January, 2007

Water Rafting

January 22nd, 2007 January 22nd, 2007
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Days passed so fast and i was sitting in front of my lap top and recorded down what had happend yesterday.

My course mates and i went to padas river water rafitng.In the early morning, my roommate and i went to bus stop wait for other friends come to meet us. The bas reach there around 7.30am. Everyone look so excited and less of tiredness although most of us get not enough sleep on the day before. The bus took about 1 and half hour to reach Beaufort. We have to take the train from Beaufort to Pangi which is the starting point of water rafting. Train should be reach at 10am and depart after a few minutes but after we waited for 45mintutes the train is still stay at the same place. Someone told us the train was broken down and need to take some time to repair. Everyone feel so hot and frustrated so we decided go out the train for a walk.

11.35am, train moved. We move back to the train and take another 1 and half journey to Pangi. It was an very old typed of train, can’t drive too fast and need to stop at each station after 7 minutes. All of us have no place to sit and need to stand in whole journey. Everyone start feel sleepy and dizzy. We reach there around 1pm. We got light refreshment there and the life guards gave us safety briefing for the water rafting. We were rafting on the Padas River. The end point will be at Rayoh and it need take about 1 hour to complete whole game. We start rafting after a while. 7 peoples form in 1 group and all of us were very excited. The waves in the river keep hitting us and we were nearly fall into the sea but everyone keep try to be balance and stay calm in the boat. We can choose to switch the place to sit while the game is proceed and the last time switch over I change to the front place. I don’t need to paddle that time but need to hold two big guys in front of me. As everyone should know I’m kinda weak. It is impossible for me to hold them tightly if the wave hit on us. Within expectation, when the wave comes, the wave pushed me to the back. Everyone are laughing because I’m not only can’t hold them but dragged them fall down also. But I really feel very fun that time.

When we reach the end point is already 2.30pm. We immmediately change the clothes and get our food as soon as possible because the train have to leave there at 3pm. All of us are so rush. We got lamb steak, chicken wings, sausages, rice, mee ,drinks and banana!! We sat the open air train because there was really too may people in the train. We enjoyed out lunch under the sun. Everything seem so good but the train suddenly STOP!! The train was spoil again!! We feel so hot and everyone are like in sauna. Some of us use towel to over our face while eating our lunch. If u were with us, you’ll sure feel that we are like the illegal worker come from Indonesia.

Time passed very fast and the train was fixed at 6pm.
It send
us to another station and we changed to another small train which can be drink in 107km speed. Everyone of us like dancing in the train because we have to balance our body and prevent to fall down. We have to hold something tightly. It is a very good experient for me in this trip. I got to try many new things and have fun with all my friends.

p/s: water rafting is not as fun as I thought.. I feel it so so only..