To Sungai Ingei yo..

Hey peps.. how did this topic ever come up? Let's go back to Lanjak in July 08.. the brunei team was tired and exhausted due to poor mammal richness in that place. So i suggested to the brunei team leader Dr Joe Charles why don't we have an expedition in our own country where the forests are so much more pristine than what we saw in Lanjak. So everyone was excited but as everyone was busy, the idea was not pursued further.

Then came Dato Dr Mike Kavanagh.. He's the Brunei HOB coordinator, and one of my mentors. He approached Dr Charles and said about what Brunei can do as the first projects for Brunei HOB, and that's how the Ingei expedition was formulated.

So what's my role here le?

Well as usual, i will be involved in helping Dr Charles to plan, manage and execute his part of research. We are going to foucs our research on small mammal trapping, camera trapping, primate and hornbill surverys. I will personally be involved in the primate & hornbill surveys where i will have to walk for 2km everyday from dawn onwards and record my observations. Personally i am pretty worried as i have never done this kind of work before. BUT i must learn this technique from Dr Charles if i am going to be working in wildlife conservation later on..

At the moment Dr Charles and myself are busy with selecting the undergrad students who will be coming with us and we have discussing the same topics for the last 2 weeks. there are certain people we are very sure of bringing and some that we can't make up our mind on. Just too many factors to consider you see.. things like leadership quality, seriousness in work, willingness to learn.. ah ya too many things to consider la!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gila man!!!

Metis and Bon were sweet enough to come with me and Dr Charles this afternoon to survey camping gears, and we spent about 3 HOURS in the shop just discussing the stuff we need to put in the budget.. oh that's one of my job too.. preparing budget for our team.. see i am a multitask superwoman!!!!!! very stressful one le..

will update more once i have all the details of the expeditions.

met is this post long enough for you?