First Field Trip!

I had my first field trip on Saturday and it was a very memorable one! (for reasons you will soon find out)

I didn't wake up feeling like i was on top of the world because i still felt slightly feverish from the night before. Went to the bus depot to meet with fellow coursemates and we left for the first place which was an outcrop at Parit.

Not the prettiest outcrop, i must say. But it'll suffice to facilitate some of the things that we've learned in class.
We climbed up just to see more samples and also to snap photos of them for the report that we had to do. Also because some of us were just being monkeys and decided to climb up regardless of the danger =p
you may think that the whole structure is rock solid but it in fact isn't. There are a lot of loose particles that look like this.


They look like loose wood chips but are in fact loose particles that have eroded from the larger rocks!
There was also some mud at the base of the outcrop and the sun was still rising when i took this shot.

Kee Siong, a coursemate, happily jumped on the mud, thinking that it was solid (it does look solid doesn't it?) and sunk a good 2 inches and couldn't get out lol! We wanted to leave him there at first but we were nice people so we lifted him out =p

After that we headed to Gua Tambun which was an hour's bus ride away, to which i took advantage of and recuperated (read: slept like a pig) on the bus.

We climbed up about 3 to 4 storeys high before we reached our site. Looked at the structures there but we also found something else that was more interesting!

There were wall paintings left behind from long long ago. the second one kinda looks like a person throwing a hippo right? lol

We then got really bored up there and decided to take a group photo!

This is only a small portion of us. The rest were still going around looking at the structures. We spent about 30 minutes there before we left to go to our next destination, Cameron Highlands! =D

But not before the customary camwhore shot =p taken while climbing down from the limestone hill.

We left for Cameron, stopping halfway for lunch and also to look at another outcrop at the middle on the hill. This one was particularly interesting because the rocks there were the gleaming black kind called schist. We happily climbed up the slope and took a few samples back as souveniers.

Then we jumped back on the bus and continued up until we reached a tea house there.
Still wasn't feeling too well when i got there so i had a strawberry cupcake and a hot lemon tea (the weather was just so cool that a hot lemon tea was just right) hoping that it'll help. Bought some strawberry tea after contemplating for 10 minutes whether to get that one or the blackcurrant tea and continued on till we reached Brinchang.
We stopped by a strawberry, flower and vegetable farm and look look and see see for a while before we sat down to eat (again) lol.

Tay wanted to borrow my camera so i passed it to him. He was doing all sorts of weird poses with my camera, looking all pro. His poses were so pro that i literally witnessed my camera slip from his hands and did a 180 degree turn before hitting the floor.
oh. my. god. O.O
but luckily he was quick enough and not the whole camera touched the ground. Just a minor chip off my lens hood. but still. first time my camera touched the ground. painful weh. T.T
He felt so bad that he bought me one of these.
the small one of course.
But all was well. it was accidental after all and i'm just glad that it wasn't my lens or camera body that got scratched =) And as if dropping my camera wasn't bad enough, tay accidentally knocked over and spilled his espresso on the table lol. Thankfully everyone managed to avoid it and most importantly, my camera lol.
And off we went to the Cameron Highlands night market which had basically, more food and more strawberries -_- Seriously, everywhere you go there you'll see strawberries up, down left and right. Even their soft toys are of strawberries dammit lol.
After buying strawberries and some food, we hopped on back on the bus and hung out there while chit chatting for close to half and hour and we were wondering why weren't we leaving back for uni yet.
We asked our bus driver why, to which he answered 'We can't get the bus to start'
Oh crap.
We had to wait for the mechanic to come from Ipoh which could easily take 3 hours. It was already 7pm by that time so we decided to make the best out of the situation and go look for more food. oh yeah, we're pigs lol. but you can't blame us cause there really isn't anything else to do there.
And even after spending about 2 hours walking around, the mechanic still hadn't arrive. so we sat in the bus cracking jokes and just talking. it was fun and the cool weather made it even better =)
we ended talking about superstitious things and one of us mentioned that perhaps the rocks we took from the hill brought us bad luck (from dropping my camera, to spilling the espresso to the bus not being able to start, you see the trend right?). slowly one by one, we all got super paranoid that we quickly threw our rocks out of the bus LOL.
After a while, we just sat at a nearby hotel's lobby and started looking through our notes because we had 3 tests in the coming week. Bummed about until 11.30pm when the mechanic arrived in a car that was so old, you could see insane amount of rust on it. No wonder it took him so long to reach -.-
30 minutes later, the bus finally started and we were all super relieved. I slept as soon as i got on the bus and it only took the driver 2 hours to reach back to uni (i really don't wanna know how fast he was driving lol).

And here i am now, having OD-ed on strawberries and worrying about my next test which will be in 4 hours. So till the next post everyone ;)