The lads were trapped and they knew pretty well that the old man will not give up so easily. Highly intoxicated, they were not in any mood to compromise their freedom which meant finding a way out of the tight situation they were in, and the only road out of the neighbourhood was blocked by this gutsy old man, Steven Ng Teen Cheong. It was a classic OK Corral showdown again but instead of being the famous Marshal Wyatt Earp of Tombstone, Arizona packing a six shooter firearm it was Steven Ng, the Marshal of the Rukun Tetangga base of SS 25, PJ who was armed only with a broken branch of a tree and plenty of guts. The motorbike engine revved furiously as though it was a flag off in a motorbike drag race but instead it wa only to send a stern …show more content…
But then again this was the first time in my life that I have ever seen Steven resting and that too in a wheelchair. He was braced in contraptions that limited his mobility so as to heal the fractures he contracted in the accident. The accident which happened was actually a hit and run tantamounting to attempted murder something that you could only see in an action drama and very seldom in real life. I sat there listening to Steven, who reminded me of Stephen Hawking sitting in his high-tech wheelchair mumbling electronically about the universe but Steven Ng’s story was even more intriguing but at the same time not as surprising because I knew him only too well. As I said earlier, if we had patterns of people documented, it would be certain that apart from a few variations everything else could predictably match and once again Marshall Steven Ng lived up to expectations. Steven did not play golf, do Karaoke, throw darts, or hang around with the boys gambling, drinking beer or bird watching his interest, that very one that got him sitting in a wheelchair with a broken body was one of his passionate hobbies, something that he would give up his life