Monday, December 26, 2005
I dropped my principles in Malaysia.
One horrid freaking thing. we were all milling around in the pasar malam (probably the locals' shopping mall.) at night. and then we spotted a crowd around this huge screen. and so we kinda jostled our way through. and gosh. they were screening a footage of this criminal getting 20 strokes of the whip. the bare buttocks were shown, and so zoomed in to. everyone was cringing, and i turned away after the tenth stroke. it was soo horrible. and i felt so sad. for i dunno, the criminal? or probably what horrid things one can do to another. There was a man at the side counting the strokes in Malay, and the whip 'persahh!' down on the bare butt. the skin broke, raw bloody flesh appeared. the whip rained down on the same spot everytime. and the man was screaming helplessly. we were never shown his face. he had his hands tied up and his face pushed towards the floor as he stood receiving his beating.
so scaryyyyy. when the video ended, a malay beefy guy appeared and demonstrated in real life the whipping on this dummy. the crack of the whip. horrible.
it must take a heart of steel to punish a man in such a way. i know they probably deserve it. but even so, it was just so heart-wrenching no matter what.
when the crowd dispersed, we shopped around somemore. but everyone was clearly distracted. especially my brother, he looked so scared, and seriously disturbed by the video.
you gotta be there to feel the effects.
okay. enough of the scary, photoless stuffs.
Cerwin and Randy.see lar. go work out lar brother.
zongwei. thrashing around in the water. funnny guy lar.
and then there was a watermelon-eating contest held at the beach itself. malaysians are definitely more fun-loving.
lookk. the guy who's holding up his TOTALLY clean watermelon has won after some 7 min. guess what the prize was. yes, smartalecks. a HUGE pitcher of watermelon juice. the whole beach was hooting with laughter.
then came the limbo rock contest. oohh. i hope the young man won. (the watermelon-winner participated too! and the host said he was 3months pregnant. so bad!) couldnt stay for the end because had to rush off for dinner. 
at night, superman 2 played on the wall. malaysia. truly kampongg.
in the morning there was some workout and there were really people working out too, like with the instructor. will that happen in singapore? hmmm.
me and my mom. evidence that i was in msia.
can you hear the soft swoosh of the butterflies' wings. 11:55 PM.
