USJ Zhineng Qigong Lantern Gathering

USJ Zhineng Qigong mid-autumn gathering at USJ Wawasan school on Wednesday evening, 23 Sept 2015.

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Some of the chi gong members from USJ Centres

 Lots of food to go round with the professionally catered food

 This event is graced by Hannah Yeoh, Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri kawasan Subang Jaya

 Hannah Yeoh giving a speech 

 Dancing time

 The main group photo

At the chi gong mooncake gathering, there was another middle-aged professional photographer – using serious Canon DSLR – from SJ Echo, a community newspaper for Subang Jaya and USJ.

During the mega group photos session above, I was standing side by side with him. Which means my lens is also wide angle enough that matched his. Then he clicked the shutter-release button in continuous few frames per second mode. Aiyo, mine is only few seconds per frame. I thought to myself that since I am older, we do things a little slower :-) At that moment, the next thing that came to my mind was that it is time that I have to upgrade my camera.

The next day when I have the chance to view his photos, surprisingly, mine are OK. Then when I checked the price of that Nikon DSLR (that I have in mind to purchase), the price increases due to weakening of the Ringgit.

 Lantern contest in the form of riddles that require much thinking

Songs identification contest – that sure created a lot of laughter. A volunteer is mounted with a pair of earphone attempts to sing the songs that are distorted; members are to identify the correct songs.

Posted by KC Leong

Gunung Bunga Buah Trekking

A small group of RHB Bank colleagues and friends went for a trekking trip at Gunung Bunga Buah (Goh Tong Jaya, Genting Highlands) on Saturday, 19 Sept 2015.

Led by yours truly (KC), it was a good day for trekking as the weather was superb: with blue sky, no haze, breezy and dry trails. It is interesting to note that while Kuala Lumpur was engulfed with haze problem, the situation was very much improved in the highlands.

Dphany came complete with a RM270 waterproof socks seemingly able to ward off leeches. Since there weren't many leeches due to the dry trails, it was good to hear that she has zero attack.

Timing:

a. car parking of Goh Tong Jaya shops to end of tar road = 1 hr 30 min

b. (end of tar road) to rock garden = 1 hr 15 min

c. (rock garden) to GBB peak = 1 hr

Total time: about 4 hours.

Do refer to the photo album for a pictorial guide of the trail head and critical junctions of the trails. 

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 Emerging from the shortcut at vegetable farm connecting to the abandon tar road

 At the quarry area

 The quarry area becomes the dumping ground for building materials 

 This part of the tar road is the widest, good for inspection of leeches attack, and follow by a group photo before continuing the journey 

 All ladies’ pose at the rock garden area

 Group photo at the rock garden

 At the peak of Gunung Bunga Buah

 Taking a breather and having our food for a refuel of energy

 Dphany with the yow yeng pose at rock garden

 Flexible bodies … Chin Tyen and Jag Lau

With Sam together …

Do CLICK HERE for the previous outing at Gunung Bunga Buah on 1 February 20145.

Posted by KC Leong

Gasing Hill Trail Running

Trail running at Bukit Gasing on a hazy Sunday morning, 13 Sept 2015. Though the haze situation is not encouraging, the condition of air quality is OK when surrounded by trees.

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 At Gasing Hill wooden arch main gate

At Kerinchi Park of Bukit Gasing

Concrete Suspension Bridge of Bukit Gasing

View from below

The park area of Gasing Hill

Staircase leading to Gasing Hill Concrete Suspension Bridge

Run back to the standard Gasing Hill loop ... Adelyn, Lana and Shulin

 The ladies in jumping pose

 The ladies in jumping pose

The ladies in jumping pose

At Indian temple of Bukit Gasing

After running for about 9.5km, the team is almost back at the trail head

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FRIM Trail Running

Trail running at FRIM Kepong with a group of RHB Bank colleagues and friends on Saturday 5 Sep 2015 ... after the early morning rain, the ground was wet, and the air was fresh devoid of haze that engulfed Kuala Lumpur for the past few days. 

With the wet ground, though it was nice to run, the trails were infested with leeches; almost all the runners were attacked by leeches. One “inquisitive” leech even tried to go through the shoelace hole of Yana. Not able to advance nor retract, it was stuck there with half the body violently trying to backtrack.

Nevertheless, it was a fun run traversing from Rover track to Pacat trail, passing by the orang alsi hut; then to Steroid hill, Salem high country and returned via Mountain Bike track. A journey that took almost 3 hours 15 minutes.

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 At Canopy Walkway

(left): Wilson, LimHY, Lana, Yana, Dphany, Bruno, Yoke Leng, KC 

 At orang asli hut area

 Run through the jungle (only hills in FRIM)

 A good and gracious jump

 Yana

 Lana

Dphany

 At Salem High Country

Posted by KC Leong