Transporting bags of cement

When we returned to Tibang at 9 am in the morning, Adele, Wai Yan, Hock Teck and Lark were instructed to continue with some of yesterday's work, while Hosea, Hiew, Alvin and I were allocated the job of transporting twenty packs of cement from a warehouse to the building sites. It was an awfully back-breaking task, trying to lift the 40-kg bags of cement off the floor, out of the warehouse and onto a pick-up. We weren't allowed to kick or drag the cement bags because the packaging was paper-based, and the last thing we needed was to have the bags split open, pouring their precious contents onto the floor before we even got to the building site.

In the process of transporting the cement, a fair amount of cement powder got into my eyes, nostrils and throat. I felt really miserable at first, but after a while, I got used to it. By the time the four of us returned to land plots #129 and #140 with our bounty, we were absolutely exhausted. But we came back at an excellent timing: it was mid-morning tea-break :)