Screwed up

Math olympiad is damn hard. Way much harder than past years paper.

Went to this old kampong place in Yio Chu Kang for my art outing. Down there is like super dirty, muddy, smelly and full of mosquities and flies. Add hot and suffocating to the list. How do they ever live there? I saw this pit in the sand and a tarantula (or something that's hairy and looks like a huge black spider) climbing out of the hole. Ran away as quickly as possible. (so didn't took the photo) Those people hang their clothes outside (plus undergarments)

Lets hope no cats come out of this place. No snakes or tarantulas either. Bushy places with tall grasses looks eerie.

And imagine having to walk a whole stretch of road full of such bushes. It's horrible. And the whole place is full of these! I wonder what kinds of creatures hide in there. If dogs still okay, but just no cats no snakes and no big hairy spiders (I got enough of it for the whole month).

Eh, so, here the name of that kampong I went to. I can't imagine how they manage to survive there but they are super pro people since I was just there for 4 hours and I already cannot stand it. Especially the vicious mosquitoes there. I got 4 mosquitoes bites, 2 on each legs. And in case any of you here watch Okto, from what i heard from the art teacher, this is where they shoot 'Fighting Spiders' (what kind of name is that? Spider are creepy)

According to the villagers, this is a cocoa tree where they get the cocoa for making coffees and other chocolaty drinks. (Lets hope they make Tobleron here. OOOmygod. Tobleron rawks!)

But if you ask me, this totally don't look like a cocoa tree. I thought cocoa trees was supposed to be brown and have a chocolaty look one.

And this is HOW they keep their shoes. By hanging them up on this case thing. Quite creative, but if the shoes is dripping mud on a wet day then will the muddy stuffs dripped onto the shoes below?

GROSS.

EEEEK

YUCKS

EWWWWWWWWWWWW

And they hang their cloths out like this! This includes undergarments and towels and clothes and bed sheets from those living inside the house. I prefer the HDB way of hanging cloths. Dogs wont be able to bite it.

And speaking of dogs, there are so many in the whole place that it is impossible to not hear or see them. Practically all over the whole place. Big and small ones. The worst thing is they come barking at stranger. And they are really fierce.

This is what those people call 相思树. Don't know the english word for it but is something tree. See the pods in the middle hanging from the the tree? (picture not very clear since i enlarge like 20 times.) Someone told me that in the past, when a guy or girl have a crush on someone, they pluck this from the tree and give it to the person. Something like nowadays buying roses. I thought that was a retarded way of expressing your love for someone. Since the person can just throw the pods aways.

It seems that they are going to tear down the kampong soon so that they could build new buildings over it. Sad. (which is why I took quite a lot of photos during this trip)

Tag Replies:
xmx: thanks! :] Eh, i never banned you, because in the first place i don't even know the password for the cbox, but will try to help you figure out the problem so that you can tag again. btw, is it okay if i link your blog?
Anon: try dragging two young kids to the mrt station that is a 20 minutes to 30 minutes walk from your home. oh, and revenge for what?

AHAHAHA. Zhixin is angry at me for calling her cheese. (A teacher once pronounced it as Cheee Sing.)