Blast from the pass

Here's to you my soon to be married friend (you know who you are). I know we had loads of fun discussing over what we did in college and how much fun it was. So before we forget even more, here's the list of stuffs that i can remember for now...

1) our first college was right on top of a then car dealer ship, now changed to a restaurant. Due to our batch was the first group of engineering students, we were placed on top of a shop lot. Separated from the business and secretarial classes that our college was famous for. Best of all our favourite food that time was a chicken rice shop that we named "smoking place", cause the auntie use to cook her chicken in the shop that caused the whole place to actually be filled with smoke.

2) we bought almost all our books second hand through our "seniors" that time - which we ended up only using it for 3 months? and our class only started off with barely 6 person (no ladies mind you).

3) we finally moved out from out "holes" to our off campus during our second year. Finally, it felt like a college. We were kinda blessed at that time that our college chose to provide us with 2 busses that travel frequently from our "main" campus to our "home" campus.

now, since we've pass the preliminaries, here are some "juicy" stuffs that we were talking about, somehow, all these stuffs only happen once we moved into the new campus:

1) in conjunction with world cup 98, we used to play our own game of football IN CLASS (or any other empty room that wasn't locked), to the tune of carnaval de paris. What we use for ball you may wonder? well... pieces of paper we could find, taping it up with scotch tape / paper tapes - with certain mix of paper, tapes and tissue paper to make the "structure and feel" just right...

2)our once favourite food in our humble cafeteria was the nasi goreng kambing. rather thinking that was the only edible thing in our cafeteria. But then again one can't help but wonder what the uncle bus used to cooked around his bus just behind our "basketball court". Dogs were getting scarce, so we concluded that the uncle boss made "kau kut teh" of those dogs there. no wonder it smell weird.

3) talking about our basketball court - it was actually a portable basketball rim bought for the students to "be active" and placed in the bus parking area. Best thing was not only did it put us in danger with the on coming buses but it was also situated next to the "indah water" holding tanks. So other than the usual "kau kut teh" smell, we have to also be contended with the toilet smell.

4) that was also the first time i competed in our first basketball game. Our team, some how got named teletubbies (given by our good friend's now wife) for our size and jutting out bellies. We went further by purchasing some bandana's for each game! The name didn't help to scare off any of our opponents, in fact everyone wanted to play against us (with such a sissified name,i wouldn't blame them). well.. long story short, they were in for a rude awakening, other than myself unable to play properly, the other 2 teletubbies just trashed the living daylights out of them.

5) Speaking about basketball... this was the first time us "guys" had come into contact with something called "women/ girls". I still remember the first time we met "girls", as usual us sad guys were playing some basketball, and somehow my two teletubbie buddies decided to dump me and gone to take a dump together (or it was just a nice way to say, man u can play for no shit), so all alone, trying to shoot the ball correctly, a girl walked up to me (looking like a chinese) and asked if she could play with me.. (ahaha.. sounds like something from a kindergarden plot), well.. why not? And from there miraculously the other 2 teletubbies decided to show up and hence our group started to grow. oh yeah, one point of advice, not all chinese looking girls speaks chinese!!! ahaha...

6) Then, where ever there are ladies, there tend to be some "lalat" following them around. The most memorable one to us is what we would affectionately call FB (Fat bastard - after the Austin powers movie). He's just one of those irritating fella's that you would come to meet in life, where he'll just irritate the hell out of everyone with his presence alone. He'll always be trying his luck with the ladies that tend to hang out with us guys (namely a girl named Amelly - i bet someone remembers her?). He'll try to make his move when ever the "pride of lions" are not around but shy away and act silly everytime the "pride" returns from their daily hunt. His now infamous phrase "DAMN CHAM MAN" has been encoded into our minds. Everything he does, say or will do, will always start with (all together now) - "DAMN CHAM MAN"!! oh yeah, and his pick up line was always "Wanna see my TATTOO???" -thanks for reminding me JJ-

7) Being the first batch of humans in the campus, we've found ways to "speed up" the usage of the elevator for our convenience. There a switch on all lifts for emergency use, for fire fighters to disable all lift, so somehow one of our course mates found out about this and started using it constantly so that we don't need to wait for lifts.

8) Now during the college days, it was FUN being engineering students, You'll NEVER EVER get blamed for what ever wrong has been done. let it be playing football in the classroom next to the library (with all the banging and racket we'll be making), let it be hacking into the library computer and loading it with viruses that tend to always prompt it to a porno site (thanks to the lift guy again), and of course the ever famous incident where we actually found out that "FUTURE ENGINEERS" would "NEVER EVER" do "bad" things - this comes from the dean himself.

9) Now let me recount what happened back then....there was this one class (next to the library again - and not our usual class), our lecturer somehow did not show up that day, and we had the whole room to ourselves. well, other than the usual football that made our dear librarian nuts, there were some "renovation" to the plaster walls at the back of the wall (extension in "window / mouse escape route") and certain "beautification" of the chairs and table. So make the story short, the librarian reported us for the ruckus, but they somehow ended up blaming the business admin students for all the other stuffs. :) compliments of the Dean of college.

10) well, it also shows that once u have a bunch of engineer, then you mix it with an entity called "girls", their brain somehow turn to jellow, and their grades will degrade. ANY engineer would agree with you (unless he falls under the category of GEEKS)

11) we also had an encounter with the guys in blue. Now let me recall this clearly, we were at One Utama, and 2 plain cloth police somehow decided to stop the "lift" guy, and somehow ended up detaining him cause he had some bicycle chain that ties your wallet to your pants, and to makes things worst, he had a bullet casing attached to the end. For those not from Malaysia, it is an offence to carry any form of fire arm (even empty bullet casings) without a license and is liable to jail term. Well, i can end up typing a whole new chapter just on this alone, so we leave it as it is for now.

so my soon to be married friend, i hope this brings back some memories for you.

so till then....

Nibble nibble, taut taut, STRIKE! Fish On!!!