Balik kampong, tanam jagong.

5.3.2010.

"Balik kampong, tanam jagong" is more than merely returning home to plant corn.  It signifies giving up. But not in this case. 

Calit is moving into one more direction, this time planting corn to produce corn juice. Serious, not corny. What seems corny is, the corn is in Parit, Kuala Pilah, but the juice-machine is in Banting, Selangor. And Calit is in Setiawangsa. But that's Calit.

He stayed for years in Gombak, and later moved to a flat near Dato' Keramat but bought a house in Seremban 2 . Now he stays in an apartment in Setiawangsa. 

He played around in TMS, worked at MAS, got his BA at Wisconsin, his MBA in UKM, and now drives Padir around the Klang Valley - when not squba-diving (Padir, that is).

He said he was installing cooling systems, but helped fix my old D.U. house, and now this corn juice. So all the "sekolah kole" has produced some good. (I made a special trip to his still standing sekolah kole and took some photos with my camera-phone, but Dekna  refused to teach me how to download, so everything is still somewhere there, still inaccessible.) I'm happy Calit has crossed his hurdles. At least his stunted athletics days in TMS for being fastest over the hurdles but slowest between them is being put to good use.

Bus (pronounced "Boos") said Calit wanted to send one container of the juice. Calit said somebody asked for the uniform he was photographed in. I just want one bottle. 

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