Few weeks ago, our old friends from primary school (yes, darling. I met my wife the first time when we were in Standard 3. Amazing, huh?) had organized to have a bowling session during this year’s CNY. Although there were so few of us turned up despite a ‘busy’ thread in Facebook, we had fun. Some of us didn’t manage to show up due to personal reasons. No blames, though. I understand that as we grow up, it gets harder and harder to commit to something not so important, like silly-willy bowling we had, few days ago.

Truthfully, the bowling is just a game. What matters is that we finally got the chance to meet each other, after so many years, and had good laughs on those who bowled more in the drain than on the lane. We had good chat of what’s-up-now and how’s-life-going-on. We shared ghost stories at the legendary ‘Iman kuetiaw kerang’, awkwardly at midnight.

Even our beloved Standard 6 class teacher showed up, despite being busy with late night tuition class. And yes, he was one of them, whom I describe as ‘bowled more in the drain than on the lane’.

It was a good night. It got better, as I won both games with an average score of 150. Not bad at all, haha.

Looking forward for our next battle, guys!

Some of us. Tauke rusa muka tension tak dapat kejar markah aku. Haha.

No comment. Hahahahahahahahahahaha…..

Plus a few others that left earlier, these were the faces who came that night. Seriously, we can do better than this. Next reunion, anyone?

PS: Cikgu Anuar kecik ke aku yang besar?

As part of my morning routine, I checked my phone before taking a shower. There were two SMS-es. One from Eddie, and the other was from an unknown number. Surely, someone from the 9600 brotherhood, as he sent the same exact message as Eddie did. Pondar aka Azil Afiq, my fellow 9600, was involved in a fatal road accident.

This is, by far, a very shocking news, if not the most (the most shocking news in my entire life was to find my also a fellow 9600 in the front page of Sunday’s news, accused of a first degree murder of a doctor). He was fun. He was loud. He was crazy. He was a 9600, he was my Sulaiman’s mate. And he was still very young. At 26, death is something that I believe, very inappropriate. But God has planned everything. God has decided our destiny.

We hadn’t seen each other for a very long time. I’m from Alor Setar and he was from Labuan. I’m working in Terengganu, and very few of 9600s work here too. We parted ways when we left school. We met few times after that, but none then. Still, he was a friend. A good friend. In school, we called ourselves brothers.

Sad and shocked, were the only feelings I had this morning, despite being happy with my family around here. Nothing can be done. The other 9600s will be having ‘tahlil’ and ‘solat jenazah’ at MCOBA Penthouse tonight. As much as I wanted to be there, I have to say that I just can’t. I’m sorry.

Pondar, may God bless you, and may He places you among those good people. You deserved nothing other than good deeds.

PS: Nobody can question of at what age a human being should die appropriately. That’s God’s job to decide. But surely, no one should die on the road.

PSS: Al-Fatihah.

Once again, Selamat Pengantin Baru, Shahrul Aidil & Norsyezlin (let me know if your names are wrongly spelt).

PS: Gambar bawah, yang kanan sekali tu adalah experienced wife. Bolehla kalau nak minta tunjuk ajar =)

PPS: Goodie-bag-CD…jiwang gile! But great idea though. Never heard anyone has done that before.

Imran was the limelight, maybe because he’s the youngest. Or maybe because everyone was expecting to see him. Or maybe simply becase he’s too cute to resist (papa’s son, where else would you think he gets his cuteness?).

Well, he almost scream last night, right after that funny guy announced we can start the food feast. But we somehow managed to put him into sleep, and eat happily ever after.

We left at almost 8PM. Heavy-headed and filled-tummy. There goes my diet, yet again.

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PS: Mrs. Herbalife, I will need your great product again the soonest after Eid.

PSS: Ms. Coach, your order is done.

PSSS: Oh, free breakfast feast again tonight? Text me the place!

FRIEND: berbuke kat mane arini

tak p param ke?

MIND : param? mana tu?

apsal cam nama pelakon india tuh je?

FRIEND: PAsar RAMadhan la

pelakon india tu ANAMALAY

And within the quietness of the office, suddenly a huge laughter bursted out. A psychotic one, in fact.

PS: Tak bole tahan….

There are probably few purposes of his visit here, including meeting and old friend and visiting my newborn son, but surely the top of the list is to sell his MZ 5G product (no offense A. Cheers!).

I believe the duo did a good job convincing us to purchase their insurance product, although we had to have a 4-way conference through the speakerphone later tonight to make sure we fully understand everything. I believe all insurance companies have a main policy of making policies which no one will understand the first time (second, third, fourth… We still don’t fully get a firm hold on it) they look at it. Numbers, words, tables… Just too complicated to get a grip, which is why the agents come into picture.

J is obviously the sharper one (longer experience helps) than A, but A seems to catching up quickly (men has better verbal skills of convincing people, trust me). No matter what, they did good job. Honesty and transparency are the criteria that I look for in n insurance or unit trust agent, and I can find those criteria in both of them. They worked hard (coming all the way to Kemaman to meet only one client proves that) to build up better career, and of course, to fill up their savings accounts as quickly as possible for their coming soon marriage.

Oh, you are getting married Mr.A! How nice to hear someone I know is getting married.

We closed the deal with me getting so close to purchase their product. I will finalize it latest tomorrow, and the deal can be closed soon after.

A, thank you for your visit. Although there’s a financial purpose, I still appreciate it as you’re the first Old Boy to have come to my house, here in Kemaman. Work hard dear brother, as rewards come to only two kind of people, the Luckies and the Hardworkers.

Luck comes and goes.

I know you will be here again, and read this. Just a quick note to say congratulations as you managed to finish up your degree in architecture, far away there in UK. God bless, in anything you do, and do let me know whenever you’re home, so that I can arrange my family to greet you. Kang merajuk susah, macam pompuan nak kena pujuk….

p/s: My 2 cents: Work hard, build up your career there in UK, earn good money, and don’t come back home, except when you want to celebrate Eid or just missing your family and friends too much. Malaysia is not suitable for a person like you. Sucks, and too many political complications. The G left us with no choice but to curse them. Stupid.

Regards to Ariff Abadan and Mohd Shauqi.

These pictures were taken when they were moving to a new house, so it might look worse than what it used to look like. But…well…not really different though. By the way, they have moved to a better house. A brilliant one I guess, nice looking and pretty much equipped with all the basic needs.

Good luck over there with your new life in the new house, and please, don’t destroy the beauty of it hahaha…

So here I go. I jog everyday and go to the Awana gym every Saturday (I didn’t know Rantau has one until Eddie told me). It was pretty bad earlier. I had backpain, my knees suffered, my legs felt like hell and I couldn’t even jog for more than 10 minutes. I would breathe like a horse if I push myself more than 10minutes, and if I push up to 15minutes, I would feel like dying. But it gets better. Now I jog for 15 minutes everyday, and do some workouts after that, especially sit-ups (my ‘spare tyre’ is the main reason why am I doing all this!).

So far, I am happy. If I feel like malas nak jogging, a half-hour badminton at my backyard with my wife will do just fine. Thanks to my lovely wife. Dia marah gile sebab aku nak beli a pair of Asics Gel which will cost me a crazy RM599.90. She said the limit is RM400. That was not bad at all. Nike is not a bad choice pun kan? By the way, I browsed through http://www.nikerunning.com/ and it’s pretty cool. There are sports gears for those who like to run, tips on running and many more. I like!

So, let see how long will it lasts. So far, I’ve been doing this for two weeks, and I lost a silly 2 kilos, but hey, it’s getting better. My goal is to swap the figure of 95kg with something around 85kg, before Merdeka Day. And my primary target is to get below the line of 75kg, and stay there forever…Tah bila la nak dapat, tapi usaha tangga kejayaan!

Selamat Hari Merdeka!