My Footsteps, My Journey, My Memories: Year End Trip with 5 science 1 (part 1)

Last Tuesday, i joined some of my classmates for our class's year end trip... Before going for this trip, i'd gone through many interogation sessions by my parents and aunties... whew... its all over now... hahaha ok, i will start from the very begining of the first day of the trip....

16 Dec 2008

For your information, my house was under renovation since the day before. We had the ceilings of the house changed. This house had been 20++ years of age already, and the ceiling board started to drop off one by one.... Finally, our contractor had time to fix this problem for us after so many years of waiting for him..... So the project started on 15th of December 2008... So, on that day i spent most of my time at 1st aunty house, checking my list of things to bring for the trip. After dinner, i went back home. Together, the 4 of us, (daddy, Mummy, my sister and me) started cleaning up the house. At about 9.30pm, i got ready to go to Yee Siang's house, the place we were supposed to meet.

I hereby want to make a conclusion, that is buses never come on time. It was supposed to reached at 10.30pm, but it only arrived at about 11.30pm, punctual leh??? So we boarded the bus and started our journey to ipoh, Perak. There's a tour guide on the bus and we called him Chong.

17 Dec 2008

At about 1.05am, the bus stopped at yong peng for a so-called toilet break... After that, we continue our journey to Ipoh. On the bus i slept. But i woke up almost every hour.. Guess what? i got 5 bumps on my head thanks to the bus ride. hahaha I was so worried that i will forget all the things that i had studied for my undang-undang exam.... but luckily, i sill remember some of them.

We had breakfast at a restaurant called 富山点心. The tim sum there was quite delicious. We, girls took a table. Each of us ate RM 8.40 worth of timsum.... Too much or too little??? But to me, it was just nice. haha

After breakfast, we went to Gua Tempurung. I thought that it will be quite boring and dirty, going into a gua... But it turned out to be quite the opposite. We explore the cave through the river running under the cave. So, my sport shoes and tracksuit became wet. I regretted wearing my favourite sport shoe there. At first, it was quite ok for me, just have to look out for the rocks fanging overhead. But soon, i knew that it wasn't anything easy. The ceiling of the cave became lower and lower and we had to stoop quite low to get through... Maybe it was my weak heart, or it is just lack of stamina, i thought that i would not survive to see the sunshine again.... my heart was thumping very fast and i was like sucking up all the remainder energy i have..... there were times i felt like giving up and felt like telling the oyhers to just leave me there... but i managed to hold on.... but guess what, i left my torchlight as a little momento for the cave.... it dropped..... and i could not turn back to retrieve it. So sad....

Not long after entering the cave, i was soaking wet. Thanks to everybody for their assistance, i survived this terrible ordeal. Inside my heart, i made up my mind to exercise more often, so that i would not be such a weakling..... i do not wish to 'die' in another cave.... hahaha.

Actually, there's more to writwe about the cave, but i'm afraid that this post will be too long, so these are the summary about my caving experience....

After bathing, we went for lunch at a nearby restaurant. After which, we proceed to our next destination-- Cameron highlands...

We stopped at a tea plantation there... Here's a few pictures i took there.