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Belaga Rainforest Challenge 2008 - 23rd to 26th July 2008
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Fikirkan Boleh
Jika kau fikirkan kau boleh
Kau hampir boleh melakukan
Jika kau fikirkan ragu-ragu
Usahamu tidak menentu
Jika kau fikirkan kekalahan
Kau hampiri kegagalan
Jika kau fikirkan kemenangan
Kau hampiri kejayaan
Engkaulah apa kau fikirkan
Terkandung dalam pemikiran
Kau fikir boleh melakukan
Fikirkan boleh
Percaya apa kau lakukan
Tabah apa kau usahakan
Bertindak atas kemampuan
Engkau boleh
Briefings after briefings and trainings after trainings….we only took a few days in the last 2 weeks to train our champs due to work demand. Some working on the night shift and some tight with 8.30am to 5.30pm working schedule. It’s not easy to get everyone together but in the end….we did well!
24th July 2008, we woke up as early as 5am to catch the one and only express boat to Belaga at 6am from Bakun site. It was drizzling when we gathered at the jetty. Alexander Lehan (the team manager) and few other peoples had arrived Belaga a day earlier to submit the team registration, etc. After an hour express boat ride, we finally arrived at the destination but it was heavy rain.
The program delayed as the organizer was waiting for the weather to turn good or at least better for the first perahu race to start. We did not do well on the first day, we lost both races (8 males and 10 males categories).
But that did not make us lose our passion but we put our strength and determination together, hand in hand and shout out our motto “One Voice, One Team, One Objective”…..
That night, we slept as early as 10pm to ensure that we have enough rest and to get ourselves recover from the exhaustion and fully ready for another 3 races tomorrow.
25th July 2008, we dropped one race which started as early as 8.30am to ensure that the 1st place trophy and gold medals belong to us for the next race in the evening i.e: Mixed Rowers - Sg. Asap (20 rowers which consist 15 males and 5 females) and we did it!!! Even though we had only 18rowers in all (shortage of 2 female) compared to other teams but we did well! That is the beginning of the team spirits. We strived for 2nd 1st place trophy for the 10 males rower category but we did quite good and grabbed the 2nd place.
As we did on the night before, the same briefing done by the team manager to ensure each and everyone of the participants still have the company and team objective stick in themselves.
Diana, the assistant manager delivered her Giam Pasang Rainforest Challenge briefing on the route, preparation, warming up session and etc. We slept early as we had to wake up as early as 5.00am to gather at the gathering muster point with the rest of the participants from another company, organization, private body to warm up.
26th July 2008, We traveled by boat at 7am for about 15 minutes to reach at the Giam Pasang Rainforest Challenge event starting point. A gun shot was released after 30minutes briefing on the route, checkpoints, things to do, first aiders and to mark the beginning of Giam Pasang Rainforest Challenge.
The first participants arrived 1.5hours later while our company participants arrived at the finishing line at the 8th and 10th place and they took about 2hours to complete the trail. It was not an easy job for the office staff! It was drizzling and the trail was slippery. But they did it!!! Some came back with bleeding body, cuts, leeches stuck on their body, some were hungry but something for sure is that they had a great memory and experience there!
Last 2 categories of perahu race started at 3.30pm and 4.30pm, they were 10male rowers for the inter-company category. We won the 2nd place again…. While for the 15rowers mixed inter-company category, we only managed to be at the 4th place. Too tired as it was consecutively….shattered and frustrated….but above all those….we had delivered our best!
We did it!!!!
One Voice, One Team and One Objective!!!
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