White Water Rafting!!!

For those who craves for outdoor activities, this might be what ur seeking for.!! White Water Rafting!!!!.. is a challenging recreational outdoor activity using an inflatable boat or so called raft, to navigate through rapids within the rivers... This is usually done on white water or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers...

Btw, my parents own a rafting company called Pierose Swiftwater Sdn. Bhd... My parents started their own company on 2006... But my dad have been doing rafting since 1996 with other company... He also have been doing outdoor activities long before he started rafting... jungle tracking, rock climbing, kayaking, camping, and loads of other stuffs... :P... well, i've been exposed to all these kind of activities since young and i'm kinda used to doing these activities... but not as hardcore as my dad... :)... Usually they organize the rafting trip for the clients at Sungai Selangor at Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor... But they do organize at other rivers as well... depends on the clients request... If you're interested on higher level rafting experience, i might want to go for a 3 days 2 night trip which is at Sungai Singor, Perak... there are some other rivers which i cant recall at the momment... :)

Cant swim??? Never been for any outdoor activities?? Not a problem... there's a lot of people who cant swim that went for rafting... i've been rafting a lot of times and i've seen these people... knowing how to swim actually gives you only a bit of advantage only... which is you're used to water more than the one's who doesn't... anyway... u wont be swimming in those rapids... even the best swimmer in the world cant swim in those kinda rapids... and btw rafting is not about swimming... u'll be in the raft most of the time while going through the rapids.... and one more thing, everyone will be equipped with PFD (Pesonal Floatation Device) or most might call it Life Jacket... helmet and paddle will also be provided.... and you must wear the PFD and helmet throughout the whole trip... u can only remove them only when the guides says that u can... its all for safety reasons u need all those.. :P

My dad briefing the clients... :P

Ok... when u reach to the site... everyone will be given a briefing on safety and basic things u need to know about rafting... this is so that you will be more prepared for the trip... You will be given the safety gears at this time, PFD, Helmet and paddle... :P sometimes if there's extra time to spare, there will be some games held before the trip... this is for the clients or passengers to get use to each other a litle bit more... and once the briefings and the game done, everyone will be divided into rafts which consist of maximum 6 passengers depends on the size of the pax... if the river level is low, the maximum amount of passengers in a raft is 5 or 4 persons... this doesn't include the two guides which will maneuver the raft along the rapids...

There are different level of difficulties for the rapids throughout the whole river... starting from grade 1 to grade 6... the maximum grade you'll find in Malaysia is only grade 5 and there's only one that i know of, which is in Sungai Singor in Perak... the rest would only be grade 3 or grade 4 max....

Grade 1: Very small rough areas, might require slight maneuvering. (Skill Level: Very Basic)
Grade 2: Some rough water, maybe some rocks, might require some maneuvering.(Skill Level: Basic Paddling Skill)
Grade 3: Whitewater, small waves, maybe a small drop, but no considerable danger. May require significant maneuvering.(Skill Level: Experienced paddling skills)
Grade 4: Whitewater, medium waves, maybe rocks, maybe a considerable drop, sharp maneuvers may be needed. (Skill Level: Whitewater Experience)
Grade 5: Whitewater, large waves, large volume, possibility of large rocks and hazards, possibility of a large drop, requires precise maneuvering (Skill Level: Advanced Whitewater Experience)
Grade 6: Class 6 rapids are considered to be so dangerous as to be effectively unnavigable on a reliably safe basis. Rafters can expect to encounter substantial whitewater, huge waves, huge rocks and hazards, and/or substantial drops that will impart severe impacts beyond the structural capacities and impact ratings of almost all rafting equipment. Traversing a Class 6 rapid has a dramatically increased likelihood of ending in serious injury or death compared to lesser classes. (Skill Level: Successful completion of a Class 6 rapid without serious injury or death is widely considered to be a matter of great luck or extreme skill)

There will be Guides standing by at the river bank to rescue the ones that falls off...

Like so many outdoor activities, people tend to forget that whitewater rafting comes with an element of risk due to the elements of nature... Plus, some might say that because of the inherent thrill seeking element of whitewater rafting, the sport includes a greater-than-average risk factor... This is why safety is always the main concern for these kind of sports... these are safety gears for the guides to use during the trip in case of any emergencies... and everyone have been briefed about the safety tips before the trip... :)

Once done with rafting, clients will be having lunch which is provided... which my mom is the one who cooked and prepare the foods... :P... but before having lunch, they'll shower and change their clothing 1st.... but some people straight away have their lunch before showering.... too tired and hungry i think... :P this is the time when everyone gather and share their experience about the rafting trip they have just been through with each other or anything which they would like to share with each other....

having a short break at the river bank... there's a small waterfall there...



That's me!!!! :P

some picture during the trip... :P



Capsized!!!! Some common scene during the whole rafting trip... :P







Some of the rafting videos!!!!



clients gather and having lunch...

Oraitz!!!! if any of you interesting on this type of outdoor activities, contact my parents through www.raftmalaysia.com

or call

Pie = 013-3693991 or Rose = 019-6458615
Office = 03-60645040

PieRose Swiftwater Sdn. Bhd.

Unicol Splash Challenge!!!!

7th august 2010... around one month after the news that we all were going for a waterpark field trip thing... i wasn't so sure of what exactly we were going to do there since i was only told that its just having fun, swimming, waves, and whatever related to waterpark laa... i didn't actually know that we were going to compete with other college and getting some freebies from acer and some other sponsors... i only get to know about it that day when we were about to go there... hehehe... :P...

well... everyone gathered at coll around 8 am... there's 3 buses ready for us, but then we only use 2 of them since there's not much people as expected... cant tell how many of us who went for the trip... :P but i think its lesser than 100pax laa... and some of us went there by their own car...

here comes the pictures!!!! wahahaha... :P

some shots of us before going into the bus!!

in the bus and ready to go!!! woohhooOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sophty acting as a girl and being molested my the others.. :P



sing along!!!! la la la la la laa!!!! wahahahhahahaha.. look at ben's face... :P




wohhoO!!!! we're there!!!! and thats me... :P



that's where we heading... but 1st we need to be organized... :)



Mr. Ho giving orders and stuff... organizing us all as well... :)




Dwayne sorting people to groups of which games they're going to participate in... :P





some pictures before going in... :P





registering and getting our freebie which consist of orange shirt, sunblock lotion, cap, coupon for breakfast and drinks, and this small fan thinggy.. :P



our tags!!!! :P

that's us!!! KBU team in ORANGE!!!!! :P

we all went for free breakfast which they provided... then get ready for the games... :)
cant recall what were the games were called...



the scoreboard... listed the name of the games and colleges that participate...



the first game!! some water train thing they call it... not sure actually... :P
cant remember the placing... hehehe...





the bull riding game!!! dwayne and danny lo manage to hold on to the bull for a moment... but then karam fell of straight away when the bull started to move... hahaha... :P




me carrying suk ling... she's kinda light... :P



while waiting for the other teams to finish some of the games... we headed for the
"fake beach" to have some fun!!!! wooohhhooo!!!!!!!!!!












peps on shoulders pics!!! hehehe... i wonder why everyone does this that day.. hahaha... :P




triple decker!!!

and now comes the underwater pictures!!!





hahaha... smile sophty!!!



suk ling and me in the water... my face blocked by her "peace"... :)



samaan screaming!!!!



suk ling sleeping in the water.. hehehehe... :P



rock on dwayne!!!!



danny lo holding his breath for a while in the water...

and here are some pics of what we do there



splashing!!!



karam and dimitri capsized!!! wahaha...



some stunts attempted... the life guards keep on whistling and warning them to stop doing these acts, but still they cant stop doing it until the guards were really mad... hehehe.. :P



that"s me doing the flip!!! yyyeeeehhhhaaaaa!!!!!!



group photo!!!



some games they're playing... :)



me tubing!!! :P



danny : go ken ee!!! GO!!!!! :P



kimmei!!! she cant join us playing around in the water... working that time as the team bos!! hehehe... i bet she wanted to actually... :P



after having loads of fun in the water, time to continue playing some other games..



dunno what was it called... but u need to push a bicycle rim with a stick from the starting point to the end and turn back.... :)






pulling peps on the sack...




happy feet game!!! but as u see in this picture its kinda ... u know what laa... hahaha.... didn't get to take other picture of this game coz i was LMFAO... wahahhaha...


after playing all the games... everyone gathered again for prize giving ceremony thing and some performance...



shawn lee performing his beatbox talent... i was the best i've ever seen live...
damn awesome!!!!



breakdance performance... :P

and i didn't take pictures for the other two performers... they sing well... :)




took photo with phat fabes from flyfm!!!!! yeah he was there as the emcee... :P



group photo before we all go home!!! :P some of them went back and some don't wanna take pics... this is roughly half of the whole pax!!!!

well... everyone was damn tired and slept in the bus on our way back... then some of us had dinner at McD until around 9pm i think so... and then went back to sleep!!!! zzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!


the next day my whole body aching, throat hurts, backache, minor headache.... but then this event was damn worth the pain, time and was damn awesome!!!! would like to go for an event like this again someday with y'all!!!!! wwooooohhhhhooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!