3rd time to the KKB

Most IMU students will have at least ONE chance, to whine about the small town in KKB. Oh yea, the town where you have to camp there for a week in either semester 3 or 4, feeding mosquitoes and getting haunted by rodents and cockroaches. The place whereby the hospital is non-airconned and you will need to clerk patients that have already been cured of their disease just for the sake of case presentation.

Yeapz, I am also talking about the place where you can actually bond with your friends for the week, making trip uphill to water damps, or waterfalls, or just hunt for ice-cream waffles.

This is my 3rd time to KKB. For an altogether different purpose. This time, it was to give some less fortunate people a more conducive looking home. We were there, to build toilets and paint houses for the orang asli's.

Thank god is was a cloudy day. But it still turned sunny by the time is was noon. And I personally didn't have much sleep the night before. I was practically zombie-ing throughout the entire painting ordeal. Nearly gave myself a few extra moles on the face (I was using brown paint you see).

The whole participation in this event was very random. I stumbled this project EPIC through a friend's friend's brother's blog. And since I am on holiday, I should be doing something useful. And charity is something useful. But I didn't wanna go alone. So I posted a shoutout on twitter, thinking noone actually bothers replying to something on twitter. But Mark replied me on twitter, and wholaa, 9 of us where on our way to KKB the friday morning.

There was also a toilet being built for the people. And we sat through a good whole half an hour listening to how the sewage system works. And how human pee will eventually become fertilizer for the plants. Interesting I must say.

We were all know as the "window" team as our job requires painting window and door frames. Funny thing was, there were eventually not enough paint to go around. Desperate people with desperate measures were trying to mix thinner/water/oil to make the paint last. But alas, we did manage to desperately use leftover paint trapped inside brushes to finish of our job. Hip Hip Hooray!!

The people from project EPIC were super cheerful. Everytime someone passed by, they'll shout a "omigosh you guys are doing such a wonderful job. Keep it up man!! Reward yourself with syrup alright. Superb!!" And my mind was thinking "I paint until so fugly very good job meh?". I guess its the volunteer-ism that matters, and the fact that we're being so contributive already renders our services as top notch quality. Haha.

I dragged my sister along so that I wont feel so left out among the m208's. Haha. (turned out she was quite sociable too. Hehe)

So after a long day, the toilet was finally ready for use. And houses were all covered with new coat of paint. I really hope those orang asli are happy with the new look of their homes. Hehe. Though the inside still looked somewhat unfit for a human being to live in. (I peeked). It was kinda dirty, and furniture-less. Wished I could do something about it rather then just feel sorry. But hey, some of them even have astro yoh! (way better off than me liao).

Toilet opening ceremony

Well, it was a good experience. I can now belt "house painting" into my resume liao. Nguahahaha. Contributing to society always feels good ain't it?

Kudo's!! *thumbs up*

ps: Enough with the drama already. I don't need my every move being scrutinized and then jeered at. It's not like I never tried blending in with them. But hey, look where it got me? So enough already. Give me back the peace I had before.