Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Betong is the southernmost town of Thailand. Located only 8km from Perak border of Malaysia territory, Betong is the 'heaven of pussy-catch-boys' from our country, particularly the Northern people and also from the Klang Valley. I'm telling you this since I heard that cc Yaakob, ( cc means Chief Clerk ), from the neighboring department that share the same floor with mine years ago, is a frequent visitor of Betong. But what I'm going to tell you is how Betong had changed friends in my hometown a lot.
One fine night, while we gather in nightly alfresco tea hours, Butit is not having any drink. "Hang apasai tak order, Butit?" I asked him why he doesn't get any drink for himself, as everyone is having one or two. "Butit simpan duit! Nak pegi Betong!" Ja'a replying behalf of Butit which the meaning is close to the idea of Butit is now having a strict piggy bank budget for the next trip to Betong. He added "Butit skang dah jadi assistant Edi!" Hah. Being the assistant of Edi?
I realized that since few months back, Edi, that worked in KL, frequently crossing the international border like twice a week. Can you imagine how far the traveling distance was? Ipoh to Betong is about 220km as same as Ipoh to KL. So a single way journey is 420km and for back and forth, it is 840km. If Edi went to Betong twice a week, he must be traveling 6,720km a month for this purpose. And if this becomes a continuous happening, Betong might make him traveling 80,640km a year! Why he sounds so energized this much?
"Edi dah ada 'bini' kat sana." Ja'a told me that Edi had a rhetorical marriage with a Thai girl! "Mak budak tu pun suka kat Edi" which means the Thai girl had even brought Edi to her house and get her mother to know Edi, and Edi's 'mother-in-law' was astoundedly, happy!
Last Saturday, I stopped by at Jai's house and Ja'a is having a new hair style with Jai's maneuver of hair dressing. He let go his Beegee's style for a Mohawk one. The reason came out from the others is "Ja'a skang sudah ada awek!" Oh no. Beside his words that sounded like teasing the Betong frequenters, Ja'a is actually a frequent visitor too and worse enough, also has a Thai girlfriend!
Oh my! I wish that none of their cross border girls are among those who offered their service to monstrous cc Yaakob, the old playboy from Putrajaya. LOL.
I asked Ja'a, which never had a girlfriend before.. which I once falsely thought was a gay in disguise, why on earth they had to subscribe the same girl in the sex city for every visit? Ja'a told me that, for the first visit, yes, you ought to pay. But once you give some lovely attributions, they will wait for you to come and give 'the-thing-you-look-for' for free, and perhaps, hoping for a 'marriage with Malaysian'.
Sigh. Is this the early consequence of the girls with degree abundance in Malaysia that makes SPM leaver boys seeking for girls from Betong? I guess not.
'Okay Betong' is a famous Thai telemovie in 2003 that these Betongese Wannabe should take few lesson to learn. It is a story about a Buddhist monk that traveling south, facing difficulties when he have to operate his sister's saloon in Betong after his sister died in a so-called Muslim insurgent attack on the train she board. Besides being handling life as a saloon owner and how to wear pants properly, he had to lend his care to his one and only niece as a Muslim girl as how his deceased sister brought her up. How that girl born as a Muslim? His sister had once married a Malaysian Muslim frequent visitor which is then, fade away. The movie also highlighting how the ex-monk had to deal with his own anger towards Muslims, that he believed had killed his sister, and that has run away of holding responsibility as the father of his niece.
Hopefully, none of my friends will be the 'fade-away' father of a Betong Muslim girl in future. :-)
One fine night, while we gather in nightly alfresco tea hours, Butit is not having any drink. "Hang apasai tak order, Butit?" I asked him why he doesn't get any drink for himself, as everyone is having one or two. "Butit simpan duit! Nak pegi Betong!" Ja'a replying behalf of Butit which the meaning is close to the idea of Butit is now having a strict piggy bank budget for the next trip to Betong. He added "Butit skang dah jadi assistant Edi!" Hah. Being the assistant of Edi?
I realized that since few months back, Edi, that worked in KL, frequently crossing the international border like twice a week. Can you imagine how far the traveling distance was? Ipoh to Betong is about 220km as same as Ipoh to KL. So a single way journey is 420km and for back and forth, it is 840km. If Edi went to Betong twice a week, he must be traveling 6,720km a month for this purpose. And if this becomes a continuous happening, Betong might make him traveling 80,640km a year! Why he sounds so energized this much?
"Edi dah ada 'bini' kat sana." Ja'a told me that Edi had a rhetorical marriage with a Thai girl! "Mak budak tu pun suka kat Edi" which means the Thai girl had even brought Edi to her house and get her mother to know Edi, and Edi's 'mother-in-law' was astoundedly, happy!
Last Saturday, I stopped by at Jai's house and Ja'a is having a new hair style with Jai's maneuver of hair dressing. He let go his Beegee's style for a Mohawk one. The reason came out from the others is "Ja'a skang sudah ada awek!" Oh no. Beside his words that sounded like teasing the Betong frequenters, Ja'a is actually a frequent visitor too and worse enough, also has a Thai girlfriend!
Oh my! I wish that none of their cross border girls are among those who offered their service to monstrous cc Yaakob, the old playboy from Putrajaya. LOL.
I asked Ja'a, which never had a girlfriend before.. which I once falsely thought was a gay in disguise, why on earth they had to subscribe the same girl in the sex city for every visit? Ja'a told me that, for the first visit, yes, you ought to pay. But once you give some lovely attributions, they will wait for you to come and give 'the-thing-you-look-for' for free, and perhaps, hoping for a 'marriage with Malaysian'.
Sigh. Is this the early consequence of the girls with degree abundance in Malaysia that makes SPM leaver boys seeking for girls from Betong? I guess not.
'Okay Betong' is a famous Thai telemovie in 2003 that these Betongese Wannabe should take few lesson to learn. It is a story about a Buddhist monk that traveling south, facing difficulties when he have to operate his sister's saloon in Betong after his sister died in a so-called Muslim insurgent attack on the train she board. Besides being handling life as a saloon owner and how to wear pants properly, he had to lend his care to his one and only niece as a Muslim girl as how his deceased sister brought her up. How that girl born as a Muslim? His sister had once married a Malaysian Muslim frequent visitor which is then, fade away. The movie also highlighting how the ex-monk had to deal with his own anger towards Muslims, that he believed had killed his sister, and that has run away of holding responsibility as the father of his niece.
Hopefully, none of my friends will be the 'fade-away' father of a Betong Muslim girl in future. :-)
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