Walking from Long Banga to Marudi

00:00:01pi amai form lau
after we finished form three

00:00:04form lau Bario alam
form three in Bario in the past

00:00:05mai form paat amai hoo', form imah mai Marudi
we went for form four and form five in Marudi

00:00:11tapi am amai mayaa' bilun
but we didn't go by plane

00:00:13mayaa' noon?
how did we go?

00:00:14mayaa' alút
by boat

00:00:15weh sieu arai malaan si' nai
from here we walked two days

00:00:17éraat si' nai mai Long Metepah
from here to Long Metepah

00:00:19éraat Long Metepah dei ceh sieng Lio Mato
from Long Metepah you get to Lio Mato

00:00:23éraat Lio Mato ceh maya' alút
from Lio Mato you take the boat

00:00:25jadi pi ceh malaan kuet weh sieu ina dei
so after walking two days on foot

00:00:28mayaa' alút ceh
you take a boat

00:00:30nah mayaa' pei' lah
that follows the river

00:00:32otak pei' yeh wei' ai
if the river is high

00:00:34si' sieu ceh mai éraat Lio Mato mai Long Akah
it takes one day from Lio Mato to Long Akah

00:00:37Long Akah... oh am...
Long Akah... oh wait

00:00:41éraat Lio Mato mai Long Jeeh
from Lio Mato to Long Jeeh

00:00:43éraat Long Jeeh baru ceh sieng Long Akah
then from Long Jeeh you get to Long Akah

00:00:46éraat Long Akah mai Long Miri kah
from Long Akah you go to Long Miri

00:00:49pi Long Miri, dei ceh sieng Long Lama
and after Long Miri, then you reach Long Lama

00:00:52pi éraat Long Lama mai Long Ikang
from Long Lama you go to Long Ikang

00:00:55mai Long Ikang dei tah ceh sieng Marudi lah
from Long Ikang then you get to Marudi

00:00:58si' igu!
one whole week!

00:00:59yeah, neu pei' nah
yeah, that's on the river

00:01:01injin, injin boat amai nah
we took an engine boat

00:01:04loe' lún lem alút ai
there were many people on the boat

00:01:05alút raah
it was a big boat

00:01:06kira lau pluu' brúel lah mayaa' alút
there were roughly thirty people on the boat

00:01:10jadi injin weh pluu' kuda
but the engine was twenty horsepower

00:01:13pluu' weh kuda
or twelve horsepower

00:01:14am yeh raah bah
it wasn't big

00:01:15jadi masalah yeh
so it was a problem

00:01:18am yeh pasel lah
it wasn't very strong

00:01:19yeah, otak pei' wei' nonoh ai
if the river was good

00:01:21parap arai ajit lah
we could go fast

00:01:22yeah, si' man
yeah, another thing

00:01:24lún alam, masa mai sekolah alam
in the past, when we went to school

00:01:26naan deh masiu-masiu anok lah
people would sell things

00:01:29mai sa'oot nai hoo'
down in town

00:01:30ko' ddúet jjúek
like cigarettes

00:01:32jjúek tabacco lah
tabacco cigarettes

00:01:34jjúek ataupun brée tan lún waai
people from here took cigarettes or rice

00:01:38am man loe' brée lún ma' ngaai hoo'
after all people didn't have much rice there

00:01:40so nonoh ddúet deh alam lah
so that's how they were in the past

00:01:41nonoh
so that's how they were in the past, like that