Student Leadership Development Camp 2008

Dusun Eco Resort is a training and recreational village that located in the district of Bentong , Pahang (56.8km Lebuhraya KL-Karak)..The camp was held on 14-16th March 2008...As a vice-president of the Economics Society , i represented Pre-U school to participate in this camp...

We reached the destination precisely 3 pm ...As the resort located on the hill , so we travelled the trucks to go up...Welcome to Dusun Eco Resort...

This is a view being captured while truck-travelling...We screamed loudly when the truck started to move up to the scary slope...

Eventually , we reached the chalets...After we settled down , we went to the canteen to have our lunch before the first activity began...

After the meal , we have to clean the tables and washed the plates , foxs and spoons by ourselves...

Patin hall is a place to conduct seminars during the camp :

1 . Behavioural and Leadership Styles ( 4 types ) and it have its own specific characteristics...

• Popular Peacock
• Peaceful Dove
• Perfect Owl
• Powerful Eagle
  

2 . Speaking Without Fear

3 .Developing Positive Attitudes and Managing Time Effectively

4 . Effective meeting and Minutes Writing

5 . Turbo-Charged Team Building (indoor activities)

This is the swimming pool that filled with natural water from the mountain stream...

The canteen is located just infront of the pool ....

Bamboo rafting

The first water activity began...All the participants divided to 4 groups in this particular competition...We have to build our raft by using the bamboos that being provided...We have to paddle the raft to the end of the lake and the fastest team will be the winner...

• make sure it is able to float
• do not sink when 8-10 participants sit on the raft to paddle
• make sure the raft is balanced on the both sides
  

Eventually , our group became the winner and bad luck occured to opponent team...their raft was sank when it reached the middle of the lake...haha~~!! All of them was fallen into the water ....We laughed at them loudly and eventually they swam to our raft and a "raft-sinking" show began~~!! so funny and we did enjoy it...

Abseiling / Repelling

Rock climbing

It is an activity that full of excitement...Unfortunately , it's not high enough for me~~!!

The facilitators demostrated the techniques before we started to climb...For the rock climbing , the facilitators only used precisely 7 seconds to reach the top part...I was failed to complete the mission and just able to reach 3 quarters of it~~!!

Flying fox (the facilitators)

This is an activity that enables you to emulate the feeling of flying through the air with the cool wind on your face...Exciting~~!!

Vietnam bridge

We have to balance our bodies all the way to across the bridge...the height of the bridge is approximately 70 metres...

Obstacle courses

Above is a picture of SPARTAN group before the obstacle courses started...the first obstacle course is the wall that is located at the left hand side of this picture...

There are 12 challenging obstacle courses that included

• Wall (6 feets for girls , 12 feets for boys)
• Spider Net
• Tyre Loop
• Kargo Net
• balancing "V"
• Commando Crawl
• Commando Crop
• Side Walk
• Straight Walk
• One Step Ladder
• One Step Swing
• Titian Balak
  

Balancing "V"

This is one of the hardest obstacle course...Most of the participants were failed~~!!

Titian Balak

Straight Walk

One Step Swing

One Step Ladder
Tyre Loop
Kargo Net
Commando Crop

Commando Crawl

Jungle Trekking

A difficult mission for all the participants :

• 3 eggs and a plastic bag are given to each group and put the eggs into the plastic bag after it filled with water...
• eggs are not allowed to be broken after the jungle trekking finished , one egg broken considered mission failed
• A roll of toilet paper is given by the facilitators at the check-point and each group must select a member to immitate a injury victim , team members have to co-operate with each others to carry the victim until the jungle trekking activity over...
• the groups that completed this 2 missions are the winner~~!!

Teamwork and co-operation are very crucial in a team...

We acted like crazy monkeys in the truck when it was moving down to the scary slope...

Picture taken at the side of the swimming pool

A picture is captured at the canteen before the arrival of the truck to fetch us off from the resorts....

Last piece of group photo being captured while waiting the arrival of the bus to send us back to KL...11 of the team members from KL main campus and 4 of them from Penang campus...

Prefect's Camp

Above is a picture that promoting Taman Negara , Pahang Darul Makmur , Malaysia (National Park Of Malaysia) , the largest and oldest rainforest in South-East Asia...try to find out GUA TELINGA in the above picture , Enjoy later~~!!

The National Park encompasses three states in Malaysia , which are Pahang , Kelantan and Terengganu..The total area of the park is 4343 kilometres square...The big portion of light green area on the map represents the location of the park...Below are the 2 links that help you to know more about the National park...
http://www.geocities.com/sharimauk/Map1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Negara_National_Park

The prefectorial board 2006 (our batch , form 5) had organized a prefect's camp to Taman Negara in the month of May...It was a 3 days 2 nights camp...All the prefects assembled in the school compound according to their groups...A short briefing was given by the camp leader before we moved in to the bus...We used this opportunity to take a photograph in the bus before the journey to our destination...

Above is the Pahang main entrance ...As the park encompasses 3 states in Malaysia , the other 2 main entrance are located at Kelantan and Terengganu...

This main entrance's view is being captured at the opposite shore where the chalets are located ...We have to travel boats to across the river ...

Finally , we reached the park...There are few restaurants being setup on the river , it is convenient for all of us...

JUNGLE HUNTER

A short briefing was given by the facilitators before we hunted into the jungle...

It was second day (night time) , we had a night-walk in the jungle...The main purpose of this activity was to find out tigers and wild boar because these 2 animals will appear to hunt for food at night...(information by the facilitators)

Eventually , we waited for almost 1++hours in the jungle hide but never have a chance to see the appearance of a tiger and wild boar~~!! Sigh...Arghh~~zzz

RAPIDS SHOOTING

Tembeling River

This is an activity that full of excitement which is called Rapids Shooting...It provides an exciting ride when the river is in full flood...i did enjoy this activity so much~~!! really excited ~~

All of us were screaming and shouting loudly for the unlimited excitement and we were well prepared to get wet or for a thorough soaking~~!!

Above is a picture of Chun Hoo and Houzhi before the rapids shooting started...

After the rapids shooting ended , we continued with a few water activities which included swimming , water polo and etc...

CANOPY WALKWAY

Above is a picture of the entrance to the longest canopy walkway of this enormous rainforest as well as the world , which is 45 metres high and 510 metres long...

We walked slowly to balance our bodies...The gap between 2 person should be 5-10 metres away to stabilize each other , so that the weights can be sustained by the walkway...

Above is a picture of Kean Loong ....

As the facilitators told us that if u have not completed canopy walk , u have not completed Taman Negara...Eventually , all the prefects have completed the canopy walk successfully in almost 2++hours...We were so excited and delighted after the completion of the mission...Cheers

JUNGLE TREKKING

Welcome to Taman Negara...this is the headquaters of the park that located in front of the main entrance , which is above the stair case of the jetty for boat-travelling...

This is Tahan Mountain Range and Gunung Tahan (2187m) is the highest elevation of it...

Above is a picture of a scorpion that we saw ...

Besides , Gunung Tahan ( the highest peak in Peninsular Malaysia ) can be seen from Teresek Hill ...We were admiring the scenery on the hill...

GUA TELINGA (EAR CAVE)

After lunch , the most challenging activity began ....Gua Telinga (Ear Cave) exploration~~!!We took a photograph in front of the cave before we entered...The cave was extremely dark and we have to use torch lights ...Furthermore , it was so slippery and smelley~~!!

The cave was extremely dark and we captured it by using the brightness of torch lights...The bats were flying here n there while we passed through ..Besides , we have to squeeze in the cave by bending down our bodies because the cave has a rock formation like a human ear and full of narrow paths...It really brought alot of difficulties to us but fortunately we were managed to overcome it~~ prefects rock~~!!

Above is a moment that being captured before the arrival of the bus to send us back to KL...Our camp finally over~~!!

Above is a picture of camp leader , assistant camp leader and 5 group leaders...

Houzhi's group ( my group ) with camp leader and assistant camp leader

Kean Loong's group with camp leader and assistant camp leader

Abirami's group with camp leader and assistant camp leader

yee ven's group with camp leader and assistant camp leader

Joanne's group with camp leader and assistant camp leader

Amazing sky....

It was an evening , approximately 5.30pm , we were bored while waiting the preparation of the dinner to be done...We took a ride around the village by riding a motorcycle and 2 bicycles (there were 4 of us)...Once again , the camera man never missed out the golden opportunity to capture the sky...

unbelievable...can we see this in KL~~?? so beautiful , really speechless~~!! this remarkable moment reminded me to recall back the sunset after a rainy evening...amazing~~!!

Daylight was ebbing away slowly when darkness started to cover it ...