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Filled with excitement today... am finally on the verge of embarking on a new adventure. It's early days yet, but mark my words....some day, I will look back fondly at this entry, the one that sparked it all...

Received confirmation that the Gunung Lambak trek this Sat is on. 'Gunung' means mountain and I'm going to climb this ......... hill ?? It just occurred to me that the Great Geography Teacher Ms Kua (she who warned us against our Phuket trip, subsequently ravaged by the tsunami) has taught me a mountain is >600m. Lambak stands at only 510m, a midget compared to Kinabalu's 4100m, the highest peak in SE Asia. But, who cares? What difficulty can a mere 90 more metres pose to this newly-minted adventurer? I'm 100% sure I will conquer the first mountain in my life in 2006, my watershed year in this adventure.

Gunong Stong will be a good 'victim', but I'm still undecided as to whether I should eschew work (moulding the future of the nation, haha or I should use 'lol's) from 24-26 Feb - 3 days of down time is a precious lot to any teacher! It means a sacrifice of 120 scripts, 24 hours of lesson planning and truckloads of 1001 things that needs to be completed...

But of course nothing in this world can tie me down!!! If not Feb than some other time...and some other mountains, like Kinabalu. Hope I can go on the sabah thrip with the Sec 3s. The stairway to any great adventure just lies with you. Just do it!!!

Till then, I am dreaming of the great outdoors, the invigorating green, the energising blue and ultimately.... the ice-capped peaks of Kilimanjaro....