Hmm.. Today’s the start of the MID-YEAR EXAMINATION!
Didn’t proceed the day as expected, was supposed to wake up early, much early to revise and look through my notes and other stuffs like ironing my clothes and having a nice bathe. BUT… Ended up, waking up late because the handphone has failed to ring that alarm. Maybe because of that, things did not go that well for my Maths paper…
AAAaaaooooo…. EXCUSES MR. DARYL LIM
Haha. Alright, i admit. I haven’t been practising much. But the truth, wasn’t feeling very well during the paper. Though i think its much better and manageable then the block test one.Tomorrow’s the ultimate. The Physical Geog paper. Where are my hints??
Alright i found them… But do they actually look friendly enough to be called “tips”?
Hmm.. Let me clear some pictures and stories.
During the June Vacation, I was a Kota Tinggi and Kuantan, Malaysia for my Geography field trip . Though it was a short 3D2N trip, it was rather enriching as we Geog students get to see and touch what we have always been mugging on the notes.
The feeling of seeing the “real” thing makes you have the feeling
Hmmmm… So Its truee..
We can also get to revise some of the geological concepts and at the same time have some fun..
Let me post some of the seeing, at the same time revise my physical geog.Lets get down to some pictures, dun get to envied.
First Pit stop, even before proceeding to the resort is the Kota Tinggi Waterfall. I have been longing so see one for so long as i’ve never seen one before. Other than the man- made one at Jurong Bird Park which looks so fake.
Ok then, we had to climb all the way up the hill, as there are more magnificent ones at the top of the “hill” i suppose. Sad to say, we were all not in loose costume to get ourselves submerge in the water to feel the gushing of the water. I think it would definitely feel super refreshing and its hydraulic action which generates great force would make the experience better than jacuzzi.
You might think that the gradient of this place we are standing is so low, but the force of the water is rather great and people might fall if without a good foothold.
A Pretty Nice Group Photo of 0603 + huiyen
This is the end of the waterfall, it looks so muddy and cloudy because of it slow speed and it has high suspension load as the water from all the way high up the hill picks up other debris that has followed through due to erosive power of the Waterfall.
We saw this monkey at the lounge area where people have their picnics, there was this smart monkey which stole a whole bottle of Pringles and climbed up the tree where he consumed it himself.
However, not soon after he dropped the whole can. Attracting other of his own species to fight for it.
Next, we proceeded to the resort and then went for Tor Studies. For non-geog students out there. You might wonder what is a Tor. A Tor is a granitic landform. Where it is made up of minerals such as feldspar and biotite which undergo hydrolysis that chemically weakens the rock. It is formed mainly due to Deep Chemical Weathering and Exhumation, a.k.a Stripping of regolith. The process goes like this..
- Deep chemical weathering
- Stripping of Regolith
- Spheroidal Weathering
Yada yada… Take a look for yourself. There are also vegetations which has emerged on teh Tor itself.
Other than that, at the bottom of the Tor, we also saw something.. The “Earth Pillars”
Aren’t they adorable, uprooted soil with a rock cap.
Sidetrack a bit a beautiful butterfly caught our attention…
The next morning, we went for River studies. The feeling of submerging your legs in the River is uber “shiok”. Where under the scorching sun, you experience coolness on your feet.
The river is actually very clean and clear if you look at it closely.At the river, we measured the river’s velocity, its wetted perimeter, distance and many other variables. We used the simplified version of
Speed=Distance x Time
where we use a pingpong ball and a stopwatch with a large measuring tape.
Watch us hard at work.
Then we headed for Kuantan, the bus journey was like 4-5 hours. As usual, we spent the time through our favourite pastime. SLEEPING. Though its a bit of chore to sleep while sleeping. But we are trained during lecture to do that, so its NO FEAT for us. Marvelous ain’t it?We arrived at Kuantan and we went to the beach
The beautiful scenery which is no where close to Singapore’s East Coast Park. The waters are much much cleaner too. I felt so ashamed. We had beach soccer and went for dinner at some Seafood Restaurant.
The next day….
We went to the limestone which was known as Gua Charas.
This was a tree that grows from clutching itself onto the limestone itself.
Look at those roots, they are hanging on mid-air.
These are known as Stalactites. They hang on limestone caverns where it is form when water is mixed with calcium carbonate
This is the picture of the smaller limestone cave at the top of the limestone. The Bigger one was too dark for me to take any photos.
Alright, a final group photo before we head to Kuantan Mall for shopping and then back to Singapore. The bus ride was horrendous. Super long journey. In the end we didn’t stop at Yong Peng hence spent very little.
Thats all i guess, for the Malaysia Field Trip. Hopefully i has revised some of my Geographical Concepts. Time to Sleep… ZzzZzzz. Good luck for my Physical Geog paper tomorrow, and all others taking Midyears now.
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