Acadian Bakery@Johnston Street

Thru’ introduction from the Donut Man Alan Pang (now CPA residing in L.A.) a group of Malaysians started working at the Acadian Bakery on Johnston Street during the Summer of 1983. The pioneer Cajun Pie crew a.k.a “Pie Loh” consists of few local black “kids” and a few Malaysians mostly on either “FaMo” or Solo scholarship. The initial days were fun and I recalled Mok’s one-hand egg cracking skill and dough rolling technique thru his training at home(family was in the “Pao” business in Sugai Buloh) were a jaw dropping eyes opener for the locals and the boss.
We did such an efficient job during the initial months that the owner Bill decided to fire the locals and let us “sub” the whole pie making job. His utilities bill was probably halved since we usually finished the work in half the time taken previously by the locals.

The pie crew’s roles & responsibilities were:
- The mixer: prepare the dough from flour, grease and shortening etc.
- The dough roller: prepare the dough for the pie maker
- The pie maker: making the pie from coconut, fig, apple or pineapple, etc. filling
- The forker: poking holes on the pies so that the pies could breathe in the oven to prevent them from exploding.

- The "general worker" - side kicker with no specific role

The first generation(Ver 1.0) “Pie Loh” :
1. Gan Kim Teck - MIA?
2. Lee Soo On - MIA in NJ or NY?
3. T.S. (Affandi) hantiewsiew@gmail.com - hunting "heads" for a living and 50% goofing off in cyberspace currently residing in the “little red dot” under the "foreign talent scheme". Aspire to be a casino croupier in his next career move.
4. “Forker” Jiunn Tan jstan@technip.com - successful oil and gas engineer residing in a posh mansion in Klang but no where as compare to Istana “Z”
5. Mok KamTsui wun_mok@hotmail.com - software consultant and part time fisherman(leisure) residing in Dallas
6. Small Tham wctham@elken.com.my – graduated with some “laude” pangkat, now CIO residing in KL
7. Big Tham thamkomsan@maybank.com.my - banker in Ipoh
8. Freddie (Chooi Fatt Fook) fchooi@gmail.com – private financier residing in KL
9. "Speedy & longhair" Tiong from Sitiawan - MIA

10… anybody else???

Second Generation(please add on....)

The Oven team?....

The Exterminator - "Roach Man"

Pest Control – The “Roach” Man
There was a team of pest busters a.k.a. “roach man” used to go around the campus dorms to spray pest insecticide. I was told back then they used to shit “green” poo because of the toxin?? The more hour they log in with their pest job the darker their poo.

The crews were:
1. Loh Hon Siong(?) - MIA?
2. Joseph Tan – MIA?
3. Tan Lai Kee – Very good in basketball – MIA??
4. Anybody else?

Domino's Pizza Drivers

This blog dedicated to fellow alumni who once work at the Domino Pizza Chain.
The delivery drivers were:
1. Yeo Hock Chai ( yeohc@surbana.com ) architect in Singapore
2. Gopal Velu: gopalvelu@hotmail.com a diehard Intel employee currently residing in Arizona.
3. Mike Low: MIA in Hong Kong maybe?
4. Seah: Businessman in Singapore
5. Ong Ku???
6. who else?

The Rocker

This entry is dedicated to our Malay rocker frens who play the DeepPurple, Scorpion songs.... Where are you guys???

Campus Painters

Part of the campus maintenance extended workforce, the student painters on a min wage of US$2.65/hr were require to paint and upkeep the campus dormitories. The most enjoying and motivating assignment was when we were tasked to paint the female dormitory. Per campus rule, painters were required to shout deliberately softly “man on the hall” before entering the girls’ dormitory hallway. You bet the surprises we had encountered with the girls!

The roles consist of the supervisor (talker); roller and the trimmer (most difficult job):

The Spring83 crews were:
1. Supervisor: Baskaran, a qualified CPA MIA after hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
2. Dr. Silva - professor at UKM
3. Santhi ( santhirapalan.selvadurai@atosorigin.com ) IT Biz Development Manager in KL
4. Tan Teck Huat: MIA
5. Ong, the accountant who gone MIA in Papua New Guinea since 90’s
6. Tham ( wctham@elken.com.my ) - CIO in KL
7. T.S. (Affandi ) hantiewsiew@gmail.com
8. Suresh(from India): MIA in Silicon Valley since 1985
9. Who else??

Laundromat: recycle your coin?

Have you ever try to "recycle" your quarters? It doesn't take us long to figure out which laundromat in town allow us to pull out the inserted quarters(using scotch tape) after the washing started. So is the coke machine....

This place also make your size XL t-shirt to size s if you don't pay attention to the timer and tempeture setting.