YSHHB Research

On the 2nd May - 11th May, 2008, i'm joining a team of 10 people to carry out a research for Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah. The main objective of the research was to find out the solution on how to put the difficulties of the unfortunate people of Kg. Bolkiah to an end. Like i mention earlier the team consist of 10 people. Headed by Erwandy n assisted by my own dear best friend, Rozini yunos. and the rest are Nic, Zaqhiz, Laila, Kasyfil, Fuad, Atikah, Azimah n my self. And yeah, Ruzaini (wadut) but too bad he could only be with us on the first day, so Fuad replaced him (thanks for dropping by Wadut!! =)


We started our day by bekumpul at the office, then we proceed to the jeti around 9am and getting our selves ready to be transported by Jol the boatman to Kg Bolkiah.
That's what usually happen for the 10 whole days, and we had our break at lunch time at the YSHHB branch at the kampong.. (that reminds me of the nasi dalam plastic made by Ka Fauziah...yummy! =p)

Being in the research team banyak memberikan pengajaran to me. i even learn a lot by putting my self in the middle of the community of the orang-orang kampong. Bear in mind that it's a new kampong, like what one of the penduduk says 'kampong antarabangsa'. Ada yang asal dari Kg. Saba, Kg. Setia Pahlawan, Kg. Bendahara Lama and ada yang asal dari darat! It wasn't like the typical kampong ayer yang kitani kenali. I can see that from how they mingle with each other. I think it has less spirit of bekerjasama, less mesra n some area they don't even know siapa yang tinggal sebalah rumah dorang!
But that's only a few thing that we witnessed. Only the people in the team knows how it's like. But honestly, i miss being there...i miss kan mengatuk rumah orang and kan membawa orang becerita =p Some are friendly n some aren't.

I remember when i went to this house n there's an old lady living there... she seems so familiar but i don't know who. I keep on looking at her trying to figure out something... after a while when my friend who was with me at that time membawa daughter of that old lady bekurapak, mention that her mother used to be active, invited by a lot of people to play the bedundang/bemukun...and when she mention the name of her mother is 'Hajah Ajijah' then i remember her. She's the famous lady who used to be bedundang or bemukun in some wedding ceremonies n even on TV. Oh well, i didn't know that she lives there. She is such a living legend i guess... And when i said 'patut tah macam ku kenal kita ani', and her daughter said 'patut tah ko malar meliat mama ku, dari tadi diperatikannya kita ma eh!' Hahaaa...kedapatan meratikan orang! apalah!...

And i remember visiting this one house at Kg. Bolkiah A, own by an old lady too, She's about 80 years old, staying with her sister, who is in her 80's too. It's only both of them living there. They seem very friendly, n they never married before. So they have no children to take care of them, only anak buah yang kadang2 tidur di sana. So they live, pay the bills and membali barang makan fully dependent on duit bantuan saja... and it wasn't that much. And they told me, sometimes they have to beutang beras dari jiran sebalah! And not forgeting the bil karan. To tell u guys, i checked since last year, the bills never been open. why? because they cannot read! apa jua tau orang tua-tua beumur 80an, and the rest let me just keep it to my self.


The funny thing bout some of the people there, dorang ada kepandaian/kemahiran, ada tangan n kaki n most important thing is ada akal, untuk mencari nafkah.. but they get bantuan fakir miskin/zakat to support them. As far as i know, they shouldn't coz they stil have the kudrat untuk mencari makan.

More than that tedapat astro/prabola, handphone, and tedapat macam2 lagi dalam rumah bisdia atu... how come? i know its easy for me to talk... but think bout the rest. Who doesn't have the ability, who doesn't have the qualification or education to find a job. Like this one family, the ketua keluarga (the father) is sick, having a stroke for so many years... and ofcoz he cannot work. But when i asked one of his daughter, who have the qualification sampai form 3 ganya (yes..ganya) but she still can work. when i asked her 'kenapa nda keraja?' and she answered me 'Malas'. She knew that she shouldn't be... Keraja buleh cari di mana-mana sebenarnya, asal halal!!

Yea...i know.. i know....it's not that easy for them. Membayar tambang lagi kan tiap hari turun naik... ujung-ujung bulan brapa jua gnya ada dalam tangan abis-abis membayar this and that. Yea, it's not so easy... but usaha tangga kejayaan...InsyaAllah.

[to be continue...so stay tune peepz!] o(^o^)o