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Here we are visiting the Malaysian rain forest with 4
Lighters. You see, the life style in Hk is such that whenever there is a stretch of
holidays, people in HK want to go on trips. So sometime in the late Spring of 1996, I seem
to recall, CC Luk, Pang Woon-Tong ( Bladder), Lawrence Wong ( Guy Shuk) and myself decided
to go to Malaysia for a few days of R and R. Basically we went there to do snorkeling,
tennis and whatever we may find interesting to do over there. After some last minute
airlines and hotel booking, we were able to go on to " Kui-Ching"---which is
actually a Chinese name for a Malaysian city.
So we got there. The hotel was nice and reasonable in rates. Lots of tennis , snorkeling
and sightseeing followed. As it turned out the city has a Chinese museum. It was kind of
primitive, but it gives a flavor of the early history of Chinese immigrants in that city.
After two to three days of doing all the things we wanted to do, we decided to have a
hiking trip into the rain forest. So we hired a guide and we started early in the morning
by car to drive to the rain forest. In the car we were told we needed to pick up another
person in another hotel to go together. Cool. So we went to another very nice hotel and
picked up a young lady who was on holiday all by herself. This nice Japanese young lady (
28 years old, in 1997 ) was a high school teacher and was able to communicate with us in
English and in written Chinese. She told us that it was not uncommon for single Japanese
girls to go on trips alone for holidays. Well, we were impressed.
Finally we got there and we started hiking along a trail into the forest, which was really
not all that imposing as a forest, but there were plenty of big trees, bushes, interesting
plants and a lot of monkeys and birds.
The hiking was not difficult, but it took some effort to negotiate a few spots along the
way. Since the young lady whose name was "a thousand cranes" appeared to be able
to handle the hike most of the time, we gladly went along enjoying her company. She
was a friendly young lady, we learned a little of about her way of life in Japan and we
took a lot of pictures with her and for her.
After about two hours of hiking, we arrived at the a small resting area which was actually
a small beach. We thought the hike was over and we would be picked by boat or by other
means of transportation. Wrong thinking!!!! We need to hike back to where the car was. So
we rested for a while and started to hike back to have lunch. Here is where our old
age started get in the way. We should not have rested at all. After some resting, it was
tough to get going again. While it was not too difficult to hike in, it became somewhat a
straining effort to hike out. Well, we must go on since " A thousand cranes" did
not complained at all.
To make a long story short, we finally made it back, but we were kind of tired after some
4 hours of hiking. We were glad that everyone appeared to be in reasonable shape after the
long hike.
The moral of this story:
(1) Do not hike with a young person for 4 hours.
(2) Do not hike with a young person who is female for 4 hours.
(3) Do not hike with a young who is female and Japanese for 4 hours.
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