Monday, April 25, 2011

London/Paris

Assalamualaikum guys! and girls too!

Well, if you followed my post before this you would know I'm on a trip to London and Paris starting from 21st of April through April the 30th. It was a blast! To me it's always nice to step into other people's world, or culture. Walk like they walk, talk like they talk, I wish I could shop like they shop! Haha!


Aku ngan kawan aku Akram ngan Aideel kat Queen's Walk, berlatarkan Tower Bridge

Orang selalu cakap hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik di negeri sendiri. So salah tak kalau aku cakap aku nak duduk London?*mata bersinar-sinar* Haha, terpulanglah kau nak duduk mana pun kan? Bumi Allah jugak, lepas tu ada lagi pepatah, jauh perjalanan luas pemandangan, so apa lagi, kalau nak duduk Malaysia tunggu London datang jenguk engkau apa cerita kan?? Kumpul duit, pergi Mekah dulu tunaikan Haji bawak mak bapak, kumpul lagi duit bawak diorang pergi London jalan-jalan tengok negera orang. Tak salah, lagipun, komuniti orang Islam dekat London ni pun banyak jugak, setiap liku-liku jalan kat London tu ada je orang Arab lah, even Malaysian pun ada, so I guess there's not much of a problem. Dulu-dulu ada gak aku dengar orang Europe ni hostile sikit ngan orang Muslim, but I see none of that here. All is well from what I saw. Tak da plak orang maki-maki budak-budak perempuan batch aku ni..jangan laa jadi stereotype eh! Orang cakap don't judge a book by it's cover, tapi ingat satu lagi, don't judge a community, or people but just one person who behaves differently. Jangan lah kita tengok seorang buat hal, rosak susu sebelanga (paham-paham lah korang!)

Tupai ni tak takut, dahla besar. Tupai kat UIA bukan main kecik, tengok aku yang kecik ni pun takut!


Apa cerita di London? Siapa tak tau London kat mana kan? Dari kecik lagi aku memang ada niat nak pergi London, tapi tak tau bila boleh capai. Tapi sekarang dah jejak kaki kat situ, Alhamdulillah, syukur gak...Tapi mesti nak tau kan apa special nya London ni? Macam KL ke? First yang aku suka, jalan-jalan dekat London (especially Central London) ni kecik-kecik belaka. Tak sebesar jalan kat KL. Nak jalan kaki kemana-mana pun senang. Naik basikal pun boleh. nak naik tube ramai plak orang kan! Aku suka part tu. Yang kedua, aku sangat suka architecture lama-lama ada ala gothic, ada Georgian, Victorian, macam Ians lah, aku suka bangunan gaya-gaya old-school macam tu, kat Malaysia nak cari paling banyak pun rumah ala Tudor, tak berapa best! nak jumpa yang lama sikit ade laa kat KLPac, tu pun tak banyak! Kat sini melambak, library dia, musuem dia, shoplots dia, fuyyoo...aku suka aku suka, mak nak pindah sini nanti boleh? :D Yang ketiga, aku bukanlah jenis orang yang suka tengok perubahan ketara, perubahan sikit-sikit oklah kan, tapi kalau musim berubah aku tak kisah! Aku suka tempat yang ada 4 musim! memanglah aku tak merasa lagi winter dia macam mana, autumn dia macam mana, tai tak salahkan kalau nak imagine. Takda salah pun kalau nak berkhayal sebentar rasa duduk kat negara omputeh ni.

Sempat tengok upacara Change of Guards kat Buckingham Palace, upacara ni berlangsung setiap dua hari,

Banyak lagi nak cerita pasal London, tapi aku ada 3 hari je nak explore sikit-sikit tempat ni, banyak lagi tempat yang best nak pergi kalau boleh macam Madame Tussaude (yang memang selalu penuh! Queue dia memang panjang!), Harrods tak pergi lagi, at least jenguk-jenguk pun takpe, Malaysia Hall (mak aku pesan kalau boleh jumpa lah orang kampung aku kat situ, tu pun tak tau kat ne, jap lai nak google map), aku nak gak melepak kat Hyde Park (memang ramai omputeh sunbathing kat situ sekarang, sekadar lalu je beberapa kali, and banyak lagi lah kalau boleh. Kalau ikut aku memang nak town trail seluruh bandar tu! Guide kitorg kat London tu rushing sangat, nak tengok tempat lama-lama pun susah. Haha!

Okay cukup lah untuk hari ni, esok aku post lagi ok!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Quick Update!

Assalamualaikum semua!

Kurang sehari lagi nak berangkat ke London. Ya, insyaAllah kalau tidak ada sebarang halangan esok awal-awal pagi dah kena berangkat dari UIA ni ke KLIA. I really can't wait! This is the first time to step my foot in Europe! Well to most of us (by us I mean my studiomates/classmates for the trip subject) this is our first time going to Europe, which is London and Paris.

I hope I'll be able to update with you guys what's going on over there later on, if I'm able to get internet connection that is! Every night's there is our free time so I guess if connection is available I'll be glad to report it on this blog! Watch out for London-Paris Tour Report from 21/4 until 30/4! haha!

So yeah that's it for today! Just a quick update from me yeah!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

I Am 21

Assalamualaikum guys!

It's 17 April 2011. The day I turn a year older every year. And this year I'm 21. And today, just a little fact about me, I like the number 17 because it's the day I was born. :D

What happened today?

Last night, a good friend of mine asked me out, not on a date! but just had some boys day out for my birthday, he was gonna buy me tickets for a movie. I had no plans after all, so I said I might come. I text another friend if he wants to go out, well he has plan and he'll confirmed that later.

To be honest, I never thought today will be such a blast. It's been a long time since my birthday is fun, and yeah today it's so much fun! Thanks Bona and Faeyz Maxwell for accompanying me today, it really is fun!

What else happened?

So today my dad banked-in a sum of money, thanks dad! And oh yeah, we got two rabbits back home! Love it!!! I can't wait to see the rabbits! Fact #002 I LOOOOVEEE rabbits! Okay, so today, I thought of buying a few books to read on the plane to London and my flight back home. I got three books; Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks and The Death and Life of Charlie St.Cloud by Ben Sherwood. All movie tie-ins edition. I thought I could get that kinokuniya paperbag for buying three books but that didn't go well, darn it!! I've been trying very hard to get those bags from the counter, I hate plastic bags! Oh, I was searching for scott pilgrim comics too but couldn't find one. Duh!

What's next?

Bona and I walk from KLCC to Pavilion (which I felt like getting nearer and nearer, is KL getting smaller??) he wants to buy a sandal he likes there, something a la gladiator, haha! Where's the celebration right??? After a while we were both hungry so we went to Sushi Zanmai at Fahrenheit 88 (which on our way, we were given two bottles of Colgate Plax Ice! haha, score!). A Chinese friend introduce me to that sushi restaurant, which is nice btw! One reason I came back is there's a cute Chinese girl work there and today, she's on duty, score #2!!! Hahaa! Faeyz Maxwell meet us at the restaurant. He didn't eat sushi much but since it's my big day, I have the power! Eat Faeyz, eat! I think I have more flesh than you do! :D

Then we went jacket-hunting! I like this really cool jacket at Topman, but it didn't fit me. I'm too small. I looked too sloppy in it, blah! The three of us went to so many places there, managed to catch a runway show at the main atrium (I told Bona if Tyra Banks were to watch this she would have fainted, good-looking; checked!, walk; unchecked!) and some Bieber-fever fans in purple singing afterwards, I hate them. Period.

So later on I just bought this nice knit jacket at Romp, it's black, it's cool, it fits thank woahhh...One thing I learned yesterday is how to really appreciate my maybankard! Haha, it's a visa debit card so now that I learn it's true potential, I don't have to carry big bucks in my pocket! Just a few one dollar bills and a few coins will do for transportation purpose! :D

I went back to UIA, I was really sad and I hate to be alone. I said goodbye to Bona and Faiz, oh before that I bought two slices of Chocolate Indulgence because I really want to eat cake for my birthday. Went back to UIA and ate them alone in my room. Sad right? Hahaha. Faeyz got me a present, it's a scarf, he asked me to wear it in London, I'll sure do! At night most probably at night it will be much chiller, according to a pamphlet given by our travelling agency.

And now I have to wait for a year for my special day. Today is special, today is fun. Thanks you guys for all of your best wishes, and birthday wishes from Facebook, Twitter so on, thank you very much!





Friday, April 15, 2011

Adoi~Pilihanraya Negeri Sarawak

Sarawak, under our nation's radar!

For some people, especially political punya analyst lagi especially orang yang sangat fanatik ngan politik ni, this is their 'Prime Time'. Masa ni lah dia berbicara pasal hal politik, besar kata-katanya. Bagai mampu mengubah minda seluruh rakyat, especially sekarang ni, rakyat Sarawak. Media dicaci, blog berhaluan kanan digasak, blog berhaluan kiri disembah. Adoi~

Apa cerita orang-orang ni? Orang luar sekadar pemerhati, yang tak pernah duduk Sarawak, nak berbicara tentang Sarawak pun mungkin mengikut musin pilihan raya. Kalau tak, tak sentuh langsung pun isu Sarawak. Itulah jenis orang yang fanatik sangat dengan parti politik, balik yang kanan, mahupun yang kiri. Adoi~

Sensitif sangat dengan agenda mereka sampai aku pun di kata budak kecil tidak tahu menahu. Apakah? Ditanya sedikit pendirian jawapan bukan main kasar lagi. Begitu idola begitukah penyokong? Cool laa sikit kan. Adoi~

Dalam paper cakap, Sarawak politics will never be the same again, mana tak 'the same' nya, satu kotor, dua kotor, tigapun kotor. Banyak sangat konspirasi, banyak sangat isu sesama lain. Apakah? Dimana nilai murni nya? Adakan pasal politik semata-mata nilai-nilai yang dipelajari semua dihumban ketepi? Adoi~

Aku teringat satu entry dari encik Joegrimjow pasal Kenapa Aku?? Why Me?? Haha...cakap kenapa aku duduk Malaysia yang mana politik nya kotor. Siapa tak setuju? Banyak kisah membelasah satu parti ke satu parti lebih-lebih lagi bila tiba musim pilihan raya. Are thashing people a new nation's norm? Hilang hormat kah kepada pemimpin sedia ada? Tidak bolehkah bahasa dan budi pekerti dijaga sepanjang masa? Adoi~

Muda bukan bererti tidak mengerti, tua tidak semesti kepakaran terbukti. Jangan kerana fanatik kau engkau berlagak loyal, taat bagai, tapi dalam hati busuk mencela orang lain. Cerita demi cerita ditabur bagi mengabur minda rakyat. Bukan mengabur dah, mengelirukan. Kanan mahupun kiri kena berubah. Yang kiri jangan terlalu megejar kuasa, kerana kuasa keluarga pun boleh tergadai. Yang kanan jangan terlalu gah, segah manapun Titanic last-last tenggelam jugak. Adoi~

Ohoi semua, especially anak-anak muda. Jiwa kental berani mencuba, tapi jangan menjadi buta. Jangan dibiar minda tertutup dengan options yang ada. Jangan kerana darah muda hak tergadai. Jangan kerana semangat politik nilai diketepikan. Ohoi~

Kalau betul pun politik Sarawak akan berubah, harapnya berubah lah kepada persaingan sihat, demi rakyat, bukan demi kuasa. Demi kemajuan negeri bukan kekayaan diri. Demi kemajuan negara, bukan sendri punya harta.

Roger, out! :D

p/s-kepada warga Balingian, pilih yang boleh membantu. tapi dah boleh agak dah siapa kan? :D

Nak Kurus Ingat Joegrimjow!

Assalamualaikum semua!

Exam smua dah selesai, seperti biasa, aku memang suka keluar awal time exam..hahaha, aku malas nak tunggu-tunggu dah especially last paper, kalau boleh nak siapkan dalam sejam! Aircond KAED Gallery walaupun tak sesejuk mana tapi masih dapat menembusi kulit aku yang nipis ni..hahaha, susah jadi orang kurus. So sem ni aku ada dua paper je nak kena dudok, ada masa seminggu nak prepare, tapi itulah orang bijak pandai macam aku ni biasa study sehari before exam. Tak heranlah kalau dapat result yang tak secantik mana, ish ish ish...motivasi motivasi...

InsyaAllah kalau tak ada halangan minggu depan akan ke London ngan Paris selama 10 hari. InsyaAllah. Walau macam mana pun aku tetap masih risau. Haha, maklumlah, kalau tengok tv orang-orang Eropah ni besar-besar belaka, aku plak, kecik ngan kurus kalau ditiup angin memang senang nak terbang! Hahaha, it's not that I'd like it being so small, so skinny, it's a disease man! Aku nak gak ada isi sikit2! Hahaha, mungkin nanti boleh rujuk-rujuk barang Herbalife dari blogger joegrimjow :D. Hari tu die crite pasal program nak kuruskan mak dia untuk bawak gi London, phewwittt, btw, congrats to joegrimjow, nak grad dah ko!

Apa persediaan nak pergi London ngan Paris? Sebab ni bukan semata-mata nak pergi shopping, nak pergi jalan dekat-dekat. Ada assignment nak kena buat, ada exhibition nak kena prepare bilik dah balik Malaysia ni. Tengok-tengok itinerary kitorang, all day long punya tour! Kalau xdak stamina memang susah! Macam aku lagi susah! Hari tu agency dah pun sediakan info especially weather infor kat sana, baru masok spring time, walaupun xbersalji tapi masih sejuk. And diorang pun dah pesan weather condition might change drastically. So be prepared! Aku cuak gak ni, blom pernah nak jejak negara orang kan...

Cuma semenjak dua menjak ni aku rasa tension sangat, depress, anxious bercampur baur. Restless sangat Tidor malam pun xberapa nak lena, tido lambat, tapi bangun awal. Selalu sangat penat, so again nak merujuk saudara joegrimjow kot kot ada herba-herba dari herbalife dia bole tolong? Haha...aku dah banyak sangat ubat, untuk thyroid suma2, phewwww....pening2..patut laa aku makin kurus, makan banyak, tapi tetap kurus!

[NAK TOLONG PROMOTE] post ni memang ada niat nak bertanding dalam encik joegrimjow kita punya contest, 'Nak Kurus Ingat Joegrimjow'..hahaa, kot kot bertuah dapat laa duit lebih sikit kan, kalau korang nak join, sila silalah lawat blog dia ehh...lawak kot mamat ni. baca komik2 pelik diaa tu hahahaha

Aku tak sabar nak balik kampung lepas habis trip tu. Banyak mende aku kene explain kat parents aku ni! Hahaha..kawan-kawan aku dah nag aku dah suruh bagitau aku pun cakap iye iye cuti ni aku bagitau diorang. Kalau boleh memang aku taknak risaukan diorang sebab tu laa buat masa ni aku taknak bagitau. Tapi nanti dah balik kampung aku akan selalu ada ngan diorang so kurang sikit risaunya kat situ. Lagipun, aku rasa aku dah semakin sihat. Nak make sure betul2, aku kena timbang berat badan, kalau berat aku naik, it's a positive sign that I'm getting better. Haaa joegrimjow, kau dah ade prospective customer dah kat sini! Hahaha...

Apa-apa pun, doakanlah kejayaan kami melangkahkan kako ke bumi Europe minggu depan, bukan aku sorang laa kan, ada belas belas semua pergi, semua demi nak buat study kat sana, and yeah plus minus fun laa sikit sikit. Orang selalu bagitau, 'masa study ni laa korang kena pergi trip ngan kawan-kawan nanti dah kerja sibuk memanjang'. Cliche! And lepas cuti nanti, aku harap aku dah tak masok golongan kurus dah, aku nak berat badan ideal! hahaha, cecah 50 kg pun aku dah happy dah!

Aku nak cakap see you after the trip, but aku rasa aku akan post lagi before pegi nanti, till then!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Politikus

Assalamualaikum smua!

Sebagai seorang anak Sarawak, aku memang suka mengikuti kisah-kisah yang berlaku di Sarawak especially kalau ada dalam newspaper. TV, not much. To everyone's knowledge Sarawak Election is in 5 days. The election day is a day before my birthday, oops, I can't vote yet.

I've been following Mr. Melanau Blogger for a while now. I think he's on BN side and truly I don't care who he support. But he's given me insight on what's happening during this campaigning season. [DISCLAIMER] I'm not blogging about who am I supporting, just what's happening. [DISCLAIMER 2] I'm not of age yet, I can't vote yet.

So I had a bit of comment-fight with this some guy from the internet, I was reading an article about Balingian, and how some of these people really wanted Taib's off the throne of Sarawak. When I stated I'm not of age to vote, he said I'm still a kid, he supposed I don't understand a thing happening. But you know, he's not even Sarawakian. Nosy. He told me to give chance for opposition to rule (of course if they rule they're no longer called "opposition" then), but what the heck man, this is not a place for you to do try and error, or try and improve! Idiotic I must say. You never lived in my place, your opinion is nothing but white noise. He was too defensive really. Haha, but as people say, don't have a go with stupid people, they'll bring you down to their level. I read articles from both right-wings and left-wings blogs about Sarawak, and I must say, the right wings wins. Left-wings, baseless.

I know how much people hate Cik Taib, I once lived with people who hates him and was oppressed by development. I know what it's like. Another story, I live with my family, and my villagers who are a really big supporter of Cik Taib. My dad was kinda a big supporter. But it doesn't mean I am. I have pros and cons opinion about him. About his doings. I have my own opinion on him.

So what now?
I'm not weed, I don't hate Taib because this family I live with was among the the oppressed. I don't like Taib because my dad, my family, my villagers like him. I'm own my own. I know my decision where to categorized him.

Haha! So much for politics. Nothing is honest in politics nowadays, everything is dirty. Sex video, bribe, and everything. It's like to say one is to say about the other because they're all the same. One slammed this figure they slammed them back. They talked dirty, the accuse and everything, there is nothing dirtier than politics nowadays. If pollution can be reduced, politics will get dirtier and dirtier.

People trash their leader around for almost everything. Even if the leader keeps changing, the prime minister keep changing, the elements of people trashing one another will not stop. I told people I'm not a fan of politics, yes I'm not. But I do follow what's happening. It keeps you up-to-date and later you're going to vote for a leader. Knowing both side of the story is important, to follow one without question is BS. Get the facts out.

Like Cik George Chan said today in The Star, "Outsiders who come here to talk, then go off and are not seen until the next election". I want to this to mean for all political parties, and their supporter.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Survey Saturday

Assalamualaikum people!

I've been meaning to write about this particular event happening on last Saturday as soon as I could.

WHAT happened last Saturday?

Well of course, kalau orang kerajaan datang rumah kerumah untuk buat bancian, there's no problem right? Because it's government issue, kalau tak bagi plak karang kena halau ke hape susah kan...hahaha...Kalau jurujual plak datang rumah, tengok plak orang tu atas bawah produk semua kan? Kalau peti ais dah rosak tup tup datang plak salesman handsome mane ntah senyum setempek terpaut dijiwa, stuju terus bawak masuk rumah konon nak tau produk ape yang mamat tu bawak kot2 ada laa peti ais yang sejuk mata memandang kan.

Nak dijadikan crita, aku ngan kawan-kawan aku ni pergi laa nak buat survey dekat kawasan perumahan yang dekat dengan taman-taman yang ade kat area Klang Valley ni, nak dimaklumkan, macam-macam rumah ade, rumah kecik sangat, samapi rumah besar tinggi amat. Pergi dekat belakang Taman Metropolitan Kepong(tempat orang main layang-layang tu), rumah penduduk kat situ memang tak besar, ada yang dah diroboh, nampak daif bagai, tapi yang eloknya, bila nak buat survey tu, elok je orang dia, struggle ni nak baca English, nasib baik ada anak yang dah besar tengah belajar or dah habis belajar; bagi aku kira friendly. Majoriti India, and bagi aku baik gila orang dia..ramah, friendly, walaupun siap ada polis lagi round-round kat situ, tapi masih ok lagi.

Pergi plak Taman Metropolitan Batu, rumah orang kaya-kaya, rumah siap hias-hias, kereta besar-besar, majoriti Chinese, ade laa Malay ngan Indian terselit, satu rumah maybe ada 2-3 buah kereta sampai kena parking dekat luar, bajet golongan elite ngan educated laa ni, berbuih mulut aku nak cakap omputeh ngan diorg, tapi sayangnya, dan malangnya bagi aku ngn partner aku, Maryam, kitorang dapat lorong orang yang, heh, bagi aku cetek sangat otaknya...Fatin ngan Ika pun macam tu...aku ni dah laa kurang sabar orangnya...bukan semua laa macam tu kan, ada satu rumah ni baik sangat yang aku pegi. Kawan aku dua orang lagi Akram ngan Aideel siap orang ni jemput masuk, minum-minum plak, uiii....untung laa korang kan dapat yang baik-baik, sanggup ambik masa nak tolong orang yang sedang nak blaja. Tapi agak kecewa jugak bagi part aku, anak ko pakai pinafore lagi, bagi je laa jawab soalan tu, dah besar, maybe form form gak. Ade yang sorang ni plak cakap malas, malam karang nak pergi clubbing rajin plak kan?(ehem2, bukan menuduh, sekadar situasi ciptaan sendiri).

Kalau laa aku, nak diberi peluang duduk kat mane ni, baik aku duduk kat rumah kecik ngan mak cik-mak cik Indian yang baik hati ni dari aku duduk kat rumah besar tapi hati xpernah nak penuh ngan humanity.

General conclusion is, it's not the money you have that counts, it's things in your heart that worth the most.

My conclusion, kau kaya kau bajet ko tinggi dari orang lain pergi MAMP*S...hati tarak, kau mati kosong macam tu, orang sebelah rumah lagi suka kau tak ada! Entah-entah nanti anak kau sendiri melompat-lompat happy.

p/s-duit boleh buat bila-bila, hati kalau dah mati, nak hidupkan balik bukan senang.

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