Saturday, July 14, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
RETIRED ARMED FORCES OFFICERS’ CLUB ANNUAL GOLF– 2012
Besides enjoying golf and its ‘Returns’, in Guilin in May/June 2012, the talk was about the upcoming RAFOC’s Annual Golf for the year 2012. It was scheduled for 20th then 10th Jul 2012. It sort of became a ‘Selection’ process for us. There were 14 of us. John Ramli H, our Golf Convenor needs 8 players. He has already short-listed the likely reps. And Billy Gooi has already informed that he would not be available Thus the choice would be to put in our strongest into one team and the rest in the ‘B’ Team. In a team of 4, the 3 best score would be counted.We were the current Champion, having won the Tan Sri Rahman Hamid Trophy on 7th June 2011.
Back home, the Convenor was updating us on the competition. There were also ‘Gentle Reminders’. Just to be sure there would be no ‘Cock-Up’. Our attire were to be ‘white’ for the play and ‘black’ for prize-giving.
In the early morning hours of 10th Jul, I made my way to the Staffield Golf Resort. I guessed then, the rest were doing the same. There would be a group photography seesion at 0745. Thus working backwards we should be registered, get our goodies and take breakfast prior to all that.
On arrival, I saw the golfers registering.
Greetings were in abundance. Mind you these are friends within the Armed Forces fraternity who had served together many many years before. Now they are getting together to rekindle friendships and acknowledge each other. Quite a mixed bunch of ‘Retirees’. Old and young. And typical of us, most claimed still to be ‘Young’. In the Heart that is.
I met up with our club members. The President was holding Court.
Dato Sulaiman Kudus was with us.
We had nasi lemak, mee hoon goring, bread and butter, coffee and the tarik. We have checked our flights. None of us would be in the same flight. We wish each other the very best of luck. Soon the call for group photograph.
After all that was done we headed for our buggies and to our tee boxes.
We were supposed to tee off at 0815 on a ‘shotgun’ start. At precisely that the ‘siren’ wen sounded and we were off for RAFOC’s Annual Golf Competition.
It was a clear and bright day. As per normal, there lots of ‘ooohs’ and ‘aaahs’ including ‘sh—‘, ‘f--k’, ‘what de f---k’, ‘bloo—he—‘ and many more. But then what do you expect from AF Officers and their vocabulary of four-letter words. Soon we were trooping back to the changing room. A bath, a change of clothes and congregating towards the Dining Room.
A good spread of food. In abundance. And in keeping up to being in Negri Sembilan, the gulai cili api was definitely ‘Nogori’. It was hot as ‘He—‘ but simmered with a clear chicken soup. Lots of drinking water too. Members of our Club 1268 looked prominent in our black attired T-shirt.
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