On 24 September 2005, I set my own personal record of walking from my little home in PJ Old Town all the way to KL to my Korean class. All times are recorded using my cellphone stopwatch function. Here are the details of the long walk, although I do not know specifically the distance that I've travelled
- 00:00:00.00
Started my stopwatch. Time shows 9:35am (+0800 GMT) on a bright sunny (and hot) Saturday. I was using roads in Section 3 which is not the usual path that I use to walk to the train station to work. There are a lot of sudden decision of road used in this whole journey. - 00:14:18.79
Reached Road 3 of Section 1 behind Inai Court off Jalan Templer. This is the point which I turn left instead of going straight to the train station. This particular time is clocked to see how long does it take me to take the same path again next time when I go to work. - 00:31:51.35
After walking through Petaling Garden via Section 1A, I reached the KL/PJ border at Gasing Indah. Done a sudden change of usual path as mentioned previously, but headed to a Cul-de-sac and required a U-turn. Gasing Indah is where my buddy, Jian is staying (on the KL side). Guess that he wasn't at home when I was there judging that there was not a single car spotted anywhere. - 01:09:48.14
Walking round Gasing Hill via the controversial road that connects Pantai Dalam to Gasing Indah, I reached Angkasapuri's main entrance. For anyone who is going to walk from Pantai Dalam to Angkasapuri, please use the PJ-KL side of the NPE as the other side of the road, there is no foot path. The availability of foot path by the express way is one of the reason why I chose this route. It is straight and flat but you have to endure the hot sun shining with no obstacle to provide shade. Oh, before I forgot, you can view Petronas Twin Towers and KL Tower from here. On a clear day (just like mine), you can view the silhouette of Genting Highlands as well. - 01:30:24.30
This path to Bangsar LRT is rather straight forward and no other short cut to take. Just walk straight Jalan Bangsar, and voila. The station is just less than 20 minutes ride from Taman Jaya LRT took me one and a half hour to reach. Here, I do a "shortcut" using the pedestrian bridge to cross the Kommuter track and walk under the track of ERL to reach my destination -> Brickfield. - 01:45:32.56
It did not take long to reach Brickfield and within 15 minutes walk from Bangsar LRT, I reach the road outside KL Sentral. It is quite tempting to take the Monorail, given the fact it is right in front of me and a scorching hot day. - 02:08:31.20
After a continous 2 hours of walk, I finally reached my initial target of walking to KL from home, Central Market. Walking to KL from home technically only requires me half and hour as stated above. Central Market is the best indicator of really reaching down town KL for most people, especially when you take a bus. Area around Central Market is the de facto definition if one is saying he or she is going to KL. - 02:14:36.93
From Central Market, I walked straight to Burger King near Masjid Jamek for my lunch. The French Chicken did not taste as good on that day, and I was quite surprise and dismay that that particular outlet has a smoking section. I did not check out the smoking section upstairs, but from the look of it, the non-smoking section is so small. This reminds me of the McD in Paris where they smoking section has more seats that the non-smoking, only difference is the smoking section is located downstairs. - 02:38:10.12
Done eating and time to walk to my language centre in Bukit Bintang. Again, I took a detour into Changkat Raja Chulan instead of the usual path that I used. It is a good decision indeed, where I noticed it connects to Changkat Bukit Bintang, where I had my birthday celebration with my friends. - 03:07:46.04
Finally, I was in KL Plaza. My T-shirt is completely wet and I walked straight to the toilet to get changed. Before I headed to my classroom.
