My Trip to Paong, Ulu Baram (Part 2)

17/12/2009

This day was an interesting day. I got the opportunity to visit the blocks where the trees plantation were being carried out. The paths in the blocks were real rough. There were some places which were slippery and some very steep. My neck and back became sore again during the journey.

One of the scenery. I guess this is how it looks like after all the trees are felled before the planting takes place.

One of the shacks where the workers stay in. Pretty bad.

Our next time at one of the workers' crib. Now this is where it gets interesting.

Check out what we found here. It's the workers' pet! Wild baby boar. Looks cute ei.

Haha this is how they feed the baby boar with the baby bottle. I wonder how they got it. Either they kidnap it from the mom or the baby boars lost its way in the forest until the workers found and adopted them.

Damn cute. But you know when they get big, they would be like monsters. They become like vicious carnivores. Anyway, I think when they grow bigger, they gonna become foods.

The yellow shirt guy is my superior and the cap guy (assistant manager of the camp) sitting on the bench was our driver for that day.

From another viewpoint. That's our ride. Not comfortable.

Ah~ Finally after a day's work. I went back to the guesthouse excited to meet my bed until I found this cicak shit on it. The shit size was bigger than the ones I normally see at my own home. The cicak is also like giant over there. Damn it!

This is my roommate Damien. He's new to the job and has yet to feel any suffering from the job. Still high spirited haha but he will soon. Feel kinda sorry for him but everyone has to experience it keke.

18/12/2009

I felt kinda miserable waking up. I'm still not used to life here. Electricity off at 10pm when I usually would sleep at 1am-2am normally at home but at least I got enough rest here and the air is clean. But the worst part is the mosquito. The mosquitos here is a killer! It leaves u marks like bruises which take a long time to heal and it's damn itchy.

This is the canteen where I always had my meals.

It did not really feels like home cook to me :P

The open area.

This is the VIP room for the VIPs.

Inside of the VIP room. Feel more roomy and clean. Got personal handwash sink, magazines rack and air-con.

The pretty view at the Nursery.

Another nice view behind the office building.

Tonight was another difficult night to sleep. I couldn't sleep before 10pm as I was not used to it. It didn't help either when we open one of the windows to let some air in. One bee actually flew into the room through the window. That night I slept in fear and hope it stings my roommate instead of me. I could hear the buzzing sound of the bee but could not see anything in the dark. Bzzz...bzzz...bzzz...

My Trip to Paong, Ulu Baram (Part 1)

15/12/2009

The last day before going off for my work travel assignment. Me and my friends went to our favorite food stall no. 7 at Taman Selera to eat seafoods and drank 'liu wei'. My favorite choices are the Tom Yam Fish and the popular fried chicken wings. I don't know how the cooks did it but it's damn good. Later on we went to the local cinema to catch Stormriders II. That movie kinda bored me start from the beginning and I was already tired that time. After 15 minutes, I spent one hour plus sleeping in the middle throughout the movie then woke up to watch the last 5 minutes before the end credits. It was that BAD. Disappointing cin cin! Anyway, went back home packed my stuff and watched one more episode of Densha Otoko before going to sleep at 2 something AM.

16/12/2009

Today's the day. I waited at the office for the driver to come and pick us. In the meantime, I was wondering what kind of car the driver would use to bring us there. I heard the road condition is pretty bad so I'm hoping they would come with a Ninja rather than a Hilux cos I'm hoping for a comfortable ride. When it was time, we went to the parking lot AND it's a Hilux. Another bad thing was that we had to put our baggage on rear cargo area exposed.

We took off at about 8:45am. It's going to be a long 5 hours ride until the destination so I thought I should take a nap. But it's no easy, it was so hard as the road was really really rocky and bumpy. It was so bad that one of the springs absorbing the impact and supporting the wheels actually broke.

About 2 hours later we stopped by a small town named Lapok for toilet break. Actually it was more like a concrete cowboy town. No horses and gun shooting but the place is dusty and the only transports you can see here are pick-up trucks. Lots of it, Hilux, Triton, D-Max etc. I was not familiar with this place, and I spent like 30 minutes looking for a toilet. At one point, I decided to take a piss at some run-down abondoned building but in one of the rooms, I found some used syringes on the floor. Obviously to me, that seemed like a 'sacred' spot for drug addicts to do their business and I'm not gonna piss on it hell no lol.

2 something pm, finally we reached the camp (sigh~). At this point I was very exhausted, my neck and back were hurting from the bumpy ride and I felt dizzy. The driver dropped us to our guesthouse to settle down. We met with the housekeeper and she showed us to our rooms. Not too shabby. Pretty nice, they got air-cons, large size bed, Astro and all that. I spent some time checking out the place before going to the office for work.

That's the Camp Manager's house and he went on leave immediately when he knew that we're coming. He's scared I know.

The main entrance to the guesthouse known as Messhall.

The inside.

Welcoming note in Kenyah dialect I guess.

The VIP bed. My bed.

Another side in the room.

The living room. My favorite spot to chill at night watching Astro.

The kitchen and the camp cook.

After lunch, we had to go to the office to start work immediately. In my mind, I was gonna work like mad man to complete my job and go back home as soon as possible. I was motivated until we found out that the driver had went off without informing us. So no transport and there's no communication line around here. No Digi, no Maxis, and the Celcom, there's only a tiny few spots around the camp where you can only get like maybe one bar and at most two bars only. Yeah, so it was like this camp is in its own world. Damn terrible, I couldn't even contact my friends and family. No choice, we still had to work so in the end we decided to walk to the office despite the advices from security and housekeeper not to as it is very far from the guesthouse. They were right, it was a long walk to the office. The worst was walking under the scorching sun for about freaking 30 minutes. Once reaching the office, I was physically and mentally drained. At least, I got some cool wind from the fan finally. A few minutes later, the electricity went off. The generator which produces the power had been shut off (It had to be shut off from time to time to cool the heat down). Again, another obstacle but still had to work no matter what gosh.

After 5pm, we went back to the guesthouse, this time with car transport. Finally I got to get some rest and some time to check out more of the area.

The watch house behind Messhall.

Let's go check it out. You can get some nice views from there.

View in the front.

View from behind.

View from the left. Damn I love this scene.

The unique hand-made rubbish bins.

One of the pretty wildflowers.

Holy crap! I was surprised to found this little critter. I ain't never seen anything like this before. You can only get this in the wild. It's huge I tell ya. In fact, all the insects there are HUGE. One or two times bigger than the ones in the city. Not only big, there are faster, stronger and more cunning.

The underside view. Woo~ very alien.

Okay, off you go. I flipped it back with a stick XD

Then suddenly I heard dog barks. SIX dogs came along. I could feel their threats from their angry faces and barks, showing teeth and all that. I knew that they are going to eat it or something. There nothing one man can do against six hungry dogs. Oh yeah, the dogs here love to eat bugs, especially big ones.

The Messhall where I was staying.

Happy New Year! 2010 here I come.

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Yay, another year ends and one new year to starts. I'm glad 2009 is over as it was full of shit memories. So much so I don't really remember what were the good parts... hmm, when I think about it, there were some good stuff...

Anyway, woke up the first day of 2010 feeling like crap from insufficient sleep lol. First task in the morning? Becoming a driver to my brothers early in the morning but it's alright, this is just the first day. I promise myself things will start to get better as time goes by.

I have simple one new year's resolutions. CHANGE! I'm gonna 'work it, make it, do it, makes me longer, better, faster, STRONGER!'

I'm dead serious. If I fail, I shall just... (>_<) Okay, that is the last time I'm gonna use 'if' and 'fail' on myself. If I want to succeed, I must think that I can do it. I CAN DO IT!

Let's make this year a Moe~ year you and me.

Chai Makeover Project commencing today! RAWR~ Gambatte Chai-san! Yosha~!

What is your new year's resolution?

Early Christmas Greetings

O hai~ Christmas is coming very soon and I might miss celebrating it for the first because I'm going to be out-stationed somewhere deep in the jungle doing my friggin' work in a few more days.....(。-_-。)

GARGH~ I hope I can finish my work as fast as possible and come back before Christmas!!! ヽ(TдT)ノ

Both of my work desks at the office. As you can see there are tons of things to do. Where is the Christmas spirit?!

Gonna miss my pals but damn it if they were going to celebrate Christmas without my presence. This picture shows you all kinds of emotions that you can get when playing Left 4 Dead 2.

Some new cute stuffs from Nici for Christmas gifts. MimiMamiMimamo.

The mini Xmas tree in the office just in front of my desk.


The big Xmas tree in the hotel lobby.

Dear Santa, my only wish is for me to get back before 25th December. Please make it happen. I am a good boy this year.

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Merry Christmas (*゜∀゜)ノ~~~★

LoveJoke

You went too far, too deep, now it's too hard to climb back up.

Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

I like this song, the lyrics and the pop-art styled MV!

if i told you things i did before
told you how i used to be
would you go along with someone like me
if you knew my story word for word
had all of my history
would you go along with someone like me

i did before and had my share
it didn't lead nowhere
i would go along with someone like you
it doesn't matter what you did
who you were hanging with
we could stick around and see this night through

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' 'bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about their own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care 'bout is talking
talking only me and you

usually when things has gone this far
people tend to disappear
no one will surprise me unless you do

i can tell there's something goin' on
hours seems to disappear
everyone is leaving i'm still with you

it doesn't matter what we do
where we are going too
we can stick around and see this night through

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' 'bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about their own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care 'bout is talking
talking only me and you

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' 'bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about their own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care 'bout is talking
talking only me and you
talking only me and you

talking only me and you
talking only me and you