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!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

schtoopid headline

Seluk payudara

Oleh Mohd Firdaus Ibrahim dan Muhammad Apendy Issahak
am@hmetro.com.my
2010/03/09
E-mel Artikel Cetak Artikel Tanda Artikel Besarkan Saiz Teks Kecilkan Saiz Teks Komen Artikel
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.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

bum bummer bummest

i can say im a big lazy bum. dayumn it's been what? one month since i came back from uk and almost half a year ive been a bum. havent started finding job intensively and i dont have the drive to do so. oh what have i become.

must find job!! and no im not trying to let ths blog to be just another cliche blog. where i would just write my non interesting and close to non existing daily activity. i shoudl at least find a hobby tht could earn me some money!!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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...!!!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

sebuah entri cliche dari blogger amatur

the date today marks the third month of me becoming a full time bum. it's been 3 months since i have submitted my dissertation. i haven't done nothing much other than membesarkan badan ever since. bgn pagi, makan. watch veronica mars, surf net, watch tv until late at nite masuk tido. oh sungguh interesting nya hidup saya. there.. there. sungguh cliche entri hari ini. haha don't say i didn't warn you.

anyways, not all were wasted. ada lah juga hasil nya. sikit walau tak banyak pon. i was called by caterer at university cafe to work casually. sometimes i had to serve food to the hungry students, most of the time what i did was spraying tables, wiping 'em all clean. once or twice i had to do till. i became nervous when the line is long. and i know sometimes i did register wrong price for wrong goods. so can't blame those aunties for stop calling me after 2-3 weeks. haha. sempat lah juga dapat gaji around 200++ enough for me to ship craps  i  accumulated  this one whole year back home.

apart from that, i've been helping kajah bake cakes. serius tolong punya. tolong tengok and tolong makan. heh. i know it's lame. not even funny. hehe. plus, the mixer kajah used is mine. bought it from a carboot seller for 2 pounds, when i craved for chocolate cake at that time. i believed i had baked cake on my own more than 5 times already. mainly chocolate cake kukus and choc marble cheese cake. sadly, more often than not the cake i baked didn't look as good as the taste. but i can assure you the taste is almost comparable to the ones sold at kedai bakery cina. heh.

just for the last 3 weeks alone kajah had baked 2 carrot cakes and orange cake, special requests from  her course mate tejas and yours truly respectively. even though she layan tejas ahead of me, but no hard feelings. at least she did bake orange cake for me even if she herself doesn't really like it. kajah made a yummy carrot cake with nice texture and cream cheese on top at just the first attempt. she cut out almost half of it and sent it to her beloved and frens at dunkirk. we finished the rest overnight. yes we curvy ladies at ilkeston road are cake lovvaaahhhss.

the next day she baked another carrot cake, this time for beloved kakak on her birthday. however, probably due to additional carrot for more carroty taste, the cake seemed overly lembut and moist, or hampir kepade lembek. things got slightly worse when kajah heated up cream cheese and butter mix just to get rid of ketulan2 butter which was not properly thawed and the topping became totally melt. so the lessons  were learnt the hard way. maka lain kali jika ingin mengubah resipi, ubah lah berpada2 dan lembutkan butter tu elok2 before u even started baking.

proses membuat kek oren saya went on perfectly with satisfying result. i think kajah does have talent in baking. this time, i did help preparing grated kulit limau, and mixed cream cheese and i-can't-believe-it's-butter for topping.


From mari buat kek
i think i grated my fingers along with kulit limau. hehe.

kata nak makan kek oren kenalah buat2 tolong kan. kudos to kajah for the tasty, yummy cakes. besides kajah talent, the credit goes to myresipi.com for all the long lists of good recipes  with ratings from readers and interesting, encouraging feedbacks with pictures which in a way helped us in choosing the best but simplest recipe. you wouldn't think that i'd go through all the trouble baking or cooking if the recipe doesn't seem simple to me would you? tapi bak kata pakar baking kita, mekjah, cooking is easy as long as you have all the ingredients around. duh!