The Sakai's Thingindangling.
This must get out of my system. The scene of us trying to bargain from the 'orang asli' (aborigines) selling tapioca, jungle fruits, petai and honey at the road side, often on our way back to our obscure hometowns.
A small comb of petai in the city's wet market will cost us RM5. If you buy it straight from the 'orang asli', they'll ask for RM2. And we have the heart to give them only RM1 for a bigger bundle that's enough for all the neighbours on our street??!!!
A bottle of manuka honey from Australia, some of us will spend RM88 per jar or RM8 per jar for the normal ones. We want to pay only RM5 for freshly yielded honey in a big bottle from the oily, tired looking 'orang asli' who carried bottles and bottles of those who walked miles? I witnessed this at Fraser's Hill.
For those who have not seen a petai tree, you won't know how these people risk their lives to make some money to buy their weekly stock of good cigarettes or chicken organs (these things are the only extra luxury for these simple people instead of the usual 'rokok daun' or small little monkeys for meals).
The petai tree is indeed tall with thin, bended, branches. Unlike the 'duku langsat' which fruits sprouts from the corners of the barks, the petai are at the endmost of each branch. Imagine climbing it and trying to reach the end of the branch for the strongly clung combs of pods??! One tree don't necessarily bear many of it or the structure may allow them to only reach just some. To get thick good pods, they must be plucked from mature trees which are usually 30m in height. And they don't grow in a cluster like two three trees in one spot okay! They don't farm these things! So give them their bloody two bucks if you want it!
Those dangling knobs are the petai flowers, look at how thin the branches are.
If we can't pay RM10 per bottle of fresh honey from them, go hunt for it ourselves or get them in the supermarket and help the Oz instead of making these people's foreheads wrinkle and their hearts sink thinking of how to bring back all the bottles miles back home.. again. How come we don't do the same towards the DVD sellers? There are people we want to bully and people we want to keep? Bullying is alright, but towards the right people ok.
P/S: this story has nothing to do with my hunch nor dreams.
A small comb of petai in the city's wet market will cost us RM5. If you buy it straight from the 'orang asli', they'll ask for RM2. And we have the heart to give them only RM1 for a bigger bundle that's enough for all the neighbours on our street??!!!
A bottle of manuka honey from Australia, some of us will spend RM88 per jar or RM8 per jar for the normal ones. We want to pay only RM5 for freshly yielded honey in a big bottle from the oily, tired looking 'orang asli' who carried bottles and bottles of those who walked miles? I witnessed this at Fraser's Hill.
For those who have not seen a petai tree, you won't know how these people risk their lives to make some money to buy their weekly stock of good cigarettes or chicken organs (these things are the only extra luxury for these simple people instead of the usual 'rokok daun' or small little monkeys for meals).
The petai tree is indeed tall with thin, bended, branches. Unlike the 'duku langsat' which fruits sprouts from the corners of the barks, the petai are at the endmost of each branch. Imagine climbing it and trying to reach the end of the branch for the strongly clung combs of pods??! One tree don't necessarily bear many of it or the structure may allow them to only reach just some. To get thick good pods, they must be plucked from mature trees which are usually 30m in height. And they don't grow in a cluster like two three trees in one spot okay! They don't farm these things! So give them their bloody two bucks if you want it!
Those dangling knobs are the petai flowers, look at how thin the branches are.
If we can't pay RM10 per bottle of fresh honey from them, go hunt for it ourselves or get them in the supermarket and help the Oz instead of making these people's foreheads wrinkle and their hearts sink thinking of how to bring back all the bottles miles back home.. again. How come we don't do the same towards the DVD sellers? There are people we want to bully and people we want to keep? Bullying is alright, but towards the right people ok.
P/S: this story has nothing to do with my hunch nor dreams.
posted by Maine at 3:39 PM
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