Poor fishies...

A dear friend had just moved into her new house last month. And as part of her Balinese-home concept, she had installed a small water feature in her in-house garden. The whole thing had fit in perfectly in her plan and even her husband had to agree that it was a great concept.

Hence, when I went for her sort-of house warming get-together, I asked whether they are going to get any fishes, e.g. koi, for the new kolam...


Friend: No way!
Binx: Why laa?
Friend: Firstly, it stinks.
Friend: Secondly, what if it jumps out of the kolam on to my new sofa?
Friend: Habis laa sofa baru I...
Binx: Rite.........


Anyway, I guess the husband managed to persuade her into buying some goldfish for their new kolam. So the couple had happily went shopping for goldfish and not to forget an 'ikan bandaraya'.

Being an amateur at it, the couple meddled their way through in preparing the kolam for their new fishes. Little did they know that fishes, especially goldfish, are very sensitive creatures that needed to be settled into their new 'home' gently. With a single thrust, they let got of the fishies to dive their way into their new environment.

Soon after, the fishies became the center of attention of the couple, especially the husband. He would actually feed them constantly around the clock.


#1 (Conversation over the phone)

Friend: You know what?
Binx: What?
Friend: I spent the whole night cleaning up the kolam last night..
Friend: All the fishies dah mati..
Binx: Huh? All of them? What happened?
Friend: We don't know.. But urrgghh.. the smell was horrible..


#2 (Conversation over breakfast)

Binx: So what actually happened to the fishies?
Friend: I don't know.. Nak kata I didn't clean the kolam, I did..
Friend B: Did you change the water?
Friend: Of course laa.. Fresh tab water ok..
Friend B: Did you put anti-chlorine in the water?
Friend: Errkk.. Kena eh?
Binx & Friend B: d'oh!
Friend: Opppss..
Friend: But hubby feeds them well.. non-stop
Friend B: Bagus laa tuh.. Makan banyak2 plus minum air filled with chlorine.. poor fishies..
Binx: *lol* Kejam nya you guys..
Friend: No wonder the fishies were very fat and bloated when we found them dead..
Binx: Oh my god...

Binx: So how many fishies did you guys get actually?
Friend: Around 30 kut..
Binx: And all 30 of them died?
Friend: No lah.. but we decided to get rid of the rest too..
Friend B: What did you do with them?
Friend: I threw them into the drain.. so that they can swim off to the open sea..
Binx & Friend B: You ingat macam dalam Finding Nemo ke?
Friend: Betul laa.. At least that was better what..
Friend: Hubby wanted to flush them off into the toilet bowl.
Binx: Eh.. hello.. where do you think the drain leads to?
Binx: Mana ada laut kat KL nieh kak oii...
Friend: Then?
Binx: It leads to the water reservoir laa.. where the water will be treated to be recycled.
Friend: Oh my god.. I'm a fish killer..
Friend B: Poor fishies...


That was the funniest conversation we had over our monthly breakfast date by far. Imagine the look on the other customers' faces when we were laughing our hearts out and even screaming (takde laa on top of our voices) to our 'smart' friend this morning.




binx: "nemooooo.. where are youuuuuuuuu....?"