A lady Teachers involvement in out door activities ( an escapism and self healing therapy )

      Human beings categorized based on their family back ground or who their parents or siblings are. Being the 8^th child in a family of  nine siblings and as far as I can recall my childhood days, my dad was an explorer. I still remember, roughly when  I was five year old dad came back from his Sounthern Thailand tour and with his group photo with his peers , I mean The Tenaga Nasional , once known as CBE and later as LLN. Dad has good friends who at least once or twice a year will travel in car to almost all the parts in Peninsular Malaysia.

  

   

      All my dads children , we nine of us some how inherit his  nature. Al most all us travel yearly and we go on exploration and expedition. The first in the family to conquer Mount Kinabalu almost twenty five  years ago was my  second brother with his badminton team members of  Ipoh Perak. Followed by my 4th brother. The other brothers more interested to explore and to go on tour.

      

   Being my dads 2^nd youngest child, I  too inherit my dads favorite interest same  as my  2^nd sister.

     Year 2012 was the year , I will not for get in my life, where in this particular year , I participated  in  Indian open  Veteran athletics meets in Bangalore in march 2012 and in January the same year with my 2^nd  elder sister I conquered Mount Kinabalu for the first time in my life.

       We trained for almost three months with the regular other climbers to prepare our self for the climbing. Almost every week we hiked Bukit Kledang Indah in Ipoh, which is about 800m meter from sea level and  The hills around  Teluk batik almost two to three hills we  hiked one half day around six hours of non stop walking and climbing from Sitiawan town until we reach the beach side and continued going up the hills.

      
   

Roof  of mount Kinabalu

Our months  intensive training  was fruitful and the most successful or something to be proud of our climb was two members in my team, one was a twelve year old girl and the other one is 59 year old woman, thats my sister. Both of them successfully reached the Summit of Lows Peak and we managed to take shots. Thats the  success of my whole team.

       All of us reached the peak around 6 am and I was very happy to see the  golden ball going up  in the sky , I mean the sun was like a golden ball rising with his beautiful rays , and it was exactly 6.10am and it was a memorable moment in my life.

   

      My second expedition was in year 2014, when I reached the summit successfully with the Keninggau Sabah, teacher trainers and with  the trainees. Several lecturers from other teacher training colleges were there with us, only two secondary school teachers in the team ,  my self and the other one  from Penang, Mr. Thiagarajan. Both of us  and the rest of them are lecturers and college students.