Last Sunday marked a perfectly adventurous day for some of us. On the morning of 13th April 2008, Sungai Elo received a delegate of 59 students from faculty of medicine GMU, ready to hit the current. Batch 2007 was the dominating bunch, driven by our first-time enthusiasm for exploration. And also to release some steam from our block 1.4 exams. Yes, we need this once in a while. The rest of the participants were our seniors from batch 05.
So we gathered up in front of Narita photocopy shop at Jalan Kaliurang that morning. As usual, one always need to inform others to be there at a certain time, whereas in reality, the scheduled time of meeting is always 30 to 45 minutes later. Typical. Anyhow, being the witty brats that we are, the trick ended up being outsmarted and having no purpose whatsoever as people came late anyway. The bus came on time and we hopped on to start our 1 hour plus bus ride to our destination. yeayy. :)
Two buses came to bring us to that sungai place from Jakal. While happily minding our own business; some sleeping on the dangerously unstable moving bus, some eating their breakfast and some covering their nose from the constant inhalation of dangerous porpotions of carbon monoxide, the bus suddenly stopped. *the girls’ bus only laah, boys one happily leave us behind*
A flat tireeee *potong stim*
The best part was, at the roadside where we stopped, you can see a small pond with fishes occasionally flicking the water surface.
One girl said, “let’s river raft here lahh. Also can whattt” you kidding me right. Hahaha. -_-"
After waiting on the stagnant bus for quite some time, to everyone’s relief, the bus driver fixed the problem and we were good to go! The boys have already reached the place at that time since they were already way ahead of us.
we're here!
aisyah bersama ain :)
Upon arrival, we were served with hot tea (more like overboiled, possibly tongue-burning hot tea). The place is quite nice actually. The facilities included, of course, river rafting equipments, a bungee port and also what seems to be an abandoned swimming pool. Gobi ended up “merasmikan” the pool when he became the first, (actually the only one) to be pushed into the lumut-infested pool. Hahaha. Some of us were busy taking photos while some, observing the eye-soothing scenary.
yerp, Gobi was pushed in THAT pool.
bungee bungee!
Group distributions! Dinakaren (batch 05) was the head of our delegation. He assorted us according to our respective groups and informed us the schedule of the day.
roopa n i :)
Ain sedang bersemangat!
irene, farah n william
ruhana, farah, ain, aisyah, fatin, clem, tka n me!
clem, adeline, malina n aisyah
The journey to the starting point, was indeed very interesting. haha. We were transported (barefooted!) by a modified small lorry jeep thingy to the starting venue. Some of us jokingly complained on how we look like illegal immigrants being transported here and there. Haha.
We geared up accordingly to fulfill the safety requirements. They provided us with safety jackets, helmets and of course oars. Some of us looked pretty ridiculous with the helmet on. Wee pang called me a turtle look-alike in the asymmetrical helmet. -_-“. Kecewa.
Our chief instructor was so hilarious during the briefing session about safety precautions while rafting. *the seniors said his jokes were ‘surprisingly’ similar all these years. So that’s a bit potong stim for me*
“jika kamu jatuh dari bot, buat gaya memandang ke belakang.....jika nggak boleh, buat aja gaya pasrah“
And the funniest part was that he did it with the straightest face ever you can imagine. Aisyah calls it ‘lawak kering’. Haha. Don’t ask me what is lawak basah okay -_-“ I also don’t know. So anyway, we started off with a prayer, (semuaorang concentrate extra a bit, probably praying hard for our dear lives) and the adventure starts!
Every group was assigned a humongous rubber boat and an instructor to save us from drowning or to prevent us from wandering aimlessly in the water.
Yeahh. BIG help…..
They were the ones having most fun splashing water (coffee mix coloured water, mind you) to us, the first timers from other boats.
But it was all great fun. We exhibit amazing group harmony while rowing in unison in an attempt to lead the boat to the right direction. For my group,*promotelahh a bit*, Fazrul led the pact by commanding ‘rowing’ instructions like “satu, dua, tiga tariiiiiikkkkkk” (ehh, like tarik tali pulak), or “satu, dua, kayuhhhhhhh” as all other groups probably did also, Then he got bored saying all the cliché instructions he suggested we command each other by saying names of nerves and drugs. Haha. For a second there I thought we should have put a big sign on our boat saying “medic students on a rowing mission!”
We enjoyed the scenic view while trying to maintain control of the boat. Upon reaching rocky and dangerous sites, the instructor instructed us to be extra careful and to row forcefully forward.
Ok. Getting nearerrrrr..
Nearerrrr.
BAMM!
OUR BOAT GOT STUCKED!!!
Half of the race ended, and we rowed to the side of the river to rest for a while. Some of us happily swam in the coffee mix coloured water while some, enjoyed their refreshments on the boat. One photographer/sungai elo paparazzo came and took our picture with our ‘boatmates’. cheeeessseee ^^
We continued our journey with more challenging current ahead of us and completed the whole course around an hour later.
nope haziq is not the mentioned paparazzo
we want our photos! :)
to be continued~
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