Yesterday morning, when I was going to school by Curtin Bus, I’ve seen two car rushing to school… they were very fast and their tires did skid a bit around the corner….
This made me recall back my friends in my hometown…. Felix and Eric.
This two guys were really talented in driving. The first guy, Felix, this guy identity is really like the identity of the starring in Initial D, Takumi, the guy who deliver bean curd every morning since junior one. Haha, this guy, felix also use to follow his dad to camp(I mean rural area usually those plantation area) , which his dad own a convenient shop there after his UPSR exam holiday. Then, his dad started to let him drive. Umm… before I forget, his car is a Toyota Land Cruiser FJ62 ( which was called station wagon usually). I know this guy during junior one. When I know him, his driving skill is already like a driver who really held a driving license, even better than some who had license but can’t drive well.
After two years, his driving skill had improve a lot since he always drive and ‘practice make perfect’. His favorites method to decrease speed is not braking, is downshifting, if you are adventurous enough, you probably like to have a ride in his car. Generally, most of the people in my hometown know his car, and of coz will beware of him. And there’s a legend around said that his car is ‘A wagon which drifts’. Quite funny.
This guy never involve in any accident although he drive without a proper license, and the interesting is he likes to challenge other driver. His signal to start a race is, follow the car in front near near(really very very damn near)[got another story behind this], and wait for the car to speed. Then the race is begin, however, no matter what car his opponent drive, it’s not a matter for him, his winning rate in my hometown is almost 99%.
After he got a proper license, he often drive to school , and we’ll sneak out of the school whenever the teacher dun enter or after finish exam, we made a record to fill 13 ppls in his car. He also invest a lot of money for ICE(in car entertainment), for CD-Player, Amplifier, and oso speaker and woofer. He like to play sound effect and make us to feel want to vomit.
Our gang favorites road is a road called ‘ Jalan Kg. Jawa’. A road which got a lot of cornering, uphill and downhill, which is quite challenging. And here, it’s time to talk about the second friends, Eric. This guy and the Felix are born in the same year, same month , and same day. No wonder why they are talented in the same thing.
One night, Felix, Chris(another friend), and Me is in Eric’s hilux(double cabin), his car oso quite well known in my hometown, we are heading to a place called ‘F1 restaurant’ to have a drink at about 11:00pm. Then, we saw a hilux number S?33X6B in front of us, which is our formal senior in our secondary school. Now, another race is going to start again. So, we overtook them , and didn’t tot that they will try to chase us back again. Without paying attention on them, they overtook us back easily. Then the dogfight began. The two hilux is going parallelly on the single lane road for approx. 1 minutes, then approaching a bridge, not enuf place for two car to pass by, therefore we decided to decelerate and start the second race. We lead them into the Jalan Kg Jawa, they followed us. Unfortunately, just right after the race start, we can’t see even their headlight from our rear mirror, after we finish, we gotta wait besides the road for them for about 30 seconds. Then the second round start, this time , lead by them, and now , we know why they lost in our rear mirror during the first race, they brake before every corner, and many times we nearly hit their butt. They drive tremendously slow. When the race end, we invited them to have a drink nearby, but I give out bunch of reason to refuse to go and went home embarrassedly.
However, Felix and Eric can’t race with each other, got one time , during our SPM exam , after the first paper in the morning , we usually go out to have breakfast. There occurred an accident. Both the car taking corner together and end up stick together. I witness the whole process clearly as I sat at the assistant seat of the wagon. Wilson who is really lucky sat at the seat where the car is hitted. Luckily, no body hurt in this accident, after having breakfast, we went to repair the car together.
To be continued……………
