Kata Encik D saya adalah lalang. Tuduhan sebegini kedengaran semenjak WorldCup bermula. Dan saya sendiri telah membenarkan diri saya menjadi lalang. Kepada Cik OrangeChandelier yang mungkin tak faham istilah lalang, silalah rujuk kepada kamus dewan bahasa.
Tahun2 worldcup sebelum ini saya tidak pernah menjadi lalang kerana dulu saya adalah penyokong Perancis in general dan penyokong Zinadine Zidane in specific. Makanya isu lalang tidak pernah timbul. Encik D menyokong England dari mula saya kenal dia (dia adalah penyokong MU, jadinya seperti yang kita tahu, penyokong MU ini ada sikap hanya mahu sokong England atas sebab2 setia pasukan konon.. sungguhlah tidak mencabar). Apabila Zidane bersara, saya pada mulanya berhajat terus menjadi penyokong Perancis tetapi slowly angin2 lalang muncul. Saya kemudian beralih ke arah Germany sebelum WorldCup bermula. Tetapi beberapa bulan sebelum WorldCup bermula, tiba2 perasaan benci pada salah seorang mamat Jerman di pejabat saya mula berputik dan saya mula berpaling ke arah lain. Saya mulanya ingin menyokong Netherland tetapi kemudiannya tanpa di duga saya beralih arah ke Portugal tanpa sebarang alasan, walhal saya benci pada lagak Christiano Ronaldo.
Bermulanya WorldCup, saya tidak menyokong secara spesifik mana2 pasukan.. saya cuma mengambil aksi tengok perlawanan antara siapa dengan siapa. Sekiranya salah satu team datang dari Asia maka saya akan sokong team tersebut. Sekiranya team itu berjumpa Serbia, saya akan sokong lawan Serbia kerana Serbia suatu ketika dulu menindas orang islam & juga issue ethnic cleansing. Sekiranya team itu berjumpa dengan Denmark, saya akan sokong lawan Denmark kerana Encik Padang orang Denmark. Dan kadang2 saya membantu Encik D menyokong England demi keharmonian rumah tangga.
Beberapa hari lepas saya menyuarakan pada Encik D yang saya terasa seperti ingin menyokong Brazil kerana Brazil semakin kuat dan dengan suara tegang Encik D membalas "awak ni lalang betul lah".. haha, seperti yang saya kata tadi, sikap lalang adalah di benarkan di dalam WorldCup sebabnya negara kita tak layak untuk masuk WorldCup. Hari ini (& juga semalam) saya cuma ingin menjadi penyokong Portugal. Adakah kerana Portugal menang 7-0 dengan North Korea 2 hari lepas? Harus...
Indahnya menjadi lalang..
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Labuan & father's day
Im in Labuan since last night, atas urusan kerja. We (my colleagues and i) were supposed to fly in today but since there were no more flight tickets for today, so we came a day earlier.
Since our urusan kerja will only be tomorrow, we are on our own today. My friends decided to go berpoya2 today but i don't feel like going. I didn't make any special plan except to walk around the hotel area, maybe to look for some local and duty free stuff to bring home. After breakfast, we splited. They left with their rented car and i came up to my room. At 10.30 a.m sharp, i emptied my backpack (which was filled with my baju, dengan harapan that i can fill in with stuff that i'm going to buy) and left to the nearest shopping complex which is just opposite to our hotel. I believe it is the largest shopping complex in Labuan. Saya terkasima, there is nothing much to shop here.. the duty free things tidaklah memanggil saya sangat untuk dibeli. The only thing that touched me was a father's day song which was played in the duty free shop. I always called it my father's song - You raised me up by George Groban. I always love the song and it always made me sad whenever i hear it. It has been 24 years since my father passed away, and i always wish that he's still here.. to share joys and sorrows. Our relationship was always special as far as i can remember. He was my father and he was also my best friend. Deep down, I always hope that one day Encik D will be a great father to our children like my father was to me. Besar harapan saya!
Back to cerita Labuan, after a while, i decided to leave the complex with tangan kosong and headed to the other part of Labuan town. It took me about 10 minutes to reached there (betul lah kata orang hotel, semuanya dekat di Labuan). From one duty free shop to the other shop, tapi i didn't find anything interesting. The chocolates are like the one that we always find in KL and the there's also not much different with the price. After more than 5 duty free shops that i went in, i gave up. I grabbed few bars of chocolates and headed back to hotel. It was 11.45 a.m when i reached hotel. Hahaha.. it only took me 75 minutes to end my activity in Labuan. I went up to my room, curled under the blanket and read a book. I felt happier.
I went down to hotel restaurant to have my lunch and there's a fathers day celebration at the restaurant. People came with their father to celebrate the day and I was having my lunch alone. What a pathetic person I was. I wished i'm back home at this time and i start to miss KL.
While im writing this entry, again i'm curling under my blanket in the hotel room, feeling sick, I already threw up couple of times since i had my lunch. But maybe it's not the hotel's food that i have problem with, but my food pinicking habit that cause me trouble -- as cik Kentang always labelled me. Couldn't wait until tomorrow to go home.
Since our urusan kerja will only be tomorrow, we are on our own today. My friends decided to go berpoya2 today but i don't feel like going. I didn't make any special plan except to walk around the hotel area, maybe to look for some local and duty free stuff to bring home. After breakfast, we splited. They left with their rented car and i came up to my room. At 10.30 a.m sharp, i emptied my backpack (which was filled with my baju, dengan harapan that i can fill in with stuff that i'm going to buy) and left to the nearest shopping complex which is just opposite to our hotel. I believe it is the largest shopping complex in Labuan. Saya terkasima, there is nothing much to shop here.. the duty free things tidaklah memanggil saya sangat untuk dibeli. The only thing that touched me was a father's day song which was played in the duty free shop. I always called it my father's song - You raised me up by George Groban. I always love the song and it always made me sad whenever i hear it. It has been 24 years since my father passed away, and i always wish that he's still here.. to share joys and sorrows. Our relationship was always special as far as i can remember. He was my father and he was also my best friend. Deep down, I always hope that one day Encik D will be a great father to our children like my father was to me. Besar harapan saya!
Back to cerita Labuan, after a while, i decided to leave the complex with tangan kosong and headed to the other part of Labuan town. It took me about 10 minutes to reached there (betul lah kata orang hotel, semuanya dekat di Labuan). From one duty free shop to the other shop, tapi i didn't find anything interesting. The chocolates are like the one that we always find in KL and the there's also not much different with the price. After more than 5 duty free shops that i went in, i gave up. I grabbed few bars of chocolates and headed back to hotel. It was 11.45 a.m when i reached hotel. Hahaha.. it only took me 75 minutes to end my activity in Labuan. I went up to my room, curled under the blanket and read a book. I felt happier.
I went down to hotel restaurant to have my lunch and there's a fathers day celebration at the restaurant. People came with their father to celebrate the day and I was having my lunch alone. What a pathetic person I was. I wished i'm back home at this time and i start to miss KL.
While im writing this entry, again i'm curling under my blanket in the hotel room, feeling sick, I already threw up couple of times since i had my lunch. But maybe it's not the hotel's food that i have problem with, but my food pinicking habit that cause me trouble -- as cik Kentang always labelled me. Couldn't wait until tomorrow to go home.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Surat buat seorang sahabat ketat
Wahai Sahabat,
Kedengarannya sudah seminggu sahabat pulang dari negara asing. Mengapakah sahabat membisu? atau adakah kami (Cik Kentang & saya) ini tak sepenting mana? Ngeh Ngeh
Wahai Sahabat,
Sudah hampir 2 tahun kita terpisah. Semenjak sahabat meninggalkan tanah air untuk ke negara mat salih menimbal ilmu, kita hanya berutus melalui email & yahoo messanger. Kami sungguh merindui sahabat, tetapi ingin ke sanapun kami tidak mampu. Maka hanya email lah penganti diri. Kala diri mendengar luahan kepayahan hidup sahabat di sana, hanya doa yang kami dapat kami hulurkan. Tatkala diri mendengar bekalan maggi yang sahabat bawa dari Mesia sudah kehabisan, meruntun hati kami. Pelawaan kami untuk mengepos maggi dari sini di tolak sahabat dengan alasan maggi Mesia ada di jual di sana pun.. habis tu kenapalah sahabat membawa cerita sedih ini in the first place. Dan di kala kami di tanya tentang resepi masakan Mesia, berdebar2 hati kami mahu menjawabnya. Bukannya apa, ini kerana kami tidak tahu memasak, jauh sekali menghafal resepi.
Sahabat, banyak yang kita kongsi sepanjang hampir sepuluh tahun kita berkawan, dari cerita lawak bodoh sehinggalah cerita scandal sahabat. Rindu sungguh kami untuk bertemu sahabat
Wahai Sahabat,
Setelah tamat pengajian, sahabat mengambil keputusan untuk mencari pekerjaan dan mungkin terus menetap di negara mat salih. Kami terus memberi sokongan, malahannya kami menegah sahabat dari pulang setiap kali sahabat menyuarakan yang sahabat hampir berputus asa mendapat pekerjaan di sana. Bukannya kami tidak memiliki semangat patriotik kepada Malaysia tetapi kami tahu itulah yang sahabat mahu dari dahulu.
Wahai sahabat,
Akhirnya sahabat mampu mendapatkan pekerjaan di tanah arab dan apabila di tanya pendapat kami, kami mengeyorkan sahabat menerimanya dahulu sementara mendapat peluang di negara idaman sahabat. Akhirnya sahabat menerima tawaran kerja di tanah arab dan dengan berat hati meninggalkan negara mat salih. Tiga hari di tanah arab dan rasa cinta pada pada tanah arab mula berputik, tiba2 tawaran kerja datang dari negara mat salih dan sahabat menjadi buntu. Sekali lagi kami memainkan peranan. Akhirnya, sahabat memilih untuk menerima tawaran dari negara mat salih dan bakal memulakan tugas tidak lama lagi.
Wahai sahabat,
Sebelum memulakan tugas baru, sahabat mengambil keputusan untuk pulang ke tanah air untuk bertemu keluarga dan menguruskan perkahwinan sahabat di akhir tahun nanti. Kami gembira untuk sahabat meskipun sehingga sekarang sahabat masih belum pasti adakah sepatutnyakah sahabat menamatkan zaman bujang seawal ini. Kami bersependapat dengan bapa sahabat iaitu inilah masanya. Apapun alasan kami, biarlah kita bertiga sahaja yang tahu. Dan apapun kehendak kami, biarlah sahabat selesai menguruskan segalanya dahulu sebelum bertemu kami. Yang penting kita harus bertemu sebelum sahabat pulang ke negara mat salih, biarpun di hari terakhir sahabat di sini, kami tak akan berkecil hati. Cuma kami mengharapkan panggilan dari sahabat kerana kami tidak tahu bagaimana mahu menghubungi sahabat. Hubungilah kami wahai sahabat kami; Stebeng ;-)
Nota kaki: entry di atas hanyalah lakonan semata kerana Stebeng telahpun menghubungi kami semasa saya sibuk menulis entry ni, tetapi saya decide untuk meneruskan juga entry ini. Ngeh Ngeh
Kedengarannya sudah seminggu sahabat pulang dari negara asing. Mengapakah sahabat membisu? atau adakah kami (Cik Kentang & saya) ini tak sepenting mana? Ngeh Ngeh
Wahai Sahabat,
Sudah hampir 2 tahun kita terpisah. Semenjak sahabat meninggalkan tanah air untuk ke negara mat salih menimbal ilmu, kita hanya berutus melalui email & yahoo messanger. Kami sungguh merindui sahabat, tetapi ingin ke sanapun kami tidak mampu. Maka hanya email lah penganti diri. Kala diri mendengar luahan kepayahan hidup sahabat di sana, hanya doa yang kami dapat kami hulurkan. Tatkala diri mendengar bekalan maggi yang sahabat bawa dari Mesia sudah kehabisan, meruntun hati kami. Pelawaan kami untuk mengepos maggi dari sini di tolak sahabat dengan alasan maggi Mesia ada di jual di sana pun.. habis tu kenapalah sahabat membawa cerita sedih ini in the first place. Dan di kala kami di tanya tentang resepi masakan Mesia, berdebar2 hati kami mahu menjawabnya. Bukannya apa, ini kerana kami tidak tahu memasak, jauh sekali menghafal resepi.
Sahabat, banyak yang kita kongsi sepanjang hampir sepuluh tahun kita berkawan, dari cerita lawak bodoh sehinggalah cerita scandal sahabat. Rindu sungguh kami untuk bertemu sahabat
Wahai Sahabat,
Setelah tamat pengajian, sahabat mengambil keputusan untuk mencari pekerjaan dan mungkin terus menetap di negara mat salih. Kami terus memberi sokongan, malahannya kami menegah sahabat dari pulang setiap kali sahabat menyuarakan yang sahabat hampir berputus asa mendapat pekerjaan di sana. Bukannya kami tidak memiliki semangat patriotik kepada Malaysia tetapi kami tahu itulah yang sahabat mahu dari dahulu.
Wahai sahabat,
Akhirnya sahabat mampu mendapatkan pekerjaan di tanah arab dan apabila di tanya pendapat kami, kami mengeyorkan sahabat menerimanya dahulu sementara mendapat peluang di negara idaman sahabat. Akhirnya sahabat menerima tawaran kerja di tanah arab dan dengan berat hati meninggalkan negara mat salih. Tiga hari di tanah arab dan rasa cinta pada pada tanah arab mula berputik, tiba2 tawaran kerja datang dari negara mat salih dan sahabat menjadi buntu. Sekali lagi kami memainkan peranan. Akhirnya, sahabat memilih untuk menerima tawaran dari negara mat salih dan bakal memulakan tugas tidak lama lagi.
Wahai sahabat,
Sebelum memulakan tugas baru, sahabat mengambil keputusan untuk pulang ke tanah air untuk bertemu keluarga dan menguruskan perkahwinan sahabat di akhir tahun nanti. Kami gembira untuk sahabat meskipun sehingga sekarang sahabat masih belum pasti adakah sepatutnyakah sahabat menamatkan zaman bujang seawal ini. Kami bersependapat dengan bapa sahabat iaitu inilah masanya. Apapun alasan kami, biarlah kita bertiga sahaja yang tahu. Dan apapun kehendak kami, biarlah sahabat selesai menguruskan segalanya dahulu sebelum bertemu kami. Yang penting kita harus bertemu sebelum sahabat pulang ke negara mat salih, biarpun di hari terakhir sahabat di sini, kami tak akan berkecil hati. Cuma kami mengharapkan panggilan dari sahabat kerana kami tidak tahu bagaimana mahu menghubungi sahabat. Hubungilah kami wahai sahabat kami; Stebeng ;-)
Nota kaki: entry di atas hanyalah lakonan semata kerana Stebeng telahpun menghubungi kami semasa saya sibuk menulis entry ni, tetapi saya decide untuk meneruskan juga entry ini. Ngeh Ngeh
Monday, June 14, 2010
kisah foodcourt
Encik D went back to his hometown today. Maka terkinja2 lah i kesukaan. Semetelah lagi dapat melarikan diri dari kantor lebih awal dari minggu2 sudah (bukan kerja dah siap, tetapi melarikan diri dari client yang tak jemu2 bermanja dengan saya).
Saya dan Cik Kentang singgah ke beberapa tempat dalam perjalanan balik. Mula2 ke pet shop. Sehabis kami membeli-belah di petshop, kami decide utk mengisi perut sebelum balik ke rumah. Kami akhirnya setuju untuk makan di food court tesko. Perjalanan yang sepatutnya sepelaung (iaitu kalau bersin pun tak sampaipun ke penutup bersin) memakan berpuluh2 pelaung di sebabkan Cik Kentang tersalah ambil jalan. Sesampai kami di foodcourt kami memilih untuk mengorder makanan dari gerai yang berlainan tetapi kedudukan kedua2 gerai tu adalah sebelah menyebelah. Saya order Nasi goreng Thai dari gerai nombor 1, Cik Kentang mengorder Wok fried Rice dari gerai no 2. Apabila makanan kami siap ( dalam masa serentak pulak tu), kami mengangkat makanan & bertemu di meja makan. Kami tergelak sebab rupanya2 makanan kami walaupun nama cukup lain, tetapi rupanya nasi goreng yang sama & saya bet sesungguhnya di goreng sekali. Yang membezakan ke dua-duanya adalah nasi goreng saya di hidang di dalam pinggan tetapi nasi goreng Cik Kentang di hidang di dalam wok. Ini lah akibatnya kalau kita di jajah oleh orang bangla... semuanya akan bercampur aduk. haha.
Saya dan Cik Kentang singgah ke beberapa tempat dalam perjalanan balik. Mula2 ke pet shop. Sehabis kami membeli-belah di petshop, kami decide utk mengisi perut sebelum balik ke rumah. Kami akhirnya setuju untuk makan di food court tesko. Perjalanan yang sepatutnya sepelaung (iaitu kalau bersin pun tak sampaipun ke penutup bersin) memakan berpuluh2 pelaung di sebabkan Cik Kentang tersalah ambil jalan. Sesampai kami di foodcourt kami memilih untuk mengorder makanan dari gerai yang berlainan tetapi kedudukan kedua2 gerai tu adalah sebelah menyebelah. Saya order Nasi goreng Thai dari gerai nombor 1, Cik Kentang mengorder Wok fried Rice dari gerai no 2. Apabila makanan kami siap ( dalam masa serentak pulak tu), kami mengangkat makanan & bertemu di meja makan. Kami tergelak sebab rupanya2 makanan kami walaupun nama cukup lain, tetapi rupanya nasi goreng yang sama & saya bet sesungguhnya di goreng sekali. Yang membezakan ke dua-duanya adalah nasi goreng saya di hidang di dalam pinggan tetapi nasi goreng Cik Kentang di hidang di dalam wok. Ini lah akibatnya kalau kita di jajah oleh orang bangla... semuanya akan bercampur aduk. haha.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Friends
Since CK wrote a lengthy entry on friends topic, makanya i feel that i also have something to add on.
This few days, i thought a lot about the meaning of friendship. Kenapa? Banyak perkara..
My late father friendship with his childhood bestfriend remained until both of them passed away. I used to tell myself that i want to have that kind of frienship too. Someone that i can always trust and someone that can always be a shoulder to cry on. I do have, since the past 17 years. We fought a lot, but we also laughed a lot. We made lot of silly mistakes, but we also succeed a lot. It wasn't friendship alone that played part, but family were also important subject in our friendship. I love her family on the first time i met them, she loves my family the first time she hear about them. In fact, I believe my mom love her more than she loves me. Ada ke saya kisah? Ada ke saya cemburu? No at all, I'm proud with our fate. Something yang saya tahu other people dying to have.
CK lost a few friends because of me, friends who initially had a good time in spreading the rumours that our relationship wasn't a straight relationship ( Ok, the fact is, I was tomboy and i wore slippers to class and CK was 101% feminine and she was the one who wore high heel during her first year in Uni). When it didn't worked, they chose to ignore CK. I didnt force CK to be my friend and i feel the same thing too.
CK remains herself and so do I in this 17 years. She didnt try to change me and I never have a thought to make her to be like me. We share almost everything (except baju, baju kecik, seluar and seluar kecik as both of us tak suka pakai barang orang and also kasut; as we have different taste and size). When she broke, i support her expenses. When I broke, she put money inside my wallet without noticing. All I want to say here; there is no turning back after we know each other, I believe because we didn't try to change the rule.. to let our friend to be her/himself.
Deep down, I know that I might not be as a great person as my father was but we do have a few things in common; I also believe my friendship with my bestfriend shall remain until I die and I know I'm as loyal as my father to my friends who treat me sincerely.
That is friendship means to me.. to whoever wish to be my friend, please accept me for who I am. And please do not backstab me. If you guys feels that I'm having too many weaknesses and you can not bear with my weaknesses, please remove me from your friend list.
This few days, i thought a lot about the meaning of friendship. Kenapa? Banyak perkara..
My late father friendship with his childhood bestfriend remained until both of them passed away. I used to tell myself that i want to have that kind of frienship too. Someone that i can always trust and someone that can always be a shoulder to cry on. I do have, since the past 17 years. We fought a lot, but we also laughed a lot. We made lot of silly mistakes, but we also succeed a lot. It wasn't friendship alone that played part, but family were also important subject in our friendship. I love her family on the first time i met them, she loves my family the first time she hear about them. In fact, I believe my mom love her more than she loves me. Ada ke saya kisah? Ada ke saya cemburu? No at all, I'm proud with our fate. Something yang saya tahu other people dying to have.
CK lost a few friends because of me, friends who initially had a good time in spreading the rumours that our relationship wasn't a straight relationship ( Ok, the fact is, I was tomboy and i wore slippers to class and CK was 101% feminine and she was the one who wore high heel during her first year in Uni). When it didn't worked, they chose to ignore CK. I didnt force CK to be my friend and i feel the same thing too.
CK remains herself and so do I in this 17 years. She didnt try to change me and I never have a thought to make her to be like me. We share almost everything (except baju, baju kecik, seluar and seluar kecik as both of us tak suka pakai barang orang and also kasut; as we have different taste and size). When she broke, i support her expenses. When I broke, she put money inside my wallet without noticing. All I want to say here; there is no turning back after we know each other, I believe because we didn't try to change the rule.. to let our friend to be her/himself.
Deep down, I know that I might not be as a great person as my father was but we do have a few things in common; I also believe my friendship with my bestfriend shall remain until I die and I know I'm as loyal as my father to my friends who treat me sincerely.
That is friendship means to me.. to whoever wish to be my friend, please accept me for who I am. And please do not backstab me. If you guys feels that I'm having too many weaknesses and you can not bear with my weaknesses, please remove me from your friend list.
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