Thursday, March 11, 2010

it's good to be home...

in fact it's the greatest feeling of all.. mmm probably to me at the moment la kot. kalo kamu suffer from constipation, the best feeling would be after taking a good satisfying big dump. my kreji sister who sometimes experienced difficulty in going number two would always exaggerate that it's better than orgasm after doing so. haha.  kalo kamu in a long bus journey and u are in desperate need to pee, you'll feel really grateful that you thank the LORD above and the bus driver for having mercy on you, stopping the bus at RnR and letting you release your liquid excretory product. been there, done all that.

tp right now at this finest moment, i'm just really glad to be home. back at my hometown, tana tumpa dara terchenta as Samy Vellu would say it. keh keh keh. i just came back last week as i 've been away from home for more than a year. was brought up in the same house, at the very same street, since i was born and spent all my childhood days and pubescent years nowhere else other than my house. my humble abode yang dipagari knee-high lalang, dikelilingi pokok rambutan serta pokok-pokok pisang, is the best place to breed all sorts of slimy, poisonous creatures and  blood-sucking insects and probably makhluk2 that shouldn't be mentioned. maka banyak lah nyamak menchangak angak di atas pokak2 di luar rumah tua ku.

no matter how tua and buruk the house is, it always holds the dearest place in my heart. im attached to it. oh well who don't?  i mean to their own house, of course. i even recorded  on my phone the surrounding of my house when i came back once in a while for my viewing pleasure when feeling homesick. but most of the time i had to remove the videos and replace 'em with mp3s. haha.

i don't know about others, but when i'm at home, i tend to wake up early and won't sleep, not until later at night. i guess staying with your mom and listening her nagging in the early hours deprive you of the privilege of sleeping until noon. i can't just get my mom's words out of my head. "bangunla mek weh. ore laing pah ko llangit ija doh." hahha. i'm so gonna use the sentence to my kids in future.

first thing when i wake up in the morning, i look at the window in the room and get this special kind of familiar feeling. a feeling you're at home and you know you're at home. it's the kind of peace and serene feelings that i just don't get somewhere else. later around 7-8 am there will be the usual noise of bikes, cars and school kids passing by my house to get to the nearby school. not that i enjoy the sound which is sometimes annoying. but hey, it's something i've had endured for years.

i'd open the window and could feel the cool, breezy, morning air rushing in brushing my skin and hear different species of birds chirping their own distinctive tribal songs. there's this type of bird that sounds like chanting a malay boy's name to my ears. 'syukri, syukri, syukri.' or burung yang sungguh la sayu bunyi nya sayup-sayup kedengaran yang kadang-kadang aku rase nak ketuk mampos pasal u sound so freaking sad maybe i should just help you rest in peace. and in the wee hours, you could hear the woodpecker breaks the silence of the night faintly in the distance. sungguh la mengembalikan memori lama, yang luka maupon yang tak luka.

kadang-kadang, malam-malam i just like to sit outside menghirup udara nyaman malam while enjoying the starlit night and feeding those blood-suckers. luckily enough there's not much light pollution around and those pokok-pokok and semak-samun help to block lights from neighbors' houses so that i can enjoy my night counting stars peacefully. oh well, not really. not when you have to bertepuk-tampar with nyamak2 yang banyak itu.

i think sometimes, most city-dwellers, if not all, don't really appreciate nature. they indulge too much with social  activities and got caught up with their busy lives. terlalu mengejar mengejar duniawi... and that is the reason why aku dok golek-golek menikmati my slow-paced, complacent life kampung-style before i got busy with job demands later on. haha. alasan tak boley belah!

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