Selamat Tahun Baru Hijrah

Hey.... happy noo yir... hijrah year that is, since tahun baru masihi tak masuk lagi. I know, it's kinda late to wish tahun baru since hari nih dah masuk 2 muharram, tapi as a muslim, kita sepatutnya rasa semangat untuk menyambut awal muharram... (ececeh... pandai pulak bercakap hal2 camni). So mcm beserlah... every new year, mesti nak wat resolution. Yang tahun lepas punyer tak pernah tercapai... typical... anyway... untuk tahun baru nih, I have a few wishes:

1. Lose weight.... say down to 70 kg. My ideal BMI would require me to go somewhere around 65 kg but let's be realistic okay... makan mcm lembu, exercise pon jarang, n then stress di tempat keja... dapat turun ke 70 kg kira cukup bagusla tu... I've recalibrated the weighing scale yesterday, and it wouldn't budge... according to the scale, I still weigh 80 kg. Oh damn you stupid scale! heheh.... For this one, I kena sacrifice sket... Have to cut down my starbucks vanilla latte, KFC, McD and mcm2 lagi... wish me luck. Selalunya, dalam 2-3 minggu dah kecundang....

2. Nak baca lebih banyak bahan2 ilmiah... (and sadly, Mangga and Hai don't qualify). I've got at least 5 books yg dah beli sepanjang 3 bulan lepas and masih dalam queue lagi. Skang tgh baca John Grisham 'The Appeal'... pasnih nak start citer Melayu pulak (or citer Indon to be exact... Ayat2 Chenta). So.... buku kena standby tepi katil. malam2 seblom tido layan a few pages... yg nih boleh tercapai kot.

3. Learn new things... like Spanish, or baking, repairing cars (ok.... I gotta draw a line on this one... seriously? repairing cars?) I think I'll start with Spanish... sbb buku Learning Spanish yg i beli tuh dah setahun tak berusik. Pasnih... layan telenovela tak payah pakai subtitles lah... stylish nyer. tengos muchas esperanzas! 

4. lebih banyak tersenyum... ada org ckp muka i serious sangat. ye ke? yer kot... so kena la banyak senyum ngan org. 

Aaa.... itu baru 4 jer... ada banyak lagi nih. Nak dengar tak? tak payah la kot... kita nak concentrate yg 4 nih dulu... rasa2 mcm boleh kot...

p/s: Lagu pilihan sempena maal hijrah - Albi Nadak by Fares. Kita kasi lagu arab pulak, asek lagu barat jer. Credit goes to Syear sbb memperkenalkan lagu yg sayu tapi besz ini...

I'm an uncle now!

Hey hey... sekarang i officiallynya sudah menjadi uncle after my sister gave birth to a baby boy yesterday (15th Dec).  Ingatkan minggu depan baru nak deliver sekali semalam dapat sms, baby sudah keluar kat spital ampang. Originally she intended to give birth in spital kajang, tapi spital kajang tak bagi husband masuk untuk tgk isteri deliver, so switched to ampang. last2 kena operate pulak sbb dilation tak cukup besar. so dptlah baby boy seberat 3.3 kg tu. haha... i am so happy and proud sbb ada nephew. ooo... mcm nih rupanya rasa jadik uncle yer... baru i tau. since most of my frenz (except mosz) dah ada experience jadik uncle, i rasa cam agak ketinggalan sket... apapun... welcome to the uncle club.

Since this baby is the first born grandchild dalam family, mesti dia dapat attention lebih and layanan yg spesel from the rest of us. mcm i jugak last time... sbb i cucu sulung, dulu masa kecik2, my uncles and aunts selalu bawak jalan2 and belikan macam2. bertuah la baby nih... ckp jer nak apa... pakcik faizal bleh belikan... nak baju designer label, kasut crocs, kreta lumba, playstation, ipod... u name it, pakcik belikan. (nih sumer terikut zach la nih... manjakan sgt niece dia).

okay nephew... semoga menjadi anak yg soleh, berjaya dan bergaya (mcm unclenya jugak lah...)

comel seperti pakciknya.... (chantek la awak punyer sarung kepala tuh!)

Movie Review: Wild Child (Pulangkan wangku kembali!!)

From the tajuk of my post this time, agak2 u guys boleh bajet kot what will my review be like. I should've followed my instinct. Should've probably watched Los & Faun instead. But the timing was not so good, so I was stuck with this crap (which I didn't know at that time). Pelakon yang pegang watak Poppy aka the Wild Child in this film is not wild at all. Seriously... with the title WILD tuh I would expect some boobs from this movie. Okay... perhaps that was a bit too much, tapi kalau dah namanya WILD tuh, ingatkan criter nih memaparkan kisah remaja rosak akhlak yg sering berparti dan bersosial tanpa hala tujuan. Huhu... nope, kecundang saja harapan i untuk melihat itu semua. Perhaps it's the casting... Emma Roberts (anak sedara Julia Roberts) nampak cam agak inesen untuk memegang watak Poppy. I was expecting Lindsay Lohan or paling kurang pon letak la Blake Lively aka Serena Gossip Girl. Sorry Emma.... you kinda sux as a wild child! Ugh... frankly, kalau u nak tgk citer pasal budak pompuan kat boarding school, Adik Manja lagi besz... even tho the acting was a bit like kayu, at least citer tuh citer Melayu yang senang kita nak faham lawak jenakanya... lagipon, ada budak pompuan nyanyi2 sambil naik beskal... "La la la la la la la hey hey... lupa sebentar yang menggangumu... la la la la la la hey hey.... ingat pesan dariku..." pastuh kena langgar ngan che'gu azmi. Okay... we're talking about Wild Child here... focus...

Jalan criter Wild Child agak straight forward... Poppy, an angry teen, tension ngan her dad coz she felt like she's been ignored coz he got a new girlfriend. So, dia pegi buang baju2 GF bapak dia and as a punishment, dia dihantar gi boarding school pompuan kat England. Sampai kat sekolah baru, dia buat style bitchy, and made enemy with the head girl Harriett. Member2 sedorm dia pon tension... (mana tak tensen ngan perangai belagak tuh... kalau masuk SDAR dah lama kena belasah). So budak2 kat sana suka la menyakat dia... tapi at one point derang start kesian ngan Poppy so they decided to help Poppy in her mission to get expelled from the school. As part of the plan, she has to flirt dengan anak lelaki pengetua. Ingatkan nak flirt2 biasa jer.... sekali suka betul2 pulak... alah... dah boleh agak kan jalan citer dia? So seterusnya apa yg terjadi? hehehe.... kena la tgk sendiri. hey, i suffered for 1 1/2 hour dalam wayang tuh.... mana bleh senang2 jer bagitau the ending... kena la tgk sendiri... or better still, download jer kat internet... citer sampah nih patutnya tak payah tayang kat cinema pon...

so ratingnya? jalan criter 2.5 bintang, acting 2 bintang, lagu2 soundtrack.... bolehla 3 bintang, cinematography.. ntahla... i main ckp jer... tak sure pon menatang apa tuh. kalau ikut standard rating zach... citer nih layak untuk 2.3 bintang... kalau dalam gred SPM setakat C6 jer... hish.... kesal yang tak berkesudahan la. kepada GSC one utama.... pulangin uang ku donkk!

background: situasi by bunkface (lagu yang membuat i accident kat genting sempah... huhu... i still like it tho)

Mari membuat passport

For those yang dah baca blog makcik chantek aka zach, i mmg ada plan untuk buat passport the other day. What? How come I still tader passport? Bukan ke I bleh speaking accent mat salleh? "Bukan u study oversea ke dulu?", ada org pernah tanya I. hahaha.... jangan mudah tertipu... inilah akibatnya kalau terlalu banyak menonton rancangan2 barat yg tak berfedah tu dalam TV. Sooner or later u will pick up the accent. Anyway, i managed to execute my plan untuk buat passport last wednesday. Since zach ckp kalau buat kat imigresen wangsa maju cepat siap, i pon google la dulu direction untuk ke sana. Very berkobar2. Yerlah... ini sumer untuk menyahut rancangan RK Gold Coast mosz which is supposed to happen somewhere next year (I'm still counting on it mosz). 

On that day, i bertolak awal la jugak dr rumah... lam kul seploh. pagi tuh baham dulu nasi goreng dua pinggan untuk stamina. N then baru betolak. The journey took approximately one hour.... tuh pon sebab sesat seploh minit coz i missed the last junction. yer2 jer pakai google map. sampai2 tuh kena fotostat IC ngan surat beranak dulu. n then you have to buy the borang (RM1). Pas isi baru bleh amik number giliran. Masa amik number tuh, the officer kat kaunter tuh perasan i punyer IC macam ada corrosion sket. So dia tanya cip tuh boleh pakai lagi ke tak? Ish... i baru jer guna untuk print i nyer epf statement the day before. So i guess the chip still works la. The officer seemed satisfied with it so she gave me a number. 1286. the current number at that time was 1227. okay... i knew this was going to happen. so i dah bawak ipod ngan buku awal2... bijak tak?

i was quite lucky sebab tetiba ada vacant seat nearby. Lepas confirmkan takder warga emas or wanita mengandung yg nak amik seat tuh, i quickly grabbed it. dalam masa menunggu tuh, sempat baca a few pages of my book n main 2 rounds of sally saloon in my ipod (ish.... besz la game nih... sapa2 ada ipod touch, this is a must-have!). after about 40 minutes my number was called. "1286 kaunter 5". hehehe.... 

after i hand over my borang and documents, akak kat counter tuh cocok i nyer mykad ke dalam mesen dia. after a few moments the card reader failed. oh dear... this couldn't be good. so she asked me whether the chip was still okay. I told her it was working fine yesterday at EPF kiosk in klcc. so she tried again... dia amik pemadam pen yg keras tuh n she scraped off the corroded layer of my Mykad. oo... mcm tuh caranya nak buang karat kat chip yer.... tapi pas dia cocok balik lam card reader dia still failed jugak... deymnnn! "encik... encik kena tukar kad nih dulu. dekat sebelah ada pejabat pendaftaran negara, mintak dia buatkan yg sementara punya yang ada cap jari tuh, lepas tuh encik datang balik. nombor nih jangan hilangkan yer." aduss.... seb baik kat sebelah ada office pendaftaran negara. so i pegi sebelah...

kat sebelah, kena amik number giliran baru pulak. bila i terangkan i nyer problem kat officer tuh, dengan muka tak manis dia menjawab, "kad nih kena tukar ni... kalau nak tukar kat sini, hari ni tak boleh siap, tapi kalau nak cepat kena pegi maju junction, kat sana satu jam boleh siap." kalau saya nak yang sementara punyer? i tanya lagi.... "yang tu kena amik number, tapi number giliran pagi nih dah abis, kena tunggu pukul dua karang baru boleh amik nombor balik".... ngan jawapan dia tuh, i rasa cam nak cocok jer bijik mata dia. jibraun betu! dah agak pun... beserla... pejabat kerajaan. pelik jugak sebab masa i masuk tuh bukannya ramai sangat orang pon. lagipon baru kul 11.30... cemaner pulak nombor dah abis? i malas nak tanya lagi since dari gaya dia menjawab soalan i sebelum nih pon mcm nak tak nak jer... hish... nyesal tak note down nama dia... kalau tak boleh masuk lam ruangan komplen kat harian metro. 

i nak gi maju junction pon rasa tak semangat dah. bukan apa... i nyer touch n go credit value ada dalam seratus lebih lagi in my current mykad. takkan nak hilang camtu jer. so i sms zach... n we decided to berpeleseran in KLCC. hahaha.... end up hari tuh jadi remaja liar jugak.... mosz... walaupon my first attempt untuk buat passport failed, please proceed with our gold coast plan okay! 

background music: hikmah from hikmah OST (insaf sket)

New mall in Kerteh

Hey! We have a new mall in Kerteh. Huh... who would've believe an actual shopping mall is here in this sleepy town of Kerteh? When they first started building it 3 years ago, I thought it would be some kind of bazaar or arcade where you would find small time traders selling kain batik, kraftangan and all the normal stuffs you would find in Pasar Payang in KT. How wrong I was... this mall actually resembles more like a mini KLCC with Starbucks, Giant, Body Shop and shops you would only dream to find in KL. Even the state capital KT takder Starbucks...

My friend Zach will be thrilled (or perhaps agitated) if he finds out that they've just opened a new Starbucks aka Kedai Peluru here. (Why Kedai Peluru? Zach told me, Starbucks actually funds Israel to purchase its weapons in combatting Muslims in Palestine... therefore, buying a Frappucino Caramel means helping Israel to kill our Muslim comrades in Palestine). Zach is boycotting products that support Israel and this means no Starbucks for him.... and MAC cosmetics too. I guess you will have to stick to that L'Oreal lipstick now, eh Zach? When he found out Amy Winehouse was a Jew, poor Amy was deleted from his iPod... hehe... I could actually hear Amy begging to Zach... no... no... no.... Eheh... enough about Zack lah. 

So this Mesra Mall we've been talking about had its opening ceremony yesterday. They brought some local celebrities to promote the mall. The turnout was huge! I heard people came from as far as Kuantan and Dungun (sbb nak tengok artis la tuu...). I tried to squeeze in yesterday in the afternoon, tapi jalan jam teruk sangat sampai tak boleh nak masuk. I had to come back at night just to check out apa yg besz sangat kat situ. First impression.... wow... not bad. Ada Toys R Us, Popular bookstore, Secret Recipe, Kedai Peluru, Giant, Kamdar, and also a Spa Centre (I am not kidding.... I could imagine makcik penjual keropok lekor Kemasik treating herself with a full body spa selepas seharian memasak and menjual keropok lekor di tepi jalan... aaa... "mokcik raser molek gok iyer wak spa kak sini... kek gi, pah leteh2 goreng kepok, bulih gok rehak2 ....doh mung ingak org KL jer boleh spa? kite nok raser teekkk....")

When the mall fully opens later on, there will also be a TGV cineplex, bowling alley and futsal courts. After years of waiting, finally dapat jugak org Kerteh merasa sumer nih. This mall can actually help boosting the economy of this region. But I'm worried about the social impacts it would bring to the young people here... mesti ramai remaja rosak nak melepak kat tempat nih. Budak2 ponteng sekolah lagi (there are 3 schools within 3 km of the mall). Hopefully authorities will have some concerns over this issues. Kerteh is a wonderful place... Having lived here for the past 4 years, I already feel like I'm part of it. I used to be homesick when I first came here, but now I actually felt like I'm missing Kerteh when I'm back home in KL. Who knows, I'll probably marry a local, have kids and settle here for good... heheh.... u think so?

Hari Raya & 90210

Whoow... I haven't blogged lately... yeah.. it's been quite a while since my last blog. But then... it was bulan puasa and I didn't feel like blogging then. Now that I'm in my Hari Raya mood, I think I'm ready to write something. So how was Hari Raya? Mine? Naahh... nothing much. I spent the first half of the first raya in Hulu Langat and the whole family went to Malacca to Mak's hometown in the afternoon. The traffic was slow in Seremban and it took forever to reach Malacca. Haven't been there since Uwan (my grandma) passed away a couple of years ago. Last year I didn't go back to Malacca sbb kena keja shift malam (sob... sob... that was sad). But this year... bila balik sana, I noticed so many things have changed. My grandparents' traditional Melaka house was not the same house I knew years ago. Rumah tuh cam dah hilang seri sikit. Well, I guess that's life... everything changes. And this was actually the first raya for my sister with her hubby. She went back to Mad's hometown in Kota Bharu on the 2nd day of raya. It was kinda weird not being with my sister for the rest of my stay in Malacca... Walaupon dia dah kawen and dah nak beranak, in my heart she will always be my little sister. Tak dapat la nak gossip2 lagi ngan Adik... hehe...

I took a day off on Sunday, so I started working again on Monday. Stressful... Mood masih nak berhari raya lagi tapi dah kena keja. Since the other exec who was supposed to work on that day suddenly MC, I ended up being the only exec working. Tak pasal2 kena jadi boss arituh... dah la all the managers masih bercuti. Pastuh bila check email, I was suddenly swamped with so many things... aaargghh... nyesal tak amik cuti extra.

To calm things down... I went for 90210 marathon that I've just downloaded from torrent. Managed to catch 3 episodes... Good enough. And this new 90210 spinoff wasn't that bad after all. For the benefit of you who have been living in a cave for the past few years, 90210 is some sort of sequel to the popular teen series Beverly Hills 90210 which was a huge hit in the 90's. They still cast some of the original characters from the previous series like Kelly and Brenda (oh honey... I don't have to time to explain sapa derang nih... korang Google ajerlah). Well, after watching 3 episodes I feel kinda depressed... rasa cam nak duduk kat Beverly Hills pulak. You see, the school is populated with hordes of beautiful people... the teachers are gorgeous and sexy - not to mention the students, the weather's beautiful, the cafeteria serves great food... it's all I want in a school (which made me realized - my life in boarding school suckz compared to those kids in West Beverly High). Okaylah... malas nak cerita panjang2... kalau rajin, dload la citer tuh.. 

Nak tido dululah... besok banyak kerja... tootles!

i love the whole world: boom de yadda!

Have u seen this ad campaign ran by Discovery Channel where they put together the hosts from various Discovery shows to sing about the world? Alaa.... yang ada nyanyi boom-de-yadda tuh? Oh that was one of the best ads I've seen this year. Bila tengok iklan tuh rasa cam nak nyanyi sama pulak. At the end of it... dia tulis "the world is just awesome". Yep! Awesome indeed. It made you realize the miracles of this wonderful world... things to discover and so much more. Apa? Korang tak pernah tgk? What? Korang tak langgan Discovery Channel? Biztuh korang langgan channel hiburan ngan kartun saja ke kat Astro? Tsk... tsk..  Nah... tengokla sendiri kat link bawah ni... Just how many Discovery shows would you be able to recognize from the ad? 

I Love The Whole World: YouTube

My fave part is when Adam Savage from Mythbusters sets Jamie's shirt on fire