sn@p sn@p m0m3nt....

Cabbage farm.. Our 1st & 2nd bengkel here..

The Marchantia sp.. This is the leaves, thallus...

Collecting the specimens... With me is wee ni & jayanthi.. (my roommates also)

The snake like living thing... Awet it already.. keke...

Another poor little thing that kena awet..... Spidey.....

Da bees.... In honey bee farm....

Cameron Highland BIG oranges.. It fits my palm.. Very very big.....

Lata Iskandar.. The waterfall.. Where we had our 3rd bengkel....

Tea farm..... Nice green piece.....

Strawberry tea moment outside d hotel room...

g3t d@ w0rk st@rt3d -- c0ll3ct!ng sp3c!m3ns..

16 February 2008, Saturday

Nice cool weather.. Up the hill again after breakfast. We reached at the cabbage farm at 8am and briefing was given by our ketua rombongan, Mr Zuwairi on what specimens we are going to get for each group as each group was given a file of specimens pictures. After we, my group were lead by Miss Shafini into the cabbage farm and looked for what we should. None of my group members had the idea of where and what to find. In lecture, we were not in kingdom Plantae yet. When Miss Shafini saw d green piece on the soil, she was so excited and called all of to see it and take it. We really had no idea what is so special about that thing. Then only she told us it was Marchantia sp. introduced the plants' part. After a few explanation from our facilitator, we barely understood it and started to fill our trays with it and Funaria sp..

And then, every group put their specimens together and video was taken when the lecturers were explaining the plants to everyone. Later on, we found a small snake type animal there and a big black-yellow spider. The lab assistant trapped them inside the glass bottle and will awet them.. Hehe.. Sounds kejam huh.. That's what Bio students love... So, this is the end of our 1st and 2nd bengkel. It ended far more earlier than schedule. With those extra time, we headed to honey bee farm... Lotsa beautiful flowers can be found in the farm and no doubt, bees were everywhere..... wow.. you better don't kacau them and pluck d flowers... Just a very small farm where you will finished everything in about 10 minutes. We just spent some time taking pictures here and there.

Time to check-in!!!! We reached Hotel Rosa Passadena before 12pm. So, we had our free lunch there first before we were put in rooms. The food there was not-so recommended to try but it was because it was free, so just had it when you were really hungry.. hehe.. Buffet style and just eat then.. After that, we were put in rooms and I was so damn bad luck separated from my groups member joining another 3 of them from the same group. I was in room A7 while the others of my group members were in A3, A27, A29 and A33. Felt so far from them.. But lucky me, I got to change my room with a gurl from Hayat 49 (my next door practicum). So, I moved to A27, where 2 of my group members were there. Hehe... Happy happy...

Gathering time again.. 1.50pm, everyone was at the hotel lobby to get ready for the 3rd bengkel. We were going down the hill ( i think) to Lata Iskandar to get some specimens at the waterfall. We took one and the half hour to reach there from our hotel. But, the time we spent to collect the specimens were just around 30 minutes as it started to rain. The rain stopped 5 minutes later. This proved that we had spent more time on the bus up and down the hill than we did our job there..

More extra time we had, so we went to the tea farm. Nice view from the high place down to a wide piece of green tea farm. Most of them grabbed the tea from the tea shop and some souvenirs. I didn't buy anything as the price was quite high. I just managed to walk around the shop, looking at the tea farm and of course snapped some pictures for rememberance. After that, we continued our journey back to hotel. When we were back, we had no more schedule to follow for the day and we were totally FREE!!!!!! You will never experienced that in KMJ... We had our shower after a long day of going here n there for specimens that you don't recognise. We were refreshed and had another free dinner in the hotel restaurant.

Here comes the fun part where we were free to walk around Cameron Highland. Most of just went to the pasar malam there. It was just very near to our hotel, so we walked there. But, the night breeze really chilled us out. Nevertheless, the freedom and fun still the most important when you were out of KMJ.... We found out that the things sold in the pasar malam is far more cheaper than anywhere else in Cameron Highland. I bought strawberry tea which is RM5.50 a box than RM7.00 a box in the tea shop that we went. After some times, you will find out that they sold almost the same thing along the pasar malam. Hehe.. I did try the fried mee over there too, the Chinese meal...

Back to hotel, we tried the strawberry tea outside our room and enjoyed d fried mee.. Nice nice... It was really happy moment.. Where can you get all this in KMJ??? We chatted outside the room and then went to bed around 12am later.. Cold and nice sleep as all of us was so tired after the long day we had gone thru.. End of the fun day in Cameron Highland, my 1st visit there..

h3@d!ng up t0 c@mer0n h!ghl@nd

15 February 2008, Friday

Yo.. This is going to be the best event of my life in KMJ.. Da trip to Cameron Highland with other 47 selected Hayat students that had 4 flat on hand.. Very lucky me, I'm one of them and until now, I'm still feel lucky about it.. Hehe.. Cut d crap for now & follow my not so interesting tour on how my wonderful weekend went...

9.45pm, all the lucky one was gathered in front of our not so beloved hall, Dewan Sri Ledang (DSL). With excitement, everyone patiently waited for the lecturers and lab assistants n not to forget the college buses to be here. Before leaving, we were put in 5 groups and a short briefing were given. At first, it was said that guys will be in the 1st bus while girls will board the 2nd bus. After few discussions going on, the lecturers agreed to put Group 1 & 2 in the first bus while Group 3, 4 & 5 in the 2nd bus so that it will be more organised among us. So, what am I waiting for, just skip into the first bus.. Oh ya, i forgot to mention that I was in Group 1 as it followed our lecture.

Just 2 hours of journey in d bus, the driver decided to have a stop at nowhere I can recognised. hehe... Plus, I am damn sleepy that time as it was d effect of my motion sickness medicine that I had taken before leaving. We were at d 'nowhere' for about 40 minutes. What I did was just changing my clothes to the not nice KMJ shirt and chatted with d chinese gurls. Not much of us, just about 8 of us out of 48 students. After that, the journey continued and the driver put on a movie "The Banquet" but it stopped somewhere through d movie. Then, I just continued my sleep as it was already 1am that time. Another 2 hours of journey, and then we stopped by again. Most of us did not get down from the bus as everyone was damn tired that time. So, we just spent 30 minutes on the stationary bus and continued our sleep as the bus started to break the stationary state.

Around 4.30am, our journey started to go up the hill and turned around. I did noticed all the turning part of the bus but I am still very sleepy, so I didn't care much about it. Just let it be.. hehe.. At that moment, outside was dark, foggy and the bus really slow. So, we reached Brinchang at 6am. By the time I stepped out from the bus, wow..... The freeze in Cameron Highland made me shivered for some moment before I slowly adapted to the temperature there. Yet, it was still very cold for me. I didn't feel like eating after having long journey and in the freezing mode. No matter what, I had a three layer sandwich to fill my stomach as I know I am going to have a long day ahead of work.

w0rd hunt 2008

Sunday, 3 February 2008.

It was a very new experience for me on this date.. Although it was Sunday and I had replacement class on Saturday, I still had to wake up at 6am, which was earlier than usual. Woke up in the dark, had my breakfast and prepared myself. And then we gathered near block F as the event manager is Khairun, the block F representative. We then when to put the clues of the game around JMC. It was not an easy work although it looked like one. Haha..

At 8.30am, the contestants (3 members a group) were gathered at the parking lot in front of block F. When the game started, the committee members were scattered around the college area including me. Walking around to witness the 6 stations that the members had to go through before they got their clues and reached the final destination. It was not a very good day as it started to rain no longer after that. The members included the committee members were totally wet from hair to toe. I did 'curi tulang' and went to sit under the cafe's fan hopefully will dry up a bit before i continued my way.

Around 10am, the last team arrived at the final checkpoint and we gathered at the astaka. The groups were told to sing their group's song that they had composed when they were in one of the six stations. They were damn sporting and I did enjoyed the whole activity although my job was just walked around and made sure they didn't break the game's rules. Somehow the got wet experience and having fun with the committees were able to make me happy and amazing enough for the day.

The contestants & 3 committees at the final checkpoint...