Some of you may have heard that on the weekend of Sep 27th, I went for a weekend trip to Endau Rompin national park in malaysia with some of the ex cpos. myself included. chee peng, sook, adel, aaron, lilian bok plus adel and lilians' husband made up the group together with my daughter kelly.

They volunteered to do this UAT for me. I wondered if i can bring people into the jungle starting saturday morning and coming back by 9pm sunday evening and pack in enough activities so that it would feel more than just a 2 day getaway.In the end, we enjoyed the trip. We took a train, malaysian railway, to kluang where we had the famous ya-kun equivalent railway kopi. then it was a ride on a 4 wheel truck followed by a 45 min boat ride into the middle of the national park.We reached there by lunch time. We had twin sharing chalets with attached toilets and fan for the night.
By mid afternoon, we were out trekking and spent time feeding river fishes, hanging out at waterfall and swimming and horsing around in a deep jungle dive pool.

Night was spent eating BBQ jungle style, skewers were made of bamboo poles. and chatting, and looking for nice place to sleep- ie for those who did not want to sleep in their respective rooms(adel and sook).

Next morning was a 3 hour kayak (downstream)and swimming in the river till lunch
time where we ate in an orang asli village . We ate asli food.hung around the village, took our showers and then made our way back to the railway station. i heard no one took leave the next day.so its not too tiring. only some leeches were quite irritating.

So if any of you need a weekend getaway, i can help arrange for you. 8-10 pax is ideal. But please dun take my word for it that its fun, check with the UAT testers first!!

I heard venkat , my successor, is already in office today. He will be starting work proper on monday.. please give him all your support!!I'm off to Laos tomorrow and will meet him when i get back. make sure he will only have nice things to say about all of you when i meet him!!