4. Eza Syahera Bt Zulkurnain 5. Mohd Zulfadhli Bin Abd Wahid 6. Amin Fahim Bin Abu Mansor
4.8 CAMPING & JOURNEY REPORT
4.8.1 Day 1 : Saturday
Date 9th April 2011
Particulars Time : 9.30 a.m – 10.30 a.m
Venue : UTP Bus Parking, In front of V2
- All students gathered.
- The captain named as Tony gave some briefing on camping. - All students were listening to him.
- The task were distributed to each group.
- Group Soley-Soley were asked to take stove at V6 store. - All items provided by UTP for camping were collected at V6
store.
- Before we departed, the waiver form was fulfilled and submitted by the students.
- The students leave the UTP to Bukit Larut, Taiping at 10.00 a.m. - The journey took two hours.
Time : 12.30 p.m – 12.00 p.m/a.m
Venue : Campsite, Bukit Larut, Taiping
- At 12.30 p.m, the two UTP buses arrived at the campsite at Bukit Larut, Taiping.
- The weather at this time is still clear and sunny.
- While waiting to our instructor to reach the campsite, we took our lunch at the stall nearby the campsite. The foods were cheap and delicious. Most of us ate ‘Laksa Penang’ and fried rice. - At 1.30 p.m, the muslims performed the prayer at the ‘surau’
nearby the campsite.
- At 2.00 p.m, we took out all our belongings from the bus and we entered the campsite. All students were very happy and excited to start the camping.
- In the campsite, the students were gathered and some briefing was given by our captain, Captain Tony. He divided the students into 2 main groups which were the cleaning group (to clean all the stuffs/equipments provided and to clean the campsite) and the cooking group (to prepare and serve meal for the students). - Mr Amin Fahim from my group was appointed as one of the
cleaning group and Miss Farahin and Miss Eza were appointed to be in cooking group.
- The rest of students were asked to setup the tents.
- Before we started our work, we were having a safety briefing by a guard there who were taking care of that side and asked us to
keep the campsite clean. He also gave some advices to us to gain as many as possible knowledge throughout the camp besides he asked us to continue our hard work in studying. He was so kind as he shared his experience that inspire us to be a good student.
- Some tents could not be setup due to lack of items provided. - Some guys helped the female students to setup their tents. - After we finished setting up the tents, the weather turned cloudy
and in few minutes, the rain fall down. Luckily the tents were successfully setup before the rain fall down.
- Then all of the students were having rest except for those who were preparing for our dinner.
- At 4.00 p.m, our instructor/lecturer Mr. Ahmad Risli Bin Din arrived at the campsite.
- We did an ice breaking session. We got to know each other better by singing some songs and did some cheers taught by Mr. Muhamad Salman from KBV4C group.
- After that, Mr. Ahmad Rosli joined us. He brought some ropes and we did some knots.
- He asked all the students to practiced the 5 knots and showed to him how to do the knots. He also asked us to explain on what is the function of each knots. Actually, the knot had been taught by him during the lecture session.
- At 6.00 p.m, the cooking team finished cooking and we had dinner together and then we went for self preparation.
- At 8.00 p.m, after performing the prayer, all the students were attending the briefing session given by our instructor, Mr Ahmad Rosli Bin Din and Mr Tony. They briefed us on the night safari trip at Taiping Zoo and sentry task.
- For your kind information, my group was asked to wake up for sentry 2.00 a.m to 3.00 a.m.
- Then, we departed to the Taiping Zoo, visiting the night safari. - We walked for 20 minutes to reach the zoo.
- To enter the zoo, each of us must pay RM 12.00. It was cheap and affordable for one night safari experience. This was my first time visiting the night safari and it was a great experience. - At the zoo, we saw some pets and wild animals which were very
active at the night. We saw, lions, snakes, crocodiles, arapaima fish (the very big fish), parrots, owls, rabbits and so on.
- We were asked to exit the zoo before 11.15 p.m. - Then we went back to the campsite.
- We had instant noodle and hot tea for our supper.
- At 12.00 p.m/a.m, midnight, those who had not finished their knots test were continue to finish the test. While some of the students went for sleeping and some of us went for sentry.
4.8.2 Day 2 : Sunday
Date 10th April 2011
Particulars Time : 2.00 a.m – 3.00 a.m
Venue :Campsite, Bukit Larut, Taiping
- My group Soley –Soley were appointed to guard all the participants at this time.
- We did sentry to take care of the safety of the participants. - Luckily and thanks to God, no bad thing happened at this time.
All the participants could have enough rest.
- Four your kind information, this was my first time being the guard. It was a nice memory to be remembered.
- I was so tired. After sentry, I went for sleeping.
Time : 4.00 a.m – 12.00 a.m/p.m
Venue :Campsite, Bukit Larut, Taiping
- At 6.00 a.m, we performed our subuh prayer (for muslims). Then we did some light exercises to energize ourselves.
- The cooking team start preparing for breakfast. They made hot tea, sandwich bread with jam and fried rice.
- At 7.00 a.m we took our breakfast.
- At 8.00 a.m, we gathered and listened to the briefing on jungle trekking given by Mr Ahmad Rosli Bin Din. He also briefed to us to packed all belongings and items provided by UTP before 3.00 p.m since we will leave the campsite at 3.00 p.m.
- Then, we went for jungle trekking. Some of us did not go for jungle trekking due to preparing the lunch for all of us. - The slope of the hill was from 500 up to 800. It was so
challenging. Some of us were very fast and some of us were very slow.
- At 1.00 p.m, jungle trekking was over. While some were preparing for our lunch, some are setting down the tents. They also packed everything.
- The rest were cleaning the camp site as ordered by the Mr. Ahmad Rosli earlier.
- After that, we were having lunch together.
- Then we departed from Bukit Larut, Taiping to UTP.
- Everybody was so tired. Most of us fall asleep inside the bus in all the way back to UTP.
- Actually we were tired but happy. - The camping were ended.
5.0 ATTACHMENT
Picture 5.1
The tents provided by UTP. The left tent was setup by my group (Soley-soley).
Picture 5.2
Some of the participants. On our way to campsite.
Picture 5.3
During jungle trekking. I’m taking picture with the floras behind.