Let's keep climbing. If we do that, I believe we can meet again!!!

"I'm Ok if there's no sun..."

TLJ Takun Summit Expedition 2015 was planned on 19/04/2015. Which just past. Well, after all the hard work, the training, the effort of getting things prepared, the worries of the rain and weather...

The expedition didn't happen. One of the teammates just recovered on Friday. In the groupchat, I asked if he is ok to climb the 9 pitches.... And that was the answer I got. Getting out from the roof to climb a 200m route consist of 9 pitches and expect there's no sun... Isn't it easier to say, "Sorry, I don't think I'm fit to climb" rather than just putting the blame on the sun which shines everyday in Malaysia? So, when nobody wants to be responsible for failing to climb on the agreed date, "someone" has to be responsible at the end of the day so that someone else can say, "Well, I said I'm ok if there's no Sun, but HE decided to call it off."

And there you go, I decided to be the HE is this situation where noone wants to take the blame.

But as soon as I called off the expedition, there you go... He start asking people to join him in an Air-Conditioned Climbing Gym. Maybe, just maybe... Sweating in Aircond is still better than sweating under the sun especially when you just recovered from fever. I am in no medical expertise is justifying this fact... Just maybe.

Sometimes I wonder... 

Maybe it's just me, Wanting them to explore themselves more into the height. 

Maybe it's just me, expecting them to be excited about climbing a really long route like how excited I was 8 years ago.

Maybe it's just me, thinking that all the climbers wanted to climb high and see things from an angle they've never seen before.

Maybe it's just me, wanting to finish off whatever I've started

Anyway, the climb has been rescheduled to 9/5/2015. But I have not receive any definite response from either of them...

Maybe, if we fail to attempt again... the team isn't destined to summit Takun. Anyway, it's just a journey of 1 1/2 years with the team and nobody should feel any lost and be sorry about it. 

Whatever moment we've been through would still be precious and should be kept in a corner of our memory to remember all the great times we've had. Well, at least for me... 6.^

If my Colorado trip is a full stop to the second chapter of my climbing journey, lets meet again in some rock one day in chapter 3. My friend once told me,

Let's keep climbing. If we do that, I believe we can meet again!!! - Takuma, 30/03/2007

And that was the last time I heard from him. And I am very sure I will meet him again somewhere on the rock. Climbing.

Thanks for spending your precious time to read my ranting, if there's any reader. Till I write again, take care. 

timz