561. The Final Red Boat

Pocketeers,
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515. TheRedBoat2
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514. TheRedBoat

Having my heart broken with a dream beyond
my hand to ever touch again, I  started to school again,
The bad dream of owing money to Along
is finally over. I am now a new man,
I still kept in touch with the people
who were into boating business.
We still talk over sessions of teh tarik..
Whenever I wanted to fish a bit,
I would call Farid..
and when he is unavailable..
I'd go with other friends
who are still in the business.

One day I got in touch with a guy who
occasionally goes to fish under the
Penang Bridge tru Forum. He dont know me,
to him, I'm just another guy who love to write
crap in the forum. I asked him about the red boat,
have he heard any rumors before..
it was told that the boat  was haunted
but who was the one telling them?

... and his answer shocked me. It was Farid..
It seems like once he was with Farid coming
back from his fishing spot. Farid told him
that people are seeing sirens swimming
right underneath the red boat. Ohh.. is this true?
Farid? the one I call my friend,
the one I thought got my back.

I then got curious and suspicious...
I called back the Along who lend me the money,
acting like I'm somebody else who look for Pocket
which is me. The Along told me that he got no
way of contacting Pocket, the pocket seems to
be changing his handphone too frequent. heheh yes I do!
but a dear friend of the Pocket can lead me to him..
'Lu tanya ini namber haa.. ini orang tau mana
itu jantan tak guna nama pocket tu duduk, lia 
lali dari gua 2 tahun woo!! haiyaaaa!!'
'Itu orang ada nama ka tauke?'
'Ini orang nama haa..aaa Falid! Falid!!'

ehh... ?
Farid was the one who told the 'Along'
about my whereabout? Farid was the one
who spread the haunted story?
No wonder he bought my boat...
I was an opponent to get rid of...
a rival to kill..
ohh..

terasa sedih,
terasa buduh,
hati ni pedih,
hancur luluh,

Berkawan biar seribu,
kerna duit, tinggal selipat.
adik beradik jadi tak sebulu,
lagikan pula Ajnabi sepejabat.

There u go pocketeers,
A story about back stabbers.
Now let me remind u..
that this is a metaphoric story.
(Metaphoric as if i wanna tell a story
but I wanna keep the details off the net.)
There was no 'Along'
There was no siren
and certainly there was no red boat.
(Plus.. I dont fish)

But there was a broken heart,
that now learnt to trust no one no more.
Adehhhh..

Here u go Sis El-Janna...

a back stabber story from your request

here : BackStabbed

515. TheRedBoat2

Pocketeers...
Sambungan dari previous post :
514. TheRedBoat

...and 2 years gone by just like how u
drink teh tarik, Its slow and sweet..
suam suam sauna till the last drop.
Farid started to 'not-showing' to work
a few days of the week. I asked him why,
he told me that he got himself a
new project. Ohh.. good for him,
wishing him the best in his project.
what ever it was...

Me on the other hand, life was getting hard.
The 'Along' whom I owed for 4Thousand ringgit
found me asking for his 12thousand ringgit...
additional 4k was for the bunga..
and another 4k was to pay for
the finders-fee they said.
Ohh they actually paid someone to find me?
waah i'm flattered!

My business was getting slow,
somehow all the people who wanted to
rent for boats starting to avoided me..
I dont know why, they just slowly goes on
to other tekong. The 'Along' Chalenge and
the customer depleting issues brought me
to one conclusion...I should end this before
I loss more.
The thought of selling my boat crosses my mind.

But somehow, all the other boater doesnt
want to buy my boat.. Later on i heard that
there were rumours about my boat is haunted.
people hearing weird sounds..
Sirens was seen following me when I'm on my boat...
Ohh.. where do they got that story?
they even saw a girl standing in front of
my boat once when I was coming back from
sending the night shift customer.
(This was true, she was my GF at that time..
we were on the sungai for a romantic tour
by the sunset! huiyooo!!
but I cant tell them this story right?)

I tried and tried to sell my boat,
even gone to the extend of offering half
the price of the usual boat.
But none were interested.
ADehllaaaa...
Then Farid came and he saved my life.
He bought the boat for 5K.
He kept on saying that he is helping a friend,
and a lot of work to be done to remove any
spirits that is haunting my boat.
Oh Farid, hang beletiaq macam pompuan la weh!
But at least I got some money,
its nutting much, but atleast paying
the 'Along' will not be that hard now.

And that was the point where I change
the route of my life and my dream...
from dreaming to be a tauke for boats
all around penang to become a blogger
who writes metaphoric story like this.
There was no boat..
There was no Sirens..
THere was no 'Along'
But there was a dream that was crushed
by an incident I cant escape.. Ohh..


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514. TheRedBoat

Pocketeers,
This was suppose to be a short story,
But I've lost my quota by my third point.
And so here i am elaborating it to 3 post.
A short story...
A Metaphoric story,
I was not into fishing,
I dont own a boat,
I did not sleep with the officials to get
along with my business. (Although I wish
that I am, considering she's comel enough
of course)

Right after my SPM, I got involved in
fishing business. 20K for a proper
floating vessels and a 30 horsepower
engine can do fine in the business of
bringing people into the mid of the sea.
Waiting for fishes to catch, Hoping that
they get the biggest catch there is to
brag with people by framing the photo onto
the living room wall.

You got to be good though, foreseeing what
fishes to look for, where to look for and
strategy to get those fishes.
Not to forget how to detect 'PakYa' (Buaya)
since 40% of the customer will be going
to fish for Udang Galah.

In the business, I got along with people
here and there, some were nice to me not
to forget those who envy me,
Well my boat is red.. but that was not the point.
My boat was better then theirs.
So I can go further.
Hence... a lot more customer calling in.
Usually its the tiang in penang bridge,
small small undisturbed island..
Muka Head or teluk bahang...
Plus, I can speak in english a lot better
then the other 'Tekong' back then.
So my target customer is a wee bit more
then theirs.
(Jadi belajo la cakap omputeh yer adik adik)

I got lonely though, no one want to be friends
with the new blood. I ate alone for the first
three month until I come to know Farid...
The guy from Bagan, a local guy who also own
his own boat. We were always together when we're
not bringing people to their fishing spot.
And when we do, we send our customer in the morning,
we got back to the port for lunch together..
Somehow we clicked like the battery cover clicking
to the back of your astro remote.
No rattle, no gap... just simply Clicked.

Most of the time we would go fishing both of us,
and during those fishing trip that we spill out
everything.  Its kinda inevitable actually,
two guys sitting alone waiting,
its nuttin much.
Our previous scandal..
My licence is already overdue,
but sleeping with the PIC made me tru.
His  regretted sin that he did back in
his younger days.
My debt with Along was the reason
I went on the hiding,
Cheat-trick in fishing location.
..and even stories about families.
Ohh.. the whole 1001 nights.

He was good to me, I got personal with him
to the extend of sleeping in his place
whenever I'm too tired to go back home.
His wife and son were also nice to me...
made me felt like I got myself a family.
Even if he was an ajnabi from work.

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I guess that is it with us and work,
we start on a job... all lonely.
Looking for the one to 'Click'.
The work place seems friendlier right after,
and work would seems a lot easier then.
So good luck to the lady who got her job
in a logistic company recently. I hope u get
along with others well. Main baik baik tau!
jangan gaduh gaduh :D

513. Helplessly Lured

Pocketeers,
I got lucky to be able to dive into
the heart of a pencurik once.
His passion and addiction was
disturbing yet understandable.

The other day I got the chance to
listen to a lady who once fall for
her lady friend full heartedly inlove.
To the extend of crying over her
and jealous of her touching others.

The truth was rather interesting.
Am not saying that as I understood
them better that I am going to vote for
their freedom or anything...
Just saying that its inevitable.

Venusian speaks the venusian language,
We Martian can never understand this,
It was just recently that we understood
the word 'Fine!' in the end of discussion
actually meant
'shut-up!i have had enough of you'
But Venusian understand their fellow
venusian better then any being in this
world. So tell me?
Chances that a venusian would fall for
another venusian is a near sure thing no?

Girls seeking someone who listen,
and girls do listen with empathy,
men dont. We men tend to fix things,
U say that the trip was long,
we'll buy u a new faster car.
when u'r only wanting to share
your sadness for the day having
to travel all the kilometers...
So tell me pocketeers..
Chances of a girl to fall for
another girl is ...high no?

Girls seeking those that is beautiful,
and have to admit, girls usually are
beautiful. Clean and colorful
and men are... well... hummm...  not.

Just like what Rossa sang in that song
Hey Ladies :
'Memang tak semua laki laki busuk', 
she meant.. 90% of us are.
addooohh..
so girls falling for another girl?
is nearly inevitable no?

Now dont start talking about studies,
Belanja-Bijak or faithful... Statistically we are lost:D

So what keeps a girl from falling for
another girl? would only be the
pegangan agama.
And this lady who told me this story
able to say no to the forbidden love by
holding to her faith in god. For that
I truthfully admire her action of denying her 'GF'.

Its not easy.. I know.
Cause that love is near-pure love.
Its not about the sex..
its not about the money..
its about attention and affection.
its about honest touch, innocent cuddle
and great great kisses.
(We men tend to have the cigarrette smell hoh hooh)

Its not easy.. I know.
I have 3 samples all around me right now,
and they failed to resist.
one went all the way..
adopting a child to take care
like their own.. wah wah!

So there u go pocketeers,
I think its inevitable for such situation,
The "L.E.Z" word...
Its just we are blessed with religion, laws or guideline
that we have the weapon to prevent all of these.
No?