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"The Ones That Got Away" - Long FR

The Ones that got away!

“I’m in the taxi, get ready,” Ghenggis’s message came in on my mobile. “See U in 10 minutes.” I drafted and sent out to 5cents immediately.

We were headed to Harbourfront in Singapore to catch the 1.20pm ferry to Sekupang, Batam for an afternoon of golf and, another night of après-golf thereafter. 5****s was planning to get back that night.

At Harbourfront, Indah Puri’s Ann was waiting and helped us get our golf bags checked in smoothly. “Shits, my passport!” 5****s exclaimed. Calling home on his phone, he quickly gave directions to the missus to drive over with it. We had all of 15 minutes for that to arrive or we would miss the ferry.

I went in to try & hold up the ferry at the departure gate while Ghenggis and 5****s went to the bus stop to wait for the car. No way, sorry they said, the gate will close in 2 minutes. So, I “checked” myself out and back out to the main hall. Called Ann of Indah Puri to help get us on the next ferry which was timed for 2.25pm. Unbelievably at 2pm, the passport was still not in hand. Yes, the missus was lost between home and harbourfront. She finally arrived at 2.05 pm, just enough time to catch the 2.20 ferry for Sekupang and an afternoon round of golf, so we thought!

Near Sentosa Island’s Western end when we saw the crew scrambling to get into the engine room and we heard the engines go silent. Sorry ladies and gentlemen, we are headed back to Harbourfront as we have mechanical problems, it was announced. Another ferry will pick you up and take you onwards to continue your journey. The boat limped back with one engine.

By the time we got back and switched ferry, it was closer to 3.15pm and with a new ETA of 3.50pm, our round of golf for 18 holes was not to be.

There was time to play only 9 holes for the day when we arrived at Sekupang’s Indah Puri Golf course. We decided to play Tering Bay the next day & 5cents decided to stay the night.

That day I played miserable golf for 6 holes before missing a hole in one by 2 feet on the 7th hole. This miss was to become a feature the entire weekend – “the one that got away.”

Washed up at the clubhouse and took a van (we ordered) over to Nagoya to spend the night. Just before dinner, we popped into PP Banana to see if Diana whom we all desired would be available to be booked out. She was there just chatting & when she saw me, she said something to the boss and made some excuses to me that one of her regulars may be coming over. We walked out and headed for dinner – “fuck her I thought,” and proceeded to call Mami Coen at Island Garden to reserve a girl I knew for 5****s group.

Meantime, Mongerx, his regular I**h, and his friend from homeland USA with a cutie from Sedona, had messaged me to meet up for dinner. We arranged to meet at Siang Heng at Oki Pujasera where we get good prices and very nice cooking with a personal touch. Arriving almost at the same time, we then sat down at and ordered the food.

My “project” for the night Ria had already arrived a little ahead. She had SMS to me “Abang, ku sudah di oki, tidak akan dating?” (Brother, I am already here, you not coming?) I looked around and found her seated at a table having a “teh botol” by herself. When she saw that there were 7 of us, she frowned and I said “mari, join us makan ok?” Ria used to work at Pacific Disco as Guest Relations for the Karaoke. Her duty then was to walk Karaoke Customers who had reserved rooms from the entrance to the KTV rooms. She had resigned and was jobless for more than a month now. I was helping her find a job while at the same time intending to make her my girlfriend for a few months if possible.

Dinner was a minor feast and we had black pepper crab, fish head with black beans and bitter gourd, deep fried squids, sambal prawns, two different fried vegetables, egg omellete with bitter gourd, deep fried raddish cake, “gong gong”, and rice all washed down with a mix of Heineken, Tiger and and Bintang beer. Total bill including several bottles of beer came to RP 410,000 and the drinks alone were already 150,000 making the food about 260,000 only. Our regular patronage of Siang Heng made us VIPs enjoying good pricing there.

During dinner, I enquired with my project Ria if she was going to be with me for the evening and she said that it was “that time of month” for her. I looked her in the eye and said “betul bulan dating atau bohong ku” (truly having your period or lying to me) and she blinked and said, “bukan lah, tapi perut angin banyak dan sakit” (not really, but my stomach has lots of ‘wind’ and hurts). I smiled and told her she was the reason I was visiting and would love her to spend time with me. She smiled and said, “maybe tomorrow OK kalau perut ku tidak sakit.” (maybe tomorrow ok if my stomach is not hurting) She said she would go out with me but did not want to spend the night in case she was afraid I might want ML etc. I asked what she meant by ML and she said “making love”. I looked her in the eye and said “ya, ku mau ML dengan kau” (yes I want ML with you ) and she smiled and said “step by step abang ok?”

Just as dinner ended, she asked me if she could leave. “OK, kalau tidak sakit, ku datang cari kau, besok aja SMS.” (OK, if I am not sick, I will come to look for you, tomorrow I will SMS). She then pecked me on the cheek and left while we continued to chat and finish our beers.
I had expected that she would succumb to me this trip so I was obviously disappointed.. Another one got away again!

After dinner, we split up with Mongerx and his party returning to their hotel to freshen up while our party moved on to Island Garden to pick up the girl I had reserved for 5****s. She frowned at me when she discovered that I had reserved her for a friend and not wanting her myself. (Its always a “loss of face” to the lady for her customer to come back and have another lady or pass her on to someone else – not that she has feelings for you – just a loss of face). I enquired if another lady I desired was still available and Mami confirmed that that lady was booked out. We had paid up and moved straight on to Classic Pub where we passed the time drinking and playing some pool.

Bill the owner was again happy to see us and it seems that Classic is now these months developing some good regular partrons of its own. Just as we were about to leave Classic, Ghenggis’s date for the night a Balinese friend of Mongerx’s I**h arrived. She was that kind of darkish skinned sexy faced girl Bules liked. R**k, Mongerx’s American friend had also left his partner in his room and come to join us for a drink. He was immediately “taken” and enquired more about W***n Ghenggis’s date for the night.

My phone rang and it was Diana from PPs. She said her customer from Singapore had not come and asked if she could be with me. I said OK, why not and asked her to come down as we were leaving for Pacific. Her voice went up one notch and she asked me to go up to pay her bosses the booking fee. I said, “Diana tell them I will give you the money for them in the morning, I am not going up. And come down now cos our car is leaving in a minute.” I signaled everyone to drink up, called for the bill and we headed outside to the van. As we boarded, Diana ran out of Lucy’s front door and into the van too. Walking past the ticket counter and the people there, I shook hands of the security and door people and patted them and said hello smiling broadly and nobody stopped me to ask for the ticket. And everyone just walked in behind me except R***, Monderx’s friend who somehow had stopped to buy an entrance ticket. Damm. I said, “why did you do that?” Anyway, he said, its OK, he still gets a drink.

We had the Island Garden girl leading the way and located an empty table. Drinks ordered, we settled in each of us to synch with Pacific’s music that was blasting away. The place was nicely filled up without being overcrowded and Diana was bouncing away as she always does when the music hits her. She asked me if she could have a “biscuit” and I signaled a waiter to bring her one. There goes 120k I thought but, anything to keep the lady in the right mood although I personally never liked bonking ladies who are tripped out. She rolled up to bare more of her midriff and in her own way, moved as sexily as she could and she does dance quite well. I drank more to get happier as usual.

Everybody in the group seemed to be quite happy too! Earlier, Island Garden girl had teased all in the pub with her cute pecking kisses and sexy games. In the disco, she was rocking too. I knew that 5****s was enjoying her company. She has that kind of look that grows on you by the minutes!

(to be continued)