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i'm boycoting blogger for a bit for google riping me off with addsence.
sorry.

jhor bhru

i had a pounding head ach, couldn't find my sun glasses, legs were aching from riding all yeaterday, and got a late start.
had some places i could have cheked out in town, and up the east and west costs..
fuck it, took the train to kl.
i'll blab about ita bit in the blife blog..

singapore to jhon bharu (spelling?)

so last night was intresting, bloged about it a bit in my blife blog, sleapt suprisingly ok, got up in the morning chatted with some folks (i guess the beniffet of a dorm type set up, i supose in my future travels i'll be hitting those places more often as i go to more expencive countrys)
anyways chattd with some folks and then took off to check some stuff out.
hit the raffles hotel, a old 1900's pith hat and white linnen suit place, kinda neat it's been around for ever and still has a tad of that feel, cheked out there musium, and poked around in there overpriced girt shop for something for my girl without much luck, at that point i relized i was just about out of singapore $ and was hoping to avoid hitting an atm again due to stupid servis charges.
net i whent to the long bar at thesame hotel, reminded me verymuch of the bar in bermies days, had a singapore sling, it's the bar it was created in, that was a bit weird seeing how i don't drink, and it's been quite some time since i had drank at all, but no biggie. from there i when out and it was poring outside so i sat under an overhang for awhile and finaly just set out, i don't have the time to wait around, though after the jungel i was a bit sick of being soggy all teh time , fucking squishy shoes ect...
but the rain let up soon, and i continued south,, from what i could figure out on my map if i whent south till i hit the bottem on the islan and then headded weat i would come across haw nag villa (selling/name?) it's the end result of the tigerbalm fouturen) but on the ride there my eye calugt sight of a sigen "secret tunels".... "SECRET TUNNELS!!" i shout and startel some folks at a bus stop.. i can't just pass that by, so i head into a park inserch of some tunnels and forafcations that had been lost/forgoten about for about 60 years,, they just found them in the last few years.
the entrinces i found were locked up.. poo, not that i think i could have braved going in along too far by myself, into the creepy pitch black..
i wated around for a tour, but when the time carm for the tour they just changed the time to the next future hour.. weird, but they let me just go in and look around, which was cool becase i really didin't have the cash to spare for a tour. it was disapointing, but still a undergound bunker, so still kinda neat.
after that i spent an hour or so serching for the haw nag villa, , it was neat, very gaudy, and very very vibrant, i asked some people to take a few photots of me with the weird satues ect, but then i took off for the sinces center for teh lernado davinci exibet. it was a long ride, i cant' belive my legs still hurt peddling, after alll therse kilos.. wtf
the exibit was a bit disapointing, alont of the mecanisims (recrations) had do not touch things on them, though you could tell they were made to be used so you could see how they work. but really you can't take the designs of a genious and 1/2 ass build them, it's not like they were built really crappy, but his designs deserve to be pin stankingly created by masters..
all and all ok, think it would probaly been a bit cooler to just check out the regular center, but it's probaly the same as the exploritorim.. really all of singapore felt like sf, not ina bad way, but just like most the things to do were expencive and i could do them at home..
at that point it was 6pm, i had the choice to try to peddle to mylaisa or head back to little india and try to find a bed, and seee if i could trade work for a bed, or just hit an atm and get outa tiny amout.. err..
fuck it, so i started peddling north.. needed to cover the whole island south to north (not a huge feat)
i finaly get to the border, there were 1000's of motorcycles crossing, sitting in lines of ass to tip scooters, for about an hour.. not fun, and when i fainaly get to the gate im at the wrong place, even though it's were i was tonld to go by the cops.. err, thats just the way it gos, and after awhile of bull shit i really didn't pay much atention to they let me pass to have to navagate twisty hilly concreat over under wrily pases to teh malaysin side of imagrations where they give me the same run around, but at this side every motorcycle is laying on there hor the whole time, and madly swerving around like a fucking rino is chasing them... fcking stupid insae.. whats the rush ass holes.. so tryig the compunacate witht eh imagaration people over thousands of reving engins blaring hors and squiling tires as everyone is barly avoiding smashing into eachouther..
bla,,
but i got into town on this side, got an over priced hotle room, but for somereason there all expencive here. 50rm compared to 15rm at some of the shabber guest houses i've satyed at,, but oh well, it's cheaper that if i stayed in singapore another night.. tomorow..? no idea, say a dance school on the way in i'd like to cheak out, but in reality i should just get biking, or on the train nort to KL, so i can start training, and serch for some sailing lessons..
bla, pooped thats all for now, hope it was somewhat intresting to read..

jerantut to tama negura

today i started out early and headed back to the restarant where the guys were so nice the night before, took awhile to get my berrings, it's a crazy town, but found it ok, felt bad about not making it the night before, but was a bitt worryed to ride in the dark for a few reasons, and wasn't too sure which way was witch.
got some food (after sitting in the restrant for over an hour trying to convince them to feed me, still can't speak any, err)and booked on over the the pier where i'll take a boat up to tama negura forset. 150 million years old, the preavious ice ages didn't get this far, i think it's from after the last snowball earth, too fucking cool!
it'll be good give my ass a few days to recouprate..
going to go and try to add some photos to some older blogs..

Gua Musang to Jerantut

I took of early in the moring arund 7, not as early as i would have liked but it was going to be a mellow relaxing day maybe 80km or something.. well the first milage marked was saying 120km , crapsticks but still not too bad, can't really take any real breaks, but keeping a slow but stedy pace i should be fine.
(ok seems this jank ass computer dosen't want to work with my camra.. so no pictures for you.)
anyways was biking my happy ass along, stopped to scavance off a bumper o the side of the road when a super friendly trucker stoped and insisted i ride with him



to the next town. so why not..
he was super nice and we talked a bunch, then he wanted me to go on to KL with him but i was preaty set on getting into the jungle so he droped me off ata road heading to Jerantut saying it was only 30 km.. it was 60.
so once again there i am riding all fucking day into the pitch dark night.. now getting chased by monkeys
and have givven up to just pushing the bike up the ass steep hills.
like this one..


and it keeps going...
and going....



i'm fucking worn out.

but at the end i was able to cling on to logging trucks and get pulled up a bit of the way, but it was kinda scary
tonight i go to check out a Silat class, tought the last thing i want to do is spend any time on that bike.
esp after spending al this morning riding looking for the old town area here.
tired.. very tired, but at least i think tomorow the ride should only be about 30km then i can park and take a boat up the jungle river.
hopfully find a few day trek. the i think roll on the train for a bit while i let me ass heal.
theres a buch of photos i tok to add to this, but the coumpter is acting twitchy, and has probaly given my camra a virus..
eh, going to work on relaxing today! going to go see if anyone has emailed..
till next time.

Kota Bharu to Gua Musang

eek.
I started out at 6:30, got up earlier but thats what time I started biking south.
got to Kuala Krai about noon. it seemed silly to stop so early in the day to i continued onto Gua Masang, where i'd have more than just one over priced choice of were stay.
about 15 hours in all (220km), through heavy rain fall, up and down steep hills, up and down and up and up and up.
all was fine in till i had about 40k left to go, it started dumping rain. my shoes filled up into soggy buckets.
every huge truck that barreled by sprayed my with foul road grime.
and it seemed like it was all up hill from there.
at about 20k to it was pitch black. and my left knee was giving me trouble.
10k till the city and i was fueled by pure frustration at myself.
it was one of the hardest things i think i've ever done, i think that my only restricting factor was myself was the problem, if my legs started to give out on me on a steep hill i'd just get pissed at myself.
finaly rode into town but turned the wrong way so spent a few hours looking in the wrong area, but fianly found a dingy musty room for not too much..
but now my left knee is feeling all crunchy, 1/2 my left hand is just numb. really hope I'm not doing permanent damage, if these don't get better may just have to ditch the bike.
I took today off to try and dry out my gear, recover and try and fix/adjust my bike which is a little worse for ware.
tomorrow I'll try to ride to Kuala Lipis, body don't fail me now.
yesterdays ride was beautiful, and interesting, should have brought my camera to the Internet to try and post some pics, though that was a compleast failure last time i tryed..
tomorrow I'm going to the worlds oldest forest. which wasn't effected in the previous ice ages..
I don't remember how many hundreds of millions of years old (or thousands of years if your a christen) I hope to get to do a few day trek into it, all the cool reclusive animals stay away from the edges (as far as i could make in a few days) but still would be nice to be surrounded in ancient rain forest..

still having tons of problems with the cell connection.. so rairly can get online with that, so no one the road updates.

this town is a trip very middle east feeling with all the ladys in veils and the call to prair over pa's, and script from the Koran posted everywhere...

nappy rash, thailand into mayla

ok, i had a simple plan,
train to the border, hang out at the border and traid guide books with someone going the outher way and figure it out from there..
no problem right...
fucking wrong!
no one.. i meen no one was going the outher way.
i wated around for an hour.. not a singel person..
biked around town, no one outher the people who had been on the train with me.. and they all looked at me ike i was insane
bnack to the borded to wait arund mpore.
nothing
look around the litle border town..
nothing,
ok, fuck
well, i'd guess if i bike to th next closer town, which will be bigger i an find something, someone...
so i start rideing.. its' about 11am, I haven't eaten except somesnaks i brought with e on the train.
so i'm riding, i've got no guid book, o i don't know whre i'm going, or it'll be more thna donky there, no mayla money, so can't stop for a snack. have seen no atms.
don't know a lick of the langae... and here i am..
biking past police check points and women ni ful black vails crap what have gotten myself into./.
after a few hours find some police who tell me to go to a difrent city.. so after about 4 hours of biking i come to a small town,, abut where the killo making say the town i'm looking for is.
check the book store nothng.. and the people there say it's the only opne around.
back and forthe nothng..
find a atm ad it makes a angry ound at my card and sez fuc no
now its raining preaty heavly..
but i find a 7/11 and i get some $ from the atm, so a soda and i find an internet caffee.
but i try to find out about where i am and there say long pants and long shirt are must ...
and then i'm told i'm nt even in the right town..
fuck..
so i bike on.
another hour or so.
get to a bigger city, 1/2 of everything is closed..
toursem office closed.
book store closed.
so if i rie around long enough i'll find something..
couple hours of that nothing..
try a few difrent shops. nothing..
finaly when i'm sitting in fromt of a small book shop that i had gone to hours before, and thy said they don't have anything ad tough luck for me..
the old lady look out and can see i look misrble aso tells me f a mall.
at this point i'm just fuckn bummed. i had ar\lready spent the majority of the day ass scared, confused an ost.
i bnike arund fr a long time and finaly find the mall. and after too long tryng to get through corows. faind an overprice guide book, but at least i can try nd fnd a room now.
out side i loose my bike for bout 1/2 an hour.. finaly find it in time for the rni to just dump down, then spend the next 4 hours lost trying to find the gust houes.. but i do get some food now that i'm nolonger too pised to eat.
late at night, in the dark i find a room.
after 12 hours of serching.
today i spend about 4 hours looking or internet, finaly at the tourest center that was pen this time they let me use the computyer in the lobbby.
tomorow i head south west to KL.
i'll bike for a fw days then get train i think..
eh.
so thats that, or at east some of it.

at least today i got to poke around at an arrmored car..

oh yea, and i've got nappy rash, awesome..