Sandakan Trip

Last Tuesday, me and all my HG23 coursemate went to Sandakan for a field trip organized by Dr. Andy and En. Julius. This is the 1st time i went to Sandakan, some other friends already been there before and told me that the food there is nice and cheaper than KK, and im willing to see how true is that. Hohoho.....

So we depart from UMS around 11am after Miss Mandy's midterm exam, reach our 1st destination, our rest house in Sandakan, Institut Latihan Perindustrian Sandakan, and we stay there for 3 nights. Sad to say the rest house we stay, the so-called APARTMENT, were not as good as we expected. Because 16 guys will have to stay together in 1 house with only 3 rooms 1 toilet 1 bathroom, we almost fed up when 1st we reach. 1st day of our trip end after having dinner at Batu 4.

Our room

View outside our room

Taken at the main gate

Next day, i woke up very early becoz dowan to "rebut" the bathroom with the others, around 7:30am we depart to the FRC (Forest Research Centre), at there we were brief by Ms Rebecca about the FRC and the seed lab they have in there. Then we move to another part of the FRC which is the nursery site to learn about the management of a nursery. The nursery at FRC are more to researching than commercializing. After that we had our lunch at a restaurant beside the road on our way to the next destination. Then we move to the research plot that set up by En Julius when he was working in FRC. At there we were exposed to a few combinations of trees and crops (intergrated farming) in that plot, which we have already learn last semester when we went to Balung River Plantation at Tawau. After that, something that make us all fed up is that we have to return to the restaurant we eat our lunch for dinner, walaueh tai lou ah, the food there.....can not la~what to do, this is an order by En Julius. Many of us tapao back to the apartment to eat becoz already no mood to stay at that restaurant. That night, we all sneak out from the apartment and went to a funfair near the batu 4 to RELEASE STRESS, hahaha.....

Taken @ the main entrance of FRC

Taken inside the seed lab

Taken @ the research plot

Taken with Poh Hock and the Robot @ funfair

3rd day morning, we went to visit the Sabah Forestry Department, after that we went to the plantation research plot that set up by the research department, the plot there were planted with a lot of exotic species from foreign country, we feels like we were in temperate forest when walking in that plantation, quite an interestion place. After having lunch at the "same-old-place", we went to FRC again to continue our visit to the Entomology Lad, Xylarium, and Medicinal Garden. At there, 1st we heard that the Tongkat Ali plant can switch between male and female (LOL). That night, the last night we spent at Sandakan, we went to a restaurant called Ocean King that located near the pusat bandar to have our dinner, and we were quite satisfied with the sea food at there (good job Dijah).

Taken @ the entrance of the main building

Taken @ main gate

Taken @ the "temperate forest"

Last day, Friday, early morning we have already "check-out" from the apartment and going back to KK. On our way back, we have drop by and vist the Sandakan Crocodile Farm and the long-waited Sepilok (Orang utan rehabilitation centre). At last we reach KK around 7:30pm.
This trip, the relationship among us (HG23) have tighten, and we were having fun and learn a lot during the trip, now is time for us to headache about the field trip report lo....

Taken @ the Crocodile Farm with LiPing

Taken when we reach Sepilok