let me tell you a shit story!
many years ago, when i still had to wear shorts as part of my school uniform, i decided to join Outward Bound School, Sawarak during the term break. it was a 9 day course in the mountain & jungle of Sawarak.
it was a adventure thingy which i did things like abseiling, flying-fox, canoeing, hiking, trekking...
of course they were fun stuff like sleeping in the open counting stars, looking out for falling stars, enjoying the evening, avoiding the asshole who had BO, bathing under the waterfall and drinking rice-wine...
but i clearly remember this incident and thingy which we had to do. it was to row a whale boat down the river for an entire day. it's basically a freaking big row boat which requires bout 20 of us to row the damn thing. it was heavy and when we set off, it was low tide and the boat was stuck in mud. took us bout 45mins to push it into the water. and as we were rowing the boat, someone had a tummy ache and urgently need to let go. the choice was to either 'drop' him over the side of the boat and let him do his business or get the safety speedboat over to us and drop him by the shore to do his business.
now this is a real river! not the canal like Singapore river. it's probably 100m wide and the water is muddy and u have no idea what's inside the water. so the guy wasnt too keen on doing it in the water. so he opt for the second option. and off he went to do his business on the shore.
he returned to the boat less than 10mins later and SHIT! he looked like elephant man! he had hundreds if not thousands of mosquito bites! we pulled him to one side and started to count the bites on his arm. he probably had 30-50 bites on one arm alone. given the surface area which was exposed, including the usually unexposed part, 250 mosquito bites is quite a conservative estimate!
hahaha!
can u imagine it! a 10min poo and u got 250 mosquito bites!
one whole tube of tiger-balm also not enough ah!
it's really shit isnt it!
this was also the trip where i followed my friend and his mum to Sheraton Tower and had lunch before we flew off. problem was, my friend and i were in shorts because we were going to Sarawak but it the hotel is one of those 4-5 stars hotel. we felt bloody under-dress. anyway, that aside, what i want to say is that the muddy mudpie was fantastic! i wonder if it's still as good, 13 years later...
it was a adventure thingy which i did things like abseiling, flying-fox, canoeing, hiking, trekking...
of course they were fun stuff like sleeping in the open counting stars, looking out for falling stars, enjoying the evening, avoiding the asshole who had BO, bathing under the waterfall and drinking rice-wine...
but i clearly remember this incident and thingy which we had to do. it was to row a whale boat down the river for an entire day. it's basically a freaking big row boat which requires bout 20 of us to row the damn thing. it was heavy and when we set off, it was low tide and the boat was stuck in mud. took us bout 45mins to push it into the water. and as we were rowing the boat, someone had a tummy ache and urgently need to let go. the choice was to either 'drop' him over the side of the boat and let him do his business or get the safety speedboat over to us and drop him by the shore to do his business.
now this is a real river! not the canal like Singapore river. it's probably 100m wide and the water is muddy and u have no idea what's inside the water. so the guy wasnt too keen on doing it in the water. so he opt for the second option. and off he went to do his business on the shore.
he returned to the boat less than 10mins later and SHIT! he looked like elephant man! he had hundreds if not thousands of mosquito bites! we pulled him to one side and started to count the bites on his arm. he probably had 30-50 bites on one arm alone. given the surface area which was exposed, including the usually unexposed part, 250 mosquito bites is quite a conservative estimate!
hahaha!
can u imagine it! a 10min poo and u got 250 mosquito bites!
one whole tube of tiger-balm also not enough ah!
it's really shit isnt it!
this was also the trip where i followed my friend and his mum to Sheraton Tower and had lunch before we flew off. problem was, my friend and i were in shorts because we were going to Sarawak but it the hotel is one of those 4-5 stars hotel. we felt bloody under-dress. anyway, that aside, what i want to say is that the muddy mudpie was fantastic! i wonder if it's still as good, 13 years later...
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