Primers Challenge 02/08 12-15 Dec

Pahang, Malaysia

It all began in the BB HQ. When we were split into 5 teams of 5. I was in team 1. We completed our "tasks" the slowest. We had to solve a sudoku puzzle and make a square out of odd shapes. We took a taxi to tanjong pagar railway station and were the first team to arrive. We reached at about 230pm.

While waiting for the train to come at 6pm, we went to play soccer at a nearby void deck.. played till it was 530 i think. Filled in our white cards and we r off to malaysia.

The train arrived at 215am. It was awfully hard to sleep in the train. So we camped at the canteen and start gossiping :) When we reached Jerantut, we walked to our "half-star" hotel to sleep for the night.

We woke up at 530 and had roti-prata for breakfast at 630am. Ate till 730 before packing our bagpacks to head for gua balai. The bus journey took half hour and we were all sleeping in the bus.

Once we reached, we headed to our campsite. It was an abandoned bat cave. Straight after that, we started our caving. The journey was really long and exhausting. Climbing up and down getting our hands and pants muddy. Jiang Wei wanted to give up half way, but we pushed him to carry on. Once we reached the top, it was only that we realised that our legs "except mine" were filled with leeches!

Reached the bat cave. The cave was reach dark, noisey and smelly! The floor is filled with awful bugs that crawl in your shoes. The smell was "argh"! The cave was like a hill, we had to climb up and down continuously. When we reached the bottom, we took a group photo and realised that this cave was used for abseiling. When climbed all the way back up only to get our hands filled with bat's poo. Lost my footing twice on my way up. We took a different exit which led to a 250 feet rusty vertical staircase down!

The climb down was really really scary, no safety lines and a miss foot could land u all the way down. I guess its not for the faint hearted :/

On the ground at last, we trekked all the way back to our campsite. It took us around 5 and a half hours to complete the caving activity. Had our lunch and had another hike to another cave. It was called gua something something. Which means moonlight cave =] This cave was much better then the previous 1. Not as smelly, not as noisey, have man made lights, path for us to walk and it was really really cooling inside.

Was time for our campfire after the hike. Unfortunaely, it rained like mad. So we had to have our campfire in gua balai. We used torchlight as fire. We played wacko, musical ball and continue the story. It was really fun! even though i had to do push-ups on top of kennedy >:(

Washed up and slept for the night. Btw, we slept with leeches crawling around our tent.

Woke up and took the bus to Taman Negara. It was much better then Gua Balai. Much more people and the atmosphere was better. We trekked all the way to the canopy walkway. It was really scary for me. Height+shaky bridge=gregory scared. Rmb this formula and u will get A+ for A maths =]

Done the walk and we hiked to bukit teresek. 344m which is way higher then bukit timah hill :/ Climbed down and had our lunch on a floating restaurant. We took the bus back to our hotel before going our for shopping. Bought a few snacks and played bridge until it was 1am.

We checked out of our hotel and went to the railway station only to realised that our train has been delayed until 10am in the morning >=[ So we tried to ton the whole night by playing bridge and 4 card game that sean taught us. We couldnt stay up any longer and finally slept at 430am. We woke up at 530am to wash up and bathe before leaving at 630am for breakfast.

We had dim sum for breakfast. Our total cost was RM250++ which was really really cheap if u convert it to sing dollars.

The train finally came, we boarded the train, played bridge before sleeping through the whole journey. We alighted at johor bahru and took sbs bus all the way back to singapore! We reached singapore at about 6. Said goodbye to every1 and left. My father me and yc home.

I enjoyed this camp alot. It was taught me to appreciate things in life. Thanks BB for the experience. =D