Hello Everybody,
A Happy New Year to all Muslim (Ma’al Hijrah) today and as usual let’s open
a new page in our Book of Life.

The Children Adventure Course “CAC”, the Youth Adventure Course “YAC” & the Overseas Youth Programme “OYP” are ongoing now till just before Christmas. The CAC 70, OYP 12 & YAC 24 completed about a week ago and currently the CAC 71 & YAC 25 are ongoing. In fact, the CAC 71 consisting of 78 kids ages ranging from 10 to 12 years old are now camping at Teluk Sekadeh Pulau Pangkor for the two nights while they carry out their rock climbing & trekking!

Frankly, it always baffles me when I see the smiling albeit darkened faces of these kids when they completed their 10-day course and trying to convince their parents that they want to come back for the YAC so that they can kayak to & from Pangkor!

I must quote here the case of Nigel Low Tze Xi (12 years old), a participant of CAC 70 recently, fractured his wrist on the second day while doing the Wall Climbing at base and was advised to stay in the Medical Bay. When I saw him crying that night, it was not tears of pain but sadness that he may not be able to join his newly found friends to do all the other activities. Without a second thought, we allowed him to follow on condition that his friends support him all the way – of course our Instructors had sleepless nights monitoring his progress! Special compliments to his parents when they told me “He is a tough boy..Please carry on”. Please see his handwritten letter to me received after the course. THAT is the “magic” of Outward Bound!

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More than likely, we will meet up again in 2010 and would like to wish everybody……
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Outward Bound Malaysia, Lumut!