I managed to escape the confines of the Malaysian jungle and am now back home, beavering away at replyng to emails and adding images for the Affiliate website – both for the slideshow and for your own use.

Please go to the Affiliate link at the bottom left hand side of the site and sign up for an account via PayDotCom if you have not already done so. If you have already done so, just log in to your PayDotCom account and you should see a number of images there, each of which has the html for you to copy past to your own site.

More images are coming shortly.

SideNote: I’m having problems with most of the images which are being placed on PayDotCom for affiliate use. Although the images are showing up, they are showing with a red “X” beside them, which is telling me there is something not quite right with the html code. Unless you are familiar with hmtl setup, it may be wise to wait until I am able to fix this (another PayDotCom support query has been sent) or else you may find yourself thoroughly frustrated when trying to correct this, like I currently am!

You are at full liberty to utilize any of the images that are on the actual website however.

There are now only 7 places left available to get on board to promote this first product via my own subscribers list, so do be sure to jump on board as soon as you can. Once those 7 places have been filled, I’ll be creating a waiting list. Should anyone drop out in times to come, then this list will be re-opened. But if you want to get involved now, I advise you take prompt action!

Later today, I’ll create a short video for anyone wishing to use the Build My Rank tool. I added in 4 posts just before I left for the jungle the other day and all have now been added “to the system” and have been indexed in Google – all range from a Google Page Rank of 1 to 3, so that should add a nice bit of link juice to my chosen keyword phrases.

Just briefly – I had a great time in the jungle, albeit never saw much in the way of animal life other than behind bars in a zoo (I’m not at all a fan of this – you see orang utans (Malay for forest man), wild cats, hornbills and the like, couped up in relatively small cages. And I don’t see that there is too much in the way of educational value either. To my mind, its more animal cruetly mixed with a bit of human greed, than anything).

The weather was not conducive to too much trekking, which may have been just as well because I’m much more of a “pen pusher” these days and I doubt I’d be up to miles and miles of climbing mountains, whilst dealing with mosqitoes and leaches as well as watching over-head for poisonous snakes falling on my head.

One thing that did strike me more than ever though. We visited a fish market which is situated right beside the largest river in Sarawak (Sungai Kuching). This is mainly fished by local Malay people. It is becoming more and more apparent to me that these people live a day to day existence – very much different to what we are now used to in the western world.

What I mean by that is – the folks go out in their boats, catch their daily take of fish, lobsters, crabs, tiger prawns, squid and so on. They then bring back their haul and sell it there and then from their market stalls, set up on the river bank. No middle men involved. No business contracts to sign.

Once all the catch has been sold for that day, they retire to a very simple life with families and friends – in simple houses painted all colours of the rainbow, many of which are built on stilts so as to provide some safe haven from the almost inevitable flooding during the rainy season.

Even grandmothers, grandfathers and young children get involved in the daily activities. Its a hive of activity, at least for part of each and every day.

Little Malay girl

But in amongst this hive of activity, I could not help but sense an inner peace. Simpleness that you don’t get over in the west, or within the cities of Malaysia.

It seems that these people could care less about gaining wealth in terms of financial income. They just want to live a fairly “chilled” life. No fighting, no real stresses and strains to deal with. Its like there is no real worry – life will take care of itself.

Everyone works together for the sake of the community, or in this case – the village, which is called “kampong” in the Malay language.

When I walked down the street enjoying the atmosphere and watching what was going on after enjoying a delicious meal which cost about a dollar US, I was patently aware that many people were staring at me.

Not that I look like elephant man or anything of the kind. I imagine its a rareity for these people to see an “orang putih” (white person) in their midst. And I wondered to myself, what it would be like to give up those dreams that I was taught to pursue from early childhood – money, money, money and more money, and go and live in a kampong for a while. No doubt much of my thinking would be changed for ever.

Although I did not take too many photos with my trusted tiny little pocket camera, a picture does tell a thousand words. So let these images speak for themselves. Hover your mouse over the image for captions (the current WordPress version is a big buggy).