Taukeh Minyak

Fadli called from LA just now, so while talking terkeluar lah this story about dia jual minyak. Since it was so "menjelekkan", I must make a point to post as soon as possible lest I forget.

Timeline: Balik koleq for Speech Day 1995 (our first summer)
Venue: Koleq (yaaa haaaa), Pavi to be specific
Actors: Moi, Allen, Fadli, Chamat, Jita, Madad, Aslam, Fazurin etc.

We went back for the Speech Day and it was the first time we came back to koleq since SPM. Some of us left for overseas before the results were announced, so it was like making a grand entrance back to koleq (well not yours truly who screwed up pretty badly ha ha).

Anyway, biasa laah balik koleq kan, especially senior2 yang dapat scholarship, dapat prize masa Speech Day and so on - ada laa 2-3 orang yang tanya khabar.

The planning took a while back before kitorang balik Tanah Melayu lagi pun. Jita, myself, Allen and Fadli were in the same school in Scotland and the exact details of our return to koleq occupied a substantial portion of our post exam free time during A-Levels.

Anyway, to cut the story short - while some of us were quite realistic in what we wanted to do to "melepaskan geram and rindu balik koleq" (e.g. makan cendol, jumpa cikgu, jumpa ex-jambu etc.), Fadli (yang record masa Form 5 "clean" sangat sebab kerja menjual minyak tak habis-habis either to junior or senior) dengan istiqamah-nya maintained his policy position as follows:

"Aku malu laaa nak balik koleq lama-lama. Aku nak masuk sekejap je, jumpa cikgu and cabut. Tak nak jumpa junior ke sapa-sapa"

(Awal2 lagi kitorang dah shout whole-heartedly: YEAHHH RIGHT)

Anyway, summer pun sampai laa and kitorang balik laa koleq, duduk kat bilik Jaqman (to those the uninitiated ones - ni Cikgu, nama dia Razak Rahman, tapi sporting ngan kitorang so lepak macam member) kat Pavi tu (masa tu tak berduit lagi so boleh lah tolerate jamban kotor koleq, tak macam last reunion when jamban Safari pun still di-classify as kotor).

Dah habis ambik prize semua, kitorang (aku, Chamat, Fazurin, Jita, Aslam, Allen etc.) pun plan lah nak gi tengok wayang ramai-ramai, sebab masa tu Braveheart tengah showing. Ye lah kan, baru balik from Scotland (which mak cik kantin masa tu cakap "kat Amerika nooo..." lepas aku cakap aku kat Scotland lepas dia tanya aku kat mana masa tu..) sure laa nak eksyen pasal Scots' national hero. After all one of the first things we visited in Scotland was the Wallace Monument in Stirling.

So kitorang pun ajak laa Fadli, after all ni dah plan berbulan-bulan ni.

Tiba-tiba je Fadli tak sedap badan pulak, macam nak demam. Dia jawab:

"Aku demam laa, korang pegi laa aku nak berehat"

Aku dah giler pelik sebab tadi masa Speech Day, amboi tak ingat dunia senyum sana senyum sini, snap sana snap sini - tiba-tiba dah tak sihat. Tapi husnul dzan punya pasal, kitorang pun tak tanya panjang and pi lah tengok Braveheart kat Capitol.

Sekonyong-konyong kemudian (lebih kurang 3 jam lepas tu), dah dekat2 dengan games hour dah, kitorang pun balik.

Aku dari jauh boleh merasakan jalan licin seolah-olah minyak tumpah, I wouldn't have been surprised kalau ada lori terbalik depan crossing koleq tu.

And then - dari jauh nampak macam ada sekumpulan budak2 muda tengah lepak kat payung bawah Pavi tu (ni masa still ada payung besi bawah besi).

Maka tahu lah kitorang bukanlah lori yang terbalik - tapi ada orang tengah jual minyak dengan junior2 and jambu2 from Class of 96 (masa tu aku vividly remember Shihab ada sekali). One part of the mystery dah solve i.e. bukan lori terbalik ada orang jual minyak, cuma nak tahu sapa laa yang jual minyak.

Kitorang punya lah nak muntah bila tengok di celah2 budak2 junior ni ada lah Fadli yang tak sedar kitorang tengah peghati dia, so kantoi laaa dia tengah jual minyak tak ingat dunia.

Yang jual minyak tu tak de lah kisah lagi, tapi the fact that dia sanggup pura2 sakit sebab nak bolot all the time kitorang tak de nak jual minyak........ kalah taukeh minyak Aramco macam ni!

So lepas tu, kalau Fadli cakap dia malu nak balik koleq, kitorang muntah on the spot. Most of the time kalau balik koleq melibatkan dia, kitorang discount ajak dia tengok wayang....