Treetop walk - who else but the sporty Liangliang who will make this kind of suggestion for the 11km hike... Like what Wansi said, as much as it was shackening, it was fun and worth all the eccentricities of the chemistry guys. Hahaha...
We were supposed to meet at the destined Macritchie bus stop at 9am. But being smarties who were used to Weewee's 'punctuality', we knew it was not necessary to be on time. Hence explaining the almost 1h delay of the starting time of the walk.
Prior to the walk, Elvin and Dawn tried to talk me out of the walk, citing reasons about the wet weather making the grounds soggy.. I was almost tempted to sleep in, except for the goose liver, rack of lamb and the many food that I had incidentally consumed thinking about the workup that I will have the weekend. I must say the perserverance paid off, somehow at least, but this is do-it-once-but-never-again kinda walk... If you think that walking in the forest with your beloved is a romantic thing, kindly think again.. With the sole exception of carrying your darling throughout the entire walk, there is nothing else that can convince non athletic ladies to take the plunge into the forest, smelling smelly army boys... Oh boy, the stench...
Well, it was quite impossible to try to talk Weewee into carrying me throughout the walk; even the threatening part to hold his hand for a 3 whole secs did not do the job.. So, just for the sake of bullying him, I made him carry my bag, which would have turn out to weigh me down had I not let him do the honours.. Phew to the thought of bullying him.. But then again, THANKS WEEWEE, U R SUCH A DARLING! hahaha..
The walk continues, continued, is still continuing even when my calf muscles were burning with exhaustion. When I thought I was unable to continue any further, the sight of the supposedly hanging bridge renewed my inspiration to move on! Finally! We are halfway through the trail! Not that I was not awed by the bridge which was actually quite stationary, I had known it not to be the really freely moving type of bridge, but I was really tired already, suffering the after effects of the previous late night. Nonetheless, it was nice coming to a place full of greenery and out of the urban...
On the way out, we saw lotsa monkeys.. One mummy monkey had its baby on its back while it leisurely strolled pass us, another had its little baby hanging from underneath it. But of course these innocent monkeys are not what surprised us most. It was this monkey lifting the tail of another monkey to pick at its butt (or doing whatever it was doing) that silenced us most! It must be that when you are in the company of weirdos that you see 'exotic' scenes too.. Goodness..
Imagine our glee when we finally Finally FINALLY reach the end of the walk and reach Bukit Timah Hawker Center!!! Sustenance! Ice-cold beverages! Back to civilisation was a relief despite the close to 3h respite ONLY... Hehe..
Shacked... Regardless of the fact that I had a 2h nap back home before meeting them again, I am tired now.. Time to get my beauty sleep.. Meeting them again tomorrow.. Goodness, I spend more time with them than my family... Crap...