Archive for May, 2008
~Neo~
Finally, the never ending saga in getting my car had come to an end. It’s final and it’s real!! Though it’s not simple as it’s look, but i’m glad it’s over. I’m free (wow..what a word) and i don’t have to bother my house mate anymore ( it’s been a month i took a motorcycle with him..everyday ). I would like to take this opportunity to thank him a lot because without him, i maybe suffer a lot taking a bus and LRT to get to work. On Monday, my brother and I went to JPJ Cheras to register my car & get my registration number. The process only took about 10 minutes. WRJ 3310. Yerp..that’s my number. Like a Nokia phone model, and i think it’s the hottest model at that time, Nokia 3310 haha. To be exact, that is my first cellphone ever . What a coincident! After that, i went to TGV The Mines watching The Chronicles Of Narnia : Prince Caspian because I had to wait for my brother finishing his job first before he can bring me to Seremban to take my car. I’m a little bit disappointed with the sequel, like the first one. I’m expecting more, perhaps they can learn the mistakes from the first movie. They improve the war scene and it’s too “Lord Of The Ring” but it’s so much better than the the first sequel. Lucy, one of the character in the film is so freaking cute! I’m fall in love with her haha.
Around 330pm, we reached Proton Edar in Senawang. I took a glance to the car which is going to be mine in a few minutes. Yeah, some people that read this maybe think that “Hey! it’s just a car. Don’t make a big fuss of it!!” . If I come from a whealthy and rich family, it’s maybe nothing (and it just our national car) but i’m from an average common family, and it’s long way before i can get my very own car. How long the way is? Do your own judgement hehe.
That night, i drove back to my house with a new confident and the satisfaction is hard to explain. After a very long saga battling with the dealer to get the car, everything ends that evening. It’s over. The car is just so great, everything smooth especially at the cornering. The audio system is great (and it has mp3 capability). The moment i get the car is just the beginning to be responsible towards my work. I need to work extra harder so that i can pay the installment each month haha. It’s true, rite??
A Lonely Waiting
Hurt. Frustrated. Sick. Doomed. Angry. All these feelings happen to me each micro-second. Me, being vulnerable these past few weeks waiting for a thing that might enlighten my ego or can be something that might help me back to my hometown!! It’s a thing called a car. Touche! Don’t you hate waiting?? It’s suck, huh? I trade in my family’s car, which is 1993 Proton Iswara to buy Satria Neo and that’s happened 4 weeks ago. A week before I gave up my car, my bank loan had been approved. Before the loan approved, my future car was already there. It’s no one car. Nobody. Just waiting for someone to have it. Because of someone stupidity, which “procrastination” is always be their number one motto, I still didn’t get my car until today. People ask the same question everyday. They wondered and I always give them the same lame answer everyday. I call and sms-es thousand times a day the person who in charge about the car and she always gives me the same freaking stupid answer. One thing for sure, she knows how to create a false hopes and fake excuses. So, I just wait everyday, perhaps she would call and bring me good news. I have no angry anymore because the angry times had past. Just wait..alone..and i remember a qoute from a movie Titanic. It sound like “..waiting to die, waiting to live, waiting for an absolution, that would never come…”.Hmmmm.Is it related??
I can’t wait to be in that car..seriously..
Redang~
Orang fikir buat sesuatu yang mudah itu “mudah” tapi hakikatnya, perkara mudah itu bukan mudah. Macam yang jadi hari ni, aku nak cuba tulis dalam bahasa melayu. Tampak mudah tapi aku rasa ia sangat sukar membuat sesuatu yang mudah difahami. Orang akan menilai, membuat perbandingan. Maka terhasilla h ‘entry’ yang rasanya kamus tak diperlukan.
Minggu lepas, aku ke Redang. Segalanya atas dasar prinsip “cuti sambil bekerja”. Awalnya aku memang rasa berat hati. Macam tiada tarikan langsung untuk bersantai di pulau yang dikatakan tercantik tu. Aku malas bila fikir jaraknya yang jauh. Lagi-lagi, aku ada masalah tangki bocor. Risau, risau takut-takut setiap 2 minit aku kene tahan diri menutup tangki tu. Tapi beberapa jam sebelum bertolak, perasaan teruja datang, menolak segala ‘doubtful’ yang ada. Mungkin ada faktor lain tapi aku tak berapa nak pasti. Saat bertolak je, perasaan bangga dan kesian pun ada, kesian bila fikir rakan-rakan yang tak dapat nak pergi. Rugi!
Tidur dalam bas, jujurnya sangat memenatkan. Mujur driver bas bekas mat rempit (rasanyalah). Memang laju. Syukur. Kenapa? Pertama sebab cepat sampai, dan yang kedua, tiada perkara buruk terjadi. Subuh-subuh lagi kami tiba di sekitar jeti Merang. Sunyi. Almaklumla, Terengganu cuti hari Jumaat. Sementara menanti bot kami, masing-masing dengan muka separuh siap tu, bergambar dengan apa jua device yang ada. Aku suka bergambar atau dalam istilah jeliknya, Cam Whore. Maka jadi bahan usikan setiap kali nak bergambar. Aku tak kisah. Saat tu datang sekali je. Kalau takde foto, apa buktinya perkara tu berlaku?
Satu jam dalam bot sama seksanya macam naik bas. Tak best! Sampai je di Laguna Redang Resort, aku dan Peyo (boss aku ni) terpaksa tunggu sejam sebelum dapat kunci bilik. Bila masuk je, memang sesuailah dia caj satu orang RM600++ untuk 3 hari 2 malam punya pakej. Biliknya berkonsep ala-ala kampung. Hiasan kayu jadi elemen utama dan aku rasa sangat sesuai dengan tema berada di pulau. Kira-kira macam back to nature lah.
Petang tu, lepas habis sessi perbincangan yang pertama, kami ke pantai. Aku dah tak ingat bila kali terakhir aku pergi pantai, lebih tepatnya mandi laut. Jadi, petang tu aku mandi sakanlah. Serius cakap, pantai dia sangat cantik. Boleh tengok lantai pantai tu. Aku yang dalam pada tak pandai berenang, belajar-belajarla berenang. Dapat pulak tenaga pengajar import. Hasilnya, aku masih tak pandai berenang haha. Rentaknya ada, cuma goyangnya tak cukup. Kena praktis lagi. Jadi, aku ke kolam (pool) pula kat resort. Kat sini, nak belajar berenang tak digalakkan sebab ramai mata memerhati. Kalau sumbang, malu. Tapi seronok sebab dapat tengok gelagat rakan-rakan yang jarang dipertontonkan (fizikal termasuk sekali ke? haha).
Esoknya, tajuk utama ialah bersnokeling atau dalam bahasa parsi, mengintai dari tirai kamar. Cuma kamarnya ialah batu-batu karang dan ikan-ikan nemo ~ kalau ada lah. Satu pengalaman yang memang sangat dilupakan. Apa yang dilihat sangat indah. Sesuatu yang jarang kita tengok hari-hari. Kami semua berenang macam ikan ~ sebab ada jaket keselamtan. Walaupun sukar nak bergerak sebab goyangnya kurang, tapi aku gagahkan jugak. Nasib ada tenaga pengajar dari Indonesia, bolehlah aku bergerak ke sana sini, melawan arus laut yang boleh tahan kuatnya. Mengapalah aku tak pandai berenang!!! Rugi beb.
Petangnya, ada perlawanan bola tampar. Peyo memang tunggu benda ni. Katanya nak lawan Prof. His rival. Kami terbahagi kepada 3 kumpulan. Aku dalam kumpulan 3 bersama Nadaraj, Duwe, Emanuel, dan Jeff. Perlawanan pertama kami menang tapi bila final bertemu dengan team Peyo, sadis. Kalah teruk! 25-7 macam tu. Kecewa juga. Tapi apa boleh buat. Lepas kalah, aku terus ke pantai. Mandi la. Lepas bosan-bosan dalam laut, aku terus ke pool. Kali ni takde aksi, Cuma lebih banyak duduk dalam kolam air panas, berbual-bual sifar dengan yang lain. Sebelum masuk bilik, Afifi membuat terjunan ala-ala bungee jumping. Ada masa aku upload videonya kat YouTube. It really made my day. It was hillarious.
Hari terakhir, tak banyak aktiviti dilakukan. Mungkin semua takde mood sebab fikir dah nak balik KL. Tiba di darat, kami ke Pasar Payang. Satu tempat yang wajib pergi bila ke Terengganu. Aku beli makanan ringan je. Mungkin sebab duit dah takde. Dodol gelembung?Semah? Pernah dengar?. Istimewanya kat sini je ada. Sekali lagi menaiki bas untuk suatu perjalanan yang sangat jauh. Penat. Dalam jam 1200 tengah malam, kami tiba semula di UTM. Aku rasa sangat puas.
Satu pengajaran, jangan cepat buat keputusan. Bila dah pergi sana, baru aku tahu betapa seronoknya pengalaman tu. To be exact, refuse to think something negative. Just act ‘unknown’ situation like a natural thing.
Ni nak bagi trivia yang aku kutip sepanjang percutian ni:
1) Syakir lemas dalam pool. Bukan lemas betul-betul tapi tingginya tak sampai bila kat tengah-tengah kolam tu. Kesian dia
2) Makanan disediakan secara buffet. Makanya, semua melantak tak ingat dunia. My favourite are mashed potatoes and their corn. Fabulous.
3) Emanuel ni ada sehelai je ke bajunya?Either u see him with his black Guess shirt or nothing!
4) Anak Duwe sangat comel. Ainul Mardhiah namanya.
5) Kak Su takut-takut masa nak snorkeling. Hasilnya hanya pasir dan ikan-ikan kecil kelihatan sebab yang cantik-cantik kat tengah sikit
6) Suami kak Ani memang betul-betul Superman (especially masa snorkeling).
7) Maiko, japanese girl from MJUC. Sepanjang masa senyum. I wonder how she do it?She just lovely with her english-japanese accent.
8 ) Sebutan yang betul nama Jeff ialah Jof-Wah.
9) Anak-anak Nadaraj sangat petah. I like their english. Feel jealous jugak.
10) Prof dengan isterinya sering argue bile berbincang but yet, it’s a good thing.
I don’t want to go to Redang!
It should be a great gateway after a hectic work schedule and it’s going to be my first visit to Redang Island. The word “Yay” shouldn’t be use in this context since it’s not really “yay” holiday for me. I think, partly is because my best man behind, which is also my best friend Asyraf couldn’t join me. This is a company trip and obviously, we’re not working under the same roof. So there will not much flashing from my camera since it can be excited we he’s around. Cam Whore??!! (owh I just hurt myself haha).Our focus when we there is to develop a web site of our company (doesn’t it great doing the brainstorming on an island?). We used to have one but no one willing to take care of it. They put me in the development team (or intentionally put me in there?)..Ahhh don’t care-lah. Me and the other three people will work on the programming side using “God knows what language is”. This is only the beginning of doing something that is out of my work scope but this is also a beginning of getting new skill and add extra features in my resume later (you can say “yay” now…). Talking about Redang, I believe it’s a magnificent island. Its clear view beach and white pearl sand could be a heaven to everybody. Even I’m not excited having this free trip, I’m refuse to think bad thing. It could be a very great holiday. Could it triumph the happiness of the Cameron trip? Could be Yeah..Could be Nay..Could be yadda yadda… owh whatever, I’m going there tomorrow and I’m going to make it great. Owh yeah, we’re going to stay in Laguna Redang Island, and heard a rumor that the resort is superbly amazing. Chow Babeh!!
