Green Camp 2009

Green Camp 2009

~Rise of the Green Nation~

Green Camp 2009 started on last friday, 31st of July 2009. It was organized by the Uniten ICE student chapter. The journey started at 9am from Uniten, where the programme committee members & logistic committee members went to the Taman Pertanian Malaysia Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam. The place is near to my place. Hahaha.. Reached there around 10.30am after the breakfast. Settled all the things in the hall. The chalet look very nice. It's better what I thought. Have a quick meeting before the partcipants arrive. So many changes for the second & third day programme flow especially for the river cleaning. Quite blur with it actually. Pity the assistant director, he need to solve it fast. He quite tension with it. But all of the members were trying to help him to solve it.

The Hall at the Ideallic Village

the Programme Committees were discussing the programme flow before it starts
The participants

The participants arrived at 4.15pm. Around 44 people participated the camp excluded the committee members. The first programme was the Ice Breaking. As usual, the participants introduced themselves. Saw each groups created their own team cheers & mascot. But 1 of the participants was half-naked & acted like a warrior. Bro Ben told me that he & his 2 other comrades are extremely psyco. Hahaha..I think it will be fun to see them play. After the first programme was the welcome speech by the chairman of the organizing committee & the advisor of the ICE student chapter. At night was the second programme, the Rise of the Atlantis. Each groups were provided with some materials to build a building or environment according to the theme that selected randomly by them. First of all, I thought they couldn't build it well because they got the limited materials only. Example, one of the group got the hanger clips & 1 card borad only. But they proved me wrong. They are so creative & built a good structure of the building. Somemore, most of the participants were study the other courses such as EE, EP & ME. After the second programme, the participants can have a rest but for the committees, need to stay back for another briefing by the asst. head of programme, Hui. The briefing is about the river cleaning, the main programme for the camp. Everyone in the programme department scare that alot of problems will happen during the river cleaning. Finished the briefing at 11.30pm. Went back to the chalet. Didn't took bath..Very tired..Saw some of the seniors were playing around especially the head of programme...Hahaha..I felt that the seniors have the strong & good friend relationship..Slept at 1am.

Second day, woke up very early at 4.50am..Need to take turn for bath. 10 people shared one toilet.. Some of them bathed very fast..Some of them bathed very slow..But, all of us were on time. Sharped at 7am, waited at the hall to fetch the logistics guys & went to Klang to set up the things. Unfortunately, the logistics guys woke up late & caused a little delay..Hui was very angry about it..Maybe it's due to the conflict between the both heads of departments..I became the tour guide for them..Luckily we reached Klang on time..After setting up the things, went back to BC with another senior because I need to guide 2 buses to the location. The river cleaning was held at Taman Pengkalan Batu, Klang. It next to one of the dirtiest river in Malaysia, the Klang river. I can smelt the Great Smell of the Klang River~ Helped to ensure the programme flow goes well..Luckily the day was not too hot.. It was a moderate day. Finished the river cleaning & tree plantation at 10.35am. The participants need to do some brainstorming & present their ideas to the judges. All of the groups got their own ideas. Went back to Bukit Cahaya at 11.45am. Reached there around 12.30pm. Quite on time.

At the Taman Pengkalan Batu, Klang

The participants had their lunch & rest until 2.30pm. As follow the plan, there were 2 talks start from 2.30pm. But due to the speakers, all of the programme flow delayed & it makes the programme members had a headache. But luckily, The speakers doesn't talk so much. It still on time. But pity for the participants, they need to listen & they felt so tired due to the previous programme. After the talks, then next programme was BBQ session. Really had fun at that time.. And the most thing that I liked was the lemonade made by Dr. Chua, the senior lecturer & advisor for the ICE student chapter. His lemonade was super good. It's better than the other lemonade that I had before.. Finished the BBQ session at 7.30pm. Talked craps with other committee members..This is the good time to make the bond of the friendship between seniors & juniors closer..Took bath..Do some preparation for the next programme, Tribute to the Mother Nature.. Actually it's a performance night. Each team need to perform a drama or musical performances..1 of the best team was the brown group, they performed the wayang kulit..it's very creative, but they were not winner..the winner was the red group, their story line was better & followed the theme given well..Finished the programme around 11pm. Had another meeting for the last day programme..Really scared that the Wild Run programme will have some problems. Went back to chalet at 12am. Discussed the programme flow with the seniors..Bro B looks so tension..He need to recheck back the Wild Run programme.. Slept at 1am++

The last day, felt that the time pass so fast..woke up at 4.45am..Need to called the participants to wake up at 5.30 am because the next programme, the Moonlight Walk starts at 6am. It's a morning walk & the participants need to walk in the dark without the torchlight. After they came back to the camp, they were surprised because they were going to have a pop quiz for the Moonlight Walk. Haha...most of them couldn't answer it well..Haha...luckily there was a group to win the breakfast prize..Make another meeting before the Wild Run starts.. Quite nervous..hoped that it will run well.. I was stationed at 4 season Garden with Y. I think there will be gossip when i reach back to Uniten. While on the Wild Run, I forced the 1 of the male particpants of each groups to act like a girl while the female participants to act like a boy. they need to say I love you & I hate you on the same time..Haha..How bad am I..Suddenly..the sky turned to dark & rain..I pity the participants..They need to run through under the rain..but I think it's fun for them because This is the time to be wild & chill...

The programme had been cancelled due to the weather. Went back to chalet by car. Looked at all of the participants...Almost all of them were wet. But 3 out 2 groups managed to finished the Wild Run in less than 1 hour & 15 minutes..Wow...they really ran all the time..Really good..Every participants & some of the committee members took bath. I didn't bath because still need to packed the things. The camp finished at 11.45am with prizes presentation, speeches & photo session.

Everyone went back to Uniten at 12.30pm..I didn't go back to my house although the Bukit Cahaya is near to my house because I have another meeting at 8.30pm..Felt so tired..
Last day of the camp

Conclusion:

• Learn alot of things on how to organize a programme
• Make alot of new friends especially the CE seniors
• Almost know some of the seniors 'inner' attitude..Haha..
  
• Understand the awareness of the importance of Green Nation
• Felt something strange in my heart, planned the camp for 5 months++ already but finished it in 3 days only.
• All of the programme flow ran well. Almost on time. Thanks to the leadership of the Programme director who insisted to be punctual on time.
• I hope that next year the ICE student chapter will organizing this camp again.