Saturday, April 5, 2008

THE BRILLIANT DONKEY



Picture worth thousand words or accusations. By first glance, you may think that the man with the iron rod had inhumanly abused the donkey. In actual fact, he is an animal lover.

I woke up one morning (few days ago) and found the water tap had dried out. After the fajar prayer, I found traces of water on the ground originated from Raj cabin and a donkey lied under his cabin. I woke up Tuan Daing to unlock Raj room (assuming his room was flooded with water) and to close the main water supply valve. Then we realized that the donkey had hit the main water pipe under the cabin causing water to gush out and consequently drained several water tanks. Luckily there were two other spare water tanks full with water.

Daing tried to save the donkey by pulling her two ears. With the help of a Sudanese engineer, both able to pull the donkey away from the cabin and allowed her to stand up right. There was another donkey few meters away waiting for her. Daing had the impression that both donkey were expressing their natural desires but one slip under the cabin. Other people said, donkey can be considered as a brilliant animal. She was desperately looking for water, after failing to satisfy her desire for water, she purposely hit the water pipe. Unfortunately, the amount of water was too much causing the soil to soak and wet. She had sunk into the mud and slip under the cabin. That's all about the "mat sentul" story.

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