Image via WikipediaHmm...so Brazil lose 1-2 to Holland. Another twist in the World Cup 2010. I’m just glad I get to watch the game. Furreal furreal, football is therapy.
Ali’s corner : my usual place. I was already 5 minutes late only to discover the usual crowd wasn’t there. 10pm should be packed (but hey .. not this time) What de hell’s goin on? Is the quarter finals really tonite?
Still dazed after my 20 minutes drive from Ampang to BJ, I went to Ali at the cash counter. Apa cerita? (pointing at the tv that was suppose to be at least on, if not showing Brazil playing). Ali shook his head - telling me his only 50 inch plasma is now broken. What use to be a crowd puller for the past 2 weeks is now a piece of fancy useless deco. (Practically no one but 3 guys were in his shop; I guess some people don’t givva damn about the world cup). To top it off, Ali now stands on the verge of a couple thousand RM loss in his hands – at least that’s what his frown is saying. As they say, broken tv, don’t fix it, get a new one. Move on Ali, move on.
So I rushed to the other corner of D’pungkin (still don’t know who’s the gifted one to come up with this assumed to be commercially viable shop lot’s name), only to find a big screen, lots of tables, lots of screaming football fans, but no place to sit. 5 minutes of table (and not football) watching later... well, I found a table. 5 minutes for a comfy 80... thats not too bad...
Just as I sat..lit my just-got a-sit victory ciggy...with an ahh-thank-god-feeling... I exhaled....suddenly these 2 fellas out of nowhere decided to be a screen saver in front of the now not-so-giant tv screen (at this point I remembered the “send to the back or front” function in power point...haahah... I can never get that right) ...
Undeniably looking for a table, I smiled, pulled 1 chair out and made 2 new frens. Uda and Shah. After the small talk about the game, I called Muqs and spoke in our accent. Just testing whether Uda and Shah can relate to it. True enuff, Shah bought the bait & started with “org kedah ka?... kat mana?”....before long he was telling me about his will and estate administration biz (www.infopusaka2u.com)
It made me think deep, very deep. Little do I know how clueless my family would be without me around. As corny as this sounds, it did flashed before my eyes, the day she’s at the dining table lookin at all my files, wondering “where do I start”....Yes, my net worth ain’t on any list to be proud of... but it still needs to be sorted. It’s one thing I’m leaving them....but leaving them in a mess?
Apparently, Ali wasn’t the only one at loss tonite. Who would’ve thought Brazil the favourites, the number 1 raked team by FIFA, can lose. So it dawned on me, my family will be feeling greatest loss without the wonderful help of ppl like Uda & Shah.
Actually, its not so much the financial loss, but the emotional loss - the inability to think straight in those moments, what to do, who to call, where do I start, whats gonna happen blablabla.. that’s why we need ppl like Uda and Shah. Nuff said, I’m signing up! cutting my loses to just Ali & Brazil.
