Thursday, July 05, 2007

What happened to Mount Kinabalu Expedition?

What started must have an end, but I'm not really in the mood to write the end. Partly because it's a failure for me, and the journey is not really pleasant, but Chean's description speaks it all: Unforgettable!


Peaks that I never reached...

OK, what's the deal with failure? My knees started to pain on 2/3 journey to the rest house. Thanks to the knee support, I managed to get to the rest house without much hassles. But I was starting to crawl in pain. At this point, the golden question popped up, to continue with the peak or not to? There's some things to consider, the next day gonna be another 5+ hours journey down hill, if I busted my knees for going to the peak, how am I gonna get down? I don't want to drag slow the whole party again. This reminds me of the Nuang incident, I was like a total crippled after coming back, I can't sleep well at night coz whenever I moved, my knees was killing pain. You should see how I got up and down from stairs! The question of will I get disabled for the rest of my life did pop up that time, and so was the question do I need surgery to get recover. And I told myself that time, I should have stopped, I should have made that decision, and I will not do something that stupid again. So I had made a decision to stop and not continue with the peak.

But that hard decision starting to haunt me back, whenever I saw the photos they took at the peak, and other things relating to it. Should I have just continue with the peak, and care less about the consequences later? Was I considered too much? As a teenager, well, sort of, we need to dare to face whatever challenges, without that much consideration.
I am really in dilemma, even after the trip.

I couldn't care less about others saying me fail to reach the top, and giving insulting remarks, just that I couldn't stop myself diving into this dilemma situation again and again...

But as long as I'm alive, there is still chances to do it again right?

4 comments:

JET said...

If I'm you, I will be having the same feeling and confuse too. Image that, spending so much money to Sabah, reached half way to the peak.
Really want to 1 shot kao kao reach there.....
However, it really might hurt very deeply....

Anyway, there's words saying tht, "Rest today, fight tomorrow." or "Keep yourself alive today, and kill the enemy tomorrow."
It's a very wise words.... although we do not know how long can we survive. But at least we know that we still got chances now ;)

Build up yourself. Join me to conquer the peak next time ;) p('-')q

Voon Chean, 文铨 said...

Nobody going to laugh at u fail or waste money or what lar, unless they don't really know ur situation. Take as long rest as you can for the knee to recover, then try again sometime later, I'm sure at that time you will feel much more achievement than this time. Just think that this trip was a trial and explore on KK Sabah rather than the focus on the peak lor.

If your knee really cannot take it, don't force it, coz you definitely don't want to hurt urself until other sports also cannot do right ? Especially swimming !

Token said...

Jet, it's not about the money bro, it never has been. If you would feel bad bcoz of the money, then we truly has different thinking.

I have learnt a lot and experienced a lot in this trip, so I think it's already worth every penny.

I think it's the pride thing we are talking about here, don't worry, I will get over it, it's not like I've never failed in life before! Hahaha! Thanks guys for the support!

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