28 .2 . 2016 - Day 1
We meet up at bus station about 8.15am . Feeling so much excited , because we are going for a different trip . This trip is not luxury , it is not in the chaotic city but in the forest . I went last time with my family and I fall in love with this paradise , that the reason why I drop by here again . For the second visit , I bring 2 of my friends to work voluntary at tree house . We reached Johor around 12pm , take a simple lunch and my brother drop us at tree house . We take a short rest and start our mission . Our first mission is to tidy up all the 6 tree house , collect bed sheets , clean the toilet . Before we do all these stuffs , first we have to climb 300 steps to get to the tree houses . When we was up there, our sweat still keep dropping . After jie jie show us how to keep the bed sheets , we have to tidy up ourselves . After that I cleaned the toilet , I did not expect there is a frog behind the door . When I start cleaning , the frog jump away and he touches my hand and I scream like hell . Luckily I did not dreamed about the frog .
We have dinner beside the beach . There are candles on every wooden tables . Soft music playing and sea breeze swept past us at the same time . What a romantic place to dine in . We have our chop as dinner . The price for the chop is not more than RM 15 , for me it consider very cheap .
After dinner , we went Econsave to buy stuffs for our meals for the next few days. Because the coming next few days we have to cook our lunch by ourselves . After going back to our tree house , I decided to wash my clothes but then I realize the ants are on my clothes and it is pretty hard to remove them . While I was washing the ants climb on my hand and give a bite , it is pain ! I almost used up an hour plus to wash my clothes . Later my friend told me that the cup mee that she bring was eaten by a rat and her bag end up with a small hole . Because she forgot to lock her bag in the box. At that night I was thinking to leave this place . Really !
Day 2 .
7 am . Wake up by the natural alarm .
The 2 of them still sleep like a log . 8am we have go down . So I wake them up at 7.30 am . After we get down from the hill , Deva drove us to the nearest mamak to have our breakfast . I have roti telur and milo as my day 2 breakfast . After coming back we rest for a while then Deva brief us what to do today . Our mission was cleaning up the kitchen . She told us no need rush , whatever you can do just do , when you feel hungry you can eat first then continue . I realize that what she want is Perfect .
Alright so we bring our 'tools' to start cleaning . Once we open the door of the kitchen , I was like yelling for help ! But we still have to clean . We keep the cabinet empty by taking out all of the stuffs .We washed the pots , tray , cutlery everything . The scariest moment when we open the pot we don't know what is inside the pot . Sometimes cockroach , sometimes a BUNCH of small insects , sometimes lizard . The three of us almost get mad !
No matter how dirty how unwilling to clean , we still keep on with it. I love the spirit that carry in between us . We spent 3 hours to clean the kitchen and finally it look so much better than previous . We feel so regret that we didn't take the pictures of before and after . It is too contrasting ! After cleaning we go down and have our lunch . We go down and wae wae told to cook for ourselves . We was like , WHAT .... They prepare the lotus soup for us , so we quickly think of what to cook .
Decision made . We cook bihun with lotus soup and tomato egg by Jessie !
Deva told me that tonight there will be guest coming to shoot for a film . So dinner will be served at hall . We eat so full because it is our own cooking and it is too delicious . We wash our plates using charcoal because it is not too oily . After that we go up to the kitchen to do the last cleaning , then we carry the trash down the hill . I did not expect the trash is that heavy . Alright , just keep walking .
5pm . Waiting at our house to wait for the guest come up for dinner . Finally have my own personal time to enzoi , while the 2 of them still taking bath because they don't dare to bath alone . We go up to the hall which just a stone throw distance and wait for the steamboat dinner to be ready . We just have to help out with the cutlery .
The guests are so friendly and down-to-earth , we have a nice chat with them . They request us to do an interview after dinner , at first I thought they are joking around with us . After Deva's interview is our turn . Jenna the host started to ask us question , and the camera is in front of us . I was damn nervous because you really have to think fast of what they asked . Around 10 everything end . Then we just chill around at the hall .
Day 3
7.30 - Wake up . Deva will bring the breakfast to the hall
8.30 - Everyone of us gather at the hall . Breakfast would be nasi lemak and milo
The director ' dap toi ' with us and we start to chat non stop .
They will be leaving after breakfast , before that we must go and climb up the rattan . The camera guy ask us to climb as well and he will take photo of us . He told us , usually the photo he took is RM 200 per photo , now he take free for us . How can we miss this golden opportunity ?
After they leave , we have to start working . Our mission today is clean all the fans and wash toilet .
With the skills that we gather up these 3 days we are considered an experience 'kakak' . Anyone want employ us let me know . LOL
Bout 2pm we went down and cook lunch ourselves . Since yesterday we have bihun so today we cook rice . Alright this is another challenging one . We do not have rice cooker , we have to use the clay pot by lighting up the fire to cook it . It just a simple white rice , but when you have no electric rice cooker , you have to cook it without shortcut . For the first try , our rice consider a success . Every lunch that we cooked consist of our sweat , tears , and hard work . You know what , we eat so happily because we know that preparing a meals never easy . We appreciate it .
We rest after lunch . About 4pm we are asked to pluck the ripe green beans . When the green beans are ripe it will turn dark brown color and it is quite crispy .
After collecting them , we have to peel off the outer layer to get the green beans . They have fine hairs on the outer layer so when we peel it , the hairs sometimes will prick our fingers and caused pain . The beans that we collect is quite a number but when we peel off , it don't even reach half of the container and it is only enough for 10 people to consume . Can you imagine how difficult the green beans comes . Appreciate la whey !
Wae wae cook us dinner and later Deva drove us to platform coffee shop . Finally we can have chilling time again . We ordered a pot of tea and share among three of us . We start chatting around with each other until 10 pm. We reach our house almost 11pm and we haven't take bath . Some more the water is the cool moutain water @@
Day 4
7am - I was still in the state of half awake and I barely heard some noise from the rooftop . I thought it was raining , but Jessie told me is the monkeys walking on the rooftop . I immediately wake up Jia Wei because she longed to see monkeys . We peep through the gap between the bamboo , saw a group of monkeys swaying from tree to tree .
We go down and have breakfast . Wae wae ask us to pick some small woods to cook for our breakfast . She teach us how light up the fire , how and when to add woods. When the fire is steady , she start to cook . She cut the bread in slices and toast them until it goes crunchy . She added some cheese and a basil leaf . Taa daa ..! This is how our breakfast look like
After breakfast we start to clean the "living room" , after that we continue to peel the green beans . Last day of being here so they job they give us not so heavy compare to the first 3 days . Today we just help out with some trivial matters . Deva told us the bed sheet are almost dried , she ask us to collect and fold it properly and keep in the boxes . We really have problems in folding the bed sheet as you know the bed sheet isn't in diagonal so if you fold it without correct technique it will be horrible . So we fold it very horrible ,so what we do is we make the outer layer looks as neat as possible . We used up not more than 10 minutes to fold all the bed sheets .
Deva is surprised that we are able to finish it within 10 minutes , so she go and check and she show us how to fold it . We have to fold it to the smallest area and treat your hand as an iron . She fold very nicely . We have to refold =.= I almost used up 5 minutes to fold one bed sheet now . But slowly I can master up the technique . Today lunch prepared by Jessie and Jia Wei . I continue to peel the green beans . Today lunch - Bihun and onion with fried egg .
I will be washing all the dishes cause I didn't help with cooking . We rest until about 3pm , we are asked to collect the rubbish in front of tree house . Evening wae wae bring us to waterfall and collect rubbish . This is my first time pushing a wheelbarrow . It is fun ! I bring a bag for them to put all their water bottles and the plastic bags . Jia Wei carry the basket with food . So Jessie will be pushing the wheelbarrow up tho the hill . The journey to the waterfall is not near and along the way all are slopes . 20 minutes walking up to the slopes !!!
Once we reach the waterfall , I saw the place is surround with rubbish . It is very very dirty No matter where you walk there are rubbish down your feet . Can you imagine ? We find a spot and settle down our stuff and begin to collect rubbish . Of course we bring the charcoal grip to collect the rubbish , because it is too dirty until you feel like don't want to pick it up by using your bare hand . The rubbish that we collect include plastic bottle , wine glasses , some of them even scattered , short pants , and even rotten pampers . While walking in the midst of the waterfall , my slippers almost flush by the water , luckily wae wae help me to chase it back .
Four of us total collect 8 packets of rubbish in that small area only . Collecting rubbish is just a small act of kindness but in the end it will give you satisfaction . When wae wae told us " While you all are collecting the rubbish , I heard the earth saying thank you to all of you , because he is able to breathe finally ." My tears trickled down my cheeks . This is the tears of satisfaction .
Fun after collecting the rubbish
We promise to fly the rubbish into the bin . So fly ! End up Jessie rubbish drop in front of the bin
So I laughed so hard !!
We go back and take a bath and headed for dinner .
Day 5 - Last day .
Wake up at 6.45 and pack my things . We have to get down early because wae wae promise to let us do the handcraft before we left .
This is what we are doing . We hammer the "zap" of the leaves on the fabric , forming a pattern or animals based on your imagination .
We have breakfast in the rush as well , because our bus is on 10am .
Taadaa !! Done finally
9.30 am . Deva drives us to the station .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLLt3pjs-w
We meet up at bus station about 8.15am . Feeling so much excited , because we are going for a different trip . This trip is not luxury , it is not in the chaotic city but in the forest . I went last time with my family and I fall in love with this paradise , that the reason why I drop by here again . For the second visit , I bring 2 of my friends to work voluntary at tree house . We reached Johor around 12pm , take a simple lunch and my brother drop us at tree house . We take a short rest and start our mission . Our first mission is to tidy up all the 6 tree house , collect bed sheets , clean the toilet . Before we do all these stuffs , first we have to climb 300 steps to get to the tree houses . When we was up there, our sweat still keep dropping . After jie jie show us how to keep the bed sheets , we have to tidy up ourselves . After that I cleaned the toilet , I did not expect there is a frog behind the door . When I start cleaning , the frog jump away and he touches my hand and I scream like hell . Luckily I did not dreamed about the frog .
We have dinner beside the beach . There are candles on every wooden tables . Soft music playing and sea breeze swept past us at the same time . What a romantic place to dine in . We have our chop as dinner . The price for the chop is not more than RM 15 , for me it consider very cheap .
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| Beside the beach |
After dinner , we went Econsave to buy stuffs for our meals for the next few days. Because the coming next few days we have to cook our lunch by ourselves . After going back to our tree house , I decided to wash my clothes but then I realize the ants are on my clothes and it is pretty hard to remove them . While I was washing the ants climb on my hand and give a bite , it is pain ! I almost used up an hour plus to wash my clothes . Later my friend told me that the cup mee that she bring was eaten by a rat and her bag end up with a small hole . Because she forgot to lock her bag in the box. At that night I was thinking to leave this place . Really !
Day 2 .
7 am . Wake up by the natural alarm .
The 2 of them still sleep like a log . 8am we have go down . So I wake them up at 7.30 am . After we get down from the hill , Deva drove us to the nearest mamak to have our breakfast . I have roti telur and milo as my day 2 breakfast . After coming back we rest for a while then Deva brief us what to do today . Our mission was cleaning up the kitchen . She told us no need rush , whatever you can do just do , when you feel hungry you can eat first then continue . I realize that what she want is Perfect .
Alright so we bring our 'tools' to start cleaning . Once we open the door of the kitchen , I was like yelling for help ! But we still have to clean . We keep the cabinet empty by taking out all of the stuffs .We washed the pots , tray , cutlery everything . The scariest moment when we open the pot we don't know what is inside the pot . Sometimes cockroach , sometimes a BUNCH of small insects , sometimes lizard . The three of us almost get mad !
No matter how dirty how unwilling to clean , we still keep on with it. I love the spirit that carry in between us . We spent 3 hours to clean the kitchen and finally it look so much better than previous . We feel so regret that we didn't take the pictures of before and after . It is too contrasting ! After cleaning we go down and have our lunch . We go down and wae wae told to cook for ourselves . We was like , WHAT .... They prepare the lotus soup for us , so we quickly think of what to cook .
Decision made . We cook bihun with lotus soup and tomato egg by Jessie !
Deva told me that tonight there will be guest coming to shoot for a film . So dinner will be served at hall . We eat so full because it is our own cooking and it is too delicious . We wash our plates using charcoal because it is not too oily . After that we go up to the kitchen to do the last cleaning , then we carry the trash down the hill . I did not expect the trash is that heavy . Alright , just keep walking .
5pm . Waiting at our house to wait for the guest come up for dinner . Finally have my own personal time to enzoi , while the 2 of them still taking bath because they don't dare to bath alone . We go up to the hall which just a stone throw distance and wait for the steamboat dinner to be ready . We just have to help out with the cutlery .
The guests are so friendly and down-to-earth , we have a nice chat with them . They request us to do an interview after dinner , at first I thought they are joking around with us . After Deva's interview is our turn . Jenna the host started to ask us question , and the camera is in front of us . I was damn nervous because you really have to think fast of what they asked . Around 10 everything end . Then we just chill around at the hall .
Day 3
7.30 - Wake up . Deva will bring the breakfast to the hall
8.30 - Everyone of us gather at the hall . Breakfast would be nasi lemak and milo
The director ' dap toi ' with us and we start to chat non stop .
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| Fake candid |
They will be leaving after breakfast , before that we must go and climb up the rattan . The camera guy ask us to climb as well and he will take photo of us . He told us , usually the photo he took is RM 200 per photo , now he take free for us . How can we miss this golden opportunity ?
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| The group photo |
After they leave , we have to start working . Our mission today is clean all the fans and wash toilet .
With the skills that we gather up these 3 days we are considered an experience 'kakak' . Anyone want employ us let me know . LOL
Bout 2pm we went down and cook lunch ourselves . Since yesterday we have bihun so today we cook rice . Alright this is another challenging one . We do not have rice cooker , we have to use the clay pot by lighting up the fire to cook it . It just a simple white rice , but when you have no electric rice cooker , you have to cook it without shortcut . For the first try , our rice consider a success . Every lunch that we cooked consist of our sweat , tears , and hard work . You know what , we eat so happily because we know that preparing a meals never easy . We appreciate it .
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Day 3 Lunch . Jap toufu and cabbage  Thank you jie jie for treating us the cakes ♥ |
We rest after lunch . About 4pm we are asked to pluck the ripe green beans . When the green beans are ripe it will turn dark brown color and it is quite crispy .
After collecting them , we have to peel off the outer layer to get the green beans . They have fine hairs on the outer layer so when we peel it , the hairs sometimes will prick our fingers and caused pain . The beans that we collect is quite a number but when we peel off , it don't even reach half of the container and it is only enough for 10 people to consume . Can you imagine how difficult the green beans comes . Appreciate la whey !
Wae wae cook us dinner and later Deva drove us to platform coffee shop . Finally we can have chilling time again . We ordered a pot of tea and share among three of us . We start chatting around with each other until 10 pm. We reach our house almost 11pm and we haven't take bath . Some more the water is the cool moutain water @@
Day 4
7am - I was still in the state of half awake and I barely heard some noise from the rooftop . I thought it was raining , but Jessie told me is the monkeys walking on the rooftop . I immediately wake up Jia Wei because she longed to see monkeys . We peep through the gap between the bamboo , saw a group of monkeys swaying from tree to tree .
We go down and have breakfast . Wae wae ask us to pick some small woods to cook for our breakfast . She teach us how light up the fire , how and when to add woods. When the fire is steady , she start to cook . She cut the bread in slices and toast them until it goes crunchy . She added some cheese and a basil leaf . Taa daa ..! This is how our breakfast look like
After breakfast we start to clean the "living room" , after that we continue to peel the green beans . Last day of being here so they job they give us not so heavy compare to the first 3 days . Today we just help out with some trivial matters . Deva told us the bed sheet are almost dried , she ask us to collect and fold it properly and keep in the boxes . We really have problems in folding the bed sheet as you know the bed sheet isn't in diagonal so if you fold it without correct technique it will be horrible . So we fold it very horrible ,so what we do is we make the outer layer looks as neat as possible . We used up not more than 10 minutes to fold all the bed sheets .
Deva is surprised that we are able to finish it within 10 minutes , so she go and check and she show us how to fold it . We have to fold it to the smallest area and treat your hand as an iron . She fold very nicely . We have to refold =.= I almost used up 5 minutes to fold one bed sheet now . But slowly I can master up the technique . Today lunch prepared by Jessie and Jia Wei . I continue to peel the green beans . Today lunch - Bihun and onion with fried egg .
I will be washing all the dishes cause I didn't help with cooking . We rest until about 3pm , we are asked to collect the rubbish in front of tree house . Evening wae wae bring us to waterfall and collect rubbish . This is my first time pushing a wheelbarrow . It is fun ! I bring a bag for them to put all their water bottles and the plastic bags . Jia Wei carry the basket with food . So Jessie will be pushing the wheelbarrow up tho the hill . The journey to the waterfall is not near and along the way all are slopes . 20 minutes walking up to the slopes !!!
Once we reach the waterfall , I saw the place is surround with rubbish . It is very very dirty No matter where you walk there are rubbish down your feet . Can you imagine ? We find a spot and settle down our stuff and begin to collect rubbish . Of course we bring the charcoal grip to collect the rubbish , because it is too dirty until you feel like don't want to pick it up by using your bare hand . The rubbish that we collect include plastic bottle , wine glasses , some of them even scattered , short pants , and even rotten pampers . While walking in the midst of the waterfall , my slippers almost flush by the water , luckily wae wae help me to chase it back .
Four of us total collect 8 packets of rubbish in that small area only . Collecting rubbish is just a small act of kindness but in the end it will give you satisfaction . When wae wae told us " While you all are collecting the rubbish , I heard the earth saying thank you to all of you , because he is able to breathe finally ." My tears trickled down my cheeks . This is the tears of satisfaction .
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| Spot the rubbish behind me ? All of them collect from waterfall |
Fun after collecting the rubbish
We promise to fly the rubbish into the bin . So fly ! End up Jessie rubbish drop in front of the bin
So I laughed so hard !!
We go back and take a bath and headed for dinner .
Day 5 - Last day .
Wake up at 6.45 and pack my things . We have to get down early because wae wae promise to let us do the handcraft before we left .
This is what we are doing . We hammer the "zap" of the leaves on the fabric , forming a pattern or animals based on your imagination .
We have breakfast in the rush as well , because our bus is on 10am .
Taadaa !! Done finally
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| Salim , the tarzan |
9.30 am . Deva drives us to the station .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLLt3pjs-w
Signing off,
Hao Zhuang .
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