Family members involved
- Joanne
- Yvonne
- Kenny
- Jacqueline
- 4th Uncle
Additional people involved in the trip
- Amanada (Guide)
- Cassandra (14)
- Uncle Leong
- Uncle Sam
- Uncle Eric
- Uncle Andrew
- Uncle Ong
- Tian Hui
0300-Preparations to set off
0400-Got into a transport (mini van) to bring us to Senai Airport (JB), Journey was bout 2 hrs
0600-Arrive at the airport, checked in, breakfast
1000-Arrive at Senai Airport
1130-Set off to Mt Kinabalu park (2-3hrs journey)
1430-Arrive at Mt Kinabalu park HQ, checked into room 1 which has 6 beds for 5 of us
1600-11 of us went to walk around the park while Ken n Jacq was sleeping
1715-Back to the park for briefing for the following day1745-Dinner time
1830-Walk back to our rooms ( by this time the sky was pitched dark lyk 9pm in s'pore
1845-Back in room and packing of bags, ready for the climb with clothes to be packed into put own backpack and the rest into the porter's bag
2000-BED TIME
DAY 2 [20thDecember07]
0600-GOOD MORNING, breakfast
0715-Met at Mt Kinabalu park HQ to consolidate all our luggage
0745-Set off to Masilau Trail, the start point to the SUBMIT 
0830-Off to the accommodation hut which is 6km away1530 Arrive at the Restaurant for a hot cup of milo and dinner (9.8 Degree Celsius outside)[all of us were freezing cold as we were drenched from the rain which started when we were at the 4.5km mark]
1630-Reached our accomodation place which is a few hundred metres from the Restaurant
1700-Bath ( and again water was very COLD!)
1800-Briefing for things to bring to the SUBMIT
1930-BED TIME
DAY 3 [21stDecember07]
0200-GOOD MORNING (breakfast was cornflakes)
0245-Set off to start point of SUBMIT0300- START ( I had 7 layers on for the top, 3 layers for pants, 2 gloves, 2 socks, 1 head torch)
7 tops: Thermal, Dry-Fit,White T-shirt,Black Polo,Black Knitted Sweater,Fleece, Windbreaker
3 pants: Thermal, Cotton pants, Track Pants
[We started tracking in the dark, the nite sky was very beautiful, nothing was obstructing the view of the sky FULL of twinkle little stars. BEAUTIFUL sight. At rest points, we lay on the rocks and enjoy the view while catching our breaths]
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0630-We SUBMITTED (It took us 3hr30mins to do so =))
[Photo taking session went on! All of us in the group manage to reach the Low's Peak even though manytimes a few of us wanted to give up]
0700-Slowly we went down back to our hut
[I was too afraid, guess i'm afraid of heights. Luckily porter John was there beside me. He held myhands all the way down whenever i needed help, when he thinks it's okie for me to walk myself, he'll let go. I wanna realli say a BIG THANK YOU to him! Uncle Sam helped alot too, he guided the 3 gers all the way up the peak and down, he led me thru the put which i was so afraid, the rocks were 45 degrees and ropes to hang on to to come down. One can practically fall off the rocks if not held or stepped properly]
0930-We were the first 4 to reach back to the hut. ( ME, Yvonne, Jacqueline, Uncle Sam)
1000-OFF TO BED. [Too tired]
1630-All of us woke up. Tired and Hungry.
[The 5 youngsters (Me, Kenny, Yvonne, Jacqueline, Cassandra) had photo taking session in the gers room. We chilled with music and jokes. We practically really LOL. Haven't had this kind of fun and laughter for a long time already. We waited and waited for our dinner which Tian Hui will buy becuase it was raining and we were too cold n lazy to go down to the Restaurant. SIS was being made fun of bout him. Haha.]
1900-DINNER TIME
[Tian Hui's back and all of us have our pack of noodles. Chillie was at the cover of the box]
SIS: I dun wanna eat alrdy, the chillie turn me off.
KEN: haha. The chillie turn you off? Than wad turn you on?
[LOL, from then, the coverstion was more bout turning off and on. But still we had our music on, sing along session and vendalism by Yvonne on the door with writtings of our names to indicate that we were there at the Gunting Hut Room 3]
2030-BED TIME
DAY 4 [22ndDecember07]
0600-GOOD MORNING
0700-Set off to the restaurant which is 6km to have breakfast. We had instant noodles for breakfast
0810-Off to the base
1210-We reach our destination in 4 hours or less which is considered fast. =) Waited for the transport to fetch us back to the Park HQ which is about 45 mins away.
1315-Had lunch at the restaurant near the Park HQ, after that was ice-cream for dessert despite the cold weather. Presentation of the 2 certificates for the successful climd to the peak.
1700-Arrive at Kota Kinabalu town after 3 hr plus of ride. Check into cityparklodge. The 3 gers had a room to ourselves with 3 beds-unique.
1845-Met the whole group for dinner at the nearest shopping centre for dinner ans SHOPPING which is after slacking in the room n bath. It was a few days since we manage to haf a warm shower.
1930-Uncle Sam n the family of us had dinner at Secret Recipe. YUMYUM. After dinner the 3 guys and gers seperated for out idividual shopping
2130-We met back at this time to go to the wet market to take a look, there's the 'Phillipine market' too with loads of seafood.
2215-Briefing, back to room to watch HBO and NITE for the day
DAY 5 [23rdDecember07]*
*to.be.continue
*photos to be up soon
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