Category: Daily Whatevers

I forgot the most important picture..sorry Cindy.

See how well Cindy blows. That is why gaduh-gaduh also Countloon sayang Cindy like hell.

HAR! HAR! HAR! 😀

The event wouldn’t have been a success if some people didn’t help and they were:

Jesmine shredding chicken

Charchar and Jesmine

Babysitter in the house while the wives enjoy

The laksa and its condiments. Cindy, you put what? Tulang babi in the kuah? Tastes nice. 😀

Don’t ask me what Jesmine was doing. She’s a rennaissance gal.

The guys enjying teh tarik: (from left): Choy, Lai, Icecool (sporting a Major smile), and Mocha.

It’s Cindy’s..errr…cannot put her age…birthday..and last night (Saturday 11th August 2007) had a celebration at her place. I expected Countloon to do all the chores but as usual, it was Cindy who did everything while Countloon assumed the post of House Regimental Sergeant Major.

Cindy fed all guests with Laksa Sarawak, cake…while the lads made teh susu, teh buih and teh-o pahit/masam.

Guests include Mocha, Icecool, Choy, Apekbarber, Lai, Lt Kol (B) Wong, Silvia (Apek’s wife) and baby Meredith, Charchar (Choy’s girlfriend), Christina, and Jesmine.

Everyone had a merry time drinking tea and issuing name cards.

Christina and birthday girl, Cindy

“Come! Come eat my Laksa Sarawak!” said Cindy, not knowing Countloon had an ambulance on the stand by somewhere

Cindy laughing at the size of the cake Countloon bought for her

There you go: Ribena, Grape Juice, Bubble Tea, Chrysantemum Tea etc etc

Icecool making teh tarik using Dutch Lady Low-Fat Milk

“Choy, with your ginseng head, you can drink Dutch Lady milk only,” said Icecool

The guys listening attentively to Cindy’s explanation on how to play UNO

Again, Happy Birthday, Cindy Sim…and thanks.

This is to congratulate Icecool on his recent promotion to the rank of MAJOR.

In a month, you will get into the idle mode like our friend Mocha.

Time for you to start diving.

Eh, Loon and Cindy want to cook us dinner. I want the sweet sour pork knuckles. Can ah?

Someone asked how marine life get their scientific name. So I replied:

Usually marine life names are divided into four categories. First would be the FAMILY, then GENUS, then SPECIES, and lastly COMMON NAME. However, Common Names can be deceiving as something in Perhentian would be called by a different name, say, in Sumatera.

So, let us concentrate on the first three categories. Let’s take the Pelagic Thresher Shark for example.

Threshers come from the family ALOPIIDAE. The Genus name would be ALOPIAS. Then the species would normally be determined by its characteristics. So this one is PELAGIC. So, its scientific name is ALOPIAS PELAGICUS. Sometimes the SPECIES is also determined by the name of the discoverer.

Like the HIMANTURA JENKINSKII..or Jenkin’s Whipray that you see in abundance off Tanjung Kerma in Perhentian.

QED

You find someone who makes you happy…who is almost impossible, but not entirely impossible, to have.

To have this person you risk upsetting lots of people.

In pursuit of your happiness, would you go ahead?

Picture taken by Fazira using my camera-phone

I think I was at my lowest point when I quarreled with my father via SMS the previous evening. I had everything..headache, neckache and chest pain. So I walked down and saw Nisaa sitting next to Fazira who was eating sausages. So I asked Nisaa if I could put my head on her lap. She never said anything. My head must have been really heavy on her tiny lap but she did not budge. Then I heard her ask, “Ayah sakit ke?”, to which I replied, “Uhuh!”, half asleep.

Then without being told, she massaged my head.

The above is Corporal Choy and his not-mainland-chinese-looking girlfriend doing a prayer ritual during his kenduri doa selamat for his safe return from Chairman Mao’s Institute of Brainwashing for Foreign Officers in China, at the Kedai Kopi Batu Keras, in KL last night. I couldn’t attend this kenduri as I was having my period, so kenduris are off limits.

Choy is the unwanted soldier. Despite being listed on the PAQ list as “on course” he was transfered out of his unit. I thought he wouldn’t have a unit anyway since he would have done his Clearance Documentation before leaving the unit. According to Countloon, as in the Air Force, the Army also practises the same, but because Choy is a Corporal therefore he is not required to do Arrival and Clearance.

So what is Choy really? He is now starring in the movie “TERMINAL 2″ as he is now unitless. He’s neither here nor there. He cannot report to an Officers’ Mess and neither can he go and eat at the unit’s cookhouse with all the junior ranks. The Army Headquarters seems to have forgotten him. When he came back, he had to rely on Apekbarber’s staff car to pick him up. His payslip indicates that he is a MEJAR, but his epaulette shows he is a KAPTEN…but the figures in his payslip indicates that he is drawing a KOPRAL’s pay.

So what is Choy really? He reminds me of an old soldier who gave us a ‘motivational’ talk when I was undergoing my Officer Cadet Course. He said,

”

Officer Cadets are nothing but the scum of the earth who are neither here nor there. They are not officers, yet they rank higher than the Warrant Officers. At the same time they can be treated like sh** by instructors who are Privates. They have not been listed as being part of the military strength, yet they are no longer citizens by virtue that they have surrendered their IC back. So that makes Officer Cadets scums of the earth – persona non grata in their own country and workplace.”

Motivational indeed. We were so motivated that one of my squadmates, Kadir Zakaria, decided to run AWOL that same night to go back to his father’s house in Majidee, only to be surrendered by the father, who was an ex-Warrant Officer, to the Military Police. And he faced hell for the next two weeks upon being surrendered back to the Cadet Wing.

So Choy, we understand your predicament. However, looking on the flip side, you may be a Corporal but even Warrant Officers, Lt Muda and Lt have to salute you. Just don’t tell them how much you’re earning.

Below are some more photos of the kenduri doa selamat for Choy, as provided by Countloon:

Icecool with his escorts…sorry…bodyguards

Apekbarber’s daughter frantically protesting her father’s and uncle choy’s attempt to introduce her to health drinks

“..and give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses (as soon as we’re done with the kenduri)..

Countloon showing what he thinks of his lovely wife, Cindy

I hope Choy didn’t look like this after he left the Kedai Kopi early this morning. With a Corporal’s pay, he might end up without clothes after the bills came.

The missing helicopter has been found at 1345 hours today, 5km NW of Genting Sempah. All 6 souls have been confirmed KIA.

As I write, I am choked with emotions. It wouldn’t be easy on the family members, as well as members of their squadron, No.10 Squadron, missing 6 people at once is a big chunk not to miss. No.10 Squadron is where I used to hang out before going for parajumps.

My heart goes out to their loved ones and to their friends. For a meagre sum, they have dedicated and given their lives to us so we can sleep peacefully every night. I just hope that they have not gone in vain, and that they, as well as those still in the various services, will be given kind thoughts by members of the Malaysian public, especially those in this community.

They now join the ranks of my other friends who still patrol the skies above us…

SENTIASA DI ANGKASARAYA

I received an SMS from Mocha informing me that an Air Force Nuri helicopter has gone down in the vicinity of Bentong this morning.

At the time of writing, Search and Rescue operations have been postponed due to worsening weather in the area.

I can now only pray for the safety of my brothers-in-arms.