The Banjir(Flood) Aftermath

oh hell... i think i'm going to recap what happened during the flood.. from my personal experience and my point of view.. its not important but i just feel that i want to..oh here it goes..

11.12.2004
the day was windy... a lot of black clouds were forced inland.. i was pretty sure it's raining in the rural Kelantan... but we here in KB were not worried about it.. we didnt expect the coming flood... in the evening i heard the news about the flood in Gua Musang... but we thought it was just ordinary... but by night, we noticed the water was rising!

12.12.2004
i woke up to find out that water was everywhere, and people were playing in the flood (ok fine, i woke up late.. heheh)... it was like a water festival... its like people welcomed the flood... hahaha... it was amusing to see this... i reached for the phone to call my friend but the phone was dead... nice! maybe something struck the line... fortunately the electricity was fine... i was planning to go to my grandma's house when my aunts family came... they walk all the way from my grandma's house after taking a boat ride from their house... seems that their area was badly flooded and they have to evacuate... i thought they were going to stay here but they decided to go back to my grandma's house so i decided to follow them... we had to walk thru the flood becoz we didnt have any boat or sampan... hahaha... but it was fun that way perhaps... eventhough in some places the water was neck deep...

we reached the house late in the evening... so i had to stay there for the nite... my grandma's house is a kampung house made out of wood... and the house is alleviated about a meter from the ground... and at that time, the water was just below the floor... and still rising... to worst things out, the electricity had been cut off... the TNB said it was to avoid anyone from being electrocuted in the water due to submerged cable... hahah... yes great! but the telephone was fine... and so we all spend the nite in the dark with just the candle light... that nite i couldnt sleep well... i was worried about the water... perhaps everyone couldnt sleep...

around 4 in the morning, i woke up coz i felt something was crawling inside my kain sarong (oh, we all sleep on the floor, coz if the water comes up, we can feel it...) so i grab it with my hand not knowing what it was, then i felt something bit my butt, and then my finger, then only i realized it was a centipede... man it hurts, but i was okay... and kinda funny... hahaha... but then the lipan got out and was crawling around in the dark... and i have to wake up everyone so that no one have to share my pain.. hehehe... the hunt for the biting lipan ended when i crushed it with my bare foot... hahaha a victory!

then my grandma wanted to check out the rising water so she opened one of the window... then she said to me that she saw something big and black was drifting near the front stairs, so i immediately opened the door to check what it was, to our suprise, there's nothing there but the flowing yellowish water... lalala!! i shut the door and went back to sleep... hahaha...

13.12.2004
woke up early, around 7. the water stopped rising and stayed. usually cars and motorcycles can be seen but today's traffic was taken over by boats and sampans... and pedastrian was replaced by swimmers... hahaha.. reminding me of the film, Waterworld... and guess what, it is suck to live in a world filled with water... hahahah... that morning, i had to get in the cold water coz we didnt have anything for breakfast except the tapioca... but we have to pull it out first... hahaha.. it wasnt an easy task though...

oh oh... at this point, something struck me, where the hell are those JPA3 guys, or those responsible for rescuing? or perhaps they should just give out food supplies to ease the victims... but there was none... well... i wanted to believe that there was some other places that needed to be attended perhaps but i know its not... we even heard that there was a family in Penambang, somewhere around here, were standing on the dining table, in their house, avoiding the flood... they called for help but the police said there was not enough boat to rescue them... what the fuck! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR VOTING THE CURRENT STATE GOVERNMENT! hahaha... but well... they said kelantan people likes to suffer... hahaha

ok so after breakfast, i decided to go home, and luckily there's a sampan passing by so i asked for a ride, but they only can get me half way... and the rest of it i had to walk all the way... but its okay, i got to take pictures... but my feet was aching coz i forgot to wear slippers... hahaha...

so the rest of the day i spent my time in the house, looking at people in front of my house swimming and splashing in the muddy water...

14-15.12.2004
so the flood was finally decreasing... but it took 2 days to fully recovered... the roads can be use again and mud is everywhere... even in downtown KB... it was the worst flood in 15 years, but this is my first time to experience it from a flood victim point of view...

so there you have it... my not-so-important narration... well you guys can check out the pics that i took by going to my fotopages... but i cannot upload them right now, maybe i'll upload them when i get back to MMU... yeah... stay tuned!