Memori Daun Pisang...

Pernah tak anda bersendirian untuk satu jangka masa lebih daripada satu hari. away from your family? what sort of things came across your mind? your mind could wander the deepest part of your brain. semua cerita lama keluar. yang indah atau tak, bergantung sejauh mana anda mahu mengingatinya.

being away and being alone could get you feel lonely. boleh mengingatkan anda kepada perkara2 manis. perkara manis berkait pula dengan kisah cinta zaman remaja. yang declare atau pon hanya crush. bila menyedari diri sudah berpasangan, berumah tangga, anda cuba mengalihkan perasaan manis itu terhadap pasangan anda. menguatkan lagi rasa rindu anda terhadap pasangan. 

namun bila berakhir tugasan, tiba masa untuk pulang ke pangkuan keluarga. rasa kemanisan tak sempat sampai kemuncak, terpadamkan oleh perasaan menyampah, bila perasaan itu tidak berbalas dek pasangan who take things for granted. yang merasakan ini semua sudah tidak perlu. huh.. sambung reminiscing the good old days just to make yourself feel better. terus melupakan perasaan menyampah dan ignore saja yang dekat di sebelah. terkenangkan mereka yang pernah berbekas di hati, bisa buatkan anda menguntum senyum sendiri. haihhhh... moga Tuhan kuatkan iman di dalam diri, dari terus hanyut dibuai memori. shaythoonnn semua ni.

Di celah-celah kehidupan versi belog: Menantu from H311

Salam Ramadan Kareem. Sadar tak sadar, sudah 14 ramadhan. Managed to be up early today after 14 days fasting. Ye bennerrrr! Bukan utk tahajjud. Utk final world cup, yo. Not that I’m proud of that. Just stating that perkara2 duniawi that actually can push you to do something that ko liat nak buat sblm ni. Moga2 hambaMu ini istiqamah utk bgn malam lantas bertahajjud padaMu ya Allah starting tomorrow.

As of now, both german and argentina nil yo. Hope it doesn’t boil down to penalty. Argentina kuat main defend. Only after 30 mins, baru serang. Defend german sgt lemah, but nasib selamatkan depa, and I’m rooting for german yang agak sengal main hari ni. Magis not yet kicked in. Argentina’s keeper is good but cocky. 

 Referee sgt manis and tonggek bontotnya.

And I still find german coach sexy with his jet black hair.

Wow intro sampai 2 perenggan and yet ini jauh dari isi-isi pentingnya. Heh. Hari ini hari ahad. Hari ahad akhbar lagi tebal dari kebiasaan. Utusan Malaysia versi ahad or Mingguan Malaysia ada segment di celah2 kehidupan (DCCK). It was there since for-evaaa. Saya amat minat membaca segment ini sedari kecil. Haaa. Ni baru intro yg common di segment dcck and also the real intro for this entry. Today’s piece is almost similar to what happen to one family. Similar yg cemana? (*update bola: ref mcm not in favour with argentina. YES!) Btw, back to the topic. Saya lampirkan link dcck utk minggu ini and try to relate with my own experience. (http://utusan.com.my/utusan/Keluarga/20140713/ke_01/Suami-rimas-isteri-hipokrit)

In the piece attached, si suami sgt meluat perangai isteri yang hipokrit. Berpura-pura menyukai  MIL namun kerap-kali meluahkan perasaan tidak puas hatinya terhadap MIL, terhadap suami yg once in while mengeluarkan belanja kepada emaknya dan isteri menzahirkan perasaan jeleknya ini kepada suaminya in private, when there were only two of them. Sedangkan her MIL has no clue tentang menantunya yang ‘cantek’ perangainya ini dan terus menyayangi dan menganggap sbg menantu yang baik. What do people call this kind of menantu anyway? How does the husband retaliate? He went to find teman tp mesra (TTM) yang boleh menerima ibunya seadanya, still contemplating of marrying his new TTM and keep his B*tchy wifey.

Kalo isteri yang selalu dibelasah suami, masih teragak2 untuk tinggalkan the husband dan takut ditinggal suami kerana tidak punya kerja, takde source of income langsung, anak pulak berduyun-duyun. Ok, that one is acceptable. Tp kalo yang cerdik pandai, ada kerja bagus asyik jadi mangsa belasahan suami, lagi mahu defend the husband, itu BODOH! I however do wonder what makes a husband berat hati to dump a bitchy wife’s ass like in DCKK. But you can read the husband’s justification in the artikel lah. (*yesss!! One goal for germany!! Now I have to sujud syukur later.)

In my case, perangai ‘cantek’ of the wife is well known to the close family. She managed to makan kuih talam with distant family, and they somehow adore her. (*aannnnddd germany is the world cup champion. The coach is still hooottss!) Why do they adore her so much? Cause she’s quite chatty, and we’re not. We as much as possible try not to talk bad about her or bawak cerita2 buruk pasal fake hipokrit  wife (FHW) – note that I am trying my best not to call her names. Mana tahu dia jumpa belog misterius aiolls, kata aku dengki pulak. Saya hanya coretkan benda yang jadi without memaki hamun nya, eventhough I am so keen to do so.

Similar to the artikel in DCKK, the wife perangai ‘cantek’ and she doesn’t respect her MIL. The difference is the MIL knew it since FHW had her first child and that never changes sampai anak dah hamper setengah dozen. Lepas beranak anak pertama, agaknya royan lah kot, she screamed her lungs out knowing that her husband just bought his mother a new fridge. Alaa peti bukan yg besar pintu rumah tu. Peti yang ala2 cukop la nk isi barang since the old fridge yang umurnya lagi tua dari aiolls masa tu, dah kurang menyejuk.  Dia marah pasal xleh belikan mak die skuter. At least in DCCK, the wife is working. Yang ni dh la tak kerja, nak marah org pasal die tak boleh belikan mak dia skuter.

Kalo nak sangat beli skuter kat mak hang, asal tak kumpol duit elaun laki ko bg yg ko bangga2 sgt tu, belikan mak hang skuter. Weird royan lady. Can you imagine that? She did that not just in front of her MIL, depan GMIL as well. Days before that dah moncong bila her husband bawak her first newborn child pi jumpa tok guru untuk tahnik. Masa tu her husband’s aunty ada sekali. Cantek ke tak perangai mcm teeww? Dah baru menikah baru anak first dah kurang hajo, tak tahu malu, takde rasa hormat. Masa tu assume die meroyan ajelaa. Kata baru pas beranak, kan.

Yet the MIL never complains, melainkan kekadang cita rasa sedih dapat menantu ‘cantek’ camtu dekat anak2 je. Sabarrrr jewww, so long her son is happy with FHW. Kami yang menggelegak, yet can’t do much, obeying the mother not to cari pasal and still maintain muka natural whenever we met. Tapi since die beranak every other year, meroyan dia tak habis2. Tapi jelekk kot. Jelek ya amat. Sapa tak jelek, ko dah kena nasik kangkang kot. Dah bertawun2 menikah tak reti nk insap. Dah nak masuk 40 lagi sukar nak insap. Dh kena makan buah salak ritu, insap la kejap. We tried to accept her la and start all over again, take it as nothing happen. Buat mcm adek beradek kandung, bila nampak dia mellow down lepas kena talak sekali. Tp tak payah turun deep sangat, I know she’d never change. Dah tua Bangka camtu, dah sebati, memang sukar nak berubah. And she proved me just that.

This FHW, bukan setakat suka meroyan, suka jerit2 kat org bila tak kena dengan hangin dia. Dia juga suka laga2 kan orang. Hasut semua org not to like the husband’s family. Dia kata, the hubby’s family is parasite. Nak menompang laki dia. Oucchh! She once came to the MIL, being her chatty self, cuba2 korek2 cerita about other menantu. A vulnerable single parent like her MIL masukla perangkap dia. Keluar la cerita sikit2 yang mana dia rasa tak berkenan pada menantu yang lain. Cara dia – dia keluarkan cerita dia dulu nak pancing the MIL, and she got what she wanted lah. Oh well, cuba ckp MIL mana yg tak buat mcm tu. Especially bila dipancing. 

But again as I mentioned before, this FHW is kuih talam bermuka dua. Dia pi ke biras dia, berceghita betapa the MIL, and their in-laws tak puas hati dgn si biras. As if dia takde menokok-tambah betapa dia sendiri pon tak puas hati dgn berasnya. And she did just that in front of my face. I remembered that time in particular when we went to do groceries shopping togede2. Mungkin dia rasa aku bdk2 tak campur hal org tua. Or dia ingat aku duk kat blkg keta, pekak tak dengar depa dok depan keta borak2. Yang si BERAS1 takleh pikir cemana si FHW tahu cerita MIL tak puas hati kalo bkn FHW yg pancing. Unless, the MIL is famous for bawak cerita2 buruk semua orang and tell the world about it, or at least at other time pi cerita kat BERAS1 pulak betapa buruknya perangai FHW, which she is SO NOT! And since then berantakanlah hubungan the hubby’s family and the in-laws. Thanks so much to FHW!

Situasi tak berubah ke arah kebaikan dengan BERAS1 and beliau sudah terkeluar dari cerita ni. FHW had approached BERAS2 and trying to approach the rest of the berases. I hope BERAS2 won’t get to the same ending as BERAS1. Recently FHW meroyan lg after the first talak. This time she disrespected her MIL big time not to attend an important family function. Her reason: dia marah laki dia bg anak sedara tumpang keta utk blk sama2 for that big event, coz she already said NO the first time. And I insisted the SIL to go and ask her brother directly. Why went and ask FHW in the first place? Orang mcm tu is a gone case. Cannot be hel-PED. Dah tak de rasa malu. Dah hilang rasa hormat dekat kita. Org tgh buat event dlm masjid depan ramai2 strangers, boleh nak terpekik2 bertekak.

So tell me dear reader (as if ada reader sangat lah kan), just give me only one good reason as why should we keep this kind of creature among us? As to me, apa aku dpt bercerita kat sini? Nak buka pekung di dada? Geram kot. Dah even dgn distant family yg mmg memuja2 FHW ni dah tak boleh nak cerita dah. Tu mmg obvious buka pekung kot. Or nanti kata aku dengki. Heh. As if!!

But again for whatever happens around me, I take it as a life lesson. I know I definitely don’t want to be tak malu, uncivilized like FHW to my MIL. Duhai laki ko nak beli gajah, rimau dkt mak ko, ko belilah. So long I am not deprived of my rights. Cukup makan pakai anak aku. Jangan nak gila royan tak tentu pasal mcm FHW. Ngeri sioll! Malu ngan in-laws kot.

Akhir kalam, German wins 2014 world cup in Brasil!!

Kisah Stewardess Solehah

Awal dalam bln puasa haritu I was contacted by old friend via watsapp. Ths friend mmg come and go la. Tenggelam timbul. Kejap ada, kejap takda. Mcm chipsmore juga ada. He told me that he’s getting married. Wow! At last, I said. This guy ni mmg ada commitment issue. I even asked him whether he’s getting married to the same girl. Surprisingly, he is. Rajin pulak ko nak menunggu mamat ni. He told he wanted me to be among the first to know. Mulut manis! Kata nak jemputla apa la. Kata nak hang out la, gossip2 la. Last2 aku malas, dia pon malas. Sama2 tak cuba call each other Tanya wat happened to the plan. Ahhahaha.

So last 2 weeks, I was thinking of him. Terpikir pasai pa, u might ask. Nak mintak jubah dubai secara free. Cantek kot jubah sana. Saw some in Carrefour wangsamaju. Pegi sekali tak beli terus. Pergi lagi sekali seller pon dh tutup kedai. Barang semua habis.

So I watsapp-ed this fella Tanya watsap, bro. It was on Thursday. He called me immediately. He asked my honest opinion about calling off wedding. I asked him back whether he got cold feet or he met someone else. A lil bit of both, katanya. Heh. No, I’m not judging. I’ve been in his shoes. Haha. The difference is, ai x bermain perasaan. I rarely let my emotion sinks in, while he is emotionally attached to the new girl.

He asked whether or not to tell the fiancé about the situation. Told him not to. But when asked bout it that night he admitted to everything. Even told the fiancé that he is emotionally dead to him, and he’s emotionally attached to the girl. The fiancé wouldn’t budge. Of course, I said. The wedding is in 2 weeks’ time. Dia kata mana ada 2 weeks. Dah besok. Cheh! So much of telling me I’m the first to know about you getting married. jemputan pon tak dpt. Tp nasib baik ai tawu ko tu jantan mulut maneeessssss!!! Marah pon tak guna. Baik mintak abaya santék satu.

So I asked him what is it that causes his change of heart. Katanya there’s this girl, stewardess solehah (SS). Ahahaha. Some people are just so funny. They should think of a more accurate term before making any statement. I asked him to define solehah. Katanya SS ni tak minum, tak clubbing, selalu suruh my friend pi subuh and terawekh, since it was in ramadhan kan. Kalo mcm tu, ai ni super solehah lah? But then, he added, you wouldn’t know how solehah you are, until you’re or working in a challenging environment. Yes SS is a good girl, but then that doesn’t make her solehah. Pegi check balik makna solehah please.

What really made you attached to the girl, I asked. Selalu ke jumpa? Katanya, dkt dubai selalu lepak sama. Hah! There, there! I knew it. You were away from your fiancé, then come this solehah too hot, too good to be true stewardess filling your empty space in your heart. I wasn’t born yesterday la dude. Solehah la sgt kaannnn. I’m not saying she’s bad. I am well-informed by you that she’s a good girl. Tp you should know where to use the term solehah. He added some more, she is so so nice. He wasn’t attracted to her at first and tried not to. SS even thought he was gay at first. Of all other guys courting SS, she only wants my friend. “Did she know you’re engaged? – Yes!” So so So solehah la niiii!

He was expecting me to say something like follow your heart. You know what your heart wants and shitz along the line lah kan. He told his mother about calling off the wedding, not about SS. His mom gave the best advice, di mana hatinya masih berbelah bahagi. i just told him, SS tu baik, but your fiancé lagi baik kot! Waiting for you all these years, knowing what a sweet talker you are. Eventhough your insecure self isn’t aware of this. And even after you told the fiancé you’re not into the wedding, she can still accept you, while other girls mungkin dah meroyan. Still not enough to convince him. As he mentioned earlier, he is emotionally attached to this stewardess solehah already.

But I know he’s gonna go with the wedding. He just needs someone to push him. And he did. Tak sampai ati nak lukakan hati ibu katanya. He’s not whole-heartedly into the wedding. My last advice was for him to just redha, get married lillahi ta’ala. It’ll get easier. When you put your religion and faith in qada’ and qadar first, you will know what you really want at the end of the day. When he expected me to be like friends in how I met your mother type, I just told him of that I’m not Hollywood lah. Ai gelak2 besar in public pon deep down inside, I’m conservative. 

He deactivated his facebook. I didn’t dare to watsapp him yet. I saw a group photo at his wedding. I could see he’s not as happy as his bride, while his bride had a wide grin on her face. Maybe I’ll watsapp him next year, when I get the news that he’s expecting. Maybe that time, he’ll be happier. I pray for your happiness. “Barakallahu lakuma Wa Baraka 'Alaikuma Wa Jama'a Bainakuma Fi Khair”.

Selamat tahun baru!

Di ambang tahun baru semalam, i took an air asia flight. You should know la the main reason i chose air asia in the first place because of its fairly cheaper fare. Eventhough kadang2 mas is way cheaper and provides much much more better service. But then it was new year's eve. It was impossible to get good deal with mas lah kan. So i got what i pay lah. Nak murah, i should anticipate crappy service lah kan. Nak check-in kat counter, kene baya seploh hengget. Luckily i reached the airport early. Tp nak tggu que baggage drop mcm harom. Sabarlah hati. Dah nak murah, dpt apa yg dibayar jela. And ramai jugala yang cheapskate mcm diri beli air asia tiket kan. Dah timbang bagai, terlebih pula timbangan. Dekat dpn counter tu jugak cina bukit unpack and repack untuk kurangkan timbangan. Menambahkan masa beratur dan kepanjangan line beratur. Yang bapak el stupido, entourage cina bukit td turut beratur dgn troli sorg satu. Bila dah setel yg kat dpn td, semua kua line and headed to departure gate. Terasa ingin menghantukkan kepala ke kaunter. Apart from services, i just wanted to point out that everyone can afford cheap air fare. So you should expect to see many kind of people and different form of weirdness.

So i boarded the plane 20 minutes behind schedule. Expected lah kan. Masa org lambat 5 minit, dah tak boleh check in langsung. Masa org awal sejam, dia boleh delay pulak. I was seated at 6a, with me mek. All the hot seat rows in front were all empty. People on board would rather not paying a single cent for that hot seats, when other seats available it seemed. Fair enough lah kan. Mek sangat lah hyper tak boleh dok diam. Panjat2 seat bagai. Nothing i can do about it. Behind me was a kid i assumed australian from his accent. I did everything to calm mek down. It was working until we almost reached our destination and i could see klcc, mek eventually got bored. We almost landed and they switched off the lights. Mek started to scream to make me let her climb and see the kid behind. Dia main2 and gelak2 sendiri. Then i heard the kid complaining to his parents that mek is soooo annoying and he couln't sleep. Eh hello! Ko nak tido apa lagi nya? Dah nak sampai pon. Awal2 td tak kalut nk tido pulak dk main game ko. Tapi takpala. Yang dok bising2nya budak. Bodo tak reti apa.

Sampai2 je, my bro was there waiting with the whole troop. I got on his keto-bah and shared what i just encountered. I wasn't surprise when KM also went through the same ordeal when they were on the same airline to OstOlia few months back. It was even worse when the complainant was an adult. Orang tua! And this orang tua komplen dekat cabin crew. Kalo budak yang komplen, kita boley la ckp dia tu budak. Bodo lagi. Takleh nak pikir panjang. Kalo orang dewasa komplen, nak kata apa? Dah nyanyuk? Amnesia? Kepala terhantuk masa kecik2 dulu? Byk sgt mkn semut itam? Kamu dah kenapa? Bodo bebal sgt. Takleh nk pikir panjang? Takleh nak tolerate sampai nak mengadu ke cabin crew?

Ai nak tanya byk soalan kepada anda yang mempunyai mentaliti yang sama dgn orang yang mempersoalkan how babies and toddlers behave. First get your definition of babies and toddlers correct. Siapakah bayi dan toddlers. Kalo tak tahu, boleh wiki.

1. Adakah kamu tidak pernah mempunyai anak kecil? Jika tidak, adakah kamu tidak pernah berhadapan dgn anak2 kecil kepada saudara dan sahabat kamu yang rapat? Jika ya, you should understand and be more understanding with people and their kids around you. Jika tidak, i bet your life must be reaLly lonely. And to complete your pathetic lonely life, please reside and live in a cave.

2. What are you doing sitting in a non-extra-paying seat of a low cost airline in the first place, if you couldn't handle a crying baby or a screaming toddler? It's natural to have that once in a while unless you have a baby crying non-stop for more than an hour. Then you and the cabin crew should at least be sympathy for the parents, if not be worried of the baby's condition, not the other way around. You should be aware that you're flying in a lowcost plane, not in a private jet. You're not the only one who could afford the cheap air fare. You should expect to see many kinds of people. Dari org mainland hingga org yg bau kari rempah bagai. Even org yg bersubang sampai ke pinggang pon boley naik the same low cost flight as you do, of they can afford it and choose to do so. Inikan pulak org yang bawak anak, bukan bawak kambing naik dok sama2. If you refuse to sit with them, i suggest that you should get your own private plane already. Yang orang lain tak boleh afford langsung. Jangan berlagak boley. We pay the same amount you're paying, ok!

3. When you purchase your flight ticket, haven't you noticed there's an option for people travelling with infant? Just so you know, infant up to 2 yo also need to pay for air fare eventhough they don't have designated seat. Their fare is much cheaper to encourage people with children travel with all these airlines. I have never encountered a single airline that forbids infants and babies to be on board. Neither have i read any of the airlines' policy that states babies aren't allowed to scream and cry or they will have an emergency landing to kick these babies out, just so you could have a peaceful, free-from-screaming-babies-journey. Babies and toddlers are sometimes unpredictable. kalo x tahan, kayuh sampan je la wei!

Semakin murah tiket kapal terbang itu, semakin ramai yang mampu membayarnya. Jika anda mengharapkan perkhidmatan yang first class so de very high class, anda punyai pilihan untuk membeli jet peribadi anda sendiri. Jika anda tak mampu miliknya, maka buat mcm x mampu. Tunjuk je kemampuan anda setakat kapal terbang murah, mcm orang lain. A little bit of tolerance will do no harm. Kalo org lain boley tolerate dgn perangai berlagak anda tapi hanya mampu naik kapal murah, mengapa anda tidak boleh tolerate dgn apa jua kelemahan mereka.

The end.

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!

cliche-ness of drama-drama melayu

i know this subject has probably been all over other blogs or topic of discussions. but recently i spent so much time watching tv i can't help but ramble on about the known facts of drama mlayu.

- they stop their cars in the middle of the road, highway, bridge, under the hot sun to discuss super important love matters. can't it wait?

- businessmen can be seen having breakfast at home wearing whole 2-piece-suit, then ride in their flashy cars with driver, still in suits to office. i can clearly see manik2 peluh on your face. cair mekap bang

- the rich ones ride their convertible flashy cars with roof down. seriously? tgh2 panas lagi, berhabuk. legam la muka u datin.

- recently they're trying to produce serial dramas of over 100 episodes with so many irrelevant scenes, termenung scenes, menangis scenes, sakit perut scenes yang dipanjang2 kan e.g. na-o-mei. if in the real world, pesakit perut berkenaan dah selamat ditanam, ditalkin kot! luckily i haven't come across scenes which closely focused muka pelakon dengan mata terjegil repeatedly just to emphasize their emotions or bad intentions like those in sinetron endon.

-  the age difference between pelakon2 who play mother-daughter parts is less than 10 yrs in real life. e.g. zizie izette (mak) and nabila huda (anak) in drama sari maya. or aznah hamid (mak siti hawa/nora danish) who looks as 'young' as the lady who played a part as her mother (nenek siti hawa/nora danish) in sumpahan bunian. please kind sir, tell me! in which universe do mothers and daughters look sebaya? even with botox or plastic surgery, they'd still look ages apart. at least orang cakap sisters. hm probably in bunian's world at some point of age, they just stop aging and retain whatever conditions they have just before the aging process halted. why people, why? have all the pelakon drama gone extinct?

- late 20's or women in 30's play anak dara sunti yang masih tergedik2 mencari hala tuju. O.EM.JI! buruk laku kot org tua tergedik2. seriously. kamu tepek bedak 10 inchi tebal pon gagal menutup kematangan muka kamu. again. why people? pelakon2 remaja kelihatan seperti toddlers? tak layak melakonkan those teenagers' parts?

- anak gadis kampung parts. why must they all have long hair down, with selendang yang mcm kain kelambu tersangkut, melenggang kangkung di tengah bendang. read: drama aliff hapatah on tv3. that's when people say oh itu sungguh cliche skali.

shizzz i watch too much tv. somebody kindly kick me in the arse.

schtoopid headline

Seluk payudara

Oleh Mohd Firdaus Ibrahim dan Muhammad Apendy Issahak
am@hmetro.com.my
2010/03/09

KUALA LUMPUR: “Saya dipijak, diheret dan ditendang tanpa belas kasihan lebih 30 minit. Tidak cukup dengan itu mereka juga menyeluk payudara saya,” kata Salmah Salleh, 57, menceritakan detik cemas dia disamun dua lelaki diketuai kanak-kanak lelaki berusia 12 tahun di rumahnya di Bandar Tun Razak di sini, Jumaat lalu. 

http://www.hmetro.com.my/myMetro/articles/Selukpayudara/Article/index_html

haha. seriously? tabloids.. they have always managed to sensasi kan their headlines. and what's more impressive (or there lack of) they managed to get scoop2 sensasi which are not published on other newspapers. (apparently i couldn't find sensional on cambridge dictionary) kan dah rojak di situ. walopon from my personal view, the headlines and isi kandungan berita agak low di situ, i still enjoy reading tabloids for the lulz. haha. does that mean i am one low unemployed bum? hehehe.

drama melayu sungguh menjengkelkan

when you have nothing better to do, you'd find something else to kill time. last week was quite a hectic one for me. not that i did something fruitful pon. just that i walked to city accompanying kajah finding herself something to wear on graduation day on the first 2 days and being a personal shopper to muhammad salim for the next 2 days. somehow i managed to 'pow' muhammad salim at costa. yelah if he could buy anything for his family, stakat minum di costa wouldn't be a problem. o btw bershopping bersama anak ikan amatlah meninggalkan memori terlampau yang boleh membakar mata. oh my eyess!!

ok back to the main topic. i was left at home by my 2 housemates while they went having fun in Rome over the weekend. i wanted to go, tp keadaan poket tidak mengijinkan. maka without housemates and my favorite anak ikans around i was forced to watch stupid malay drama. yes i was forced by my circumstance. it was shit stupid that made me wanna barf. it's a serial drama and i'm still on going process finishing it. i don't why i do it.

betapa bodohnya drama they hired pelakon yang gagal. not just gagal, it's a sore to my eyes watching them berlakon. sangatlah tidak pandai berlakon. BODOH!! i feel embarrassed myself watching them berlakon. oh GOD! dah la gagal, the dialog is shit tacky!! and i hate it when they overused the term awak, saya. well helo no one called anyone they know awak from afar. they have namesssss, people!! use them! awak, saya, awak, saya! budak sekolah rendah pon dah tak guna awak saya. pelakon gagal, dialog gagal, all in all drama melayu memang gagal!! eiiyy nak marah nya. i don't know why i watch this in the first place. o btw this stupid drama melayu is called embun mutiara.

huhhhh.. breathe ktora, breathe...!!!

Pppottery Ppppartay...

do you know what makes ladies here in nottingham go crazy? they go ga-ga over pinggan mangkuk! it may seem a normal thing, when some girls like handbags, others are fond of shoes, and akak2 serta makcik2 here spend hundreds and thousands of pounds on pinggan mangkuk. every time the pinggan mangkuk are on sale, you can see these akak-akak having pottery party di stoke-on-trent, which according to wikipedia, "is exclusively known for industrial-scale pottery manufacturing". and these akak-akak jugalah to no avail, bring back boxes of pinggan mangkuk on every trip to stoke. one of these akak did admit that her cellar now is full with hasil dari stoke dan saya berani kerat jari lah she may even forget what she had already bought previously.

adapon dikisahkan di stoke ini you can find different outlets of pinggan mangkuk under various brands. antara nama-nama cap pinggan yang terkemuka adalah port meirion, wedgwood. royal doulton, royal albert, royal stafford, etc etc. been there myself 3 times already, i wasn't really keen on buying pinggan port meirion at first. besides its overpriced value (well, for a first timer like me yg bergantung hidup dgn elaun yg cukop2 makan dan juga cukop2 utk berjalan, agak mahal la juga harganya), pinggan mangkuk nye bisa membuat kan saya bisa menderita sakit hernia just by lifting an empty one; that is before you even fill it with lauk pauk untuk dihidang. belom lagi nak membasuh di sink. and also the thought of maybe someday you would hire a bibik and let her wash those heavy overpriced dishes secara kasarnya just to have pinggan mangkuk mahal ku sumbing at the end of the day is so overbearing, which hindered me from buying in the first place.

you can have up to 50% discounts for port meirion on sale. on my first trip as someone with lack of knowledge and experience on pinggan mangkuk, i was at first amazed to see mostly malaysian with carts full of dishes. as i stepped into the store, vibrant colors of bunga-bungaan mawar indah, bunga-bunga hutan liar serta buah-buahan, deco on pinggan mangkuk caught my eyes. amatlah juga teruja ingin membeli every serving dish and make it one full set of everything, NOT until i saw the price. kalo dah after 50% off pon rega dia lebih 20gbp lagi, apa maksudnya itu? INI SEMUA DUNIAWIII!!! well to those doing phDs and attached to local uni back home, they have fixed salary back home and earn all sorts of allowances in UK. so all these goods on sale are screaming CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP! to your face.

oh well that's not the case now. saya juga turut terjebak dalam urusan pinggan mangkuk ini. thanks to akak sorang tu yang berjaya mendidik kami hingga menjadi pengumpul pinggan mangkuk amatur. not really collecting, but enough just to have a little bit of every design. just last week, i went to stoke with housemates and akak and bought a few serving dishes of botanic garden design, lilac-botanic roses' pasta bowls and cake plates, as well as pomona's bihun plates. those mentioned are among the designs available. adapon dikhabarkan those dishes are a lot more expensive back home, maka saya turut menyertai korum pembeli pinggan mangkuk. been to port meirion twice, i've spent over 200pnds buying mostly botanic garden design.

pomona - 45pnds!!

that doesn't include something i bought at royal stafford and at this one store which had closing down sale last time. pinggan di royal stafford not as pretty and as expensive as port meirion and worth only 25pnds for set of 18 piece plates together with a vegetable tureen. just to inform to those who are brand-concious, made-in-england stamp can only be found at the back of small cake plates. while at the closing-down-sale i bought some not-even-pretty-craps piling up in 4 or 5 boxes, which i only spent around 55pnds. i even bought 2 second-hand sets of  royal albert OCR over the internet and intend to sell them back home. oh well i don't think i really need them. you're not gonna use china everyday and they're quite tedious to take care of. plus i can always get those which my mom had bought last time and keep them as my own in future. chop!! keh keh keh.

hmmm now i know where have all me money gone. dunia oh dunia. tak ada uwang, jangan berangan lah. more piccas below!!