The Journey

This is my journey. As long as always follow the trail, I shall reach the destination at the end, be it easy or rocky, bright or dim, ascending or descending.

There are always twists and turns awaiting me somewhere, or I may pick my pot of gold on some of the days, otherwise it is just one ordinary day to me.

This is the journey which I have chosen.

And this is the journey of the colony of ants. They have their own invisible trail which they will follow by the rule.

They have to ascend or descend along the journey which is not much different from mine.

They may occasionally stop for some checking, but the travel will continue.

Same as mine, just keep going on.

There is a reason behind

It is quite strange to find a "SLOW" sign up here on a tree. This enables my thinking.

Is it a silent protest from someone who are busy finding his next breath and frustrated in catching up with friends?

Or is this a friendly reminder by the nature to us that we have to seriously re-think of slowing down?

Every warning sign or reminder is always written in red in order to pull attention. But I observed everyone included myself is numb with the sign. Or say it bluntly, it is actually transparent to us. If a survey is to be done among the hikers, there should be a minority of them who are aware of the sign. It has never served its purpose. City folks have too much to focus on, although it seems like most of us are just busy for nothing, especially it is very naive only to conclude this during the year end reflection.

Then what does the slowing down sign mean for? There is nothing dangerous in front except it looks brighter and shiny. Everyone loves seeing bright sunlight and there should be no hesitation at all. The sunlight is always warm in a cool jungle with fresh air which is oxygen-rich.

What I want to say, this is one of the mountain bike descending trails actually.The warning sign does not mean for anything ahead of us. The danger is right beside us, if you are on a mountain bike. There is a sudden step with a height of about 2 feet immediately before the tree, which is intentionally not captured in the picture. The cyclists must have been warned far away in order to slow down. Nobody likes to experience stun of this kind. My picture is simply misleading. This really happens everyday, in our surrounding.

I have yet to witness any mountain biking on this trek. Hopefully I shall have the opportunity to tell you some stories on this.

Hiker is not a runner, for today Penang Bridge Run

I did not participated in this morning Penang Bridge International Marathon.

I took part in 10km Fun Run category during last year.

The whole bridge was totally closed for traffic by then.

It was as packed as canned Sardine since more than 10 thousands people took part.

Instead, I go for my husband-and-wife weekly routine, Cerok Tokun Hike.

The 2 available car parks are full as usual. That is, many hikers are not runners.

I took the usual mountain trek. It was cool and more heartbeating.

mountain trek

Beautiful natural cool art

Lonely hiker

Less people use mountain trail. Most of them prefer to use tar road.

Tar road is not so taxing for elder citizens, ladies and little children.

But actually we are not so lonely. Naughty monkeys tend to jump

from one branch to another, creating some noises in this

quite and calm environment.

Sometimes I wonder, do the monkeys ever fail to jump over?

Monkey of another species

There are exercise facilities prepared on the stop-for-a-rest

site. Umbrellas are also available for any unexpected rain fall.

sometimes people sleep for a while before continue for further journey

1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5....I'll lift for 20 times for a balance exercise

Am I right? Need to get both hands and legs to work for a

balance work out

Get out from the end of mountain trail, awaiting for me is

the full moon behinds the trees.

Not windy as for today, but the warm sunlight is so

refreshing.

Stop for a chat

Mountain biking is now getting more popular. And

competition is designed in such a way that tar road is used

for upward trail and down hill trail is on the unpaved environment.

Fern leaf

Nice view