Water crisis

Its been quite a few days since I last updated the blog. Tension is high in the hostel this few days as everyone is either preparing for their exams or having their exams. This is the time of the year where everyone starts to have natural occurring eye shadows as well as swollen 'eye bags'. Everyone is studying hard day and night till the people going for exercise seems to be less now...

Anyway, enough about the exams. The exams are no fun to talk about as they just increase the anxiety in most of us. *laugh* For the past few days, the water supply in our campus had been of 'excellent' quality! Instead of serving fresh water from the pipes, we are having 24 hrs supply of tea. What a bonus! Don't get what I mean? You'll understand once you looked at the picture below.

Surprise surprise! Yes, this is the colour of the water supply in our campus for the past few day!

The water had become so brownish that a lot of the students here decided not to bath! Some of my friends who decided to ignore the fact that the water is 'clean' had to suffer from itchiness after their bath. Its ironic as with this kind of water, whatever you washed becomes even more dirtier compared to before you washed them.



The water from the place people wash their clothes. Yucks!-------------------->

Actually, this is no news for us students here. Even before we came to the campus, seniors from our secondary schools who came had warn us about the quality of the water. They even went as far as to ask us not to buy any white shirts or pants. Now that we have seen the situation first hand, its not that hard to understand why some people get diarrhea quite frequently for the first few months of life in Kelantan. Although this was the first time where the water is so dirty, the water here has never been clear in colour. If you want prove, you can just get a white cloth and let the tap water run through it. The cloth won't be white anymore after you're done with it! This is a real worry for us as we wash our white coats(lab coats), cause they might not be white anymore after washing.

Clothes as a result of washing with the 'quality' water. Observe the collar. There is appearance of yellow discolouration. Jaundice?-------------->

There is a suggestion on the appearance of dark urine colour among the locals. Normally, dark coloured urine is caused by liver problems. But maybe, just maybe, its might be a simple case of dirty water consumption?
Well, that's enough for now...Better get back to study.

Anyone wants tea?