Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Vacation in Prison

Recently, my sis just came back from her trip to Kuantan (somewhere in malaysia). She went there for her band trip to pratice for National Day concert or something, but what the heck, thats not my problem. Anyways her trip remind me of my trip to somewhere else when i was 17.

There i was, holding a post in the school's interact club, we hafta go to this place at Seremban for some conferrence. Our rotarian(some rich old guys who like to do charity) told us that the place we're going to stay is very nice and comfortable. (Sound very tempting huh?) so, we group of 7 went there to stay in that "very nice and comfortable"place.

The reality was, we reach there, that damb place was a school with swimming pool and its on top of a hill. The bus wasn't going up there, so we hafta take our big heavy bags and hike our way up.
The front building look so nice, like a hotel, but the inside was actually a run down school which looks alot like a prison. I must say here that the seremban prison is just behind the school, so at night we can see lights flashing into our room and occasionally we heard sirens.

Our cell/room was 1 big room with 10 double decker beds, like in prison, and the windows are grilled. The beds got fleas and there was only 2 fans in the cell. So, it was hot like hell during the day and night and freaking cold in early morning (4-5 am). The toilet got no water, and u can't flush. (1 time, i got up and saw this damn big piece of crap lying there in the bowl harden, i tried to flush it by using the water hose connected to the tap, it took me 30 seconds to flush that thing). Anyways, at night, we pulled out all the bed sheets and place all of them under the only fan and cuddle up together. (We felt like illegal immigrants from mainland) watching the spot lights from the nearby prison flashing into our rooms and hoping there was no runaway prisonner.

We woke up very very early in the morning for slavery/morning exercise that i think is actually useless. (I went for the 1st day and the rest of the week, i just ignore them and continue my sleep.) Our breakfast, lunch and dinner taste like prison food (curry chicken, bread, stale rice, salted fish.........) i must state here that the canteen really looks like a prison. When we got in, they locked the grilled gate saying they don't want anyone escape from the school.

The only place which got air con there was the high-class school hall where we spend most of our time there.(Air-con = cold, nice comfortable) and how we wished we could sleep in the school hall. When we take our bath the 1st day, we didn't know that the school have low water pressure, so end up, when our body is soapy, there's no water to wash it away, (OMG!!!!!!!!!)so we hafta wait till water come back. The next day we got smarter and go take our bath at 4am in the morning where there's plenty of water to use.

The school/prison has a swimming pool which u must only wear bikini or underwear or naked to swim. Anything longer than your underwear is consider too long and u cannot go in the swimming pool. (i was wearing a swiming pants and they don't let me go in, i was not going in naked, so i better off go play basketball)

Nothing much happen at the prison, other than listening to a bunch of people talk crap about self-esteem and confidence. The only funny part was in our agenda, there was this 'formal dinner'. So all the girls there put on heavy make up and hair settings. We knew there was no such thing cause we didn't see any catering people around there. So we just wore our singlet and t-shirt and go to the prison canteen to have our 'formal dinner'. There we saw those heavy make up girls showing their true faces when their make up crack and fall.

So in the end, the only best time there was our guys trip in to the girls dorm and hang around there and the last day party at night.

So, anyways, the trip was nice and all of us said to ourselves never to go for another prison trip anymore no matter how tempting it is. Damn u lying adults.

p/s: i actually felt like people cheated into being an illegal immigrant and sold into slavery during the trip.

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