Cendawan Goreng (Mushroom Fritters)

Wow! What a weekend it has been for me. Yesterday, Team Police Rugby went to Johor to have a friendly match with one of the colleges in Johor. That Johor rugby team consists of old boys from the same college. We went there in a convoy of cars and reached Larkin at around 4pm. Cik Slamat wanted to have some food before we headed to the venue of the match. So we stopped at one of the road side restaurant to have some food. Damn, you should never trust Slamat when it comes to food. He treated us to tons of goreng pisang (banana fritters), keledek goreng (sweet potato fritters), cendawan goreng (mushroom fritters) and drinks. When comes to food, the ruggers are numero uno. Give us anything and we will whallop the food. Haha. It was my first time eating mushroom fritters and it was damn delicious. After the 'light lunch', we went to the venue which was just nearby. It was at Institut Pengajian Kebangsaan Johor Bahru (i think so). This institute is equivalent to National Institute of Education in Singapore. All of us wanted to throw up actually because of the 'light lunch'. Once we reached the venue, we changed into our jersies and straight away we did our warm-up. To our surprise, the opponents were damn huge but we did not mind. They larger they are, the harder they fall. Muahaha. After warm-up, the game kicked off with the opponents' kick. We played an excellent game. Our forward pack are more organised and better then our opponents'. The score was 41 - 0 (7 tries and 3 out of 7 conversions). We thrased them good but i did not score. So frustrating! I can not believe that i can last the whole game but i suffered a bit because our the 'light lunch'. In all the scrums, i felt like vomitting and every time i burped, it smelt like goreng pisang and mushroom fritters. This is all Cik Slamat's fault. Haha. We played three quarters with each quarters lasting 20minutes. Our first quarter was fantastic as our forward pack controlled the pace of the game. The opponent decided to change the game by bringing in bigger forwards. Basically, their game plan was to use their forward to crash into us. Haha. One good thing about the police ruggers is that most of us a one hell of good tacklers. I did 2 or 3 lift tackles. Haha. They had a penalty and their scrum-half passed the ball to their biggest forward and walla! He came rushing to me. I crouched, aimed his lower torso and legs and then jerked forward to give him a solid lift tackle. Haha. The opponents did not know the law of rugby that much and thus many infringements were made by them. Every time they did not roll away after a tackle, our forward pack will form a ruck and we will at the same time stomp the opponents who were blocking the ball on the floor. One of the opponent received a cut at the back of his ears because of our stomping. Muahaha. Overall, it was a good game. After the game, the opponents invited us over to dinner and so we thought we were going to some restaurant. Haha. One of the driver of the opponent's team lead the Singapore convoy to the 'restaurant' and half way, he stopped at a Petronas petrol kiosk. He told us that he also did not know the what. What the hell?! Haha. Finally we made our way to some housing area and to our surprise, we were going to have our lunch at a chinese family's house. The house is huge and basically, that area is where all the rich chinese malaysians from johor reside. The owner of the house knows the rugby guys from the johor college and when he knew that they will be playing rugby, he invited the both the johor team as well as our team. Can you believe that we had Mee Rebus at night? Haha. We did not even know the owner of the house and yet we are having dinner at his house. Haha. I really wanted to laugh at that moment. After dinner, we sat around talking to the malaysian ruggers about rugby. They are also passionate about rugby but they dislike the malaysian rugby scene and management because they are not doing much to develop rugby in Malaysia. After the chatting session, it was time to go home. On our way back, i realised that i have not purchased Bubble Yum. We did not have the opportunity to go to any shops that sell bubble gum. Thus, when Cik Slamat stopped at the petrol kiosk that is near to the Malaysian custom via the first link, i decided to go to the shop to purchase some bubble yum. When i entered the shop, i asked the cashier whether they sell any chewing gum. Alamak, no bubble yum. They did not sell chewing gum at all. Dang! I went around to search for any road-side shopst that sell Bubble Yum but my search was futile. There were no shops at all. Sad. Damn sad. When we reached Singapore, Cik Slamat wanted to have late night teh tarik at Woodlands. There were six of us, including Cik Slamat, and we were like sardines in Cik Slamat's BMW. Haha. Cik Slamat treated us to Rojak and we were shocked when he came back to our table carrying 2 plates of rojak worth $15 each. He is very generous and crazy when it comes to food. Siao! Most of us wanted to puke because we were damn full. They Cik Slamat told us his life experience. He is damn passionate about rugby. He is the president of Singapore Rugby Referee Association, vice-president of the Singapore Rugby Union (SRU) and he coaches several schools and Jurong Junior College in rugby. I think SRU should change to Slamat Rakisan Union. Haha. Hmm. He had this big rugby project at Johor. Since Johor will be organising Malaysian national day parade, the governance of Johor decided to do several big projects to portray good image of Johor. One of the big project is a sport carnival. One month of sports carnival and there will be 15 sports and one of them is rugby. Rugby will be the last sport to be played and the closing ceremony will be right after the Rugby finals. In-charge of this huge project is the gorvenor of Johor and he is under the sultan of Johor. In another words, the over-all in-charge is the Sultan of Johor. Slamat is the organising member and he is the one in-charge of organising the event. He reports directly to the governor of Johor. Wow, a Singaporean organising a Malaysian project. Damn cool! He told us that he intended to bring in the malaysian rock group of the 80s and 90s, Search, to perform on that day. I was like what-the-hell! My favourite old rock group will be performing on that closing ceremony. Now i really want to go to the event that Cik Slamat will be organising. He also invited Mawi but who wants to see Mawi? Bleargh! He told us that he wanted to invite another artist and he would prefer Siti Nurhaliza. Aidil and I told him not to invite Siti because we prefer Ella to Siti Nurhaliza. I would welcome the idea of bringing Agnes Monica or Diandra Paramitha Sastro Wardoyo. Haha. We hung around at the coffee shop until 2am in the morning. Haha. Now my whole body is aching and both my ankles are swollen. Ouch! Aight, time to rest! Damn, still no Bubble Yum. Errggghhhhhhh!