BRATz for life! -'Tunjukkan Simbol Perpaduan!'

Off to Kuching for the BRATs workshop for brats.4 days and 3 nights of the best moments of my summer in a nut's case. Basicly, its a 'torture' camp where they hand out assignments without details and throw it back in your face later. But then again it was part of growing up isn't it? In the midst of the confusion and asssignments, we Brats bonded as a team called 'Cat's Meow' and learned about working together ..etc..blah..blah.. but the was plenty of stress in it offset by us being fed well for 4 days.Highlights-

workin away!*

Street poll.team breaks down into pairs and conduct a public poll on tattoos in Sarawak. Quite enjoyable although we had to use mandarin and malay most of the time.Paired up with my half Scot editor-Claire and we wondered around the place till don't know where. Theres a point where we interviewed an old aunty -

Tattoo?! apa Itu?*

WJ - (in mandarin) 'What do you think of people and ...*silence (don't know tattoo in chinese) ...eeerrr.... 'chai shen ti whah-whah de' ( draw-draw on the body one)...errr.....tattoo

Claire- (in beta mandarin) *explains....

Aunty- ooooo..(mandarin) the one girls these days have above their backside one argh? Yea! and when they sit it kinda pops out.

Man...you should have seen how she said that! it was hilarious.

Bugger sleeping while we're working!*
Justice served!*

We also had the Bumbu cookng classes which was SAVAGE! Learned to cook the Sarawak Laksa ,Tako (some jelly-ish dessert) and Sambal Midin ( Sarawak's kangkung belacan).Eating them was even better 100x! after having made to watch the food being prepared while its passed lunch time....Had to do the shopping old school with some rattan baskets.Tried flipping eggs -failed and honestly, Sarawak Laksa is not a hint easy to prepare at all.Even after stuffing our faces with the laksa,midin and of course blocks of takos ( they're freaking good!) we decided to look for the 'elusive' tomato kuay teow found in Kuching.Tough luck-nadai. When we're out on field assignments we just kinda left all our dead-lines and worries back at Kingswood Inn.The beauty of it!

Makan!*

Got buy eggs anot?*

Like this..*

Struggled to do reports and shit like that after that,me being on of the reporters of the team took the load while our assistant editor -Calvyn aka Sleepy Head slept alot.The sketch was another story to be told,only with a blur story line ,we made up stuff on the moment itself.Claire, Melissa and me kept the thing going by being aggressive but it was the latter 2 that contributed more I think.It was suppose to be a sketch on a weird family and it turned out to be a long maggi ad!. Took quite a lot of pics as well at the end of the workshop.Well a bit tired to describe more so more pics in return. Nite people! 'tunjuklah symbol PERPADUAN!!!