Day 3: Jerteh To Dungun. Hell awaits.

It's the last day of my touring. But it isn't for Nas. He will try his best to continue as far as he can. As for me, today is the last. It's the finito for me. Nas woke up at 6am to have his Subuh prayers. As for me, the bed has called upon me to complete my rest. Haha. Left my prayers as I usually does. I'm not proud of it okay? So, 6.45am I finished my shower. Then 7am we were ready. Showered and already stuffed ourself with tuna sandwich. Suddenly, we're about to move out from the chalet room, our stomachs started to scrumbled with very painful feeling inside. Mine just started but Nas's needed the toilet straightaway. He took a ciggie and off he went back straight into the room and had his shit. Mine, came suddenly in a rush. It's about to drop. I was like dammit. Nas is still in the bloody toilet. Thank god, he came out just on time. I left the bikes outside and straightaway let it out of my arse. Haha. When it's all done, we both started to cycle towards K.Terengganu via Kampung Penarek. We started at 7.15am. My 1st destination for bus trip home is in K.Terengganu I hope. Hopefully this 1st January of 2007 wouldn't be a fuss eventhough I know it's going to be. Oh yeah, we've spent our New Year nite and day with cycling. Haha. So, we cycled through Terengganu not looking for anything except the signboards of showing of KMs to arrive Penarek. Here it's quite flatty roads. So, no problem of cycling non-stop 30kmh for 10km at least before taking a rest. As usual, Nas will have his refills of H20 every 20km. The 3rd day, I didn't see him mix Accelerade that much like the past 2 days. All he bought is 100 plus. Maybe it's getting tiring to mix Accelerade everytime his H20 finishes eh? So it's the usual thing you'll be doing the 3rd day of cycling. Nothing extra, nothing different. Then, we started to feel hungry around 930am. We're getting nearer to Penarek. But I was too hungry for energy. Since we had to shit at 7am. I shitted like a lot guys. It's like diarhoea. So we stopped before Penarek and Nas went to buy H20 from kedai runcit and I sat nearby to have my powerbar and powergel. It wasn't really satisfying the hungriness. But I sure hope it would give me energy. By 10am, we reached Penarek had our breakfast. I ate bihun goreng with sotong goreng and Nas had bihun goreng with ikan kembung goreng. Both sotong and ikan was goreng with tepung. Huhu. It's extremely yummy! This satisfies my hunger! Haha. So we finished our breakfast. We pushed our bike to the small road available next to the beach. Hehe. So we snapped our pics there and start to cycle again. I don't bloody remember any of the kampung names now. All I want at that time is to reach K.Terengganu! I want to get home! Haha. My muscles are all like buffed up. Haha. I looked a bit darker as well. I felt like a different person now. Hehe. Anyways, I really couldn't remember what happened else other than re-inflating tire and refilling H20. Oh yeah, there's rain pouring. Now I remember! Haha. I've put on my cheap arse raincoat from the 7 Eleven. And I look like an idiot! Haha, so i'll just cut to the point. We arrived at last at the K.Terengganu! But still it gives me the challenges that I hate which is climbing. FCK! Haha. We arrived there at 1.30pm. It was pretty quick cycle down to K.T. Hehe. Then we arrived at the bus station to ask if there's a ticket to KL. Unfortunately, there's only a bus at 11pm. The bus can't even fit my bike in it. So, no point. I was damn disappointed! My motivation of cycling was just out of d imagination. Nas and me cycle straight ahead for Dungun. It's another destination where express buses always have their stop here. Before heading off, we stopped for lunch at some food court. If I wasn't wrong, it's pantai batu buruk? Whatever lah. I ate Nasi Goreng Daging Merah and a Burger Daging Special. Hehe. A lot eh? Cuz i was really out of energy again. Today is the worst! I've been getting this lack of energy! So, we're all set up! But we both need the toilet to shit again. Haha. So, cycling towards the nearest Gas station and had our shit out there. Haha. Now we continue our cycling journey towards Dungun. It's still raining. I still look like an idiot inside this raincoat. Haha. Now, the best part comes in again. My tire pinch flat. It's totalled! Nas already cycled like was beyond me. I was cycling like 5-8kmh. He cycled like 30kmh. I had to stop and pushed my bike to the nearest bus stop. I've waited for Nas to come back like 15mins! He really have the highest motivation for cycling. Haha. I've tried calling him but he didn't realise my phone calls. I was like. Shit man. What if he just went straight ahead. And forgets about me! ARgh! I have no more spare tubes! Stupid punctures! Feel like suiciding lah! Well, he came back and got his spare tube. I've changed everything. Nas took his ciggie. After all done, we're off to Dungun again. That was the last time I had to re-inflate my tire. Haha. I don't know why it keeps on puncturing at this time. Double checked the tire for any pins, nails or sharp objects but there isn't any. So, we just cycle up to Dungun. We stopped at the gas station for normal refills. The road was packed with cars. Traffic jam like mad. One guy came up to Nas and asked where were we from and all that. They didn't even believed we cycled all the way from Jerteh. We told them we started from Butterworth and they didn't believe it even more! Anyways, the interview was done and we continue to cycle. The traffic jam was really bad. It was all the way for about 15 kms. Just a rough guess. We arrived at Rantau Abang around 7.30pm. We planned to arrive in Dungun around 8.30pm. Hoping so that no more punctures happens. I was cycling at 15kmh - 20kmh. I am really out of energy for cycling. Really cannot continue any faster. At last we arrived at Dungun. Started to look for bus tickets first then a hotel. Hotel was fully booked by outsiders because of the UiTM students just registered for their new semester. Dammit! I got a bus ticket at 11pm. It's a shit bus. Anyways, at least my bike fits in it. That's what the ticket seller said. So, we came across to the last hotel there is, and at last there is a room for us. Our bikes cannot be taken up into the room! WTF! Thank god Nas brought his bike lock. Locked the bike downstairs and taking all our belongings into the room. We took our shower and headed fast towards the nearest restaurant for dinner. They say they ran out of food because of the parents of UiTM students. I was like, WTF? But she said what's left is just drinks, maggi and roti kebab. We both just order each of us a drink, maggi and kebab. Haha. We were bloody hungry! We ate and left the place and went to the bus station to disassemble the bike before the bus arrives. Nas shook hands with me and I thanked him for everything he had done for me. I enjoyed the bloody touring. I thought my journey has come to an end. But woopsy daisy. it isn't! The bus that was supposed to come at 11pm didn't come. I've waited up to 2am! The ticket seller said there was a mistake with the bus. They left the stop without knowing there's people was about to get board on it. The bus is already 1/4 way to KL. I'm like WTF! Dumb assess! I asked for a refund and got it. Called Nas, and thank god he didn't "tidor mati"! I told him all the freaking problem and asked him to help me out with the bike. and I need a place to sleep. He came down and helped me out and went to his room. I couldn't think straight. The guy said, there wouldn't be anymore tickets for the next few days. I was like damn! I'm so dead. I'm so stranded in DUNGUN! I've tried to ask help from my best friends if they could come and fetch me but they can't. They just can't. So I slept. Not knowing what would happen tomorrow.

Refill my water bottle!

Let's breakfast!

Here's Penarek junction.

See the sign.

My stupid tire had to change the tube at last.

Nas cycling by the beach.

Me cycling by the beach.

That's our breakfast.

The beach.

p/s: Cycled 200km today.

Day 2: Continuing from Grik to Jerteh

It's the 2nd day of touring. It's Hari Raya Haji. Nas woke up at 6.30am to check out the taxis if they are available as said by the local and also the hotel management where we stayed at. It was a devastating news for Nas as there isn't any taxi available yet to take us to Jeli or Machang. So, Nas woke me up and asked me to get ready to breakfast 1st. Right after the Raya Haji sacrifices finishes, the taxis should be available for us. Me and Nas went to 7 Eleven to get our breakfast since Mamak stall or any muslim stall wouldn't be opening at this time. If it was, we would have cycled as early as 6.30am towards Jeli. We were afraid of losing H20. So, for breakfast I had myself a mee goreng instant in cup and Nas had two cups of instant noodles. Damn he was hungry. Hehe. But actually one of them didn't taste good so he dumped it. After our breakfast, we went back straight to our hotel room and have a rest while waiting for the clock. Nas said that every single touring for him, he will get stranded which is something like this. We managed to watch two movies while waiting for the taxis to be available. Then it was somewhere around 10.30am we start to pack our things and bring our bikes to the taxi stand. It was freaking hot and we couldn't imagine how we would survive the day without H20 to be available. Even at 10.30am, with the taxis available, no one, i repeat, no one would want to take us across Grik to Jeli and direct to Machang. They say it's too far for them. We're paying you RM130 guys for a distance of 90km++! Goddammit! We're not paying you with our pubic hairs ya know. Around 11.30am, we managed to get a taxi. There's "pakcik" who's always at the taxi stand that I haven't been telling you guys, cuz i kinda forgotten to write about him, anyways, the point is he managed to help us out. Thanks for sorting this out pakcik! Also thanks to my whining of getting stranded in Grik and with my sad puppy eyes. Haha! So we stuffed our bags and bike in the taxi. At around 12pm, we moved from Grik towards Machang. While in the taxi, i put on my mp3 player while having myself like cramped with Nas's bike and my bag. I had my quick sleep. Haha. Nas also went for a nap in the car. For a while in the beginning of the journey, Nas and the driver had a conversation. Nothing much to tell what's up in the taxi journey as I was sleeping. Haha. So, yada, yada, yada, we arrived in Machang as paid. WE WERE DAMN FCKG HUNGRY! Our stomachs has made sounds of beautiful hungriness. Haha. So, we cycle towards K.Terengganu via Jerteh. But our stop would be at Jerteh. Oh yeah, we arrived in Machang around 1.30pm but after assembling my bike and kept on pumping my tire's pressure cuz of I don't know where the puncture is, 2pm we started to cycle again. All my muscle pains and backpains started to wiggling up my nerves again. Oh, it never ends ya know! So, as we cycle looking for warungs or restaurants that is opened for lunch. There isn't any! Till we arrived at this one shop. They say they are closed for today but they have Hari Raya Qurban's giveaways. Huhu! I just went like hurray! We got carbs to burn! So I just ate whateva they gave us. I don't know wtf they gave us. All i know it is cooked in curry. I just everything they gave me on the plate. I don't wanna hurt their feeling by not eating of what they gave us. You know, this thing actually opens up my view towards Kelantanese people. Haha. Won't tell you what it is. So we thanked them for the free meals. And cycle again towards Jerteh. Again and again I have to remind you guys, in this tour, I have an uncountable times of refilling the air in my rear tire. So I won't bother of telling about it again and again. Haha. While we're cycling this time, I've counted lotsa dead animals on the road. Especially those cute "Tikus Padi". They're small and damn cute. They only live in paddy areas. But they just have to be dead. Also, there's a lot of cats and 1 goat died. There's 2 black snakes died as well. Nothing significant after the free meal until we actually arrive at Jerteh. Before that, we took ourself a picture of ourself when we're at the Terengganu entrance welcome gate. We arrived the start of the Jerteh town and I saw there's a bicycle shop. So I guess I could buy myself some spare tubes as I've finished mine! Stopped at the shop and it was a chinese shop. It wasn't a typical chinese shop. It's a Kelantanese chinese shop. They speak as fluent as any normal Kelantanese would. The funny part is I was looking for a spare tube from them. Then the lady asked her little boy to look for it in chinese language. The boy was blur! Then she said in Kelantan dialect and he understands it straightaway. Woah, that's just bloody weird ya know. Haha. But then, there isn't any spare tubes. God dammit! Then, I went out of the shop and they wish me and Nas good luck on our journey. Then we start to look for our cheap accomodation. We arrived around 5.45pm in the town of Jerteh. 1st hotel, no one was around! The hotel was there but no reception desk! We searched where's the desk but still not found. Then, the 2nd hotel we asked, was bloody expensive for even a fan room. RM50! WTF? Then, a guy wanted to help us out by telling us there's a chalet across the road by the river. So we went there, called the number. Managed to get discount for our airconditioned room for RM55. Haha! Take that! Then we took our shower and get out from the chalet to get our dinner. And we went straight back home for another closing down deal with the bed. We planned to get up at 6.30am tomrrow. As we have a real long journey tomorrow and I will end it tomorrow.

p/s: Cycled for about 40km today.

The Hari Raya Haji morning in Grik.

The bridge near Tasik Banding.

Another view of it.

See how high it is.

Grand Tourismo.

Our bike stuffed in the taxi.

Nas in the co-driver seat.

Me, while listening to mp3 player and crushed with the bikes.

The taxi driver.

We arrived in Machang.

Setting up our bikes.

ON! ON!

We're going that way.


The sawah padi in Kelantan.

I'm in K.Terengganu!

Day 1: Touring From Butterworth To Grik

Yeap, it's the day. It's the day I'm torturing myself. It's 2.30am. Me and Nas already woke up. Nas took his shower 1st then it was me later on. Andy woke up as well because of the noises we made. We're sorry Andy! He had to go to Malacca by 5am. It's 2 hours earlier than he should. Yada, yada, yada, we're both up and ready by 3am and we cycled at 3.05am from Andy's apartment. While cycling towards the highway, all the kampung bois who haven't had their sleep and still lepak-ing, gave their "Go,go,go!", "Malaysia Boleh!" and etc. I accept that as motivation. We got to the highway, it was bloody dark! You know highways, they only have lampposts near junctions only and not the main roads. We took the motorcycle road on the highway to ensure our safety. We just cycled until Kulim and had our 1st stop because I felt that my tire pressure wasn't enough. So I pumped my rear tire for the 1st time of this touring. We had our short sips of drinks and we're off to the highway again. We maintained the speed of 20 - 25kmh. Nearby the kelapa sawit plantations, there's this "pig sound" scrambling around the bushes, i fully accelerated to like 35kmh! It was like chasing us for a while and got back. I was like WTF! Wild boar tried to chase us! Couldn't imagine how it would have been if the boar actually attacked us. Hehe. Might be the end of the touring session. Haha. After all the cycling, we finally reached to a junction going to Grik via Baling 10km. We had our stop there for a breakfast drink. We do not dare to stuff ourself with morning usual breakfast or it will create problems to our stomachs. So then we started to ask locals about which way is shorter and this and that. Nas paid for the drinks and started to cycle again towards Baling. It was about 7.30am. We cycled up to 7 eleven to get our drinks topped up. Nas "bancuh" me and him the special drink for fast hydration which is ACCELERADE! I will never ever forget that name. Haha. Okay, now is the best part. The stupid part I did on this touring! I saw a jump section. So, I said to Nas, "eee, geram! aku nak jump!" I cycle as fast as I can, jumped and land safely. Okay, that wasn't the best part. We continue to cycle up to a Petronas in Baling where I realised that my rear tire was punctured! Fuck! It must have been after the jump! How stupid was that? Okay, at petronas, there was this local who fascinated by us who cycles. He thinks that it's great that Malays are able to do something like this. Usually, they only see white people does these kind of things. So, I just pumped my tire before changing the tube just to make sure that it is actually puncture. After the pump, I cycle a bit and it's already flatten. Haha! So, we couldn't do much and just change to new tube at this "gerai". Nas had his teh o' ais while waiting for me to change the tube and pump the tire back. It was very time wasting! ARGH! This is a big lesson for me! Later on, I realise that my SPOKE broke! One of them is broken! My tire is now "gelong"! We urgently need to find a bike shop to repair this. The next stop is Pengkalan Hulu! The only place we hope that a bike shop will manage to put new spoke in and re-align it back. So I cycled with the brakes scratching against the rim. I climb and climb and climb and feeling heavier as ever. There haven't been any downhilling for the past 1-2 hrs of cycling uphill. Finally we reached Gunung Inas. WTF? Gunung? I thought it was just bukit. But then it's GUNUNG!!!! I've cycled up a gunung!! Anyways, had our rest there. For couple of minutes of resting we had our drinks refilled as well and I got myself a sweet drink of Teh O' Ais! There's only few more kms till Pengkalan Hulu. Hehe! Thank god! There's a bit of downhilling after reaching the top of Gunung Inas and some of climbing. We just actually got used to climb and immune to it. At last we reached Pengkalan Hulu! Then, we quickly looked for a bike shop to repair the bloody rim. We arrived there in the middle of the day. Sent the bike to repair the rim. Then, left it to look for a restaurant to lunch. Had our "nasi campur" for the next 30 mins. I was damned to be smelling like a fish. A real stinking fish! So finished our meal head back to the bike shop. He was still doing the job. Em, I saw an unwanted thing he did, that was putting grease into my HUB! FCK! I wanted to kill him but then I couldn't! I just didn't have the energy anymore to actually argue or anything. Paid for the spoke rm1.50 and we cycled towards Grik. Before that, we stopped at Shell to shit. Yes, we had stomach aches and we needed to shit. Haha. So we shitted 1st then started to cycle towards Grik. At the same time, we just wanna to get a ride on a lorry. It was just too "HOT" to handle! Haha. It was damn hot day. We've been trying to hitch hike a lorry or 4WD or even a van. No one stopped. They have just honk us to give moral support. Oh my, i feel like dying cycling uphill again. From Pengkalan Hulu, it was just uphill. Then we reached the top, we started to downhill. And downhill and downhill and downhill and downhill. We were just non-stop of downhilling the tarmac! Haha! At last! It was paid off! All the uphilling we made! I was just thanking god for my excellency in this 1st day of this touring. Then we reached a kampung few kms before Grik. We had to refill our drinks. Had 4 tins of cold drinks. I had cincau and wintermelon. Nas had chrysanthenum and wintermelon. It was very very very refreshing! The locals told us it's only 5 more kampungs before reaching Grik. A little of uphilling later. Just one hill and it's all done. Reached the last kampung, we stopped at a 'warung'. Refill our H2O again. Hehe. The owner of the warung told us that before us, there's someone else from Perlis cycled all the way to Ipoh. I was damn impressed with that guy. Well, there's a lot of other people tour as well other than me and Nas. Continue cycle all the way to Grik and we've been stopping at least every 2 gas stations to pump the air into my tube. Cuz of leakage somewhere. This is the 2nd tube and it's my last tube. I really screwed up in this tour the 1st day. Then we reached the edge of Grik! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Fck yeah! Haha! Then we was really near to the city. Then we reached the famous roundabout of Grik where it leads you to for main places of Peninsular Malaysia. So we went straight towards the small city of Grik. Suddenly, there were two dogs barking at us as we thought those dog was just going to bark at us to chase us out but then, they started to run for us and still barking. From 20kmh, i accelerated to 40kmh! I splitted ways with Nas, so that the dog will be confused to go for whom. I went the wrong side of the road and Nas went straight ahead. But the damn dog just had to chase me! I cycled till I cramped and my chain was stucked to the frame. I was just praying to god that the dog bite will not be as bad as it seems. But then suddenly, the dog didn't chase me and he went for Nas! Nas accelerated like fucking furious! And the dog chased him for a while and went back to the area where it was barking at us. We don't know what happened to the other dog. My leg was cramped to the max. I couldn't cycled! Pushed my bike to Nas where he stopped. We've been getting this chain stucked to the frame all the way from Butterworth. Started from Andy's house till Grik. Everytime Nas had to removed it and put it back where it belongs. Then we're all set and cycled slowly to look for a hotel. A real cheap hotel where we can stack out bikes as well. Checked in at Great Wall hotel in Grik. We pushed our bikes into our room. We reached at 5.30pm at Grik. We just lie down on the bed with the tiredness of all 14 hrs of cycling. Then we both took our turns of showering. We were refreshed with the shower taken. Watched the T.V. for a while. Then later, we had our dinner at in front of our hotel. We just eat and eat till we're maxed out. We've also discussed about tomorrow of getting a taxi from Grik to Jeli or Machang. The reason is because is Hari Raya Haji the next day. We didn't thought of that shops would be closed because of it. Really didn't came to our mind at all. Nas needs his H2O most of the time when cycling. So he needs shops to be opened for his H2O. Then we headed back to our hotel and watched about two movies on Starmovies. Nas wanted to wake up at 1130pm to have another meal for supper. We slept at around 930pm and the next thing we know we woke up at 7am. To be continued on my next post...

p/s: Cycled for about 130km today.

Grik To The Left.

First stop for breakfast. 10km before Baling.

Punctured in Baling.

The climb to Gunung Inas from Baling.

Nas said "Tak bergayalah takde spek".

Look at the uphill towards Pengkalan Hulu.

The view from Gunung Inas.

Nas having his rest at the top of Gunung Inas.

My bike on top of Mount Inas.

Repaired my rim here.

Heading out of Pengkalan Hulu towards Grik now.

Checking in at Great Wall Hotel, Grik.

Day 0: Touring From Taman Perda, Butterworth

My bike.

Nas's Bike.

It is the day before touring. I've been on Langkawi 3 days before the touring. I was fully excited and having pumped up adrenaline to cycle tomorrow. This is it. This is the time that I know how my body would actually stand up to where it should be. From Langkawi's Kuala Perlis jetty, I got into the car and couldn't wait to arrive at the Butterworth train station. I'm biting my lips. I'm gonna meet up with my touring friend, Nas. He's been in Penang since morning. He's with his friend named by Andy. He lives in Taman Perda. I've been there and hung out with cousin before. Hehe. Andy lives in an apartment. Oh my wtf, my english is like pure primary school english. WTF! Haha! Anyways, arrived at Butterworth train station and picked up by Nas. We both go and fetch my lovely bike from the KTMD. Oh my, it's a bit out of its form. My precious! Didn't care about that, so I just brought the bike over to "warungs" where Nas waited for me with Andy. I ordered my usual "Teh Tarik" and just talked about Langkawi and all the crap lah about my bike. Then I've said something about my bike's BB. It needs to be changed at Kulim. Well I told them if I was any earlier, I would have wanted to go and exchange my BB 1st before touring. Then Andy said go ahead lah, call the shop and ask them what time do they close at. And thank god the shop closes at 9pm. We all packed up, Nas paid for the drinks and we all straight went for Kulim. Bla, bla, bla, we exchanged the BB. Thanks to Abg Din VMC Technologies. He gave me such great pleasant service since my 1st purchase with him. Then we all went back to Taman Perda get out dinner 1st and buy stuffs that we needed tonight and tomorrow to be prepared for the touring. Yada, yada, yada, we're all at Andy's apartment. I did some minor adjustments to my bike with the help of Nas. Then we all just put the lights off and took our sleep. Day 1 will be on tomorrow at 3am. Will be posting the next post just after I get my pics from Nas camera. You don't wanna know what happened to my camera.