THE SUPPER GANG: REVEALED

This is the second time I saw the Monk this week alone. This has been an encouraging sign. *Slap* Well, better not give self false hope.

After the embarrassing incident in the cinema some six years ago, he had avoided me like a plague. I didn’t ask him for explanation for his actions while on the way to the cinema, in the cinema and after the cinema till it was five years too late. In July 2003, he laughed hysterically when I asked him what those actions were all about and even denied that he had hots for me during that point of time.

And now, we are planning for a trip together to Pulau Perhentian early August… of course with the demented duo and another guy who is well known for being a lecherous bastard. I hope I don’t share room with him (the lecherous bastard, that is). Life indeed is ironic.

Yesterday, we had supper at the famous steamboat joint in Selayang. There goes my diet and my calorie burning sessions in the gym early that morning.

I don’t know remember how this group started to hang out together. It consists of the Monk and the Demented Duo. I was not a regular till middle of last year when we (the Monk and I) made a pack to be blood brothers instead of lovers.

In the yesteryears, we used to have a friend who was a regular in our supper gang till he started to annoy us by trying to sell us a business opportunity plan (Read: Amway). Knowing that he would not be successful in convincing the highly cynical and melodramatic people like us, he had stopped joining us for supper as he felt that it was a waste of time. (Note: Today, he has yet to be successful in his business opportunity plan and has stopped doing it ever since).

Occasionally, Mr Lecherous will join us with his Malay girl friend of 5 years. We had to forgo all pork balls for him and his girlfriend. We can’t tell racist jokes. I wonder whether has he circumcised himself.

It’s funny to see the composition of this group. All of us were from the same secondary school yet ended up living in a total different lifestyle.

Koon is the most cynical person one can ever meet. He is lack of ambition and insisted on sticking to his favorite quote: “If everyone in this world wanted to be a boss, then no one will become a coolie.” Koon still lives in the pre-historical era, with no mobile phones and he doesn’t wear a watch. He is now in the midst of looking for a job, a single and hope that some rich and hot woman will come to his rescue.

Kit is someone who is totally into amulets. He collects amulets of all kinds, mostly from Thailand. He constantly complains about not having a girlfriend at his age, 29. Probably due to his overzealous passion for amulets that scared most girls away. Imagine bringing a girl home and tried to shag her in front of all those holy figurines. Even whores will turn into holy women. Advised him to join Rotary Club or signing up at the MCA Cupid’s Club to get to know some chics. He is some sort of a mechanic, (I still do not know what he does), a single and hope to get a girlfriend who is not taller than him. He stands at 5 feet 2.

The Monk a.k.a Tai Tau, is the web editor for one of the prestigious tourism company in Malaysia. For his age, I think he did pretty okay in the rat race corporate world. Our schoolmates labeled him as an outcast when he pursued his dreams to do Chinese Studies and Literature when most of us snapped up more practical courses like, computers, engineering, accounting or business. One can never forsee the future. Guess who had the final laugh when China decided to open her door to the world economy? He was the school volley ball captain, standing handsomely at 6 feet 1 and has an athletic body. He still plays tennis three times a week.

Nobody knew about our bizarre friendship till we left school. We hardly talk in school but always on the phone when we were home and gossip about each other’s classmates. I was in Science Class and he was in Art.

Yesterday, I noticed that he has receding hair line. He is nicknamed the Monk as he is so much into Buddhism, and he had a feeling that he was a monk in his past lives who didn’t quite complete his tasks to practise all his mantras to reach Nirvana. So, he is making sure that he will get it right this time round. Obviously a single and forever will be, much to my dismay. He loves Audrey Hepburn though.

Mr Lecherous is a very hard working person. When all of us were still in college or university, he held two jobs at the same time. In the morning, he was the accounts assistant to a karaoke joint, and by night fall, he was a male stripper. Kidding. Just checking if you are still reading.

He was a karaoke supervisor. In no time, he started his own storage business. He is doing pretty okay now. He got to know his Malay girl friend from the karaoke, where she was the cashier.

Myself? Still confused at this age. Trying to get by a day at a time. For the time being, I think I am pretty content. As long as I have movies to watch, books to read, gym to trash, booze parties to crash, friends for coffee and occasional disastrous blind dates to keep me amused, I think I will be just fine.

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