Sincere words from us..

In this competition, the Wonderers has had opportunities of visiting 2 selected villages, that is Kg Sg Hj Dorani, Sungai Besar and Felda Bukit Cherakah, Meru, Klang.

In these two visits, we had experienced interactions and communications with the villagers, about their normal life and ICT. We had the priceless experience of getting to know them better and share our valuable knowledge with them.

We are really happy to get such opportunity through Maxis Bridging Community, having chosen as the top 10 finalists. We couldn't thank the sponsors enough.

thank you for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

the Wonderers

Trip to Felda Bukit Cherakah

Origin of our plan..

During our visit to Maxis Academy with Abg Zul on 6th Oct 07, we have came across an idea of going to one of the nearest Felda in Klang, named Felda Bukit Cherakah. We realized this village while we were on the way to Kg Sg Hj Dorani on the previous week. We discussed it with Abg Zul, which encouraged us greatly in doing beneficial activities there . Besides meeting with our objective, we could also interact closely with communities in the chosen Felda .

After searching for the contact number of Felda Bkt Cherakah, we decided to try our best in accomplishing our plan, and get more motivated with the encouragement of our supportive mentor, Abg Zul.

Efforts of making the trip a Reality..

We managed to call the related person a few days after the visit with Abg Zul. We were really glad that the influential person of Felda Bukit Cherakah himself, Encik Hj Alwi gave us his full support towards our activity at the Felda .

Besides informing him the required details through phone, we emailed and fax him our headletter, which contains all the particular details of our trip. Alhamdulillah, our visit proposal has been approved and the date for the trip has been finalized, that is on 3rd November 2007 .

when the final date is confirmed, we discussed about issues such as souvenirs for selected person, reconfirm activities so forth. Later, we had enough rest, for the BIG day .

3rd November 2007 = BIG Day

Finally..

That morning, we woke up really early in the morning, in order to be ready by 7.30 AM at Kolej Delima's car park..

All of us (the Wonderers) brought our own laptop to be used there, while Syida brings her wireless router as a backup. We began our journey at 8.00 AM. The first thing that crossed our mind that morning was BREAKFAST. With empty stomachs and sleepy faces, we searched for kuih and drinks for breakfast .

Full stomach can sometimes make you more energetic and active, which applies to US that morning. We were excitedly eager to arrive at the kampung and meet up with the villagers there .

When we arrived at the entrance of Felda Bukit Cherakah, we called En Rosli Daud, the contact person of the journey, also known as personal assistant for the top person of the kampung, En Hj Alwi.

We waited for him at a futsal court near the entrance. He then lead us to En Muzammil's house, where will be the place for us to do all our activities. En Muzammil's house were selected because of the usage of internet in his house. Availability of internet were very important for us, for the effectiveness of our planned activity .

En Muzammil and his wife welcomed us gratefully . We went into his house and had a few chat with him. It didn't took us long after that to set up our laptops and the wireless connection to gain Internet. We had to finish setting up before we start any of our activity.

Alhamdulillah, we managed to set up Internet connections easily, without much problem. En Muzammil then invited us to have breakfast in his house, with the villagers that came. The increasing number of villagers made us even more excited to start the activity .

After we finished eating, our project manager, Syida, gave a brief introduction and explanation to the villagers that came . Pamphlets were also being distributed while the speech is given out, which helps our listeners to understand more about us and our activities.

We managed to start the activity as soon after the speech finished. People that came were invited to go to the front balcony of En Muzammil's house where our laptops were placed. Each of us then entertained and taught the villagers about Yahoo! Group and details about blog .

Besides explaining the benefit of both applications, we taught them of how to create a blog, elements to be put in a blog, and answer all their curiosity through detailed explanation. The ability of surfing the Internet there really helped us in explaining to them in a smoother way. It has somehow made both parties comfortable enough to teach and learn new things.

Their eagerness to know about things has somehow made us more enthusiast in explaining, for them to understand better, in a simpler way .

It made us carried away, and did not even realize that it was already 12.00 PM, which is supposed to be the time that we finish all activities and head back to Shah Alam . We extended the the activity till 12.30 PM. We packed our things back after we took pictures with our loyal participants..

We had lunch with En Muzammil for a while, before going back to Shah Alam. We thanked him and his family for the priceless effort that has been given throughout our presence there .

We then head back to Shah Alam with a very satisfied feeling. The experience was highly valuable and priceless. The tremendous support overwhelmed us, which made us smile all the way back to our hostel. Tiring but worth it. That was what we truly felt that day .