This is 老刁 as his friends used to call him. I know him in 1994 when I was representating Sabah in the 1994 Eseithon while he was doing so for his homestate Perak. Due to the small number of Chinese participants in the event, we got to know each other and also the other Chinese students quite well. Sometimes things were strange and work in a mysterious ways. I met him again in USM, 5 years later when both of us were enrolled in the engineering faculty, which means a boring and mundane 3 years of engineering study (insert yawn here.....). USM Engineering campus was in Tronoh and unfortunately for him, since his hometown is of all place.... Tronoh.
I still remember his family waited at the gate of the USM campus for a few hours during the morning of the registration days waiting for me as the distance between the gate and the campus was quite far, to no avail since I took the express bus and only arrived in the evening. It's a blessing knowing him and his family indeed. During my second year, I moved out from the hostel and stayed in Kampung Bali (yes.. it's a kampung) in those old kampung style of house and it was a good year. Lots of good food and soup (thanks to Teow's friendly family), lots of TV and never-ending supply of Chinese-vampire movie, and warmth festive mood during those festive seasons when all his extended family gathered in their house in Kampung Bali.
The famous Ampang Yong-Tau-Foo.
Big feast???
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