Bootylicious

The last time I read a Malay book was 2 years ago, a book given by him written by Hamka. I can’t remember when was the last time I bough malay books myself, it must has been ages. It’s not that I don’t like to read Bahasa Melayu books but somehow after reading few chapters, I will lost interest. Tak menarik, balik-balik benda yang sama. Cinta tak kesampaian, dendam keluarga, penderitaan bla..blaaaaaaa..bosannnn. Aku yang membaca pon terasa lemas kadang-kadang. Ada juga certain writers try to run for the norm by writing so called intricate storyline tapi terlalu bersimpul pun tak bagus jugak. Letih aku nak tunggu apa motif cerita tu. Gagal juga.

But when I was small, I remember enjoy reading Bahasa Melayu books. Series like Tidurlah Intan and antologi cerpen for kids were so interesting back then. One antologi cerpen yang aku paling ingat ialah cerita ketayap putih, the illustration was by Imuda. Oh I really love Tidurlah Intan’s illustration. Gambar-gambar itu semua sudah cukup bercerita dengan cara yang tersendiri. And I also remember reading novel entitled Salina, not too complicated but meaningful. Few weeks ago I came across the latest version of Tidurlah Intan, I have to say it’s not the same anymore. Even the illustration that they use are not so eye catching. Apa sudah jadi?

Mungkin kini mereka lebih sibuk merencana ayat-ayat baru seperti “baharu” dari menghasilkan sesuatu yang menarik minat masyarakat untuk membaca.

I never buy books related to religion sebab..entah sebab aku memang keji kot but after watching Ayat-ayat cinta, I decided to give it a try. While browsing at MPH, I saw this book, Dalam Mirhab Cinta. I said why not, sesekali beli novel bahasa melayu [bahasa Indonesia sebetulnya]. Who knows I might enjoy it.

3 stories in 1 book but I love the second stories the most [Dalam Mirhab cinta] although, there’s a continuity to it. That story reminded of one of Gibran’s story about how the cruel world could make out a thief from a decent man. The perspective is also like Gibran, menulis tanpa rasa takut apa walaupun dalam konteks Islam mungkin some of the things that happened ada yang membuatkan kau menjongkit kening dan berteriak “Ini bukan ajaran yang betul!” dan yang paling penting, tidaklah pula mencerca bangsa lain. Like, oh the jews are so lahanat and the christians are so sesat. Aku menyampah bila orang cakap-cakap benda ini. Itu semua common sense, the bottom line is, why do you fight hatred with another hatred? Bilalah dunia nak aman macam tu. I am speaking in the terms of berdakwah.

And, I like this guy, he portrays women differently.

Also, the words that he uses, tidak terlalu bersastera but the arrangement of words are nicely arranged. And the message and meaning, nicely delivered. Tak perlu nak poyo berteka-teki or struggle nak tunjuk intellect. Like, lagi kau tak paham dan peningggg lagi tererlah aku menuliss. Kau apa tau, tahap pemikiran kau tak tercapai ok dengan tahappemikiran aku. Tsk.

Tapi aku baru baca buku dia sekeping aja, have not yet read the rest. But I will and already planning to buy his book yang apa tah tajuk dia tapi ada kaitan dengan Cleopatra hehe.

Dulu ex aku yang lanchau kakak die writer, I read her book and told him not badlah but actually I lied. Aku tak paham apa kakak die tulis hehe. Maybe I am stupid or maybe..she’s too smart or maybe her bother is the bloodiest idiotest in the whole wide world [motif?]. Aku kalau menulis pasal si celake ni tak maki dia tak bolehla. Rasa mendidih-didih je darah dalam urat-urat aku ni.

Oh ye, sempena Ramadhan yang akan datang, saya memohon ampun dan maaf sebab selalu berkasar dan memarah sesuka hati macamlah aku sorang je yang tahu nak marah.

Aku berdoa jugak, moga-moga Tuhan lembutkan dan bukakanlah hati aku untuk memaafkan si celake itu tadi. It’s sucks to live in vengence but someone told me, tak perlu tergesa-gesa maafkan orang. Biarla maaf tu datang sendiri satu hari nanti dengan hati yang ikhlas

Aku rasa macam tu, sampai matila aku tak maafkan die hehe.

Apa niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..Tadi baru jeee cakap elok-elok nak mintak maaf semua. Tsk

Sorrylah, this is already 1.30 a.m, I cannot think properly. So, there.

Ok last.

Selamat berpuasa dan beramal. Gunakanlah Ramadhan dengan sebaik-baiknya. dan tunggulah kedatangan puasalicious. Hehe

Firefox had made my surfing easier and faster. I used to like IE but after I found Mozilla, I never look back. Love the extensions especially Ad Block plus, No script and Fire FTP, not to mention the themes. IE ni lembab dan rigid. Tak suke. Banyak pop up lak tu, aku dah disable pon keluar jugak.

That was then, until I found Flock. Like Firefox Flock is also being develop by Mozilla, cuma if you are a social junky and can’t live without twitter, facebook or even digg, this browser is for you. And ohhhh, Flock also integrate with blogger, wordpress, xanga dan few more blogging platform. Gila senang, I have not try posting entries from it though. Just that, Flock is still new so expect lots of improvement from them.

Despite the fact that they are still green, Mac is going to drop[ke dah drop?] Firefox and adopt Flock as they new official browser, but then again si Mac ni hanya mementingkan rupa, tengoklah Iphone 3g dia tu, chantek je lebih, function and dependability out. Kau cecepat sikit upgrade boleh tak? Birthday aku dah nak dekat dah ni

Eh, lari topik.

Ehem. For Firefox, I have to install add on and extension for boost[facebook] and twitter tapi bila pakai Flock tak payah dah install extension tu semua.The best thing is, some of the extension for Firefox can also be used with Flock. I managed to install Fire FTP and No script while Flock has it’s own Ad Block Plus extension.

Tapiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii sebenarnyaa yang membuatkan aku convert to Flock ialah it’s Gloss Edition¹. Especially for women who love fashion, gossip dan sewaktu dengannya. Hihihihi

“Flock’s Gloss Edition is the world’s first and only fashion/entertainment browser. Your source for daily fashion, entertainment, and well…downright gossip.”-Flock

The full view [sorryla ye kene compactkan]

Can you see the gossip + fashion tabs?

Integrated facebook and other applications. Who needs boost now?

Gila addictive of tabs itu. Dahla masa firefox aku memang tak buat keje sekarang ni lagila, asyikla nak bukak tab-tab itu, tak campur dengan feeds yang lain, there more fashion feeds can be found in the browser. Itu nasib baik die tak integrate sekali dengan Perez Hilton, kalau tak..tsk

Just that, I wish more themes is available, or atleast bolehla tuka kaler pink tu ke merah ke. I still love my azerty III themes from mozilla, tengoklah kang aku try install, kot-kot boleh ke.

Agak kekok jugakla bila tukar tapi lama-lama ok sebab, the foundation is the same from Mozilla jugak. Aku kalau kene guna IE balik, mesti menyumpah-nyumpah, even dia dah buat the tab system. Tak tahula apsal, dahla tunggu nak load sekian lama.

But then again, pakailah Flock super gloss wet edition pon, tapiiiiiiiiiiii kalau connection lembab macam aku punye memang tak jalan. Rasa nak bakar je syarikat yang terbabit pon ade. Takpeeeeeeeeee kau tunggulah w1MAX sampai Shah Alam, kau tahulah nasib kau. Tapi at the mean time, terpaksalah aku bersabar berflock dengan connection yang lembab.

So, you think you want to convert or not?

P.S: I cried watching petronas merdeka ads 2008. The part bapak die tabungkan duit tu sungguh menyentuh hati.

The other night we watched this one Philippines horror movie on Kirana. If my memory is still good the title is Ang Pamana. Well, sebenarnya adalah rutin aku menengok cerita hantu dekat Kirana. Macam takde keje lain kan but hey I love watching horror movie, tight schedule doesn’t give much options for bonding so this is a good choice.

This movie did not let me down. There’s not much cliche scenes like orang merangkak atas siling, air keluar melimpah-limpah, telefon bungi tkkk..tkkk or hantu muka buruk dengan tangan berkuku panjang tergapai-gapai macam wtf la. Cuma aku tak suka bila part hantu berkepak tu keluar, dah macam tapaper. But still menyebabkan aku tengok sambil menyorok bawah selimut.

What I love about this movies is the similarity of their manananggal [winged, half-bodied vampires] and our penanggal, both like to eat babies or things which are related to that. Dulu masa aku duduk dekat kampung time cuti skolah gila takut ok bila orang cerita pasal ni and my favourite scene was bila the couples nak melarikan diri tengah malam, naik motor dengan full speed but on the way they saw a white figure. The girl said “Just drive” and the guy drovelah tapii everytime they passed the figure they will still see her along the way dan jalan itu nampak sama sahaja gelap dan suram. Last-last the white figure show her face, that’s the girl nenek. Macam gampanglah, aku dahla kene drive sorang-sorang waktu malam kadang-kadang.

*sampukan*

So he asked me what will I do if that happen to me.

Me: I’ll just drivelah
He: Ok, ok what if tiba-tiba she stopped right in front of your car? And stare at you

Me: I stopla.
He: And then you see her moving but you can’t see her legs. She moves closer to your car.

Me: What kind of question is this?
He: And then dia makin dekat..makin dekattt

Me: I langgar dia! Nanti dia tembus kereta I
He: Then lepas tu you dengar “Tolong nakk..jangan langgar makciikkkk..Nanti sakittt”

Me: I stoppppppplaaaaaa. Or I reverse
He: And she move foward so fast towards you.. howwwww? Hari tengah malam ni

Me: Ahhh, I langgar jela diaaa. You makeme stressla
He: Tsk tsk.. I tak sangka you macam ni. Sanggup jadi pembunuh!

Me: But she’s already dead!
He: Mana you tahu,entah-entah dia makcik pakai skateboard ke?

Kau boleh tak jangan tanya soalan macam ni hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

*sampukan tamat*

Anyway, I was talking to my peneman tengok tv last night while watching another cerita hantu at TV3. Cerita itu sungguh tahaper-haper bolehla pulak masuk alam lain and hantu dia macam the matriks. I mean come on, don’t tell me that kind of hantu scare the shit out of you.

One good example cerita yang memang menakutkan orang is the eye. Hantu dalam lif, hantu lidah panjang [aku gile takut] and hantu dekat hospital.

Other kejadian that would probably menakutkan aku:

• Kau tido sekali kau pusing facing your partner and your partner smile at you in a scary way, muka pon dah lain. Tolongla jangan jadi dekat aku.
• Tengah-tengah surf internet malam-malam ada orang belai-belai rambut and tiup-tiup tengkuk
• Masuk-masuk bilik air tengok hantu tengah hisap tuala wanita [ok ini urban legend budak tinggal hostel]. Tak nak okk tak nakkk
• Or lagi satu urband legend, hantu gosok gigi pakai pisau lepas tu mulut dia berdarah-darah. Tsk

Ok tu je sebab aku dah takut. Hehe bangang jugakla kan.

Tapi, apakah kejadian yang boleh menakutkan yew bunnies?

One more week to Ramadhan and less than a week to Independence day. Between the two I am more keen towards Ramadhan but I was promised to watch pertunjukan bunga api bersempena merdeka. Yeay. Ceh itu pon nak suka.

Tak tahulah kenapa, aku tiba-tiba rasa sayu bila dah dekat bulan Ramadhan, especially tahun ini. Kalau dulu, Syawal was eagerly awaited compared to Ramadhan tapi sekarang macam tak. Aku rasa tahun ni kalau boleh raya aku nak lepak rumah pakai sluar pendek makan rendang but of course that is not going to happen. Kalau nak kene bakar api nagaan mak aku, buatlah.

When I was small, emak had her own special way to encourage us to fast.  For every day that we successfully fasted, we will be given RM1 which will eventually given to us on Hari Raya as duit raya. Ianya memang kurang baik because it can be seen as sogokan but it worked, I completed fasting the whole month for the first time when I was in standard four while my brother managed to complete his when he was in standard one. My emak, never forced us to puasa but every time when I told her I feel like dying and tak larat [kecik-kecik dah drama] she would point at the clock and said “kejaaaap je lagi, lagi berapa jam je tinggal”. And she would definetely buy us any food that we want. Yang aku paling ingat sekali, aku tengah tengok tv cerita rumah kedai [gila nostalgic!] tiba-tiba ada iklan biskut meri dengan sparkling ribena. Terussss merengek dekat emak nak biskut meri and sparkling ribena. Bongok gila, tengok biskut meri pon boleh teringin haha. Nevertheless emak bought it for me .

Pernahla dulu, masa orang tak nampak aku makan coklat or curik-curik minum air masa ambik air sembahyang tapi lepas tu sendiri rasa macam taik sebab emak still bought me what I want for berbuka. Lepas tu macam tanakla tipu-tipu dah, tak thrill ok.

I can’t remember when did emak stop giving us the money for fasting but one thing for sure, I don’t purposely tinggal puasa, one thing that I am proud of despite segala kejahilian aku yang lain samada disengajakan ataupon tidak. Bestlah puasa masa bulan puasa, saat-saat tunggu nak tunggu masjid shah alam azan while having to look at the juadah on the table, waiting with your family is priceless.

This Ramadhan emak hinted that she wanted to sahur at Mcd just like last year, oh she loved it. And just now we flipped through majalah keluarga  dan dia telah menyuruh aku masak kuih-kuih di dalam itu semua bila aku kata “wahh sedapnya kuih nii”. Apsalla mulut aku gatal sangat?

I know I am not supposed to think this way but I can’t help asking, sampai berapa Ramadhan lagi aku boleh dengan emak? Memang hari-hari aku dengan emak tapi Ramadhan lain sikit feel dia.

Let’s not go there.

Anyway, what is your best Ramadhan memory?

Tsk.

Emak ajak me to Jalan TAR. I am so bloody malas but she’s my mom and dia dah buat muka sedih. When I asked her nak buat apa she just said “adalahhhhh”. Hish. Tu mesti tah hapa-hapa die nak beli tu.

That is the button subang that I told you about.

Rupa-rupanya nak pegi bunga plastik dengan table runner dekat SSF Patutla tanak kasi tau aku, komfem aku keji-keji hehe. Sukati mak la makkkkkkkk. Oh but I have to say barang-barang dekat SSF are not bad, I mean their deco. Aku gatal nak beli jugak tapi nak letak manalah?

She did not get any bunga or table runner because she said “dekat guangzhou lagi murah” [which aku sangat tak paham apa yang murahnya kalau tiket die je dah brapa] instead she got herself a new vase. Sejak dia berkawan dengan rakan-rakan sepenariannya itu [she took salsa and line dance, hehe] , bukan main lagi mak aku ni, semua nak tukar, semua nak beli. Rumah tu dah takde tempat lepak dah . I don’t like but she said “sukatila, rumah aku”. Wahh wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . Nasib baik betul. Tsk.

Then she wanted to eat at this one place at ampang park. Hari tu dia punya cerita bukan main. “Na, mak hari tu kan,makan dengan kawan-kawan mak dekat satu tempat ni, nyonya asam pedas. Sedddap [ada qolqolah] tau”. I was skeptical when my mum said dia makan dengan kawan die sedap pasal dulu dia cakap macam tu jugak tapi bila we the whole family went to have dinner there, ceh. Takdela sedap de. But okla, pegi jugaklaaaaaaaaaaa. Aku ye ye la ingat restoran apa tadi.

Rupa-rupanya cozy corner.

Laaaa.Ye ye la aku ingat restaurant nyonya ke apa tadi.

So we ordered.

Escargot for me

Asam pedas, buttered prawn, sizzling tofu & shredded meat asparagus

How was the food?I prefer sizzling tofu from Ismah and the asam pedas..oh man. Mak aku ni peliklah, macamana dia boleh cakap sedap sedangkan asam pedasdia 10x lagi sedap? Dulu pon macam tu, dia bermati-matian cakap nasi ayam linda onn sedap padahal sah-sahla her nasi ayam is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more sedap ok. When I told her that, she just gelak-gelak. I mean, it was not bad but takdelah seddap berqolqolah yang macam dia describe hari tu. Manis pulak tu! Pantang aku masakan manis-manis ni kecualilah nama dia asam pedas gula, tu aku tak bolehla nak marah kan.

And for dessert

Yumm

I always order crepe suzette. This one is a bit different from the one that I used to eat, the marmalade taste is not too strong still I like them! Nampak macam roti jala pon ade hehe. Emak had sago melaka.

Overall okla kot although I think the prices are higher than VS [for escargot and crepe suzette]

Dan aku sangat marah sebab sah-sahla merosakkan diet akukan. Apalah artinya kalau aku hanya duduk tanpa makan semua makanan itu?

Ahhhhhhhhhh, malam ni makan 1 celery stick je cukup. ¹.

[Takde kaitan] At the back is ah beng, he and his sister ah lian conquered the bed these days. Sian MJ

Happy Monday bunnies, baik korang makan puas-puas [bisikan syaiton] lagi seminggu nak puasa, melaikan korang jenis manusia keji yang tak puasa. Lepas tu dengan eksyen isap rokok dalam kereta, eee benci gila aku manusia macam tu.

Eh emo.

Okla tata.

P.S: Btw, I love jalan tar during ramadhan, memang sesak gila but I like to go jalan-jalan and tengok barang.