burn out.
monday was back last night from my office's winter tour. was pretty short but at the same time long. know what i mean? haha.
anyways. we climbed one of the higher mountains in taiwan - all 3421 meters of it. as i was telling prata kaki. it was pseudo mountain-climbing. the first 3km was reached via mini-vans (stayed around the 2000m mark) and climbed the last 500+ meters. was damn tiring carrying all the nonsense (first aid kits, satellite phone, 2 bottles of water etc) and having to repeatedly climb back down to help out the others. not forgetting that a few of us took the wrong path up at first.
we cleared a good 100-odd meters before we realised that there wasn't any other way to carry on. so we walked back down and took another way that thankfully led all the way to the first peak at 3309 meters. had to do a fair bit of scaling to reach the main peak of 3421.
but the view. it was worth it. the peak was a cool 8 degrees plus and we ate bak kwa (of all things!). had a laugh about it, sat around to take in the fresh air and the sights before heading back down.
headed to the hot spring that night. boy did it feel good. did the damnest thing by trying out the cold spring as well. from nice comfy 90 degrees to frigid 10 degrees. i lasted a full 3 minutes before i scurried back to the hot spring. hah!
in any case, the rest of the tour was pretty dull. didn't enjoy the first day when we went to some flower-whatever that just didn't interest me one bit. some sheep farm thing in the mid-afternoon on saturday.
yesterday was spent at a theme park. didn't really do much except to catch some aboriginal show and going for a "thrill" ride. we screamed for the sake of screaming since it was pretty hilarious anyway.
so yea. back to reality. work was hectic today but it felt good. i seem to have found my motivation again in the office. i wake up everyday feeling fresh and ready for challenges, much like how i felt up till, ermm.. june? haha. but i'll do fine. 4 months and counting.
and yes! mingrui is headed over here on friday. silly cow on the 11th i think. alex, shuren yongjia and sipeng as well. can't wait.
anyways. we climbed one of the higher mountains in taiwan - all 3421 meters of it. as i was telling prata kaki. it was pseudo mountain-climbing. the first 3km was reached via mini-vans (stayed around the 2000m mark) and climbed the last 500+ meters. was damn tiring carrying all the nonsense (first aid kits, satellite phone, 2 bottles of water etc) and having to repeatedly climb back down to help out the others. not forgetting that a few of us took the wrong path up at first.
we cleared a good 100-odd meters before we realised that there wasn't any other way to carry on. so we walked back down and took another way that thankfully led all the way to the first peak at 3309 meters. had to do a fair bit of scaling to reach the main peak of 3421.
but the view. it was worth it. the peak was a cool 8 degrees plus and we ate bak kwa (of all things!). had a laugh about it, sat around to take in the fresh air and the sights before heading back down.
headed to the hot spring that night. boy did it feel good. did the damnest thing by trying out the cold spring as well. from nice comfy 90 degrees to frigid 10 degrees. i lasted a full 3 minutes before i scurried back to the hot spring. hah!
in any case, the rest of the tour was pretty dull. didn't enjoy the first day when we went to some flower-whatever that just didn't interest me one bit. some sheep farm thing in the mid-afternoon on saturday.
yesterday was spent at a theme park. didn't really do much except to catch some aboriginal show and going for a "thrill" ride. we screamed for the sake of screaming since it was pretty hilarious anyway.
so yea. back to reality. work was hectic today but it felt good. i seem to have found my motivation again in the office. i wake up everyday feeling fresh and ready for challenges, much like how i felt up till, ermm.. june? haha. but i'll do fine. 4 months and counting.
and yes! mingrui is headed over here on friday. silly cow on the 11th i think. alex, shuren yongjia and sipeng as well. can't wait.
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