The crosser rumbles his motorbike machine.
It smokes around it, and next he’s already speeded along the round ulin-wood wall.
The hard rough of the rumble mixes with the lethal speed on the round wall, shakes the ulin stage so hard, hard enough to make me feel that my ears gonna get blown up of thrill.
I cover my ears, but I see 50 are watching from the top of the stage, and no one of them concerns enough of covering their ears.
I guess I’m the only one who cares about the safety of hearing here.

Making over a muddy field for ten days become a night fair. The footpaths that the people step over aren’t paving blocks, but they’re gunny sacks filled of sand. Pay attention to the giant oscillation which is just rode by a girl; the seat has no safety belts. The night fair is really not as glamour as a fun land, but enough for entertaining the people of a small town.
Slowly I open up my ears, then I push myself enjoying the devil barrel show, like the other people who seem normal though each one’s hearing threshold have declined at least to the half.
I try to capture the lethal actions of the crossers inside the damn barrel, but it’s difficult, coz they speed too fast, not equal to my camera which though is released last summer but actually still slow enough of speed-snapshooting.
When I’ve just got the good snapshot, some audiences start to burn the air by waving sheets of thousand-rupiahs.
The crosser’s seduced, and they swoop their motorbike to the upside of the wood stage by trying to reach the money that the audiences wave.
Their action freaks me out, it smokes around harder, the wood wall shakes more roughly, and I’m scared that this ulin stage can collapse anytime.
It’s so hard for me to hold the handy camera for snapshooting these stupid crossers, and if the thrill of this damn stage drives me nervous and make me drop my camera, my father shall kill me.

Crossers pass, seems that they’re ready to run over the audiences. Amazing, spooky, and ears-damaging.
The lethal action of the crossers inside the barrel keeps going on.
They speed by folding their legs at the front of their chests, sometimes by getting up over their motorbikes.
The show ends up when the crossers speed on the ulin wall diagonally by their hands waving freely over their heads.
Everyone enjoys the entertainment, which for me is just another lethal show that can lead to disaster.
I draw my breath as I walk down that stage of the devil barrel, by massaging my ear which still felt thrilled. I hope next morning I won’t wake up in deaf.

The citizens build a sudden market covering the night fair. In Pulang Pisau, there’s no layer tancap, not even a theatre. No wonder the night fair is appreciated very well by the people who run out of entertainment facility.
The devil barrel is the favorite action of the night fair which visits Pulang Pisau this week.
They show up for ten days, locates a soccer-field-large area which is muddy of the rain.
Except the devil barrel, the manager builds fun-and-happy venue that fulfilled of ball cage, carrousel, giant oscillation, wheel, fishing basin, cart, and spooky house.
Each night, those people promote their night fair by a loudspeaker which sound out the house-music songs, and the sound is loud enough to wake corpses up.
They seduce the whole town to come and bring their children enjoy every rides, and each ride only costs five thousands rupiahs.

Carts performed like lions. No need to wait till the whole cart is full to move. One kid wanna ride, and the cart will go.
Out of the night fair, the citizens build a sudden market which sells outfits and open some cafes.
The street which each night is always silent, suddenly is crowded of people who come in groups to visit the fair.
I can’t resist myself for get uncurious, coz my apartment is located exact at the front of the fair.

A giant wheel is must-have-ride. The sensation is viewing the whole town from the top. The wheel’s height is adjusted with the large of the town to see.
If I weren’t working in this town, I might never know what a night fair looked like.
It’s been so long since the last time I went to a night fair, I might be seven or nine, accompanied by my mother’s personal staff.
I remembered a little that the night fair which I visited also had a devil barrel inside, and my ears were also almost blown up like these. I guess next time I should bring ear plugs.
Ha, could it be next time?

These children pretend of fishing on a plastic pool. A fun and cheap entertainment which is easy-adaptable into family gatherings.
This is the people’s entertainment which is countable.
How the existence of a night fair which is just in 10 days can make the citizens of Pulang Pisau wake up more lately.

The main modal of a ball cage, are just plenty of plastic balls. To make it more attractive, put some ride to play. Kids have enough fun on this way. As long as there’s nobody pees inside the ball cage.
I don’t know what the people like; is it about the devil barrel, is it about the children’s rides, or is it just about the lights.
But they’re thirsty so bad of entertainments; and where the fun belongs, there they will go.
No matter it’s a devil barrel which can end up in lethal, or at least, able to make the ears of the half town, get deaf.
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