Yesterday, I drove back to my home town in West Pahang to meet an aunt of mine who had been away from home since 1948. She had been a nationalist fighting the British and had been operating as a resistance fighter in the Malaysia-Thailand border area all these years. As she is now about 92 years, she was granted permission to enter Malaysia for a month to visit her relatives before her end. I don't know her personally as I was not born yet when she started fighting the British, but I went to see her on the invitation of her brother who was considerably younger than her.
For a 92-year old women she looked strong except for the fact that she had to go about on a walking stick. When I posed her some controversial questions she replied with full of spirit and enunciate her words clearly. From the way she talked, she seemed convinced that what she had been doing was right.
Afterwards, on her behest, I took her to see my sister who knew her before she disappeared into the jungle. My cousins from Kuantan and Kuala Lumpur also drove up to see her for their first times. There was a lot of videoing and photographing and storytelling about how our grandparents lived and who were related to whom.
Anyway I took the opportunity to once again check on the petrol consumption of the Fairlady. From the last filling to the filling just before I left the petrol station, the odometer had clocked 424 km and petrol consumed was 59.32 litres. The petrol consumption therefore had been 7.1477 km per litre or 20.1947 miles per gallon. This was an improvement over the previous check of 15.8384 miles per gallon.
The average to date consumption since I first used the car was 22.2837 miles per gallon.
