Not love..

Bukan cinta
Yang ku mahu
Darimu persahabatan yang ku perlu
Kerna cinta
Takut nak ku beri
Teman yang sejati lebih bererti
Pada diri ini.

A snippet from my fave song- Bukan Cinta from Afdlin's album. I received Afdlin's Fuyoo album few days ago from Afdlin Shauki dah hilang akal project... Finally last night I got the chance to listen to it back to back.. I love the album! LOVE IT! ok yeah, may be he doesn't have a vocal that can win him "best male vocal on album" in AIM, but I love his songs.. this is the kind of singer that speaks from the heart.

Now I should go and process my payment for the album... yes, get CD first pay later maaa!. that kodok is crazy enough to do it that way.

starry starry night

I've just walked home from my office. The sky was clear and the bright stars shimmered. I just love watching the stars.. infact my idea of a romantic date is just sitting together in an open field watching the stars... cheap eh?

Looking at the stars is just like travelling back in time... you see them as they WERE, not as they are. The stars are hundreds, thousands, and even millions of light years away.. so what you see today is something that sparkled in the past.. some may no longer exist today, some may have ended the star life cycle by now.

Watching the stars made me smile.. I remember EJ, a good friend that used to layan my star gazing hobby. He used to share stories, facts and other stuff about astronomy, taught me how to spot constellations. In my third year of degree, 5 yrs ago, there was a meteor shower.. it was sometime in Ramadhan. EJ came to meet me at our design studio. I can still remember that face with a scar on his cheek (left or right? can't remember). I walked with him to a parking lot, away from lighted buildings. Many students were already there. Some equipped with telescopes and some with sleeping bags- good idea, they can just lie on their back and keep their eyes on the sky.. I had to endure neck pain for looking up for hours.

We sat side by side at a curb at the corner of the parking lot. The sky was a bit cloudy that night, so I had to really concentrate to spot a meteor with my naked eye.

EJ: "come.. make a wish"
Me: "ok.. nak wish la ni.. meteornye tak nampak lagi"
EJ: "what do you wish for?"
Me: "I'm not gonna tell you"
My wish went to my childhood sweetheart who was then in California. I was head over heels with him at that time.

EJ and I spotted our first meteor. I was excited giler.. never seen a meteor before that.
Me: "so what do you wish for?"
EJ: "engkau lah"
Me: "what?!"
EJ: "I wished for you and me.. US, together" he nodded and grinned like kerang busuk.
Me: "sudah la ko mengarut!" I hit him with my empty coke can, he just laughed. I had some weird feeling inside when I heard him saying that.
EJ: "nkau nak kawin umur berapa?"
Me: "apsal nkau tanya soklan mcm ni?"
EJ: "aku tanya.. jawab please"
Me: "entah... erm.. lets see.. lepas habis ni aku nak sambung lagi.. err.. 28 kot, why?"
EJ: "kalau dah 28 nkau tak kawin jugak.. kita kawin dua ek"
Me: "amboi mcm my best friend's wedding la pulak"
EJ: "aku cakap betul ni, serius!"
Me: "ha.. hahahaha.. lawak la nkau"
EJ: "no.. SERIUS.. kalau ko tak kawin at 28, kita kawin dua"
Me: "hehhehe.. hhmmm.. ye lah" I made a 'toye' face
EJ: "promise?"
Me: "errmm.. tak nakkk!" stomp my feet on the tarred surface.
EJ: "Please..." he made that face I that I could never say no to.
Me: "huk.. ye lahh.. ok"
EJ: "Promise!" with his right hand up
Me: "hmm.. ok.. promise"

I spotted 23 meteors that night.

Today,
I have 3 months before I leave 28.
I wonder where EJ is right now :)
Perhaps he's happily married now.. with kids.
I could picture him smiling.

Today,
I still enjoy watching the stars.
I could still see the past.
I am smiling too.

Whetu Tag

Whetu. (maori for seven)

that beautiful lady on Reality Lane tagged this trapped-in-a-snowball-hobbit.

seven things you plan to do before you die:
1. own a cafe that will sell things I love to eat/drink.. so if there's no customer, I can finish what's left.
2. own a nursery (not for kids, but for plants)
3. have kids.. hopefully twins!
4. get a hubby (i have to get this first before i can have kids)
5. perform Haj
6. repent
7. mengucap!

seven things I could do:
1. pretend it is a holiday and stay in bed
2. pretend I'm free when I have tons of things to do
3. eat like there's no tomorrow.. and don't gain weight
4. discipline myself
5. be more organized
6. work more.. less TV/DVD
7. write more (not on blog)

seven celebrity crushes:
1. recently- Dave Navarro
2. Hairie Othman (before he got married and opened a cafe 150m from my previous flat.. if not, I would have become a daily customer.)
3. Ferhad (anyone out there look and sound like him? call me!)
4. Julian Sands
5. Johnny Depp (he was the cover of my F5 addmaths book)
6. Jon Bon Jovi
7. Jesse L. Martin (Ally McBeal's doctor boyfriend)

seven often repeated words:
1. oh.. ok
2. fuyoo
3. yeah
4. urmmm
5. really
6. aiyoo
7. wey

seven physical traits I look for in the opposite sex:
1. tall (I'm short.. so any man shorter than me is considered a dwarf)
2. firm body.. but no need bulging muscles
3. nice pair of eyes.. don't hide them behind glasses/shades please
4. dark.. as in 'hitam manis'
5. sweet smile
6. nice teeth.. no nicotine stain & odor
7. Ferhad's shapes & sizes!

seven tags go to:
1. missYY
2. teek
3. scrubber
4. scarlet76
5. missVios (I know you don't blog, just email your answers to me)
6. aiyoo.. who else?
7. whoever loves memes and reads this.

YOU'RE IT, PASS IT ON!

Spring..and then snow?

my first step in the snow

at 8 am

Woken up by full bladder at 4am and off to the loo. I pull my bedroom curtains open before I get myself back in slumber. Look out and look up the sky.. something odd.. some whitish thingy is falling… o my God it is SNOWING!! Subhanallah!

I thought I’ll never get to see snow this year (my first year here).. yeah, having Edward Scissorshand already changed his job- from an ice carver & snow maker up on the hill- to become the Wonka Chocolate Factory owner… the winter was a mild one. The sun shines brightly for the past few weeks and I’m already in the spring mood… spent sometime yesterday snapping piccies of trees and flowers and admiring their colours and scents.. today, everything’s white!

Call me jakun or darat or peghak if you want.. but this is my first snow experience… the uni is closed today with the sudden heavy snow fall. And I’m off to enjoy it in the rugby field... can golek-golek.... Taaa!!

marilah mari pergi mengundi..

Today- on election
-New Zealanders cast their vote in their General Election, which is held once every 3 yrs
-I drove to Canter lib in city.. didn’t really see signs of ‘election day atmosphere’ as what I usually see in M’sian election day. .. no roadside booths with ‘perayu undi’ (what do you call them in English? Vote pleaders?), no overzealous fanatics 'fighting' outside polling centres.
-the only sign that shows today IS the election day are the arrows with the sign ‘polling centre’ at almost every kilometer
-things went on as any normal Saturdays here. Rugby match is on as usual. Canterbury is beating against Waikato tonight.
- National Party led the count at first... then Labour party slowly closed the gaps and took over the lead- by the time I’m writing this, the two main parties only have a difference of 1.2% votes
-A ‘Sept-11- pilot-wannabe' stole a plane and threatened to crash into Auckland tower.. and end up crashing into the sea… may be he just planned to get the attention away from the heated vote count

Now I’m sitting in front of the TV following the latest update on the election results. Hek ele.. macam aku pulak yang mengundi... hehe.. lepas gian.. I’ve voted twice in Malaysia.. but on both occasions I did not get to follow the results update. I spent both 'vote counting nights' on the bus back to Penang…got to know the final results by the time I arrive in Penang next morning which made me say either a ‘yeay!’ or grumble ‘hmm..penat jer aku balik’.

For the past 10-15 minutes the camera is focusing on Helen Clark’s house gate. There was NOTHING to see there except some beautiful woodwork at the porch that caught my attention.. Helen is nowhere in sight.. hello mr cameraman, go shoot something more interesting la!.. oh.. ok finally Helen is out of the house.. and went straight to the Labour Headquarter.
I adore Helen Clark, she’s smart, and proven to be a good manager... so if I'm eligible to vote here, she gets mine.

On FOOD

I was craving for masak asam.. I've never cook masak asam before, but I know it will taste better if you have bunga kantan (torch ginger) in it. I think I've seen it once here but couldn't remember in which shop... went to 5 asian shops looking for it, got tired of explaining what torch ginger is to the shopowners. Some showed me somekind of flour when I told them it is a flower. So I end up without bunga kantan but went home with a bag full of greens & a packet of 'thai fish satay'. My masak asam still taste good without the bunga kantan. Thanks to maggi hari-hari favourite!