Chapter 15 Hide and Seek

The eldest daughter Cha Cha soon found another school dropout,in a young man at least five years her senior.Like all her previous suitor he too stayed over night at her residence.What so much to talk about other than sex,I really do not understand.But then you ought to believe by now she is a sex maniac.

Her sister Yeng Yeng also followed suit haaving the new bioy friend staying over night until morning doing nothing.Rubbish in the open they can kissed and kissed regardless of the presence of others watching.So open were their behavior.

The elder sister lover was more persistent as he returned every morning soon after the mother had left the house at about 6.30 a.m. or so.Slowly he would crept into their house to hold her lover.Somehow the mother smelt something fishy and at once took action.

Her action was easily detected by the elder girl as she had all the younger siblings assisting her.They would keep guard of scenes outside from their bedroom windows.From there they could easily visualized their mother who sometimes watched from a distance in her car.

A few times she could have caught the young man sneaking into their home but the elder girl quickly hid him under her second sister's blanket,thus hiding from the mother.The mother having full trust in her daughters never checked their room let alone what was hiding under the second daughter's blanket.

Cha Cha would often met her at the door step with a deceiving innocent look.That took much of distrust off the mother.How would she know all her children were playing hide and seek with her,too.Soon after she left, all came out laughing heartily at the the mother's folly.Just imagine the youngest the fifth daughter also deceived her.

The second daughter assisted the elder sister by hiding her boy friend under her blanket,this simply were out of their mothers imagination.What do you expect when they can hid the a young man under her blanket,lying there with her.It is beyond the wildest dream but that was the plain truth.

The two sister were also always playing truant,not going to school after going for breakfast with their boy friends.Just imagine they may have gone to school early in the morning yet can returned home about 8.30 a,m. to declare that they have missed the bus.Many a times the just sleep away the morning not going to school without the mother's knowledge.

Both girls were in the worst classes and never had at any time passed any classes examinations but the present education system of automatic promotion promoted them up to form five -with out sweating..It was a known fact these two bitches flung all their examinations.They may have studied up to form five but both could hardly read and write Bahasa Malaysia or even English.All they can converse in were some calloqual Mandarin and no writings.

Their parents could not careless how they performed in school as long as they were automatically promoted every year their problems were solved.I doubt they know how how to read their yearly report cards.

By that ime the father had resigned from the brother - in law's Company and went working for an Estate Contractor who was once his buddies.He was an absolutely misfit in the plantation.He was a driver no doubt about that but in the plantation his skills were rubbish.

Handling a tractor was out ot question for him even though it does not take one to be skillful to handle one.Driving a lorry in a plantation was even worst,he could have been an expert on the good roads on the highway but plantation roads he is too raw to handle them.

First and foremost all lorries transporting fresh fruit bunches were "bone shakers" or very old vehicles never fit for the highways.The heavy steering was not much of a help to poor Shorty.Those lorries were really tough lorries without proper maintainence and without much spring to reduce the bumps of the rough and slippery plantation roads.

Most of the in field roads within the plantation were slippery,worst still because of it slopy terrains and on rainy days such roads can be extremely treacherous.Skill driver like Shorty had no place there.These tractors and lorries were handled by lowly paid foreign workers.Their payments could be as low as fifteen ringgit per day.

Their low payments were often subsidized by their skillful loading techniques which were calculated to the quantity they load to their vehicles.There is no way the Shorty can out worked these plantation drivers no way.Just large bunches can weighed up to 35 to 40 plus kilos.and to lift that on to a lorry it takes more than strength but skill to do it lightly.

Therefore it was a bad move by the Shorty for he was definitely a misfit in the plantation.With no much to do the Contractor just kept him around driving him around,but that was a waste of his money.For the Shorty he seem to be enjoying himself running around and eating at the Contractor's expenses.

He also took full advantage of the Contractor's kindness with extraction of extra cash from the Contractor keeping all the balances of cash instead of returning to the Boss.Even it was used he should at least have the common courtesy to keep the Boss informed.Keeping that would mean that he was untrustworthy.

The Contractor finally got rid of him without much explanation.The Contractor being a cancer survivor had hope that he could reduced his workload as most of his workers even his own brothers were not trustworthy but unfortunately his inclusion of the Shorty made lose more than gain,so the final stray he sacked him.

His stay around Kuantan proved something as he soon received news that a sawmill was in dire need of a driver and through a friend he secure that job.A job many drivers had failed to keep.An interview was arranged and he got the job almost immediately.

His beloved wife on the other hand also got employment with an advertising company for T-shirts to Government and private departments.With her flirtitious adorable behavior she surprisingly could not entice any lovable Boss to advertise in her requests.Some how she did not stayed long at this firm.

Her god friend a fat woman recommended her to some private joints where she got some extra out side income,coming in very handy for her in deed.Soon both husband and wife got involved in a new game - playing "mahjong".A new phase which requires only three players at a time.

They were crazy over this for sometime,her charms and good relationships made her many new friends but were the used. For they used this to attract some friends to lose badly to them.Of ye,those friends were conned of their money in the game.It is very easy to cheat others in this game.I know it because with every game day it was always durian feast day.

They joined forces with other relatives to cheat all these innocent friends.Initially there were many foolish friends who fell for their tricks at the game but after losing quite a tidy sum of cash they soon found that out slightly too late that they have been deceived and taken for a ride by these so called friends.

Discovering this many of these friends obligingly excused themselves from all future games with them.No on one willing to play the game they were forced to play among themselves.Very seldom do they dared played outside their circle that for sure for they will surely lose and cannot paly their cheating game.

They also took a liking to go up Genting Highlands for bigger stakes gambling.Very often stopping over at the graveyard of Lim Goh Tong to pray before going to gamble in the highlands.Was there any good???.No,never they similarly lost.They would gamble from from evening to morn yet all the same.

It was once rumour that she met a lover in Genting and even passed a night with him there.Being addicted to the gambling in Genting she then went all out to make extra cash for her addiction.Late she work temporary as an account clerk but did not stayed long because the Boss's wife never like her flirting around her husband.

With them so busy their daughters were left alone to fool around with their lovers.
Both elder daughters would allowed their boy friends into their house and they it seem will"chit and chat" until morning.Many a time many others moved about in the wee wee hours as well,switching to other lovers.Very busy house just like a brothel.

No decent parents would have allowed that.Young men beside the two regulars were moving in out and in the morning.Surprisingly both still could attend school thereafter.I have seem them as I exercised and because of poor eye sight I took a bit longer to find out whose daughters they were behaving so badly with young men,hugging and kissing along the road.

The second daughter seeing me looking at them cried in a cheeky bitchy voice said,"See that man loooooooking att me - woi???".That really sent my hair standing on ends.
That happened for many times, getting agitated,I softly passed a comment',"bloody bitch".That was sufficiently to sent them complaining to my wife who reprimanded me.

On several occasion these people brought along a bottle of acid hoping to splash that on me but I am too pro for such event. So I avoided by walking further from them.Their mother was instrumental for this I assure you as she was clearly seen watching from her room's window.She was frustrated that my wife did take drastic actions against me.

How was that I knew of their evil intentions.Well before that morning they brought I had met both young men at the 7/11 outlet and had seen them carrying a glass bottle with a slightly milky solution in it.They were buying a bother of 100 plus.That of course was ti disguised off the bottle of acid they had on them.That bottle could not be plain water no way because people do not carry water in glass bottle nowadays.

I thanked my lucky stars for having avoiding that.Actually the odd behaviors of their lovers also gave them away.For at the 7/11 outlet one of them smile at me in a very suspecious manner as if they have something installed for me. Subsequently they carried that bottle for for the next few days and the bitch Cha Cha carrying it. I stayed off course.Saved by my own ingenuity.

They never got me but those two lovers were trying to get at me some other way but my influence in having many foreign workers friends deterred them for from attacking me tom teach me a lesson.These lovers had a gang of young men following them I know because they tried to threaten the local Noodle stall seller with their gang.

Only a verbal warning was all they could come up with against the Noodle seller but had they attacked him they would not have gt away from the law in the first place beside the Noodle seller was not so chicken as they though,He too had people of his own but no movement of any gangs were necessary as the matter was too trivial.Just empty boasting by the teenage lovers.But that was sufficient to misled those bitches to feel that their lovers sere in fect great gangsters.