Thursday, August 19, 2004

Buat Muhammad

(tak tau le sama ada dia baca atau tak bebelan aku kat blogspot ni…)

Kerna terpaksa aku rela menangis,
Kerna terpaksa kuturut kata hati,
Gementar tubuhku dengan keputusan ini,
Biarpun perit kuteruskan jua


I wanna run to you,
But if I come to you,
Will you stay?
Or will you run away
?

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Hilang lagi???

Handset Didi hilang lagi. Ini entah kali yang ke berapa aku sendiri pun dah tak ingat. Seingat aku belum sebiji handset pun yang pernah meraikan ulangtahun pembeliannya yang pertama bersama Didi.

Tapi semasa handset ada pun Didi memang jarang contact aku (tapi tak tau le pulak kalau dia selalu contact kawan-kawan dia yang lain). Heran gak aku sebab abang Imam yang dok nun jauh di Nilai pun sudi hantar SMS kat aku paling-paling sekali sebulan.

Aku pun maleh nak ganggu rumahtangga bahagia dia tak tentu pasal. Lagipun dia sentiasa sibuk dengan kerjanya sehingga tak sempat mengajak kawannya ni hatta untuk menikmati persembahan LAMAN sekalipun.

Aku rasa jauh di sudut subconscious Didi ada menyimpan hasrat agar dia dibiarkan dengan hidupnya yang bahagia sekarang ini. Camne Didi? Betul tak?

Sunday, August 08, 2004

Chobaan

I’ve been sick for slightly more than 2 weeks now and I suspect it’s going to last a few more. Then I suddenly realise what this might be. It’s the Trial Ustaz has been warning us about.

“You will be Tested,” that was how he lightly phrased it.

No naughty ghosts playing their dirty little tricks. Oh, no no no no no no! For me, it’s going to be prolonged illness. I’m hacking and coughing my guts out as if my life depended on it. I have a fever that comes and goes. My nose is like a leaky faucet at times. But as P. Ramlee and his cohorts chanted in the movie Pendekar Bujang Lapok-

Chooobaaa-aaannn!”

Going to work is another Trial. Despite Breathing, I’m so drained at the end of every work day that sometimes I skip Breathing (Hahaha! Naughty me!) because I was so damn tired!

Sick as I am though, I managed to force myself to catch two action flicks last Saturday afternoon (because if I prefer the full cinema experience) before they stopped showing them. Notice that I call them flicks because in my opinion, that’s all they are.

Catwoman and The House of Flying Daggers were aesthetically pleasing, but the story leaves much to be desired. I still have I, Robot on my list. Hope I’ll be lucky enough to catch that next week.

Saturday, July 31, 2004

Virus, oh virus (NOT the computer kind!)...

Aku pergi kerja pada hari Isnin dalam keadaan tekakku sedikit perit bersama batuk-batuk kecil. Mak turut mengadu masalah yang sama kepada aku pagi itu. Memandangkan aku bukan benar-benar sakit, aku meneruskan kerja seperti biasa. Lagipun, ketika sakit sikit-sikit ini lah kita perlu aktif agar dapat melawan penyakit (kononnya la, dari mana agaknya aku belajar benda ni?).

By noon, my little coughs have all grown up and have kids. I ache all over and it was all I could do to drag myself to the clinic. I left with a packet of medicines and 2 days of sick leave.

Sampai rumah, Pak bagitau yang Mak pergi jemput Udin dari sekolah sebab dia pun sakit. Oleh kerana Mak juga sakit, dia bercadang nak singgah di klinik dalam perjalanan membawa adik pulang.

The three of us were almost bedridden (read as 'melepek') most of Monday night, all of Tuesday, and part of Wednesday. I went back to work on Thursday though I was far from okay. It seems that my hacking and coughing on Monday has some effect on the rest of the crew as well: a little sniff here, a cough there.

Hari Jumaat, giliran penolong ketua kaunter pula untuk tumbang. Tapi dia masih boleh bekerja dengan bantuan sedas dua panadol. Aku rasa, setelah puas mengerjakan aku, virus tu hanya sekadar bertegur sapa dan menyepak-nyepak manja orang di sekeliling aku.

Today, Pak is officially sick. Yesterday, he was still gung ho enough to go to the surau. In fact, he even went to a neighbour’s kenduri after going the clinic this afternoon! Pak said,

Kalau dok diam je makin sakit le nanti. Kena lawan penyakit ni!”

Ler… Dari situ ke rupanya aku belajar pasal ‘lawan penyakit’ tu? Satu sikap yang bagus pada pendapat aku. Namun, sebagaimana aku sebelum ini, Pak juga telah kecundang dalam perjuangannya dan kini sedang melepek di bilik tidur…

Saturday, July 24, 2004

AF2- Mas sucks!!!

I never thought I'd be mentioning even anything that remotely hints at 'Akademi Fantasia 2' because Sultan Muzaffar is around giving a more profesional and competent critique than I will ever put out. However this time, I really, really need to get it out of my system!

Mas sucked big time on tonight's show, but it was Nurul who got the boot?

Come on Malaysia! What the heck is wrong with you? Pity is no replacement for talent! Yes, she is a poor single mom. BUT if she keeps on singing like THAT, her satay sales, metaphorically speaking, will top her album sales any bright old day!

Come on Mas! Wake up and smell the coffee! You must have had some vestige of talent if you managed to wiggle your way on to AF2! So show us talent! Buck up or back out!!!