A Joyous 'Family' Trip

On the 13th of March, I went to Cherating with 19 other friends that I met while organising the UMP CNY '10 Event.

The bunch of friends were the members of Food & Beverages unit along with our beloved 'mother' aka our head unit, Ong Huoy Ying...

We went there by using the chartered bus offered by our university's management.

Our journey started at 10.30am...

Throughout the journey, there were songs singing, throwing the beach ball in the bus and photo session in the bus...

At noon, we stopped at Berserah to have our lunch at KFC Berserah.

Then we continued our journey till we reached to the apartment we rented at Pantai Sungai Ular...

The place we rented is Sanctuary Resort Cherating.

We placed all our belongings and have a rest after few hours of bus ride before getting ourselves wet at the beach.

We had a great time at the beach, especially playing with the sand and covering our assistant head unit with sand.

Then, we dip ourselves in the swimming pool and we had a water polo game there.

That evening, we had steamboat as our dinner.

Although the steamboat prepared is not as grand as the one my actual family normally do annually in Cameron Highlands, its a very enjoyable one as its prepared by most of our 'family' members.

This is what you call the importance of body chemistry!

That night, we played poker card games which include big two.

We also watch Woo Hoo.

After wacthing Woo Hoo, our 'family' was split into two groups, one having ghost story telling session and one having their great time with big two.

At 1am in the morning, we prepared for our next activity but it is failed by the weather as it started to rain when we set up our BBQ set.

We postponed the activity to 9am.

It might be a joke to you to see people doing BBQ session under the scorching sun but you must believe me as we did ours under the mighty sun.

At noon we packed our belonging before departing back to our campus.

I hope that we can be a 'family' forever without looking at distance and boundaries.

Our spirit will continue.

F&B Forever

J.Z.Wong

Busy Weekend: Part 3

As early as 20 minutes past seven, I woke up to get ready for Briged Siswa's event, gotong royong.

The bus departed from UMP to Kg. Pelak, Pekan at eight o'clock.

The journey took half an hour.

At there we were greeted by the villagers warmly...

After having breakfast we were divided into four groups.

My group were assigned to clean up the cemetery area.

I took about two hours for my group along with the villagers to clean up the cemetery.

12.30pm I took my lunch, I was served Ikan Patin with rice and cabbage masak lemak and siren (syrup + orange) in malay as si for sirap and ren for oren as my drink.

Then we left the village for UMP at 2pm and reached my campus at a quarter to three.

Then I continued my work at Block W to wrap the remainding hampers...

Then at five in the evening, I went to the carnival to continue assisting the carnival unit till 9pm...

Then, I went to block W to continue doing the last hamper wrapping...

Then at midnight, our unit were asked to help the 'logistic' unit to shift the things from the square in front of the girls hostel to Block W...

Our job is done at two in the morning before having a briefing session regarding the last day till three in morning.

J.Z.Wong

Busy Weekend: Part 2

Normally when it's a public holiday, I'll be getting up late (minutes before noon) as I watched movies via my laptop till late night but its differs for Maulidur Rasul as I woke up as early as nine o' clock in the morning. With just merely five hours of sleep, I get myself ready to help the carnival unit to prepare the set-ups as they were lacking of members.

My work is done after 2pm then I had myself only a two hours of rest as I'm needed to rush back to assist the carnival unit till 9pm...

Although I'm required to assist them till 9pm only but I stayed to help them till 10pm.

At 10pm, I got myself moved to Block W to wrap several hampers as ordered by our beloved head unit of food and beverages.

Work is only done when it's twelve...

Then we had our own unit's post mortem before having one with the program director of CNY '10 event.

Things were settled at two o' clock in the morning.

J.Z.Wong

Busy Weekend: Part 1

It was the starting of my busy weekend...

It's the eve of Friday...

Normally, the eve of Friday will be my most relaxing night...

But its different for 25th of February 2010...

I'm having a test for Organic Chemistry on that night, then I need to rush myself to meet the head of food for the CNY Carnival then to CHEST(Chemical Engineeing Society) to do the banner for the Maulidur Rasul celebration.

At half past 10, I went to the main lecture hall a.k.a WDKU1 to attend the general meeting of CNY '10 celebration....

I'm stranded in the meeting for nearly two hours of nothing as there were no proper coordination between the units due to the last minute changes that were caused by several unwanted factors.

After the meeting around minutes past midnight, I'm required to rush myself to the square in front of the girl's hostel to set-up the carnival as logistic unit was 'lacking' of 'members'.

My service is done for that particular morning at a quarter to three in the morning.

J.Z.Wong