400

This is post  #400.

I've been blogging for more than 5 years. Didn't expect that 'Ordinary Life' could last this long.

I started blogging in 2005, with my first post on April 6th. I was away then, watching the autumn leaves falling. It was my first autumn. I didn't know much about blogging, but I started reading blogs long before I started mine. Something that Scrubber wrote that time made me wanted to start mine.. I can't remember exactly, but it was something she wrote about living life alone, with no witness on what you do daily. Nobody knows what you feel that point in time, no one knows what you like, no one see the things you saw that day, no one ask what you think about things around you,  no one cared. So I started writing just to share things... with a hope that somewhere on earth, someone would read on what I encountered that day, but they do not need to know who I am. The anonymity didn't last long, some friends found out that I blogged. So yang kenal, kenal lah... to others, I remain as Ubisetela.

In that 5 years, I saw some blogs shot to 'fame', some were shortlived, some blogs were closed after controversial posts, some poser-bloggers were unveiled and some lived to see them all.  After meeting some bloggers, I found out that blogger groupies exist. Some blogs go with the other 'birds of the same feather'. Bloggers also gossip off-blogs. I don't think I belong to any 'group'. Neither here, no there. I just write about anything under the sun... I talk about food one day, lash out my anger the next day, talk about my infatuation for a rugby hunk or (shamelessly) tell about my encounter with a pria ganteng the next.

 

...and then... came Facebook! I could actually say that my blog is dying a slow death because of FB (and a little Twitter).  I can say what I need to say at the moment with just one liner on FB status, or tweet. Blogging requires more effort than that. Hence, manusia malas ni lagi senang tulis kat FB!

Until I get my blog-writing mood back.. this blog will continue to contain mostly photos & a little writing.

To those who still read Ordinary Life and to those who visited, commented and to those silent readers,  I THANK YOU.

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oh, so here goes photo time :)

senja nan merah

The reason why I don't bother to move to other place. I love the hills and the morning sun.


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Ikang

They say there's a million fish in the sea...

...I don't want fish, I want you.

Mung sape?

(you who?)

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Sea, sun & salty air

menunggu bot ke pulau yang lambatsejam!

ikan ni serang macam piranha

berlabuh

jejakku

penunggu di jeti malam-malam

gaban Z potong dua! zassss

balik!

makan nasi je kak?

Kita order makanan,
Kita tunggu lebih setengah jam,
Lepas tu makanan kawan-kawan kita sampai bersama nasi putih yang kita order,
Kita suruh kawan-kawan kita makan dahulu,
Dengan harapan, lauk kita sampai kejap lagi,
Kawan kita dengan 'gentleman'nya bangun pegi tanyakan, mana lauk kita,
Jawapan dia 'sat na...'
Kita dah lapar, jadi kita terima 'offer' kawan-kawan, kuis-kuis lauk diorang sikit,
Sudahnya, nasi putih sepinggan habis,
Bila nak bayar, kita cakap kat cashier apa yang TAK DAPAT,
yang terang-terang tertulis dalam order list dia,
Dia cuma buat selamba dek sambil bagitau berapa kita kena bayar untuk air dan nasi putih,
Satu perkataan maaf pun tak ada,
Apatah lagi nak senyum,
"Bagus" sungguh servis dia,

Ini bukan kali pertama staff kedai ni buat kita 'hangin satu badan'...
Uncle Husin, tolonglah ubah perangai staff kedai awak...
until then... kedai awak kita senarai hitamkan.



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ANTology

Again, I'm in a war against the ants.

Satu populasi baru menyerang setelah beberapa purnama rumah saya bebas semut. I've been busy, tak sempat nak membelek mencari punca mana datang semut tu. Jadi makin banyak lah populasi musuh ketat saya ni.

I think they now have a new game. It is known as 'mari bunuh diri beramai-ramai dalam bekas air masak setiap hari'. Manis ke air masak rumah saya ni?
Yesterday I poured my cereal for breakfast, then I poured the milk (baru belajar nak guna low fat milk sejak2 dah fat!), and sambil duk baca research report student, suap masuk mulut. Pastu terjeling ke mangkuk... my Goddd... tu diaaaa... berenang-renang semut dalam susu. Maka berlarilah saya ke singki. Cereal bag yang dah ikat tu pun semut tu masuk! Maka cereal yang rege 13 hinggit* tu terpaksa dicampak ke tong sampah. Sesungguhnya semut itu pembawa kerugian & pembaziran!

*Saya musykil, kenapa makanan yg claim low calory/low sugar/slim/trim ni lagi mahal dari yang tak slim? bukan ke kalau kurang gula dah jimat kos? gula kan mahal, tak gitu?

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Bulan, kelmarin, disebalik dedaun angsana

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