Sorry again, for the lack of updates, but haha.. here are some Doe pictures.. if you dont know what DoE is,.. goggle it up.. i'm doing the Bronze Award therefore i had to do a TRIAL expedition of 25 km (walking), camping and surviving in the wild!! Pheww

26th - 27th July 08 was the D-day!! From college, we (adventurers) were driven to a pitstop (ladang kelapa sawit kot) and from the pitstop, we were to navigate ourselves to our camp site! It was about 5 - 8 kms only.. Our camp site was at some river with a man-made hot spring.. Kerling...

For the second day, we had to walk all over some jungle-tracks which was later blocked by some deforestation activities, so we had to turn back and switch to our next route, which took us to a friendly Caltex!!! Haha, we cheated cause we bought drinks here.. 100 plus... soothing...

Then walk walk walk some more until... a rubber estate.. then to a oil palm plantation.. and walk walk walk... to the PITSTOP which we were dropped the day before, we has lunch here..

Now, we - refer to me and my group mates - Velu, Lili, Neo, Durga, Corny, me..

so we, made a quick decision, not to take lunch but to finish our last 6-7 kms back to college so that we can finish early.. so we passed the rest, crossed a bridge to a road leading to three separate path, left - road, concrete, middle, up a hill, road, right, jungle, semak samun kinda track. hmm before that mr hanson, our instructor said something.. about the route but none of us were paying attention..

Soo... we made another quick decision to turn left, as said by Velu.. (we trust him because he's a Indian.. hahaa.. just joking... he jsut lead the way, we followed... ) we were damn happy... singing, cheering, can wait to go back to college.. before we passed a few cows, some plantation.. when something went fishy...

Hmmm... what was it?? We stopped and asked for directions,... but the *not-so-kind man from the truck told us that we were heading to some Orang Asli Kampung.. God knows what was happening there.. then we asked another man from a bike, and he told us the same thing. So.. we called mr hanson up, and he told us to walk all the way back (by this time we walked for almost 30 minutes already that's like.. 2-3 kms) OMG!!

We hurdled all the wayy back to the three turns... (*wasted about 1 hour ++) (*owh yea, i complained about my back and my feet and everything else, and Velu offered, yes he OFFERED to take my rugsack.. haha how sweet!) ,.. and saw a huge sign saying, "THIS WAY TO LEMBAH BERINGIN, 6 km.."

we made all the way up a very very very steep hill (*there was a kind-chinese-dude driving a HUGE truck loader, who offered us a lift back, but we kindly said no.. jgn jgn if we see Mr hanson or the other group members.. terkantoi pulak!!) then walked through the NEVER ENDING WINDING road.... .... ...... before we saw our college...... sitting there.. waiting for us...

Overall, it was indeed embarrassing... when the other adventurers called us, and asked where were we and all... *cause we're the last.. dang.. * but it was bittersweet experience, and i cant wait for the REAL expedition, next year!! Whippie!!

"FIRST TO GO, LAST TO REACH... HAHAHHA" dang...

Sorry again, for the lack of updates, but haha.. here are some Doe pictures.. if you dont know what DoE is,.. goggle it up.. i'm doing the Bronze Award therefore i had to do a TRIAL expedition of 25 km (walking), camping and surviving in the wild!! Pheww

26th - 27th July 08 was the D-day!! From college, we (adventurers) were driven to a pitstop (ladang kelapa sawit kot) and from the pitstop, we were to navigate ourselves to our camp site! It was about 5 - 8 kms only.. Our camp site was at some river with a man-made hot spring.. Kerling...

For the second day, we had to walk all over some jungle-tracks which was later blocked by some deforestation activities, so we had to turn back and switch to our next route, which took us to a friendly Caltex!!! Haha, we cheated cause we bought drinks here.. 100 plus... soothing...

Then walk walk walk some more until... a rubber estate.. then to a oil palm plantation.. and walk walk walk... to the PITSTOP which we were dropped the day before, we has lunch here..

Now, we - refer to me and my group mates - Velu, Lili, Neo, Durga, Corny, me..

so we, made a quick decision, not to take lunch but to finish our last 6-7 kms back to college so that we can finish early.. so we passed the rest, crossed a bridge to a road leading to three separate path, left - road, concrete, middle, up a hill, road, right, jungle, semak samun kinda track. hmm before that mr hanson, our instructor said something.. about the route but none of us were paying attention..

Soo... we made another quick decision to turn left, as said by Velu.. (we trust him because he's a Indian.. hahaa.. just joking... he jsut lead the way, we followed... ) we were damn happy... singing, cheering, can wait to go back to college.. before we passed a few cows, some plantation.. when something went fishy...

Hmmm... what was it?? We stopped and asked for directions,... but the *not-so-kind man from the truck told us that we were heading to some Orang Asli Kampung.. God knows what was happening there.. then we asked another man from a bike, and he told us the same thing. So.. we called mr hanson up, and he told us to walk all the way back (by this time we walked for almost 30 minutes already that's like.. 2-3 kms) OMG!!

We hurdled all the wayy back to the three turns... (*wasted about 1 hour ++) (*owh yea, i complained about my back and my feet and everything else, and Velu offered, yes he OFFERED to take my rugsack.. haha how sweet!) ,.. and saw a huge sign saying, "THIS WAY TO LEMBAH BERINGIN, 6 km.."

we made all the way up a very very very steep hill (*there was a kind-chinese-dude driving a HUGE truck loader, who offered us a lift back, but we kindly said no.. jgn jgn if we see Mr hanson or the other group members.. terkantoi pulak!!) then walked through the NEVER ENDING WINDING road.... .... ...... before we saw our college...... sitting there.. waiting for us...

Overall, it was indeed embarrassing... when the other adventurers called us, and asked where were we and all... *cause we're the last.. dang.. * but it was bittersweet experience, and i cant wait for the REAL expedition, next year!! Whippie!!

"FIRST TO GO, LAST TO REACH... HAHAHHA" dang...