Seksyen 14, PJ House

Put up at the Seksyen 14, PJ house starting from a few days after 1986’s Valentine Day until early April, 1986. The house was rented by a fellow WVU buddy, together with his two other old high school friends. The WVU buddy already got a job as an engineer with Esso (now Exxonmobil), while his two other friends work in construction firm and a bank, respectively.

The house was like a half-way home for friends from their old high school and several from our WVU batch – who converged there while looking for jobs. It was early 1986. Time was tough for job seekers; tougher still for me who “ain’t got nothing”, but I have to survive somehow.

(Cue for 80’s favorites I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor and Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey.)

One WVU friend used to ride his RXS bike from his place in Mentakab to the house, whenever there was a possible job opportunity for him. A Geology graduate, he was making do as a temporary teacher in his hometown. He died young, in a fatal road accident. I got a picture of him with me and another friend, when we were in Morgantown. No wonder our elders strongly forbids taking threesome photos…

On another occasion, another WVU friend and I took the Bas Mini from PJ to Jalan Semarak, to accompany him for something at UTM KL. While he was having “a chat” with one Dr. Ainuddin Wahid, I wandered around the campus and had a chat of my own with a couple of WVU alumni who’re already lecturers there. The friend came out of his meeting with an offer as a Penolong Pensyarah A (PPA). Nothing for me, though. I didn’t have anything that they need. That friend now got a PhD and a double MSc, after several extended years back to the States for further studies. All paid for by UTM. He’s now a full time lecturer at the college.

I had my own trysts at jobs while I was there – eventually taking on my first monthly salaried job as a computer trainer that took me to Kuala Lipis. There were also some significant people/ social relationships and other trials and tribulations before I left the place. Will write-up some of it in this blog, sooner or later.

Status Update

The last post was still about the coming back from WVU with no paper qualification. Will continue to trace back the trails forward since then. Basically, the story continues that after the TTDI, I went to Seksyen 14 PJ. Several things went on over there before I left for Kuala Lipis where I experienced a sort of "coming of age". At 23 - 24 years old, I admit that it a bit too late for that but ... . Then, on to Pekan, Pahang - a more matured outlook when surviving over there.

All in all, it will be a lot of words but - could be - not much substance. Oh well maybe I'm just being humble but, it will only be interesting if it is other people's story.

Can't wait to put on the "selesai" in the plot, so that I can move on with other things in this blogspot. For one thing, I'd like to make this blog as a place for my other passion - writing novels that can reach Book standard.

We'll get there. Soon.