The environment are still preserved even though there is human interference.
On the 18th October 2009; Sunday morning approximately 6.35am was BEACA’s week 10 activity. It was located about 20 minutes drive from UBD and about 5 minutes drive from Bandar. Anyway, this trekking was near the diplomatic residence, near the Yayasan’s school and the government’s buildings. I should say that this activity really challenge us mentally and physically. It was hard but fun because we manage to find a lot of plant and insect species.
A unique hairy fruit that largly found around the area
This trekking I volunteer myself as the leader and Hafidz as my sweeper. Dr. Asmah and Nazz were in my group. During this moment, I hold a very important job which is to lead my team out of the thick forest safe and sound. The forest was a bit tricky for my experience since it was raining the night before the activity and it was really slippery. Yet I take the challenge as to gain experience and knowledge for preparation of my future obstacles. We were in the 1st group. I had a hard time to recall the trek that we set up during the recce since all the mark and trail are all covered and washed off due to the rain. Simply saying everything is changing and all I and Hafidz can do is follow our instinct, heart and mind.
Part of the challanges along the path.
During our walk in the jungle, we found varieties of plants and insects inhibit the forest. Plants have the potential to be natural herbs of medicines. The most well known traditional herbs are the “tongkat ali” which can be used as an energy boosters or the “Kuduk-Kuduk” which is locally used as to reduce scars. Apart from that, I also found a few hard woods and soft woods grow wildly around the area (asked old folks by showing them the picture that we have taken during the trekking). This shows that Brunei areas are suitable to grow soft and hard woods for commercial used. Traditional herbs that are practice by Bruneian old folks can also be exported as to exploited Bruneian economy.
"Tongkat Ali" are wildly grown along the trek. this show that the ground are very suitable for the species to be grown in a bigger scale because of its worldwide demand and its potential( traditional medicine and also everyday nutrients).
parasite that live along with the leaves.
Some trees live together with the fungi or ferns because of the surrounding conditions due to its ability to supply certain nutrients for the trees.
Along the trekking, we were able to hear a lot of bird’s sound (since we’re asked to be quiet as not to scare any animal in the forest from our past activity). The trek was a bit slippery since it was covered by wet leaves and thank god that I learned my lesson to wear the right boots and long pants. Unfortunately we were lost when I found out that it was dead end on front of us, so I follow my heart to stick together and went back to the check point. Dr. Asmah called Dr. Irene and asked if we were going the right way or not and we were asked to turn back. It was a good thing to do to turn back where we came in. There is also this thing that old folks always talk about that never to say anything that is not good in jungle because you might easily get lost and they warned us not to say anything when we saw anything that is weird during our journey because it is actually the “penunggu” – superstition passed from generation to generation.
So we continued to head to an exit. We took 3 hours in this jungle and finally made our back to starting points near the parking lots. So there were lots of things which I could LEARN in this activity when our groups were lost that always to use a unique marking so that we will not get confuse with others mark.
Thick "frens" making the trek hard to recognise and confusing.
Collecting non-biodegradable rubbish as part of the activity.
I believe that by being confident and trusting our own instinct can lead us to the right way. Our intelligence and creativity help us to increase our leadership skills as well as team work is much better and worth in than anything else. Be focus especially when we’re facing obstacles and conflict as conflicts will help us to handle problems in our own ways without panicking. Thus, what I have learned from our activity will help me to face the future.
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