well Walkin Adventures I just consisted of me walkin from Bugis to Aljunied bcos i was so darn full aft a hugeass buffet, i felt like walkin and i was wearing track shoes. according to some online website, the walk was only abt 3+ km?? it felt like it was longer!! :turtle:

anw went for Walkin Adventures II today!! went for the Treetop Walk at MacRitchie Reservoir. ok i’m siao lah dun ask me why, i muz hv been delirious when i agreed to go for this. anw it was a double date, so there was company, so it wasn’t so bad. except it’s nt very romantic lah like it was raining this morning and there was squishy mud everywhere. well if you didn’t already know, the HSBC Treetop Walk was built by HSBC for nature recreation and also for forest canopy research. BUT i was so cheated haha. We had to walk a total of about 10km to get to and from the suspension bridge that was the Treetop Walk. The Treetop Walk is only about 200m and we had to walk about 5km from the park to the bridge, and another 5 km out to the carpark again.

bcos it was raining, BC drove us to Thomson Plaza for BK breakfast haha. it was still raining aft we finished eating, but i decided we might as well get on with it since it looked as though it wasn’t going to clear and i wasn’t waking up blardy early on a rainy Sun morning for nothin. so anw we headed for the reservoir and after a while it stopped raining, so it got easier to walk cos we didn’t have to hold umbrellas. the sky was clearer and you could hear all the forest sounds. wow there were people actually running in the forest ok!! gosh they are so enthu!! i can nv be like them man haha. i guess i would have appreciated the hike more if i wasn’t so tired. hell man i’m super unfit still want me to hike uphill downhill for such a long distance?! :cuckoo:

anw the view from the suspension bridge is very very nice!!! but i have a slight phobia of heights lah so the bridge was abit scary as well. cos when u try to look down at the trees beneath, you realise that you’re actually 200m above ground!! there were other spots along the way that were very nice as well, like this tower, about 5 storeys high, that we climbed to the top and could see a long distance away. but nobody brought cameras so no pics :sad1 anw i looked like hell so i refused to use SV’s hp camera to tk pics.

maybe bcos it was raining so there weren’t many animals out and about. quite sad to see those signboards along the way describing the wildlife and stuff but when i peered at the foliage, i cannot see anything. :sad1 either we were too noisy or it was raining so they were all sleeping or smthn haha. ok lah, let’s see now, i saw birds, butterflies, moths, one spider (wondered if it was alive or dead cos it was hanging from the branch with all its eight legs folded/dangling beneath it). ya dat’s it man haha. so sad leh..i nv see any pangolin, or terrapin or fishes. :pout1

aft tt we went to Shunfu Mart for lunch. hm i was hungry but i couldn’t find anythin nice to eat? mebbe over hungry? cos i was already hungry when we started the walk!!! haha but i refused to eat the pau in my bag bcos that was my emergency ration – in case we got lost in the jungle and got no food to eat!!!! hahahahhaha! oh but there’s this nice cake stall there called “Chocolat n Spice”. It was reviewed in the papers before i think, cos i saw the news clippings at the stall, but i don’t rem reading abt it. Anw the aroma of baked choc was in the air, and you can smell it everytime u walk past the stall. There was also a long queue in front of the stall. So aft lunch we went to pack some home. It’s not exactly excellent, but it still retains its chocolate aroma up till now and the taste is not bad too. but i’m nt likely to go there ever again lah..esp if i’m nt gg on this walk anymore!!

eh my legs are killin me now but at least i had fun. though it’s not something i would go through again. this is the kinda thing i would go once just to have fun, and know that at least i’ve been there and made it through. kinda like AFA u knw? hahaha. the walkin torture is one thing; i guess i just don’t appreciate forests all that much? if it was mountains and seas mebbe lah. when i came home the birds chirpin and the green tree outside my house made me panic a little. :what: haha but it was good cos i managed to come up with one poem haha. haven’t been writing for so darn long, ever since jc? cos school work is just so busy. everytime i have the inspiration to write, i don’t have the time or the ‘feeling’ to sit down and do so. but this walk enabled me to come up with something. if i feel like it, may wanna try and write some more later, just to capture what I was feeling on the way. well may be going for the Canopy Walk soon (i think that’s what it’s called!) – i only hope it doesn’t rain the next time!!!