Went hiking with Mr Porky Poh last Friday... He took off-in-lieu to spend the day with me! I also kinda took off from office (working temp at Stacy's firm now)...

We decided to 'mini-hike' from Mount Faber, to Henderson's Wave and complete the zig-zagged Forest Walk.

Dear was happy that day. He told me he had fun. So did I. And I am happy because he felt that it was really fun hiking with me. keke.. Well, we did it!! We should do it again soon after my irritating cold sore heals!!

Okay, it was an achievement for me lah... it was nothing new to Dear coz he had done it before with his colleagues already... But it was so fun! My first time on a hike with Dear had laughters all the way.. I played and repeated Fish Leong's 'Qing Ge' over and over again (that almost drove Porky Poink crazy.. but the song is really so nice lah!!), we played 'Human Patapon' along the way, I kept telling super random 'cold jokes', and we made friends with two 'forest lizards' ...

Dear and I realized that I am only terrified of house lizards! I mean, I was kinda excited to see the forest lizards.. they are red, shiny, kinda fat and uber elegant looking... I went very near to the lizard, which I would never do the same if I see a disgusting house lizard, and said hello to it. Dear was laughing and surprised. But I did not dare to touch it of course... I couldn't take the pic coz the cam on my phone is not powerful enough.. but this lizard is commonly seen on forest grounds.

The Henderson Wave Bridge was so nice and cooling!! We took a pretty long rest in one of the shaded areas. By then, I was already lacking the stamina to carry on... even though the sun was scorching, the strong cooling wind and scenery we enjoyed made me feel that all the walking, sweating and persevering were totally worthwhile. =)

After the looong zig-zagged walk down to Alexander, we took a short and AIR CONDITIONED bus ride to VIVO.. Damn.. I have never felt that air-con was such a luxury until that day! I was all red and Dear was chao-tah by the end of the day... we were thankful for being able to live in an environment where air-con is easily available...

I mean, think about those poor children and folks in Africa, or the less privileged... No food, water is scarce, no electricity... We are indeed a bunch of fortunate people who are living in such an environment whereby everything is considered as a luxury to them, and yet sometimes, we take such 'luxuries' for granted with not a single sense of appreciation to what was given to us.

This reminds me of something. There was a mission to help out the Cambodians in office last week. The company intended to send donated stuffs like food and basic necessities over. I was thinking about how bad their conditions were... They would surely need food and useful things rather than cash. Putting myself into their shoes, cash is definitely not something that can give them immediate aids. Unless you are telling me that cash can be eaten, or are you expecting the unfortunate people with limbs blown away due to explosion from hidden land mines to take the cash and risk their lives this time round to buy food outside (are there any vendors around anyway?)?

Haiz.. We should be thankful that we are well and alive. Eating well, having roofs over our heads and complainting about how warm the weather is while turning the air-con on...