Joe is the tall(6' 7") English..ooopps sorry,(he prefers to be called British) guy who was staying at St. Columba's Church apartment or otherwise called 'rumah pada' from January 2006 to 23rd August,2006. Ya,THAT ONE! Punjabi? No lah, anak orang putih..( a white kid) (action: one has to move the lips /mouth at the same time pointing to that person just like Esther) One kid even mistook him for -----when he went to the playschool to teach Bible Study (?). Once, as we were walking along Petaling Street,some stall vendors shouted,"Peter Crouch" as we were passing by. Josap just smiled back. Jusip once commented that it's easier for M'sians to call him Joseph than to call him JOE. We ended calling him JAW instead. Ha..ha..JOE!.(Plenty of jaw exercise here if we're to pronounce the way that Joe would like us to call him.)
He was sent by a church organisation ( somewhere in the Midlands) to get a first hand experience living with the Borneons. No,no,he's not a trainee priest even though he was treated like one during his 6 mths' stint at St. Columba's.(He stayed in Brunei for a while,too,hence I said Borneo)
This page is dedicated to Joe because in his email to me about 6 mths ago was,"I really miss being able to go for coffee all day long everyday, and so cheaply too,compared to London."
Towards the end of his stay,he,somehow switched back to drinking tea.
Some mornings and afternoons,Nel and I took Joe out from the Parish office for breakfast and tea. We did quite a bit of 'hopping from one kedai kupi to the next' ngirup kupi all day long,tiap-tiap ari.'
Tea for you,sir????????
This page is dedicated to Joe because in his email to me about 6 mths ago was,"I really miss being able to go for coffee all day long everyday, and so cheaply too,compared to London."
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