On Monday, 22nd of September, I was supposed to go for this Student Welfare Committee Trip(SWC) to Dusun Eco in Pahang. Somewhere past Genting I think. I'll probably blog about SWC some other time too. Anyway, due to the fact that my exams just ended 2 days before the trip, I was still rather stressed and worried about failing any subjects so I wasn't really looking forward to going. Many others were also whining about the RM150 fee that we had payed for the trip and worried about leeches and all since we were going to some "jungle jungle" sort of area.
I was so so wrong about the trip going to be boring.
Once people saw that, they were all rushing to take his photo. It was so bad I tell you! XDWe left TARCollege in the wee hours of the morning. Which was bout 10am, when everyone is still groggy and light headed. Traveled by TARC bus along a long stretch of road, gravel and stone. For a moment several of us were worried as the TARC bus struggled along the sloping road while Genting buses were cruising by effortlessly. Finally, we reached this sandy, barren area with just a small hut in the middle of nowhere. There was a similar cry from the majority of the 23 of us that went for the trip the minute we stepped off the bus.
OMG OMG! Maxis NO signal!
Digi too! Yellow man can't come to Dusun Eco ah? Celcom le?
Hey... one bar one bar. still can SMS
Digi too! Yellow man can't come to Dusun Eco ah? Celcom le?
Hey... one bar one bar. still can SMS
It was also here that I discovered one of my CHS friend, Kar Heng, has 6 toes.
Nothing unusual here right?
Nothing unusual here right?Anyway, soon after, we found out we had to take this lorry up this long and windy and steep path uphill to the actual Dusun Eco Resort place I know right... Dusun Eco RESORT sounds so comfortable and all.
Everyone struggling off the lorry. A little dizzy and disorientated of course.
Camwhore with the bags!!! (Notice the nice scenery)
My presence intimidates him. Apparently he intimidates himself too...
Mun Hoe - Eh?! Whats this?!
Anson- This is my wife la stoopid.... =.=" (ok, so they probably weren't really related. But that cat SERIOUSLY had a liking for Anson. Followed him everywhere. Only him. =D)
The manager of Dusun Eco Resort
We dare anyone to set foot into our home...
This is Kitty. Ironically, she has a horrible fear of cats. Hence the jumping on the table XDAfter checking into our dormitories (Guys and Girls were sharing the same dorm. *Joy to the world*) we proceeded to this room to be sorted into groups and to play mini ice breaking games. I was still kinda foreign towards the others as I'm still not too close with the rest of the Juniors. Also we played the Guardian Angel Game! Woohoo! I was in the green team. Which we smartly and obviously named ourselves the Greenies. So what if it lacked creativity huh?!
The "hall" that we all gathered at to be sorted into groups. (More like room really)
Greenies
Another team, The Red Devils
Greenies team leader, Kenneth aka Army waving off the paparazzi
This is Shane, my teammate
While we got busy with the team activities
She used my phone to do more important activities. Like Camwhoring
She liked how she looked in Kenneth's Bandana
So I decided to show her what was the proper headgear fashion this season
My favourite spot in Dusun Eco was the hanging bridge. It was long and scarily high up yet stunningly cool as well! We had to pass under it many times on our way to the dorms. I recall on the first day, I went down to the gents located quite a distance away from our dorms to bathe. There was a really clean, nice loo (the cleanest in Dusun Eco really) just beside our dorms but it was for ladies only =(
The hanging bridge™
Beautiful ain't it?
I rest my case
The long, steep never-ending stairway to the hanging bridge
We quickly made our way back to the dorm after that. By this time I brushed my teeth in the girl's toilet. Too lazy to walk far far away just to brush my teeth. It was still freezing cold and as you know, teenagers are at their peak hyper moments at night. Therefore, there was lots of screaming and raping of other guys and pigging ourselves with snacks and gossip gossip gossip before I finally fell asleep at 3am. Some people weren't even back at the dorm by then. O.o
Soon to update more about day 2 of my Dusun Eco adventures
All photos here are taken with my Nokia 5610. I LOVE MY PHONE!
Huge thanks to Shane for using my phone to go on a photo snapping spree. Now I've got loads of nice photos to remember this trip by.
The "hall" that we all gathered at to be sorted into groups. (More like room really)
Greenies
Another team, The Red Devils
Greenies team leader, Kenneth aka Army waving off the paparazzi
This is Shane, my teammate
While we got busy with the team activities
She used my phone to do more important activities. Like Camwhoring
She liked how she looked in Kenneth's Bandana
So I decided to show her what was the proper headgear fashion this season
The hanging bridge™
Beautiful ain't it?
I rest my case
The long, steep never-ending stairway to the hanging bridgeBony Yang was sort of the official photographer for this trip because he brought this really good DSLR camera as he loved taking photos.
Yang - Gimme back my camera pleaseeeee
Yang - Gimme back my camera pleaseeeeeThe outdoor activity in store for us on the first day was a treasure hunt. Sounds fun? It was more tiring and insane really but undeniably a superb group activity. The things we had to find were.... really weird and REALLY HARD too. Eg. Chicken feather x2, Duck feather x2, 10 different flowers, 5 combs, 1 lipstick, 5 live ants, 5 live bees, 5 live flying ants, 5 types of food, 5 sticks with different diameters, fountain water.
Mind you, we were given nothing. Not even bottles for the fountain water or containers to store the live insects. We picked up trash from all over to store everything. Surprisingly we managed to capture all those insects alive and even improvised. Like using branches as a comb. We tried to make juice out of plants as a lipstick but in the end decided to just borrow one from the mak cik working in the cafeteria there. XD The insects in Dusun Eco are HUGE!
Huge ant!
At night, the weather shifted from blistering hot to freezing cold. As if someone switched on an outdoor air-conditioning, we gathered once again in the "dewan" for making our group T-shirts. Everyone had really creative designs and you could seriously see the excellent teamwork present there. Huey Ching and Bong Yang from other groups came and helped me with my shirt too cos I was really slow. =.=" At night we went for a creepy night walk. Kar Heng warned us not to wear coloured t-shirts and to not use each others real names. We walked in a single file clinging on to each others shirts for guidance as we had no flashlights(except Kar Heng in the front) while navigating through the near pitch black darkness. Finally, we settled on this flat area in high ground and exchanged ghost stories. Most of us were freaked out by then.
Mind you, we were given nothing. Not even bottles for the fountain water or containers to store the live insects. We picked up trash from all over to store everything. Surprisingly we managed to capture all those insects alive and even improvised. Like using branches as a comb. We tried to make juice out of plants as a lipstick but in the end decided to just borrow one from the mak cik working in the cafeteria there. XD The insects in Dusun Eco are HUGE!
Huge ant!At night, the weather shifted from blistering hot to freezing cold. As if someone switched on an outdoor air-conditioning, we gathered once again in the "dewan" for making our group T-shirts. Everyone had really creative designs and you could seriously see the excellent teamwork present there. Huey Ching and Bong Yang from other groups came and helped me with my shirt too cos I was really slow. =.=" At night we went for a creepy night walk. Kar Heng warned us not to wear coloured t-shirts and to not use each others real names. We walked in a single file clinging on to each others shirts for guidance as we had no flashlights(except Kar Heng in the front) while navigating through the near pitch black darkness. Finally, we settled on this flat area in high ground and exchanged ghost stories. Most of us were freaked out by then.
Soon to update more about day 2 of my Dusun Eco adventures
All photos here are taken with my Nokia 5610. I LOVE MY PHONE!
Huge thanks to Shane for using my phone to go on a photo snapping spree. Now I've got loads of nice photos to remember this trip by.
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