Friends of the Fellowship

Our Guide - Pasang Sherpa
Pasang - our very obliging, obedient and quiet 33 year old, single and available Sherpa guide. (very easy for us to rem his name cos in chinese, Pasang means climb mountain.) He's got a brother who married Hongkong gal. Super nice man. He's either in front or at the back of the pack. takes short cuts sometimes... we will see him walking below us near the river and the next moment, he will be up on the hill with us. he can read papers while he trekked! guess we are too slow for him. he will pause and watch the scenery sometimes to give us lead time.

Our Assistant Guide - Book
Book's our assistant guide who's also our porter. His nepalese name means Book in English. So we call him Book all the time. PTI describes him as gentleman. yes, agree with him. Will best remember him for "What Happened?" - when he helped take photo for us and the camera didn't click when he pressed the button cos the timer was set. he's also our hero cos he carried daisy's and my day pack up to ABC. Daisy will be eternally grateful to him cos he helped opened the road for her so that she has a safe snow descend down to MBC.

Our Porters
- Sanjay
our very shy, cool and young porter. Guess he's got the Jay in his name so has similar traits as Jay Chou. Sang for us Pi Lee Lee in the van during our day tour at Pokhara, wearing funky yellow pullover sponsored by Egwin. Strong man who put in his best to carry our bags. We gave him our fellowship's English scholarship. hm... am looking fwd to receive his letter one day. :) He fell ill just before our last day of trekking. he had fever but still continued to carry our bags. glad he was better after taking panadol without any allergic reactions.

- Anzana
our super cute and funny Anzana, wife of Book. saved my life several occasions - esp when those donkeys were pushing me down the cliff while i was trying to capture pictures of Daisy and Egwin with the donkeys. She will usu walk behind or beside me, my companion when the rest deserted me. Strong lady who carried PTI's bag, always offering to carry my day pack when i seem tired. We were all impressed by her agility... she wore slippers. There were steep downhills, streams, algae slippery stone steps, and slow painful ascends which she managed while carrying PTI's backpack. We did a cheers thing with our coke bottles and she did with her tin cup.

Our Favourite Shops
- Agfa Photo Shop owner
he deserves to be listed here. Am touched by his friendliness. Daisy and I spent an hour with him after a tiring day walking around Thamel. we took refuge at his shop after shopping when the weather turned cold. Chatted with him while we waited for our photos. We were treated to delicious milk tea and he gave each of us a Tibet photo he took. he's been to Everest base camp k. shall await his arrival to Singapore next year.

- Pashimina Shop Owner at Pokhara
super fierce man who turned out to be quite friendly after all... we were all stunned when he started throwing all his pashiminas on the floor and asking us to choose the colours. He has long hair and was quite big size. Decided not to buy from him cos of his fierceness. But turned out, his shop gave very good price like what he claimed and he is actually quite a nice man after all. much friendlier on our second visit.