The durian feast on 15 Dec.

 Mon 9.12.2024.

In 6 days time, the BB's from FMC-PD group would celebrate our RMC Founder's Day, in the old RMC camp in Sg. Besi. The Founder's Day is actually on 17th December, but that would be on a Tuesday, while 15th is a Sunday. 

I leave the details of the function to Hank. I just told him the time he wants me to be at Mydin S2 where he can pick me up.

The both of us had been requested by ND to get the durians for the gathering, just like last time. This is what has kept both of us busy. But we're determined not to let the BB's down on the durian feast expectation.

The real problem is  that durian is out of season from the sources we had relied on in the past.  Up to last week I personally scoured and also had asked several friends who helped me in the past to locate the durian in KP, Segamat, Seremban, Nilai and Mantin areas. To no avail. Until Saturday, when Nawi (Nawawi-lah, he used to correct us) asked Hank and I to follow him to Paya Jaras.  There our quest ended, successfully. There, right in the centre of the Paya Jaras thriving community, was this "Lubuk Durian Paya Jaras", the durian vendor "Ayoi" stall with several varieties of the fruit, just as we had hoped for.

Ayoi in fact gets his durians from all over the place except Paya Jaras itself.  Tanjung Malim is one source, and it's in fact not far from Paya Jaras by way of the old road. I believe I've found my permanent supplier for future references.

ND, the fastidious bloke that he is, wants to know the actual price for the varieties available. Since he has assigned the job to the both of us, Hank and I, we'll make sure we pick the sweet-tasting variety with the reasonable price-tag, not some fancy-named, sky-rocket-price species.

So Hank and Nawi and Md. Sham, they'll gorge themselves with 200 durians, come Dec 15th.

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