Makna Santai Bagi Saya (Mcm Karangan UPSR pulak...)

Dulu kalo member bawak hang-out or santai2 di clubs, I on jer. Tapi nowadays dah jarang sekali melawat tempat yang sebegitu untuk bersantai. Pe ke makne nak santai kat tempat yang penuh dengan bunyi bass speaker yang macam nak mampus, dan bau asap rokok yang mampu membunuh seekor gajah.

It's not that I'm prejudice or what-so-ever la kan ngan tempat2 camtu. Saya dulu pun pernah pergi and enjoy2, frankly memanglah bes. Tapi dikala usia semakin matang begini ada jugaklah terdetak kat hati dan berfikir sejenak kebaikan dan keburukannya.

Nowadays, saya lebih mementingkan santai yang berkualiti daripada santai yang enjoy2 seperti dulu. That is why when a friend ask me for a santai, first thing in mind, the venue. If they are proposing a place that I mentioned above, my answer would be "I'll see first..", which indicate that there's a chance that I wouldn't come.

Just imagine dah berapa bulan tak jumpa member and all of sudden you are missing them and asked them for an outing, and ended up in a club. And at the end of the day you just talk one or two lines because everyone is busy enjoying themselves. Yes, I kind of get frustrated with this kind of situation eeeeeeeeeeeeeverytime it happens. I WOULD propose a better place but most of the time it's up to the majority.

Last-last time nak buat decision nak pergi ke tak with the so-called santai tak pegi lagi bagus, 1) Save budget, 2) Xde faedah nyer, 3) Time2 jumpa geng sekalian, semua ikut haluan masing2 and tak tau berita diaorg.

Mari beloya buruk

Owh...tidak! Malam tadi badan dah nak mula diserang demam panas lagi. Mungkin sebab saya terlalu aktif dan tidak menghiraukan kesihatan sendiri. Baru selang beberapa hari diserang flu terus turun padang bermain seperti biasa, tak kesahlah hidung masih tersumbat dan berhingus ke tak, asalkan dapat main je sudah.

As a result, malam tadi kene serang demam balik. Tapi yang peliknya badan terasa panas tetapi setitik peluh pun tak kuar. At first nak ambik paracetamol, lepas tu piker2 balik beberapa hari yang lepas dah amek berketul-ketul paracetamol, which is not good to your health la kan.

Last resort, mak pun tolong carik2-kan rawatan alternatif untuk me-release-kan haba dari badan. Yes, there are indeed few traditional/herbal methods that is to be use in times like this. Ginger, ginseng, white onion to name few. Well I actually found some mung bean in the kitchen and cooked myself a nice mung bean soup with some coconut milk added just right before it is totally cooked.

According to the Chinese belief, mung bean is cooked during a hot day and eaten to cool down the body temperature. Had a few bowl just right before my bedtime and sweat the whole night like hell, which indicates that it works.

Woke up this morning feeling much better, akibatnya...bangun lambat gara-gara tak dapat tido sebab berpeluh sepanjang malam.

this post have no title...name it as you like.

Seriously I have no idea which line should I start with first.."It was two months ago that this blog was updated..." or "It's already May and it seems that...".

Yeah, my brain is getting "berkarat" to come out with a figurative words to be use in this blog. Haven't read any scientific journals or novel in a while, that might explain why my grammar and vocab have been so bad lately. Nope, it's not that I'm busy with work and all, I'm just...TOO LAZY. My work have been halt for a while due to lack of inspiration and excitement (can I actually say that?), the last report that I gave to my SPV was like 3 weeks ago and that result alone is not enough to support the data for my study.

Apart from that, me and my friends went to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah for our vacation last few week. Modest city with beautiful beaches and island, it is so far the best beach vacation ever. And yes, by that I mean we went to Manukan Island for a day trip visit. The beach was located 20 minutes distance from mainland so one have to take a rented boat in order to reach the location. Sadly, there were not much of coral reef over there so that was a little bit turn-off for me.

All in all, the vacation was worth it. What more can I ask for? 5 nights of stay is more than enough to enjoy ourselves in KK. Managed to shop a bit, hang around at the sea-view of the waterfront, enjoy the night-life and spend some bucks on the souvenirs.

Got myself cold and fever when I got back to Kch, which was initially getting better. But due to an irresponsible neighbor who happen to do an open burning near the backyard of my home, I can't stop sneezing (sensitive nose) and got myself runny nose again.

The weather look nice today, probably gonna pop-up at the volleyball court to play a few sets today. Hope the gang are ready for a match after 3 days off. Later folks!

2011

Dah masuk bulan Febuari skrg baru nak update kan...well, actually post yang satu ni dah lama kat dlm draft, cume takder ms nak upload and polish2 content kat dlm post ni.

Pertama-tama skali Happy new year 2011 kepada semua. Countdown haritu disambut biase2 je. Unlike tahun2 lepas, new year disambut sekaligus bersempena birthday member kiteorg. Tapi tahun ni terpakse skip bday party sbb member kitorg tu dah ader clan baru katenye. That's fine tho, we still had fun during the countdown. owh, did I mentioned we? Yeah, Kev's back to spend his holiday in Kuching. Sekali dgn countdown tu jugak we all celebrate our 12th year of friendship.

Bercakap ttg tahun baru nie, azam mesti la baru jugak kan. Setakat ni ader jgak la azam baru dalam pikiran, ongoing punye pun ader jgak...Anyway, if possible aku nak fulfill all these task by the end of this year;

1) Wrap up my lab-work, and get a better result. Hopefully I can finish by September.

Only God know how fucked up my work was, the last time I got myself a satisfying result was almost a year ago, so that practically sucks. However, I'm not giving up that easy, so wish me luck.

2) Hopefully dpt kawen tahun nie...yerr..just kidding. Harap2 dapat involve dalam serious relationship.

3) Gain extra income this year.

4) Get myself fitter (and hopefully reduce those stubborn fat)

And with God's will hopefully this year will be a better year than last year.

Last Christmas...I gave you my heart....

Chantek muka kau baca title ya ala2 basa omputeh owh, maka post kali tok ku tulis lam basa laen..haha...maok bagi serprise sket la tek.

Yah!! Post kali tok mek decide pake bahasa mlayu swak campur2 jak la...malas maok piker2 pakei basa English. By the way, belated Christmas kepada semua yang menyambut, Christmas reya sik la havoc gilak, biase2 jer...balit 24 haribulan, makanya eve of Xmas gago juak bebalit last minit. Bukan stakat balit jak last minit, bli hadiah k mum and dad pun last minit. Nasib pat bli pa yang mek maok tek, mun sik nang rasa besalah la mek sik bagi hadiah taun tok.

Balit kampung masa xmas seperti besa makan-minum-makan-minum jak keja...selain betemu ngan kazen2. Ada juak kazen yg sik penah ngelala, tp bapak dah gago glak nunggah2 cdak nya betemu muka, katanya maok intro la tek, lalu masuk bab family politik...ya mek malas. Dah la bapak mek ya mun dah heng nang pa2 jak la benda diklaka nya.

Sik lamak beraya d kpg tek, the next day balit mekorg katanya. Maka moha la mak aku to my dad sbb katanya sik amek cuti lamak, aku no komen jak. Sampei2 jak d Kch kepak glak sik terdaya trus relax tido. The next day resume keja seperti biasa, bangun pagi turun lab biarpun bangun lambat...semangat glak maok polah keja tek.

Member2 laen ada sms segala nyuroh dtg umah tp sorry la geng, I'm pretty much not in a ngabang mood plus cam rasa sikda mood xmas tahun tok. Plus keja ku yang sikda result molah ku sikda mood gik...hurm.

By the way, tahun baru dah moak tiba....pa ka resolusi tahun baru ku owh, lom list down gik..tp yang pasti byk resolution ku tahun depan...so tunggu jak next post.

Let's Rant!

Big Sis came down to Kch on the 2nd week of November. Their last visit, if I could recall was 4-6 months ago which was earlier this year. It's a surprise how Amanda have grown up. In their last visit, Amanda could barely sit in upright position and she only crawls. Now she could walk (but not run) and say a few words like "mommy"...awww... Big sis and lil amanda stayed with us for two weeks. Bought them an advance Christmas present before they were off to Bintulu.

Congratulation to Mel (http://escapeeofhell.blogspot.com/) and her hubby on their wedding not so long ago. And so, the whole weekend of the November was wholly spent with friends and family. Yeah I know...not the usual friend and relatives though.




Another highlight of the weekend was friends gathering in conjunction with Mel's wedding ceremony in St. Thomas and her reception that night. It's glad to see friends from all over the states came together and celebrate the grand event, and a rare chance to have all of them gather together on the same time and same place too!

My story : Part 1

A Place Like No Other

Way back 27 years ago I was raised in a setinggan area not far from a place which is now developed into Pustaka, the pride of Kuchingites for their humongous public library. Back then, the lake nearby was covered with thick shrubs and secondary forest. And this forest is what make our existence became invisible, for what I remembered not many people would know a place called "Kampung Siol Kandis", the name given to our setinggan. To reach into the village itself would require a 5 minutes walk from the main road, and one would walk on a sloppy and muddy terrain.

Figure 1: The view of Pustaka

The interior part of the village is not exactly what you would expect. Most houses was built by wooden plank and roofed with a folded palm leaf. If I'm not mistaken, the village itself were houses of about 20 or more families during that day. Our house, was located the at the furthermost of the village. Therefore the walking distance can be very tedious when it was rainy. There, right in front of our wooden house, was a small sand field which used to be our playground. Those who grown up in Siol Kandis village would understand how much that field meant to us, it is the only place for us to gather and have fun 24/7.

Just a few hundred metre from our house, was a lake that was forbidden for kids, because we were told that it was rather deep, and was foolishly told that there was a "swamp thing" living inside. I still couldn't believe I bought that joke those days. But hey, we were kids and the imagination just runs wild. So we never went to the lake without parents supervision.

Most of the residents living in the village were related to each other, and that includes us, our family. I remember some of my cousin's house was located few houses away from where we lived. And there we would visit this one particular house, a house where my dad's aunt used to live. We call her "inik biak", which basically means "young grandma", a nickname given because of her younger appearance than her own ranking in the family tree, which is a grandmother.

There are few reasons why we loved hanging out at inik biak's house, besides her caring and loving character. She love, i mean really really love making "kuih" of any kind. Inik biak has her own stall not far from her house, which she use to sell her kuih. Besides her working son and daughter, which is my uncle and aunty, she sell those kuih to support their living needs. Sometimes, inik biak would spare some extras for her beloved grandchild.

(To be continue...)