Billionaire Taximan

Hello.. I'm Sgt Zulkarnain.

This blog entry is not gonna be funny..

itz a Tribute..

I'm back from 2 weeks of Reservist duties.. for the IMF/World Bank event..

for that 2 weeks, I forgot that I'm actually a Flight Steward..

It was a non-stop work for 12 days straight.. practically without any off-days.. and 12 hrz each day.. except for the first day.. which was 18 hrz..

and I'd crash on my bed in exhaustion every night.. dreaming of basements and carparks and having to rush through this and that..

and on the first nite.. I couldnt even lift up my hand to eat the nasi briyani that my mom bought for me..

Ammalia said that Police Reservists are lazy..

yepz.. normally we are.. and we take pride in being lazy..

but not this time tauuu.. I think whatever laziness we have are being paid back with the IMF duties..

itz like this..

when we get enlisted as a National Service Policeman.. we are si-beh on..

when we ROD (or ORD as u guys call it now).. we come back for Reservist.. thinking that we will be Super Damn-On still..

then u join the old fellas coz u aint got no choice..

and if u are Super On.. u kana bilis.. nobody wants to talk or work with u..

coz Police Reservist is supposed to be a holiday..

so u end up Relek Slowjack..

then u get old.. become laochao..

the newbies come in oso want to try to be Super On..

u tell them.. relek lar brudder.. apa mau On.. lu Reservist siak..

ok.. and so the cycle goes on.. the new fella gets old and he becomes like that too..

but not this time man..

itz Police Payback time..

everyone become Super Damn On..

and come to think of it.. I like it much better this way..

everyone who came in did their part.. and more..

one of my Reservist mates said to me just now.. it feels weird not having to Fall-in and withdraw arms..

and I felt weird just now walking ard without a gun at my side..

not that I like guns though.. thatz one of those things abt being a policeman that I hated most..

I started the Reservist being in a bad mood.. coz of something that screwed up and I ended up not doing what I was trained for..

put it this way.. I was overtrained for the duties..

so I was pissed coz my time and money was wasted coz of the extra trainings..

then came the deployment..

and we went to our locations and the troop started working..

and the more I saw the way they worked.. the more pride I had to be able to work with them..

and especially coz I started off the duties being so so extremely freaking negative.. I have to say that this is the best Reservist that I had done.. and the men were the best I came across with..

and the working relationships between the Reservist officers and the Regulars were fantastic..

Here are the guys (and a girl)



Clockwise.. from top-left.. the fellas that, to me, are the best of Reservist officers..

Including 4 fantastic regular Police Officers..

my tribute to them..

ASP Mustafa, Insp Patrick, Sgt Lam, Cpl Chin, Cpl Foo, Cpl Jeffry, Sgt Taufick, Cpl Azman, SC Jerry Boy, Cpl Muliadi, Cpl Shamsir, WSgt Fionie, SC Benneth, Sgt Tew, SC Gafur, Insp Leslie, Sgt Weihan, SC Benjamin, Sgt Wee, SC Ng, me, Cpl Peter, Sgt Weiliang, Sgt Ali, SC Faruk..

Middle from left.. Cpl Chong, Sgt Amin..



Clockwise, from left..

Taufick, Foo, Ali, Me, Weiliang, Insp Leslie..

and so.. yesterday.. even though we were looking forward to the end of the stint.. I think all of us were sad that the event ended and we dont get to work with each other anymore..

and to the best Senior Officer I had ever had the chance to work with.. I salute ASP Mustafa.. with all his thoughts and care and concern for his men.. and the tremendous workload that I saw him doing personally.. and still diligently doing all other policing duties.. and I know that for a fact, on his watch.. the place where we were guarding were one of the safest place u could ever be in..

went for coffee and supper after the end of the final duty yesterday at Adam Rd with most of the troop..

and left at 2am..

and got home at 4am..

it took me 2 hours to get home.. in a cab..

I didnt fall asleep.. at least.. not during the journey..

and the taxi driver didnt lose his way..

but it took 2 freaking long hours..

coz the Taximan talked and talked and talked and talked non-stop..

We said goodbyes and shook hands 3 times..

and a second later, he continued talking..

He told me.. he's going to be a Billionaire..

yep yep.. that was what he said..

and I made the mistake of asking him of his plans..

He told me he wanna write a book.. abt driving..

the techniques of proper driving..

And he explained to me things that I had known..

and even drew diagrams..

I prevented myself from falling asleep by biting my tongue..

on and on and on and on..

And he told me that I'm the second best driver he had seen..

and he had never even seen me driving..

and I told him that he was wrong.. even so to prove to him by telling him that I had been charged in court before and was given 12 demerit points..

but still.. I'm the second best..

He said that he can teach a person driving better than Schumacher..

and he kept on saying that he's the best in this and that..

no wonder I'm the second best..

that should make Schumacher the 3rd best driver..

I didnt hear most of the stuffs he said coz my mind was already asleep by then.. just that my eyes were open and my head went on auto-agreeing nodding mode..

I couldnt even cut thru his sentences to tell him that I'm gonna go off..

then again, I didnt want to be demoralising coz he was so excited abt what he's gonna do.. and he was actually a nice person.. just that my sleep means to me more than nice ppl do..

2 freaking hours..

He could have started making the first forty of his billions of dollars if he had taken other passengers to their destinations..

But then again.. what is forty bucks from the 2 hrz he wasted compared to the billions he's gonna make anyway..

I'd be happy for him though if he make it through.. and I do hope that he makes at least a hundred grand with his plans..

even Kiyosaki was broke and slept in his car before he started making his millions..

my new roster is out.. and yeyyyyyy.. I have a Melbourne coming up..

time to see the 4 boys and the Princess!

and so.. I'm gonna be back flying from Sunday onwards..

Signing Off..

Flight Steward Zulkarnain.