The date was Saturday. We left Putrajaya around 3 pm and headed for Jaya Jusco, Bukit Raja. Earlier on I managed to contact him and it was agreed that we should meet at JJ. We took the ELITE highway and since we were not that familiar with Klang, we drove slowly so as not to miss the place. I had been to Klang only twice before - the first time was in search of my former 'housemaid' after I came back from the UK in 1995 and the second time was with my family in 2007, an accidental shopping outing!.
Rostam suggested that we should have our lunch and wait at the Old Town White Coffee restaurant. After about 10 minutes, then came the person we had been waiting for and the one we had not met almost 36 years. Yes, finally we met Nari Ansari!. The walk and gestures were still there. And he is more handsome now than before - with moustache - and a more confident guy I would say.
It was such a meaningful reunion and we chitchat almost about everything. He told us about the adventure that he had with Mat Dollah, hitchiking all the way from Malacca to Perlis, visiting guys like Lookeman and Fadhil Hassan. Never mind the fact that he could not remember our secret 'duel' when we were in the remove class. We were in the midst of chitchatting when I received an unexpected SMS from Mail Don. Guessed what, he was in Ipoh and was having his lunch at Yong Suan's!. It was only last week that he came down to Ipoh that he has to come down again and couldnot helped but having another go at nasi ganja!. Sheer addiction!
Nari is doing okay and is an 'Atuk' now!. And we were told that his wife currently operated a stall at stadium Shah Alam during Sunday's pasar tani from 7 till 1 in the afternoon - known as 'gerai kueh lapis Norma - selling all kind of kueh mueh.
We said goodbye around 6.30 pm and Nari promised that he will keep in touch with the rest of the gang from Class of 73.
Rostam suggested that we should have our lunch and wait at the Old Town White Coffee restaurant. After about 10 minutes, then came the person we had been waiting for and the one we had not met almost 36 years. Yes, finally we met Nari Ansari!. The walk and gestures were still there. And he is more handsome now than before - with moustache - and a more confident guy I would say.
It was such a meaningful reunion and we chitchat almost about everything. He told us about the adventure that he had with Mat Dollah, hitchiking all the way from Malacca to Perlis, visiting guys like Lookeman and Fadhil Hassan. Never mind the fact that he could not remember our secret 'duel' when we were in the remove class. We were in the midst of chitchatting when I received an unexpected SMS from Mail Don. Guessed what, he was in Ipoh and was having his lunch at Yong Suan's!. It was only last week that he came down to Ipoh that he has to come down again and couldnot helped but having another go at nasi ganja!. Sheer addiction!
Nari is doing okay and is an 'Atuk' now!. And we were told that his wife currently operated a stall at stadium Shah Alam during Sunday's pasar tani from 7 till 1 in the afternoon - known as 'gerai kueh lapis Norma - selling all kind of kueh mueh.
We said goodbye around 6.30 pm and Nari promised that he will keep in touch with the rest of the gang from Class of 73.
Good work Jabber.Does anybody know the whereabout of Ismail Jumli, Zainudin Dol and Ahmad Shaharbi?
ReplyDeleteTahniah Jabar dan Rostam,
ReplyDeleteI can still say that he doesn't change a lot except the age is catching up.Anyway nice to see your photo again after so many years.Good work guys
There are others as well. Friends whom we have not heard for so long. Guys like - Che Mohamad Ngah, Zabidi Mohamad, Shukri Zain, Yuri Muji and of course Ajoi.
ReplyDeleteWell done Jabbar and Rostam! Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeletenari the goal keeper?
ReplyDeleteanyone knows where is tg zainuddin now?
ReplyDeleteAzman, good to see that u r participating in this now.
ReplyDeleteHi gang..of course its nice to hear from Nor Azman. Yes, with due respect, apart from Nari the "Cinema Hall dasher" (refer earlier posting by Jabbar) Nari used to be a goalkeeper and I will remember him as the keeper who managed to catch a tame shot, bounced the ball a couple of times around himself and then the ball entered the net!!! this must have been the most unique own goal by a goalkeeper!!!
ReplyDeleteNow i understand what Nor Azman meant...
ReplyDeleteHi all...
ReplyDeleteThere were lots and lots of 'special' events, some were unfortunate, some were funny and some were utterly out-of-this-world sort of things! Nari's own goal is one of them. Then there was arwah Kushang's mistaken identity of a prefect (big guy, blue house - going by the name of "Non... Something") for Linggam Shibi - remember the "ball-grabbing from behind" incident? Then there was Mat Dollah who "ligan" like mad when he was chased by a prefect between Red and Black house blocks and Mat Dollah happily called out "Rashid Gong...wait for me..." and guess what?... Rashid was hauled up the next morning. Poor innocent Rashid!! What about our friend Ma'il Bera who fell through the storeroom ceiling, Mustopha Ahmad @ Stoppa who stirred his mug of maggi me with his bare finger and almost got electrocuted as the electric water heater in the mug was still switched on.... so the stories went. By the way do you know that Stoppa has only four and a half figers on his right hand becoz half a finger was blown off when he was small - playing with home-made grenade? There were also many "untold" stories...only revealed very recently. I do hope that we have a Batch '73 get-together very soon where we can exchange lots and lots of such stories. Maybe you guys have a story to tell that not many have heard before.....
Syabas Jabbar now that our friends are coming back together. You have provided the space for us all to communicate. Dulu semua sebok2. La ni dah ada masa mungkin keja pun dah tak teruk ada yang dah loaded tak payah keja lagi.Umur dah menjangkau 55 elok lah kita kembalikan nostalgia lampau. Sembang2 dan kontek2 kawan2 lama. Ramai lagi kekawan yang masih belum join. Hope they will do so soon. Pang5 where ru?
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