Sunday, June 21, 2009

Discovering and Conquering Saga Hill

Every time I pass by the Ampang, I would be wondering and asking my sis, how come with so much greenery, there arent any place to hike except for Klang gates. There must be some mountain hidden behind those housing ground which we are not aware of it?

True enough a week ago, I finally discovered there was indeed a hiking ground in the inner part of Ampang and yesterday I conquered it along with Suet and 2 other friends who all trainning for 10km marathon.

The trek is about 2 hours climb and has many entrances and exit which even leads to Cupecs. The track to me was actually easy, similar to KK trek where the places to climb and walk are nicely formed. Nevertheless, I was panting like crazy and drank half of 100 plus before reaching to hill top.




The most difficult part of climbing Saga Hill was for the fact that it was extremely steep and one get dizzy by just looking up. Some even to the extend of vomiting. So the best way to climb is by just looking at the ground. All one need is good stamina.


The hill top is surprisingly flat. Hence, the residence/hikers has decided to make it into exercise/resting ground as how its been done in Penang's Bukit Jambul. There are swing and hammock everywhere but no food stall selling Ice Lemon Tea. Sigh!









We waited for couple of minute and headed down. There are many option to get down and some even lead to Bukit Apek and Cupecs. Suet and I took an alternate route while the other two girls went down the same way up.


Getting down was even easier then I predicted. Me always being careful while coming down, was shocked that this time I was practically running my was out. The hike was really good. The hill is really cool and isolated, yet one would be surprised that its filled up with resident from Taman Saga. Highly recommended for training.

Friday, June 19, 2009

A peEk inTo mY HapPy SaNtuary

A year and half ago my so call happy sanctuary was a real bore. Not only that, it had leakages every where that my CC used to say that I would be needing sampan to get in. Nevertheless, I refused to move out as its location was good, far away from the main entrance and bosses room. Ashamed of my self, I decided to decorate my room, little by little with stuffs from home. It was presentable and I was happy. Along came this stupid Japanese policy of 5s initiated by Treasury and it was determined that we didn’t live up to the 5s standard. The sad part was, my department got the lowest. So my HOD instructed all to get involve in keeping our territory clean, organize and label in line with the 5s or else we would be in hot soup!

So for the past one month, little by little I cleaned, I removed clusters, organized, labeled and finally redecorated my room as admin finally decided to get someone to solve my leakages problem. The result is my little happy sanctuary which gave me 70% score.

My sofa set corner

Beautiful posters on the wall


My set tea deco

My working corner ..oh yeah that's a window!



My desk with colourful backdrop..oh yeah flat screen

My happy daisy screen saver with little sunshine on the left and colourful backdrop


My happy sunshine

My colourful bulletin board

My happy dancing daisy on my colourful table cloth ...


My happy cat calender which always in the wrong date ...


My neatly stacked and labeled files and books

My neatly stacked stationery
Neat huh! Not like me at all :)


My cute sharpener


and at last
My self made Bible for now..all information are gathered in there :)

So why is this place special?
1. Because many of the things are ancient and from home and things I bought from holidays
2. Its colourful and colours makes people happy
3. A whole lots of smile daisy, one of my very favorite flowers.
4. Less noise, a whole lot of space to breathe and sunshine through the window.
Note:
CC- Chief Clerk
HOD-Head of Department
5s-Japanese policy to keep the place organised
Sampan- little boat used in the villages