Courtesy of dreybee – can you see the two machos carrying our handbags?

Part 4 – the waterfall

It was a long lonely walk to the waterfall…well, not lonely, but it does seem longer than 10 minutes due to the scorching sun. Being the village roads it were, completely isolated with no cars in the whole duration of the 10 minute walk. I honestly couldn’t be arsed taking pictures (damn hot ok) , but some lovely ones are available at drey’s post on this. Anyway, we walked and we walked….and the waterfall in the end was best described as, umm….quaint. Not magnificent or massively chilly, it was really just a waterfall. I did not take any pictures as it started raining at that point.

10 minutes in the waterfall and the CHILDREN showed up..about 6 of them. So we sent cw upstream to check out if it looks good there. Apparently there were this couple trying to ‘get it on’….well, the way cw described it, it was more of him trying to get it on with her.Heh. We headed upstream irregardless, and went past the soon-to-be fornicating couple and their hastily rearranged clothes. The water upstream was fast flowing and slightly cooler than at the waterfalls….I think the water was clearer as well. We started laying down the picnic mat (to keep our prized posessions dry and safe you see) and arranging out our drinks and snacks. We each found a spot atop pebbles in midstream to sit on, and kinda just sat there…..talking shit like you do in the middle of a river.

Dreybee got us some yummy curry puffs back in DJ, and we were scoffing them down within 10 minutes. And then it came. Big plopping action on our curry puffs signalled a monsoon storm is on its way – AGAIN. It’s been raining cats and dogs every afternoon. So we waved goodbye to the stream/waterfall and started our trek back to the shed. By which point it’s already started raining heavily that me and drey used the picnic mat as a large tarpaulin. However, like most things made in Malaysia, the rain did not last long, and by the time we got to the main road it had already cleared up and we could walk picnic mat-free again.

Part 5 – the Pool

We did not get enough of the water, and headed on towards to the lovely pool when we got back. As it was midweek, we were the only people in the shed village ( there were a few other sheds around in the same compound) and therefore the pool was our own little private one.

Very minimalist, it was really just a cement tub, with no mosaic tiles like what you’ll get in a normal swimming pool. It was designed in a way to fit in with the environment, and it definately did in my opinion. Just a simple cement tub with water for us to splash around. With water at about the 4ft mark throughout, it was a paddling pool, really, but nice as we were not going to do olympic laps and stuff.

cw: Eh, come here come here

me: Why? Why?

cw: Look at elvin…

me: I can see him from here

cw: No,no, come here and look at him!

me: OH

And this was what I saw. He even posed for me smilingly as he thought I was just snapping his picture

Elv fits in quite well with the environment as well, don’t you think? He looked like a statue, designed to make you laugh as you potter about the pool . We dipped in and out of the pool for about another hour or so, until our tummies started grumbling again. I know, we’ve had nasi lemak and huge curry puffs in the past six hours, you’d think that we won’t be hungry until at least midnight…its all that splashing in the water I tell you.

Part 6 – The Dinner

When we checked in (in the loosest sense of the word), we have requested for the caretaker to start a fire for us at 6pm. It was either catered indian food ( at RM20 per head) or they were happy to start a fire for us. We (well, I) made drey prepare a whole host of barbeque foods:

her famous potato salad
fresh salad
Garlic bread
Corn on cob & corn in tin
Two different sausages (all-pork!!)
Garlic mushrooms
Stuffed mushroom
Teriyaki chicken wings
Sambal squid

All this, prepped by cw and drey late the night before. The food came in a large picnic basket plus a few freezer bags, how organised is she?? Unfortunately, the caretaker did not seem to appreciate our hunger, and did not turn up to start the fire. Being stuck with only lighters and no coals, we sat on our hands until 7pm – and then sent elvin out to seek him out. It was still raining, and we were actually still stuck indoors. The caretaker eventually turned up, with his DOG. When he left he failed to bring his dog with him, and he kinda looked at us all night with his puppy eyes for food scraps, which we, being the cruel city dwellers that we were, did not give him any.

By this point, the rain had cleared up slightly, and the men started work on the bbq. Me and drey were doing last minute prepping in the kitchen. In particular, I were cleaning the plates and cutleries like there was no tomorrow – double cleansing is the way forward. There were only enough for us to each have a set of plate, mug and cutlery. Obviously we needed somewhere to skewer the chicken ect, so kinda ended up with no plates, and whatever that’s empty I washed it up again. Probably our own fault, I used up 4 tin plates as a receptacle for the ash falling off the mosquito coil.

Being deep in the rainforest, it was, to put it mildly, hot like fuck. We were fannning each other to death, in hopes of getting some air circulation.The men were hard at work, especially cw here. The other two just hung around the periphary nibbling on the food that cw had cooked, giving the thumbs-up that it’s cooked after they’ve finished it .

Drey even came prepared with tealights for a romantic bbq outdoors, and we lit them and placed them around the verandah. However, with the creepy crawlies, raindrops dripping from the canopy of trees and the dark wilderness beckoning beyond the verandah, the city campers took the executive decision to cook all the food at one go, and eat indoors. HAhaha, we’re so not cut out for the great wilderness au naturel thingy. After locking the dog outside, we started on our feast:

We thought we could not finish it, but we did !! It was gone in 30 minutes, and we left elvin in peace, cleaning up every last bit of meat left on his chicken wing.

Next up: The rest of it..

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