Batu Caves, Gombak.

If you've been following my blog entries, or if you're my friend, you'll probably know by now that I'm working as a Medical Rep.

So today I was in Gombak, met a few doctors before I break for lunch. And then after lunch, I drove my car to this road and I've no idea why I stopped at the junction there for so long and it took me a while to realise the smoke coming out from the adjacent car





I drove away just in case it explodes while debating if I should call the bomba. I parked my car at a corner and walked back towards that smoky car while the crowd builds up and the bomba's siren alarmed making its own grand entrance towards the car.




Everyone was keeping a distance just in case it explodes while the kepoh mk went nearer to take pictures of firefighters at work. Fuyoh!



I don't know what happened and Minghui said it could be a stolen car. The car was not locked and there's a hole on the top middle of the bonnet. And thats the part that's 'burning'. Actually its more like its corroded by acid, really.

Anyway, my point here is that I witnessed a live incident once again! (haha, though its not something that one should be happy about but at least I've seen it before)

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Went around Sri Gombak to meet doctors and in the end of the day, what's going to Batu Caves and not climb their ever-so-famous long steps right?



So yes, I went.

There were alot of pigeons on the floor and these pigeons are not human-phobia!



They're not like our usual pigeons who will fly off whenever human come near them. Note how close I was to them in order to take this shot.



Or rather, they all flock together and attack if you happen to hold food. Having them flying pass my face/head at the sight of food somehow reminds me of Sueli's Mudpie (sp?) story. They're quite aggresive!



Saw the red tiny stairs on the left hand side? Yeah, that's the super long flight of stairs that everyone has been talking about!

This is how it looks like when you go near them, the starting point of the mission to complete this flight of stairs.



On the way up you'll say hello to your monkey friends that will greet you.

Firstly, please meet Huge-Balls-Monkey.



Then, meet his bini (wife) and his family.



And I'd say that this is a close monkey community. They even watch over each other's back!



Yeah, that includes catching kutu (lices).

You can always camwhore on the way up also, just in case people don't believe you that you really went up.



1.. 2.. 3.. 4......................... 271.. 272.......... 273...



I made it up! 273 steps actually not really alot la. I don't get it why everyone think that its so hard to finish these steps. A not-so-fit people like me took only 10 minutes to get up there. I bet you can do better!







And the view from the top:



Actually the descending part's scarier than the ascending part. I tend to be so cautious bout "what if I miss a step and I roll down the whole thing like a Humpty Dumpy?"



Anyway, I made it down and I spent whole load of 1/2 an hour for the whole thing which includes taking lotsa photos.



Now I feel slight fatigue. Thanks to the short jog and then badminton yesterday. It's a real good experience I would say. I may need some Glucosamine now. LOL.