Things we would probably never forget.
#1
Bathing using the old school pail method.
Step 1, dip pail into a water containment filled with water originating from the Indonesian mountains. The water containment is simple. Walled with concrete, with a pipe supplying it and a plug at its bottom to drain it once in a while.
Step 2, even as you know how cold the water is late at night, brave it, and splash it over your body.
Step 3, squeal. It is that cold.
Step 4, shiver for 10 seconds. Your brain is freezing, you can't think.
Step 5, once you regain your senses, do whatever you need to do quickly. Soap, shampoo, whatever.
Step 6, repeat step 1.
Step 7. knowing that the water is that cold now, try and attempt to splash the water on yourself and rid yourself of all that bubbles. Except that, your body really knows that the water is cold. Your body will somehow move away from the direction you are splashing. It is reflex. Try again.
Step 8. You've succeeding in bathing yourself, and the wall behind you. Congratulations.
Step 9. Dry yourself and change, leave the shower with a 'i'm very very cold' face plastered on yourself.
Voila!
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#2
It's only in Serukam where you can find an Indonesian doctor making Koreans song stick in Malaysian students' head. (inside joke...)
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#3 After prayer at one of the doctor's house, we were treated to refreshments. Indonesians have this delicacy, it's like fried popiah, except that in each of those tiny 'popiahs' there's one whole cili padi. I barely eat one whole cili padi in one go ever! But for the indonesians they know that if you aren't the spicy type, you can actually grab hold of the stalk of the cili at one end of the 'popiah' and remove it. But we Malaysians had no idea. All we see was food.... So yes. i bit half of the popiah and while talking to someone, suddenly realise my tongue was burning, intensely. and all i could think of at that moment was 'water....water....water...water....water'. So there i was stationed beside the water dispenser. Not long after that, another Malaysian had the same expression i had, maybe 5x more intense.
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#4. being in the middle of the jungle, near a village, somehow there are chickens roaming around the hospital and the place we stay. I find it quite amusing, the way they crow at every known hour. Those who think that chickens only crow at sunrise - they really never seen chickens live before. Anyway, one day i decided to mimick the chickens and they started following me for some odd reasons. Even to our room, much to the dismay of my friends. But i enjoyed their company, because i find them amusing. What i didn't know is they would actually come behind our room in the middle of the night/early in the morning and start crowing and crowing and i would be the only one asleep. Pretty hilarious, really.
'ni jing jing, bu ran wo ba ni xa lai zhu ga li' - if you understand. that's what one of my friends said. haha....
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#5
the sleepy talks with the sleepy doctors.
while being on call with one of the doctors there...
"Aahhh, tomorrow we are going to be so tired"
"Nevermind, i'll be with you, so we can be tired together"
"Argh, why is there the flower pot on the road (look at previous post), now we have to do surgery. Now is 9 o clock. Surgery not yet started. This kind at least 3 hours.... aigogo..."
"I'm scared i'll fall asleep in surgery"
"Eh, how can! i kick you, you kick me. We both stay awake. Later tomorrow our legs blue black".
"Oh no..."
"Aigo aigo.... tomorrow scheduled surgery also.... sure cannot go home until very late..."
"tomorrow got morning report some more"
"Ahhhh..... tomorrow i cubit you, you stay awake."
well we did eventually stay awake without much kicking under the operation table, but quite a few cubits here and there. and also after quite a lot of stoning. I did my fair share of stoning while holding the sucker even as at times blood was gushing out and the surgeon could barely see. And my reward - plenty of nudges from the doctor. Many sweets and a lot of food later (and a lot of orbiting patients later - a code for patients who constantly bug doctors even when there's nothing they can do) , we survived. :) but amazingly, this doctor complains very little. and despite being so sleepy (well i was), she was always positive, cheerful, and most of the times sharp (yes, there were times of stoning - we are humans too, okay?)
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