I walked downhill and saw the lake water of Tasik Chini covering some houses almost to the roof top, felt like the tribe houses were part of the ecosystem of the floods and the lake. From a distance I saw this old women was on a tiny boat and she was splashing water on a house with a small coconut shell. I got on a boat and made my way towards her.
“Hi, what are you doing?”
“Washing my house, look at it now, it’s full of water and dirt, even inside.”
“How high was the flood water before?”
“Ah it was up to the roof, now it’s going down, so I can start cleaning the walls first. I come daily to clean little by little”
“Why are you cleaning now and not wait for the water to reach all the way down?”
“I do this as I can reach the top parts, when the water is down, it will be too high for me to reach, I’m not that tall!”
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