16 April 73 (Mon)
Today is the birthday of Prophet Mohamed, public
holiday, I have dated few of my colleagues to come to my house and made
something to eat.
Eight sharp, Julie & Pair2 came, not long Ong
& Tan came also, to Shir’s place, she’s not free till afternoon, so few of
us went to market to buy all those necessary materials, met Toh just came back
from KL, she’ll join us later.
We made Rojak, hamburger, sweet potatoes soup and so on,
after we’ve done everything, to upstairs and dance, later Toh & Shir joined
us too, made so much noise, we eat, dance & sing, what a happy day we have
passed today.
17 April 73 (Tue)
I am off today, because last week I jaga the phone.
Yesterday’s food each of us contribute 2$, got two
something left, so to Perak Emporium, bought some cattle fish, a tin of sweet &
chocolate, tomorrow we’ll have a happy children’s day.
Washed my hair at ‘Helen’, bought all those laces
& buttons for my new dress. Took the
jacket style shirt from Liew, after so long, that bloody Liew still not yet
finish for me, so gonna finish by myself.
Mum spend us 暖炉at Imperial Room, 26$.
Chat with Shir till 9.00 something.
Today at lunch hour, I phoned to office and chat with
all my good friends.
19 April 73 (Thur)
Don’t know why my stomach is not feeling well for
these few days.
21 April 73 (Sat)
After work, took three pieces of cloths to the tailor.
At night, Fat spent us to the ‘Diamond Restaurant’ and
have our dinner.
22 April 73 (Sun)
Went to market alone, but the Hugh Low St. was blocked
‘cause there is a procession to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet
Mohammad.
Also to the Cold Storage and bought the special offer
chocolate.
Julie Ho came, she said that Mr. Goon was waiting
outside with some Japanese, he asked whether we could accompany them to Lumut
or not, I said I was not feeling very well, so went to Shir’s house and
persuade Shir, she said unless I go she goes, so at last I said okay-lah.
Almost reached Sitiawan we have our lunch there,
bought some fruits like mango & 柑, start our journey again,
reached Lumut, Mr. Goon drove the car around the village, he drove to the
beach, but the sand is too soft, the tires went inside the sand, the car couldn’t
move anymore, everyone of us gonna get down and have a push, under the red hot
sun, all of us felt so warm and thirsty, the tide is moving inch by inch toward
us, after more than one hour, some Malay village boys came and help us,
successful this time, Mr. Goon gave them some shillings.
Reached Teluk Batik, found a fine shady place and
settled down, the men went to swim, we sat there and chat, eat. They bring a camera, we took lots of colour
photos. Period came at this time,
reached home almost eight o’clock.
24 April 73 (Tue)
Shir’s turn to attend the phone call, I waited for her
till six o’clock today, ‘cos last time she was waited for me almost the whole
week.
Asked Shir to give me a leave form, I wanna take 1 day
leave on next Monday, Tuesday no work, so I got one stretch of 3 days
together. Intend to go down to KL on
this coming Saturday.
25 April 73 (Wed)
All our A/C clerks wore shorts to office, we were
going to shift over to our new office at next door, everyone of them also gave
us a helping hand.
Everyone of us also got our very own table now, quite
spacious, now we can do our work properly.
26 April 73 (thur)
Attend the Malay class at Kaying building, Inche Ayub
show us the 自动电影taken in England, very poor production, the whole thing was shaking, all
of us felt dizzy.
To the show ‘骗术奇中奇’, quite funny and special.
27 April 73 (Fri)
To the store at ‘Lucky Restaurant’ with Francis and
Sergeant Chan Kit Fah in order to shift back all our files, ‘cos at our new
office, there’s an upstairs to keep all our files.
Arrange the files made me felt tired.
Mr. Cheah Sai Keat spend us Ah Kai’s fried Meehoon.
Packed all my clothes, we are leaving for KL tomorrow.
This morning, Shir has phoned Jackson and made all the
necessary arrangement.
28 April 73 (Sat)
Quite busy today, but after work, although I haven’t
finished my work, I left all my job aside and got down to wait for Shir’s
friend to come and fetch us.
We bought some Malay Kueh to fill our stomach on the
journey. Rest at Tanjong Malim, went
with Shir, her friend Tong and one other friend, reached KL at about five,
stayed at the ‘Grand Hotel’, rang Jackson again, he was so tired ‘cos yesterday
he slept at 3.00 am, today after work waited for us to arrive at 5.00 pm, he
and Clarence came, took us to the RRI Club, met all our RRI friends, we were so
glad to meet each other, have our dinner together, our friends were Au Kam
Seng, Sin, Wong Meng. To Jackson’s house
after the dinner, I think over 10 miles from the former to later place, felt
sleepy, ‘cos the whole day we were travelling, Jackson couldn’t join us, he was
engaged tonight, Sin and Clarence were with us, to the ‘Time Tunnel’ no fun at
all, we have been here several times before, the band and the singers were
good. Hated Clarence to hold me so tight
while dancing, so suggested to go back. After
supper, went back to hotel at about 2 am, we won’t go out with them anymore, ‘cos
no fun, tomorrow we’ll phone up Anthony.
29 April 73 (Sun)
Ah Tong woke us up early in the morning, have our
breakfast at the Town House Hotel Restaurant, after finished, just roam around
the town, me & Shir intended to go to the Ampang Shopping Centre, but Tong don’t
know the way, but was so lucky that we reached there without asking anybody the
way, these complex is quite large inside, but many shops inside still not yet
open. The things inside are very cute
but quite expensive, bought something for Mum and a comb for myself, costs
$3.50 a comb only at the cottages. Bought
a few piano pieces for Mum, like ‘The Persian Market’ & ‘Love Story’ – 10$,
felt tired, so went in the ‘Palong Dulang Coffee House’ inside decorated like a
tin mine, the waitress dressed exactly a Dulong washer, we drank coffee &
ate sandwiches, Shir phoned up Anthony, no one answer the call, rang up twice
then we gave up. Glancing for the last
sight before we left the Ampang Park, took a taxi down to the newly opened Weld
Super Market, all the shops were not opened on Sunday, following we walked to
the nearby ‘Fitze Patrick’, also new to this town, shir wanted to buy a pair of
shoes, but all the shoes seems don’t suit her taste, instead I myself bought
one pair of white shoes, $18.50, Shir bought a Poster 18$, one small one for my
belated birthday present, printed there a pair of lovers hand in hand in the
scene of sunsets, word written there ‘Yesterday….., very lovely. Almost four, we still haven’t take our lunch,
so to the ground floor coffee house, before we go down, at the Bata shop I
bought a pair of ‘Toto’ slippers, ‘cos it looks like Toto, fat & cute,
there Shir phoned to Anthony, he got headache, so asked Henry to come &
took us back to Hotel, we got so many things to carry, I bought one dustbin
also. We ate fried rice & orange
freeze, think that Henry would come on time & pay the bills, but we were
wrong, after finished and waited for so long, he still didn’t come, so we
better made a move back to Hotel, don’t even know the way back & there’s no
taxi, we thought to go & ask the European to give us a lift , heard
somebody calling our name, turned back saw Henry and his friend standing there
waving at us, they sent us back to the ‘Grand Hotel’ before they left, said
shall come to take us out at about eight.
Took our bath, rest for a while, I felt like sick, exhausted and felt
cold, asked the boy to bring me a cup of Holick.
At about eight, they came, don’t feel like going, Shir
insists me to go, better don’t let them down, to the ‘Intan Bowling’, shivering
inside the air condition room, begged them to take me to the ‘Thrifty Super
Market’ nearby & buy me the ‘Panadol’ tables, waiting for the empty lanes,
they played their games, I feel like dying. Not long, started to sweat feeling
better now, they suggested to have some refreshments at the ‘Ship Coffee House’,
outside looks like a ship, inside also, the waitress all dressed in sailors
style, got captain also, I order chicken noodles soup, after finished the hot
soup, much more comfortable now. It was
12.00 midnight, they took us to Gombak Lee Rubber, woke Chin Hock up, he was so
surprising to see us.
To the Hilton Hotel’s Coffee House ‘The Planters Inn’,
really splendid inside, we walked around the Hotel, from Melacca Room to the
upstairs Shopping Arcade, to the Negara Hall & Raja Hall, like palace, saw
so many doors, a row of three at each side, in a shape of Rock, we press the
button, ‘ding’ the door behind us opened, not the door in front of us, we said
just like Ali Baba’s ‘open sesame’, it was a lift, we run in and simply press
the button, the speed is fantastic, we all dizzy when coming out. In the coffee house, we saw a man holding a
big board with two bells beneath it, written on it ‘Henry King’, we all laugh, ‘cos
we have seen this from the picture, it means somebody is looking for
someone. It was Anthony, he joined us,
told us a lot of dirty jokes, back to Hotel at about 3.00am. packed our thing for we are leaving
tomorrow.
In KL stomach is not feeling well, went to toilet so
many times.
We didn’t bring our I.C. so nearly couldn’t stay in
the hotel.
KL develop very fast, lots of shopping complexes are
almost finish, few months later, would like to bring Mum along to KL.
30 April 73 (Mon)
Seven in the morning, phone rang us up, Tong asked us
to get ready, to his friends place, then walked round the Petaling Street, felt
so tired, we bought 10.00$ of 杨桃for Tong, for he paid the
hotel bills for us. Intend to go to the
newly opened coffee house ‘Boeing 747’, but got no time.
Reached Ipoh at 4.00 pm, after eating & taking
bath, to bed straight away.
At night not feeling quite well, to Dr. Liew’s clinic,
quite high fiver, lucky tomorrow is Public Holiday.
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