Cameron Highlands
After Hari Raya, I joined some friends in Cameron Highlands, a hill station in Malaysia with large tea plantations. Although I got sick from fasting from food for a few days and then stuffing myself for the following week and then eating some really spicy indian food, I had a good time and the views were spectacular. A mutual acquaintance on the trip brought his gravity bike to ride down some hills. A friend and I took pictures of him from the back of a moving truck--kinda ridiculous and I felt absolutely absurd. A gravity bike, for those of you who are intelligent enough to avoid such a thing, is a bike that has been stripped of its bikeness. It is a bike that has been robbed of anything useful. It is a bike, essentially, for those who have time to engage in athletic pursuits yet do not want to take the energy to do so (ok I'm exaggerating for effect). If you would like to buy a gravity bike: simply purchase the most expensive bike you can find, remove the pedals, lower the seat, and put on some other shiny metal parts to make it look fast. Anyway, my friend and I (as soon as we saw the bike) could not stop laughing and making jokes. We were tactful about it so as not to offend, but man, this thing was hilarious. All you do is sit on the bike and ride down a hill letting the gravity take you down. Thats it! And they couldn't even come up with a better name to hide the true purpose of the bike. Unfortunately, I have no pics of it (was using a friend's camera) but I felt it worthwhile to blog about it. 'Nuf said.
Enjoy these pics of the tea plantation!