Warning: Tolonglah jangan berhujah tentang BM yang akan saya gunakan. OK?
Raya Haji dah hampir seminggu berlalu, obviously entry ni dah overdue. Boohoo!
Seperti biasa, bila topik ada kaitan dengan Malaysia, Baju Kurung, Melayu, Hari Raya, 1 Malaysia dan yang sewaktu dengannya, memang confirm akan muat naik entry dalam Bahasa Kebangsaan kita... (kononnya... sebab bahasa juga seperti fashion. Nampak lebih bergaya kalau kita mix match dengan bahasa-bahasa lain. :P )
Raya Haji hari tu, kami pergi melawat rumah Ninie. Sila click kat nama 'Ninie' kalau tak kenal siapa Ninie itu. Terima kasih.
Kalau masa tahun pertama dan kedua di Uni dulu kan, rajin lah sangat pakai baju kebaya/baju kurung siap dengan selendang lagi masa beraya. Tapi lama-lama tu kan, macam malas pula nak bergaya sakan. DI MANAKAH ENGKAU SEMANGATKU?! KEMBALILAH!
Nampaknya, tahun ini beraya di Kapit memang confirm tak pakai baju kurung/kebaya berselendang. Kata Shama , kalau pakai baju kurung/kebaya pergi rumah Ninie, memang Ninie akan memperhambakan orang tersebut sebagai waitress. Haihhh... kejam sungguh ye?
So, I came looking like this.
Macam nak pergi ke kelas ada juga, macam nak pergi shopping pun ada. Haih.... Kalau anda rajin click kat gambar di atas, lepas tu, zoom dekat-dekat kat cardigan mesti anda nampak brooch warna hitam, which I LOVE SO MUCH! YAY!
Anyhoo, nevermind about what I wore because we had so much fun! Sebaaaaaaab makanan di rumah Ninie sedap-sedap. SILALAH JEMPUT KAMI KE RUMAH LAIN KALI, WOKEH? Terima kasih. Dah, dah... Nak pergi mandi, bersiap lepas tu pergi rumah datuk kesayangan ku.
Cintalah selagi termampu.. Love while you can.. :)
p/s: ... and about the title, YA! Ninie memang pandai berjahit... hebat tak?
pp/s: Quite a number of people tanya 'MANA PERGI NYA ENTRY TENTANG ROOM MAKE OVER? TERLUPA DAH KE?' ... No, no, no... Bukan terlupa, masih ada 5% lagi belum siap. Sabar yek... :)
I'm back in my lovely Little Town for a few days until I'm off again to Song this Sunday. Had a blast there since my friend Julieana is there. She had just got posted to one of the schools in Song and it was a relief that I wouldn't spend my nights alone doing totally nothing.
One thing for sure, we ate ALL THE TIME! My mission to lose weight has just been distracted and I really have to catch up on whatever I have left.
It's durians season now. I was never a huge fan of durians but I did eat them. HOWEVER, I'm not really sure what got into me that I really, really into durians this year. I would eat like nobody business and fought with my mum over durians. Yes, that's how serious it is!
Thanks to durians, I have a very husky voice now. Testing, testing, one two three...
I sang in church that day and boy I sounded so awful. Leron said I sounded 'semput' (out of breath). Haha! My Rock Star had no complain, since I always sound so sexy to him. Eceh eceh... Perasan! :P
Hopefully, it's getting better since I've been gulping gallons of water.
That's Julieana. She's my best friend since God-knows-when, but we were kinda distant since I furthered my study in matriculation and she was in Form 6, and then back together again when we both entered the same Uni.
She's an awesome friend but she's booked! Sorry boys... :P
Wanna go and eat durians now... you people take care k?
I'm in Song now. Slept early last night and woke up quite late this morning since there's no paper today. Blissful ... :)
I'm done reading 'Help Yourself' by Dave Pelzer and I'm currently reading 'Don't sweat the small stuff' by Richard Carlson. There's one part in that book that really caught me by surprise. It says 'Allow yourself to feel bored', when all this while I hold on to a philosophy that 'Idle mind is a devil's workshop'. So contradicting! Should I buy it?
When I really look back to what have I done throughout 2009, I really spent every bit of my life doing things. Never let myself get bored, not even a minute. I would try to fill every single second in my life doing things... Doing and doing and doing and doing... until one day I asked myself, 'What am I doing? Why am I doing it?'
So, I guess, it's kinda okay to let yourself bored once in a while and seep in all the beauty around you... Hhmm... Hhhmmm... Hhhmmm... *seeping in the beauty*
To accompany that, here's my casual look.
Blue shirt I got 2 years ago and my very old washed-jeans and mum's handbag.
I'm not a legging-person, because my thigh is HUMONGOUS!
But since I was jogging day in and day out for almost everyday to accomplish my mission, I kinda have a tiny bit of confidence to wear them. I don't think there's much change in the size of my thigh, it's just that I feel better since I exercise almost daily. Tehee...
Her name is Bulan Pai, and we lovingly called her Poi Lan. Her name perfectly matched her. She was like a light in the darkness.
I still remember, Mum and Dad were working when I was little and Poi was the one who took care of me, before Mum and Dad hired a babysitter/maid. She would run around to catch me whenever I played beyond 'her boundaries'. I would sneak into whoever houses to play. I was a pain on the ass.
I still remember, Poi had always been so wonderful. She was there when I had my darkest moments. She was there when I was almost inconsolable. I still remember, she used to babysit me when my family was not in a good shape. She woke me up early morning to go to school. I was so sleepy until she sneezed the world out of her. It was soooooooo LOUD that I woke up abruptly until the end of the day. That was how loud it was.
I still remember, how bubbly she was when she talked about things that happened around her. Some of the stories were so plain but when she told me the stories, it would sound so funny and I burst out laughing. I couldn't even tell what was so funny but I could tell how good it felt when she made me laugh.
I still remember, she used to make 'kuih' for living. She used to hire us, the cousins, to sell the 'kuih' because she said she was old and ugly and couldn't sell, and that we were so young and alluring we could sell the 'kuih'. Poi Lan could come up with silly reasons to make us join her in her business. But the truth was, we were always willing to help cause we could eat the 'kuih' for free. The 'kuih' were super delicious, she didn't need us to sell them... Poi, don't say you're ugly and old. You're pretty and charming alright. :)
I still remember, how Poi Lan and Poi Taeng made a very lovely couple that the two of them made us the younger generation damn jealous alright. One night, Mum and I went to Poi's house for a little surprise visit. Poi Lan and Poi Taeng were alone in the house. I was so surprised, at a very old age, Poi Taeng still wrapped his arms around Poi Lan while sitting in front of the TV. Poi Taeng was never ashamed to publicly declare that he loved Poi Lan, was never ashamed to hold Poi Lan's hands, was never ashamed to kiss Poi Lan. Believe it or not, they won 'Couple of the year' and 'Couple of the night' for 2 years consecutively at our church. Even Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt couldn't beat them!
When Poi Lan was ill in the hospital, they would hug each other everytime Poi Lan felt so painful, that it brought tears to whosoever eyes watching them. Poi Taeng would squeeze her hands and rubbed them lovingly. True love is really forever... True love is really forever...
I still remember, how happy she would look like when you had all your grandchildren around her. They made her happy. Simple little things made her happy. Poi Lan had such a big heart, that sometimes I wonder how that big heart can fit it her tiny frame. She prayed for every single person that came across her mind. She really, really prayed that she had tears in her eyes, that's how loving Poi Lan was.
I still remember, on her last breath, she looked so peaceful that I thought she was just sleeping. I couldn't believe that she had already gone. Her lips were still pink, her body was still warm and it was so hard to let go.
But when I really thought of it, I shouldn't be so sad, because she's now with Father in heaven. I'm solid sure that she's in heaven now. She's been so wonderful while she was here, that everybody felt the lost. Every single person who was so touched by her when you were still on earth, couldn't bear the lost but was happy that she's now happy in the heaven.
Poi Lan, we miss you... I'll be good here on earth 'till we meet again in heaven.
I LOVE YOU POI LAN.
Love while you can.... Poi Lan had loved and cared, she didn't have any regrets at all.. AT ALL... :')
Kembali lagi kita dalam sesi berbahasa Malaysia, iaitu bahasa kebangsaan kita. Yeah!
Walaupun hujan mencurah-curah kebelakangan ini, tetapi saya sentiasa rasa tekak saya haus dan kulit saya kering. Entah mengapa ya? Mungkinkah dehidrasi?
Suara saya juga kadang-kadang menjadi sangat serak-serak basah ala-ala Ning Baizura gitu, sudahlah memang sedia ada serak-serak basah. Beberapa kali saya menyanyi rock ketika masak di dapur, hampir terlompat ikan gulai asam dalam periuk, di sangkanya guruh di ufuk senja (apa itu "ufuk"? Saya pun sebenarnya tidak tahu. Saya cincai guna, sebab bunyi nya sangat artistik. Ya, I want to appear artistic. KUA3!!!)
Minggu depan saya outstation lagi. Kali ini ke Song, untuk mengawas peperiksaan. Ya, peperiksaan perlu diawasi, untuk mencegah kegiatan-kegiatan meniru yang sangat berleluasa di kalangan pelajar yang moralnya kini mengalami keruntuhan merudum/merundum (which one?).
Jika tanpa pengawas peperiksaan yang berdedikas (yerdehhh... :P), bagaimana kita dapat mempercayai sistem pendidikan negara kita? Kalau si Ah Meng, si Abu atau si Suzana mendapat 10A, 18A atau beribu-ribu lemon A, tetapi sebenarnya meniru dalam peperiksaan, sanggupkah anda orang-orang begini menjadi doktor yang akan membedah apendiks anda? Sanggupkan anda orang-orang begini menjadi guru-guru bagi anak-anak anda yang comel lote? Sanggupkah anda orang-orang begini menjadi polis yang menjaga keamanan negara daripada pengganas, rasuah dan perogol?
SANGGUP TAK? I can't hear you!!! SANGGUP TAK????!!!! Of course tidak!
Oh, mulia sungguh tugas mengawas peperiksaan ini ya? Saya pun baru sedar sebenarnya. *terharu lalu menitiskan air mata dan mengelap air mata dengan tuala percuma beli bra Triumph hari tu*
Hari tu saya pakai baju kurung pergi kerja. Saya letak bunga supaya nampak berseri lagi, berseri tak? Berseri kot. Berseri-seri. Seri anak Balai. Banyak betul nama Iban 'Seri'. Bagus.
Miss Little Town is PROUD to be MALAYSIAN. :)
Cintailah selagi anda mampu... (Love while you can...)
At the moment, I'm working my way to complete all my work before the school ends. Yay! Excited!
Next week, I'm submitting the 'IT' thing. I'm freaking nervous because if 'IT' is successful, my life will be going another way. ANOTHER WAY! WAY BETTER. *cross fingers*
Well, if it is not... it's worth trying and trying and trying... again and again and again and again.
I'm sure you've seen this dress, it's the KL dress, I bought in Kuching, in which I wore around the city. Cover it up with black cardigan, and clinch it with black clincher to show that womanly silhouette. Aissshhh.. womanly silhouette... Haha! :P
Macam nak pergi ke kelas ada juga, macam nak pergi shopping pun ada. Haih.... Kalau anda rajin click kat gambar di atas, lepas tu, zoom dekat-dekat kat cardigan mesti anda nampak brooch warna hitam, which I LOVE SO MUCH! YAY!
Anyhoo, nevermind about what I wore because we had so much fun! Sebaaaaaaab makanan di rumah Ninie sedap-sedap. SILALAH JEMPUT KAMI KE RUMAH LAIN KALI, WOKEH? Terima kasih.
Dah, dah... Nak pergi mandi, bersiap lepas tu pergi rumah datuk kesayangan ku.
