Golf. Pt.4

5.5.2008.

I'll continue in this chapter for the time being, seeing as to how dismal the main news are in the papers this morning - the train derailment (again) in Seremban ( again), the untimely passing of a rising local enterpreneur, the stale political news, etc.

This time I'll talk about Chin Chin Choi. He's an old friend of Wang hantam, at least until today, because since Wang hantam is the source of this story, that friendship might not survive. 

About 30 years ago Chin Chin Choi was already playing golf. Being in the bank, just like Wang hantam, they got acquinted. Chin soon suggested Wang hantam also play golf. Wang's immediate reply was "why waste time hitting small balls on the padang - stupid !".

Eventually, before retirement, Wang took up the game, and Chin began to teach Wang how to play. After all, Chin had been playing all these years. Now, what about Wang's comment about the stupid game ? Well, this bugger is nothing if not bull-headed, once he's made up his mind. Once he finally decided to play golf, he put his heart and soul into it. And thus it has come to pass, in spite of a 20-year advantage, Chin Chin Choi has now been reduced to pleading to Wang hantam EVERY morning to give him, Chin, extra strokes. 

The moral of the story is, don't bring a horse to the water, because if it decides to drink it, you'll have to stop it from finishing all of it ! So this morning Chin escaped, because it rained and the siren went, and play was suspended.

At 9 o'clock I saw Wang challenging Chin and Lee to a putting contest on the practice green at the 10th. tee-box. Since there was no hope that this group would play, because to play they would be obliged to rent a buggy, and hell will freeze over before Wang hantam would unroll his RM 1 bills from the old newspaper wrapping to pay for the buggies, Wang was still, at 9.01 am trying to squeeze some money out of Chin Chin Choi.

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