I just came back from Taman Negara and what i could say is "SPLENDID". On 24th November, i reached at school about 7 am. The weather was cloudy and drizzled a bit. We departed at about 8.30 am due to the late arrival of teacher, i guess. I wanted to sit in the bus actually but due to the overloaded people in the bus, i had no choice but to sit in the van. I felt happy after all because most of the L6S people were in the van except for Chan Fatt, Ching Tsin and Teng King. We had fun in the van and we also played "mafia" and "blaugh" to ease the boredom. We reached at our destination at about 3 pm.
Then we were to form our room mates and choose a hostel. Fortunately, my room mates (Zhuo Hao, Jun Fai, Kong Sime and me) chose Liana Hostel, which were better than the others. Opposite my room was 2 handsome New Zealand guy, Sime regarded them as 'brothers'. Wow, apart from us, the whole hostel were occupied by foreigners. I'm so lucky because i can peep at them everytime they passed by my room. After that, we were devided into 4 groups. I'm in the first group and my group consists of Victor (Ketua), Andrew, Siu Jeen, Zhao Ying, Ching Tsin, Pei San, Amanda, Chia Lit, You Xiang, Qing Li, Rex, Qi Xiong and me. The guide allocated to my group was Mr. Ah Tan (Hamizi). He is a handsome and experience guy (Amanda falled in love with him). He is very talented guy and i can only honour him. Then, our first activity started. It was an interesting game where each group had to build a the tallest building by using straws. Our group emerged as a champion because our building was the tallest and the strongest. They took 8 seconds to demolish our building, whereas the other groups we only took 2 seconds to demolish the building. Then, we had our bath. The water was damn cold and it fell like avalanche on my delicate skin. I was shivering all the time. At night, our dinner was just curry fish, cabbage, chicken and rice. At 8.30 pm, our second sctivity started - Night Jungle Walk. We had to take a boat to cross the river. Upon reaching the opposite shore, our guide, Mr. Ah Tan, gave us a short briefing. Soon after that, he took us into the BLACK FOREST. The first insect i saw was Stick Insect. Mr. Ah Tan gave us a lenghty explanation on Stick Insect. I'm so surprise that he knew a lot about insects, I think he is equivalent to Pn.Felicia, perhaps better than Pn.Felicia. We walked deep into the jungle. We saw spider, grasshopper, glowing mushroom, 萤火虫 and more. Suddenly, the howling of the wind went through the trees without end, the ruffle of the trees became visible. Seconds, minutes passed. The merciless cloud unleash its content onto the sanguinary-looking Earth. We had to make haste in order to finish our journey. We went up to a watch-house to view the panorama of the surrounding. I saw a deer drinking water at the nearby river. How rare is it to see a creature in the dark. I thought. When the rain had subsided, Mr. Ah Tan instructed us to move and it was the end of our journey. Then, we took a boat to go back to our hostel.
25 November 2008
I woke up in the unearthly morning when Zhuo Hau's hand phone alarm rang. Jun Fai was the one who wake up first. He went to do his morning call and after all the washing or bathing, he came back with his towel round his neck and he woke us up. "Ding Sheng, 起床啦。。。" he said in the coquettish tone, waving one side of his towel on my back. Cold shudder ran through my spine and i woke up promtly. At about 7.30, we all had our breakfast served. The toast bread was so stale and not crunchy at all. Then the fisrt activity of the day started. It was Jungle Trekking. We all had ourselves prepared and at about 9.00 am, we departed to the jungle. Again, our guide, Mr Ah Tan, lead us into the jungle. The first plant he introduced to our group was a Fever-curing plant. I remembered he said that the root of that plant could reduce fever. Later, Mr. Ah Tan showed us Tongkat Ali and female herbs ( I forgot the name), tallest tree in the jungle, anticeptic plant, blood clotting plant and plant that could produce sound.. Still, he gave us lenghty explanation despite the hot weather. Anyway, learned a lot from him. Soon, we reached to the peak of the jungle (not peak actually, but it was really high). I saw the magnificent scenery of the jungle. Gleams of sunrays shone onto my countenance and i felt like i was going up to heaven. We had our rest and repast for a moment then we continue our journey up to a higher level. Eventually, we reached to the peak of the jungle ( I guess). Again, I saw magnificent view of the nature. We spent about 15 minutes there. Afterthat, we returned back followed the original trails. We reached the opposite shore where our hostel situated. Suddenly, rumours about the missing Caleb spreaded and everyone was taken aback that Chia Lit was missing. It was inconceivable that Chia Lit could get missing. A small commotion began. Yuk Hoong was worrying about Chia Lit and the accumulation of anger in his heart made him as wild as a lion, as i could perceive. Finally, Chia Lit came back without being shocked and he was OK. Later that afternoon, about 3.oo pm, we had our rapid shooting game. This was the most interesting activity of all.
