Slices of life

Miri is having cloudy skies lately, it rains almost everyday and probably also in the coming few days.

Tuesday, rained cats and dogs. Finally get to play basketball games in teams, thanks to chin itchy who drove all the way up there from his house and fetched all of us along. Took him almost 1 hour to reach there with a few minor delays in between, didn’t realized that the place is that far from his house. Anyway, one of us came without having breakfast and played with an empty stomach. Soon enough, the effect of starvation kicked in and began to take over his mind. He played like a barathrum with warpath on frenzy, dota players should know how crazy is that lol. So my friends, if you don’t want to get hurt in any game, please ask your friends to have proper meals before playing.

In the afternoon, I went out to take new passport photos which have become unnecessary expenditure now because my passport renewal has been postponed.. As I drove by a road, I saw the traffic police setting up a checking point at the opposite road, a well known spot for having traffic supervision. Experience told me that there would a scout nearby, probably at the roundabout not far ahead. At that point, there was certainly no reason for me to fall into that koopi-o trap. However, it turned out to be a bad traffic day after all, after the the driving test misfortune hehe.

Later on, I had to turn back because apparently the photo studio which I was heading to had moved away. Clueless on the road, I turned to my hand phone to look for help. I was so busy sms-ing when I was edging my way towards the ambush. By the time my senses came back to me, I was already turning out of the roundabout. To my horror, I was asked to pull up ahead.

“Boleh pegang handfon semasa bawa kereta ke uh?”

“Tak de lah tuan, handfon tu bunyi, saya tutup bunyi je.”

….

“Tolonglah tuan.”

“Tolong ape, tolong saman?”

Tricky old man, he kept pretending to be taking down the fine when he was actually just filling up some general space in the slip. For once, I thought he was asking for bribery – “Ade bawe uang untuk bayar saman sekarang?” It was undeniably tempting to just hand a RM50 note to him but I was not bold enough. In fact, the inexperienced me believed that he was testing me, trying to lure me into committing another offense. At the end of the day, thank God that he was kind enough to let me go for free. To show my gratitude, I stopped using hand phone while driving for the rest of the day, just that one day though.

Was he testing me or really trying to ask for kopi-o? I still don’t know but I am definitely glad that I had survived the day.

That’s the interesting Tuesday.