Initiation Rites

Explorers
This initiation group will be either above, below or holding onto rocks at all times. Survive the darkness of the caverns and of the night, to emerge at the end a glorious initiate.

Day 1: Set off, Camp Craft at Gelanggi & Daily Reflection
Day 2: Abseiling (1st half) / Caving (2nd half) & Solo Drop
Day 3: Abseiling (2nd half) / Caving (1st half) & Night Walk
Day 4: Canopy Walk, Rapid Shooting, Orang Asli Experience & Reunion of Initiates
Day 5: Arrive home and resume modern living

Hunters
Like nomads and aboriginals, this initiation group will live off the land, finding food water and shelter in the most obvious yet unexpected places - right in front of them. By the time they walk out of the jungle they will be able to look at the most hostile situation and say, "Sure, I can handle that."

Day 1: Set off, Camp Craft at Kuala Tahan & Daily Reflection
Day 2: Orang Asli Jungle Survival Skills
Day 3: Jungle Trekking & Orang Asli Experience
Day 4: 4x4 and Waterfall Experience & Reunion of Initiates
Day 5: Arrive home and resume modern living

Rangers
This initiation group will endure distances they would never dream of back home. They will walk, ride, paddle and fly farther than ever, and they will never doubt themselves or look back. When the marathons are done, they will be able to see anything through to the end, no matter how long it takes.

(the 1st half)
Day 1: Set off, Camp Craft at Pasir Sia & Daily Reflection
Day 2: Cycling Challenge
Day 3: Water Confidence, White Water Rafting, Flying Fox & River Crossing
Day 4: Canopy Walk, Trekking at Kuala Tahan & Reunion of Initiates
Day 5: Arrive home and resume modern living

(the other half)
Day 1: Set off, Camp Craft at Jeram Besu & Daily Reflection
Day 2: Water Confidence, White Water Rafting, Flying Fox & River Crossing
Day 3: Cyling Challenge
Day 4: Trekking at Kuala Tahan, Canopy Walk & Reunion of Initiates
Day 5: Arrive home and resume modern living

Are we there yet?

Every journey has to begin somewhere. You can start now, thinking about who you are, what you are and where you're going to.

For that last one, it looks like this.

country road


chicanes


i'm ready to get lost


casting about



weathered
no bull


bull



meet the folks

portraits

Landscape - Are you jungle enough?

Stop a second. Ask yourself. Are you jungle enough for the real world?

spikey


a sandy beach

a line of attack


a river view


the canopy sky


a watery vision


a pattern of shadows


a place to be

It's a jungle over here.

By the way, it's a jungle over there too.

Paving the way forward

Resilience Camp 2008 is coming ! This year, a new energetic and fresh batch of Sec 3 Temasekians will be continuing the tradition of their predecessors - to survive and persevere in their quest to answer the call to rediscover our natural instincts - to forger a common bond and purpose, the Temasek Way.

To pave the way forward, Temasek's Reslience Camp 2008 Main Committee set off this week from Jan 14 - 16 , 2008 for Jerantut, Pahang @ Malaysia to connect with the vendor and local agencies and work with them in securing the sites and logistics to facilitate another successful start to Resilience Camp 2008.

The Resilience Comm has in the past few days visited the sites and run through the program to be featured in this year's camp. The focus on ensuring safety and furthering the well being of Temaekians has been the basic principle guiding the Resilience Comm. The Comm arrived in Jerantut at 3am on 14 Jan and set off to work, discusing on the program for the recee trip with our vendor and local agencies.

Rising up early on 15 Jan, the Committee worked out the proposed itenary for the 3 main groups which our Temasekians will be assigned to - Explorer(Caving Adventure) , Ranger( Cycling Expedition) and Hunter( Survival). Then it was off to the various sites , starting with the arrival at the Taman Negara Reserve where the team walked the routes through with the guides and vendor, to assess the challenges that our Temasekians would be exposed to and work out both contingency plans and adding refinements to ensure that all activities would be innovative, challenging and safe.

The Resilience Comm also met up with the Orang Asli to discuss with them the survival skills that would be useful and interesting for our urban dwelling Temasekians. New members of the committee were also taken on the routes to learn from the guide on what to expect along the route and assess for themselves the physical challenges so that they could come back to share with teacher ICs and form teachers.

Back at our command centre at Hotel Sri Emas by 11pm, the entire Committee went through the Action and Reviews of today's experience and also refining RAMS with the vendor. The recee program for the 15 January was also worked out and we will update on the happenings tommorow...time to rest the mind and recharge the body.

This is where we left off in 2007

ready in a huff