It was sketchy. It was... tiring, yet fun. Yeay!!!
I was on a short break. Returning to Malaysia on Wednesday and flying back to Sihanoukville on Sunday. And, I definitely have to ride. :-) So, a ride was planned to Bukit Sagil in Melaka.
However, I came down with cold fever Friday, after having spates of runny nose and sneezing the day before. I worry that my flu would get worse... Thus that night, I religiously took medicines every four hour...
Alhamdullilah my fever did not worsen. In fact I felt comfortable enough to go for the ride...
With many having prior commitments, only these names made the list when it was put in our group... Four regulars plus another four friends...
However two of them did not turn up - Safarin & Adie Nas (both are not in our little WhatsApp group). Final count, 8 riders + 2 pillions (Man's & Pak Yop's spouses), with Idrusk turning up unannounced.
I was last to arrive at the first rv point - RnR Dengkil. Mzac, Zack & Idrusk did not wait that long though. After a brief hello, we took off heading our second rv point, RnR Seremban to meet up the other four (+2) riders for today.
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| Mzac leading the way... |
For Eman (on MT-09) & Pak Yop (on GSXR), this would be their first time riding with UOMO; but Pak Yob has ridden with Mzac a month before on a "all GSXR affair". He was inducted into UOMO's (WhatsApp) group by Mzac after that... both of them, I've never met before.
L-R: Eman, Pak Yob, Mzac, Man Morini, Sabri, idrusK, Zack, Wak MT09
We were to start from RnR Seremban at 9.30am... As it rained in some places earlier in the morning, we pushed the starting time by half an hour or so....
First stop, at Tangkak toll gate. It was a rather hot day. We stopped for quite a bit there... to take shelter from the scorching sun... and to "puff'... and to check messages...
Proceeding to our (first) destination, Gunong Ledang recreational area, we had to endure the super jammed packed Tangkak town. And, we turned off at the wrong junction - which led to Gunung Ledang hiking base. Obviously not the place we wanted to go to.
"What? Turn around?"
Anyways, after a few "delicious" twists and turns (too bad the traffic was awfully heavy), we got to the correct junction.
"ok, motor besar boleh parking depan surau nun..."
L-R: fastest, faster, slowest :-)
The guard was kind enough to let us park inside the guarded area - normally meant for resort's guest.
Didn't look at the watch, but I'd say we arrived at around 1.00pm. Everyone was a bit hungry... Had to made do with the pre-prepared stuff inside the resort's stall.
Cold burger, still warm fried chicken, sardine sandwiches & nasik lemak "ok" according to ManMorini..
After "alas perut", we... or some of us... four of us to be exact, showed off our "perut" pulak... hehehehe....
It was refreshing... the cold mountain stream helped to soothe (or worsen?) my flu... If my timing is correct, we spent almost over an hour "berendam" in the stream... off course me taking some time to "upgrade" the rock dam...
Well, that was that. It's time to get out of the water and wear dry clothes.... Except for Man Morini - he wore the same jeans to "berendam"... hehehe... Luckily the surau provided kain pelikat... So we fulifilled our duties there before moving on to our next agenda.... makan durian!
It was already around 4.00pm when we headed out from the resort. Many durian stalls we're already closed. We managed to find one stall that sell reasonably priced durian kampung, at RM9/kg...
Our timing was perfect. Just a while after we ordered the durians, it was sold out. And when we finishing up, it rained! Perfect timing. We waited out for another half hour for the rain to stop before moving to our next agenda... "Eat at Muar town"...
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| Thanks Idrus for the durians treat ! |
The traffic was horribly heavy as we rode to Muar. It was at crawl-pace in Tangkak, and it was even worse in Muar town. We wanted to have coffee at the "Kopi 434" shop near the bus station, but they were already closing for the day. So, we move to our next agenda, "asam pedas"... alas the shops ran out of dishes... There were too many people eating out that day it seemed.
So, we stopped at the Medan Selera Tanking Emas... some of us could still get the ikan asam pedas...
That was the closing agenda for the day's ride.
It was already 7.00pm when we finished eating. Zack parted ways with the rest of the group there - he wanted to make a quick stop at his hometown nearby, accompanied by Eman & Wak.
The rest of us decided to head back, via Tangkak exit, and pit-stopping at RnR Jejantas Alor Gajah. Man & Pak Yob left immediately after refuelling, while Idrus, Mzac & me stayed back a bit longer...
We shook hands and headed to our respective homes at around 8.45pm, arriving safely well before 11.00pm. Well, everyone reported back to arrive safely, with Zack reaching home 5 minutes before midnight, still the same day :-)
All in all, it was a really swell ride... Almost having our butts swelling... Hahahaha...
Thanks guys for the yet another enjoyable outing.
This ride took place on Saturday, 31st March 2018.