GONG XI FA XAI

TO ALL GUNNERS HERE AND THERE, 

AND EVERYWHERE.

MAY YOU RIDE FAR AND FAST IN THE YEAR OF THE HORSE

....YEEEEEHAAAAR!!!!

Happy Chinese New Year

Kong Hei Fatt Choy to all our Chinese gunners and friends. Blessings and best wishes always.

Allen Lai

Photo fits 2014

I am glad that i had attended Dato Mokhtar's daughter wedding on 26 January 2014 at the new MINDEF officers mess. I was able to capture several updates of retired Gunner officers whom I had not met for sometime.

Below are their photo fits.

Three more Gunners not met for sometime

Honoured to have met these distinguised Gunner Officers again after many years. We met at the FMC 8th Regular Intake Golden Anniversary Dinnet on 19th January 2014. Both Maniam and Zanib are in the best of health. Aziz is wheel-bound and without speech due to stroke sometime ago. 

Major Aziz Mokhtar

Major Subramaniam (Apu)

Colonel Zanib

Take care all.

Allen Lai

Of Wallahs, Dei ! and Cilaka.........

Oh How I missed these words of endearments. What?

Back in those days we had wonderful and endearing words, that are if not used, we are not Gunners.

Wallah this, Wallah that, That C Bty Wallah…, Dei what is this? We had used such Malaysian words which bonds more than upsets.

Wallah is defined in the English dictionary as an Indian suffix indicating a person involved in that something . eg dobhi wallah. An Auto- Wallah is a rickshaw puller.

So a C Bty Wallah would come from C Bty. We would use Wallah all the time. Don’t we now? I am 1 ARTY Wallah.

Dei again is of Indian origin as in What? So is Acha and Aiyoh so fondly heard from Lt Colonel Tony Morel.

What say we have Samy afixed to Anthonysamy for Lt Colonel Tony Chia Eng Lim. We would never call him anything but, and I am mostly prefixed with Cilaka Allen Lai. And of course we have Chinaman Chong, as if Lt Colonel Chong Kok Heng is not Chinese. And of course too, Pinkie Pan for Major Steven Pan Kong Leong. He actually pinks out after a few drinks. Not red.

Yes I won’t mention the four letters words in suffixes and descriptions that also bonds. Sometimes abbreviated as FU. You Bastard is also an acceptable adjective. Believe me.

Anyone want to follow up this post from here? Bring the language back into the Regiments. Colours Bahasa Malaysia well.

Take care and Gunners, lets bond again. Acha.

Cilaka Allen Lai

Gunners not met for sometime

Sunday 29 December 2013. David Lam's house party.

Lt Colonel Barney Sidhambaram

Mejor Steven Pan Kong Leong