Rimba Trekking

9th October 2009, we are going jungle trekking again. For this week my post is The Leader and Asri Hj Mohammad became my Sweeper and my group member is Muhd Nuh and Ayiee. This is our second jungle trekking and this time it’s more challenging than the previous one. We started our jungle trekking at 6.30am and came out at 8.15am. The trek organizer divided us into four group, we were the first group to enter the jungle.

Leading the Way
As a leader, I have to be responsible for my group member. It’s not easy to become a leader, you needs a lot of courage and bravery to lead a group of people because you don’t know what dangers ahead you, so the leader should have a quality that makes him/her able to meet dangers without fear.

Ok, after I make sure everyone is ready, Dr Irene gave us green light to started entering the jungle followed by second group not very far behind us. The trek is bushy because of the grass ‘lalang’ sprout up fast since no one has been trekking there for a long time. It is not easy to track down our mark because the mark is not very clear and difficult to see it, we first mark it when we recce the jungle on Monday, 5th October 2009 with Dr Irene. Despite of the difficulties, we managed to find our way through the jungle and of course this is because of the teamwork that we have built up and the good help of my sweeper.

Along the trek, we have a chance to see a foot print of a wild hog but we are not lucky enough to see one. We also have a chance to enjoy the natural beauty of the jungle and the strange thing is, there is drainage in the middle of the jungle… hmmm… I wonder why?

After around 20 minutes, my group manages to get out through the jungle and wait at the checkpoint for the other groups. Our group has given a BONUS, which is 15 minutes break. This is because of the support in teamwork that my group shows along the trekking that give us advantage 15 minutes earlier than the second group came out from the jungle.

Our first plan is to get back the same way we entered the jungle after meeting at the first checkpoint. But after we discuss about our experience and we felt like the first checkpoint was easy, then we make a decision with Dr Irene to trek another way to go through out from the jungle and Dr Irene agree.

New Way
The second trek was challenging and much more interesting. Why is it interesting? Guess what, there is an abundant house inside the jungle, don’t ask me why. I’ve been thinking why they waste a hundred thousand or a million dollar of money to waste without making any profit??? And the most important sad thing is they destroy the natural beauty of the jungle just to build an abundant house. All these wastages can be avoided if they plan really carefully in order to give a profit for both sides. Last but not least, we accomplished our trekking at Rimba that end up at the executive housing nearby where we start. It was a very useful experience to learn and I learn a lot in this activity.

“A Successful Teamwork Beats With One Heart”