cakap cakap....myself.

Sometimes when you are all alone. No one around. Really really alone …do you do as I do? I try to sing! I am very careful to say “I try to sing”….. “try” is the operative word because that is all I can do – try to sing! It really is hard to carry a tune. Your voice breaks…you run off pitch..and you hear everything because there is no music to cover your faults. But you do not give up because sometimes you do get some parts of the songs right and that keeps you going. Until you tell yourself ‘cukup lah’…video kill the radio star.

Sometimes when I sit out in the back garden by myself in the freshness of Winter or early Spring I let my mind wander to KL …to Bangsar and to Basil in Bangsar Village - that Thai restaurant where I go for my Pineapple Fried Rice and Coconut drink. I like to have my meals by myself unless my wife has been persuaded to be with me. She is a vegetarian and eats only what she likes. When alone I like something to read and there are always magazines there you could peruse (this also means read but I thought I will impress you with my ‘command’ of English lah…impress tak?). The food is good and the price reasonable. Invariably after lunch a quick trip to the supermarket to get some groceries and then back to Bangsar Permai. My mind can take me there with ease and when I am done I am back in Adelaide in the click of an eye.

Life is like that. You can take yourself where ever you want to go. Nothing can stop you if your mind says go. I am in Adelaide and I write about things in KL – in Malaysia. And when I write I am there. The chatter of all races is around me. The traffic is overwhelming. The heat overpowering. But my mind is focus on the issue at hand. If I need to verify anything I turn to the Internet and 80% of the time I get what I am looking for. If I need further assistance I have friends I can email – and they not only tell me what I want or need to know…but they put in their two cents worth about what I should write, what I should read and what they think of what I have written. And of course, like this evening some of you have to tell me that the Sultan of Pahang “is to be conferred with an honorary doctorate by the UMP (University Malaysia Pahang)”…....and I have a quiet smile and start to think what I could do with that information. "Joke lagi!”

Then I have another one that tells me that I should ‘tag’ my articles. I learn something new everyday and today it is ‘tag’. I do not know how to do it but I am going to learn about it – and if I am unable to master it at least I know that Lis will tutor me on how to do so…and so life goes on.