A Retreat Trip To FRIM With IEM G&S Group

22nd ofApril 2007, another memorable day for me and my lovely boyfriend ! The first time, my boyfriend brought me to join his IEM G&S outdoor activity - we went for a halfday trip to the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia ( FRIM ) at Kepong.

A very greenery, energetic, healthy and fresh Sunday morning.

We gathered in front of FRIM Administration Office at 9am and the guided tour started at about 9.30am. The usual guide that we have from FRIM, the forever experience, talkative and knowledgeable Mr Ang lead us for about 3 hours plus and without stop, he shared with us all his knowledge on trees, plantation, history, culture and etc. Really a very professional guide !

We started with a guided tour at the Museum, air-conditioned Museum and this is the first photograph that we took for the day. Still looked very fresh and pretty handsome oh .............. hahaaaaa...................... Photo taken by Ho, my boyfriend's best friend, another funny handsome young guy - Ho ! Thanks for taking such a nice photo for us !

See, everybody is concentrating on Mr Ang's briefing on the palm oil plantations. A total of 13 of us on the trip. The guy in white on the right is Mr Ang and of course, the one who put his full attention to Mr Ang's presentation is my boyfriend loh - Soh Loh !!!!

Where am I ? Hahhaaa................. holding the camera loh ..................

Another nice picture for memory keeping .................................. Me and HIM at the end of the Canopy Walk .......................

Me and HIM again ! These are two different photos, don't know why, even photos also sticked together, can't separate, I thought only we in person stick together all the time, hahaaaa......... photos also sticked together woh ......................................

What is this ? Lizard leh ............. small lizard changed his colour to the same colour of the leave behind him....................... I nearly can't locate him at the first place, quite difficult to rectify too due to the same colours............... smart animal !!!

What are you doing there with the tree , my dear ? Open leg position ........... hahhaaaaa.................

The weather really hot, I am very tired, thirsty, and hungry ( with only one piece of bread as breakfast then go for such a tiring exercise, ha !) So, while Mr Ang is explaining on one of the trees in the middle of the jungle, I took the chance to take a rest and sat on the trunk, then got catched by my honey ........................ hahaaaa...................

Photo on the left : Mr Ang is passing around a small piece of leave for us to smell, hmmmmm.......... some smell like perfume, very nice; some smell very weird, can't stand for that odour..............

Photo on the right : See, how amazing is the green in Malaysia. In fact, we have also very rich greenery in KL city, do think of a trip to FRIM one day, with your beloved, with your family, with your friends, for a special getaway from the bored city Sunday activities........... Take a closer look at the roots of the tree, so nice and amazing .......................

Big bamboo trees on the left, according to Mr Ang, this is the biggest bamboo trees in Malaysia and see the picture on the right, how nice is the jungle, eventhough weather is so hot but due to all the greens, we feel still cooling and nice with the wind ................

Our group photo - 12 of us plus Mr Ang, who is holding the camera for us = 13 pax, two races, Malay and Chinese, females and males, guys and ladies, handsome and pretty, so happy neh ..............

Me at the Canopy Walk - The couple behind me is the only couple except me and my boyfriend. The rest of them came alone without their partners, leaving their girlfriend at work, leaving their wife at home to take care of children, leaving their boyfriends and girlfriends for their own other activities................. see how nice my boyfriend, bring me along with him for the trip and thanks again, my dear for being so considered and nice to me !!!

Picture on the left : Guess what is this tree ? Don't see it so small but small thing can be very powerful leh ! This is the most famoust tree in Malaysia especially among Malays - Tongkat Ali. Can't imagine leh, so small but yet very powerful. The tour guide - Mr Ang said due to our members are all adults, he allows us to touch the plant and he explained quite a fair bit of this plant too. Not sure if any of our group members ' un-intentionally ' pluck some and bring home for own usage ? Hahaa........................

Picture on the right : Three handsome guys of IEM G&S Group, the left, of course - my beloved, the one in the middle is Mr Ho loh and on the right is the President of the Club, both also my boyfriend's good friends. See, they even without earlier communication, wore the same uniforms to the trip.



Quite many photos for this trip ya ........................ of course mah, must keep for future usage and memory mah ...................... be patient, one more to go only lah ....................................

See how nice the photo on the right, Mr Ang said many international photographers came to FRIM to purposely took photo from this angle to produce postcards, website photo, book covers, magazines and so on. Nice ya ?!

In case you want to plan for trip to FRIM for your family outing, friends get-together and so on, do feel free to log on to http://www.frim.gov.my/ for more information.

Don't forget to quote my name when you talk to Mr Ang as you might get some discount loh................. Hahaaaa........................