I remembered once incident happened to me about 9 years ago. I was in my office in Jalan Dato Onn, Kuala Lumpur (the old JPM Compleks) when I received a call and was told that the partner for Teh & Azlina, a lawyer’s firm, wanted to speak to me. Well, due the nature of work, I received a lot of calls, mostly from Merchant Bankers and lawyers. So, when finally, the call was connected and a lady by the name of Azlina introduced herself, I just took it as a stride and as the usual routine. But when she asked me whether she could asked me a personnel question, I was a bit worried but nevertheless said yes she could. She asked me whether I was from STAR and knew a person by the name of Azlan. Well, there are many Azlans in STAR. Azlan the headboy in 1973 (Azlan Ally Oops), Azlan Hashim) (Dato’ from batch 73 or could be other Azlans as well. She continued and said that, if I couldnot recalled, he brother asked her to mention the name Azlan ‘Nonoh’! Oh yes, of course I knew who Azlan Nonoh was!. Our on Azlan Hashim (Dato’).! The term ‘nonoh’ came about due to his flabby breast as if it contained nonoh (nanah!). But I couldnot recalled who was the ‘inventor’ of this glamour name. Azlan, is the youngers amongst us, batch 73. He joined us a year after we made our entry at STAR in the Remove Class. There were a few others as well who joined a year later as Azlan’s such as Kamarshah and Tengku Zainuddin.
Towards the later years of our ‘adventure’ in school, we definitely had acclimatised and felt very comfortable studying in a fully boarding school. We had learnt the tricks and antics, knew the dos and the donts as well as the hows to survive. When you were younger and at the lower grades, you quickly finished your meal and left quickly for classes or preps or whatever activities you were planning to do. But not when you have created a kingdom out of the dining hall. Yes sir, the routine changed when you were seniors and the dining hall was at your mercy. You could see then few guys who went round and ‘collect food’ (left overs). Of course, the favourite time and the favourites meals had got to be breakfast when nasi lemak or nasi goreng was served. The ‘sambal daging’ and ‘sambal sardin’ served then could even challenged the dish prepared by Chef Wan!! There many candidates but Norizan Tan Sali (Cik Jan) won the accolades and was given the famous nickname of ‘Cik Jan Kulek (Collect!). Of course, Mat Dollah fought hard to win the title but Cik Jan was the obvious choice!
Zainuddin Mohd. Yusof or Cik Jai was a quite guy. Nonetherless, nobody will ever had the chance to catch him for Cik Jai was quite a runner. He was the 400 meter runner for Yellow House. And he played sepak takraw – as a tekong, quite well. I was sure that Omar Suhaimi had nohesitation of what so ever in putting down Cik Jai’s name for Yellow House takraw team. But, he had not taken sports rather seriously as his studies. I was not surprised then to see Cik Jai excelled in his studies for he studied hard and was a really hardworking guy. When I was told by Cik Jai , that back in his old school, he drank fresh milk almost everyday, I was dumnfounded but later understood the reason why. Cik Jai came from Pahang, from a village known as Kampong New Zealand. The fresh milk was sponsored by the NZ government!.
It was a kind of formality when he was chosen to study abroad – America after the MCE. The next thing I heard about Cik Jai was that he had died. But I dont really know the details. To Cik Jai., semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat keatas rohmu.., Al-Fatihah.
End of Part 2 (To be continued).
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