Memory Lane: The Trip To Temburong

June 11th 2006. It was a beautiful Sunday. I went to this trip to Temburong in a group of several students of the Business School. It was a hiking trip to Bukit Peradayan where one of the most exciting mini-waterfalls or 'wasai' in Brunei is located. It was really worth reaching the summit. The journey took about half an hour. Of course, it was an extreme experience walking through the dense jungle, scaling rocks and hopping on rivers. In fact, it was perhaps the most challenging experience ever for the school, unlike the previous trip they had before.

The trip consisted of 3 of our tutors, Sir Fadzil, Sir Saiful and Sir Iswandi. Among the students that came with us were from the junior secretarials and the ND7 and 8. I was still a junior in Pre-National back then, along with my former classmate Wawa who also tagged along. Funny thing was, there were only 2 male students in this trip, which included myself and Sai.

I brought my video camera with me and got the whole journey on tape. We started off at Kianggeh BSB for our chartered boat to arrive. It was very early in the morning around 7-ish. I had to wake up really early. We reached Pekan Bangar sometime before 8 AM and rode all the way to the hiking spot via minivans.

Upon reaching the base of the hill, the excitement started rolling in all of us. We got all our backpacks ready and started jungle-trailing. The jungle was really dense and peaceful. The ground was so muddy and slippery because of the rain that fell the night before, so we expected a lot of skidding and slipping. It was a long journey, but as we reached several small rivers, we could already hear the sound of rapid water flowing from the distance. By the time we reached higher ground, the sounds became louder and tense, but the excitement grew even more. We even got ourselves wet from the splashes coming down at us, because the path we took to ascend was all flowing water from the waterfall at the top.

Finally, we reached the summit, where we had the most fun. It was a beautiful scene, and the water was really cold. We spend most of the time sitting on the rocks while the mini-waterfall came down to us like a cold morning shower. Such a memorable experience!
On our way down, I tripped a lot and even got a deep cut on my left hand for falling and holding on thorny branches for safety. Aside from the bleeding cut, I also had muscle aches on my left arm from accidently bumping on rocks. As mentioned earlier before we reached the summit, the ground was really slippery, even the rocks by the river. Though we were instructed to be extra careful, minor injuries did occur to most of us (not to mention getting dirt all over our shirts and backpacks).

After that we proceeded to visit this archaelogical site at the Labu Estate, an old, abandoned rubber plantation site where they store all these old machineries and equipments and old Japanese warfare artilleries. There were several old unused bombs used by the Japs in the 40's during World War II and they were really cool to look at.

We had lunch at a resthouse at the Labu Estate. Lambchops were served! (woohoo!) The one thing that we deserve from all the extreme hiking. It was already in the afternoon and we were still up for more fun. Just out of the resthouse was a pond where we went fishing there for another couple of hours. The afternoon was so relaxing. 3 of us caught some fish.

We got back to our chartered boat at approximately 4.15 PM and reached back sometime at 5. Everyone had a really great time. All those memories have been preserved in a video stored in my hard disk. Whenever I wish to head down memory lane, I just tune it up on my computer and relieve the moments.

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