Something is burning in my heart.

,,,falling in love with a boat is far worst than with a lady yaaa!!.

,,,it’s a romance that goes on n on forever, seriously she is a lady that you have to appreciate/rub/care/talk/tender words & feel for. ....sometimes in French too ,,,,,Oui ? le mystere, decouvrir, le aventure..hehehe!!.

A relationship with a boat is very similar to marriage yaaa !!. Some two types of player, the never satisfied and the long haul who will stick it out to the end. When you are together, you learn her ways - for better or for worse. ,,,,,But if you ever think you know all her secrets you're bound to be surprised.

,,,you dream only of her, she is always on your mind 24/7/365.

,,,,yes, i have fallen in love too many times with those belonging to others ???? ……..,,,,, why so cruel,,,WHY ?.

,,,,can I really fall in love again so that she can be mine forever!!! ,,,,,,,something is burning in me, I can't yet figure it out…… yoooooo.

,,,,Will my heart bleed again, should I allow it ?. ,,,,,,,YES/NO,,,,,,,Can I ever learn !!.

,,,,Having a broken heart that bleeds, it hurts too much.

,,,,Yaaaaaa……everything in RED,,,,colour of money, flowers, sunset, roses……fire, hate, anger, blood ,,,,,,?!?!?.

,,,,Would I be guilty as charge !!.....being a long haul guy !!!.

,,,,,please remember that any relationship is a work in progress ; for better or for worse .....yaaaaaa!! Be careful not to fall in love with a boat or a lady.....it may hurt you as before....again n again !!

II etait une fois,,,just kidding!! @ KapasPirateKing

cont,,,,,,i just want to sail into the sunset one of these days rather than just looking at it yaaaaa !!,,,just forget everything and be just with you forever and ever!!.

L'eau est bleue turquoise Kapas Island.

Oui,,,,,,,Paradise at Kapas Island !!!!,,,,,,yo !!

Yooooo,,,,,La plus belle plage du monde pour passer de belles vacances c 'est sans aucun doute a Pulau Kapas, l'eau est bleue turquoise, les poissons magnifiques, meme les requins sont gentils!!

,,,,,,,quand on vient sur cette ile on a plus envie d'en repartir, elle garde une partie de notre coeur a jamais.

.....on se sent comme chez nous, la cuisine est fantastique,,,,,, Jane, mon chien est tres gentille et Jo le serpent est maintenant mon animal de compagnie.

.....Donc quand est ce que tu viens me voir ici ?,,,,,,desole pour mon francais peu correct, il sera meilleur si tu viens me voir !!!!!!

,,,,,,Bonne nuit et beaux reves.

Capt.

Services the Malaysian Lanun Laut Way o.k. guys

Our special personalized “Malaysian Hospitality & Services” as the marketing tool !!!.
YES indeed,,,,,,,,,,AT YOUR SERVICE WITH Capt. Shariff Abbas and his 1st mate, Inche Asaari at Capt’s Longhouse, Kapas Island.

As a "proactive service provider" keeping the customer 100% satisfied should be the most important element-lah, don’t forget that yaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!.

Yooooooo,,,,,,,Our extra special service must make bloody sense too.

Just simple common sense must always prevail in service rendered to our customer at Capt’s Longhouse. We serve people of all walks of life, in all income clusters from various histories and family backgrounds, and nationalities/colors plus all walks of life.

Mind you, some are just too funny-lah,,,, hehehe. (asking for 100% service from me ,,,Geeeee !!!, mind you, am just too expensive-lah but sometimes free sample is available kot ?,,,,,hahaha !!!!)

Our personalized type of service is time/culture-sensitive and it must be agile to times as well. What may work yesterday or today may no longer do so tomorrow as priorities change, expectations grow with maturing public.

Well, change indeed is constant and progressive onboard the island,,,,,,we have to just DO it-lah !!!!!! don’t just talk with no action about it O.K. !!!!!. Just follow this simple process,,,,Plan/Select/Act/Execute/Operate/Review !!!!!!

In each of our defined daily roles — we each look for one thing and one thing only when we seek a “SERVICE”.,,,,,, Is that asking for too much ?.

Here on the island when we turn up to a point of service, it is delivered as promised by the yours truly the Captain himself and his molly crew with basic human courtesies extended plus with our special Malaysian pirate smile.,,,,Yoooooo.

Mind you, no amount of modern technology advancement can replace this basic/simple/elementary and essential need we all want from a service !,,,,,,,,,,,service with a smile yaaaaaa.

The fundamental essence of service is respecting the “sacredness of time itself”;,,,,,, indeed the sacredness of the customer’s time. We also remember that the customer is the most important person, not the service provider. Mind you,,,,,,He/She the customer is the BOSS as always !.

If ever we keep people waiting without notice and set expectations, it displays total disrespect for that person. ,,,,,,,,,Sunggoh kurang SOPAN kan ?.

Indeed, strength of individual character is the focal point in providing this extra special service.
Remember that where there is strength in character, integrity follows. Where there is integrity, what is expected of one in any situation and of any task is delivered and delivered to nothing less than excellence and fineness/fairness. (got this from somewhere-lah)

When we have people with the right attitude and character delivering service, their quest for success will be driven by making life as simple and comfortable for the valued customers.

As service providers we must accept criticisms as a gift, a gift for improvement without which we remain stagnant and stupid. ,,,,,,,Betul-kan ?

Without proactive engagement/dialogue/communiction, we will continue to operate in our own isolated world view — an ineffective proposition by any means even when one is living on an island. ,,,,,,,yaaaaaa!!!!

Timber from the main land Yoooooo.

Heavy,,,,,,blood, sweat and tears-lah !!!!!.

Sinks like stones,,,,,,really hard & heavy.

The 1st load arrived on 20th May'09,,,,,,,lot more to come yaaaaa !!!

Timbers,,,,,,for new "Malay" type houses for construction on the island !.

Rumah Terengganu, Perak, Kedah, Negori Minangkabau and Malacca,,,,,,,jadi Capt's Malaysian Village nanti di-Pulau Kapas yaaaaaa !!!!!.

Species type ; "Kurin ",,,,,,Tropical local hard wood that sinks and bloody heavy almost like rock. Natural anti-termite timber type,,,,,sakit gigi nanti termite Ooooi,,,,,,hahaha .

Quantity & Size : 4"x 4" x 12 ft long ; 58 in numbers, 4" x 4" x 10 ft long ; 9 in numbers, 4"x 4" x 8 ft long ; 6 in numbers. Total volume ; 1 & 1/2 tons.

Costs ; To-date, just rm 3500 in total for timber plus rm700 for lorry/boat transfer/transportation and manpower cost,,,,,,,, delivered across to Kapas Island from Marang using local fishing boat and local boys for manpower and labour.

What next ?,,,,,,,,Now to look for local carpenters, friends from Pulau Duyong to help us together build up the houses. But there still lots of timbers of different sizes i.e. 2x3, 2x4, 2x5, flooring and wall planks plus other building materials to be purchased.

Must now, only look for "Chengal" timber for the rest and nothing else !.

Footings or foundations to be constructed or pre-cast from the main land too,,,,,size and height to be finalised before commiting-lah.

wowwwwww yaaaaaaa !!!!!!,,,,,,,,interesting and challenging time ahead to keep me and my pirate crew bloody busy all year round !.

YES,,,,,we are on track again !!!!!!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Yoo Ho Hoo guys.

Individual Freedom & Creativity

Just do what you good at plus enjoy while doing so !!!!!

The greatest rebellion in existence is Creativity !,,,,,,,,,,,, Am a true full blood REbeL ,,,,,,hahaha.

To be creative, you have to get rid of all conditioning, otherwise its nothing but photo copy.
Just be yourself as an individual, you cannot create as a part of mob psychology.
Its uncreative in mob psychology i.e. collective thinking,,,,,,,,its a dragging life, it knows no dance, no song, no joy,,,,its sooo mechanical. Boringggggggg-lah !

One has to search out his own way and to inquire in the jungles of life !.

One has to do it alone, be a dropout from the mob.

One has to be oneself yaaaaaa.

,,,,,,,,,,Yes indeed, the collective mind is the lowest mind in the World - even idiots are superior to the collective idiocy.

BUT, the collectivity has its own bribes,,,it respects people, honors people if they go on insisting that the way of the collective mind is the only right way.

In the past out of sheer necessity, creators of all kinds had to renounce respectivity,,,,having to lead and live a kind of bohemian life, the life of a vagabond, that was the only possibility for them to be creative !.
But for now and in the future, everyone should live individually and there will be no need for a bohemian life style again. ( fixed, orthodox, conventional, respectable life )

As for me, I have destroyed my 'previous collective/corperate mind' and made me free to be myself,,,,,just live the life as i want to live ,,,,,,,,Yooooooo !!!! .........In fact, I never was one !!!!!Hahaha ,,,,,,,,,,Yoo Ho Hoo guys !

I value "individual freedom", absolute freedom to each person to be him/herself, to exist in his/her own way.

But of course, one must not interfere with anybody,,,,that is part of freedom.

Nobody should interfere with anybody unless one breaks the law-lah !.

Unfortunately, in the past/present everybody has been poking their nose into everybody else's affairs - even into things that are absolutely private, which have nothing to do with the society.

Like, how other's dress, if one "bertudung or not" ! ? ..........Geeeeeee,,,,give me a break ! ,,,,,Mind your own business-lah. ,,,,,,,,,,,One man's meat another's poison !.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Humanity needs a new soil,,,,,,the soil of freedom",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.

Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but as for me, there will be no bohemianism because there will be no so-called collective mind trying to dominate people. Then everbody will be at ease with him/herself. Of course, you have to live it on your own terms. "

Then only is there creativity.

Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Let the new Malaysia, our beautiful land for all, the freedom to be creative.

To all my brotherly/sisterly Malaysian,,,,,,,,,, I will tell you my secret,,,,,,,guys, just be creative inorder to survive this uncertain period ,,,,,,,,,yaaaaaaa.

Hidden agenda at Capt's Longhouse

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, my 2nd mate Asaari and meself.

Capt Says: March 29, 2009 at 11:36 pm

Matt, Candana 287

No worries take your time.

Am just trying to help those that want to help themselves and change for the better saja bila mereka datang berkerja on the island or at my joint i.e. Capt’s Longhouse which is a backpacker’s hideaway to chill off after/during their journey of discovery in life.

Yang sedeh-nya budak budak local kita tak sama dgn budak budak dari luar negeri yang sanggup belajar/experience/exposure to challenges plus hardship during their discovery years in life !.
Our local boys,,,Mereka hanya penting to find the easy way out,,,enjoy for the day ! - nothing plan for the future,,,, as such senang get involved with drugs etc from what I see depan mata saya lah.
Where I come from,,,,i.e. saya beri mereka responsibilities in running a business at my place on the island.Ajar mereka accounts/sales/marketing/public relation dan most important responsibility plus belief in self confident !.
So far ada yang bite my hands but banyak success stories juga in the past 20 odd years since I started this “Hard Knock University of Life” for the local boys/girls.

My method is based on self trust and individual self wanting to change !.
The last guy that I had to remove from my place was taking/stealing things from our customers/meself and he admitted that he can’t help it since he needed his shots desperately at times !.
Am no expert but alternative ‘medicine’ such as air ketom was not enough for him,,,,,,,,,he really and badly needs his heroin shots from what I gathered directly from him !.
He now found himself another place to stay on the island i.e. ,,,,,,,,,,at the camp site but I think he is now the island pusher in order to sustain his drug habit. He is again a wanted man right now but hidding from the authority. But he is alway welcome at the longhouse for food and drinks at any time still yaaaa !.
Most unfortunate since he was just released from the Pusat about 3 months ago after so called treatment from the Govn. etc. ,,,,,,,,,,,,Something is still not right here-lah,,,,,,what is not happening ?.

So bila you have time,,,,please tell me what more is missing from my simple method ?.
Am very friendly but strict with the boys/girls if they work/stay on the island.
When i ban anyone from the island, they are gone for ever !


Reply from Candana 287,,,,,,,,, and thanks from the Capt too ,,,,,,yaaa !

Capt, concerning Facebook: Would you believe that I was pasting your name in the Facebook “Search” when I saw what came in the email - you had Added me first! What a coincidence - and I would have been more than honoured to have added you first had I known you were on Facebook. These projects that you’ve done/are doing for the drug users - I’ve been on both sides of the track, gone on both directions and I know what this entails… you are someone uncommon, Capt.

Actually that is obvious enough: the fact that you are actually living on the island in the here and now - instead of people like me who “dream of” - is more than enough proof. And these hopes and intentions - and the implemention especially - for trying to do something about the abuse of drugs… I bow to you. And that’s not near enough to show my appreciation, admiration and respect for your efforts.
I’ve had my feet in both worlds, and right now I’m in no-man’s land probably - of not being an active addict, but not in the `normal’ world either. The second comes about due to the prejudice and at times even malice by some of the `respectable’ in the `normal’ world that most of you live in. That’s one of the reasons why and how I come to distrust - this malevolence and spite of certain people are real, unfortunately; as I have stated in the previous post. And if you’d look closely, you’ll see how this one affects the efforts of people like you. I might go deeper into this as I go along.
If you were only just about to start with this, I’d actually do my level best to dissuade you! “But don’t I want people to help these addicts?!” Yes, I do - but I also don’t want nice and decent people like you to get burnt, be bitterly disappointed and then not just turn your backs fully but also “with a vengeance”. T
This has happened before, especially with people whose `niat’ (intentions) weren’t purely “to help prevent, treat and rehabilitate addicts”. Many are individuals (1)who were in it “for the glory… chest-thumping value… image conscious types”; (2) plus some who were plain naive, too optimistic and too much into the “positive thinking” psychology. So, with such weak reasons in Number 1, they are out at the first sign of trouble.

After reading what Capt had written - the good and bad experiences - there’s nothing for me to add actually… you are in the circle of things, you know how it is. And the fact that you have not given up - this is to be rated as “Good” and “Successful”. Or is some armchair critic looking for “100% - or at least 80% being clean after three years to only rate that?… that these 80% pray five times daily, fast the whole 30 days of Ramadhan, walks around with a tasbih and wears a made-in-china kupiah?
What you are doing is the nitty-gritty stuff - of “everyday living”. My standard of measurement is simple: “If they are better NOW than previously, that’s good”.
If I may just add, Capt - Stick with the carrot-and-stick. Be firm but fair and you’ll do allright with addicts - or anyone. But what I appreciate here of Capt is, “People get A chance”.

BTW some people somehow think that addicts are impressed with degrees or foreign universities - even of Psychology. Or even something directly related with drug treatment/rehabilitation. Or “lulusan usuludin Al- Azhar, MES-II-RRR” HAHA! Sorry for the scornful laughter, but I’ve seen these types… bombarding a ceramah for recovering addicts with assorted quranic verses and hadiths, of fire and brimstone and expecting the audience to be awed - including of them too, of course.
Sorry to give this feedback, ustaz-ustaz yang membaca, But this is what usually happens: (Scene at ceramah)… Favourite question among attendees is “Bila dia nak habis cakap?” (When is he going to stop talking?).
Instead of looking at why he has failed to reach and touch the attendees, the ustaz would just dismiss this as “Syaitan is preventing them from listening”. Yeah, and never *his* shortcomings… especially of him feeling he’s better than those listening (never mind the “Saya pun dok peringati diri saya”)… But his heart is really saying: “These are just drug addicts, while I’ve been to Mekah twice, bulan Ramadhan pulak tu, and can oft-quote a quranic verse every ten sentences…”
The fact is; people can sense this - what you think of the listeners and yourself is transmitted; and this is something *we* (I’m siding with the underdogs) can detect after just a few minutes. If you aren’t sincere, have prejudices against addicts; just save everyone from wasting time - DON’T give a talk, please. It will only result in more bad feelings.
BTW `outsiders’ would often tend to under-estimate not only the intelligence of addicts but also some of the addicts’ education and knowledge of things. The common impression is that these are “Form Three education, maybe can read only the Fatihah, work as contract labourers, jaga kereta…”
It’s not that these addicts are by nature not receptive and disrespectful - it’s what you are that will decide that. And you don’t built rapport in one hour… But people make this elementary mistake time and time again when dealing with addicts!
If there are the “best people” to reach the addict, it’s “someone who has also been there - and got back alive”. The addicts - they’ll listen to this kind… someone who speaks their language and knows what it’s like when you are down and out, the withdrawal pangs from heroin starting to manifest, with no drugs and only RM1 in your pocket, with no friend in the world… while everyone around you are so seemingly happy. These people are around - those in Narcotics Anonymous especially: These are people worth their weight in gold when it comes to influencing addicts for the better.
I’ll continue later - about the usage of substitutes: of “drinking beer is better than smoking heroin” - something along this line. But right now I have to continue with work. Later, Capt.

Activities at Capt's Longhouse

French lady,,,,,travelling alone across the Asia Pacific and having a good time & tan at Capt's Longhouse beach front.

Carla, Danie and Massimo from Italy.

Swedish Kristina reading the lonely planet,,,,where next ?

Sleeping beauty, Miss Anna.

French couple, Petitarmauda/Sastre and Fench lady Mary plus yours truly.

What a LIFE !!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,enjoy 110% everyday.

Can you blame me ?.

Just relaxing under the Sun and get your tan like the Capt. ,,,,,,,while his crew are worked to death !

Hahaha,,,,but we really "Work Hard and Play Hard" onboard Kapas Island while keeping Capt's Longhouse shipshape at all times.

Am known as a white slave driver too ,,,,,really ?. Well, please ask Sara about it ,,,,,,,,hahaha .

Just don't feel bad, just come over and join me/us on the island under the Sun.

Get yourself back in shape !,,,,,,, Relax/Sleep it off/Chill off/Just rest your body & soul ,,,,yaaaaa.