It has been awhile since my last blog entry and lots has happened since. For instance my September challenge to Mount Tahan was self-postponed, replaced with November day walk in Pahang National Park, my resignation rendering my unemployment, got a smashing birthday present from lovely MondayBluer, part time in fabulous network marketing organization, off to seek life purpose and my freaking acute GOUT attack.
Gout attack was an ouch. This is the second time it happens and I am taking a more pre-cautionary effort to ensure my diet is well met with enough supplement of celery seed pills, water and of course fruits. Strictest prohibition of animal organs in my diet plan because they are the number one concentration of purine. A hundred grams of these, is like a hundred mugs of freshly brewed Irish beer. That morning when I woke up with the swell on my right big toe was a tell tale sign of big ouch ouch for the whole of that and following week, indeed it has given me hell-of-a-pain. One injection and several pain killers later, it has reduced the swell and minimize the agony but remain limping. Anyway, it is all diet diet diet.
In the first paragraph, I mentioned about life purpose, did I? Yes, in my blog profile I have proclaimed that an Malaysian IT Specialist LOST LOST LOST! Well, that is sort of untrue now because IT specialist no more I am and a person now I seek the meaning or key to unlock the Enlightened Wealth At times when I am sitting on the 'throne' every morning, I asked of how my journey has ended up here with my decisions and status now, yet the answer was simple. Time. I guess it was just time or a threshold where I find things too mundane, forcing me to make a leap so that now while falling I can step up the revs to either fly or die. I have up to October 2006 to see if I really fly.
Pahang National Park was fun and relaxing compare to the trainings I was doing here with the Gn.Tahan expedition team. During the park visits we saw a handful of wild animals, mostly insects, and a leech. There were many hours of boat ride which was definitely the most enjoyable for me. The trip also included an all expense paid cave exploration where we were subjected to crawl through tight confined space with body half soaked in water and stood waiting less than 2 meters from giant sleeping bats. It was truly amazing to see them at close proximity and such numbers. Although not as grand as those in Sabah and Sarawak yet the coolness of getting near them was simply breathtaking. MondayBluer and I were in a group of 17 or 20 and the last evening there was very much celebrated with many jugs of Tigers. Somehow, to the local residence there, telling them we saw a few Tigers would cause quite a surprise to them. In actual fact there hasn't been a single living tiger spotted near the national headquarters for like a decade and there a bunch of drunk idiots claimed they saw Tigers.
