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Thursday, November 22, 2007
@ 5:14 AM
distant images. distant sounds.....
HEY BLOG!!!!! i am finally back from my cultural immersion trip to Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. well it was a four day trip that started on monday, and now i'm back in my comfy black armchair in the comfort of my warm and cozy room. sitting beside my two garfields right now. GOD i missed home. but not as much as when i did when i went for OBS during secondary 2, only to drop out on the 2nd day(only after lots of drama in acting as a desperately sick with the sort of on-the-verge-of-death kind of an illness) anyhow, that aside, let me recap what happened during the four day trip. well.... it was interesting. i got to learn and immerse myself in culture, of course. malay cultures vary with differing ethnic groups. and the culture of negeri sembilan was pretty interesting too. but, it sorta focuses more upon women rights. anyway, as for the details. my personal favourites. highlights!! well adib spilled the most spiciest home-made chilli sauce on his shirt. we saw a 20 inch poisonous centipede crawling amongst vases like five feet from where we were sitting(which unfortunately died a tragic death hammered by the local youths by a stick i think) our homestay parents were cool people, rather traditional. i demanded from my so called 'mom' over there for a recipe of a sort of dish which had an out-of-singapore sort of goodness in it. tasted delicious too. well, i also prayed like, with all the prayers i ever knew existed(about the prayers being pronounced and read correctly is, i would say, another issue altogether) i did that cuz, we had to pass this graveyard site at the entrance of the village, and to make things worse our teacher had to say that she hears winds of that place having certain disturbances upon nightfall. but it tuned out fine haha. my 'father' there was a religious figure in the village, so i fancied myself protected, from disturbances. well, that was what i wanted to believe in anyway. it, erm. helps a bit, when i wanted to sleep. well being in a dark room in a foreign village, in a foreign place, in a foreign country. it helps knowing that your responsible guardian is an imam, a religious figure. okay yeah. so that aside. hmm, what else happened. oh, the mosquitoes had the feast of their lives. and....oh, i like the stay at emperor hotel too! on the third day, after a mildly emotional farewell to our homestay family, we proceeded to go to Emperor's hotel for a one night's stay. it was like so cool being able to have like a whole hotel room on your own. like seriously just you and friends, it was totally awesome. the exhiliration(i think that's the way its spelled right?)(aiya i very lazy to check dictionary) was overwhelming, like, just, OMG i just can't put it into words. so at the hotel stay we had dinner, i had one huge round(meaning i took huge servings all at once) and adib took two rounds, firdaus once and hafiz once too. i was supposed to sleep in the two-bed room with hafiz, with firdaus and adib in another room just in front of ours. but then all the guys decided to play truth or dare in shazwan's and shahrul's room, which was directly beside mine( yeah i know, so many names right), which later on became a sort of truth or truth game, where everyone got lazy enough to do dares at 4 in the morning. but we did had some dares though. oh, im still trying to forget the traumatic images in my head right now. *shivers* the game then evolved to become a sort of problem sharing session, and then a gossip session. i dunnoe, but we all felt so girl haha. but it was a guy's night out. like nine guys in one room, chatting, laughing and occasional farts consecutively and. erm, i think i'll spare the details. okay. maybe i'll resume posting about my experience on the next post tomorrow NOT!!!! like come on, i'm so gonna talk about my shopping spree tomorrow!!! haha. till then, sweet dreams blog. i shall now reside in the long desired comfort of my garfields, air-con, bolsters and fluffy cushiony pillows. till tomorrow then. bye!! dream a little dream of me...... (with *smoky effect*) ps : alamak!!! more pimples lah!!! *gerrs* zhafri's life quotes : clean is dirty as dirty is clean good is evil as evil is good death is living, as living is death. |