Just recall back....."When is the last time you go for a camp?"....Let me see.... October 2009, First Aid Camp in Gopeng, Perak?? nahhhh.... You don't call that camping.....Alright...Go back further, June 2008's Campfire Night?? nahhh....Didn't participate much, as I only go for one night.....Now I remember, December 2007's Carnival Camp, although that camp's quality does not reach my own level of carnival craziness. But still, it's the last major camp I join.
For a scout like me, from Keat Hwa 53rd Scout Troop, I myself considered most of us are true scouts inside our heart, society, community or what ever word you can use to describe. We do really apply what we learn into our lives now, and it gone pretty nice for us. For me personally, I think joining the troop changes me a lot, good and bad as well. I learn a lot which obviously what we can't learn from book, gain lots of experiences, exposure, human relationship, responsibility, cooperation, learn to be grateful, think from different perspectives, etc etc.... It gives sweet memories as I grow up. In short, I think in some perspective, I'm much more matured compared with some idiot peers that I encountered throughout my life.
OK....enough mumbling....back to the point. It seems like most of the scouts (of my peers of course) are having some kind of camping fever, as we couldn't join most of the camps organized by the troops ever since we graduated. So, there's an idea coming out from Yong Wee and Kher Yee, during one small gathering, to have a 2 days 1 night camping at Gunung Jerai. Oh man, there's lots of sweet and bitter memories gain from there. Then, after some discussion, phone calls, they decided to organize a 'song song' camp, for us, young rovers a camp. Great. It will be held 2 days later, as lots of things need to buy and prepare which will take only 1 day. Not bad I guess, just 1 day, and we settle most of the problems.
The next day, they go for shopping groceries at Tesco and Pacific for our food supplies. Neither I nor my brother go, because we are not so free on that day itself. So, the whole day was like waiting the time to pass so that we could go for camping.
Camp Day 1
Here we go... First, let's list down the participant: me, my brother Wey Chun, Suelyn, Chuu Ying, Yong Wee, Kher Yee and Calib. It's just 7 of us, but the whole car bonnet is full of foods and supplies. *Whoa* can you imagine?? 7 people, 2 days 1 night, we do have lots of things. What to do, this is our own kind of fun camp, it's all about fun.
Due to insufficient of seats, the girls and Yong Wee drive to G.Jerai, while the remaining 3 guys take bus. Oh my....let them recall the feeling of taking bus again, but this time without uniforms and heavy haversack. The guys are slower of course, but I think we waited about 1 hour before they reach. Then, we went up to half-mountain top...vroom vroom vroom...the van is real fast. Those feelings are just word-less, you can't possibly describe the feeling of going camping again. *hahahahhahaha* Hike hike hike, jalan jalan jalan....finally we're reach the campsite.
Now I know how bad my stamina is, sweating non-stop from the way down here. Perhaps I should spend more time on sport than sitting in front of my lappie. Build tents, collecting fire woods, look at the water supply, cook our lunch after we reach there. While building tents, there's some kind of plastic, yellowish, none of us know what it is....eewwwww..... then they joke that maybe Khai Shan didn't throw away that condom cause that tent that we found that thing is his. Gosh, can he just clean up after using? Eww....*hahahhaha*
After eating and cleaning up, we plan to go for water war. Sadly, the water is shallow and dirty enough which looks like 'leng teh' (herbal tea). *Yucks* no choice, we just take some photos, chat, place our legs in the super mini water fall, spend the whole afternoon there. From there, we could view across lots of greenish paddy field scenery. The view is totally breath taking, makes you feel like going out from city life. While 5 of us were chatting beside/on the water drain, my brother n Kher Yee just simply lay down on chair sleeping under a small shelter. and they did pay for it as, I think someone did splash some water on their face.
As it is getting darker, and we don't have light supply especially at the bathroom, we all rush to cook + eat dinner + shower before it gets too dark. The dinner are just splendid, gotta be the best dinner I ever get throughout my camping experience. Maybe we're too hungry, we finish dinner quite fast. *smile-happy*. After cleaning, we all just lie down on a huge fly sheet while enjoying the stars. How nice it is, spending the night like that, playing cards, eating junk food, drink hot drink as it is cold. Times pass, and we go to see the night view which is fabulous, n of course, taking lots of pictures for memories and for facebook too. From there, Iron Man is born, Kher Yee imitate I.M. by placing his torch on his heart while taking photo. Oh my, lots of jokes could happen here.
After that, we go back and just lay down again to spend the whole night chit chatting, playing butts, tickling people, taking stupid photo, share past scouting experience. Wow, I couldn't possibly imagine that Chuu Ying got lots of bad experiences that cause her to have the post of normal Committee Member. Kinda big secret to me. But, what to do, we can't reverse time. And of course, we also did call Shan Yi who is still in Penang on that time, and tell her how fun it is to camp. The day before she cursed us, but it failed cause no raining. Guess she's too childish in a way, can't she possibly think how many camps that we did not go, and she did attend those camps. Guess she's jealous in short.
DAY 2
Being waked up by Yong Wee's whistle in the morning, oh man... it makes me recall while I'm having camping as a junior scout. When I walk out of the camp, most of us has already wake up and start packing, cleaning and preparing breakfast of course. We have sardine+ bread+eggs+milo/nescafe/oat. Kinda full, maybe because most of us take brunch instead of breakfast. After that, we start cleaning utensils, tent, campsite, packing etc etc. There's lots of cooperation you could see. Of course, there's some entertainment from Iron Man-Kher Yee and Calib-Ip Man. Both are 20 n above, but still act like 4 year old child. haih~~ Guess these boys still have that child behavior some where in their heart.
As we finish, we hike up back where we need to take the van. Oh my, that's much more tougher than going down, sweating and panting non-stop. I think if I walk this path twice a day, guess I can throw away some weight and build some muscle. vroom..vroom..vroom.. It's getting warmer, so we know that it's time to back to reality and continue our life. Then we travel back to the city, and have tea at Nasmir. From there, all of us gather and wait to go home.
This is definitely the best experience, best semester break activity. Hope to do this more often. -Love these guys, they're the best-
-yeEvoN_Dutch-
