Killin time..

ive been attending courses courses courses...dhang!..it is not that i really wanna attend..but hafta abide to THE rules and regulations of the industry that i am in...

So, i was bored....took the handsome trainer picca...hahahah

Then during break time..cannot eat...jalan jalan...decided to talk to some animals. Went to the petshop..talked to the mega expensive animals they are selling there...well, since i cant afford to buy or even take care of them... Had conversation with the cute puppy ( which didnt feel like talking to me ), the little bunny ( same, ignored me), the 'g@rfield' ( typical - told me he is bored and he wants to sleep till the next meal time [this one..seriously remind me of someone heheheeee] ), and hey the fishes do talk to me...'dory' and 'nemo dan rakan rakan'. The starfish..err..cant see their mouth..so not talkin to them.


..then..dono what else to do..got anotha 10 minutes before i checked back in..so i went to the building sorta-the building kinda-verandah-roof..whatever ( not trying to jump off.. )...snap snap...sengih kat kakak yg tengah sapu sampah ;-B


..inilah kerje kalu boring..coba teka di mana?, i bagi duit raya rm2 ( for people who knows where i work..cannott answer hhehehe) - lawak2 yg tak berapa gaban d akhir bulan September.

..got some more piccas of "when-m-bored-attending-courses" later...

TO ALL...

SALAM AIDILFITRI
MAAF ZAHIR BATIN

PEACE

Love is a many splendour thing...

The long awaited post...

As promised, some reviews on the mushy malay novel that i read for the last couple of months..

After Harajuku, next i decided to read on a true love story, Atas Nama Cinta written by Isa Kamari. I assumed many of us, especially the new generations have not heard about Natrah aka Nadra aka Maria Hertogh. The writer has 'illustrate' this mega love story between two mothers and a child name Natrah, in a very creative manner. It is totally based on facts, with a touch of beautiful emotions and touchy dialogues.

In short, Natrah is a dutch girl who lives with her grandmother and mother and her four siblings. during the Dutch occupations in Indonesia. During that time, where the locals were fighting to win back the country, her father was caught, left the mother who is not well and she has to take care of the kids herself. She then decided to giveaway Maria to Aminah. Aminah has no children of her own, so she was very pleased to take care of Maria, whom she named Natrah after that. After a while, Aminah brought Natrah to Malaya. Then her real parents started to look for her to claim her back. The trial took place in Singapore, and it had cause chaos amongst the locals and the 'matsallehs', due to religious issues. A very exhilarating real life story.. check it out in the wikiwiki here and you can even check it out in YouTube under Maria Hertogh. A history that we dont want it to happen again in the future... and yet we never learn.

Next is, Tunggu Teduh Dulu - Faizal Tehrani. This novel is about a very smart lady who wishes to become a very successful entrepreneur and a farmer. specifically papaya. In the process of building up the business, she has to also deals with mix feelings that she has between her two childhood friends who was in love with her and her family problems. It is very tough for her to satisfy everyone and at the same time manages her business. Upon reading this, i have actually gain massive knowledge of what kind of papaya, how it grows, what sort of fertilizer, the goodness of papaya et cetera...phew...made me eat papayas too ;-P. What impressed me is, the writer is a guy, and he actually managed to instill the 'jiwa' of a woman in the story.

Saga, written long ago by Abdul Talib Hassan way back in 1976. This novel was recommended to me by my other half. The writer at that point of time has impressed readers on his new way of writing, perfectly. I agreed. It is simple but elaborative in a very 'selamba' manner.It is a story of three good friends, two guys and one gal. It is again about the torn between two lovers thingy, difference is she is married to one of them. The trio went to a village to actually develop the place, and they have to face the 'village-political' challenges. Interesting. the writter, even produced Saga 2 and 3, which i have not managed to find, unless if i order thru the internet.

I wanted to read more, but reading all four love stories have made me feelin' 'stuffed'. So i have to postpone my intentions to read on A Samad Said's novels - which is 'heavier' and its not easy to get at the main bookstores. I don't plan to read the too-commercialized kinda novels. Have discussed my plot with the friend that asked me to write and to some others. Started...chapter one...

PEACE

Life..precious life 2...

Last two days, i called up my friend, the one who is having acute leukemia (the earlier entry about her here.) I will always make a point to call her like, once in every one or two months the very least. Her condition has not improve.

Early July she told me she went to Indonesia, advised by her relatives who is staying there, seeking for alternative medicine. She even called me from Indonesia and told me about the situation she had to go thru. It wasnt as easy as she thought, as she had to wait in a long queue and took them days to prescribe the medicines. Nevertheless, she was happy she could go somewhere, rather than sitting at home feeling bored. When she came back home, she was offered a job by her previous employer. She was very happy, being able to do part time lecturing at the college and being able to earn extra income for herself and family despite her being sick. She is very fortunate, as her present boss is very kind and very understanding. He allows her to perform her job at her own pace as at times she has to spent a few days in the hospital for the bone marrow checkup and all sorts of check up. She explained to me how is the process of poking the needle almost as big as d thumb, at her back and recently at her backside...very painful.

Recently, her boss brought her along with other staffs to Bali. "It is a very beautiful place," she said, and i told her.."owh..i so envy you, havent been there". Cracked a few jokes. ( justa turn the conversation to something more cheerful ) She laughed. Glad to hear her laugh. She told me her boss will arrange for her to go to India to seek treatment from the specialists there and also to bring her and family to London, for a holiday. Isnt that very very very nice of him? This boss was actually under her supervision when he first joined the company and she treated him well, and this favor he said, is in return to appreciate her contribution for him to climb up the ladder successfully.

I told her, oh wow, things happen for a reason... This is so good to hear. I am very delighted the amount of appreciation that her boss are willing to give, priceless!..regardless of skin colour. As for me, the least i could do is being a true friend. i dont have much, in a sense of monetary or material, to give her. I appreciate her for giving me the thought about life, kept reminding me to do the right thing.She, over and over again stress the point on how she appreciate me, for listening to her. Not that i demand for that, but i believe to appreciate oneself, we need to appreciate others, in whatever condition we are, just show it..we wont lose anything. In fact, i believe we gain more! But of course for some people or even mua have this big chunk of ego to fight with ;-p...tired of being the first to start things...now as mua life is back like the way it was .. anotha ;-p..ish no fun!

aper..ni..tetiba offtrack...

Anyways...Her baby, is now very healthy and cheerful...a brilliant baby boy....She manage to fast, as she said she dont eat a lot. At present...the doc suggested to her to increase the dose of the med from 400 to 800..double....not good..

Oh God..please keep her strong...

*1. great chat dank! *wink*

*2. forgiven but not forgotten..hehe..perasan plus vain
PEACE

One of those supposed city...

I was here...

Ipoh.. attended a course...

Spent two nites there. My cuz accompanied me. Ipoh is my hometown, since my Opah passed away, we rarely go back to Ipoh, unless theres wedding or funeral. So, since i normally dont do the driving, if and when we are there, Ipoh town roads and places are sorta alien to me. the roads are mostly one way and roundabouts. Now theres a few new business centres. So we went round and round almost the whole of Ipoh to look for a place ;-P..

One thing for sure, Ipoh is a very 'economical' place to stay..drivers are slow and steady..no rush.. and we discovered some amazing stuffs there...

the first night we arrived, we went to a mamak restaurant for a drink..ordered roti canai..

Walah!...quick question to the mamak." Bang ini roti canai satu ke dua?" rm1.00..SOOO Big!!... The guy wasnt surprise when i asked him that...very tough for us to finish it..

During my lunch break..we went to IpohP@rade...my cuz happily reached out her hand to the parking-entrance-machine to take the parking ticket or chip..and was a bit startled when she had to put in coins hehheee


..and if you are looking for coupons for roadside parking..theres nowhere to be found near the parking spaces! Amazing! ;-P

The night after breakfast, we went all around Ipoh to look for Americanpool table, but ekkk...none..nil! So we ended up playing snooker..made a 'grand entrance' to the snooker centre, all eyes were at us...hehee..We never played snooker together before. The last time for me was i think 15 years ago..

..before that while we were 'cruising around' looking for a pool table..we found a very funny 'signboard'..at GreeeentownnMall (at least for us is funny hehehhe )

... Nyanyian karaoke Melayu!..dhang!hehhe

While we were in town to buy some stuffs on the last day, one 'scary' thing happened at a parking place. Theres this insane lady came knocking on the window and were shouting at us. We cant barely hear what she was saying..and we dare not open the window or reverse as her feet was under the car. I then, showed her the signs to backoff..she was still mumbling and screaming to us. I then, 'waved out' and said 'GO!'..she refused. Lose my patience..i screamed to her " BLAHLAH WOI! "..she cursed and sweared like nobody business to me. I then asked my cuz to just reverse, then only that lady went off..with a lot more cursing..duh!

..and the course i attended...mengantuk siotttsss...

..Ipoh is fun!..hehhee

PEACE

A Lepak weekend...

Last weekend was a very lepak-one weekend. Me and Nik actually checked out a fish spa place which is also a very nice spa place...see..the picts..nice kan..clean and elegant..dont want to make free promotion about this place, we went behind the C@rrefour W.Maju, new shoplots ;-P.

Then, breakfast time, me, other half and cuz went to MrnMrs John place, potluck, eat-till-we-drop.. i brought super-tapai..memang dropppp betul..hehhehe

Sunday, went to Lowy@t, other-half wanna checkout some stuffs, and at 4th floor Lowy@t we never miss to buy this Soy-nuts at the at the Soy@shop..ish promotion lagi..hehee. Really likes to share good stuffs..you can google about it for more infos, the nuts is really crunchy and yummy..cant stop eating it..also healthy..

Planned to breakfast at the famous chicken rice shop, near the traffic light and bukit bint@ngplaza. We were too late..FULL HOUSE...i didnt realize they have one more floor up. So what we did was, we crossed the lane, ordered drinks at the open cafe, tapau the chicken rice. Beautiful experience! hehhehe. It has been so long i have not lepaks and jalan2 there at night. Felt like i am a KL'ian tourist in KL..snap snap picts..

..and this guy makes money near THE traffic light junction..cool heheh

..and theres actually loads of fish spas along the main road of BB..which also offer foot reflexiology and massage..but..the fish spa..macam kureng sikit ...



Later that nite, lepak again for a while with MrnMrs John..

..the story of my delighful weekend...

PEACE

Why do i like MY house part 2

Why do i like my house part one is here, which is not mine..and how i wish..

While waiting for breakfast time this is what i did....normal sights during rainy season. No, its no smoc...;-)

The view from my place...the fog..and its cold ovarheeya..




..the fog finally dispersed..'clouding' my place ;-P

brrr...cold..

PEACE

Fish..bites!

..was in Bukit Jalil Bazaar, followed my other-half to meet his friend, who open up a booth selling some mix and match stuffs for raya. My other-half also plans to sell some stuffs there which i am not sure what. So while we were roaming around the area ( which was quite empty as it is too early for people to shop during ramadhan ), i found a place to 'ease'. It was the feet-fish-spa-therapy thingy. First time for me, very very very ticklish when the tiny fishes started to nibble my feet ( they say they eat the dry 'unwanted' skin)..after a while i got use to the ticklish nibbling process and enjoyed it. It actually cured my headache and lessen my knee pain...seriously. Theres times when i terstep on the fishes and they were cutely trying to wriggled themselves out hehehheee..i enjoyed that too! not trying to kill them though hehe..

I am so need to experience it again..like the whole body hehehehee...mesti geli kan...i heard theres spas somewhere in KL provide the therapy, according to my other half la..he went already...hmmmm


PEACE