Training myself to be resistant to burning hot sun - seriously :P

For two weeks I was off to the rural parts of Selangor & Perak conducting a pilot study of the project I am working on. There was no access to Internet and even my phone line was gone in couple of locations! Man.. that meant I was totally cut off from my world! It was expected anyway. The two weeks stint left me sick, frustrated and sun-burned! :(

I spent few days in 3 different places - a private estate; Malay settlement; fishing island (yes its an island!). This is just the beginning of lot more scenarios I am going to see and believe me... its hell of a world out there!

First was the estate where you find Indians as the majority. The serene picture below was taken in the estate which I can't name (professional ethics ;)). Its a clean place where you find a lot of kids running around. Yes - you find kids whom you can feel in love with immediately... kids who are struggling to be a part of today's world but failing each time they are trying :(. I can't describe more about them at the moment. My hands are tied, but my mind keep thinking about these kids. You will see a different world here.



The second place we visited was a Malay settlement area. You can see the typical Malay wooden house below. Its a huge settlement with about 600 households, and each of the household has their own land! A sharp contrast from the earlier estate which we visited few days before this.




We got pretty bored in the Malay settlement and decided to take a break during lunch hour venturing to a hot spring park nearby :P The photo showing one of the man-made hot spring waterfall in the park.




The third visit was to a fishing island. Thats the worse experience we had, and thats the smelliest island you can ever find! I expected the place to be a chaos and didn't bring my digicam there. Thank goodness we were not required to stay longer in that place. Phhewwww! I will be going off again in July & Aug to similar places and this time I will stock more sun-block lotion!


I have been missing everyone tremendously. I miss visiting everyone's 'home' as well. Damn! I wish I have 30 hours a day!!! :| I am trying to be consistent in my blogging and blog-hopping here but my work schedule is conspiring against me! Hehehehehe... Anyway, on Sunday I will be off for a short trip with family and will be back on Tuesday. See you guys again next week. Have a wonderful weekend!