You don't plan shit to happen in your life, coz it comes at the right and perfect time. So it happened the day I went to search for dinosaur fossils. I woke up earlier than normal that day, around 5.30 a.m and took shower immediately, otherwise I will sleep again. The night before I've already picked the right cloths and pants for this fieldwork. So after shower, I immediately put everything on. I took my breakfast and went off around 6.45 a.m. coz I needed to gather at department around 8 a.m. So as usual I took a train and from my station to the university station takes about 30 minutes.
I stood at the platform waiting for the train for a minute and it arrived. I was a bit shocked knowing that it was already that crowded even at that hour, so I entered the train with a little bit of pushing and goring. Then I realised something, this condition has brought back the memory from my highschool. Because that time, I always went around this hour but last time it was not as packed as today. I mean it usually started to get crowded at 7 a.m. So means that I did not get any seats and had to stand, but because I was near the door, I just leaned against it.
At the 4th station (if I'm not mistaken) a lot of people came in, but from the opposite door. So basically the train has either 2 or 4 coaches, and each coach has 6 doors, 3 doors on each side of the train. So the door will open depending on where the platform is at, either left or right. So People came in like flood, they just pushed everyone to the side to create more spaces, some use their elbows, some use their back side of the body and some use human's fragrance. I don't know why some do that. I mean, most of the people who do that are the tall people. So when they enter the train, they just simply put they hands up on the air, and release the aroma like nothing matter. For those who are as level as their armpit, getting to that train will be one of the worst experience you will ever had in your own entire life, other than failing kindergarten. Because I had one experience and at the end I went out from that train and waited for another at the next station.
So people just rushed into the train, but because I was at the opposite door, it did no really affect me, since I was already at the corner of corner. After the door was closed everyone started to position themselves in the most comfortable way and at the end I was ended up standing infront of a guy and two women. A guy and a woman were facing me and the other woman were facing the other way. So I was reading a book that time and after a few minutes, I realised that the man and woman were repeatedly glancing at me. Somehow I caught them in action, and just I smiled back at them. Then when they were about to got off from the train, they glanced at me again and looked down like they knew that I was looking at them so they pretended to look the other way. And again I smiled back.
I arrived at the university station and immediately ran to the bus stop, since I saw from the train that the bus was already taking passenger. I queued in the line and when I bought the ticket and walked in the bus corridor, people were looking at me the way the man and woman from the train did. So in my head I was like "what did I do yesterday?" and thought that it probably just my imagination that people are starting to get attracted to me coz I did nothing special last week. Then I arrived at the library bus stop and directly run to my department since I arrived at almost 8 a.m. I checked my supervisor's car and he was not there and saw my friend who are coming along with me waiting. So I put my bag beside her and went to the toilet coz I need to do some little business.
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So I got into the toilet, positioned my self infront of the toilet bowl, put the zip down and pissed like normal(doggy style). Finished everything, put the zip up, washed my hand, looked at the mirror for a while to check my face, cloths, teeth, nose and pants. I saw my zip was still opened, I remembered zipping it up but why did it still open? So I put my washed and cleaned hand and looked for the zip's handler(you know the thing you pull to close/open your zip). So basically, if your zip is already closed, the handler will be at the top, right? and when it is opened, the handler will be at the bottom. But, in my case when I checked with my cleaned and washed hand, the zip was open, and the handler was already at the top. So what I did was I pulled it down and pulled it up. But, it was still opened. I repeated the same thing for like 5 to 6 times but still opened.
So I was like "what the heck is this??? Wait a minute.."
In 0,00000000000000000049999116 kiloseconds, all mysteries that have been playing in my mind, the reason why people were suddenly attracted to me, the reason why the man and woman in the train were repeatedly glancing and looking down were finally answered.
I did not know how far they have seen "thing". All I can say is they are all good people, what they were trying to do was to save humanity from blindness. But I was too arrogant and let my dirty mind to think what I should have not thought, and I should have known it earlier before going for that fieldwork, coz I ended up going with that zip opened.
Well, I'm done with my 15 days of fieldwork, everything did not really go well, since most of the outcrops that need to be logged are badly weathered, so the only alternative is I need to look for another outcrops outside the planned area and probably needs more time to finish.
But here are some absurd experiences that happened during those 15 days and some have brought a certain trauma. I don't even know why it happened to me, but I know there is a reason. Description that I'm about to write is based on fact from what I sensed.
The first and second day I stayed in a guest house kind of thing, because we needed to save money so we took the cheapest place. I didn't expect much from it, the room was 3X3 meters room and inside there were two single beds and one drawer. It wasn't good for staying in the room because too small, but enough just for rest. So around like 10 p.m. I finished shower and everything and ready for sleep. I laid down for like 30 minutes I guess, and when my eyes were finally reached their limit a couple went inside room beside mine. So this place which I stayed was like a building and divided into 3X3 rooms and between each room, there is only 3 cm thick of board. The worst thing was I can hear everything on the other side.
So after this couple went in the room, they had a little chat around like 5 minutes. I did not know what they were talking about since they talked in different dialect than the usual malay. Then after that, there was moment of silent for like a minute or two. Then a weird noise started and kissing sounds begun.
Then I was like "What the heck is that noise? no, no, no. It can't be happening" But yes it happened.
It lasted for like 10-15 minutes, with all the sound from that couple and bed. I tried to look for a hole in the wall but luck was not in my side.
The second day, still in the same hotel, I read some papers just to get me sleepy. It was a very quite and peaceful night, a perfect night to be surrounded by the loved ones not alone in a narrow room with one bed empty in double-single-bedded room. After like half an hour, I heard someone went inside the room, besides mine again. Then, for I don't know how long someone went inside the same room as the previous person went and after that, I heard "bduakkkkkk". Sounded like someone just did moonsault or something. Then after exactly 2 minutes, they played a video(because I could clearly hear that it wasn't not come from human and it was quite loud) and it turned out to be a blue video. How do I know?
Well, back in the high school, I have a friend that brought a very high-tech handphone, which could play video, and that time I haven't had my first phone. So one day this guy went to the toilet with his table-mate. After 10 minutes, they haven't come back and somehow I had the urge to pee. That time, we had this rule that only two people can go to the toilet at one time, so what I did was I waited until the teacher's not looking. Luckily, the teacher went outside to the office and I just run like crazy to the toilet. When I went inside, I saw these my friends were standing at the corner and watching something. I ignored them at first because I had more important thing to do. So after I done with my business and about to wash my hands, one of them called me showed me that video and it was a blue film. So simply said, I stayed and watched for like two minutes and then left, coz I pitied the girl who seemed to be suffered of what that man did to her.
So the video in that room beside mine, produced the same kind of noise as the noise from the video my friend showed me 8 years ago. I didn't know how long I heard that thing, because I felt a sleep while the sound was still going.
Many people in Sarawak love to park their cars like douchebag. The way they park their vehicles like they own that car park. I remembered one time when I was about to leave the hotel, there was this car parked like an idiot, I mean the driver. He purposely took two slots where there were a few other cars looking for parking slot. I wonder how did they get the driving license. They also like to pee at the side of the road like a boss. There were several times I saw like 5 cars stopped at the side of the road. I thought there was an accident or something and it turned out people peeing. In my head It feels like one of them was shouting "hey guys I found a good spot here, let's pee together" and everybody stopped and peed together. It seems like Africa, where toilets are everywhere.
I drove probably around 200 km at Sarawak without license, coz last time my friend was tired and there was no other choice since we needed to move on to the next location. The result of my lousy driving, I got one horn and one middle finger. Because last time I was really really really behind a truck carrying huge logs and I was behind it for like 5 minutes. So when I saw an opportunity, that there was no car on the opposite direction, I simply on my signal light and glimpsed at my side mirror just to make sure nothing was coming from behind. Then suddenly when I tried to cut the truck and exactly side by side with the truck, a laud horn just sounded behind me. I panicked and slowed down my car and tried to get closer to the truck's side, probably 20 cm to the truck's back tire and it was a white niss*n car cut and horned non-stop. I think he was cutting all the way back from I don't know how many cars, that's why I did not see it when I glimpsed at my side mirror. I mean I played CTR, Chocobo Racing, drivers 2, GTA 2 and 3, far cry 3, borderland 2, Battlefield 2 and many others cars game, so I know how to handle that situation in the most possible and suitable way and yes I survived that. After that, the niss*n passed my car, I followed him and then he slowed down, opened his window and showed his majestic middle finger. I was like "Really? Is that necessary?" I know that it was my fault, but we all survived, no one was injured and bird are still chirping. I guess I made a terrible mistake back then, well it's a lesson for me.
The final day of the fieldwork was the most memorable day in the history of my fieldwork. It is one of the most absurd things that have ever happened in my life and I should probably bring a high quality camera or video recorder next time(joking). So in the last day, I stayed in a hotel in a small town. This town is like the life support for local and native people. Because here I could see people coming from village by small trucks or vans just to get food supply and furniture. So early in the morning around 7 a.m., I had my breakfast in the restaurant just infront of the hotel. So while I was eating, I observed the surrounding, saw kids running, old people smoking and chatting, workers were preparing for I don't know what, stores were opening and dogs were strolling around. Then I noticed that there were several hotel's windows at the first floor were opened, because I was sitting and facing the hotel and could clearly see what was inside the room eventhough only top half of it.
Inside that room I saw 2 kids were playing, running around and looking out from the window. Then a woman suddenly appeared, wearing a cloth wrapped to her body, and looking out the window and talking to the kids. Everything seemed normal until the two men appeared behind her. One guy stood and the other one just laid on the bed. I don't know what they were talking but I saw them laughing. Suddenly the woman laughed, approached the guy who was laying on the bed and took off her cloth. Then another women appeared, wrapped in cloth and stood nearby the window. Without any sign or anything, that woman changed her cloth right nearby the window like no one can see her. I was like "What the heck?? Is it really happening?" Have you ever seen something that made you stunned and speechless? Well, that was the moment for me. I could not move myself, not even blink while seeing it. Billion of questions were in my head, asking for a logical answers for that behaviour. I mean there were kids, and a guy who were right there in that very room and those women simply did that? Really?
Then I remembered that there are several tribes in my country do the same as them. Some don't even wear anything. So the one that I saw was probably still have a little bit of their old behaviour or culture.
During those 15 days in Sarawak, I have only two pictures that I can't even describe in words, either it's too beautiful or complicated. BTW, these pictures were taken by my friend.
The first time I saw the outcrop above I was like "When is my master going to end? What in the world is this?". Coz based on my supervisor, normal outcrop takes about 3 days to complete. But this one is abnormal, albino, mutation of outcrop, so not sure how long.
The picture above was taken by the time I just finished the fieldwork in my friend's area. So by chance, we saw beach on the way to the hotel and luckily, we found the way to get there. I wanted to add some words in the picture but too lazy to edit. But somewhat I want to say. "Somehow, I know that I'm facing the direction of where you are now"
Well, after stranded for more than 2 years, I am finally able to go back to my home country on 16th june. Even for only a week, but that's good enough. We'll see what's gonna happen there.
Funny saying "What comes easy will go easy, except fat"
