Forget And Not Slow Down
Another overdue post to cover non-YF camp stuff. Camp post is below this one.
So anyway, after YF camp was all darn shag and all. I had beautiful plans of crashing my bunk and knocking out but just then I checked and responded to a missed phone call and all of a sudden I found out that I’m going to Sports School for the last Wesley YM Camp message. Pretty much.
And then on Sunday, rushed to church for PA duties. Thereafter immediately departed for Gopeng which is kinda near Ipoh. We were planning to arrive in time for dinner. 1.5 hours wasted at the customs and 50km of traffic jams near Saremban (an hour before KL) put paid to that. If that wasn’t enough, we took a wrong turn at KL and found ourselves wandering aimlessly in Cyberjaya. We spent half an hour navigating out of that, only to take wrong turns and get back on the correct road twice more.
So we finally got to Gopeng at 10.30pm, more or less, and promptly found out how eerily remote our lodging was to be. A full 7km from the main road, which itself was a couple of km from the town proper. We drove through pitch black and stumbled upon a mansion, literally in the middle of nowhere in a oil palm plantation. Alright, it wasn’t too bad, there was a pool (which we never used), a basketball court, clean air-conditioned rooms, a library and even wi-fi. Wow.
Enough of my rambling about the first day. Monday, we went white water rafting. Water levels were rather low so river wasn’t as challenging as it was supposed to be but had tons of fun in the ice cold water.
Next day, we went caving. Since it was only 22 RM we decided to take the most challenging and longest package. That lasted over 4 hours, during which we covered 3km in, 3km out. The cave was A-W-E-S-O-M-E. A wonderful way to witness God’s creation. We climbed and descended 125m in the glittering cave, then our guide led us out of the paved area and into the total darkness. We didn’t want our shoes wet and wore flip-flops. Paid for our smartness with many cuts and we squeezed through numerous tight spots. Then suddenly we emerged into the underground river and followed it upstream into the exit of the cave on the opposite side of the mountain. Frolicked about for a while, then we went back in and trailed the river all the way back, which turned out to be even more challenging as we had to squeeze through even tighter areas.
Last day, drove back. Finally saw the parts of the highway which we had driven in darkness previously. The Gopeng-Tapah segment was breathtaking. All those limestone hills and mountains. Didn’t go shopping in Yong Peng with the rest of the convoy, instead went to Peter’s uncle’s farm and makan in some random eatery in JB. Then briefly visited Peter’s place and saw his O Level art piece LOL.
Okay as you can see my ravings have gone out of control. Shan’t talk about Christmas to spare any readers still reading. Night.
