Tongkat Ali of Life

“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot;

The guy who invented the other three,

he was the genius…”  

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Chapter 12

“Brother that God forgot to give”

He is Godfather’s son. 

He is a brilliant man, graduated from Oxford. Major in Business but he don’t look like a graduate. 

We are about the same age. 

I knew him through Godfather.

He was the one who took me to the doctor after I got slashed by the samurai sword. 

We become instant friends. 

After I was working in Godfather’s office, we even become closer. 

We usually hanged out after work to discotheque & karaoke.

Get to know all types of girls. 

Every morning woke up with different girls on your bed. 

Go to work late. 

The best thing was whenever I go to work late, God father will asked Kidd where did he took me the night before. 

Then we started talking about which girls we took home and Godfather will jokingly asked why we didn’t invite him along. 

Kidd will always answer, “How am I going to explain to mum if she ask me?” 

We laughed.

Chapter 11 

“Always look out for each other”

The election is held once every year.

Godfather will always be the number one until decide to retire or dies.

The election is for the person who holds number two (big brother or tai-ko) position.

Just in case something happened to Godfather, tai-ko will make a further decision.

Rule # 1:

Tai-ko cannot elect himself as a Godfather without the consent of brother three (sam-ko), four (sei-ko) & five (erm-ko).

Rule # 2:

If tai-ko is not elected to be the Godfather, tai-ko, sam-ko, sei-ko & erm-ko must choose one person from the organization to be the Godfather.

Rule # 3:

The organization must no fight over power.

Rule # 4:

The organization is the family & the family is the organization. Our rice bowl depends on the organization.

Rule # 5:

Whatever happens in the family remains in the family.

Rule # 6:

Royalty is an action not just a word.

Rule # 7:

Whoever betrayed the organization shall be punished by death & the family generations will be banned from the organization.

Rule # 8:

We trade blood with blood.

Rule # 9:

We served the organization until death.

Rule # 10:

We ensure the safety of our family.

Chapter 10 

 ”Identify your brothers like a mother identify her son”

 How to identify the brotherhood? 

No special handshake. 

No special design tattoo. 

No password or code word. 

No kiss on the ring.

Our brotherhood base on royalty. 

First mistake, you are forgiven. 

Second mistake will be your last. 

Yes, we do have the brotherhood book.

We called it the ‘royalty book.

This ‘royalty book’ is kept by in a valve somewhere.

Nobody really knows where it is actually kept. 

I only saw it once when Godfather had the brotherhood meeting held once a year. 

It was taken out because the ‘royalty book’ needs to be transferred into computer database (before computer age). 

The royalty book we kept in metal box. 

Four of the trusted brotherhoods hold the key to open the box. 

After these royalty books were transfer into the computer, the book is destroyed. 

The royalty book contains few hundred years old of our brotherhood history. 

How our organization rises and falls.

And later rises again.

Chapter 9 

“Remember the words of our ancestors as it will bring us to the future”

How big is the organization? 

The more money you have, the bigger your organization will be. 

In Asia, our organization expands to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, and Vietnam & Indonesian. In every country, we have our family.  

For example: In Malaysia in every state we have a family.  

The family runs the business their own ways; as long as the money will be channel to the main company. 

The headquarters is in Singapore and which we controlled the whole organization. 

The organization is so impress that we have foundations to ensure the family have been taken care of. 

The children in the family will be supported by the organization to ensure their future will be taken care of. 

And when these children graduated, they will pay back by donating to the foundations that actually belongs to the organization. 

It is like a big circle. 

Those children who want to join the organization will be given a normal office job.

When they are ready, the truth will be revealed to them. 

For those children who have no interest in education, they are still be taken care but the truth about the organization will only be reveal to them when the time is right.

Chapter 8

“The first kill was hard, the next one is easy..”

Have I killed a man? 

I once used a fork and jabbed it into a man’s neck.

I didn’t mean to kill him.  

He was too stubborn.

We have warned his not to sell any illegal sustain in our area.

He thought he was able to control the area.

He was dead wrong. 

We had a talked in a kopitiam.

His men and my men were there. 

Argument got pretty tense up.

I grabbed something in my hand and jabbed it to his neck. 

Blood was oozing out from his neck.  

The fight started. Kidd took me away from the fight scene.

We escape through the back door.   

The next day, Kidd and I went to his funeral and we saw his wife and two little kids we kneeling down. 

The wife didn’t know it was us who did it. 

I wondered where were his men now? 

I got to find out later that he was only a puppet to somebody; selling drugs on the street.

He lives a fast lane life. 

I felt sorry for him.

I felt sorry for myself.

I have killed a human being. 

I paid my last respect to him. 

Gave some money to the wife and walked out from the funeral parlor with Kid watching my back

Chapter 7

“Tame your enemies like you tame your dog”

Godfather is a very careful person. He doesn’t act without facts. 

Once there was a man who was trying to tarnish Godfather business by telling lies and spreading rumors. 

Godfather could have get someone to finish him off but Godfather told me that what comes around goes around. 

When you take someone else life, someday someone else will take yours. 

Therefore, Godfather hired an investigator to check about this man background. 

We know where he lives, we know where he works, we even know how many children he has and we even knows where the children go to school. 

One day, Godfather sent a bouquet of flowers with an invitation to the wife.

The wife did not know who were they from, the messenger just told them that they have won a contest and the prize is everything free in one of the five star hotels.

Godfather own part of the hotel. 

That weekend the whole family went to the hotel.

While the whole family were enjoying, Godfather invited him to for dinner. Just him.

He did not know who invited him for dinner until he entered the restaurant and found only Godfather, Kidd (This brother will be in my next chapter) and I were waiting for him. 

He tried to walk out from the restaurant but it was too late, one of the bodyguards was stopping him from existing. 

“Mr. Chow, please have a seat” Godfather invited. 

“Would you like a glass of wine?” Godfather concluded. 

“No, thanks” He answered. 

“Can we have this conversation short” He proposed. 

Godfather is a man of few words.  

“You want it short?” Godfather asked 

“Ok, let’s make it short” Godfather complied. 

“You have been tarnishing my good names in front of my business associates and I want you to stop it!” Godfather instructed him. 

Godfather took out the photos of his wife and children; place it on the table. 

“Are you treating me?” He asked. 

“It depend on how you look at it” Godfather answered. 

“I just want you to stop saying things about me which it is a lie” Godfather concluded. 

He looked at Godfather. 

“Ok, I will stop but just don’t hurt my family” He requested. 

Godfather laughed. 

“We can be friends,” Godfather told him. 

Godfather gave out his hand and both of them shook it. 

Both of them become good friends after that.                

Chapter 6

“The money is everywhere, is up to you; how you going to grab it”

There were three entry points in Malaysia.

The first entry point is in Pahang, the second entry point is in Penang and the third entry point is in Johor. 

Timing is very important to ensure the goods received on the specific date and time. 

I remembered once, Godfather took me to a warehouse in Johor.

We did not need to stop at the checkpoint; as the guards know who we were. 

We reached the warehouse and there we no officer there. 

I asked Godfather and he told me all of them went out for lunch. 

We went in to the warehouse. There were five of us, including Godfather’s three bodyguards. 

Godfather asked on of them to open up one of the wooden boxes. 

One of the bodyguards took out a pair rubber gloves and handed over to Godfather. 

Godfather wore the rubber gloves.  

To my surprised, the bodyguard took out a gun out from the wooden boxes and handed over to Godfather. 

“I thought we do not do drug and gun?!” I asked Godfather. 

“We don’t do drug because we do not want to de-generate our next generation” Godfather replied. 

“We do weapon because we are entitled to protect ourselves from our enemy” Godfather continues. 

“I am just a middleman who helps other to deliver their goods” Godfather explained. 

“Whatever they do with these goods is not my business” Godfather concluded. 

“You will be surprised if I tell you who involved in this trade” Godfather said. 

“Don’t just stand there; don’t you want to learn how to fire a gun?” Godfather asked.