While resting, we were introduced to 2 types of herbal plants which were - Pohon Kapal Terbang or also known as pohon jepun by the Kelantanese. It seemed and smelled kinda familiar to me as my grandmother is an expert in this kind of stuff and she had many kinds of herbal trees planted around her house. The leaves of this plant can be used to treat wounds and increase the rate of blood clotting which are useful especially when were are going for an adventure in the jungle. Next up is the Senduduk Unggu plant. It has a purple flower, hence the name Senduduk Unggu. The function is quite the same. The leaves of the plant, once squashed and applied to the wounds can stop the blood flow in a matter of seconds, said the ex-army man.

Later, another local man gave us a demonstration on making a piggy bank using a bamboo. It was a live demonstration and I was amazed by the way he handled the sharp knife in cutting, shaping and decorating the bamboo piggy bank. From the way he handled it, I could assume that he had been used to it for perhaps, more than 20 years. Even cutting the bamboo was just like slicing a paper to him. I was totally marveled, so do my friends ( especially the girls ) I can totally read it from the expressions on their face xD

By The Name of Allah The Almighty and The Most Merciful

Sungai Congkak. That was the name of our uniformed bodies camping site this year. Situated in Hulu Langat, the journey took us around 1 hour and a half from PERMATA by bus. I've never heard of that place before so I was kinda marveled by the 'Congkak' part. Reminiscences of my childhood that was once filled with playing the traditional game ' congkak ' came to mind immediately.

                             This is the congkak I mentioned above. However, this post is not gonna be about this.

                                                          Perhaps I'll make another post about congkak later on xP

My friends and I arrived at the camp safely in the afternoon. We set the camps up and performed our Asar prayer quite late ( around 6 p.m if I was not mistaken ) Then, the best part came in - " You are allowed to have a bath in the river " , says the commander and all of the boys were like , " Really? Oh , yeah! " Everyone was excited and we immediately jumped straight into the river. It had been a long time since I last bathed in a river , so I was at the zenith of excitement. Actually, there had been some issues about 'kencing tikus' at the river some years ago but we were given assurance that the site is a quite well-known campsite and it had been a long time since there was a case of 'kencing tikus' reported so we don't really have another choice.