Saturday 16th.Dec'06.
Babah (aka Dad),Zizol,Redza & cousin Azmir left Corrus for Putrajaya after 5.30am (but it was not suboh yet).Stopped at R&R Seremban north-bound to perform the morning prayers.Quickly Babah drove to the Nilai lay-by for breakfast.All 4 ordered nasi lemak (coconut milk or 'santan' was not a good choice for that morning streetsoccer,I guess). Eventually, everyone was back into the car but Babah saw the car was slightly 'lower' at the right hand side...The doubt was answered 5 minutes after they left Nilai lay-by when Zizol broke the morning silence "Babah, the back left tyre feels like it is punctured!". "Ok-we'll stop and see as soon as I found a safe place to stop" Babah said. It was true, the left back tyre was flat and that was around 7.30am and near the exit to Bukit Mahkota. Babah thought "Unbolt,jack up the car, replace tyre would take around 1/2 hrs and then we'll be back on track to Putrajaya..." However, Babah phoned up the Peronda Lebuhraya for assistance and acknowledged them of the location.
Meanwhile, Zizol,Azmir & Redza tried to loosened the wheel nuts but failed...Babah said "no point to exert yourself kids, let the Peronda Lebuhraya do their job, they have the tools.."
It was approaching 8am, no sign of the Peronda Lebuhraya coming. Zizol phoned up his other teammates who were from Salak Tinggi to go straight to the games venue.The show must go on!
After Babah called up the Peronda Lebuhraya toll free number for the 3rd.time, a Plus truck finally arrived.Babah shook hands with Mahathir the Peronda officer and explained the situation. Mahathir took out his tyre removing tools, put it on the car jack and voila! all 4 nuts were unfastened. Zizol,Azmir & Redza replaced the flat tyre with the spare tyre from thr booth but Mahathir warned "this spare tyre can only run at 80km speed and no further than 80km distance or else it will burst!". After saying thank you to Mahathir and his colleague , it was on the road to Putrajaya.
Time: around 9am.
The event have not started. Supernova did not miss any matches though. Supernova now has Zizol, Azmir, Mustakim, Iznan, Bazli and Aspa, while kid brother Redza as the substitute.
There was 2 category ie. the open category and the Under 18. Supernova was playing in the Under-18. Participating teams were divided into 2 groups and Supernova was in group 2. Games will be played alternately, under-18 game followed by an open category game and vice versa. Supernova had to play 3 matches that Saturday. Babah watched a few Supernova matches and during some occasions shouted "That's my boy!" when Zizol scored goals. (That was so like Pak Abu, Azizol Abu Haniffah Perak soccer player's father who used to shout like that whenever Azizol scored goals:-)) Supernova won 2 matches out of the 3 matches and was 2nd.in the group. Therefore Supernova had play against the winner of group 1, tomorrow on Sunday. It was a sweet beginning for Zizol and his teammates.Not bad after all.
Day 2: Sunday 17 Dec'06
Supernova's match was played around 10 am something. When babah came back from getting something to eat at the nearby stalls, Zizol said "We lost our game". He was not sure if there would be another game for what ever placing. However, later it was made known Supernova has to play for the 3rd.placing....and the RM100 price.
Supernova won but Babah did not saw their victory. Zizol said earlier on Iznan's father Azman had made a challenge to them if Supernova wins, he would add on RM50 to the RM100 price. So, Supernova received the RM100 plus RM50 and divided the money among the players...they went to Alamanda, had a 2-frames of ten pin bowling game....Babah said, "In future, Supernova can now think of participating in any other tournaments".Syabas to Supernova!!!
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