I can’t help but bursting into a devilish laugh when I saw this image in my email this morning. Seriously, this is one good meme! Bless you Yoda for making my day!

Anyway, this post is not meant to offend any mamak out there – without all of you, we won’t get to satisfy our craving for “teh tarik” and “roti bom” – so, I still appreciate their existence in our country here.

Actually there’s a story that lies behind this meme – This happened somewhere in January at Lotus mamak restaurant near KLCC. It was an unofficial gathering of former Grapeviners – we haven’t met each other that much, so we planned to have a little get together to update our stories in life.

I arrived a little late then the others due to my work schedule in late shift (12PM to 8 PM) – so, I went there directly after work without changing clothes or having my dinner yet (yeah, its a get together at mamak stall, so why bother to have dinner first, right?)

When I arrived, everybody was already there. Yoda aka Unta, Muner the Bear, Anon the Kewl, Pak Lah (who went all the way from UTP just because it was bored there – padan muka hang Pak Lah, sapa suh hang balik awal sgt! ), Dueng aka Mangi, Zye (who went all the way from Seremban – wow), Sue aka Celesta, Syuk aka blaser, and Laila aka Seren.

So I was the last person there – and I ordered my meal. One of our habit – when somebody ordered something and it look delicious, everybody wanted to order the same thing. And another one; we always add our food listing later (which seems pretty standard I guess – everybody wanted to have second meal later on, correct?)

Now, can you expect that the mamak scolded us for that?

Mamak: Dey, nak order, order betul betul la. This is serious business, okay? Sini tempat business, bukan main – main. Orang mau makan, bukan mau main – main.
Me: Betul la ni. Apa plak order main – main. I baru sampai, sampai lambat. Apa I tak boleh order ka?
Mamak: This is serious business! Saya datang, u order. Nanti saya datang, ada order lagi. Sini tempat business, bukan main – main. This is serious business!
Me: WTF?

We were all dumbfounded and lose our appetite back then. Nobody wanted to argue about it anyway – we were all hungry and don’t have enough energy to fight back. We ended up finishing everything, and even though we still hangout for more than two hours later – we didn’t order additional meal even though I believe everyone can use a second round. Not our lose, anyway.

Ini bukan main – main. This is serious business!!

Up till today, that jokes still lingers around. LOL.