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    Monkeying in Malaysia!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #2
    Monkeying in Malaysia!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #2
    Monkeying in Malaysia!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #2
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    Monkeying in Malaysia!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #2

    By Adeline Foo

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    After a successful fundraising effort, I was off to Sarawak, Malaysia with my bros Alvin and Anthony for an exciting jungle trek! And, more importantly, I'd get to see my dear friend Jolin. (Mum calls her the "object of my infatuation".)
    Our guide, Jolin's weird "jungle man" Uncle Jufri, warned us to never let our guard down, for the rainforest is full of secrets and surprises. After getting drenched in a thunderstorm, and some icky encounters with mussels, toads, leeches and ants, we thought we'd seen and survived it all. But then there were those footprints, BIGGER THAN A HUMAN'S, that just couldn't be explained.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpigram Books
    Release dateNov 24, 2016
    ISBN9789810794200
    Monkeying in Malaysia!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #2

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      Monkeying in Malaysia! - Adeline Foo

      IllustrationIllustration

      Copyright © 2014 by Adeline Foo

      All rights reserved.

      Published in Singapore by Epigram Books

      www.epigrambooks.sg

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

      Cover design by Stephanie Wong

      lllustrations © 2014 by Stephanie Wong

      NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD SINGAPORE

      CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Foo, Adeline, 1971-

      Monkeying in Malaysia!: the travel diary of Amos Lee/written by Adeline Foo; illustrated by Stephanie Wong.

      — Singapore: Epigram Books, [2014]

      pages cm. — (The travel diary of Amos Lee series; 2)

      ISBN: 978-981-07-9419-4 (paperback)

      ISBN: 978-981-07-9420-0 (e-book)

      1. Boys — Singapore—Diaries — Juvenile fiction.

      2. Diarists—Singapore—Juvenile fiction.

      3. Hiking — Malaysia — Sarawak — Juvenile fiction.

      4. Bornean orangutan — Juvenile fiction.

      I. Wong, Stephanie, 1979-

      II. Title.

      III. Series: Travel diary of Amos Lee series; 2.

      PZ7

      S823 — dc23 OCN891117812

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      IllustrationIllustration

      It was just another uneventful day in school, except for an assembly talk we had before classes started. Guess who visited us to give the talk? A bunch of people from S.A.I.N.T.: Save Animals in Nature Today, a wildlife protection group. The speaker was a passionate man; he spoke animatedly about the urgent need to combat global warming and how vulnerable endangered animals are.

      I thought it was going to be the usual yadda yadda speech, until he mentioned something exciting. He spoke about raising funds for a study trip to Sarawak. I had no idea what the money was for... but aha, that was when a light bulb went off in my head!

      SARAWAK! That’s in Malaysia, where my girlfriend lives! Er... maybe it’s a little inaccurate to call her that. Let’s just say Jolin is the object of my infatuation. (Those are Mum’s words, anyway.) We met in Taipei on a cultural immersion trip and we’ve managed to stay connected since, through WhatsApp and Skype.

      Being separated is tough on our friendship. No one understands how difficult it is to stay committed. Imagine: when faced with one free hour before bedtime, would you choose to sneak the Nintendo DS under your blanket to play games before Mum catches you, or would you faithfully lug out your dinosaur of a laptop to chat on Skype with the girl you like?

      Jolin has repeatedly asked that I visit her in Malaysia, but each time I bring it up, Mum just rolls her eyes. She says my fixation on Jolin is a phase that will pass. Whatever that means.

      So for the rest of the assembly talk, I paid close attention to what the man from S.A.I.N.T. said. Hmmm...it looks like if we raise funds for their project, we will be given the chance to go on a trip to Sarawak to see animals that have been rescued from environmental destruction. WOW. A FREE trip! Fantastic! But what I like best is that it’s a school programme! This would be something that Mum can’t possibly say no to. Oh boy, I can’t wait to rope in my best friends, Alvin and Anthony, to sign up together.

      I wonder what animals we would see? I hope they are BIG, FIERCE and AWESOME! Maybe we’d get to see the Malayan tiger or the Sumatran rhinoceros! I can just imagine the bragging rights I’d get, the PICTURES I’d be posting on Instagram! This is one trip that I really want to go on. Nothing is going to stop me! Malaysia boleh! Oh yeah!

      IllustrationIllustration

      TARZAN FORMS A PLAN

      Over breakfast, I was on my best behaviour. Even when my annoying brat of a sister screamed at me when I failed to trim the crust off a sandwich I made for her, I held my tongue. Mum looked at me suspiciously when I said sweetly to Whoopie, Sorry, your highness. I didn’t want to overdo my act, so I scowled at my sister. Just for dramatic effect. But Mum caught on to me when I gave Everest a hug for finishing his cereal.

      What is it? What do you want?

      I smiled. Mum is such a genius. Er... I’m doing this project to raise money. We’re saving animals in Sarawak. Can you make a donation? I asked excitedly.

      Mum rolled her eyes. She really did! I was impressed as I could see the whites of her eyes. She said she’d think about it, which usually meant no. So I thought quickly and added, But Mum, think of how helpless the animals are out there. With global warming, the change in weather, the HAZE! They NEED ME! Boy, was I good.

      Then Mum said she’d help, by gathering stuff that I could sell to raise money. Huh? But that wasn’t what I asked for! The next thing I knew, she was going around the flat and by the end of the morning, she’d packed several cartons of stuff. She was so happy when she announced cheerily, Look, your first pop-up store! A fundraiser! This is going to be fun! I took a peek into the boxes she’d filled up. Oh man...

      Box 1: Costumes from Everest’s kindergarten performances.

      Box 2: Whoopie’s cups — and trust me, she had enough to fill one entire box! These were cups that she’d used to sing and pound along to the Cup Song sung by Anna Kendrick. I sooooo hate the woman for making the song a worldwide hit.

      Box 3: Storybooks we had outgrown.

      Box 4: Dad’s old copies of National Geographic.

      What is it with my mother? Can’t she be normal like other mums? Just give me the money!

      Illustration

      Alvin and Anthony both readily agreed to join me on the Sarawak project. But what they weren’t so keen on was to have their mums offer them stuff to sell, to raise money, too. I guess all mothers must have gone through some sort of Torture Your Kids programme to learn how to bring up children. Oh well, the bright side to this was probably knowing that Alvin and Anthony wouldn’t be backing out of this trip... after all, their mums had directed them to sell EVERYTHING they

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