A Walk With Nature

When's the last time you took a stroll into the depths of nature?
It's time we take it to the outdoors and admire the beauty of Mother Earth.

HESC is having an outdoor trip this Friday the 30th to FRIM (Forest Reserve Institute Malaysia).

We will be doing some trekking and after busting sweats we get the chance to cool ourselves at the waterfall and the best part is we'll be going on a canopy walk. It's optional but I doubt you would wanna miss it when you see how exciting it is.

Details are:

"Date : 30th October 2009
Time : 12pm - 5pm
Place to gather : Lower Foyer of Main Block
(Please make sure you have your lunch before coming. Bus will depart at 12.30pm latest)

Fees : RM10 per person
Attire : Please wear suitable trekking attire, shoes, long pants if you're afraid of leeches, and bring along an extra change of t-shirt because chances are, you'll end up soaking wet from the waterfall ;)

Light refreshments will be served at the end of the trekking. But please feel free to bring your own refreshments if you see the need of it. "

For more details kindly contact, Ivy Nattasha: 017-3352502

Things to bring :-
1) Student ID - for canopy walk
2) H2O for consumption
3) change of clothes
4) towel
5) mosquito repellent (HESC don't recommend this)
6) camera (at your own risk)

Please don't..

-Have a very heavy meal before the trek, you're gonna feel nauseous.
-Carry too much stuff in your backpack on the way up!
-Make too much noise on the canopy walk as you might ruin chance of seeing the Malaysian flying squirrels.
-Jump on the canopy walk (duh!)


It's actually my first time there and I recommend those of you who hadn't got the chance to got there to tag along with us because from what I heard, it's really exciting and scenically beautiful in there.



*FUN FACT!*

Do you know?

~A single acre of trees can remove up to 12 tonnes of dust and gases from the air each year.
~Flying animals in asian rainforests included frogs, squirrels and snakes?
~In a natural forest, chances that a seed will grow into a mature tree are about 1 in a million?

Like El Nino

It's been a "practically" interesting week. Last Friday's meeting was held in Lab 3 where members get to conduct not one but TWO experiments.





The first experiment was to investigate the reason behind the rise in sea level from the melting of icebergs on the north pole. Some of you might think.. "of course rise lah! ice melts into water hence the sea level rise lah.." BUT if you think of it based on your friggin logic! Archimedes Principles (physics) whereby it states that, an object displaces the volume of liquid equal to the weight of the object (just like ice cubes in a cup of water) don't you think it's weird how the melting of iceberg can raise the sea level? Have you ever seen anyone's cup of teh ais overflow when they left the ice to melt? So that's mystery no. 1 for us to solve.





No. 2 is the El Nino effect. Two food colouring dye (green/red) was provided to investigate the effect of the El Nino which is frequently happening on the surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific. It was messy but the result was incredible to watch. I accidentally bump into one of our members who was holding a cup of diluted red dye and he got some on his white sleeves while I escaped! So if that particular member is reading this, "sorry again! I hope it didn't stain.." =(







As mentioned in the meeting, there will be an Environmental Science Lab (Lab 3) Exhibition somewhere in Dec this year. There will be a few "environmental related" projects supervised by our lovely lecturers in groups. This exhibition is one of our major event so it would be a waste to miss out. If you are interested to participate and gain precious experiences, please let us know as soon as possible as places are limited and selling fast!



Just by looking at the pics you can tell how well our members participated in the experiments. Attendance was good but let's raise the head count on our next meeting, aight? Our meetings are usually once a fortnight so I don't think it's too troublesome for anyone. Try to drag along any long lost members, new members are ALWAYS welcome!








Btw.. We have a chatter box.. Can someone say something?!
"Lonely.. I'm so lonely.. All by my own.."