mission accomplished!!

firstly, thanks to those who called/asked me on my trip - it was fabulous and i couldn't wait to share the experiences, so thanks again for asking - you guys are my angels!!

met cin for dinner, i suggested this place as i've been eyeing to try the food there for ages. food was awesome and definitely worth going back to. surprisingly we met ally & diane there, apparently val organised another dinner gathering - well not a surprise actually, 'cos i knew abt ally n val having dinner there but we pretended not to know as we thought it's another date of his hehehe..
went to the hotel to meet the rest of the people we're going with. bus departed quite on time and we reached ipoh at 5.30ish AM. together with the other 4 girls we went hunting for breakfast and ended up having dim sum, it was quite good actually. we then get back to the meeting point, changed our outfit and apply lotsa sunscreen for the rafting adventure.
reached sungai kampar and we were given a short briefing on how to do the rafting including what to do in the event where we were thrown out of the boat or when the boat capsized. we then carried the boat to the river. it was bloody heavy that we said we might not have more energy to paddle later. once we're at the river we were given another surprise. we thought that we would board the boat and started the rafting but NO! the boat was pushed somewhere and we had to backrafting to where the boat was. bloody hell!! so we backrafted to where the boat was, and i got flipped that i actually hit my back on the rock - not a good start eh. rafting was GREAT!! we started feeling panic everytime we were faced with fall that we always hold the line instead of paddling faster. but then we get the hang of it and could control the panic and pedal. there was once when we're supposed to pedal faster but think we're quite panic (how to pedal when all you could think of is we're gonna fall we're gonna fall) that the boat slanted and me with faith who was seating on the left side were thrown out of the boat. PANIC!! not sure about faith, but all i could think about is finding the lifeline and kept on holding onto the string until the instructor pulled me back into the boat. once all of us were in we couldn't help but laughing. soo fun!! few times when our boat were trapped between rocks, all of us kept on jumping so that it could be free. few more times of rough water that we were thrown here and there but no more out of the boat. FUN FUN FUN!!
after rafting, still soaking wet we took the ride to gua tempurung and had our lunch before yet another great adventure.
the cave adventure was quite plain at the beginning. simply entering the cave, took thousands (okay exagerating, hundreds!!) of stairs up and down the cave, looking at the stalactites, stalagmites, crystals and all others while listening to the explanaitions given. an hours of walk we ended up at the part where we're supposed to went out by jumping to the river. firstly we have to slide down and it was actually quite scary. imagine if you couldn't control your slide down you might end up injuring yourself. of course, there's someone holding you in the middle of the slide and another one catching you once you're down. after the sliding, we have to go down through a very small hole and again, someone would be holding your leg down there. this is where the adventure started. we started walking through the river with the help of our own torchlight. we have to bend down or even squat most of the time. halfway through the journey we ended up crawling and i really do mean crawl! i have to put my torchlight in my mouth as i have to walk like a lizard. it was quite pain as well as your whole body is brushing against the rock and sand. and to think that we were still feeling tired from the rafting, its difficult at times to push your body forward. imagine if we do it during rainy season, we'd be diving for most of the journey!!
it was really a great experience that me and cin kept on saying too bad ally missed it, way too bad.
done with caving, after shower and all we headed back to ipoh town for dinner and some leasure time until 9 PM, when we'll be pick up to go back to singapore.
reached singapore at 5.30 AM, hence no bus nor train has operated i decided to take a cab home. once home i was soo itchy of sharing my experience with someone but it's still early so i did laundry and then went to bed. spent most of my time sleeping actually until seb called. continued sleeping until jen called. woke up again to ally's message i decided to really wake up to take shower. spent the rest of the day doing nothing but laundry. talked to jen again at night, watched TV and went to bed early.
woke up early for gym but my whole body's aching like mad that i decided to skip gym today. still feeling very sore now, especially my lower body and my back where i hit the rock. few bruises and scratches but overall, I am soooo happy being able to experience this!!