I met an interesting old chap at Putrajaya Lake Club House tonight. It wasn't an intentional meeting. I had a celebration dinner for SAS band members there. The oldboys of SAS Band, including myself, sponsored this party for the current members for their hatrick winning in All SBP Wind Orchestra competition months ago.

It started as to have this old chap as entertainer at the lake club house. He sang pretty good and I must admit that he has good voice for singing some tunes from 70s and 80s. Those light and easy songs really get me relaxed.

After the whole party ended, he approached our table. It was only me, Irma and Fakhri, still chilling and borak2 with each other over cup of coffee. Yeah, we introduced each other and getting acquainted.

He had quite an interesting story about himself. I first suspected that he is a Chinese because of his look and his fluent English. I was wrong then. He is a Singaporean Malay. He is in Malaysia, being singer at club house and hotel and earns a pretty good income. At that point, we were wondering how old is he now.

What makes him interesting to me when he shared with us about his past. About his awakening, his alcoholic period and his call. Being curious myself, I asked him many things about what he did in the past and how did he end up here in KL. He also shared with us about his view about spirituality and his practice in this area.

You see, being spiritual and being religious are two distinctively different character. I can be religious but now spiritual or I can be spiritual without being religious about it. So, in my view, he is a spiritual person. He connects with his awareness and his surrounding. He internalizes many positive values in life and thrives in hardship of life.

My last comment before I left him at the club house was about his colorful past. He said, "Be careful, colors are deceitful. Once you mix all the colors, all you get is white. Now for me, it's white and black". I grinned and nodded.

Hmmm..good and insightful advices came without expectation and these advices are important for young people like myself and my other two friends. We agreed that we learned something new tonight. About connection with God, about having faith in Him during the trial period and about surviving under His Mercy.