Fun, fun, fun!

Cameron Highland wasn’t as bad as some people might say. I went there on the 22nd Oct, Tuesday with my classmates to catch insects for our biology assignment i.e. preserving insects using chloroform and formalin. We were excited during the first hour of ride there, busily chatting and singing to the radio (not to mention eating!!) but gradually, we fell asleep as most of us woke up early, around 3 am so that we could reach Cameron just in time for breakfast!

Indeed, we really got there around 9 am and it was drizzling. Well, truth be told, it was raining the WHOLE DAY!

Somehow, when we reach there, some of us got sore eyes while some felt dizzy. We felt that way right until afternoon. It wasn’t until one of my friend noticed her backpack was wet that we realized we had been intoxicated by chloroform.
What a way to start our ‘quest’ of finding those damn insects!

Anyway, we had so much fun that we looked like vacationing rather than doing assignment. Well, to start things off, we ‘stole’ strawberries on the way to our apartment. Cameron has many strawberry farms offering tourists to self-pluck strawberries and one of those many farms were really, really unlucky that day! We were supposed to pluck strawberries and fill them into a container which they provide at a cost of Rm15. But being an adventurous and hungry-for-strawberries group of teenagers, we couldn’t resist not eating them!! We had this ‘tactic’ to distract the workers from catching us eating strawberries where one of us would pretend to ask him many questions while the rest would eat them mercilessly! Honestly, each of us ate 30-40 strawberries and there were 7 of us! And all we paid was Rm15 in total! Wahaha…worth every cents!

We did not catch many insects on the first day as it was raining. Time was running out, we only booked the apartment for a night. We then planned to buy them from the butterfly farm. Shockingly, one butterfly costs Rm80-100 ++ and we need 5 of them. Out of desperation to bring back butterflies, each of us paid Rm3 and went into the farm to steal them!! Yeap, we stole 10++ butterflies! Haha..don’t ask me how but we just did it!

The apartment that we stayed in was really cozy and most importantly, cheap. 3 rooms and 2 bathrooms equip with Astro, Kitchen utensils and all the necessary stuff for Rm220.

Not bad eh? I might go there again next year! Hahaha