Registering a car

I was enjoying a Cuban and a great whisky when SF rang to tell a remarkable story. For years he had been trying to discover the trustees of the estate of a certain doctor whose vintage car he had ages years ago. He had no reason to suspect it was stolen but the seller, whose honesty he trusted, had claimed that he could not find the owner to have papers signed. Some years back I told PC the story and learnt that she knew the family but a daughter had slipped to her death in Sungai Patani and her husband said he couldn’t help as he knew nothing. . But the other day, a happy SF said, he had a visitor who slipped and nearly fell outside his house and he warned her to be careful, telling her of the woman who had so tragically fallen to her death in S Patani. “Why! exclaimed the visitor, she was my sister!” The astonished but delighted SF reacted with, then you are the daughter of the late doctor so and so. She told him that she was in fact her late father’s executrix. On being told the sad tale of the car she said she would willingly sign the papers. I told SF that PC was in fact sitting next to me and handed her the phone to hear the unexpected good news for herself.

WL, a visitor from Australia, an IT expert scared us when he told us that Facebook people should not have their photos published; he warned that their pictures can be used to defame or shame them.

An article in “Starmag” of 18 January based on interviews with freemasons told us that blacks were blackballed in US. It failed to mention that those “charitable and brotherly” people admitted whites only here. Ong Huck Lim was after the war the first Asian to be admitted to the Lodge. Another lawyer, C O Lim was turned down but the Scottish lodge opened its doors to him. Yes, the Lodge here was in two “tumah hantu”, one English and the other Scottish.

Seen in Jalan Imbi, KL, Restaurant “Royal Ayam”.