Unfold the Secret of Nature

17.08.2008 6.15am-11.15pm

What a wonderful and fruitful trip for me. From the unique programme, I had found out so many new secrets about our beautiful nature.

Daun Kulim

Our Kulim in Kedah is named after this tree called "daun kulim", we let the students guess this object during the senses game with blind folded condition. Most of them hate the smell, they frown and gave the answer: this is garlic.

Daun Kapur

Daun kapur is small in size, it definitely smell better than daun kapur, 'cos the students thought it was manggo.

Cicada (riang-riang)

I still remember whenever I enter into the jungle for activities or picnic at "burmeese" or "Austin" (famous recreational placed at Taiping), I always heard the sounds of a noisy insects. "Rupa-rupanya" they are one kind of worm and knowen as cicada or "riang-riang" in B.M. Cicada has a miserable life where they live underground for about 12-14 years. At the end of the day, they only have 2 weeks for matching.Once it is done, that's the end of their line, poor creature:(

Crown of Shyness This is really a unique concept. It happens in the tropical forest where 2 or more trees leave the private space for each other to enjoy the sunlight and to grow healthily. What a thoughtful behaviour among the nature creation. You see, personal space is not only important to humans, but also among the plants and trees.

Jari Hantu

What is so special with Jari Hantu leaf is they can glow at night. The leaf seems to have 8 fingers, when its grasp together in the form of dried leaf, it really looks like a palm of a devil/ monster.

Peacock Fern

Not all leafs are in green leaf, and I am not looking about red color maple leaf or some other leafs or plants in autum. There is a special species of leaf which appeared in green and blue color, really attractive. According to Hana, this plant is called "Peacock Fern " is not tall enough to obtain the sunlight and run its own photosynthesis (This plant normally found at the shady place). Thus, the blue color is actually helping them to capture different ray of sunlight for photosynthesis.

Dragon-fly

Do you know that Dragon-fly do not lay their eggs on top of the flowers as butterfly and bees normally do. Dragon-fly laying eggs in the water, cool...

Pond Skater/ Water Criket

Pond skater/ Water criket is a form of indicator, it indicate that the stream water is clean enough, otherwise, they won't be able to survive (in polluted environment).

Female Fire Fly Most of us know fire fly can fly and their lights form fantastic scenary at night, such as the amazing night scenary at Kampung Kuantan, Kuala Selangor. However, I learn about a surprising truth...female fire fly can't fly, they look like milipede and crawl on the ground. Of course, they also shine like the male.

Tapir I know about Tapir from one type of Malaysian stamp. The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) has make it more famous as it is their "spoke person" or kind of symbol. Little that I know, Tapir actually is an huge animal, as huge as dinasour! Remember, kids, Tapir is our endanger friend and we should do our best to protect them.

LadyBird Youngsters nowadays are so creative. For example, what you can think of when required to create a theme cheers for the group called "LadyBird". Here is a funny version: "One lady five birds, so we are ladybird". That group actually consists of one female student and five male students:)

P/s:This wonderful camp makes me thinks of my wonderful scouting years. Thanks to Cikgu Aziz and Mr. Ng, both of them has lead us to grow tougher, hopefully I can contribute the same effort to the youth.