my little piece of freedom ..: Bukit Patoi Field Trip ~ 1st

1st June 2009

I woke up realllllyyy early (sleepover at QJ's place the night before) and Danny sent me to campus. He even made me breakfast and Milo =) I know ~ sweet right? HEHE!

Pandi and me looked so happy early in the morning =D
I was tired actually =S

Our luggage.
Mine was sent to Temburong earlier =p

At the jetty camwhoring =D

In the boat and all of us used the life jacket.

I was really realllllyyyy tired and like normal human beings would do .. I nap for a bit ..

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People took advantage of me, Husrin and Pei Fen =______=|||

Arrived Bangar around 9a.m. (I think) and settled our luggage and rest for a bit before a briefing by Dr. Charles.

Pose while reading the handout! XD

We went to Bukit Patoi and Dr. Charles did the briefing and BB taught us the way to set up the traps. I think I can set up a nice mouse trap now =D HEHE! My group (4th group) and the 3rd group went to an abandoned paddy field to set our traps. Mannn, that place! Seriouslyyyy disturbed!

Pei Fen took the chance to vain after setting up her trap.

We went back to Bukit Patoi again. Me and my group mates went upppppp to the kerangas forest site to get the leaf litter (we collected the mixed dipterocarp forest's also known as MDF, before that =p). Lucky that I did some hiking during the semester and I'm not defeated by that 1200m height!

Steep stairs ..

.. and more!
I think there were 7 stairs of these, long and short ones.

Yes, me and Billah posed ^^

I was SOOOO happy to see this sign ..

and this Batu Berdinding sign!
'Coz Dr. Charles told us that after this wall,
it'll be the kerangas forest.

A few more steps to kerangas forest =D

We're here! XD

After collecting our precious leaf litter,
we took pictures before we leave.
Look at our lovely Husrin =)

Back to our accomodation, we're soooo EXHAUSTED! There ain't a lot of time to rest 'coz we gotta set up our Tullgren funnel and do our handsorting. Looking for lead litter invertebrates. It sounds easy but it doesn't 'coz we need to look through every single piece of leaf properly ..

2nd June 2009

Woke up VERY early again 'coz we need to 'catch the moment'. HAHA! Well nahh, we need to do bird STUDY (emphasised by Dr. Charles).

Look at the nice mist =D

I look all pro with the binoculars =D

We went to Bukit Patoi to check our trap and unfortunately (or fortunately) we got 1 mammal trap per site (another one at the forest).

"Hello Sundamys muelleri!"

We got time to rest at the accomodation and here comes one of our very famous quote by Pei Fen.

"BANGUN BA BANGUN BA~"

She went into the guys' room and disturbed their really nice sleep by saying that to e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e of them =) GOOD JOB CHABO! From that moment, everyone uses that to tease her XD

Me hanging out in the guys' room.

At night, I joined the elective topic by Dr. Charles, Night Watch. We went up a hill with forest at both sides and used torch light to flash the trees to get some reflection (animal's eyes). I saw fireflies! =D

A group picture before we call it a night =)

3rd June 2009

Prof. Mohd's topic is on forest profile and I volunteered to do the kerangas site =D This project isn't that fun due to a girl but oh well .. I guess everywhere has a Miss-Knows-It-All.

'Blue flower' - can only be found in Bukit Patoi.
I know, it's purple right ~

The below pictures have something funny to me .. I wonder if y'all is as yellow-minded as me =) HE-HE-HE!

First pic by Pandi.
The first thing I noticed is ..
Well .. that looks-like-a-dick-root.
I DIDN'T EVEN SEE A SNAKE AT FIRST!

Bornean Flat Nose Pit Viper - Trimeresurus borneonsis

Chameleon!!
Two of these appeared but I think the other one is female
'coz it ain't as pretty as this ^^
CUTE!

The BIGGEST millipede I've ever seen.

Few of us stayed back after the whole forest profile thing just to hike some more till the summit of Bukit Patoi =D Just extra 400m more .. Worth it I must say!

Top (L - R) : Wan - Pandi - Ummi - Barak - Teeqah - Pei Fen - Me

Bottom : Zhai & Rawi

Hello to Prof. Mohd!

On the FARRRR right is Lawas =D

Batu Tergangam =)

Night time we joined Dr. Lane's Bat Trapping Demo.
He showed us the echolocation demo as well =)

4th June 2009

A topic that I think all of us are really excited about .. Stream Ecosystem =D We just wanna get down into the river and have fun =D Our site is reallllyyyy deep! The deepest depth is around 110cm.

Juvenille ikan billis.

And I thought I caught some invertebrates =_="

Pond skater and we got lots of 'em!

Ephemeroptera

Tanypodinae

Vaining when we're back.

Husrin's lover.

5th June 2009

We did a lot of identifying and counting on this. Dr. Marshall helped us to identified some. His topic is on the leaf litter collection. Our eyes went all crossed-eyes and dizzy. Well, I must say that I didn't do a lot and I'm SO SORRY to my group mates. I guess I was tired plus I don't really feel well. I even nap in the evening =_="

I only did a bit but I did learn to identify some =) We've got a lot compared to other groups and Imma show you some. All are under compound microscope.

Chilopoda (MDF)

Diptera larvae (MDF)

Termite (MDF)

Ant (Kerangas)
Huge eh??

Arachnida (Kerangas)

Chilopoda (Kerangas)

Collembola (Kerangas)

Lepidoptera (Kerangas)

Protura (Kerangas)

Pseudoscorpion
This is the slide that I mounted! =D

If you get to see this bruise urself ..
Haha!
I think it looks like a pussy shape, that's all =)
HE-HE-HE!

6th June 2009

The day we all can't wait but also the day we don't really wanna go. We did our presentation from 10a.m. till 12p.m. Lunch then off we're back to home =)