Elaborate plane crash

I had an MSN conversation with Siew Kiat, my backpacking partner, two nights ago at 3am, as I was surprised he was online seeing that he didn’t have a laptop with him in Langkawi where he’s studying to be a pilot. And the 11pm curfew he was telling me about last time would prevent him from using the computer lab.

He told me he quit his flying school and I was like . And then he told me he crashed his plane due to engine failure which I went .

Apparently it even made it in the TheStar newspaper nearly a month ago and I had read that very article – he linked the page to me, and it indeed described the plane crashed by a pilot student and an instructor.

So I told Gopi online about what happened (and to Ding too in fact wtf) and then discovered…

I had been had WTF. Gopi even pasted the conversation he had with May Peng:

maypeng is as slow as a says:
he came bek for hols this weekend
maypeng is as slow as a says:
flying off today edi
GoPi ( www.lepakbrother.blogspot.com) says:
haha
maypeng is as slow as a says:
came bek for two day oni
maypeng is as slow as a says:
i heard he been partying la…cheap booze ler\

Hahaha diu or not how can a drunkard hold a serious conversation with someone at all?? Below is an extract of our conversation and you might understand why he fooled me completely:

(2:49 AM) //c l e m: yoo
(3:05 AM) SK: yo ~~
(3:05 AM) SK: ^^
(3:05 AM) //c l e m: yo lol
(3:05 AM) //c l e m: how come u still online so late??
(3:06 AM) SK: lol
(3:06 AM) SK: i am at home
(3:06 AM) //c l e m: oh :|
(3:06 AM) //c l e m: holiday ka?
(3:06 AM) SK: no i stopped
(3:07 AM) //c l e m: :| :|
(3:07 AM) //c l e m: what happened?
(3:07 AM) SK: i almost crashed and die
(3:07 AM) SK: close call
(3:07 AM) SK: decided not to persue
(3:07 AM) //c l e m: oh god >.<
(3:07 AM) SK: scary shit man….
(3:07 AM) //c l e m: that must be traumatic man
(3:07 AM) SK: did you read the papers?
(3:07 AM) //c l e m: no i didnt
(3:07 AM) //c l e m: it appeared in papers?
(3:07 AM) SK: it was in the papers
(3:07 AM) SK: yea
(3:07 AM) //c l e m: wtfffff
(3:08 AM) //c l e m: when was this?
(3:08 AM) SK: last week
(3:08 AM) SK: my crash was 3 weeks ago
(3:08 AM) SK: 20 days ago actually
(3:08 AM) //c l e m: hmm.. any link to this? lol
(3:08 AM) SK: it was in stars
(3:09 AM) SK: i don’t have the link
(3:09 AM) //c l e m: did your name appear?
(3:09 AM) SK: let me seach for the article
(3:09 AM) //c l e m: cause it’ll be easier to google lol
(3:10 AM) //c l e m: but geez man luckily you’re alright
(3:10 AM) SK: darn scary la
(3:10 AM) SK: you will never get to feel it if you’re not flyin the plane
(3:11 AM) //c l e m: yeah true >_>
(3:11 AM) //c l e m: was it strong winds or smthg?
(3:11 AM) SK: engine failure
(3:11 AM) //c l e m: wtfffff
(3:11 AM) SK: while i was taking off
(3:11 AM) //c l e m: then that is seriously stupid
(3:11 AM) SK: i landed before the threshold. on the grass. force landing
(3:11 AM) //c l e m: should sue your school lol
(3:12 AM) SK: it wasn’t 100% their fault
(3:12 AM) //c l e m: didnt ensure the plane was alright before flying >_>
(3:12 AM) SK: the engine fuel line had a leak. so the fuel was not fed properly to the engine
(3:13 AM) //c l e m: jesus
(3:13 AM) //c l e m: seriously ><
(3:13 AM) //c l e m: seriously swt to the max
(3:14 AM) SK: just last year there was another crash. he landed in the sea. was alright though
(3:14 AM) //c l e m: LANDED IN THE SEA
(3:14 AM) //c l e m: man guess you’re really unlucky lol
(3:14 AM) SK: scary shit la. well was once in a life time experience though
(3:14 AM) //c l e m: lol
(3:15 AM) //c l e m: indeed
(3:15 AM) //c l e m: man i dunno what to say lol
(3:15 AM) //c l e m: was it a hard decision to make tho about quitting?
(3:16 AM) SK: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/5/nation/20536009&sec=nation
(3:16 AM) SK: the article
(3:17 AM) SK: uh…i don’t know
(3:17 AM) SK: too scared
(3:17 AM) SK: so i just quit

Early April’s Fools indeed, and an elaborate one. I should have known when he ended our conversation with:

(3:25 AM) SK: if i ever die , tell my family to donate my organs for free