met few of his old friends/colleagues/hiking mates at the rest station, and they chatted briefly. After taking some good rest, we decided to continue our journey to the peak of the hill.

We then came across a long bridge (it's sort of like a canopy bridge, but it's not too high from the ground) , and had to walk through it to get to the other side of the hill. The bridge was a little shaky, and a few of us were quite scared that we might fall down! Nevertheless, all of us made it, and were eager to finish our hike.

After the bridge crossing, we had to face the last obstacle before reaching the top of the hill, which was to climb up the steep, stair-like hill. This required a lot of mental and physical motivation. The trick is that you can't look forward, you have to look down at the next step you're going to step on. Why? Because if you look forward, and you are that type of person who usually have a strong determination skill, you will give up easily.

Through all the obstacles, we finally reached the top of the hill, and rested for some time up there. Uncle Ong took out his ukulele (as usual), and began playing some songs for us to sing along and enjoy.

Uncle Ong played his ukulele all the way down, and we sang along till we reached the bottom of the hill. We then went to a chicken rice restaurant nearby the area for lunch, and headed back home to rest. It was a great experience to climb the Bukit Gasing Hill, and I believed I would have to climb more different hills as I will be climbing Mount Kinabalu at the beginning of April.

Chinese New Year is coming! Which means... more events to come! Stay tuned x