First of all, I would like to apologise to my readers for late updating my blog. Currently, I am busy about my tight schedule. Besides that, I am downloading the photos from Min Shen to share with others. It take some time for me to handle such a large amount of photos which include the photos of 3 days 2 nights camping trip. The total original size of photo is estimated about 700MB. Furthermore, I need to sort out which photo to be post in my blog.
DAY 1 I started my day with Facebook. As usual I will login to Facebook to check my farm (Country Story) , my mouse (MouseHunt) , my fish (Fish Ville), my ship (Battle Station), Mafia Wars and others application. I do believe that Facebook had the strength to attract people to continuous online for the rest of their life. Without Facebook my life was dull and boring. I just need some entertainment to boost up my spirit and get up to work. Even other online games such as Maple Story , Gunbound , XDO , Dota and others will lose to Facebook because I do facebooking before I play other games. After facebooking, I went to read story books and newspaper and also had my breakfast. Not long after, I went back to online until 1.30pm ++. Then I went to fetch Weng Yan and arrived at school about 1.55pm. There were 23 Rakan Mudas excitingly awaiting to leave the school. Ten of them were boys while the rest were girls. My jopurney to Malacca starts at 2.15pm.. Oops !! I had forgotten what time we reached Taman Botanikal , Ayer keroh , Melaka. I'm so sorry about that . >.<
DAY 2 I woke up at 5.30 am but I went back to sleep until 6.00 am. Che Lim and I went to bath after we woke up. At the beginning the water was very cold until I felt like bathing in a freezer. However, I felt energise and cool after my bath. Its been a long time since the last time I bath at 6.00am. Everyone gathered at a spot at 7.00am. Then Syarifuddin led us with warm up exercise. We did varies type of exercise such as lari setempat , jumping star and so on. We were also taught about '' grenade and clear '' . When our coaches say grenade we need to lie on the ground and we only allow to stand if our coaches said clear. This was like some sort of military training. XD. All the boys must obeyed a simple rule. Remember to tug in your shirt in your pants. Then , everyone had to jog for a round before having our breakfast. After that we need to gather again at the same spot. I asked Nicholas to accompany me to the toilet before we went for the gathering. Then , I realised that my shirt was out from the pants and I told Nicholas to tug in his shirt as well on the way to the gathering spot. When we reached there , I saw Suresh , Asthen and Che Lim got punishment and were standing aside from others. Meanwhile, the coach saw me and Nicholas were tugging in our shirt and we got caught as well. Neither do I nor Nicholas explained to the coach that we went to toilet a minutes ago. I would like to apologise to Nicholas for causing him to get involved as well. Yeah its time for punishment. Haha Suresh , Asthen , Nicholas , Che Lim and I gonna performed a home made kungfu style , TUMBUK TIKUS. ^^ Furthermore, Min Shen recorded a video about this performance. The video was about 3 minutes but the file size was about 220 MB. OMG such a high quality video. xD ... Five of us laugh out our heart throughout the performance. Don't pray pray. We did know about kungfu. TUMBUK TIKUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Hahahahahaha........................ Next event was jungle trekking. Our coaches gave a simple briefing about it. In the middle of the jungle , we were required to cross a small pond with the water level as high as my neck. We had to hold on a rope while crossing the pond. I did enjoy and wanted to try again. Luckily there is no leeches hang on my body. No long after , we reached a muddy area. Our coaches told us to put the mud on to our face. Awwww its stink XD... Haha I was inspired and had gut to do so after I saw Asthen doing it easily. Our journey continues.... Then we saw an uncle. His name is En. Ishak.... He teaches us about herbal that can be found in jungle. He also told us to eat some kind of leaves...... I did not dare to eat because my hand was full with mud ... Instead of concentrating on what he told us, I scratched and wiped slowly my face with my hand to remove the mud stain. By the time he finished his lessons about herbal , my face was as clean as before. XD.. Yeah we are back to Taman Botanikal and its time for orienteering. There were 4 groups. We were taught how to use a compass and our mission is to find the spot given the coordinates of the spot.My team only managed to find 5 out of 6 spot. I think we did a great job ^^ Then lunch time......................... Bad things happened before lunch. Three of the boys went missing. They went to bath without informing anyone. Therefore, they got punishment and delayed our lunch time. Besides that, I had no appetite to eat as my body was wet and smelly.
The next activity is about water. I do believe most people enjoy playing with water. When we reach the destination , our coaches brief to us about kayaks. Then it starts to rain heavily. While waiting the rain stop, we got a chance to learn about how to tie different type of knots using ropes. Rain stopped after 30 minutes and its time for water confident activity. Everyone was thrown in the middle of water. Then we started to float because of life jacket. Its was my first experience in water. At first I was nervous and panic, then my friends calm me down and I start to get used to it. We must backstroke until we reach a safe spot. Hahaha I'm the last person who reach the safe spot.Actually I could reached the spot faster but I decided to stay longer in the water and learned how to control my leg when backstroking from Che Lim. It was fun to stay in water. Next lesson, was dragon boat. Our coaches introduce dragon boat to us and told us that the key to victory in this event is teamwork. I suffered minor injury on my right hand while paddling . After that we could finally had our bath........ Weeeeeeeeeeeeee fresh and clean water......... ^^ After bath , we had our dinner and I'm hungry as I eat a little bit during lunch time. Then our coaches gave us ''lisan'' test. OMG !!!!!!!!!! I hate it...... =.= I simply came out with an idea and start to bullshit nervously. Thankz god for raining heavily because my tent got wet. All Malays ran and slept at the canteen while Che Lim slept with Asthen , Suresh and Nicholas. I was happy because I got a chance to sleep alone peacefully. Wonderful ^_^ Less man more share... Thats really great .... However my sweet dreams end at 3.00am. Its my shift to look after othe tents with Che Lim until 4.00am. Then Che Lim went back to sleep but I decided to stay awake with Nicholas from 4.00 am til 5.00 am. Then I went back to sleep once again. Thats the end of my second day.
Day 3Once again I woke up at 6.00am. All of us had our breakfast and its time for us to pack our tent.Then, we kept our bag in a van. Next we head back to the park yesterday that we went there to play water. Today had nothing to do with water. We were going to do wall climbing. Yahoooooooooo I had never tried that before. ^.^ Another challenging yet enjoying activity to do.The artificial wall that we are going to climb is about 15 metre high. I only managed to reach 10 metre. Only 2 boys managed to reach the top and Weng Yan was the highest climber for girls. Gratz to those who perform well. I'm quite satisfied for my performance becuase this was my very first experience. Madam Heratini promised to give present to those 2 boys and Weng Yan for their great performance. Glory to SMKSS. After the tiring activity, we were given about half an hour to dress up nicely before attending the closing ceremony. Instead of using the time to clean up ourselves, me , Suresh , Che Lim and Weng Yan went to play around the nearby playground. Min Shen walked around to take photos about flowers. I think Nicholas and Asthen were together chatting. Then all of us went to the closing ceremony. Before the closing ceremony starts, our coaches taught us two more games to prevent us from yawning in the hall. Its was fun and interesting. However, I'm sorry that I couldn't explained the game through words. Everyone was given a certificate and we had our lunch after the closing ceremony. Thats was the end of our 3 days 2 nights trip. Now we were given back to our SMKSS teachers once again. MARET coaches no longer incharge on us anymore. On the way back to SMKSS, Madamc Heratini requested the bus driver to stop at a souvenir shop. She gave us 40 minutes to shop around the area. Then we started to head back to our school and arrived at school at 5.15pm. Then Madam Heratini gave us some rewards, bag , t-shirt and a pen. Last but not least, we gathered together and took a happy family pictures. I was excited, happy, satisfied and exhausted. This is one of my greatest experience I ever had. I will never forgot the sweet moments throughout this camping trip for the rest of my life ^.^
Do you know that, I spent almost 6 hour to write this experience in a piece of paper before editing it and post it on my blog. I think it really worth my time being spent to share this experience with everyone. For those who did not attend this camping trip I can guarentee they had made a biggest mistake in their life. Nothing could replaced such a great and wonderful experience. Even the mosquitos and insects loved me a lot. My pair of hand were full with mosquitos and insects bite. I even got few more mosquito bites after I went home.
Next post will be the greatest moments captured by our photographers Min Shen , Weng Yan and teachers. I hope that my readers will enjoy reading this post despite such a long story
SUMMARYProgram Perkhemahan Sukarelawan Maret Muda Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur 2009 Place : Botanical Garden, Ayer Keroh, MalaccaDate : 1/12/09 - 3/12/09 (3 days 2 nights)Reward : 2 bags, 1 shirt, 1 pen, 1 certificate, life time experienceNumber of participant : 23 people and 2 teachersMARET - Malaysian Recreation Emergency Team
MARET divided to 3 category :
a. MARET PENYELAMAT
b. MARET AHLI BIASA
c. MARET MUDA
