Cycling at Shah Alam Botanical Garden

It's been over a decade since I really go cycling. I used to cycle to school during my secondary school years because the school is near to my house.


Cycling in a morning is a pleasant thing to do, imagine the cool morning breeze on your face and a road with not much traffic that will run you down. But cycling after school in the afternoon or whenever it's raining is not a pleasant thing.

With so many years of cycling back and forth to school and tuition centers, I used to have some muscles on my legs one, don't play play.

But since I got my motorbike license and car license, cycling is the last thing I want to do, you know lah, lazy ma, some more not cool if your friends are riding a motorbike and you are cycling like hell behind trying to keep up.

Since I started work I noticed that I no longer have my leg muscles, and I am slowly turning into a Michelin Man. So in order to return to my glory days, I decided to give cycling a try at the Shah Alam Botanical Garden.


The Botanical Garden is basically erm... a botanical garden with lots of trees, flowers, hills, and ponds.

Dragon fruit plants

A run down pool

Nothing special caught my eyes except for some cute animals in the mini zoo area.

Dried leaves also eat, I think they didn't feed those deers well enough

Satay Rabbit and KFC

I rented a bicycle and went on to prove that I can still cycle a long way.

My ride

When I got my bicycle I was amazed that the bicycle was equipped with 21 gears, and you can shift up the gears using a button, like a sports car using paddle shift gearchange, si pek high tech. I still remember the time my bicycle was equipped with only 10 gears and it was the best in Kangar already...


At first I thought that the roads in the botanical garden was flat and straight, too wrong.

If all the roads were like this...

The road was kind of steep uphill and I had a hard time cycling up, even with the lowest gears. I cycled like half an hour and I am too tired to go on, so I had to admit that I am no longer as fit as before and came down from the bicycle and push the bicycle uphill.


So embarrassing whenever there were people riding past me on a uphill road, damn.

I made up my mind already, whenever I am free on a weekend I'll go cycling or swimming, to exercise so that I can be as fit as Arnold.

My blog post for today ends here, not free now, got to go online purchase movie tickets for the weekend, have to postpone my Arnold plan, got nice movie ma.