grapz's on the horizon: the 09E xperience 2

Raleigh expedition fasa dua--kampung mapan-mapan (you will have to listen how angmohs pronounce these words)
My community phase in kampung mapan2 is to built a kindergarten! what a wonderful meaningful task.we made a difference in other ppl's life.

dang dang dang dang! proudly presented to you my kampung.....

dang! the morning sunrise at abt 5.45am. yes, i sumtimes woke up at 5.30am for the sunrise shot and have a lonely morning walk around the kampung.

kampung mapan is a small little village with most of the villages catch fishes or other seafood for a living. oh yes, there was once i even waded across the sea to a small small island to help the women to collect oysters! but then i think i "gao gao zan, mou bong chan", ruined most of their oysters. it was a nice experience though.

this is what we did in mapan-mapan. again, very similar to the job in sepilok.

situation: very hot sun. normally the angmohs will say: "i'm baked"

job description:
1.carry more woods >_<" .
2.saw wood. we even had a sawing competition. my fastest record was sawing a 2"x4" wood in 28 second.that was the fastest i can go..considered quite fast d.
3.lots of arranging and nailing. bang-ing in a 4 inch nail into a piece of hard woods can be very demoralising whenever the nail bent.
4.actually not much work to do. i got lots of time to interact with the locals.or having a nap at the bench outside klinik kesihatan. or reading a book at the tower nearby the school.

accidents did occur.
almost everyday,we gotta do a medrep.
someone parang-ed his own finger.which is very stupid.
someone parang-ed,nail-ed,saw-ed,hammer-ed his thumb.the same thumb.which is very stupid also.
i knocked down a timber and unfortunately the 6"x3"x10' timber dropped on my unlucky left foot. was using a DIY bamboo tongkat for a day and limping like a victim who survived a bomb for a few days.

the 19-years-old boy and 17-years-old girl. see the difference if we eat rice everyday or if we eat bread,cheese,oats and milk everyday ?

after a day's work. this is a lil bit reward.
an open space washroom with kampung view+a bucket of rainwater+some mozzies bites= shower time
everyday, i cant wait for the refreshing shower! i loved this open washroom so much that i din even wanna wash in the proper washroom.

when i have got some free time(i have lots of free time actually), went down the water village and look for my frens. chit-chat with the locals, makan their kuih-muih and drink their tea(purposely did that to skip having oat porridge/crackers for lunch) or sometimes just chilled out at their house.

this guys, same age as me, he owned a red boat. it's very impressive. and he will undoubtedly win the "most helpful villager" award.

almost every evening, we played volleyball with these guys.all of them are orang asli. is either orang ubiyan,orang sulu or orang sungai. although they look like those illegal foreign workers in kl, they were actually very kind.

this is how the living hall looks like before breakfast,after breakfast,before lunch,after lunch and before dinner.

the kids! is really a bad timing to arrive in kampung mapan mapan. because of the seriousness of H1N1 cases,we were not allowed to teach english in the school. if would be great experience if i can teach them some english songs. but then, still i always lepak at the school area.had some random childish chat with the standard 1 kids, played forfiet chess with them and took lots of picture of these naive faces.

see? they are so cute.i cant remember their name,there are too many of them.i'm glad they remembered my name! but i think most probably now they have forgoten my name. working in a small village like this made me realised lots of things. if it's not kerajaan who sponsor their uniforms,school bags,textbooks and lunches, they might not have the chance to go to school. when they grow up,most probably they will get married with some guys and be a housewife. if these kids were born in city like kl, they might have a chance to make it to university and got some profession jobs.mayb a pharmacist,mayb my collegue. and i say these ppl are those who really need help, education sponsorship and not those city mxlxy with lousy results.

a photo of black,white and yellow people. and a picture of the world.raleigh expedition puts people from different parts of world together.this is what i find very interesting.

after a week's hardwork, finally this is our off day! to the island. is called pulau perkuburan. yea.is an island with graveyard. but we're like "bak mou kam gei", surprisingly, no spooky feeling, no one feel scared.hmm...this a very nice picture taken by me. that afternoon was one of the best moments in mapan-mapan too. it was a very hot afternoon and we(locals+venturers) were having a dip in the cool sea water. we menyelam-ed , found lots of baby jellyfishes, lots of starfishes, jumping into the sea water from each other's shoulder(quite hard) and competing with each other to see who can hold their breath longest in the water(of coz the sabahan won).

yeehee...this is our battle crab. they caught 3 crabs, tied them up, built a sand battle stadium and put them into battle with each other.if i'm not wrong, this crab won.as you can see, it is quite big in size. and i kena sepit by one of the crabs lo,super hurtS!!!! dun play play...then, i learnt a lesson:how to catch a crab correctly before catch you.

then there was once, i followed the orang kampung go korek telur burung. the eggs is almost twice the size of a chicken egg.very weird, this kind of bird lay eggs underground, then when the egg hatches, the baby bird will crawl all the way to the surface. really "shan kei" lo,first time i see this kind of bird. in less than 1 hrs time, the orang kampung already dug out 16 eggs.they take it back,cook it and eat it.