Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Mior Mesti Bunuh Diri Ni



Ha ha aku gelak tergolak2 tengok Mior pakai baju Leman, duduk bersila, pakai short putih AND long socks putih. Ha ha ha.
And Kalai ala2 terlebih makan karipap je.

Aku sure lepas tengok gambar ni, response Mior hanya SATU:



ps: Gambar ehsan dari Awie, selepas dia kantoi meyakinkan kitorang gambar yang dia email menyeronotkan.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Gambar Dodgy/Pertandingan Reka Dialog



Bersempena dengan bulan Januari yang telah diisytiharkan Bulan Karipap Batch (dan juga target KPI posting yang perlu mencecah 90 tahun ini), kami sertakan satu gambar kat sini.

1) Gambar ni adalah gambar salah seorang budak yang kitorang pernah coach kat MCKK

2) Kami merasakan gambar ini bersesuai dengan tema Bulan Karipap Batch

3) Gambar-gambar seperti inilah yang mengundang pelbagai spekulasi, jadi dinasihatkan kedua2 nya tak usah lah fikir kerjaya dalam politik atau majlis agama Islam (ha ha).

Kami menjemput mana2 budak yengko yang nak buat dialog yang menggambarkan gambar tersebut ("menggambarkan" gambar, bahasa apa tu!), asalkan ia bertemakan dan berperisa karipap he he.

Monday, January 25, 2010

2 Years, 24 Months

Went to ziarah Arwah Ben yesterday, with Dany (Class of 90) and Rashad (Class of 08).

I wanted to rush, make it by 8 am and planned to be back in KL by 11 am. As always, rushing for things.

But I was late and Dany sent me an sms “please don’t rush”. I had rushed all my life in whatever I did, always looking behind at the invisible clock that ticks at every junction of my journey so far. Last year, I had 2 serious accidents (one that wrecked my car completely) because I was rushing.

So I inhaled and told myself that this time, especially for this purpose, I would not rush. I took my time, picked up Dany and Rashad in Shah Alam – then made that solemn journey to Seremban, to visit Ben.

It’s been 2 years and many things had changed – though the longing for the emotional support and cushion that was gone with him, never cease to haunt me.

Immediately after Ben was gone, I knew what I needed to do and what he would have wanted me to do. We made a promise and though I strayed for a while, if I could not keep my promise when he was alive, I certainly would try when he was no longer around.

So I found myself living the life that he would have enjoyed and thrived. We were almost the complete opposite as a person – he charmed and awed the public, I was usually the shy one who sneaked out when everyone did not notice. He was intellectual, I was practical. He was philosophical, I was methodical. We were very different in many ways, yet it was the differences that made us get along so well as we complimented each other.

I put a framed photo of us waiting for a train in Cambridge in any office that I have occupied since he passed away (and I had had 4 rooms as offices since then ha ha).

Nowadays, each time someone from Ben’s previous life drops by in my office, he/she would go and lift the frame, looked at me with a tinge of sadness in their eyes and almost without fail would say “if only Ben is alive”. Then, he/she would recall how wonderful or unique or genius Ben was (and I silently listened and told myself that this life does not belong to me – it was meant to be Ben’s. I am only an accident who has to fit in his shoes, to honour a promise made to a dead brother).

Anyhow, the whole trip was peaceful and it reminded me what our childhood was. Ben, Dany, myself and some others liked to debate and put forth our views on many things – usually on historical or political events. Dany and I spent one good afternoon recalling the evolution of French’s political system – from the days of Danton and the “incorruptible Robespierre” to the madness of Napoleon; to the time of De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic, the romanticism attached by the left to Mitterrand and the current lurch to the right in the form of Chirac, Le Pen and Sarkozy.

I wish we are still young and can spend our days endlessly pretending to be intellects, talking about things we barely understand.

But we are old now and burdened by the contrasting realities of the world.

Soon enough, it will be my time to make the journey. I wish it can be on my own terms but looking at Ben, he never had a chance. Most probably I too would never have the chance to plan for my departure to be exactly how I have envisaged it in my mind – at one point in life, to withdraw completely from the world and spend time preparing for that eventual journey.

Until then, we can only cherish the little reminders of the casualness of the friendships and the brotherhood of those who have looked after and watched over you all these years.

Thank you to one Adany Ismail who took it upon himself to offer the protection and counsel to a person who never listens to any counsels, now that Ben is no longer around.

FOOTNOTE
I looked back at all the postings I made and realised how foolish I was thinking that it would never happen.





Thursday, January 21, 2010

Karipap: L*cah Atau Tidak?

Kalai memperkenalkan satu perkataan baru - perkataan membetik sangat popular mengenangkan Epit mungkin adalah antara Bapa Betik terawal di MCKK; tetapi dalam kesibukan Kalai menguruskan kuihmalaysia.com dia merujuk kepada istilah "mengaripap".
"saya suka khalid sebab dia boleh buat lawak dan anak dia sama nama dgn anak saya, walaupun saya tahu saya dahulu yang memberi nama kerana anak saya lahir beberapa jam awal dari anak dia dan juga isteri beliau adalah pelajar sedorm dgn isteri saya tetapi apabila saya menanyakan adakah di stf dulu ada kegiatan membetik atau mengaripap, isteri saya dgn tegas menyatakan bahawa tidak pernah ada perkara-perkara sedemikian walaupun saya tetap berkeras menanyakan soalan tersebut berkali-kali tetapi jawapannya tetap sama: mana ader"
 Maka bermulalah aktiviti berkaitan karipap:
"Kaki2 Karipap sekalian, 
Malam ini saya dan Chamat bercadang bersama-sama mengaripap di Bukit Jelutong/Shah Alam.
Sapa2 yg berminat mengaripap bersama di jemput hadir."
 Penggunaan istilah karipap tidak terhenti di situ malah berterusan.

"karipap chamat? padat!"
"mengaripap chamat? madat!!"
"pukul brapa boleh rasa karipap chamat ni ...??"
"aku ngeri la baca ayat2 ni ... sure tn hj bochap loya bila tahu chamat boleh dikaripapkan ...  Sent via Karipap"
"eating karipap will never be the same again fater this."
"mengaripap : RM75/frekuensi, karipap : RM 17 / frekuensi 
sila bayar kat kuihmalaysia.com
sapa tak bayar aku suruh uncle david dan pakcik salam mengaripapkan (yang ni free sebab aku sendiri pakai) kepala korang"
"aku tak faham "mengaripap". Bunyi cam lucah je."
"tu la pasal. kenapa budak2 kemaman je ckp "mengaripap" bunyi nya lucah?"
"toje jual karipap segera jenis karipap pusing... guane ?"
"that's called a quickie awi"
"mengaripap dgn STF & TKC lagila bunyik lucah... hahaha"
"bila exact date karipap session kat bukit jelutong ni ? nak check whether aku ada kat msia ke idak masa tu"
"semangat nak mengaripap di bj rupanya"
"dah lama siot x pekena karipap panas2 enche johari. last sekali masa raya haji tu la. hehe"
"taruk la koma.. kang bebudak kemaman baca jadi lain bunyi nya"
"Ha ha ha ha ha
karipap panas2 enche johari - banyak makna tu.
silap2 hari, kau kena KAPAK KNO ha ha ha... selamba nak rasa karipap En Johari, panas2 pulak tu.
ha ha ha ha"
"see Kno.. pakai lagi n97, dah slow nak buat correction"
"ntah2 KNO since pegi peshawar pun dah ada idea bukan2 pasal karipap ni. sbb tu dia x buat correction."
"karipap pakistan and afghanistan.. afghan girl woo"
"haha siot korang, semua related to karipap dah jadi lucah ek"

So persoalannya, adakah perkataan "mengaripap", "berkaripap" atau "karipap" adalah lucah di mata anda? Bolehlah bagi pandangan di bawah, AJK Tatabahasa akan menilai aspek bahasa dalam penghujahan anda.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Vocab Hari Ini

Dari Encik Gadap:

"Ajak mengopi buat apa, ajak la mengopek tak pun ajak mengonek".

Maju giler batch aku.

Gadap ni dulu strongest supporter Taliban. At one point, dia hilang kejap. Semua orang suspect dia pegi Afghanistan berlatih jadi mujahiddin.

Lepas tu banyak la jugak citer2 dia pegi berjuang merata2.

Tapi kebelakangan ini aku makin sangsi. Aku rasa dia bukan pegi berjuang - dia pergi berjuang jihad lain.

Kalau dia kata dia pegi Afghanistan, aku rasa di pegi Mumbai - bergelora nafsu dia tengok k*pek di Mumbai, lalu dia pun berjuang. Kalau dia kata dia pegi Mindanao, aku rasa dia pegi Labuan. Memang keras kental lah dia untuk berjuang.

Dan sebagainya.

Ha ha sebab tu kalau aku tengok budak2 lepasan sekolah atau dekat university yang terlampau taksub dengan macam-macam, aku teringat dekat Gadap.

After all, inilah budak nya yang beriya-iya berkempen nak bagi aku jadi presiden BRU dulu ha ha. Ni BRU yang tak tinggalkan surau ni ha ha.

Last-last, dia tewas dengan k*pek. Ha ha ha.

(Yeaay dah 7 posting in February, dah makan KPI February!)

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Suri & Sensodyne



Demi memenuhi KPI posting untuk tahun ini, segala perkara sensasi perlu disiarkan, asalkan dapat menaikkan KPI. Inilah buruknya budaya KPI tidak bertempat (he he, easy for me to say since aku la ni tak dak KPI ha ha).

Anyway, kesian Suri kena kutuk ngan budak2 Form 1 dia (see Class of 98's blog). Aku berasa sangat bersalah sebab bukanlah Suri nak pergi Prep School, both Fazurin & Suri kena dipujuk rayu pergi ke Prep School sebab tuan punya diri tak mahu pergi ke Prep School.

I remember the assurance given to Fazurin - go to Prep School but do not have to do all the things we despise. I guess that was why they subcontracted all the work to Form 4 (Paipon & Co ha ha).

Prep School in 1994 was a good memory to me. It was a place to escape from Big School (when I get tired of Big School and seeing certain things unraveling). A few of us spent a lot of time there, the RM1 nasi goreng kicap by pak cik Dining Hall was really good. Fazurin & Suri also mastered the art of going to KFC after prep, so once in a while I joined them.

Anyway, Class of 98 should be thankful that it was Fazurin and Suri who were there. That's 100 times better compared to the original line up - imagine living with a control freak, perfectionist with a big ego and zero tolerance on non-conformance. You may be asked to stare at the pillars of Prep School building until they bend, failing which it's 1,000 push ups for you.

But that is in a parallel universe.

Anyway, some answers:

1) Suri is working with a pharmaceutical company, he is not a dentist. Why they pick him up as a model - well, we too have issues with that ha ha.

2) Fazurin is currently with IMF in Washington and a previous recipient of Perdana Scholarship. He may be one of the most senior Malaysian economists with IMF now.

3) Please don't be too harsh with them - the alternative was even worse and they are among the kindest souls you can find around. It was a pity that the original terms of reference was muddled with so much interference.

Whatever it is, to Class of 98 - thanks for the photo that helps us to reach our KPI an inch closer ha ha.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Who Is The Judge?

“Who’s the judge?
The judge is God
Why is He God?
Because He decides who wins or losses not the opponent.
Who is the opponent?
He doesn’t exist.
Why doesn’t he exist?
He’s merely a dissenting voice to the truth I speak”
-         Taken from The Great Debaters, taught at 2009 MCKK Debating Camp

I stumbled upon a letter sent by the captain of the English debating team pleading that I do not quit the coaching, sometime last year.

I used to tell them that when I move on, I will never look back.

Well, it was a lie. We always look back to the past; it’s just that we usually are too engrossed with the present to turn back the time.

The school is redoing a selection for the whole debating team, which tantamount to dismissing the whole team that we have put together since September 2003. My heart aches for the boys as they have practised every single day since they join the team to earn a place in the first 3, but the most I can offer now is sympathy. Their battle is not my battle anymore; they can only pray that those who are left behind would stand the ground the way we would have.

This is the thing about moving on. There’s always some kind of longing (and fear for) of the people we left behind; especially if you have shielded them all along. But there is no way you can go back to what it was, because there are always new people whom your life revolves around now.

To Shahir, if you are reading this – we are all given the space and time to do justice to the talent that Allah has bestowed upon us. We were given different trials and tribulations. Your trials and tribulations are different from mine; and Allah has given it to you because it is your test, for which you are capable to overcome – since Allah will not burden you with tests heavier than what you can carry. My prayers are with you boys to do what I would have done, if I were in your situation.

We, after all, descended from a long line of debaters who have carried the burden and pride for a very long time. This is only a kink in your journey – and a kink, by nature, is only temporary.

Good luck and remember who is the Judge!

Ps: Allahyarham Ben’s birthday is this weekend, he would have been 37 years old and next weekend I am making the visit to Seremban. Time flies.

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Ulang Tahun ke-20

Selamat ulang tahun ke-20.


Ingat-ingatlah muka Capoe pakai seluar pendek dengan socks panjang masa register, rambut belah tengah.
"hahaha betul! betul! masa tu aku kecewa sebab dorm d takde toilet...
lagi satu, time tu aku confuse bila time pendaftaran, cikgu tu asyik mention kat aku, mohd shah, mohd shah.. aku kata mohd shahrul la, mohd shahrul.. bukan mohd shah.. rupa-rupanya dia kasik tau rumah sukan.. hahaha.."

Monday, January 04, 2010

Organization Environment

Throughout MCKK, Fadli was in the same class with me since Form 1 - the other 2 persons were Jures and Fazurin, in 1PK1, 2PK1, 3PK1, 4Sc1 and 5Sc1 throughout.

We both received Esso scholarship before we sat for our SPM and both rejected Esso the moment we received PETRONAS scholarship. I remember after a meeting at Kompleks Antarabangsa with 3 other recipients (one from SSP and 2 from MRSM), Fadli and I went to the car park afterwards and said - "there is no way we could survive ngn budak2 ni" ha ha (as it was, they were trying too hard to impress the Esso officers, in our books. Terlampau jue, budak koleq memang tak leh hidup dgn orang jue).

We went to Scotland and continued to be deskmates and lab partners (we were deskmates since Form 5 and in Form 4, he was sitting in front of me in the class) and were both in the school orchestra, both playing clarinet (we played clarinet since koleq days in what once known as Military Band). He went to Imperial and I went to Leeds but we both did Electronics and Electrical Engineering. I graduated one year earlier and started to do my ICAEW and one year later he too did his ICAEW, so we both qualified as chartered accountants.

I came back and served my bond, he decided to explore the world (and in the process had to pay the half a million ringgit ha ha).

20 years since the noisy mat salleh looking boy registered in Dorm C (my bed was near the cube and his was in the middle of the dorm), I am barely making ends meet and he's doing really well.

Fadli has come a long way (not withstanding all the gossips, blunders and many other things in between) - and I am not saying it because you have to pay for the drink every time we go out for a meal after this; but I remember how hard you work to overcome everything to be where you are.

Congratulations.


Sunday, January 03, 2010

Panic Tapi Tetap Yengko

1) Atas semangat UniteFect! masthead telah diubah, walaupun tidak seyengko masthead semalam yang hanya bertahan 1 hari, tapi semangat UniteFect! lebih penting ha ha. Sebagai balasannya, Aiwa hutang aku bekalan serunding masa puasa tahun depan.

2) Dengan tactic biasa announce dulu baru scrambling nak put everything together, tiba2 geng2 reunion panic sikit (he he or I was the one in panic mode ha ha, not surprising - control freak macam biasa). Maka dengan last minute satu meeting tergempar diadakan.

3) Mulanya Epit suggests buat kat Restoran Tangling kat Lake Garden, kononnya aku rasa nak lari dulu then makan.

4) Pukul 730 pagi tadi, ditukar venue ke Kg Baru makan nasi lemak. Makan bertambah, tapi exercise tak de.

5) Kehadiran: Epit, Hairul, Idzam & Ayu dari Selatan, Abon (kau kawasan mana), Chibiok mewakili geng2 Subang/Putra Heights. Badut tiba2 demam la pulak tapi berjanji akan menerima apa2 wahyu yang diputuskan.

6) Mattop pun berserah dengan kincingan dan taichi, memandangkan dia pun tak leh datang hari ni.

7) So all is well, although the first dinner will have to be postponed to early March, maybe in Nilai. Epit & Ajaque will kawtim where necessary.

8) Untuk menentukan sapa lebih layak jadi Presiden Batch, Khalid & Fadli ditugaskan mengesahkan seberapa ramai kehadiran budak batch (and collect duit). Sapa paling banyak, kira lebih efektif la and stand a better chance nak jadi Presiden Batch (Khalid sure dah menyesal, tapi Fadli sure kalah. Kalau setakat nak depend on keseksian seluar mandi colour flourescent masa F1, mana ada currency sekarang).

9) Kerja-kerja kenduri, Sharap will come to the rescue ha ha.

10) Kapten house - silalah plan wakil masing2 to the Biggest Loser. Md Shah dah nak employ rempah dan kunyit ala2 isteri dalam pantang untuk buang lemak, so kalau Idzam lalu bau kunyit tu, kau paham lah kenapa. Kiasu tak pe asal yengko.

11) KPI posting untuk 2010 adalah 65, sebab rupanya posting dah jatuh merudum since 2005!

Friday, January 01, 2010

Ucapan Tahun Baru

PERINGATAN: INI ADALAH SATU IKLAN TIDAK DIBAYAR

"Semalam saya ada mencuba kuih seri muka durian dan kuih Cara berlauk yg dipesan dari En Kalai. saya ingat rasanya macam kuih yg dijual dikedai, tp sangkaan saya meleset.

Kuih En Kalai memang sedap, lebih sedap dari kuih dikedai.

Rasa nak terpancut bila makan kuih En Kalai.

Pendek kata kesedapan hingga nak terpancut..kalu gosok sikit memang terpancut punya.

Oleh itu marilah beli kuih En Kalai.

Tolong kawan kawan. Kalau kawan tak support kawan , sapa lagi nak support kawan.

Sekian melaporkan dari Kota Damansara"

Khidmat masyarakat ini dibawakan oleh En Gadaffi, jadi jika tuan-tuan mahu merasakan sensasi mudah pancut seperti beliau, silalah kunjungi www.kuihmalaysia.com


TAKTIK KOTOR YENGKO'S BIGGEST LOSER
Dipetik dalam akhbar tempatan:

"Mental Torture from Ghost causes 44 pound weight loss in 2 weeks

From Malaysia comes a haunting tale of a guardian spirit, drifting shadows, mental torture and a wife with a very bad attitude.

Kuala Kangsar, Perak – A 37-year-old Chinese woman from Englor claimed that she has been haunted by a female ghost every night over the past two weeks and her weight dropped from 154 to 110 pounds as she had to withstand mental torture everyday."

Chamat: 
aiwa kurus kat koleq dulu sbb mental torture from ghost ke?

Awie:
sapa nak menang biggest loser kena summon balik kakram.
mungkin hantu sekeping yg pie cerita tu kut.

Bochap:
kena panggil guna speret of the koing laaa gtew..

Bochap:
aiwa kurus sebab sibuk jadik ghost masa kat koleq dulu..

p/s dia lebih kepada ghost patrick swayze yang sibuk menggentel objek liat bersama demi moore

Aiwa:
Dulu mmg aku tertekan masa form 1. Duk kat dorm B, kat tepi stor... Al Qur'an kat tepi bantal.
Selalu terbangun masa tengah malam. Nak tido balik , susah. Patut la aku kurus..

Epit:
bila F5 ko tak cukup tido by choice.banyak merayap..

Chibiok:
sebab tunggu nasi ... kalau tak kena kaput dgn org ..

What a thread to remind us how dysfunctional this batch is. As we enter into 2010, suddenly I realise we have tonnes of things to do but none of the planning has been done. Last minute lagi la ni. Semua ala2 En Gadap pre-mature sensation, masa discuss plan je seronok.

Hari tu ada call Epit, cakap "ini maruah batch ni Epit, kalau tak jadi malu ni".


Ha ha so we begin 2010 with kemalasan yang amat sangat nak organise semua ni.

Berikut adalah gambar2 sensasi sepanjang dekad (err sejak tahun 2004) yang berjaya aku korek dari koleksi aku. Sila pilih gambar mana wajar jadi gambar sedekad. He he.