Wednesday, November 16, 2005 @ 17:30
number one hundred and forty-eight
w00t. finally back in singapore. after nine days.
let's see. i'll just sum up the days. therefore i'll have about nine summaries. bear with me. =)
day one: stupid plane ride was darn boring. i think i blew one bar of batt in my mp3 on the plane. what a waste. er. nothing much on the plane. well first days are like these, lots of waiting and waiting and waiting. and i banged my head about 10+ times while i was sleeping on the van. banged it on the window clip thingy. so i had a bump on my head -.- yadayada. went to a village far away on the mountains, came to this little village called Lui Village. ok the food there is nice. much better that what it was made to seem like. so the first day ends. with us doing nothing really useful.
day two/three/four/five: ok. not really nine summaries. i got sick of it after the first day. lol. so, these few days were really the same. digging road up a mountain. not that difficult really. because the natives there dug like er, professional-diggers? they dug well. we dug well too. only on the last two days. quite fruitful i guess, working with those people. while we were "complaining" about the flies and heat, they were digging, barefoot. in those kind of terrain. you have to hand it to them, they are good.
day two/three/four/five (part 2): then we had lunch. standard timing. eat. rest. work. but we did painting after lunch. the walls in the room that the kids study in. er. painting was fine. nothing extraordinary.
day two/three/four/five (part 3): i'm starting to like this fixed-schedule kind of living. you noe when to rest and when to works. but where's the fun in that? painting then dinner then rest then teach-the-kids time. it wasn't that bad really. first day was the easiet to teach them, because they looked up to you as teachers. and in thailand, being called a teacher is near to honourable. so they looked up to us and were real good and teaching was a breeze. the following days were a wee bit out of hand. the lessons ended with fights. as in good fights where they all go crazy and we piggy back them to go around so they can kick their friends. so teaching them was fun.
leaving the kids did not result in tear-jerking scenerios. because they had to go to school so we just said goodbye and they looked as if they were still half-awake. oh ya. and we caught fish from a mud pond and chua got a mud bath. so we left the village. the stay there was fun. really.
the next two days was shopping like mad. thailand has cool stuff. like voodoo dolls keychain but they're not real voodoo dolls. so just walked around. bargained and bought stuff. when you but from these vendors you will sometimes have a feeling as though you got scammed. because they agree on the price you gave them. and quite quickly too. ohwells.
well. i liked the simplicity of the villagers' lives. they are not aware of the troubles of modern world. that's what allows them to live such carefree lives.
yep.
so come on, tell me.