Si Botak?

Si Botak - June 2006. :)

Rumah aku ke ni?

Aku ada neighbour. Die juga landlord aku. Tapi aku tak suka landlord aku sebab hari hari, dia hantar anak die masuk halaman aku, lepas tu buat macam harta sendiri. Lepas tu die destroy sikit demi sikit, satu persatu. lepas tu buat tanah tu macam bapak die sendiri. Walaupon rumah ni die yg punya.. tapi tanah ni milik aku. Aku bayar sewa tiap tiap bulan.

Dulu tanah ni arwah atuk aku punya, tapi dah dekat seratus tahun, tukar milik. Aku sendiri tak tahu macamana.

Makin lama makin teruk. Tiang depan rumah die belasah. Dia ckp aku tak de permit. Walhal aku rasa, die yg tak boleh masuk rumah aku sebab aku dah bayar. Dah la aku bayar untuk tanah aku sendiri. Tertindas!

Buaian... takde permit katanya. Hancus
Anjung rumah .. takde permit. Hancus

Tiap tiap kali die hantar anak. Anak die bawak kereta. Depa kata ada jutawan bagi. dalam 6 tahun, dah ada 100 Billion dia bagi. 2/3 untuk beli kereta, helicopter, kapal terbang. Tak abes abes masuk rumah aku. Semua anak die bawak. Anak aku alan kaki jek. Kengkadang baru nak keluar rumah, dah kena tembak. Makin sikit anak aku. Bapak mana tak tahan?

Kalau setakat duit aku tak bimbang. Kalau nak dapat boleh.. Sedara Mara aku ramai. Satu benua ni ada. Tapi yg aku bimbang, Sedara mara aku sekor pon tak gheti nak tolong. Asal perut kenyang. Aku mmg tadek siapa nak tengok.

Anak aku ada yg semangat. Ada yg sanggup korban diri. Tapi korban bukan apa.. tak tahan dah semua idup tadek bumbung. Dah la tu.. abes sume harta nak rampas. Nak pindah tak boleh. Ni tanah pusaka. Tanah tumpah keturunan aku. Mana boleh jadi.

Tapi Landlord aku pandai.. die ada makcik Cinan. Mak Cinan ni pandai. Tak pernah landlord yg salah. Die bagi tau semua org yg sume salah anak aku. Anak aku yg mengganas. Anak aku yg pakai bom. Tapi yg dia dok tindas aku, satu pon tak pernah keluar.

Aku dengar anak die pon ada yg tak setuju dengan die. Siap buat protes. Pakai baju itam. Anak-anak die jalan sama ngan anak anak aku. Tapi Mak cik Cinan tak pernah sentuh. Ya lah.. tak align dengan ape yg die nak org percaya. Macik Bibac dulu ade jugak agi cerita benar. Anak Macik Bibac ade dtg rumah, tengok keadaan sebenar. Tapi tak sampai berapa bulan, anak mak cik bibac kene pindah. Dah habes harapan aku.

Aku bukan nak banyak. Aku nak rumah ni jadi umah aku. Aku nak tanah aku. Aku nak semua org dlm dunia tahu apa yg sebenarnyer. Aku tadek mana nak pergi. Aku tak de mana nak lari.

Rumah aku ke ni?

Kat sini aku berdiri.

Kat sini aku menanti.

Tunggu saja apa yg nak jadi.

Yang pasti aku di sini.

-Free Palestine-

The Wonder Years

"Sumtimes the earth that seems so stable might be as it seems in the inside, and when it errupts, the best you could do is to hold the person closest to you"

Things you learn from TV series huh? I noticed that TV series from when i was younger have very beautiful messages embedded in it. Remember The Wonder Years? The story of a growing boy going through the complicated years. The story was told in the first person point of view. I guess it can be said to be equivalent to Malcom in the middle. (not to sure about that, coz i've only seen it once or twice)

And what about Sitcoms such Full House?(Olsen twins), Happy days?(Fonzie), The Cosby Show? (Bill Cosby.. duhh) or Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?(Will Smith) . Talk about walking down memory lane huh? I bet most of us (the Gen-X, they call it) would have waited in front of the tv every day at 7-8 to watch those sitcoms. Lots of family values in it.

However, they do tend to be preachy. That's no doubt about it. And it is also staged in this perfect world where all things can be mend. Somebody would have done sumthing wrong, and towards the end, there would sure a father-daughter/employer-employee/brother-sister heart-to-heart talk. Which is nice... if it all can be done in real-life.

Well, i guess when you know that it is not the way it goes in real-life, that is when you know that you need those good old-fashion shows, as food for your soul.

Cheers.

Not superman..

Argh.. tensi nya.. i did this survey .. at blogthings.com and the rersults are as below :

***You Are Spider-Man***
Quick and agile, you have killer instincts (literally).
And that kind of makes up for the whole creepy spider thing.

Ahaha.. guess i'm not superman after all, even after going through superman 1-4 in the span of 2 days. Ngahaha.. and now i am downloading superman returns..:P

Too much time.. yeah. i have too much time..

Anyways, we went for an outing yesterday in town at nite. It's very beautiful as they have already started to decorate for christmas. Pics later, have to wait for Syed to upload the pics.

Selamat Hari Raya

Walaupon sejuk, walaupon terketar2, tetap control macho sambil tunggu bus nak pergi open house KUSMA 2006.

Selamat Hari Raya!

:P

Periodic Table

Just thot i'd share this with u guys... Haha.. It has been handed out from generations of tenants living in my room for past few years.... priceless

Prayer times

Wah.. i feel very disoriented.. after resetting daylight savings, now the current prayer times are :

Fajr/Subuh : 5:06 am
Sunrise : 7:01 am
Dhuhr : 11:53 am
Asr : 2:13 pm
Maghrib : 4:43 pm
Isha : 6:34 pm

waaaahh... now i can feel the winter creeping in. :)

What is Daylight Savings?, you may ask. Here is information from wikipedia ;

Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually by one hour from its official standard time, for the spring, summer, and early autumn periods.

The term Daylight savings time, although commonly used, is technically incorrect.

DST is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.

Governments often tout it as an energy conservation measure, on the grounds that it allows more effective use of natural sunlight resource in summer time. Since there is less darkness in the "waking day", there is less use of electric lights. Some opponents reject this argument (see below, Criticism).

Europeans commonly refer to the system as summer time: Irish Summer Time, British Summer Time, and European Summer Time. This is reflected in the time zones names as well, e.g., Central European Time (CET) becomes Central European Summer Time (CEST).

The word "summer" in this context includes most of spring after the spring equinox and a large part of autumn. Likewise, the word "winter" here includes part of autumn and a few weeks in spring. This varies by time zone, of course, and can change over time as well.

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You don't get daylight savings in Malaysia.. uuh... time-disorientation!

Cepatnya masa

Cepatnya masa terbang, dah lebeyh 5 minggu dah kat manchester ni. Dah separuh sem. Rasa cam tak belajar ape pon, stadi pon malas, rasa nak bungkus dalam duvet jek. uhuh. bebst wo0o0, sejuk sejuk pas tu bungkus dlm duvet. Tapi akibatnye mmg tak study la kan. Tido banyak gile. Gemuk sebab tido la gamaknya.. eheh. (walhal sebelum ni pon mmg dah gemuk)

Raya
Kat sini Raya rasa sama cam malaysia. Tak homesick pon. Ramai org melayu sini, be it melayu malaysia, melayu indon, atau pon melayu brunei. First day raya open house sampai 3. Termasuk la kat university hall. And masa ni la ak kenal lagi ramai org malaysia kat sini. Tapi tu la kan, kene careful, sebab kalau sangkut ngan org malaysiaaaa jek, bila nak kenal org lain? kalau kenal org malaysia jek baik duduk malaysia, tak gitu? Tapi pada aku mampus la kan, raya kira exception.. sebab nak makan rendang ayam, satay, kuih raya, etc. Kira tak exception la. :)

My first [part-time] job
Nop cipok, not ur kind of job.. hehe. Ni part-time job. dapat jugak kerja part-time. Jadi helper a.k.a kuli untuk exhibition. Kerjanya simple, tolong exhibitors unload/load barang, pas tu serve coffee and tea. All that for 5.50 pounds per hour. 44 pounds per day. kalau convert, that is already RM300 sehari. Ahaha. berapa kali ganda gaji engineer. Dah la stress-free. Tadek call-centre call malam-malam. Alhamdulillah, boss pon ok, dia suka aku kerja, and tak kisah aku tambah sehari kerja (originally janji nak kerja 1 hari jek). Lepas ni siap offer lagi, untuk next month nye exhibition.

Did i mention exhibition tu untuk science, engineering and IT company cari graduates? Kira serampang 2 mata la sebenarnyer, sambil kerja, sambil cari kerja. Banyak offer sebenarnyer. Especially bidang Business IT ni. Banyak betul company yg buat IT solution. Banyak gak company yg interesting ; BP, BT, ATOS, LogicaGMC, Lloyds, Bank of England, shell, Siemens, HP, and macam lagi. sume suruh aku apply. Yg lagi best sebab my degree was in Engineering. Apparently it's a good thing kalau ada degree dlm bidang lain.

Sini ada graduate scheme. Companies offer position, die macam internship for 2-3 years, depending on which company, but still gaji cam gaji starting. Best wo0o0. dahsyatt.. dahsyatt. Belajar jek, pas tu rotate kat semua department yg berkenaan.

Cuma problemnya, kalau nak apply, most company set , kena ada work permit dulu. Tak pe, boss aku sure tahu nye sebab die careers advisor kat university. Sambil amik gaji nanti aku tanya.. yes yes!

Oh, berkembang sikit circle of friends, sebab dah ada kawan kerja. budak manchester ada la 3-4 org, derang buat politics, economics, drama, etc. Dari china pon ada, mostly Phd. Sorang jek ACCA, satu group. Interesting.

Did you guys know that there is NO TEA LEAVES in a Ginseng Tea? or Ginger Tea? I didn't. Baru jek tahu. Heheh..

Ok la.. nak pi keluar tengok wayang. Cerita The departed. And macam biasa, hari jumaat malam, aku akan lepak Moberley hall (Salah satu university hall). Biasanya akan lepak main pool and ping pong sampai kol 3 pagi.

Esok pagi open house kat Old Trafford!.. ho yeah!!!!!!

First time!

Apa la si Farah ni, tag aku plak. Biasanya tak layan.. tapi Farah nye pasal kan.. layannnn..

1) 1 Ramadhan 1427 Hijrah anda berbuka puasa dengan siapa dan dimana?
Buka ngan housemet. First time dalam seumur hidup try masak. Ayam goreng kicp jadi ayam goreng apa tahhh.. hahah

2) Apa persiapan anda menjelang hari raya?

Takde apa. Sedia perut.. sebab sini nanti open house sure banyak.. tapi tak la sebanyak Malaysia. Kurus wo0o0 sini.

3) Sepanjang sebulan berpuasa, agak2 kemana lokasi berbuka yang akan menjadi pilihan anda?

McDougalls Mosque : Nasi Briyani Kambinggg!!! Yummyyyy!!

4) Pendapat anda,berbuka puasa di Hotel?

Tadak hal punya, tapi jangan la selalu. Tapi kalau perasan anak raja.. buleyh la.

5) Adakah anda suke menghantar kad raya (by pos) kepada rakan2, sahabat handai dan kekawan anda?

Suka terima kad raya jek.. hahaha.. sejak akhir akhir ni, jadi Hj Bakhil plak.
Suka, tapi dah lama tak buat, email la senangg.. lagi

6) Oleh itu kirimkan lah Kad raya anda kepada gwe di alamat berikut :-
124 Stamford Street, M169LR Old Trafford, Manchester, Lancashire

Tapi confirm tadek org hantar, so.. bagi kat alamat elektronik jek la..

Ragysy937@yahoo.com

7) Orang - orang yang namanya ada dibawah kena jawap entry nie. + with alamat ye..
Sebab Gue baik.. gue malas nak tag sapa sapa.. kalau tag pon, bukan derang update blog pon? Kan Cipok? Rumet? Farul?Rodek?

Con Air

Just watched Con Air for the 4th time since it was first shown back in 1998. Magnificent movie. That was the first time i heard of Nicolas Cage. There were a few quotes that are really nice. Some are :

Garland Greene: What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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["Sweet Home Alabama" plays in background.]
Garland Greene: Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.
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Poe: Sorry boss but there's only two me I trust. One is me....the other is not you.
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Little Girl: Are you sick?
Garland Greene: Why do you ask?
Little Girl: You look sick.
Garland Greene: I am sick.
Little Girl: Do you take medicine?
Garland Greene: There is no medicine for what I have.
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Nice ones huh. I really like the movie. However, I never really understood the scene with the girl and Garland Greene. What is the scene all a bout? What was the message? My IQ must be running low. HUrmm.

Some how after watching Con Air, i feel like watching Face Off. Looking forward to downloading Face Off, starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta.

Another quote :

Cyrus: Thank you for choosing Con Air!

Fin.