Telupid trip

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON JUNE 20th 2008

Very few outside Sabah would have ever heard about this place. Telupid is after all not so secluded as it sounds. Azniza & I took the chance of driving down from sandakan to there recently with a friend to visit another friend. Best part was, both of us were postcalls:)

After 2 hours drive (with average speed of 100-110km/H) on a very "exciting" uneven roads with full of surprises, we reached Telupid. A quiet, rather acceptably lively town. My friend in Telupid ( who has not left the town for the past 3 months due to work responsibility...huh,tough guy!) took us on a tour around telupid (took us less than 1/2 hour to complete it). Co-incidentally "tadau tagazo do keamatan" celebration month was officiated on the same day...but sad to say we missed the unduk ngadau..haha.

After some chit-chatting, we were on our way back on another gruelling drive,but with reduced speed(ari suda makin gelap lor...) We stopped by at a village named "Gum-Gum" (do pronounce it strictly in baku,yah!) for Maghrib. However I noted, lights in the mosque were running on generator & other parts of the village were not lighten up...roads have no lamp posts. Seems to be not an acute blackout...but a chronic, ever present one.

Well, this is the reality in sabah...there are still many parts of sabah with this situation. What has been done...Wallahu 'alam. What's going to be done...Wallahu 'alam. Probably might remain to be so 10 years down the line..unless we "the rakyat" do something.