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Dear Kirkbyite friends,
I wish to share with you an experience I'll always remember during
our recent 2006 reunion.
We were then in
Having no experience in this sort of thing, Beng Hong, Soo See
Medcalf and I opted to sit at the bow of the boat. We soon found that we had
made the wrong choice.
The sea was so rough and the boat was going at such a great speed
that it was tossing up and down and listing to the right and left.
In a sense, Beng Hong was smart enough to sit between me and Soo See.
When the boat was listing to the right, she would hold on to Soo See's left
arm, and when it was swaying to the left, she would cling on to my right arm.
All along, I was hanging on to the railing for dear life.
We were all sprayed by innumerable tsunami waves. Then only did we
realise why at the beginning we were given towels anyway despite our telling
the boatman we were not going swimming.
However, we must give credit where credit is due. You see, Soo See,
brave soul, was the only one among the three of us who was not scared. In fact,
as the boat was tossing up an down, she was happily swinging one arm and
singing the theme song of '
Why? The reason was that her specs were most of the time covered
with the spray, so she couldn't have seen anything dangerous, including the
tsunami waves coming at us!
Now, if she had wipers on her specs, I think she might have sung a
different tune - like Nat King Cole's 'Answer me, oh my Lord...'.
Soon we came to calmer waters as our boat beached on one of the
islands. Another boat also came to the island so that Sau San and Lee Sing
could visit their fishy relatives underwater. And if I'm not mistaken they took
along Nellie Lau as their guest.
Now all this while when Beng Hong was digging her fingernails into
my poor arm, I didn't know a very good friend of mine was actually
watching us at a distance from the other boat. When we were resting on the
beach, Phee Eng came behind me and whispered into my ear, "Hoi, Lee Chang,
want to exchange places ah?" I told him to get lost in the forest of the
island and find Bigfoot.
The trip back to Pulau Pangkor was no different : Beng Hong was
still holding on to my arm and I was also still grasping the railing for dear
life. Of course, Soo See was still in high spirits and going 'Da da da da da
da, da da da da da...'
All in all it was quite fun and exhilarating to say the least. But
seriously, I'm still wondering how many times Beng Hong was praying during that
trip.
Well, have a nice day, and due apologies to Beng Hong and Soo See.
Regards,
Kee Lee Chang
Hi Lee Chang,
Thank you very
much for sharing your hair-raising and yet hilarious experience re your Pangkor
Island-Hopping escapade. Beng Hong was smart indeed but if you were smarter,
you would have "arranged" to sit between Soo See and Beng Hong -
but then you would have fingernails digging in both your left and right
arms!!
Originally, I was
supposed to go on the Island-Hopping ride but fortunately I switched to
the Land Tour at the last minute (based on Insider information!). However,
I am still the loser cos I missed all the fingernailing!! Maybe at the
Malacca Reunion 2008, I will try to be smarter!
Cheers to All
Lye Yuen Chew