LIFE for the people of Babelan is a bit like the story of the hungry chicken in a rice barn. The riches of the abundant oil and gas reserves in the area have apparently not yet dripped down to the less well-off people of Babelan. This is in spite of the thunderous noise made by flames reaching up into the sky as well as the coming and going of tankers carrying crude oil. In the past, sights and sounds such as these were very much unknown but