... strange surroundings I have a cousin, Brian, who is a writer for a newspaper in Kuala Lumpur. Last year when I visited him, he told me that he had an assignment to write about life in a remote ... remote village in the national forest reserve in Pahang. He challenged me, a city boy, to accompany him and experience a day in totally unfamiliar surroundings. We drove to a small town ... rapids, and at a certain points the boatman used a long pole to steer it. Brian and I were obviously excited but the other passengers took it in a casual, even bored way. To them, it was a usual...