Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Learning young

Like thousands of other Malaysian children, these boys were on a one week school break.
Unlike most of their counterparts however, their holidays were helping their parents to market the produce from their kebun or orchard to operators of these roadside fruit stalls somewhere between the northern Sabah towns of Kota Belud and Kota Marudu.
In this case, their wheel barrow was loaded with tarap, a fruit similar to jackfruit. For the children's efforts, the fruit stall operators will pay between RM1 and RM2 each and turn around and sell them for double that amount.

2 comments:

ALBERT ALEX GULABOK BINGKASAN said...

Kawan, the other day I went back home to Kionsom and I actually ate two tarap at about 1am... ooh the taste was simply oomph!

after that i didnt eat one until three days later

ka ka ka

Ruben Sario said...

It was a good thing you could still look at a tarap after whacking two of them at 1am. Heh heh