Well, the camp was just great and fun toothough i wasn't exactly one of the 'participants'. Still i had lots offun and met new people. :)
Day 1
Gathered at school and registered. Went out to wait for the bus... towait... and wait... for over an hour. At the meantime we played theice-breaker game in advance while waiting for the bus. Sir visited usjust before leaving for Cameron again. Well actually the bus driverjust woke up around 9a.m. if i'm not mistaken, that's why it was late.Okay, then it was the bus ride to Kuala Selangor. Around 2 hours laterwe reached Bukit Malawati, our first pit stop.
Before visiting the museum up the hill, we went for lunch, quite earlythough (didn't knew then that there was time later for lunch). Atechicken rice at a Malay restaurant. I notice that the food there wascheap. Later we gathered back and took the tram ride up the hill.
At the top, saw lots of monkeys. People there selling long beans tofeed the monkey so i decided to buy one bunch to feed them. The monkeyswere friendly but one of them snatched a whole lot away from my hand.Bad monkey. There were 2 types of monkeys there, markad long tailmonkey and silver leaf monkey. The silver leaf monkey was quiteaggressive and i found out that the markad long tail monkeys love toeat long beans. Okay, later all of us went into the museum. Mostly allabout the history of Selangor and artifacts. Outside were some cannons.Guess i'll post up some pics in my photo album. One of it i though wasa cannon but i was wrong. Guess what it is. Look at the caption. :)Then we walked to some stone table (forgot the name). Looked like itwas a picnic table or some sort but it was actually a place where theyused to kill betrayers... by beheading them!!! :0 After all of teachersexplaining and some pics, we headed to the tram stop and went down thehill. Some of us had to take the next tram for it was full (i was oneof them)... it started raining though.
Later, we had time for lunch. I already ate lunch so i went for a walk around the town with my friends. I saw a caravan. Seems like it's from France. Saw it again parked outside a boarding school. Took a closer look: sur les chemins du Monde. Wonder what that meant.
After that, we headed to our campsite, Kuala Selangor Chalet. Well, itwasn't like a chalet but a house which fit all of us. It had fivebedrooms and two bathrooms indoor, one outdoor. There's also a publichall (just an open area in the house like a large living room) with aTV. Well, we settled in and rest... well not for the camp committee. Weplanned for the day ahead and games later.
Since ice-breaking was done, we used the extra time to get the peoplein their groups and asked them to make a group name and group cheer.Next up was the first module.
While it was on, we guys, the committee aka facilitators, wentpreparing the games. We had 6 games. Let's see, water-flour crawl, eggpassing, one-touch football, rubber band passing, chair bridge andhelicopter spin. It was fun but i wasn't the one playing. After that wegathered the 'victims' and make them squat. Then after a 'secret code'was said, we, the facilitators had a special suprise for them.Following the signal, SPLASH, buckets of water and water balloons wentflying all around. All the groups got wet. Then it was payback time forthem. :) They surely had a great time during the games while thefacilitators had to clean up... well after all, we were the planners.Played some captain ball and volleyball after the station games. Theteachers brought back some coconut leaf for us to play tarik upih... ifyou know what it is, but in the end we didn't play though i wasinterested.
Then everyone went for a bath and got ready to see the fireflies! Byright it was fireflies after dinner but then we did it before dinner,guess we didn't want to wait in a long line if we were late. Well,fireflies are rare, Malaysia is fortunate to have it. It's not thefirst time i went to see fireflies though. If i'm not this was my 3rdtime.
For dinner we had seafood! Finished rather quickly then we went aroundlooking for water. It seems that they don't provide water at camp site.Luckily i had my own stash of water. Concerned of the other campers,Joseph and Chong De went off looking for water. Came back with box ofabout 16 bottles, if i'm not mistaken, of 1.5 litre bottles of water.Many shops were closed as it was pass 9p.m.
Back at campsite, it was time for 2nd module. We, the committee, againwent to prepare games for the 2nd module. There were 4 games, singing anursery rhyme backwards while not smiling or laughing, going through aloop made of rafia, throwing shoes into the bucket and dressing up asan 'ideal' leader. Well, Mun Chien and i were in-charge of theshoe-in-the-bucket game though i did most of it cause Mun Chien wastaking photos for the camp. I had to run here, run there, picking upmissed shoes, (the shoes were mine and Mun Chien's cause the groups didnot wear shoes). The funny thing was i got hit on the face by my ownslipper. Darn it's a dangerous job but it was fun. In the end, my shoeand slipper was wet cause the bucket was wet. By the way, the people inthe groups were tied on their legs while playing the games. Last gamewas the dressing up game led by Joseph. The groups were to dress upsomebody with newspaper what they think was an ideal leader. One wassomebody dresses briefly saying that a leader needs to be simple orsomething and must be (takes off paper clothes) like the peopleand not just all a leader, one was Parameswara saying that a leadermust be brave, one is a nicely dressed in a suit businessman sayingthat a leader must be presentable and finally one was Queen Elizebethsaying that a leader is not necessarily a man but a woman can be onetoo!
After all that it was sleeping time. I and some others were busy doingthe journal that we have to write for every activity and later to begiven to sir.
Okayz, it's kinda late right now so i think i'll just continue Day 2 tomorrow. Nightz...
