HERE WE GO AGAIN...ANOTHER HIJRAH

It was an eventful stay in Klang. A nice house, an equally nice office and beautiful people from BH, Metro and NST as company. Minarni was BH rep while Saodah Elias was NST staff correspondent. Metro had a stringer working for the tabloid. Don't remember his name, but a pleasant chap.
Together, we were like Starsky and Hutch. But I scooped him a few times and he did likewise. Then, the following day, we worked together on exclusives.
The late Nayagam would never get me in the morning. Everytime he called, someone would tell him, Bad had gone for breakfast or a PC. The caller line identification programme (CLIP) was just introduced and I was the first in NSTP to get my handphone CLIPped.
Everytime Nayagam called, I would hide in the bathroom and told him I was in a PC or a mamak shop somewhere. I was at home and he gave up.
Then one day, Boon Siew called me to say Datuk Kadir Jasin was unhappy to see me rotting away in Klang and I could do wonders in KL (Haha).
He told me to get pack up. Had a tough time finding a nice but cheap abode in KL. Found one in Bandar baru Ampang...a four-room terrace house full of cracks at RM970 a month.
As much as I did not want to move back, I kept reminding myself of a promise made when I got the job. I would never say no to orders and this was an order from the GEIC himself.
While Yushaimi and Lionel were already clearing copies in the evening, I was still reporting. I still kept my midnight shift but I really did not mind. I wanted to be a reporter till I retire.
After almost a year, we decided to buy a bungalow in Bukit Sentosa (where we live now) and again another Hijrah.
One day, Boon Siew called me and told me to report direct to Datuk Kadir. I was stunned and wondered hard where I had f..ked up.
In the evening, I knocked onto Datuk Kadir's office and he told me whatever I do from there on would be monitored by him. He wanted me to concentrate on special reports and undercover assignments, which were my forte anyway.
His first assignment from him was to expose the foreign beggar scam. "Do what you have to do but report to me everyday."
The next morning, I was waiting to see Datuk Kadir in an old t-shirt and a pair of faded jeans. His PA cautioned me he might not like to see that but when I walked into his office, he looked surprised. "Ready for the job, heh? Good! Just remember, call me in the evening to brief me what you have."