The Documentary

Last weekend, my friends and I went to Gombak to go to the natives or Orang Asli village. We went there certainly for an important purpose, to finish up our English assignment, the documentary. I actually didn’t know the existence of Orang Asli village at Gombak as I am not from here. My friend, Aain told us that Gombak is a popular place that consists of the native houses, she know this because her previous school was in Gombak, quite lots of information that she know about Gombak and it is really beneficial for our group.

We went there on Sunday by Poh hui’s father’s car. At 8.30 a.m Poh Hui and her father arrived at the student house, two of my group member’s najihah, aain and I have finished our breakfast and then we moved to our destiny. Poh hui’s father is a talkative person, he told us some information about the natives and gave us some tips to make our documentary to be more interesting. My friends and I just heard what he was saying about without argued anything but Poh Hui did; we actually did not knew what to say so, that’s why it was better to hear than to argue.

Gombak was quite near, not really far as what I have thought before. In spite of we did not know the exact location of the Orang Asli village, we fully followed the signboards and finally we found the hospital, it was built for the natives’ uses without any payment.
At the hospital, we saw some of the Orang Asli sitting on the bench outside the hospital. Based on their physical appearance, curly hair and dark face, we can recognize them easily.

We decided to interview some of them, as we moved towards the two females, they smiled to us. Thankfully as they did not refuse to talk with us, they even talked too much, contradict with our expectation. They told us how they lived and survived in this modernization century, pity to them as their children couldn’t go to school as a result of their poverty. The income was only enough for then to buy food for their daily life. However there was a man that I remember the most, he was really determine, he said that all of his children got education in school as the expenditure have been supported by the government. He eager to see all of his children succeeds in the future. We were totally impressed of his spirit.

After an hour of interview session at the hospital, we went to the village, only ten minutes from the hospital. We took some footage of their houses and also the environment of the place. The housing area obviously different from the typical people who lived in the town even in the villages, the place was nearby the river, thus it was easier for the villagers to get water supply and the houses were small, just enough for them to sleep, dogs were everywhere, that made us scared to explore more, so, we continued our journey to the Museum Orang Asli. There, we took some photos and then returned to the hostel with satisfaction instead of tiredness.