A brief escapade – part 2 - Funnies

I named this post “funnies” because we had a lot of laughs along the trip. Will try to describe as best I can and share the humour along the way.

Coconut, no, err.. palm, err… No! Coconut!!!
Can you tell the difference between a coconut tree and a palm tree? Well, some are pretty obvious, but have you seen some which may be harder to tell them apart? Friend “chicken wing” (so given the name by “handsome” – will get to THAT story later) before this trip was pretty certain of being able to tell the difference between a coconut tree and a palm tree, but after this trip, I think her confidence is a bit shaken, and won’t ever want to be questioned again as to which is which.

For “those” trees which are hard to tell apart, we “fried” her kau-kau until she’s so confused now which tree is which! Muahahaaaaa! This can obviously only happen to city folks who seldom venture “outside”. To rub salt into the wound, she tried to cover her uncertainty by making a “profound” statement with a bit of the “know it all” air that the coconut tree was grown by a certain ethnic group (I will stop here now on this topic just in case I get accused of being racially bias) – WTS? So, figuratively, she was caught with her pants down! And every time we saw either a coconut tree or a palm tree, we would go “Chicken Wing! What tree is this?” The rest of us laughed our heads off and reminded her of this every chance we got during the entire trip. And you know what? She did say she knows the difference between a tapioca tree and a papaya tree. Hmm, must put this to the test one day! EVIL!!! MUAHAHAHAAAAAA!!

Dewan Semua Orang?
Incidentally, as we were walking from one eatery to another, we saw this “Dewan Orang Ramai” in Tanjung Sepat, and I was a bit tickled. Have always thought it was Dewan Masyarakat, but after seeing this Dewan Orang Ramai, I got confused myself and referred it as Dewan Semua Orang a few times in conversation. Hmm.. not sure why though.

Signage
As we were walking along Morib beach area, we saw this signage which was a bit peculiar. Not sure how explicit the authorities would have liked it to be, but make what you will of it, it leaves a lot for other forms of interpretation. For one, obviously it was targeted at couples who like to “berdua-duaan” along the beach area. Yes, we did see many couples getting semi “friendly” with one another enjoying the time alone. Chicken wing said that one of her friends, whenever he sees a sign that says “don’t smoke”, he will purposely smoke there. She wondered what he would do in such circumstances. And for another, if “berdua-duaan” were of the same gender? Can what! Sign never say cannot oh! :)

Marine Engineer
One of the members who joined us for the trip was this guy (who some of us have never met before) who works as a marine engineer, and is currently enjoying his leave. He’s actually chicken wing’s friend, and we were told before hand that he’s has been fielded a lot of “funny” questions about his job and we were to lay off the topic. So what did we do? We PURPOSELY “goreng”-ed him as to what is the difference between shore leave and leave, can he swim, is he a sailor?, need to cut crew cut or not?, etc. AND we PURPOSELY said that chicken wing asked us to ask him. Some more ah, he sweats a lot when he eats spicy food, so we also ribbed him that being in the steam room on the ship not enough meh? On shore also "steam" so much! Cialat!

Handsome
Another funny incident happened when we were having paus for tea, and some wanted to ta-pau (hey, it rhymes!). The “leng lui” waitress, although being politely called many times, ignored us and was more preoccupied watching her friends play mahjong. Later, we were told that for ta paus, we were to personally go to the kitchen area and order. So, “Handsome” went’lah. I tagged along as I wanted to see what the kitchen looked like for famous pau shop, and once I got there, I saw this 10 year old girl who was serving Handsome giggling away like mad. She was apparently so “taken” with my friend (and yes, some have commented that he is “leng chai”, and looked like one of the Hong Kong movie stars - as he has told me before), and was so very shy whilst serving him. I did initially noticed that the other ladies in the kitchen were smiling at the girl and trying not to laugh, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out what was so funny. THEN, the girl’s brother said something and made a gesture which made my friend blush! The girl’s brother apparently asked her not to “fatt hao” when she sees a Handsome guy (which he indicated by hand gesture to the face indicating suaveness like the James Bond kind). My friend was so embarrassed! HAHAAAhaaaa… but I bet he was very secretly pleased! :)

There were other “funny” moments, but will keep them for now…