Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

I had always wanted to visit the Bukit Timah Nature, partly because it's slightly embarassing when my overseas clientele and friends ask for comments about the place. Couldn't tell them how I've been too lazy to be hiking.
We almost missed it again today. Had a late night out yesterday (as usual). My best friend Jo called at 3 to ask if we could postpone the trip and I said 'NO! I've had it planned for 2 weeks and we need to go!'
We went... me excited and fresh. Jo had her doubts about how fun it would be. As we arrived at the visitor centre, there were 4 different routes to choose from. Being amateurs, we chose the 2nd route. It took us 20 minutes to reach the summit of the 163m. hill. My feet was warmed up.. never had an uphill walk in quite awhile.
Along the way, huge amounts of rainforests sheltered us from the humidity. There were lots of interesting trees. ALthough I had to admit I was constantly looking at the ground trying my best not to fall into a mudpool.
As we headed down, I saw an interesting jungle trail that looked like it might lead us to the entrance in no time. I was pretty wrong. Awfully wrong. It was the beginning of the real hike.. So real that Jo almost wanted me to call for an ambulance. =)
I thought it was pretty fun.. although I feel an aching body now. We walked through neverending flights of steep steps, hopped from rock to rock to avoid the mud, and eventually had to live with the mud and just hope that we were not sliding down the forests.. although Jo had a slight scare on one of those unfortunates slides.
I never felt that wet since my high school days. What lasted for 30 minutes ended in 2 hours, as we finally found our way back to the entrance. I'm glad they had shoe-cleaning facilities. I was pretty sure no cab would like to fetch 2 slumpy bad-smelling girls.
I'm glad I did it.. It was one of the very few healthy activities that I've done over the past month.. I was too busy eating, drinking, and gobbling into ice-cream. Hopefully this detox session's impact would last me through a week =)