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Thursday, November 01, 2007

My Life in Tarland

Khamis 25/10/07

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Harini hari ke-4 saya di tarland. Nak cerita sikit pasal tempat nih. It’s actually a small village in the county of aberdeenshire, located to the west of Aberdeen. The population is only around 800 people. It is so small in which almost each of them knows everyone else. The best part is there is no crime committed in this village as it too small, so the criminals can be easily caught by the villagers. No one dare to commit any crime.

Let me write something bout my journey here. Last Monday, I took a bus to Aberdeen bus station from Dundee. I arrived in Aberdeen around quarter to 3. The earliest bus to tarland at that time was at quarter pass 4. I know I was early, and at that time, I was too boring, dunno what to do. It was cold as well and I was freezing. The most thing that I hate about it was everyone around me were smoking! Gosh!! I can’t stand smell and smoke of cigarettes. Luckily I found a shed to rest, which is at the counter area, a non smoking area too! The bus was punctual. It was a big bus, erm…look like a coach for me. With my big baggage (bag balik msia) I tried to carry it onto the bus, lucky me there is few helpful people around there…hehe..’Where are u going?’ ‘Tarland please’ ‘oo..is it the village of Tralnad?’ ‘yeah, that’s it? Dalam hati waktu tuh..wah, village of Tarland?kampung sgt kah tpt nih? There were less than 15 people got into the bus in Aberdeen, and after we reached Westhill, which is only a quarter of the bus journey, there were only me and another girl left. Having said that, I’m the last one to leave the bus..haha..nak menunjukkan betapa pedalamannya Tarland nih and I took me bout 2 hours. Despite all that, there are lots to see during the journey. It is a rural area having considered that there are lots of cows, sheeps and lambs. And then there is one type of tree..byk sgt all along the journey..skali pandang, teringat cam pokok getah kat highway utara selatan tuh…anyway, Alhamdullillah, I arrived safely at the Commercial Hotel….

And now about the surgery. It’s quite a small one. During my 1st week of attachment, there wasn’t that many patients but I do take histories and even gave flu vac to 7 patients.haha…my 1st time doing 7 in a row. And the GP and his staffs were all friendly. On the 1st day, I had lunch in my GP’s place and for the 1st time, I did apple picking..muahaha…at last, I have done it! Cos kat umah die ade pokok epal…syok abes!

Da mengantuk sgt da nih…to be continued………

Sabtu 27th October 2007

What did I do today? It was a boring weekend really. Seriously! I went for a walk around the village, climb up the hill to the stone circle and obviously took lots of photos…besides that, I was on the phone for the whole morning, I think and watch the news and movies. At least I got to know that tomorrow we are changing the clock back.

Isnin 29th October 2007, 10 pm

Seperti malam2 sebelum ini, kerja saya kalo tak tgk tv, tgk movie/drama…paling rajin pun, belek2 audit or buat revision sket. Sambil2 dok buat audit nyer intro, ternampak kat tv satu cite nih..tajuk die ‘how to move forward in africa’. Rancangan ni ala-ala majalah 3 la kalo kat msia. Citer pasal corruption kat Africa yang menjadi punca utama Negara nih tak maju sampai sekarang. Bayangkanlah, nak kerja pon kena bayar@rasuah..tak pelik ke tuh? Host rancangan tuh try nak join penduduk setempa yg pegi mencari kerja sebagai buruh pada siang hari. Utk masuk ke tempat kerja tersebut, setiap org kena bayar dlm 300 schilling (matawang diorg). Tuh blom tentu dpt kerja lagi tuh..pastu mandor akan pilih certain number of people utk kerja pada hari tersebut. Satu lagi yg host tuh cuba buat is nak bina pondok utk die duduk. Baru tak sampai sejam diorg bina pondok, ade sorg perempuan dtg ckp die masuk tanah die nih..kalo taknak die report kat chief officer, kena bayar die 4000. Host nip on diskus2, setuju 2000. Pastu dtg pulak chief officer, ckp kena byr die 2000, kalo tak die report kat ketua die, nanti kena roboh pondok tuh.kalo bayar, die akan settle semua dgn ketua die. Lepas discuss, bagila die 1000. Tak lama lepas tuh dtg lak sorg lagi mengaku org kerajaan bahagian tanah mintak lagi 2000. Ya Allah, mcmana la org2 kat situ nak hidup kalo semua nye kena bayar org lain..dahtuh org yg dibayar tuh janji mcm2, tp at last masuk poket diorg sdiri gak. Cerita pemandu teksi yg kena merasuah polis kalo nk amek penumpang wpon diorg bukan langgar rules jalanraya. Kalo tak diorg kena masuk lokap. Ish..ish..camna nak carik makan camni?

That’s all for now…wslm

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