kungfu fighting in local politics

chicken rice oldman & pradaman

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it had to begin with old lau heelos in peesailand.

so begins our story.....

oldman was a goodie 2 shoes before he arose to power to become the grand overlord ruling peesailand for 4 decades. his humble beginning was actually a chicken rice seller.

his hot&cold chicken or pak chum kai was so bloodied popular that he rose bloody fast to acclaim power in the martial arts world in local politics. oldman was a hot-blooded young lawyer all fired up to serve the peasants with his wonderful aromatic chicken rice. it was dirt cheep then at 70c a plate of steaming fragrant pandan-leaved steaming rice with generous chunks of fat plainly boiled juicy tender chick. his chilly was fiery. when he bellowed, everyone one from the low class to the high class respected him in awe and heeded his words. they had to then. oldman got everyone hooked to his chicken rice. they couldn't leave a day without his cheep hawking.

finally after accumulating much weath, the entire peesailand fell under the mercy of oldman.

along the way came this ah neh, a rotund indian who had the penchant to stick to prospective powderful man. the man of that time was none other oldman. ah neh set up stall next to oldman's chicken rice. ah neh's speciality was roti prata. his prata tossing skill was so so. it was usually off the mark when it spinned in the air as ah neh tossed it. spinning air-borne prata usually either landed on oldman's face when he looked up or on prata's head when he bashfully looked down.

when old man's business flourished into an empire called the LEEgime, so did prataman ah neh. he absorbed some of the glory since he was that close to oldman. sometime, when u observed ah neh carefully, u could even notice the "shine" that was rubbing onto him with such close proximity to the oily chicken rice seller oldman.

now, the oldman was the supreme ruler. ah neh was made the presidento. oldman had to create many white elephant posts. he got too much taels to distribute to all those who had rubbed off with some of the sleaze and grease from his oily chicken. it made them such eliteful "shiny" glory.

prataman ah neh had since also upgraded his name appropriately to PRADAMAN. prata was 50c then. PRADA would be a 4-figure$ now. but both pradaman ah and oldman neh were worth million$.

but peasants being the lower mortals could do nothing. the chicken rice now had shrunken. they still got the rice though not as oomp! or fragrant as it used to be. they still got the chicken but no longer the fat and juicy tender. infact, one would consider lucky if he could get some tough meat. usually, it was more chicken bone than meat.

while prata had become PRADA, chicken rice now was more like chicken lice. chicken rice fattened peasants. chicken lice sucked the peasants really dry! it was more chicken bones than meat. well, life went on. peasant couldn't starve if still served with plain chicken rice but many had dropped dead when they were choked with chicken bone from the chicken lice!