this was ayah's tough-for-all-terrain pijot!!!
peugeot (read: per-joe) pijot (read: pijot laa..duh) same thing...
evidently, this trusty pijot took him on a wild ride...both literally, as seen in the picture on your left...and figuratively, evidently in the picture on your right.
it was no laughing matter you know with what has happened to picture on your right...if it was not for the tree..ayah would have crushed the house beneath and killed the elderly couple, as their bedroom was just inches away the car...you can literally open their bedroom window and retrieve anything from the glove compartment of the pijot. i took this picture...so i know...
i experienced my first fun-in-the-wild with ayah quite accidentally because of this pijot as well.
he took me and my other brother (not the jaga badan one) to see some of his friends who were already there at the camping ground...he was not supposed to join them but just to...i don't know la...so...he was not suppose to stay...that's why he brought us along...kalau tak, jangan harap la...
when i saw the camping ground...oh, yes, his friends are camping all right...but not on the ground!!! they were instead "camping" on a fragile looking hut on stilts that perched above the RIVEEERRRRR!!! and to get there...you have to walk along a very thin and flimsy looking bridge...
I'm determined to show you the bridge...it was the pole marked with 1 dot.
2 dots is a tree by the way.
3 dots and 4 dots i guess were the back-up bridge should 1 dot collapsed!!!!!
so...ok...i did not die...i managed to get to the hut safely...not making a lot of movement tho...for fear the hut collapsed and fell into the fierce-looking river...apparently...they built the hut for fishing purposes...something like that...to catch fish...no bubu no fishing pole uollss...cacak pondok atas sungai terus!
when we were about to go back in the evening...ayah found out that his headlight did not work...fius terbakar or something like that....if he insisted to continue his journey without the headlight...he would not have make it even out of the shallow wood.
when i think about it now...ayah could have sabotaj his own headlight...just so he could stay...hahahahaha...because i still remember, he called mom and said: "kawan tak boleh balik la...lampu depan rosak..." sambil senyum senyum sengih...
so...my fate with the hut is sealed...i have to sleep there apparently...gulp...all boys some more...
oh, did i mention...the hut has NO WALL????????? you golek golek la masa tido...terus tergolek masuk dalam sungai...and to my friends who knew me...im not polite when i sleep.
i could not sleep well...but because i could not sleep well...i could see how bright the moon was...it literally lit up the whole area...the river, the wood, the trees...the water was literally shining because of the moon...the sound of cricket and other insects...so soothing...the sound of water...if you sleep on your tummy...you could see the water running from in between the bamboo floor...
i woke up tomorrow morning with the urgent need to answer the nature's call in the nature (no pun intended)...i told my father...
"yah...nak gi toilet..."
"hahahaha...mana ada toilet sini..."
i still remember...i widen my eyes whilst at the same time...kemut...so that "it" will go up and never want to go down...but i failed...
"tapi aye tak leh tahan dah ni..."
"ok...jom...jom gi toilet"
his "toilet" was behind some huge huge fallen log.
i never felt so calm answering the nature's call in the nature.
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