Act 2, Scene 2: Lions and Lambs

I'm back people..

Not before a record breaking 170 km/h overtaking manouvere on the North-South Highway. =) Ha. It's a personal best la. =P I've always been recording 160 km/h on the highway cos of my unnatural fear of skidding and DYING. On Singapore roads, it's 150 km/h on Lim Chu Kang road. Ha. Yesyes, the one the Air Force uses as a temporary runway.

Before I get some detractors saying things like, "Why is he boasting about a 170 km/h record?", let me just say this. I'm driving a Toyota Wish (2006) 1.8l carrying a full load on a wet highway trying to overtake a bus on its right side. So you do the math. I weigh about 114kg, my dad's about 100 and so is my sis and my mum's about 70. So total passenger weight is almost 400kg. Plus our two last passenger seats were reclined to stow away a full load of luggage. So that comes up to about 500kg, easy. So to go 170 km/h in wet road conditions trying to over-fu**ing-take a bus is not exactly a magical moment. My heart was pumping so hard after the manouvere, I had to hyperventilate like a pilot for about ten seconds.

Hmm, I clocked in another 200+ km for this trip. Not many people clock in as much time driving I have in such a short time. For the record, I've been driving for only 2 and a half years. I've driven to and from places in Malaysia about six times clocking, at the very least, 200 km each time, on top of my near daily driving in Singapore and my short runs to Johor for fuel. So I clock in close to a third of my car's 41 000km. My dad does the rest. Consider also that for my first year of driving, we drove a 2.0l Honda Accord(1991). So I must've clocked in almost 20 000km on both cars. And in 2 years. Most of them at high speed. Ha..

Ok..enough of my fuel-injected, wet-dream, experience. About Malacca. Well, let's not talk about emotions. =P

My uncle has a farm there. And he has CATS now!..I almost melted when I walked in and saw 4 young kittens suckling. Everyone together now...AWWW.... But the mother cat was abit funny la..

Ok..I assume everyone knows what a Tabby cat looks like? It's those grey ones with darker grey stripes. And I assume everyone knows what a Tri-colour looks like? Its those predominantly white cats with black and ginger spots.

OK.....

Now, imagine those two breeds mated....and that's the mother!..erm..not very beautiful la. But very docile. =)

And the kittens?...Well, I can deduce that the dad's a ginger cos two of them are. One looks like the mum. And the last you ask?.....He's a Tabby and Ginger cross...o_O!

Imagine a grey cat with dark grey stripes..........wait for it...........AND GINGER STRIPED HIND LEGS LA!!!!!!!!!! o_O

Freaky.

I played with the one that looked like the mum. Cute little bugger. He kept mewing everytime I mewed. Then my dad said my uncle wanted me to help him on the farm during my holidays. I actually don't mind the idea cos I like the guy and his family cos they took care of me when I was younger. He never had a daughter and since I was almost always around when I was younger, he took to treating me like a son. He's a former Commando with the Malaysian Armed Forces so he used to have flares and thunderflashes lying around under his house. He let me play around with a few when I was younger, scaring away squirrels and macaques. Haha. And he used to bring me into the jungle to look for tapioca and fruits. But since he retired, he's been farming. So anyway when the idea was brought up, I said I'd do it..if he let me keep one of the kittens. Ha..

I used to stay at his house for weeks on end when I was younger. So once, my parents brought me to the village's Pasar Malam (Night Market/Bazaar) and I bought a chick. Ha..I named him Zlan, cos my dad's name's Mazlan, so you take away the M and you've got my name, Azlan and so you take away the A and you've got the chick's name! Ha..everyone thought it was pretty clever for me back then. =) so anyway, Zlan's a male chick so he'd be a rooster when he grows up. Ha. And from the stories I've heard, he was kinda like me, docile and very accomodating. Plus he likes to be pet. Weird for a rooster...

(NB: I had my first illegal riding lessons on his motorbike there too. Haha...But that's another story)

Hmm, I think I'll go live there during my holidays next July/August. I've had some good memories from there and I think it'd be nice to leave the turmoil I have here and return to simpler times. Ha. Who knows, I might even meet a nice village girl..=)

I miss Nur but we havent had the time to catch up or meet recently. We message each other sometimes but I realise something..I still love her. Hmm, let's keep that to another time too. It's getting noisy at Starbucks now..=P

I love, Nur...still.