The journey in life is never a straight line (PART 11)

It was a win-win situation. The Minister got to palm over RM6 million value of engines to a fishermen. The fishermen could get smoothness of a engines usually when they indispensable them as well as not as well early. we got my RM6 million sequence nonetheless we did not nonetheless have RM6 million value of engines in stock. And Barisan Nasional won 34 of a 36 seats in a Kelantan State Assembly withdrawal PAS with usually dual seats -- a first time given Merdeka which Umno ruled Kelantan (at least for twelve years until 1990 when they mislaid a state again to PAS).

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

By 1977 we already owned my first Mercedes Benz, a light blue 204D. A Mercedes is a mark which we have 'arrived'. Nobody would take we severely if we gathering a Fiat similar to me. That is a playboy's car. So we brought a Mercedes, which we brought used from a Speaker of a Terengganu State Assembly who was given a state automobile -- so he no longer indispensable to keep his aged car.

we paid RM30,000 for which car, utterly pricey for a used or used car. But we was profitable for a series some-more than for a automobile (TC 848), which a Chinese appeared to similar to a lot. (They contend it equates to prosperous as well as even after we die still prosperous -- which equates to prosperous for most generations). In fact, Dato' Salleh Speaker (that's what they called him) longed for a series back though we told him which we usually longed for a automobile if it came with a number.

That was a automobile we gathering up as well as down Malaysia as well as to every fishing encampment in Terengganu as well as Kelantan. They usually indispensable to see which automobile upon a horizon when they would shout, "Taukay Yanmar datang!" That automobile most bec! ame my t rademark. And they knew which a owner of which automobile could give them loans to build their fishing boats as well as to buy a engines and/or fishing nets.

we suspect we was similar to Santa Claus coming to town. And we done certain which all those who came out to hail my attainment walked away with something -- caps, T-shirts, calendars once a year during a finish of a year (showing half-naked Japanese girls -- a girl for any month of a year), as well as so on. (Trust me, when it comes to half-naked girls, those Malay fishermen have been no racists).

we would travel in to a prime watering hole of a fishermen usually off their change or about to go upon change as well as would tell a coffee emporium owner which all was upon me. No a single left which coffee emporium having to pay for what they ate as well as drank. This was not usually about marketing my Yanmar engines. This was about 'winning an election' -- me, a brand brand new kid upon a block, contra a 'old boys'.

It was no longer enough which we wasTaukay Yanmar. we had to be theTaikoof theTaiko, definition theTaipan. And small did we know which in a small couple of months we was starting to become theTaipan Yanmarand would 'clean up' a marketplace as well as monopolise a complete industry.

They contend 'man proposes though God disposes'. And we learned a real definition of which word which same year, Nov 1977 to be exact. And this is how a story goes.

In 1973, Barisan Nasional was formed as well as PAS, an antithesis party, motionless to join a statute coalition. Three years later, PAS motionless which a relationship with Umno was not working out so they motionless to leave Barisan Nasional as well as go back to being an antithesis party. Hence Kelantan, which was partial of a statute coalition, right away became an antithesis state, a usually state underneath a antithesis (since Gerakan still remained in Barisan Nasional).

Um no indispensable to grab Kelantan. But first they indispensable to move down PAS.