I stepped into the 'Your Top-Class Travel Agency' which only issued first-class overseas travel tickets clutching my Platinum American Express card in my hand. It was my department's card but I considered it mine and if my Malaysian assignment was successful maybe it would be upgraded to a paid-for by the Government and Monash University black Centurian card.
I brushed past a middle-aged employee and made a beeline for the young Asian who looked about 20 and who was wearing a Monash University Light blue, oversized, baggy tracksuit. They obviously had a relaxed work clothing standard here. You have to give it to the Asians. They are hard workers. Here was someone who probably was top of her year in Medicine or Theoretical Physics or whatever and was still working part-time.
"Did you make her, sir?" she enquired.
I thought it was a bit personal, but then I thought of the woman clinging to my arm. Her name was Nural and she was my selection as P.A. for the Malaysian assignment. She was of course Malaysian and working in my department. 21 years old, slim and tall as that is what I preferred and dressed like some unknown wannabe starlet attending the red carpet who desperately wanted to stand out and be noticed.
It then made sense so I replied, "Twice last night and then a 2-hour session this morning." Although she was not flaunting her sex I was always on the lookout for more staff in my department. Why not practice my recruiting technique I thought. I continued having seen the Monash gym symbol, "And if you like we can have a threeway after you finish work as an interview for a casual place in my department at Monash." I turned to Nural. "What is your annual salary and your ranking?"
"360,000, and I am ranked 7th among your staff," she replied.
"I meant Jamacia in the Bahamas, sir. It's the place to be seen this month, the Asian staffer said.
Suitably chastised, I had the decency to go red in the face but then she continued, "I finish at 3.30 today."
Two days later, after my first overseas flight I was sitting in a Kuala Lumpur luxury restaurant thinking first-class air travel suited me. The restaurant was on the 48th floor of the Naza Tower and I was sitting back enjoying the view of KLCC park and the city skyscape. Sitting opposite me and my P.A. as we ate, according to the restaurant, 'the food of Gods', which was probably true as both Gods and when the food had been cooked a long time ago, was the 50-year-old Abdul Halim and his wife Zaliha who from her face I took to be aged about 30.
Abdul was the person I had to win over if my first trip overseas on official business was to be a success. If you wish, you can read the 9 preceding stories to see how I discovered the late Monash University academic Dr Graham Martin's memoirs and was now trying to follow in his illustrious steps.
As Abdul had rejected Dragonball I offered him a game of cards, knowing that a combination of my 'innocent' finger taps on the table and, my computerised watch and matching special glasses that saw readouts invisible to the normal eye would give me the advantage I wanted.
He shook his head. "I only like Penang Rummy with the Si option," he replied. "You wouldn't know it, so that would be unfair." Despite being a Muslim, he offered, "What about a drinking game?" Obviously, there are different rules for being a Muslim if you are not poor.
I shook my head. I was a non-drinker as the only school party I had ever been invited to was by mistake when my name was mistakenly included in the group message. It was there because I was doing all the sports jock's homework in return for not getting beaten up and I mistakenly thought it was a genuine invite. I arrived there, had one drink which went to my head and approached the jock and suggested I get paid for doing his work. My broken nose only kept me away from school for 3 days and I have never imbibed since.
As I had already turned down his first and second offers of who could eat the most live scorpions in 3 minutes and a bout of the Malaysian unarmed combat, Silat Melayu, for obvious reasons, I was running out of options. I said the first thing that came into my mind, which as always was "Sex."
Adbul's face lit up. His smile was as reassuring as a shark's grin to a seal pup "Perfect," he said. "I will fuck your P.A., and you will fuck my wife, Zaliha, and we will match up the number of times my wife and I cum against yours and your P.A.'s. The team that has the most orgasms, or has someone drop out, loses. If you win then the student quotas for overseas students will be yours for only 10% more than the Singapore payment of USA$2000. Lose and you can have them for 50% more than them. I always worry when someone says the word 'only' and looks at me with a straight face.
For the first time, I sized up his wife. Of course, if she had been attractive, I would have been able to give you a detailed run down as soon as I had entered the restaurant. As I have said she looked about 30 but when I examined Zaliha more I saw she was dressed in a dark blue Malaysian 2-piece Baju Kebaya outfit with a maroon hijab. She was round-faced, about 5 ft 4 and probably weighed 130 lbs. She had full tits and the tight, full-length sarong dress below the kebaya jacket showed that she had a big arse and a pretty heavy potbelly.
It couldn't get any better I thought trying to hide my smile. It would be a cakewalk. Abdul was at least 50 and his wife lacked sex appeal. By luck my P.A., Nural, was probably the one in all my Asian staff who could fuck the longest, so she would outlast Abdul and I would make his wife cum so often we would win.