The young and the Museless.

Part 1 of 2.

The Tickets

'I got the tickets,' my sister said over the phone as I was paying for the tickets to the train. I was on the back to, waitaminit... I was on the way to go Lao Yatt to check out some stuff. Anyway, that news was one of the best news that I've heard in my life!!! I was so psyched, I ran across the train tracks and bodyslammed the cleaning lady until she stopped laughing.

So there I was, with 3 tickets to the concerts of one the best bands from the UK ever since The Beatles, Oasis, Limp Bizkit and Madonna!

The first thing that came to mind was my 2 colleagues, Faisal the Retired Rempit and Nurul the Smoker. So I texted them the good news. '25th, 8pm! Muse! I got 3 tickets' I said. They actually knew about this, because I already told them that I'd prolly get the tix. Sadly, Faisal couldnt make it on account that he had an illegal race scheduled that night and with a prize of a 3 piece KFC set and a toy . 'Screw Muse! This is KFC, man!' he said.* Damn, Faisal couldnt make it. Nurul replied saying that she's totally on for it. So for the last ticket, I called up my cousin and he was totally, and I quote, "ON!!! LET US ROCK UNTIL OUR EARS TURN FLAT!" My cousin is crazy like that. Heh heh. Ears turn flat. Which freak has flat ears anyway? Not anyone that I know of. Flat ears. Tch. Some imagination he has.

And so, I boarded the train, thinking of what color socks should I wear to the concert. There were two not so hot chicks sitting in front of me, sharing a bag of Cheezels. As I was minding my own business whilst eavesdropping on their pointless conversation about some bastard car, my phone rang. It was my sister.

About my sister. She works for one of the satelite tv stations in Malaysia (macam ada banyak jek) and occasionally (and also, upon request ;), she somehow manages to get us tickets to some concert that occasionally land here. Sometimes sucky local ones like Akademi Fantasia and also the shitcrap onna stick ones, like Akademi Fantasia. And of course, the good ones like Muse, Incubus and NOT-FUCKIN'-AKADEMI-FANTASIA!

And most of the time, what we get is what we get and seating arrangements or whatever is totally out of her hands. Which sometimes suck but hey, if its free, I'd sit on the stadium lights with a pair of binoculars, 2 bottles of mineral water an a fly swatter, 'numsayin?

'Bad news,' she said. Uh-oh, I thought. Somehow, I sensed that she was about to give me bad news.

'Theres only 2 tickets left.' Damn!

'Aik? I thought there were 3 of em. What happened?! I want my money back!!'

'Banyak cantek. Bayar pon tak. Kang orang kasik yang lagi 2 dua ni pada orang lain kang. Nak?'

'Eh, tak tak. What happened to the other 1?'

'It's like this,' somehow I sensed that she was about explain to me how the other ticket got nicked. 'The other ticket got taken before the 3 got to me.' Aku dah agak dah. 'I was promised 3 but in the end, due to some miscommunication, I only got 2.'

'Anger...rising... '

' *announces to people around her* SAPA TADI NAK CONCERT MUSE NI TADI...?'

'Anger... lowering... '

' Very funny. So I'll leave the tickets with mama.'

I said goodbye and hung up. And started thinking of how the heck am I gonna break the news to these 2 people. 2 tickets. 3 people. Not good. So I'm left with 2 options.

First option: I'll have to kill one of these people so they wont be pissed with me and later kill ME. But then I figured, I cant kill my cousin because for one thing, he's horribly disfigured, and killing him will only end his misery on this earth and I dont kill people who actually want to be killed. Takes the fun out of things. And Nurul, well, I cant kill her. Because she's doing a fine job of that by herself. (Smoking kills! Katakan taknak! hehehhehhe.)

Damn. I guess I'll just have to tell one of 'em the whole story. Come to think of it, I'm not worried about any one of them killing me. (Reasons are as the above.) Option 2 it is then.

It was a hard decision so I weighed things out and figured that blood is thicker than water(plus he had a car and could pick me up) so I opted to go with my cuz. So so sorry Nurul.

I texted her what happened and apologized profusely to her. And she was cool with it. Later on, I noticed that jobs at the office somehow seemed to pile up curiously for me. Hmm. Cool with it my ass! (Just kidding. She's cool with it really. Saje je tambah cerita. heh heh.)

So thats settled. Woohoo! We're going to Muse, bebeh!

*just kidding. He couldnt make it because he had to settle some stuff and he has never ever participated in anything illegal. And even if he did, kamon la, he couldnt win a race even if it was a hundred metre race with retarded preschoolers.