Visit to senior OE, Captain Badri's house

My lovely Sunday afternoon nap was disturbed when my son, Zharif, woke me up. He said a friend of mine was at the gate. Upon reaching at the gate, I noticed it was my senior OE, Kamal. "Muz, come on. Follow me to net some fish. Then, we go to Capt Badri's house. You have not been to his house, have you?". Since I could not continue my nap anyway, I decided to follow him. Net some fish he said? So, I wore a suitable short pants and packed a spare cargo pants.
I thought we were going to a river or a big fish pond. It turned out that we were to net some fishes out from a small pond at someone's house. The house-owner is a retired Colonel Hj Khan. He was also a neighbour to my father-in-law when he lived at Taman Permata. Hj Khan decided to cover up the pond to prevent his little grand-children from falling into it. Thus, our "mission" to net the fishes and later to be transported to Captain Badri's house. After some tea, we netted the fishes (tilapias) and secured them in a big tank inside the cargo area of Kamal's Honda CRV. Then, off we went to Capt Badri's house at Sungai Buloh. I have never before been to Badri's house, so, this was my first.
Upon reaching the front gate, a cute little girl's voice could be heard, "Tok Bah, Uncle Kamal datang". She is Capt Badri's grand-daughter. Badri has two fish ponds. The one at the back of his house contains little tilapias. He asked us to transfer the ones that we brought to the pond at the front.
Badri and wife asked us to stay for dinner.
After dinner, we chatted about our old school, history of Matang and Taiping in particular and of Perak in general. We discussed our family backgrounds, since my mother's side came from the Matang Gelugor area and my father was also an OE. Topics of discussion varied from Long Jaafar, Ngah Ibrahim, the OBJ or Tengku Mentri of Taiping and the history of Mustafa Hussain (who was an OE and one of the pioneers of KMM). Badri showed me the book written by Insun Sony Mustafa, titled "Mustafa Hussain - Malay Nasionalist". Wonder whether I could still get one at MPH.
Before we depart for home, Kamal had helped to cleaned two tilapias for me to take home. Badri recommended them to be grilled while Kamal said he preferred them fried.
Anyway, I will check some tilapia recipes in the net.

(note - OE - Old Edwardians. Former students of King Edward VII School, Taiping, Perak).