Sony Nature Photography Camp 08 - Geopark Langkawi

4 days and 3 nights, 18th Oct - 21st Oct, mark the interesting history in my life. [Lol whats with the formal tone? Back to the Cheryl tone] Langkawi was great!!! Went there with Zhi Yi and Jun Kit. A short breakdown on what happened.

1st day
Reach JPS at 8.05am, and the 2 teams [Bukit Sentosa and Sri Aman] are already there (only 3 teams are supposed to be there) where we're only supposed to reach at 8.30am. When we're there, we saw the BIG truck, with a few police cars following behind. And we thought it was the PMR paper! We went like "oh my gosh oh my gosh it's the PMR paper!" Turned out to be the SPM paper in the end. WOW! Poor Darren, I can't peep for him lol. Hopped on the bus, took like 7-8 hours just to reach Langkawi (including ferry). In the bus & ferry, we talked crap all the way, laugh like nobody's business, cause we all went high (effect after having so much of snacks). Reached Langkawi around 8pm, had dinner and when we're having a taklimat kinda thing, it rained! Heavily! Just then my slippers spoiled. Hahaha... So I just wore sport shoes that night. Not a big deal since I'm going to bed already.

2nd day
Woke up real early, 6am. Washed up, went out from the dorm, with Zhi Yi and Jun Kit leaving me behind cause they wanna go snap some pictures. Had a harddddd time finding them, I ended up at the Langkawi Cable Car place lol, since it is so near to our dorm site. I went like "ehhhhh!!! I wanna go I wanna go!" But too bad la, we're not allowed to go. *hmph* But its okay since I sat that last year already. =P Had breakfast, then headed to Mutiara Burau Bay, for beach/island exploration. WOW! Picture time. Snap snap snap. The island, Anak Burau Island, is gonna be cleared soon, like in a few days time, so we really took all the "last shots" of the island. Had lunch, then went for mangrove exploration. Wasn't like what I expected, no muds at all! Just sandy. Haha... After much snapping, went back to Geopark Dorm, washed up and had dinner. Uploaded all the pictures and start to work on our PowerPoint Presentation. (bear in mind that this is a competition!) Manage to do half of the presentation with the help of our facilitator, Wee Ling! She's really a big help, helping us to do most of the editting. Wooot! She rocks!

3rd day
Woke up at around 6.45am cause we're really tired! Had breakfast and headed to Mutiara Burau Bay again. This time, Jun Kit went to snap the pictures alone, while Zhi Yi and I work on the PowerPoint Presentation and think of the correct slides/storyline to put in. The pictures on this particular morning was really nice! Credits to Jun Kit. Did the uploading of the pictures and had lunch, then we just work on the presentation for the afternoon. Had to hand in the presentation at 3pm, but they extended to 3.30pm. But we're already done by 2 something anyway, so no biggie. At night was the presentation, we were the 3rd group from the last, although we're group number 5, sequential picking. Zhi Yi and I took turns to talk on stage, presenting our pictures, while Jun Kit control the laptop for the slides. After the number of "training" I have for public speaking in church, it was okay for me, just a bit nervous. Well I can say, the presentation went on really well, thank God!

4th day
Woke up, went to the breakfast area. After eating, went to take our group pic in front of Geopark Hotel, and took some scenery shots, nice view there! Then we went to Mutiara Burau Bay for the prize giving ceremony. Before that, the Timbalan Pengarah Sukan came up to give speech. Bla bla bla, all bahasa campur start to come up, how Malaysian... Then the most important moment.

"3rd prize winner, from the land of Malaysia, Subang Jaya, SMK USJ 12!!!"

3 of us were like "oh my gosh" then we went up to take the prize, RM250 Sony Cash Voucher each, including the school. WOW, but not really enough for us. Better than nothing! Hahaha...

2nd prize - SMK Bukit Sentosa, Rawang (Go Alison! Go Darren! Go Khalil!)
1st prize - St. Mary, Kuching (Go Samantha! Go Alex! Go Chin!)

Wooot! After that was the photography session, wow all of us feel like a star, thousands of cameras, millions of flash. Then all of us smile until our jaw was pain, seriously! Good memories. Then we went back to Geopark to pack our luggage, only 5 minutes, then we went on the bus and head to the jetty. Watched a bit of Die Hard 4 in the ferry, then I fell asleep halfway through. =P Woke up, out of the ferry, back on the bus to go back to KL. Talked crap on the bus again, all 3 teams were all hyper, went totally crazy! And 100 fishy died on that day. 100 goldfish... RIP goldfish! LOL. Inside joke inside joke. Reached Shah Alam at 11.30pm, therefore reach home at around 11.50pm.

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I know I said short breakdown on what happened, but there's too much thing to say! So yeah, quite short already. Now for the photos.

Sea urchin

Red Ants

Buah Memperi which can cause abortion *gasps*

Hairy caterpillar. Haha..

Butterfly lizard. Taken by Jun Kit.

Leaf Monkey, by Jun Kit

Leaf Monkey, by Jun Kit

Wooot!

SMK Bukit Sentosa, SMK USJ 12

Alison with her free T given by Sony

My bunk

Dorm view

Dorm view

Dorm view

Dorm view

Jennie, SMK Convent Taiping

Outside Geopark Hotel

Outside Geopark Hotel too

SMK Bukit Sentosa

Whoops, camwhoring

Jun Kit!

Miss Chew

Tauke Darren

Tagged by Shermaine.

1) Do you think you are hot?
[Drama] yeahh, who can be hotter than me?

2)Upload a favourite picture of yourself..
None of the pics is with me alone, or at least I can't find it in this com

3) Why do u lyk the picture?
Because there is no picture

4) When is the last time you ate pizza?
Last friday! Used NIE Pizza Hut voucher.

5) The last song you listen to?
Hillsong song

6) What are you doing right now bside dis?
MSNing

7) What name you prefer besides your name?
Beryl

5 ppl to tagged:
1) Justina
2) Kylie
3) Chan Tong
4) Zhi Yi
5) Jun Kit

8) Hu is number 1?
mua best friend

9) Number 3 is having a relationship with?
No one, I hope xD

10) Say Smnthing abt number 5?
Teddy bear!

11) How abt number 4?
DRAMA!

12) Hu is number 2?
Kylie lor!

Langkawi?

Ahaha... It's 6am and I am up here blogging away. I'm only supposed to wake up at 6.30 but I think I'm over-excited so my body woke up itself automatically. =.=

ONE MORE PAPER TO GO!!! GEOGRAPHY!!!

And I am sooooo excited about it. Will be going to Mid Valley after school with Zhi Yi, Jun Kit and John. Then we will use our Pizza Hut voucher to have pizza! Then then then... Uhh... I don't know what's gonna happen there. Movie? Bowling? But the gang up there wanna shop till they drop. =.= More of Jun Kit only. xD

LANGKAWEEEEEEEEE (Zhi Yi's style of saying)

Woot! Woot! I can't wait to hop on the bus and go to Langkawi! With Zhi Yi and Jun Kit. Beaches, beaches, and more beaches! And mangrove too... Sony said that we're exploring the mangrove place, so yeah. Not sure whether I can blog in Langkawi, depends whether Sony let us go to the hotel lobby after lights out hour or not.

Ahhhhh I'm getting so excited! Lalalalala...


P.S I'm so gonna miss all of you from Teenacity!!!

Saturday!

Yeah, in case if you don't know me well, Saturday is my favourite day among all the 7 days in the week. Why? Cause I get to go to Acts Saturday Evening Service and I get to meet my friends. No, not ordinary friends, extraordinary friends, interesting and precious people. Yup, that is how important they are. =)

Anyways, I woke up at 10am in the morning and after washing up, went to the comp. Since it's a Saturday, I have no mood to study, so I just stare at the comp and chat with some people. I was waiting for my bro to come back home and also for Joshua to fetch him home, so that I can go to church! Waited for about an hour, then headed to church. Went to the Soya Shop to meet with Justina, and suddenly there's the whole gang over there, chatting (more of listening to Philip's bai jiao* questions), totally ruined my study plan!!! =/

* bai jiao meaning lame in mandarin

Then Justina and I went to McD since we haven't have our lunch yet. Was so peaceful until Philip came and look for us, with the whole gang again! So we just talk crap all the way... Then we went up to church to prepare for Saturday Evening Service. I was the Program Coordinator and Rosalind tagged along with me. (More of I'm tagging with her since I'm still new to the new service). Anyways, handled some Host stuff as well, then made sure everything is well-prepared. Pastor Andy was the chairperson for the day, so Rose and I had to brief him. Woooot cool to brief a pastor! =P But Rose did most of the briefing, I just add on anything that she missed out, not that we have to brief much cause Pastor Andy is a professional chairperson! =D

Soon, service started. After Praise and Worship, after Announcements and Tithes and Offering, I went up to share my testimony, about being chosen as the H2O and the free trip to Langkawi.

Thanks to Audrey for the pic! =)

Then Elder Kien Yiak went up to preach, and the altar call was just amazing. Also, praise the Lord for the 1 rededication! I'm sure whoever is it has made the right decision, one that he/she wouldn't regret for life.

After service, went to have dinner with my family + my uncle and my aunt. Went to this steamboat place in Bandar Puteri Puchong, it was totally awesome! I haven't feel so satisfied for a meal for a long time already! We sat there non-stop eating in the restaurant like for... 2 hours? Then we just stayed there for another half an hour just to chit-chat. The thing is, the price is totally reasonable! Thanks to my uncle and I, that we vote to eat at this place instead of another Thai restaurant which will at least cost RM200. So we saved around RM100? Haha...

And I so can't wait to get my new specs tomorrow! =D