Saturday, August 19, 2006

KARMA IN MOTION

here's to a man who was great. who was more than godlike. he was human and yet embodified the epitome of god-likeness. heres to my uncle whom i treasured n loved the most among all my other half baked fake and retarded relatives. the only uncle i actually got along with. the only uncle who passed away yest in msia at the ripe young age of 53.

i shall dedicate this post to him, whereever he is and as lame, corny or cliche as this sounds. but yes, it must be done. for a man like him is a rare find like a shining diamond amongst coal filled caves. in the little town of ipoh when i used to visit him, he was infamous. not because he was rich or powerful but for the exact opposite reason. he was poor and yet powerful due to the respect he gained from people. he was known in the largely cantonese filled town of ipoh as "fei loong" (excuse the spelling) meaning black dragon as no matter what happened come waht may if any1 had a problem he would be there. and i dont just mean being there for the people he knew. he was they for every damn guy deserving of it or not, for any random stranger or tom, dick or harry. if the person needed a job, he would get the guy his dream job cos like i said he was well linked being the 'black dragon' and l...and yet he continued working only for telekoms as a technician climbing into man holes and what not fixing telephone lines.

i rmb when we used to go and eat, he used to bring us to the best road side stalls, where the kuay teow was hevenly i swear. and just because we were with him, we would get extra stuff and even plates free, because he had helped the kuay teow uncle in one way or another, he didnt say what. that was him, he would help sooo many people and not say what he did or brag on about it. in coffeshops when we went, we would see random chinese guys buying him bottles of beer and sending them to our table jus because they knew him. i felt so safe when i was with him. like even tho i was in a foreign land and didn know malay or cantonese i was safe and sure id be able to go anywhere and hav a gd time. aunties would come thrust their kids on his lap because he probably saved their kids from illnesse by giving them money. although dont be misled he had no cashh of his own and lived in a kampong old tattered down house and old crumbling motorbike he never let me ride on cos he knew it was spoilt but nonetheless he drove it. so what wd he do? he would go and loan cash, borrow so as to pay off other ppl's debts. and when i asked him y? he wd jus say its the right thing to do and we do what we can...of cos this said in tamil makes a way harder impact. and he was poor not because he was lazy or a drunk, but because he spent his life payinf off OTHER ppl's debts. ungrateful consiousless ppl who didn have the decency to repay thier own debts and rather let him take on the burden without any guilt and by debts i mean HUGE amts like 1000s of RM. and i wd always say y dont u ask the ppl back for the money?? since it was a loan afterall..n he wd be like no they have to pay it out of their own will. and then there was this once where this guy was supposed to pay him the next day but died and my uncle didn have the heart to tell the family anything so there he was left clearing ua a RM5000 debt WITH interest.

my dad and him were like brothers. and when my dad used to send him cash tohelp him out FOR himself. he wd donate it to the temple so the people at the temple can eat food. and he took not a penny for himself. such a man he was. a great GREAT man, whom i can honestly say in his whole entire life received NOT a single CURSE for any1 not even from his enemies because even they didn hav the heart to do that because he was THAT gd a person. he was unappreciated and at times ill treated by the many he helped and at times he wd tell me abt tt when he was a little high, but yet that never deterred him from helping others.

i mean seriously, when i followed him to the wet mkt, from the fish aunty to the vegetable guy, they all gave me free stuff jus cos i was with him and you know as boderline beng-ish as it sounds they wd say if u ever need anythin jus mention "fei loong" and we wd help you. it was the 1st time in my life i ever saw such things other than in the movie.

he used to treat my sis and i like the daughters he never had and i loved him for that. he used to advise me about all sorts of things from prayer to boys in very open liberal convos. and he wd ALWAYS b there for me and always STIll will.

i guess its true what they say gd men die young. but in a way, it is a blessing in disguise. he no longer needs to live a poor, hardship filled lives, trying to make ends meet. i mean thinking abt it logically in a few yrs time, given the HORRID HYPOCRATIC nature of man, he would be left with no one. no family cos my family is so politically wapped and retarded. sure i wd b more than willing to support him but it wd still hurt him in some way or other. so its best he left this way, to a better place and i hope his death was a peaceful painless one which im sure it was. he had met in a motorcycle accident a few days ago, yet he was able to walk and the docs said he was fine. then yest or sth like tt they said he had water in his lungs and then at 6pm the same day or so he died.

i was shocked initally when i heard the news but yes i spent time with him and during those times we were all happy and that is what matters. now it rare we ever get to meet such a selfless man.who helped others but never himself, who gave of himself but rarely received anything. its karma in motion and this is his reward. i loved him and so did many more random people because his heart was so pure it was shone like gold. im blessed to have known such a man and have his memory etched in me forever. for here is a man who made not footprints in the sand he engraved his legacy in the hearts of millions. n i shall now take the trouble of writing his famous tamil quote. it loosely means fear not for i am here. ( its damn ugly cos i wrote it it paint)



Posted by shellsofsilence at 9:16 AM