192. Beach Clean Up! Successful!

Clock read 3.55pm when I reached Jerudong Beach. While finding a place to park my car, I saw a few people I recognised. Could not help it but I felt excited and jolly. It has been awhile since I last cleaned a beach, and definitely been awhile since I last seen Cikgu. It was a splendid time too because I could finally meet Jan and Nonnie. And what’s better, the whole cleaning campaign was a joint effort by some pals from UBD too!!

Arriving and be greeted by litter and unwanted disposed tyres and nets, oh you just know that lots of work needed to be done! Surprisingly however, within an hour (perhaps), we have managed to clean almost the entire beach. People running to and fro for more plastics bags and gloves. People bending down and standing up trying to clean as much as possible.

Doing all that yesterday reminded me so much why I liked it. It may be tiring and picking up dumps may be the last thing you have in mind but that sense of being a part of the community; helping nature and community!-makes you feel wonderful! When the beach was finally clean, ey, you have no idea how good that feels! It’s like knowing that little hermit crabs and sea turtles won’t choke when they try to consume their “food”. At the same time, the community would realise how embarassed they should be for littering such a beautiful place! It’s all part of the awareness campaign – be it if only one realised this significance of having a clean environment.

I should by now introduce the crew:

The entire Cleaning Crew (Photo by Jan)

Most of them have travelled a long way from Seria just to join this cleaning campaign. I felt utterly happy yesterday knowing so many helped out! Although perhaps, our effort yesterday have put greatly into making it a cleaner beach, the thought of how people would again litter the area in the near future could put a frown on a happy face. But I’m sure this little effort can and will raise awareness amongst the public (where some of the people walking about lingered and mingled amongst us – sort of trying to understand what we were doing).

If there is something I’ve learnt, it also includes how I must remember to tie my hair before I clean. My hair is short so it’s kind of hard to tie them back but I guess a little front hair up would do so much better than having them all down. I looked so messy!! The breeze just sent all my hair flying in all sorts of direction. And yes, those that had cameras with them have effectively taken loads of pictures where most of my face was either covered or unseen at all. haha. goodness Lin Ji!

This picture is also taken by Jan. Yah, one that does quite show my face. haha. And and!! Those that do show my face, I looked like shit so crappy.

Like this one from Ben,

Ugh! I can’t remember what I was talking about that made me look like that! I remembered talking to Ee Tyng about some serious stuff but errr… I don’t think I’d look like that when talking about Communism, religion and “why do we need to be poor to be rich”. hahaha.

But anyway, below are some pictures I’d like to share with some captions that give glimpses on what happened there and then.

Below is a picture of Nonnie (or Spiritual Garden as she’s more commonly known) and a very nice friend (whom I sadly don’t know her name). From what I can remember, they were heading to the rocky side of the beach and while walking from afar, I’ve taken several shots – to the point she could not help but to at last pause for a bit so I could get one up-close shot. haha.

Then we have Hadri and Billah trying to pass more litter bags and unwanted stuff to the lorryguy who was very kind and drove all the way from point to point to help us dispose them. Ben(the one in pink) was the bag man. hahaha. He was walking around with loads of bags! So we wouldn’t need to walk from point C to A to get more bags since he was in point B. *wink* haha.

Below is a picture of Cikgu Mansor, the coodinator of the whole event. He brought drinks and food and provided bags and plastic gloves along with the trucks to dispose all the litter bags! He practically took care of the necessary stuff. Back then, when I used to clean beach with pals from high school, we weren’t even close to getting everything so organised and ready. haha.

And, at the end of the day, just before I left. This picture I took. Oh! Look at them smile. hehe.

Thanks you all for coming!!! I’m glad you all had fun!!! KNK next yah? teeheehee~

~ by floweret on July 13, 2009.