Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Myanmar Hospitality 3


FOLLOWING the irregular sound, people get back the car to look for a faulty part again. This time, sound come out of body and people crawl and look the lower part of car body. They found one faulty item which is disconnect with the part that is suppose to join. The experienced villagers immediately know some parts have been dropped in the stream where we trap in. They without delaying rush back to the creek which is 20 minute running distance from the sense. Luckily, they managed to retrieve some missing parts under water and return to car to repair. As these all parts are not work well, they needed to modify and customize some part to repair. About half an hour later the faulty body have been rectified and we are ready to off again.

I don't know how to thank them really. The way they are helping is really appreciable. They seem have no expectation for their helping. There are altogether 5 persons who have been assisting our repairing process since morning. I requested their mother to accept some money to recognize her son's tireless afford. The father shouted at mum not to accept my money on the spot. She only take only when we double request to take this, otherwise we won't be happy. In fact the amount I gave her again is quite small compare to their help. It was only 5,000 Ks (S$ 7.81) for their almost the whole day hard working. In total, I paid them 10,000 Ks for their invaluable service. They gave us a plastic water tank to top up heating water on the journey as we still have long way to go. Besides, they gave us their home phone no to call if there is something wrong on the journey. Even they promised us to come and fetch with their own jeep in case we need. They show their sympathy to us due to our a little over one year old daughter. Fortunately, our little princess didn't add burden to the existing crisis. She just curiously look around as that journey was her first ever out of her room in life.

In brief, I learned a good lesson from the trip with regard to our people's hospitality. I will never forget such help and hope to get a chance to repay their exceptional help in future. This life time experience really make me proud of being Myanmar citizen.

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