Last weekend I was in Teluk Senangin with my classmates for my Animal Physiology’s fieldwork. Actually I’m really looking forward this fieldwork because i’ve long time not see beach and sea. Our fieldwork also accopanied by Dr. Syakirah (my Animal Physiology’s lecturer) Prof. Nur Tjahjadi (my Biotechnology’s lecturer), En. Shazwan, Cik Adibah and Cik Nuraini (my tutors) and also En. Faizi (Lab’s asistant).

 

For First day, my group was assigned to collect specimens as many as we can along a beach and also to measured height and speed of the wave. For collecting specimens, some groups got ‘ikan todak’, mussel, small fishes and also crabs.  My group got same specimens as the other group but we were different because we got one unidentified organism. All my group members Halim, Alin, Liza, Izan, Liana, Aida and I also tried our best and work together to capture ‘ikan belacak’ but we give up when we fail to capture it after using many methods because it ran so fast. But the experience capture ‘ikan belacak’ was so fun. After lunch, each group was assigned to dissect a fish and try to identify the fish’s organs. Alin and Halim volunteer to dissect the fish and I volunteer to take pictures during dissecting process. While dissect the fish, we all enjoyed ate ice cream. In evening we all played with the lecturers, tutors and En. Faizi in the sea. While the other played in the sea, my other friends and I tried to bury Chuan in the sand. We all played until sunset. The sunset view in Teluk Senangin was so beautiful. At night, we had a barbeque. During barbeque, I was shocked when I found that Halim was my schoolmate during my primary school in Kuala Lumpur after three years I had same lecture with him. I never thought that I will found my old friend in my university. After barbeque, each group needs to do a performance to celebrate Malaysia’s Independent Day. Most of the groups performed musical theater which the theme was related to Independent Day. My group needs to perform ‘Dikir Barat’ but unfortunately we can’t perform that night because of heavy rain. So, we end our activities early.

 

Next day, our activity in the morning was jungle tracking and also ‘Rempuh Halangan’. These two activities were conducted by Jabatan Pertahanan Awam (JPA).  During jungle tracking, a few leeches tried to climb my shoes but I quickly removed it before it sucks my blood. We also found a big millipede and also traces of wild boar in the jungle. Many of my friends got leech’s bite traces and fortunately my legs safe from the leech. After jungle tracking, Cik Adibah expended us some ice cream. That’s was the third time I ate ice cream since in Teluk Senangin. For ‘Rempuh Halangan’ activity, we need to walk in the swamp, climbing, jumping, crawling and hanging using a string to move the other side. Dr. Syakirah, En. Shazwan, Cik Adibah, Cik Nuraini and En. Faizi also join us. ‘Rempuh Halangan’ was the most challenging activity in my life. My clothes and my shoes were wet and covered in mud. My body was so smelly with swamp water and at that time I felt that I’m not taken a bath for a week. After “Rempuh Halangan’ activity, I had played, swam and floating in the sea with my clothes covered in mud. It was so fun and enjoyable although the salty water enters to my eyes, mouth and it also trapped in my ears. We all back to UPSI after had a lunch. After come back from Teluk senangin, my skin became darken because of sunburn. I also got flu fever and cough for four days. But today I still got cough and it also make me difficult to talk. I hope I will recover from the cough as soon as possible.

Unidentify creature

Unidentify creature