The one and only Charles A. Bateman sitting pretty and standing with daughter Felicia.
It’s not every day that you have the pleasure of His Excellency’s company let alone his and his brother-in-law families as well. Charles Arthur Bateman is a fine and distinguishing looking gentleman with a sharp wit and sense of humor and does not mind me ribbing him about being the ‘governor’ on account of him getting away with not attending long tedious and boring meetings because of his ‘stature’ which mere mortals like yours truly have to endure. *sigh*
Bryan, Rachael, Maurice, FH2o, Charles A Bateman, Mona, Azmi, Angelina, Basil Wee & Felicia @ Sg Abang, Thursday 27th December 2007
Anyway after secretly reading my blog for a while, Charles being an outdoors loving person (although I must qualify that his fondness for the outdoors is strictly confined to his love for his old junk land rover and all things land rovers) finally decided to check out our kayaking trip – with his wife, 2 lovely daughters, his sister and her husband and their 2 sons.
And so on a fine Thursday morning we set out for Kg Bengoh with this fine company of 8 on their first kayaking trip ever. To cut a long story short – they all loved it! Especially His Excellency whose idea of kayaking is to lie on a supine position while his wife does all the hard work … *sigh*
They all did well despite being beginners although at one bend in the river they all went for a swim to avoid kissing a grove of bamboos when directed there by the strong river currents. And the governor has to do one better at the take-out at Kg Semadang while he pondered my command to get off the kayak but instead capsized it with Azmi and Juri desperately chasing after the runaway kayak!
I should have known better that Governors do not take instructions or commands kindly. Forgive me Your Excellency!
Kayaking Charles Arthur Bateman’s style …
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