Are you a Team Player?

When I planned for a hike to Tabur East today, it was supposed to be among a few closed friends,but since everyone was either away on Hari Raya Holiday or had some other plan, I extended the invitation to another friend, who asked if it was alright for her to extend the invitation to those in her circle of friends. I informed her I had no objection and so she put up an event on facebook and very soon I got quite and number of people expressing their interest to join me on my hike to Tubur east.You might be wondering why do I keep going back to Tabur.Well since I got news on the government's plan to built a highway at tabur and see my post here.
I thought  I should go at every opportunity just in case I will not get the chance to hike at this wonderful hill anymore if the government pushed their plan through. I got up early this morning at 4.30 am as I had to pick up a few friends at different route in Klang and one more at Damansara as he does not know how to get to Taman Melawati, where the hill is located. As I made my way to our destination it started to rain very heavily, I said a silent prayer as I did not wished this event to be cancelled. Meanwhile I received a couple of sms messages as well as calls, asking if  the event will be cancelled since it was raining. Well, as an organiser I just cannnot cancel the event, as I had to be fair to those people who had confirm and might be on the way to our meeting point. We had all agreed to meet at the Deen's  Nasi Kandar Restaurant , near taman melawati at 6.30am and so I told the caller to be there and we will make a decision later on. Sad to say some of them  decided to opted out. When we arrived at the meet up point, it was not raining so heavily anymore, just drizzling. I said a silent prayer to God for answering my prayer.  It was a wonderful sight to see a few commited hikers had arrived as well. On the eve of the event , there were indication of about twenty hikers, and now the final count was fifteen. These are the faithful ones who braved the rain to support the event. We adjourned to Mcdonalds to have our breakfast as the Restaurant  at our meeting point was not opened due to  the Hari Raya Holiday. After we had our breakfast we headed for the hills and took a final head counts and gave out some simple rules for the sake of safety. I suggested a friend who had been to this hill a number of times to be the "sweeper" and his role was to ensure no one is left behind or swayed away from the group.As their team leader I also informed them they were to look out for one another. Unfortunately as I found out some of them had a mind of their own and  went out of the group and on their own even ahead of  me. The sweeper did a good job and even help one of the newbies to while she hike up and later down hill. As for those who choose not to take even simple instruction , all I can say if you can take simple instruction then you are not a team player.

the Klang gate Dam

these are the faithful ones who turned up.