It worried me at first because of all those threatening rumours spreading around (on social media, SMS, Whatsapp), but i just can’t lie to myself by listen to the voice deep inside of heat, so to the “Suara Rakyat, Suara Keramat” rally it is. Same to my cool colleagues that having the same feeling, as Malaysian, we got to attend and show that we cares about our country, enough for the corruption and all those extremely obvious lies! Four of us started to plan on car pooling, routes, parking and time depart to make sure be able to get right-in to Petaling Jaya Stadium earlier.

We got in there as time we expected but kind of worried when we see not much of peoples when we first entered the Stadium on 7:00pm. Those are mostly young lads sat at far behind from stage, media standby near stage to get better photo capture angle spot and few early arrivers taking pictures on the field.

Found a walking stick again at Sungai Long Hill, but the big difference is this one comes with a pair of wings. The wings help it moves faster for a short distance, but doesn’t seems to be able to fly as normal flying insects.

The Phasmatodea (sometimes called Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects, whose members are variously known as stick insects (in Europe and Australasia), walking sticks or stick-bugs (in the United States and Canada), phasmids, ghost insects and leaf insects (generally the family Phylliidae). More Details of Stick Insect (Phasmida) on National Geographic site.

A nicely done music video titled “My Childhood Memories”, presented by a team called “Yesterday Moment”, students from Tunku Abdul Rahman College. Video created for their Graphic Design Final Year Project, uploaded by YouTube user, jaycee968.

The second time to visit Ayer Hitam/Air Hitam Forest Reserve at Puchong, a well known location for trekking and trail running. The trail is fairly easy, it takes within 2 hours slow pace to reach waterfall.

It sometime called as “forbidden” waterfall because you can’t simply enter without permission from UPM. Some hikers reported forest rangers do patrol around that area prevent unauthorized access and forbid peoples swim at the stream/waterfall.

In previous visit, we met a big group of UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia) students picnic over there, fortunately this time we got to enjoy the waterfall ourselves. Here are some photos taken from the trip,

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Here are two moves recorded with Suunto Ambit. You can export route recorded and navigate with Suunto Ambit or navigation device such as Garmin, check here for guides to use Suunto navigation feature.

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The 42-meter tall high voltage transmission cable pylons project at Taman Connaught is having progression, seems like TNB (Tenaga Nasional Berhad) ignored resident’s objections and moving forward after project stopped for around 10 months.

As video below, numbers of bell-like cable rollers were hanged on the Pylons.

Spotted a young Walking Sticks on the hill road today, it is too small and difficult to take a picture of it. Fortunately video capture able to capture well.

The Phasmatodea (sometimes called Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects, whose members are variously known as stick insects (in Europe and Australasia), walking sticks or stick-bugs (in the United States and Canada), phasmids, ghost insects and leaf insects (generally the family Phylliidae). More Details of Stick Insect (Phasmida) on National Geographic site.

There are not much of travel information on Tawau, Semporna and surrounded islands, so i will try to provide little bit over here by according to my recent Semporna trip.

For those that need a 7 seaters transport from Tawau airport to Semporna or Tawau town, look for Alizul Enterprise, Hp: +6019-8958661/+6012-8686561 with a spacious Toyota Innova (number plate: SAB 2120 C).

In Semporna, lots of resort and hotel available, one that we stayed was Dragon Inn Floating Resort. There are 4-5 sea activity provider offices nearby the resort, restaurants and Giant Hypermarket are within 10 minutes walking distance.

If you are looking for budget stay, sea activities (ex: snorkeling, diving, islands hopping) or thinking of taking PADI Open Water diving course at Mabul Island, you may contact the “Big John” phone number as image below:

Instead of staying at Mabul Island, there are other amazing places around such as Mataking Island, Kapalai Dive Resort

Also note that all resorts on Sipadan Island have been closed in order to preserve the island in a pristine state. It allows diving activities but for overnight, divers need to stay at resorts on nearby islands such as Mabul Island, Kapalai or Mataking Island.

Stayed at Tawau for a day, a local recommended Shervinton Hotel with budget price RM 108/day and included transportation to Airport for RM 40/trip.

Here are some of the images and a video taken on the trip:

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Mountain Torq management provides 2 via Ferrata activities, Low’s Peak Circuit and Walk The Torq on UNESCO World Heritage site, Mountain Kinabalu in Sabah. After done the usual mid-night 2.30am route to the top and finish the sun rise show on Low’s Peak (top of mt. kk), this via Ferrata offer 2 alternative routes to descend instead of the same path that hiked up on mid-night.

It is recommend to choose the full set Low’s Peak Circuit which is longer path, consume a little more time, but full of excellent views and get experience of walking amongst the clouds.

Some of the Low’s Peak Circuit info as below:

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My Experience on Low’s Peak Circuit

• There are 2 offices: one at KK park and another at Pendan Hut laban rata
• If you already take the Walk The Torq package, it can be upgrade by adding RM 160 right at Laban Rata, Pendant Hut office depends on number of crowds.
• A team will consist not more than 6 person includes a mountain guide, one participator will be the captain that walked as first and the mountain guide will be the last member.
• The activity starting point nearby the peak start from 7.30am morning and ending point at Laban Rata
• Faster descent to Laban Rata the better, especially when the clouds gathering and hinting to rain, speed up or to face more difficulty while rain. This is my second time to visit Mt. KK, May 2009 and April 2012, with total of four afternoons, the possibility of afternoon rain is 80% from 12:30pm to 6.00 pm.
• Therefore, it is ideal to finish up the via Ferrata activity not later by 12.30pm noon.
• It is a very safe and enjoy activity, just make sure you trained both upper body strength and legs so you can enjoy instead of suffer.c
• The KK Park office closed on 5pm, collect certificate and remember to buy a Mountain Torq T-shirt before it closed.
• Time recorded for each route,
  - 3h 55m ascent to Laban Rata
  - 2h 40m ascent to Low’s Peak
  - 5h 30m descent via Ferrata
  - 2h 20m descent from Laban Rata

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