Friday, April 27, 2007

Tiang Bola

2 ari lepas cuti kat sini - ANZAC Day. Hari menunjukkan semangat patriotisme org2 kat sini kepada mereka yg terkorban dan berkorban utk mempertahankan tanahair mereka. Agak-gak macam tu la. Ada la dawn service tu sume. Aku tgk kat TV jek. Pas tu semalam gi buat grocery shopping - maklumlah hampir sume bekalan dah kehabisan. Balik tu, dok pulun buat keje-keje yang tak siap sampai la malam. Malam tadi ada Finale utk program Biggest Loser. Dan si Chris the outsider tu yg menang. Hampeh, aku punya la harap si Marty or si Pati yg menang. They all looked gorgeous last nite. Ada yg kurus lebih dari 70kg! Can you imagine that, dalam 3 bulan aje tau. Tapi, ada jugak bila nampak kurus, muka dan badan dorang nampak kulit yg berlebihan tu tak de isi. Jadinya, aku rasa kurus bebeno pon (utk org yg badan beso la kan) akan menyebabkan kadang-kadang rupa kita pelikksss sket. Nampak "kendor" gitu - hehehehe, tu kata org Perak la kan. Kulit muka cengkung, kulit badan plak kendor.
Sampai je kat workstation ari nih, tgk2 si Mehnosh yg ada. Dan seperti biasa, soklan pertama yg dia akan tanya ialah "how's your study?" . Aku tau la, tujuan dia baik, tapi ada hari2nya aku rasa nak je kata - "can i not answer your question?". Bukannya apa, cuba bayangkan. Ko penat, ada byk benda yg ko kena buat dan pikir, dan ko dah tiba pada tahap semi-tepu dan akan berhijrah ke tahap semua-tepu tak lama lagi, dan pepagi bila ko sampai, ko kena kasik jawab kat soklan tu! Teruih aku tak de mood. Bukannya apa - utk kesekian kalinya, boleh tak aku melalui hari ku di uni tanpa diingatkan pada apa yg aku dah achieve. Aku ni - hanya nak dtg campus, buat keje dan balik. Tak nak tau menahu apa2 pon cite pasal ko. Alahahiiiiiii ... rimeh makcik dibuatnya. Pas tu dia bercakap2 pasal cuaca. Lantak ko le, aku jawab sepatah dua je. Aku kata aku suka cuaca ari ni, tak paneh dan tak terlalu sejuk. Agaknya ... ssb tu aku tak ramai kawan - tak pandai nak socialise ngan org lain, tak macam dia kut. Teringat aku bila aku mula2 sampai sini - soklan jenih cam tu usah tanya kat org yg dah lama sampai kat sini. Buat org bengkek je - tu deme kata la. Sebabnya - deme kata lagi - cara, gaya dan kepantasan seseorg buat keje tak sama dgn sape2, masing2 ada cara sendiri. Hendak plak kalo hang tanya kat org yg tgh tensen - lagi bahana la jawabnya. Jadiknya, kalau hang nak banding diri hang dgn org lain, usah le buang masa. Tu - teori aku le - yg aku simpulkan dari dorang sume. Kalau org lain tanya aku tak le tensen sgt, Helen pon slalu gak tanya, Bill pon slalu gak tanya, tak de pon cam tu. Dgn makcik sorang ni, bila dia tanya musti aku bengkek. Aku rasa aku tau sbb nya apa. SEBABnya bila aku kasik jawab - dia musti akan kata apa tau -- "Oh yes, I know that" OR "I know that, yes I know". Hah! Mana aku tak bengkek, dah tau lagi nak tanya!! Udah le, maleh nak bercerita pasai dia. Sambung lagi cite. Ari ni bila check inbox, dapat reply dari Raman. I think he's quite a nice man dan helpful as he gave me the info that I needed. And kat sini, ada ramai gak org yg tgh demam bola. Siap beli but main bola yg baru la dikatakan. Baca punya baca dorangnya email, last-last ada la satu mamat ni telah dicadangkan utk angkat tiang2 bola utk perlawanan bola yg akan datang. Hehehehehe ... tu laaaaaa, sape suruh hang gi komen tiang bola tong sampah tu. Kan dah kena sebijik ... muahahahahaha.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Pinky

Pinky - teringat pada tengahari setiap hari Jumaat kat cafe Kajai. Teringat macamana Atie kata tu org kampung dia. Tengahari hari Jumaat dan hampir setiap petang sesi makan tengahari dan malam di meja bulat depat TV. Tu kalau makan gulai lemak siput sedut tu, mmg tak toleh kiri kanan dah - me, Che'Rose and Ayuz. Pekena plak Wak nya teh ais ... ahhhhh ... memang kaw kaw nyer. Meja "VIP" kat kafe tu slalunya "akak2" tu yang conquer time pas lunch, tgk TV ... tapi time lain, "orang penting-penting" si Penghulu, si Lahuma, si Zorro, si Matahari and the rest of the gang je dok situ. Bila tak de "VIP" kat situ, hehehehehe ... we all yg dok situ .. . Time tuh, ala2 eksyen la sket. Lol ... Hari ni, tiba-tiba diingatkan kepada Pinky. Dan mcmana dia tersengih kat we all dan baju melayunya yg berwarna pink yg terang benderang tu :) Ntah apa yg la kabar dia skrg nih. Si Pinky our senior, budak Geography rasanya, because I still remember dia nyer abstrak thesis ada sangkut paut ngan dermaga, hahahahaha. Tu sbb aku bagitau dia akan perihal "berth" jenuh jugak la dia tanya betul ke salah. Hehehehe ... Carik kaler pink yg glamer tak de plak ... so this is the nearest to that I think. Here's to Pinky *wink* *wink*

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The Gempak-est News

Ada orang bagi tau
rupa-rupanya
DIA
tak dapat
sebab
DIA
blagak ...
hehehehehe
ish ish ish ...
kalau lah
DIA
tau
hahahahaha

Monday, April 16, 2007

Gulai OoOoH Gulai

Gulai tempoyak ikan jelawat ...
Gulai tempoyak ikan jelawat ...
Gulai tempoyak ikan jelawat ...
Gulai tempoyak ikan jelawat ...
Gulai tempoyak ikan jelawat ...

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Masa Easter

I am back from the Easter break. Hehehehe ... aku plak yang lelebih cuti Easter, mengalahkan orang yang celebrate Easter plak. Sooo ... there were lots and lots of chocolate eggs around. Tapi I didn't indulge so much in that - tu no entry punya zone. Kalau tidak, muka ku akan "berbukit-bukau" disebabkan oleh jerawat. Ishhh ... leceh.
So what did I do? Well I tried to stay "amused" with my work. And I am really bad with numbers :p needless to say. But I'll survive ... I will survive ... by hook or by crook. Tak kira la, janji dapat apa yg aku nak. Cumanya agak lambat sket sebab aku ni kena baca teks tu berkali-kali seblom paham. Apa nak buat ... kapasiti pemikiran agak terhad. Kena le expand kat mana-mana yang boleh. Dunno whether I should be meeting Scroogie this week or not. Nothing much to show him afterall.
Apa lagi ... oh yeah, did some cleaning in the room, dah macam tongkang pecah with the baju2 yg blom dibasuh, buku-buku dan kertas-kertas yang mmg tak tersusun dan ... mangkuk2 dan cawan2 kopi ku yg dah 2 ari tak cuci hehehehe ... sibukkkkssssss ... jadinya cuci dan kemas la apa-apa yang patut. Lepas tu, bersembang-sembang la dgn flatmates ku yg 3 orang tu. It's study week now, so semuanya are taking things easy - by that I mean, tak la tak la terkocoh-kocoh ke sana ke mari. Mandi pon mcm liat aje kan, sebab tghari baru bangun tido. Kalo had kol 9am tu, sume bilik gelap gelitap - kat corridor pon gelap, kat lounge pon gelap - tu maknanya tak sorang pon yg dah bangun. Deme pon bercerita la kisah masing-masing. Kevin was asking me whether I'd be staying put kat flat tu next sem/next year. I was surprise to hear that he said it'd be nice to know if all the four of us will be staying in the same flat again next year. Auuuwwwww ... that's sweet, tetiba je dia cakap cam tu kan. Hehehe, he said he likes the flat very much. Dia kata probably we can arrange for wireless internet next sem if we want to. He talked abt Toronto and L.A. and how he feels abt staying in Perth. He complained abt the number of papers that he's doing this semester too, budak ni kiasu sket, kaki study, buuutttt ... he enjoys clubbing as well. LOL, the different sides of Kevin. And he learnt how to use the grill last night. Hehehehe ... dia tanya how and why - and dia kata he should learn how to cook masa sem break nanti. He said - "I thought it's difficult to use. Is that alll?? Is that all that you have to do???" - Haihhh ... aku cakap, lama2 nanti biasa la, bukannya susah pon.
Then bersembang-sembang gak ngan si Yousef tu. Dia tu biasa la bercakap mengenai kepandaiannya membuat research. I don't know why, but I find talking with Kevin and Yash lagi seronok as we listened to each other, but with this chap - aiseyman - he likes to talk most of the time. Aku pon tak kisah kan - so dengar je la apa dia nak cakap. Afterall, dia kan UK grad ... Muahahahaha - how ironic - for someone who claims that he is educated, he doesn't have the openess to listen to others. He is such an interesting person to study for a research you know - would it be the effects of culutre on your thinking? Can exposure to the outside world at least influence your thoughts when it comes to conversations with the diferent gender? Jeng jeng jeng ... tu bunyik cam gender study jek, Sapir Whorf pun ada gak sket2. Probably he enjoys talking about his research agaknya ... sian gak kalo tak de org nak dgr. Dgr je la when he talked about the rocks yg dia gali 5km ke dalam bumi utk check ada minyak ke tak. He said - he's doing a study abt 5 million years ago ... Huiyoooooo ... *clap clap* memang menarik, hehehe.
After that, bersembang gak dgn lamanya with si Yash - abt Mauritius, about his family, about school, abt work, about food, about byk lagi la. Dannnnn pasal awek dia yg slalu histeria tu jugak. LOL - aku tak tau pon yg si madam M tu dah balik kampung tanam jagung. I was so surprise to hear that bila Yash told me. He said - " ... she's spoilt you know ... and I broke up with her". Haaaa .. tu pasal la agaknya makcik tu slalu mengamok. Last-last dia benti dan balik negeri. Yash said, she couldn't handle it and she didin't like Perth. And she's just like 19 I think. Parah cam tu ... kalau in Msia, usah harap la. Nak masuk universiti pon tak sume orang berkemampuan. So, aku pon cakap kat si yash - mesti ko pon sedih kan... yer la awek dah blah. And you know what he said - "Nope ... I didn't cry .." Hahahahahaha ... aku sengih je ..
Malam tadi and pagi tadi, all theboys were busy doing their roster cleaning. Ada inspection tadi, makanya semua penyapu dan Ajax Fabuloso tu dah dudok kat depan shower. I did mine yesterday. Kelako gak, macam-macam bunyi ada - gedegang, duk, ting, tok ... ishhh macam2 ada. Overall, the inspectors said good :) , cuma si Yousef kena vacuum the passageway sket. Hahahahaha, tu la, aku kat aku dah vacuum last weekend, dia kata masih OK, so dia pon tak le vacuum. Nasib ko ler. Semalam aku dah pesan kat dia supaya bersihkan dapur pas masak-sebabnya dia nih slow sket bab2 mengelap nih. Tapi tadi aku check, memang dah berlap. Tau poonnn ... kan bagus cam tu.
Ok lah ... nak mamam, dah lapo. This week it's not as busy sbb tak ramai orang yang bertempiaran dalam kampus. Dah tapau nasik goreng tadi ... sambung nanti. Tata

Thursday, April 05, 2007

THEY Said

I was
shambled
I lost
my footing
I couldn't
breathe
I saw
the ramshackle piece
I lost
my mind
So
I "left" ...
Somewhere
unknown
Reflecting
Reasoning
Questioning
in
the midst
of
maddening
anger
I gave up.
I closed
my eyes
In
the welling tears
I saw
T. H. E. M.
They smiled.
I heard
T. H. E. M.
Go
back,
they said.
Go
back.
So I did.
Yesterday
Today
I must
Pick up
the piece
behind
Tomorrow
I must
Paint
the picture
in front
for
me
for
them