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The programme should start at 830am where the official opening will be done by YB, but you know if something was deal with this YB thing you should always have that plan B, so by the end of ‘out of the plan’ thing happened you should already prepare for action. Then, the opening only finished at 1100am, instead of the schedulled time 930am in which we should clear to start the Serapi Challenge.

After officiall ceremony we were invite to take a tea break with all those officer and YB, when I was introduced to this one food that I don’t know the name. The taste is fruity sweet and quite nice, and there is a special method to let it come out from it pack which is made from palm leave, may be coconut leave, if I’m not wrong.

After having a tea and that nice meal, we’re proceed to Matang Wldlife Centre for Serapi Challenge. The student were firstly sent by bus to begin the competition, then we followed afterward.

It’s rained when I arrived at Matang. Heavily rain so that I’m wet and cold since the challenge took place at the open space. Even there is an office building nearby but it is nice if I could see the activity closely. The challenge took place in the small forest where they have to run to complete some task given at some check point. The distance maybe around four or five kilometer, I’m not sure anyway, but the time taken around one and half hour to two hour. At the end of the challenge they have to swim a quite depth four meter wide’s river in group until they reach the finish line. It’s rain, wet, slippery and tired, a good combination of package as an eco-challenge.

My team have proudly finish as the eighth finalist to reach the finish line, at about 1.30pm. Then we take a break where some meal, tapau, were serve to all of us. We take a lunch at the open place on the raining afternoon. Everybody talk about how they just have fun during the competition. Tira, Adrian, Aidrian and Asmah, all of them enjoyed the challenge.

During the challenge one of the girl student from Politeknik Kota Melaka got an hysteria, they said, and did not finish the competition. They were the first team to start the challenge.

After finished our lunch then we get back to PKU. Since no more activities in the evening so I just went to hostel and get slept.

At 800pm, after take dinner, we were brought to one sport centre at Kuching to practice and saw the wall climbing. Most of the student and some of the lecturer tried to climb the 15 panels wall climbing, and most of them have a difficulties to get unto to 15th panel.

Got back to hostel at about 1100pm, get rest for tommorow’s Santubong.

Everything was setup. We will take a 1.05 pm flight to Kuching today. Since I’m not book a Department transport to sent us to airport so I’ve talk to Samsul to fetch us to the airport.The problem was, there are five of us and the car only suite for four, so I have to ask Rahman to send me. Then it’s settle. At 1130am we’ll proceed to airport.

We arrived at the airport at 1225pm, then hurried to the counter for check in. Since we’re quite late, so quickly get into the terminal, no baggage to cargo, for imigration check. The problem occured when I myself didn’t bring my passport, since I’ve confident that to travel between Sabah and Kuching, I only have to bring my ID card, MyCard, but it’s not, I need to bring the passport, if I am working in Sabah, means live for a long time in here (more than three month). The news article is here .So, I have to convince the immigration man there that I really work in KK, and also what I thought about MyCard. After a few nonsense advice from him, then I’m free to go. Thank god.

At 105pm we enter the A50 Fokker airplane with the flight number MH5813

The plane transit in Sibu for 30 minutes and we have to check for another immigration. This time its totally applied MyKad to travel in Sarawak. I get the three month staying in Sarawak receipt that they print from a machine that used a data from MyKad, first time I think that it is useful.

The Fokker landing at Kuching about 315pm. When we exited the terminal, a student who used to be a comitee of the program, come to greet us, then show us a food court, or a cafe, so that we could take our lunch. We met a team from Kota Bharu there who also just arrived from KL.

After took some meal, then we brought to a bus which fetched us to Politeknik Kuching (PKU). After about one hour we arrived at PKU. Registered, check in the hostel, then take a rest for a while before some briefing about the programme at 830 pm at Lecture Hall.

Good for me when met most of the old school mate during the briefing, even not from a same batch, but the person are familiar. Isa, Abbas, Rashid and some other which I have forgot the name.

Hishamudin geve a brief agenda on the program:
1. Serapi challenge – which involved all of the four participant from all team.
2. wall climbing – two participant from each team, couple.
3. Santubong Challenge – two other participant from each team.

Wall climbing and Santubong Challenge will be held at the same time.

The briefing finished at about 11.00pm before we back to hostel.

This is a contest that invite the participant from all Politeknik in Malaysia. The contest is to create and develope a robot with some standard specification given by the organiser, then use the robot to play football on the specific track. Quite interesting. Some of my mate lead by Hanizam, as I know, have spent almost 4 to 5 month to create the robot, and it’s quite challenging.

I’ve spent about 30 minute at the contest hall to watch one of the match. It’s between POLISAS and PJB. Poor PJB since the robot was mulfunction, it doesn’t make a single move.

A litle tag about the event from PKK website

Some of my task, most of them are jotted on my PDA. Today’s task, in priority order is to post the Karambanuai Golf Club T-Shirt which they have ordered on last Friday to Madeq at Penang. So, it has been done. Fetched my wife to her Shop, draw some cash then went to post office, post it by using Pos Express service. These 50 pieces of collar T-shirt should be finish by 20th of September. Hopely madeq don’t come out with any other production problems.

Second task is to conduct a meeting with my 4 fellows who I have selected to join an ECO-Challenge at Politeknik Kuching tomorrow. It happened on 1030 am, and I’m arrived at 1040am at my office where Tira, 10 minutes earlier have already SMS me during my drive, have already waiting for me. Thank god, three of them were there except Adrian, who has SMS me in the morning to inform that he may be late, then I called him back to know that he was at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital , KK to watch for his newly operates nephew. Nevermind. For sure he’ll not come.
Just a simple meeting where I have to tell them about flight, the dress they should bring with, some other gear if possible. So, tomorrow we will take a flight to Kuching by 1.05pm flight, and should gathered here at my department at 11.30am then shamsul will fetch us to airport.

ROBOCON contest is today. Still not visit the contest arena, or they call it the track. Perhaps this afternoon. Should shot some picture and upload it here.