updates!

had an exciting expedition holiday in m'sia from 2nd to 5th Jan. technically it was supposed to fulfil our NYAA Gold Adventurous Journey section, but now i'm not too sure. nevertheless, the trip was AWESOME! i'm not really into describing evry itsy bitsy detail rite now, and i'm all too lazy to upload pictures (in fact i don't even have a single 1), BUT i will briefly go thru the major events for the trip.

so we met on the evening of the 2nd, and we took a bus to JB. we transferred to a train tt very nite, and chug'ed the nite away to ipoh (or near thr). couldn't really get to sleep on the train, especially when the train stopped moving. lol!

reached the right train stn on the morning of the 3rd, then we had to take a mini-bus up the mountains/hills to Gopeng Rainforest Resort. quickly dumped our stuff down, packed our daypack, and we were off for some WHITEWATER RAFTING. woohoo! well it was raining the whole day, even b4 we started rafting, so the river was like EXCITING (and thankfully not too dangerous). whitewater rafting was a hell lotta fun, especially for the 1st half of the river course, where the rapids were really big and violent. the raft i was in got stuck at the rapids twice. and it was dam tough to get it back on course. very fun though. the only bad parts were tt i didn't manage to fall into the water (coz i sat too far in on the raft), and the raining weather (which made the river water C-O-L-D... and nearly eveything else cold as well).
lunch was immediately aft rafting, under some shelter. got a lil drier, but still felt v cold. brr... anw the ride on the pick-up to our lunchpoint (and also to many other points thruout the trip) was like some GAME for many of us - avoid the leaves and branches!
after lunch, we went caving. everything was kinda boring till we came to a point where we had to abseil down this rather steep wall. from there, things got more challenging. it became really pitch dark, and we were required to bend low/crawl through certain sections. dark, mosquitoes-filled, and an uneven rocky ground. simply amazing. hahaha!
the evening/night was spent slacking at the resort, playing table-tennis, mahjong, carrom, cards and chess.

The next day, we had some forest trekking to find a rafflesia flower. the trek wasn't too bad, typical actually. muddy, slippery, and a lil rough at some point. but there was 1 very interesting thing abt the trek. evry1 spent 99% of the time looking at their legs; looking out for bloodsucking LEECHES! didn't really manage to spot them initially, coz they were tiny (imo). but aft viviana got bitten, i knew what to look out for. haha! anw despite wearing longs, socks and covered shoes, i still got bitten. those nasty little squishies managed to bite through my socks and drink my precious blood! Peter, junliang, james, and guodong were the worst i must say. blood blood and more blood!
went for some WET fun in the afternn by playing at some waterfall. didn't really spend much time thr, coz we didn't have much to spare. lol.
left the resort in the late aftnn n took the train from ipoh all the way back to s'pore. talked with shawn, peter and ciyi for a long long time on the train. abt scouts stuff.

5th Jan. we reached the train station at harbourfront at ard 8.30am. had breakfast at Mac's, then we walked the nature trails. walk and walk. rested in between. but tt's abt it. no mood to write anymore. hah!

go to facebook for the pictures. shawn uploaded em. hehe.

tmr's (today rather) gonna b an exciting day.
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