Sekarang semakin ramai golongan belia yang mula melibatkan diri dengan aktiviti outdoor seperti mendaki. Mendaki ni umum, jadi tak kira naik gunung atau bukit, itu semua dikira mendaki.
Untuk mereka yang baru nak berjinak-jinak dengan aktiviti mendaki, jangan risau. Artikel ini akan kongsikan basic 101 apa yang perlu kita lakukan untuk pergi mendaki.
Rancang Pengembaraan Anda Dengan Teliti
1. Bila nak pergi dan berapa lama? Ini persoalan pertama yang kita perlu tahu supaya senang nak rancang durasi trip. Dalam masa yang sama, mudah untuk mohon tarikh cuti dan sebagainya.
2. Berapa ramai nak pergi? group atau solo? Sebaiknya, untuk pendaki yang baru nak berjinak-jinak dengan aktiviti mendaki, jangan pergi berseorangan. Lebih baik pergi berkumpulan. Sekiranya ada apa-apa yang terjadi, kita tak bersendirian.
3.Kenalpasti kapasiti diri. Tahu kemampuan diri kita. Kalau rasa fizikal kita tak mampu, jangan seksa fizikal dengan mendaki bukit atau gunung yang tinggi. Takut nanti berlaku kecederaan.
4. Pilih lokasi sebaiknya. Ada sesetengah hutan lipur menyediakan fasiliti kepada para pengunjung manakala ada sesetengah yang lain tidak. Jadi, pastikan kita tahu serba sedikit maklumat tentang tempat tujuan kita.
5. Maklumkan kepada waris. Ini paling penting. Jangan pergi semberono je. Maklumkan kepada kenalan rapat akan ketiadaan kita. Kalau boleh, maklumkan juga keberadaan kita di balai polis berhampiran dengan lokasi. Jangan risau, polis tak akan tangkap punya.
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Persiapkan Diri Sebaiknya
1. Nak pakai kasut apa? Mesti la kena pakai kasut hiking. Kasut hiking ni ada dua jenis; satu kasut biasa dan satu lagi but. Bergantung kepada keselesaan kita. Kalau rasa nak lebih protection, pakai but kerana ia akan beri perlindungan kepada buku lali.
2. Nak pakai stokin yang macam mana? Cari stokin yang lightweight. Sekarang dah ada jenis stokin yang cepat kering dan anti bakteria. Jadi tak adalah stokin tu berbau busuk.
3. Baju apa yang sesuai? Semestinya baju dri-fit sebab kain baju jenis ini sejuk dan cepat kering bila berpeluh. Nak pakai jenis baju lain pun boleh tak ada larangan, cuma pastikan pengudaraan baju tu bagus dengan aktiviti mendaki kita.
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4. Seluar panjang atau seluar pendek? Secara peribadi, Libur lebih suka seluar panjang kerana hutan di Malaysia ini hutan hujan tropika. Hutan tebal dengan pelbagai jenis pokok seperti pokok rotan yang berduri, menutupi hampir keseluruhan lantai hutan. Melainkan kalau kita hiking ke hutan alpine yang mana pokoknya renek, tak ada masalah. Tak adalah bercalar-balar kaki kalau terkena duri atau dahan pokok.
5. Perlu ke pakai topi? Bergantung kepada cuaca. Kalau hujan atau panas, seeloknya pakai. Tapi kalau cuaca redup, tak pakai tak menjadi masalah. Boleh juga pakai topi sebagai aksesori pakaian mendaki.
6. Perlu pakai jaket? Perlu, kalau kita mendaki ke tempat tinggi yang sejuk atau kita akan bermalam di camp site berketinggian lebih 800 meter dari aras laut. Jangan tak bawa! Percayalah, anda akan menyesal.
Peralatan-peralatan yang perlu dibawa
1. Apa jenis backpack yang sesuai? Backpack ada banyak jenis mengikut isipadu dan sistem galasan beg. Kalau trip daypack, cukup kalau kita bawak backpack 15 liter ke bawah. Tapi kalau bermalam sehari dua, persiapkan diri kita dengan backpack 45-70 liter.
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2. Air. air sangat penting dan jangan sesekali kita hike tanpa bawa barang sebotol air pun. Ini untuk mengelakkan diri kita daripada dehydration akibat mendaki. Bawa dalam 1.5 liter air setiap seorang. Jangan minum banyak semasa mendaki, itu akan membuatkan kita menjadi cepat penat. Minum seteguk sewaktu berhenti rehat di checkpoint sudah memadai. Minum untuk elak dehydration, bukan untuk hilangkan dahaga.
3. Bawa first aid. Ini sangat penting. Ramai Libur perhatikan bila mendaki atau masuk hutan, benda basic macam ini selalu diabaikan pendaki-pendaki baru. Kalau sakit pening, mana nak cari ubat? Takkan nak kemam kulit pokok dan akar kayu? So, Libur tegaskan di sini, ubat-ubatan persendirian wajib dibawa!
4. Bawa pisau lipat. Tak perlu pisau komando. Cukup satu pisau lipat yang kecil sekiranya ada apa-apa yang hendak kita potong nanti. Tapi jangan potong pokok ya! Sayangilah alam sekitar kita.
5. Last but not least, bawa makanan secukupnya. Satu trick Libur ajar, siapkan satu set makanan untuk satu malam sekiranya kita hiking daypack. Sebabnya, malang tak berbau. Ada kawan-kawan yang hiking daypack pun kadang-kadang tersesat dalam hutan. So, set makanan yang kita bawa tu adalah untuk emergency. Jangan makan makanan tu sehingga habis trip kecuali kalau kita berada dalam keadaan kecemasan.
So, ini tips yang dapat Libur kongsikan. Kalau nak lebih lagi, selalulah berdampingan dengan otai-otai outdoor yang ada diluar sana. Sesungguhnya, ilmu mereka lebih banyak lagi.
Selamat mendaki!
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Negeri Perlis memang terkenal dengan kawasan sawah padinya yang luas. Banyak aktiviti menarik boleh dilakukan di kawasan sawah padi ini atau lebih dikenali dengan panggilan ‘bendang’ bagi penduduk tempatan.
Kalau ingin tahu, setiap kali musim menuai padi antara akhir bulan Ogos hingga Oktober, ramai penduduk Perlis, tanpa mengira umur, bangsa dan pangkat, tidak akan melepaskan peluang untuk memancing ikan puyu di sawah.
Ramai mula keluar memancing sekitar pukul 4 petang hingga 7 malam, dan antara lokasi yang menjadi tumpuan ialah sawah padi sekitar Kampung Mengkuang Layar, Kampung Wang Ulu, Titi Chai dan Seriab. Memancing ikan selepas musim menuai padi amat menyeronokan kerana jumlah tangkapan adalah lebih banyak berbanding hari biasa.
Info Musim Pancing Puyu
‘Letak angkat, letak angkat, itulah yang menjadi kepuasan dan keseronokan memancing ikan di sawah pada musim ini, ikan mudah makan umpan tidak seperti memancing di sungai atau tasik.
Setiap hari boleh dapat antara 40 ke 60 ekor ikan puyu selain beberapa ekor ikan lain antaranya keli, haruan dan sepat dalam masa sejam ke dua jam sahaja dengan hanya menggunakan umpan cengkerik.
Jika bukan musim menuai padi, agak sukar untuk mendapat ikan kerana pada ketika itu air dari petak sawah dilepaskan ke tali air. Ikan turut masuk ke tali air, pada ketika itu susah ikan makan umpan.
Rasa ikan puyu ‘padang’ (sawah) amat sedap kerana isinya lebih manis berbanding ikan puyu yang dijual di pasar, dan selain untuk dijadikan lauk buat keluarga, hasil tangkapan mereka di sana juga boleh dijadikan ikan pekasam dan dijual secara kecil-kecilan.
Ikan puyu juga sedap jika dibuat masak gulai, asam pedas atau pekasam, lagi sedap jika di makan dengan nasi panas.
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AirAsia Group melaksanakan dasar perjalanan baharu untuk penumpangnya berikutan pandemik COVID-19.
Ini termasuk memerlukan penumpang untuk membawa dan memakai topeng muka mereka sendiri sebelum, semasa dan selepas penerbangan, serta semasa mendaftar masuk dan mengambil bagasi.
Penumpang tanpa topeng muka tidak akan dibenarkan untuk menaiki pesawat, menurut kenyataan dalam laman web AirAsia.
AirAsia turut menyemak semula dasar bagasi kabin untuk memudahkan penjarakan sosial, terutamanya semasa naik dan turun pesawat, membenarkan hanya satu bagasi kabin tidak melebihi tujuh kilogram bagi setiap penumpang. Langkah itu akan membantu mengurangkan kontak yang tidak diingini antara penumpang dan bagasi penumpang yang lain dan sebaliknya.
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Terdapat juga pemeriksaan suhu di pusat pemeriksaan yang berbeza, termasuk pintu masuk. Semua kru akan dikehendaki untuk menjalani pemeriksaan suhu selepas setiap syif.
Penjarakan sosial perlu dipantau dan akan terdapat penanda di lantai di kawasan untuk beratur, termasuk kaunter daftar masuk serta kiosk.
Langkah keselamatan lain ialah kaunter daftar masuk alternatif untuk memastikan jarak yang mencukupi, malah AirAsia sedang mengusahakan untuk mempunyai proses daftar masuk tanpa kontak.
Kru kabin akan dikehendaki untuk memakai peralatan perlindungan di dalam pesawat, termasuk topeng muka dan sarung tangan. Kakitangan pengeluaran akan dipantau mengikut garis panduan COVID-19 dan kru kabin yang mengendalikan item menu akan dikehendaki untuk memakai sarung tangan pakai buang.
Selain itu, kru kabin kami telah dilatih dengan prosedur untuk menguruskan pesakit atau penumpang yang disyaki tidak sihat di dalam pesawat.
Foto: newsroom.airasia.com
Meurut kenyataan tersebut lagi, keselamatan menjadi komponen paling penting dalam industri penerbangan, dan sudah pasti AirAsia akan terus berusaha untuk memastikan kesalinghubungan penting ini memenuhi semua standard kesihatan dan keselamatan yang diperlukan untuk pekerja dan penumpang.
Sumber: Bernama
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Foto atau gambar lama semangnya dirakam dalam imej warna hitam dan putih sahaja sebelum industri ini berkembang sehingga hari ini. Kalau buka album lama nenek atau ibu bapa anda yang lahir sebelum zaman merdeka pasti boleh lihat foto-foto hanya hitam dan putih.
Kadangkala rasa bosan seperti tiada tarikan kerana tidak sebarang warna kan? Sama juga seperti di dalam buku teks atau muzium, gambar-gambar tokoh atau kisah sejahtera rata-rata kekal hitam dan putih. Namun, pada zaman teknologi sekarang ini, gambar-gambar hitam putih boleh ditukarkan dalam imej berwarna. Teruja sekejap apabila melihat gambar-gambar lama tersebut kelihatan hidup.
A U.S. Marine reaches through the barbed wire of a civilian containment area to give a young Japanese boy candy during the Battle of Tinian. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Princess Elizabeth doing her part for the war effort serving as an ambulance driver for the Auxiliary Territorial Service during – World War II, 1945 Edited by RJM support him here: https://www.facebook.com/colourbyRJM/ and at his website: https://www.colourbyrjm.co.uk/Albert Einstein at home in Princeton, New Jersey, 1940 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Pablo Picasso wearing a hat and holding a revolver & holster given to him by Gary Cooper – Cannes, 1958. Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/A soldier of the 1st US Army, among debris inside the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig, Germany April, 1945. Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Charlie Chaplin in 1916, at the age of 27 Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Tower Bridge under construction, London 1889. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927. They are, among others: Albert Einstein, Marie S. Curie, and Niels Bohr. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Claude Monet, French artist and a leading member of the Impressionist group of painters. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/
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The Great Depression that followed the stock market crash of October 1929 saw massive rates of joblessness and homelessness across the United States. People without jobs were people without the means to pay rent. Suddenly, civic lodging houses built for the homeless were filling up to capacity. Shanty towns – some housing as many as 15,00… See moreWinston Churchill & Charlie Chaplin, on the set of “City Lights” – 24 Sep. 1929 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Charlie Chaplin attends the premiere of his newest film City Lights in Los Angeles, accompanied by Albert Einstein. February 2, 1931. 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When Frederic Thompson and Elmer Dundy built their A Trip To The Moon ride for an exposition in Buffalo, New York State in 1901, they had a hit on their hands. The centerpiece of the ride was an airship powered by wings which flapped, named Luna. Moving the ride to Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park for 1902, Thomson and Dundy then leased more land and cr… See moreTolstoy – Russian writer, regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time, 1908. Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. Marshals to attend an all-white school, 1960. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. 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Arthur Mole achieved some renown as a photographer of patriotic American images such as this – though by birth, Mole was actually British. Still, he directed his photographic attention to US military bases and installations during the First World War, seeking to build up a sense of patriotic fervor and enthusias… See morec.1930.An overhead view of people on 36th St. between 8th and 9th Aves, New York. Manhattan’s Garment District has been the center of the American fashion industry since at least the turn of the twentieth century – in 1900, New York City’s garment trade was its largest industry by a factor of three. The entire fashion ecosystem, from fabric suppliers to designer showrooms, exists within an area ju… See moreJuly, 1937. Portrait of Art Hodes, Kaiser Marshall, Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Sandy Williams, and Cecil (Xavier) Scott, Times Square, New York. Although born in the Ukraine, Jazz pianist Art Hodes was brought up in Chicago, and spent most of his career in “The Windy City”. Hodes became known for the Chicago Jazz style, but in order to find success, he had had to move to New York, in 1938. Here, Hodes … See more“Adoration of a President-to-Be” – Newly engaged John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Bouvier – Cape Cod, July 4th 1953 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Ice grotto in Antarctica, 1911. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/1936. Florence Thompson with one of her children, Watsonville, California. Thompson was only 32 in this picture by Dorothea Lange, an outtake from the photo session which generated the iconic “Migrant Mother” image. Born in 1903 in what was then Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, her parents were displaced Native American Cherokees. Marrying at 17, she and her husband began a family in Califo… See moreA US soldier stands amid crates and stacks of loot stored by Nazi Germany in Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Bavaria, 1945. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Watching the boat races, Palm Beach, Miami in 1906.Powerhouse mechanic working on a steam pump, 1920. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/A Douglas SBD “Dauntless” dive bomber balances on its nose after crash landing on a carrier flight deck in the Pacific, 1943. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/The “Empire State Express” (New York Central Railroad) passes through Washington Street, Syracuse, New York, 1905. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/
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