Finally revenge....
Mood:  hug me
Topic: House & Garden Philosophy
I haven’t told yet the story of my housemate’s new car and I feel it’s not fair I withheld it from you all. Last year he bought this brand new Proton car, a local all-Malaysian brand. He was happy as a kid, for as we know, many men see their car as their second girlfriend. That meant we had to go cruising, to go for makan in one of the food stalls in Bangsar. Of course, a car like that, you cannot park outside, so we used the parking basement. Having had our dinner, our ways parted, for I was supposed to meet up with S. Not even halfway the place where I was supposed to meet S. he already called me…

- Ron, the car won’t start, I’ve been trying everything, but nothing works, can you come over here ?
- Well, I’m not a car technician, what do you want me to do ?
- I don’t know, maybe we can push the car or something like that…
- In the car parc ???!! Ah well, never mind, I’ll come over.

Turns out that there’s something wrong with the wiring, and even our skilled fingers can’t do anything to solve it. “Ok”, I sigh, “You go and sit in the car, I’ll try to give it a push”. After muttering a bit about him pushing and me steering I manage to convince him, and while I start pushing the car through the parking basement, C. slowly releases the clutch. The motor starts running in a regular fashion, humming as if nothing special had happened at all. C. is all happy again and I tell him to go home fast before the darn thing gives up on him. While I see his tail lights fade, I have to laugh to myself… Now there is revenge for 300 years of colonisation; the poor Dutch guy pushing the car of the rich Indonesian chap. Finally there is the justice they were looking for in “Oeroeg”, the movie I saw so many years ago.