Saturday 17 April 2010...730 am we are already at Sungai Buloh R&R, waking up as early as 530 to start our journey to Gopeng for white water rafting!!Level 2/3...mind you the only thing I can do in water is float like a dead frog!! Thanks to Mr.Vick and his hotRod, we were late, though he made us chase his car at approximately 160 kmph till the Gopeng Tol after that! We reached Gua Tempurung around 1030am.Loitered around while waiting for our pickup vehicle. Guess what was our a pickup vehicle? A lorry!without hood that can fit 20 crazy people. By God!all of us looked like smuggled cows in the back of the lorry. And that's the proof!It took another 25 minutes before we reached the Kampar River, a long dusty ride,which we called the land rafting as we went through some seriously bumpy kampung roads.
After gearing up and some paddle-concussions, we were given briefing on basic safety precautions. We learned a few of rafting jargons, Quick photo session with our gears and paddles, we were divided to groups of five...Vick,Yuva, Kast, Roops and Me were in one group. We carried the raft to the river bank and were required to body raft through the first rapid. Great!I can 't swim to save myself even with a life-jacket=P and the first rapid looked errr...dangerous?
The current pulls you and its like going down an invisible slide with water gushing around you!Uncool part was the rocks though...especially if your bum hits so hard its bruising the next day. My bum was numb with pain from the hit. I thought I pulled my right thigh muscles. One by one, each went through the first rapid with someone trying to save his drowning shoes.
We were on our rafts paddling towards the next rapids with the guide Jusili, from Kundasang, Sabah briefing us. He had a mouthful of questions to answer(mainly Roops, Kast and Me who were busier shooting him questions rather than paddling). Whenever he shouts 'Jump Jump'', we had to jump on our place till the stucked raft moves forward. But what if one shouts 'Jump Jump Forward'. How do you jump and paddle?We did, at least the other 4 did...I was just laughing hard at them while trying to jump and paddle. 
We reached the 'Double Decker' where he shouted Boom Boom!...We were supposed to hurdle together but instead we were falling into each other in the raft and laughing our butts off..Even the guide was thrust forward into the pile of laughing-beings because he got so distracted with our antics. Safely out of the rapid, we were told to capsize our own raft. We did and I was stuck under the raft instead of outside.The guide had to pull me out. He even fell off while trying to overturned the raft, distracted by Kast's scream,.We were quite a handfull bunch to handle.Once we were in the raft, Roops was pulled back into the water by another guide and I got further head concussions from Mani .We were given 15 minutes break after the next rapid. Time to wreck revenges! I managed to pull mani into the water before jumping into our raft for safety. And kicked Mani off our raft when he came back for his own revenge. Finally, we were required to chain bodyraft through the last rapid...everyone managed to choke each other.
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