U fly or u flop – u decide!

This is my 5duit motivational post.

With the coming of the New Year and the review of my last year resolution; I am malu-malu-malu ashamed! I have nothing to be proud of, nothing much to show, nothing book-worthy story, no nothing, zero, zilch, nil, que dalle, Elek pochikk! So last year resolution carry forward again to this year…

I am feeling this same sort of emptiness for a quiet some times. I guess I have reached a point in my life where I start questioning the universe – lifefullfilling, soul searching, spiritual existence, personal excellence etc, etc…

I know that there is so much we can accomplish in this life while this life is short and temporary.

I remember one surah when I completed my Tafsir about a year ago:

"Dan mereka meminta kepadamu (wahai Muhammad) menyegerakan kedatangan azab, padahal Allah tidak sekali-kali akan memungkiri janjiNya dan (katakanlah kepada mereka): Sesungguhnya satu hari dari hari-hari azab di sisi Tuhanmu adalah menyamai seribu tahun dari yang kamu hitung."
(Surah Al-Hajj. Ayat 47)

Mak oi! I am astounded to read the time relativity mentioned here. Between this world and the world after. I remember I took out my calculator and figured out… supposing to live to 60years… and huh! Found out that I would about to live only a fraction of few minutes according to the time of hereafter.

Then I bumped into another surah in Al-Quran stated:

“Dan (ingatlah) masa Tuhan himpunkan mereka (pada hari kiamat kelak), dengan keadaan mereka merasai seolah-olah mereka tidak tinggal di dunia melainkan sekadar satu saat sahaja dari siang hari. Mereka akan berkenal-kenalan sesama sendiri. Sesungguhnya rugilah orang-orang yang telah mendustakan hari menemui Allah untuk menerima balasan dan yang tidak mendapat petunjuk (ke jalan mencari untung semasa hidup di dunia).”
(Surah Yunus. Ayat 45)

Perfectly true. I have to manage my time here. And I long have been plagued with this epidemic - procrastination. Delay in everything. I postpone. I defer. I put off. I m slow learning konon...

I am totally alert about such a law called Parkinson’s Law but I am too easily distracted. I far niente a lot…

Yes, life is a lightening short. I have to create time to be more productive. Life is like writing a book (or blog, in this case). Creating your own story. You are the main actor. With one page for every day. How you want to write the story. How you want to end your story. And surely one day you will end your story.

Whether you want to be outstanding or you remain sloppy. We all have dreams. We all have hopes. It is only the question whether we want to work it up. And all we have to do now is to choose how to spend the time we're given...

Voila!

Floods

Our weather is becoming more and more erratic nowadays. When it rains, it rains like no tomorrow. It is very dishearten to see the effected population in various flood hit areas around this country lately. People are relocating to relief centres, the emergency teams boating struggling families, image of people wading knee depth water level is common. Some are found stranded on the roof top of their house waving for help. Baby, children, old and poor people are the most affected. Politicians are photographed donating basic supplies, smiling to the camera and hoping to use the situation for some political mileage. While crocodiles are said to be escaped and lurking in some areas. The same can be said to this kind of people. In many houses, furniture, electrical goods and all kinds of domestic items are damaged. In many kampongs basic utilities such as water supply, telephone, sewerage and electricity are disrupted. My heart goes out to all of them hoping that they will recover from this hardship and testing time.

So what is the cause of this disaster? There are several contributing factors. From the lack of visionary leaders to the apathetic attitude of our general public. Our so called entrusted administration failed to do proper physical town planning, bulldozing everything hastily in order to meet certain target of development status. Then, the greedy towkays, with the royal approved balak concessionaire, more than happy ravaging all our forest area, starting with legal permit then illegal. Then, our easily intimidated pengecut enforcement team which in many occasions fail to stand tall against the thugs and touts. Deforestation, population growth, urbanisation, plantation, pollution, etc, etc… We surely and clearly have disturbed the nature equilibrium that has existed for years. The nature that has its natural functions to counter the floods such as wetland, forest, mangrove, peatland, estuaries, et all. Our natural environment is degrading slowly. We cannot fool our mother nature no more. We are now beginning to pay for our long blatant disregard for its needs. It is so easy to start pointing fingers by now macam aku buat sekarang ini. But the real answer is you, is me and is us. It is us that elected those incapable representatives. It is us that fascinated by their pre election sweet talk and campaigning. It is us with our ignorance, our laisser faire, our tak apa, our greed, our lust, our wasteful act, to meet our social splendour, consumerism and the pressing needs of modern life.

So what to do? We must start capacity building. We must raise awareness. We must educate the public. We must eradicate poverty as with poverty comes all its ugly faces. We must change our 3rd class mentality. We must advocate sustainable development, understand the ecological sensitive areas, study the hydrological cycle, master the needs of nature and reason the much debatable issue of global warming phenomena… tak tau nak tulis apa lagi dah…I run for Manjoi Mayor, vote for me...

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My Xmas xperience (part II)

Meh! Sambung lagi…

Pakcik pun masuk le rumah diorg tu. Laa…ada anjing lagi..! Kali ni kechik comel punya, type mcm kartun Tin Tin tu. Warna bulu itam kenting2. Bila pakcik dok je kt sofa, anjing tu dtg dekat mula gesel2 kt kaki pakcik…degage!degage!...ish !ish ! tolak2...Tp kemdian tuup trus dia lompat dok atas riba. Laa..nak manja lak anjing nih...Akai pakcik pon jalan camne le nk naya anjing sekor ni lak… Tiba2 diorg panggil. Diorg introduce pakcik kt sume family dia… Diorg ada anak 3 org. Sorg sweet 17, sorg sunti dlm 13thn camtu dn sorg bdk laki dlm 10thn gitu. Kuarga angkat pakcik dlm umor 40-50an le camtu.


Baru je nak lepak smbang susun2 ayat. Mak angkat kata Meh! On n y va…Pakcik yg xtau pepe ni pon kut le. Diorg bwk le naik diorg punya bagnole yg xbebasuh brp lama tuh. Sampai tempat tuh...org ramai…jiran2 pon ade…laa diorg bwk pegi eglise… Diorg bwk gi sembahyang raya…messe de minuit. Mlm raya christmast (xmas eve) tuh. Alamak! Camne nih? Masuk dlm eglise tu byk jemaah dh ade dh. Ada bunyi2 gospel music… suasana samar2…malap2 je. Ada lilin2. Ada cross besar. Ada patong besar. Sejuk..ceh! diorg xpasg heater ke dlm nih..

Kitorg pon ambik tmpt duduk kt bench tgh. Saf agak dpn gak le. Bila nak mula ceremony sembyg tu kertas lyrics pun diedar. Kmdian paderi dpn tu bg speech sket kmdian dia lead the worship. Nyanyi2 pun start le…Brapa lagu, hymns, sequences, pakcik x ingat dah tp jenoh jugak le. Pakcik baca lyrics tuh…laa nie bole tpelencong ni kalu ikut nih..so pakcik diam je lah…Kt lagu2 tu ada chorus2 dn ada part2 yg kita kena bangun kena duduk kena knee. So part bangun pakcik bangun le part duduk pakcik duduk le. Ada jemaah yg dh hapai lagu2 tuh dn ada gak yg xhapai. Satu part yg pakcik xlupe dn pakcik rase byk kali gak yg diorg ulang2 ialah aleluya…aleluya…aleluya…. kira2 mcm alhamdulillah kite le tuh. Bila part nih bole gegar jgak satu eglise tuh sbb ramai2 ikot. Dlm hati pakcik masa tuh asyik baca surah2 quran je…Masa tu pakcik baru le tau koleksi pakcik x byk rupenya…so pakcik ulang2 pepe yg tau je…yg tbyk setakat nih. Bbrapa jam pastu bila nk abis ada le tok siak (kot le…pakcik xtau nk panggil apa) kutip derma dr saf ke saf. Byk org gak bagi derma tu tp pakcik xbg pepe. Bila nk smpai saf pakcik mak angkat kuor duit bg kt pakcik. Dia suruh derma le tuh gamaknye. Pakcik ambik kmdian pass le kt tok siak tuh. Dia senyum. Bila upacara nyanyi2 tu abis sume org pon pakat2 baris satu line. Arah ke altar tuh. Pakcik pon ikot baris. Pakcik ingat diorg nak pi salam dgn tok imam tuh. No hal punye…tp rupa2 line up nk pi ambik holy communion tuh…alamak!...sekian terima kasih (to be continue…).

My xmas xperience (part I)

Meh! pakcik cite sket…

Masa tu dholu2 tu pakcik ada le makbapak angkat. So bila hari2 nk raye nie diorag pon dtg le jemput pakcik bwk gi rumah diorag… Sampai je dpn rumah satu anjing itam besar paras pinggang dh tggu dpn pintu… Cilakak betoi… Tp pakcik masa2 kecik dulu dh penah dh kena gigit anjing. Masa tu family pakcik baru pindah kt satu tempat tu. Pakcik xtau lg le satu port tu mmg anjing2 suke lepak. Pakcik lalu je sekor binatnag ni pon start kejor. Pakcik pon lari punya lari punya lari (pakcik mmg wakil rumah masa sukn skolah) tp sekor anjing nie sempat jugak sebat belakang pakcik. Pi klinik, malu kt misi, malu kt doktor, cuci luka, kena inject 1 jarum besar plk. Juga kt belakng… Parut smpai la nie…So, lpas peristiwa bsejarah tu pakcik punya le dendam kt binatng jenis nie. Usah nk cite le…hobi pakcik yg sblum tu naik basika round2 dh tukor jd melastik anjing lak…

Sambung balik cite…Masa nak masuk rumah makbapak angkat tu, anjing tu tenong dulu kt muka pakcik. Pakcik cuba control...senyum kt dia. Pakcik cuak gak takut2 dia dpt agak kes pakcik yg slalu je aniaya bangsa dia nih… Kmdian anjing itam dtg rapat… suspens nih…kemdian dia pusing2 bdn pakcik. Dia ambik bau. Korg tau x camne cara binatang jenis anjing nie ambik bau? Kt part mane bdn kite yg dia plg sensitive..? How they differentiate smell between u and me? Dak duk dak duk dlm hati pakcik. Kmdian pakcik tgk muka anjing kerot2 mcm pelik je…bau lain nih ! Wah lio! Ciao! Anjing tu pon blah le…mnyesal kot….Korg tau le kan kitorg mlaysia nie kan mkn mcm2. Camtu je nak ajar jenis yg suke hidu2 org nih…
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angkasawana

Huh! Tempat jatuh lagi tkenang nikan pula tmpt trjerobak ttingkup tpelakong dn mcm2 ter lg…Meh! Pakcik nak cite sket zaman2 angkasawana (new term) pakcik nih…

*cling*cling*cling*…flashback…

Wah! masa nk fly tuh pakcik rasa pakcik le plg smart skali. Pakcik pakai kot br yg dtempah kat kdai cina kt pkn ipoh. 2,3 x pakcik suruh cina tu ukur badan. Kasi bikin cantik2 hah! The result… hensem wei.. tolak dari rumah sedara kt kl. 1 rombongan kluarga gi subang airport, sewa van, penuh suku sakat pakcik ikut…semangat wei…Wah! Rupe2nya geng2 pakcik pon sumenya pakai kot. Ada yg mcm pilot weh… Pakcik perasan ke xtau le (confirm ada gene perasan nih…) tapi rasa ade stewardess yg kenyit mata kt pakcik haha. Dan inilah time yg petama dn trakhir pakcik pakai complete suit mcm tuh. Tempah mahal2 pastu xpakai dah… Xtau le kalu2 bbdak skrg pun buat perangai yg sama kihkih..

Dlm plane punya le jakun, antara nk tgk awan dn tgk paramugari dn tgk wayang. Masa nk take off tu cuak gak.

Last2 tlelap… Sampai Peranchis, francais tgk cuak je kt kitorg. Puak2 mana nih. Macm mafia je..sume pakai kot. Kitorg lepak adalah 2hari je kt paris tu tp the impact woi!…Ptg tu hari pertama smpai kitorg dtmptkan kt dorm kt satu kawsan kt paris tu. Kmdian dibawa pegi satu resto kt ctr twn Paris makan dn dibg masa round2 sendiri dlm 3j camtu. Apalagi pusing2 le kitorg… G. Pompidou, Rue St. Dennis, G. Pompidou, Rue St. Dennis, G. Pompidou, Rue St. Dennis (ada makna nih..clue,clue…). Pakcik xtau pepe masa tuh. Kawan2 pakcik yg tlebih pandai tu yg ajak jalan2 kt sini. Diorg kata kt sini best, byk kedai. Culture syok betoi! Masa tu kitorg byk abiskan duit syiling 20franc skang dlm ero xtau le…

Mlm tu geng2 pakcik yg claim diorg punya asrama dulu pagar xsiap ajak pakcik kuor lg. Dgn tersangat berat hati pakcik pun ikut. Kitorg ada le dlm 4org. Geng2 lain mesti ada lg nih.. Tah mana lak le sorang mamat ni pandai baca peta metro subway pakcik heran betoi. Baru 1 hari smpai. So, kitorg pegi tmpt ptg td laaagi…Round punya round punya round masuk kedai kuor kedai (kedai is not proper term I think) xsedor dah pkl 12mlm dah. Metro tu masa ete service abis pkl 12mlm rupanya. Xtau le masa nie. Kantoi betul kita 4org. Cuak camne nak blk nih. Tmpt baru nih. Dlm kpala pakcik nk gi balai polis je. Sbb dr dlu lg pakcik diajar gitu. Kalu sesat gi balai polis, gi cari polis. Tp kawan pakcik yg bijak tu kata takpeh! kita naik taxi je.. Xpe ke jadah ko ! Apa ke nama tmpt dorm kita tu?? Ko tau ke nak explain camne kt drebar taxi tuh?? Dn dgn selamba je dia kuor 1 kertas. Ceh! Dia dh tulis nama tmpt tu dlm kertas siap2. Pakcik mmg respect giler dia punya planning smpai la nie…

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blogging

Yuppie! I m into blogging now...See lar I ll throw my crap now...