Yong Liang and his Date with DeathGreetings to all heroes out there now reading. Many of you out there, unknown and anonymous to the rest of the World.
But Today, it shall be made known to every hero, the courage of Mr. Chua Yong Liang.
Unfortunately, I don't have a better picture of him.
Today, during the late morning, Yong Liang and I decided to clean up a little for our Scout rooms. We have two rooms, a make-shift room under the staircase and a part of our school's unused rifle range.
The problem with our rooms is the chaotic state it is in. How dirty is it? Well, our store includes equipment like wooden poles, marina ropes (click here for refernce ->
lashing ropes), mallets, parangs, kayaks, canvas sheets, tents.
Try to imagine a room with everything mixed around on the floor, racks. Now, picture them with rodents, lizards, cockroaches crawling in and out of the rubble. That is a very close representative of how our rooms look like, although a cockroach or lizard is very hard to come by.
However, it was not just lizards, cockroaches or rodents for that matter this time.
But a COBRA.
What happened was, we were initially cleaning out the make-shift room under the staircase first but Yong Liang went to look for more ropes to "one shot clear all" in the rifle range.
So he went into the rifle range and start looking under the canvas sheets and poles to collect the ropes, and also tidy up a little at the same time.
[Yong Liang's recollection from here]
As he was clearing, he heard a hissing sound. Very similar to a handphone vibrating in silent mode. And fortunately, he remembers that his phone is not with him!
Looking around brings him face to face to the Cobra. All flustered with its wings open, hissing for all its life is worth, poised just beside the exit as if gaurding the possible exit of its prey. With the snake ready to strike, any man would have their balls shrinking or a possible fusion.
Frozen with fear, Yong Liang stepped back slowly. And heaven and lady luck smiled upon him, as while he retreated further into the room the snake became less aggressive.
It took awhile before Yong Liang slowly inched his way out of the rifle range.
I think the courage and guts Yong Liang has shown is really commendable, for the sight of the Cobra with its wings open and hissing was really intimidating. It actually almost gave off an aura of danger.
Close Shave.