Saturday, November 25, 2006
i guess when you spend 12 whole days away from the comforts of home, taking a budget flight to a place like Sabah Malaysia, it really opens your eyes if you can actually be bothered to move away from your own ignorance. So maybe people complain that OBS is tough, conditions are shit, food sucks and things like that. But OB Sabah really makes you see that we Singaporeans really have nothing, absolutely nothing, to complain about. Let's say maybe if you were really spoiled then you'd continue thinking that life back home on our sunny island sucks straight to the core. If not, i'm sure you'd beg to differ once you're back here. I'm not gonna blog about our expeditions, what activities we did there and stuff like that. Sure, they were awesome, my instructors kick ass, but i don't think the expeditions(including the climb up Mt. Kinabalu) are really the only memories that we should be bringing back.
Back home on our little island, even houseflies are a rarity when you go to hawker centres. We have things like our 10-minutes mozzie wipe out, as though we're really being invaded my mosquitos. Over there in Sabah, mosquitos, bugs and everything else that crawls and flies are a daily routine. The people over there get used to it, if we brough something like a 10-minute mozzie wipe out, i'm sure they'd tell you things like a 24-hour mozzie wipe out wouldn't even do the damn trick. Their village houses have toilets with no lighting, no proper flooring, no showerheads, only taps, and all your waste gets washed to just around outside the house. And when i say no lighting, i mean you're literally pissing in the dark when it comes to nighttime. Air-conditioning is virtually non-existent when you go over there. But they have television there with cable so they're not THAT deprived. When people go over they think that you have to chop your own firewood and stuff, but though conditions are waayy less advanced compared to Singapore, they're not that backward. Its a lot dirtier over there though. So maybe its not that Singapore's clean, its just dirtier elsewhere. Their houses have wooden and cemented floors, and they have no computers. Technology is not that advanced at all. So after going to Sabah, you come back to Singapore and you realise how fortunate we all really are. No mozzie bites AT ALL. In Singapore we have so much that we really don't need at all, yet we still complain. We have so much. And the pace of life over there is so much slower. You can have lunch at 12:30, and report for the next activity at 2pm. That's how much free time they give us. Here in Singapore life is so much faster. We have to wake up for morning pt at 5:55 everyday though. Not that i mind. ha.
OB Sabah was absolutely super. I'll post pictures if i ever feel like it. You wanna know about the activities, expeditions and such, come ask me, because i'm not posting about it here, not at all. Online, offline whichever i really don't mind.
*i copied this from julian's blog.
kinda lazy to update about my 12 days in sabah.
