Monday, September 22, 2008

If I were to live my life again.......Part 1

  • Ta Ra.......If I were to live my life again, would I have it differently and what changes would I make???? Entry ini hanya untuk tujuan berangan and suka2 and tiada kaitan dengan manusia yang masih hidup atau masih mati.........also bertujuan untuk cheap thrill as we all do know that we lurrrveee our happening lives........So hit it on frengs.......

  • Me....the self-centered Badak VP....
  • I lurrrvvve my life to death - meaning I would like to die with my current life in tow but if I were given the chance, these are the stuff that I would like to add on or to make changes or to have or to make it happeng...........

  • 1. I would like to be married off to my Boston's boypreng - he is the only "real guy" that I can get connected to and take me the way I am - no reservations, no demand, no expectations, no problemo. "I am happy to be with you as you make my life complete. We shall travel everywhere together and see the world and grow old together"........ohhhh...so he said.....how could you ever forget a person who put a smile on your face every minute of your life and knows how to treat you well - despite your weaknesses and "kerapah-tion".........If ever I have a regret, that is one - to let him go for stupid reason.......stupid....stupid....stupid.......neber mind..had it meant to be, it would had and God knows best........

  • 2. I would like NOT to know my ex-tunang yang telah berjaya memasukkan banyak unsur negatives dalam jiwa ku sehingga ke hari ini.......................

  • 3. I would like to do a PhD in Psychology....surprise! surprise! surprise!...Yes- I would like to learn a lot deal about humans behaviours...............(don't even wonder, don't even think and don't even say anything Tang!!!!....:)

  • 4. I would like to save more (should have listen to Kak Eshah from day one) so that I can go travelling to all parts of the world every year.......

  • 5. I would like to be able to cook and bake well like Kak Eshah and Kak Long.....then tak perlu lah hari2 makan ayam/ikang goreng, kicap and spinach......uwarghhhhhhh

  • 6. I would like to own a little cottage surrounded by olive trees and sunflowers fields and little stream in Tuscany.......

  • 7. I would like to own a bookstore........

  • 8. I would like to have a loyal driver and a loyal maid who wash their hands everytime they touch my stuff.......

  • 9. I would like to dance well.......

  • 10. I would like to be more intelligent and wordy so that I can contribute more to the society.....

  • 11. I would like to be less self-centered, to emphatize more and to understand better......

  • 12. I would like to be more sabaq, sabaq, sabaq and sabaq...........

  • 13. I would like to be cool, calm and collected.......

  • 14. I would like to be wiser and make better decisions about many things.......

  • 15. Finally, I would like to be reincarnated as a pub singer....and my first song would be......SWAY.........wakakakakakakakakkak!!!!

  • And you????

The Amazing Race(r).....................

  • Hmmmphhhhh...where did that come from? Badak5=The Amazing Race(r)??? Ontah la labu...but Badak5 fits into my profile of that category as she is one brilliant racer......in many positive ways - not that the rest of the badaks are not.................

  • I first met Badak5 at Badak3's place when both of them were residing at the grand Rumah Transit Desa Aman (did we all not.....) She came out from her apartment when she heard my LOUD voice talking to Badak3. She immediately came to me and said "I know you. I have been to your house at East Ham. The minute I heard your voice, I knew that was you - from the East Ham years...."Hmmphhhhhh....she is not the first and will not be the last to notice the voice before the person......

  • Anyway, I was impressed that she could recognized me while I cracked my pretty brain to locate her....."You sure tak ingat sebab masa tu you kalut keluar masuk dengan your NST friends," so she emphasized, probably to make me feel better (Badak5 kan very diplomatic and tactful - al-maklum la lawyer....:)

  • And after that, we kept on talking about people that we knew and the East Ham communities and the cute brainy real guys around East Ham - JOKE!!! mana ada daaa species itu.....We got some connection allright.........

  • After which, we started to become friends and Badak5 was introduced to Badak Prest and was included in the circle - partee, sopping, parteee, sopping, partee, sopping, more partees and more soppings and in between, but of course - stuffing our faces sessions...........

  • I still remember her first car - Daihatsu Charade and her driving...ha ha ha...never mind the car, mind the driving...:) Badak3 will always offer to drive whenever we go out - for her life's sake...:) Me? I donch care as long as I don't have to drive. I am perfectly happy as a passenger - and fully equipped with all sorts of doas before I put my life into Badak5's hand......ha ha ha.....

  • Badak5 lurrrrrrvvveee to jahit menjahit and I am the lucky one to always be given awesome shorts, amongst other stuff. And she also enjoyed cooking and baking and she "used" to cook us really good food and ever willing to do so - until she got herself hitched to DG - hmmmmppphhhhhhhhhhh!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! And now, not only that I don't get checked or floral shorts no more, I also seldom get to taste her yummy cooking.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmph!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! (shift of priorities in life....:) Neber mind - her being happy is more important than any shorts or chocolate cake or pasta or ikan goreng bodo or soup ayam bodo or chocolate cake (diulangi!!) or ayam goreng bodo - of the world.........................

    To me, Badak5 is one "sabaq" and "calm"person that I have ever met in my life......I am always amazed at how sabaq she is with everything - almost everything. She could absorbed stuff just like that and always try to be positive about it. I am sure that most of the time I managed to annoy or irritate her but she being her natural calm person, just smiled away..........But again,come to think of it - all Badaks with the exception of me, are very "sabaq" and "calm" people......hmmmppphhhh.....where did I go wrong?????? :) oh yeah......I am the self-centered one.......:)

    And jodoh pertemuan di tangan Tuhan. God make me introduced DG to Badak5. Am glad that they got hooked and realized that they belong together and God Willing, forever. Well, Badak Prest introduced Badak4 to her husband so who gonna introduce me to my Mr.Monk?????? And who gonna introduce Badak3 to the Pak Haji Kecut?? oopppssss...sowi....Pak Haji Kecut pung dah diambil orang....ha ha ha.....:) And who gonnna introduce Badak Prest to her Mr.58???No need.....already found.....:)

  • In the final analyses, am glad that all us Badaks got to know each other as each one of us contributes to the richness of each other's lives........We all do have our own "peculiarities" - some more than others - (no need to guesss......) and "specialities" - however we manage to put aside the differences and stay good together. We may not be in touch everyday (with the exception of us on this little island as we got no other frengs...by default la...ha ha ha) but everytime we are in touch, we can take off from where we last met/spoke........That's how special our "bondings" are..........We may not share every single details about our lives but we do know that whenever we need to speak up or to cry our hearts out - there will always be a badak or badaks to lend her ear, eye and heart............In that, we know who we are in each other's lives.........We are there for each other - in good, sad, trial, challenging, joyful, heartbreak, heartburn, heartache and all sort of moments........We may not be materially rich (at least not me!!!) but we are spiritually and soully (ada ke word ni???) because we have each other.......

  • In the end, thats all that matters......

  • And where did the name "badak" emerged from? One fine day, my brother said this to me "Apa khabaq kawan2 you Ngah?" "Kawan mana?" "Kawan Persatuan Badak Sekawan......." :) Nice? I thought so......


Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The Weirdo Indiana Jones........

  • This entry will be a bit mild due to the writer's somber and melancholic mood right now but write I must.......as thru writing I am able to forget that there are cruel human beings in this world......

  • Me and Badak4 whom I refer to as the Weirdo Indiana Jones started off on a definitely wrong footing. We hated each others sights...neber mind our guts......She could not comprehend my way of living neither did I......We were introduced by Badak Prest. She and Badak Prest are the bestest of frengs. Badak Prest decided to include me into her circle of friends as I was all alone and hence the introduction to Badak4.....

  • Why the weirdo Indiana Jones? Weirdo because I thought that she had a weird characteristics - weird for a loud person like me (probably I was the weird one, nyeah......not probably...:) Indiana Jones? ha ha ha...initially I thought that she was a "cerah" version of an Indian lady - probably a Cindian - and furthermore, Badak Prest intoduced her as "Saraswathy" to me and kept calling her by that name (mayhaps a private joke between them)......only after a while that I knew her real name......Indiana, minus Jones also refers to her alma mater - Indiana University at Bloomington (same2 alma mater with Kak Long).

  • Anyways, during the earlier part of our "friend"ship, we were kind of nice to each other but tried to not sort of being too close for comfort. To her, I am the weird one - ya loooo...who bonding with shoes one...talk2 to shoes one...only weirdo.........I was being my usual loud self with no cares in the world. Badak4 being the soft spoken person she was and she still is and I believe will always be, could not stand my loud-ness. I,on the other hand, could not stand her "soft-ness".....eeekkkkkkkk......"selowwwwwww nya dia ni bercakap".......he he he...

  • When we became closer, I make her life miserable. I make her felt "stressful" all the time. Everything she said, I will be questioning and make her felt "i-want-to-strangle-this-capui-pompuan".....But Badak4 being the nice person she was and still is, just smiled and gave back to me in her own "soft" ways - which make me want to aggravate her further....ha ha ha.......lagi I kasi dia stress.......:)

  • I could not understand her life's principles and philosophy. She make a point to understand mine, although disagreed with manys. But, I did not make a point to understand hers (don't forget....ms.self-centered)....I just totally disagreed with most of the things that she believes in........

  • Again, like with Badak3, there was an incident which broke the camel's back........From that incident, I vowed that I will try my level best to understand her world as she did with mine. I may disgree with so many principles of hers, but at least I will try to understand and not being ""prejudice about it." It is her life after all.......

  • Time passed by and things happened and friendship bloomed further.......we put our differences aside and concentrate on our friendship......that is more meaningful...and today, the weirdo Indiana Jones is one of the greatest person in my life......although she still could not , for the life of her, understand the need for a conversation with my shoes.........:)

  • Next - The Amazing Race (r).....................

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Let's berdoa for...............

  • In general, sempena Ramadhan diberkati ini, marilah kita berdoa supaya semua kita dan keluarga dan kekawang dan umat Islam di mana sahaja sentiasa dipelihara dan dilindungi ALLAH......

  • Specifically, let's berdoa that MAK Badak5 sembuh segera dan dimudahkan ALLAH segala urusan supaya dapat menjalani kehidupang bahagia bersama keluarga dan merayakan Aidil Fitri bersama-sama........

  • And please do say a prayer for MARINA as well who will be undergoing her major operation on this Nuzul Quran day to remove whatever is still there........Semoga ALLAH memudahkan jua urusan Marina...If I could replace her, I would...........

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Badak3 : My Sleeping Enemy to My Besfreng's (Wedding....:)

  • Saje je...mau kasi tajuk woyang yang glamer....

  • Me and Badak3 started off on a very wrong footing for no apparent reason at all but in life sometimes, we must pick on someone in order to glorify our pathetic life....:) Badak3 was my Senior at ITM. She was one year ahead of me (dia cerdik, masuk ITM dulu from me...tapi gue pi Bostong & England dulu...wakakakkakak.....:)

  • I guess, the reasons why she and her ultra-besfrengs (especially one particular besfreng yang ultra *&^&$%$@%^&*()) hated the freak out of me bacause 1) I was very vocal and out-spoken (still am la -before you guys say it...) - zaman tu junior mana boleh cakap banyak2 and tunjuk terra especially kalau cakap omputih pufff peehhh pufff peeehhh....surely la akan diboikot sebeb twerbukti lebih terra dari senior...ha ha ha 2) I was with a car - zzomm here and there - meaning...... gue spoilt brat la....perception : anak orang kaya berlagak la....(it was said to me :) 3) gue tak peduli kepada apa2 sahaja as in kome2 nak rag gue, buat je.....as in, gue memang kebal and donch care attitude la (lagi la geram senior2 yang gila kosa tahap dewata tu...he he he)

  • So, everytime gue lalu lalang dengan kereta, mereka semua yang berkumpul di tangga hostel akan memberikan "jelingan manja" sambil senget2 mulut pot-pet-pot-pet......lagi laju gue drive...he he he....kalau terserempak di hallway School, gue akan jalan tanpa memperdulikan mereka dan kata2 *&*^$@#$&())()(%&&$ mereka.......ishkkkkk...lagi la depa hangat hati.......he he he.......

  • And the exciting moments continued till we graduated. When they left ITM, I was the happiest person on earth sebab tak perlu ternampak wajah2 mereka lagi........In short, we never bonded, we were never cordial to each other, we ignored each other and continued hating each other's sight. However, I survived because as early as those years, they were already the "parking meters" of my happening life........ha ha ha......

  • But the turn and twist of fate can never be expected. One fine day in Boston, I received a card from Badak3 stating that she will be coming over for her MA and could she stay at my place for a bit. The minute I saw her name, I knew whom she was but I kept on telling myself - please let it not be her...please God...please do not test me again...but deep down inside me, I knew that was her........urghhhhhhhh...So, I did what was expeced out of me - ignored the card.....ha ha ha...and a few days later, I flew back to Malaysia for the summer hols......

  • I arrived back in Boston on a cold Fall day to discover someone was sleeping on my bed. The minute I walked into my room, Badak3 woke up and salam with me and apologized for sleeping on my bed. Sebagai pemilik bilik yang berhemah dan berjiwa kemanusiaan, I said its okay and anyway I was not around. At the same time, I was praying hard to God to make me be nice to her as she was new and all - neber mind that she and her ultra-besfrengs siksa me separa nyawa di ITM........he he he

  • Yes- God granted my doa - I was nice to her. Helped her with the necessary, cooked for her and answered all her questions.....However, I stayed away from her - my life is my life as in I am nice to you but I don't want you in my personal life...I don't want you to enter my personal space...he he he..So, my other roomies brought her places and showed her places. I never joined. Anyway, I was buzy socializing and gallavanting away with my international friends - day in and day out.....Ms Happening kannnnnn......

  • Bit by bit, I allowed he to come into my personal life - simply because I started to see her true colours. The straw that broke the camel's back was the time when I had to kemas-ing my boxes to ship home. That was definitely not my forte. Kalau ikut me - campak je semua and seal. Period. However, Badak3 offered to help. She was the one who strategized, organized, packed and sealed all the 9 boxes. She also listed down the items so that when the boxes arrived I would know what is where....I just sat, nganga and agreed to everything (in-between krohhhiiinggg...as usual..:)- as long as I did not have to do it...he he he...

  • That moment make me realized, bukan semua orang nak bersusah payah untuk kita. Hanya orang ikhlas dan really nice sahaja akan tolong kita. Especially, doing stuff like packing kerapah yang amatlah banyak dan stressful. I don't think that I can do it for others...especially me being the ms. self-centered.......:) But Badak3 melakukannya dengan penuh kegigihan dan dalam senyumang........

  • From that day onwards, we became relatively close. I invited her to joing my activities with my Greek. Hongky & German's besfreng. Whenever we have parties (we as in me and my International Relations clans) had parties/gathering, I brought her along (she was living with orang berimannnnn...so I needed to spice up her life a bit at the expense of orang berimannnn menuduh I mencemarkan duli Badak3 yang equally berimannnnn...he he he......I was the bad person la sebab ajak Badak3 pi bersosial......)

  • One fine day while watching her baking bengkang kayu ubi at her kitchen, we discovered that her abang - Jenal and my Abang Long adalah besfreng and in fact Abang Long dah pernah pergi rumah Segamat and probably dah makang ikang baung Sungai Segamat......ha ha ha........

  • And another moment that really touched my heart was the day when I finally left Boston. She gave me something which I really needed then. I never said anything but being a nice person and a wonderful friend she is, she could tell that I needed it. I was dumbfounded when she gave it to me. Only a real dear freng can do that to another freng. I am trully blessed. Thank you my ex-sleeping enemy who is now my besfreng's (wedding)..........:)

NEXT : The weird Indiana Jones......:)

-Badak VP-

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

How I met Badak Pres......

  • Wa ada lecture lagi half an hour so this really a short one but I must write it down now.......I came to Penang alone, donno anyone and don't care if I donno people..(he he he..ms self-centered in action :) However, I accidently bumped into a long lost freng who is currently working here. I was having dinner somewhere nearby Seagate with my ex-neighbour from Rumah Transit Aman and was buzy chatting away when someone from the next table turned and said this "I know this voice very well....it can only belong to one person....arrghhh...its you...". So there we were...me and Abang Hammmmmm...jumped up and down - excitedly...OK - I lied..only me jumped...Abang Hammmmm control macho dalam senyuman dalam kelam....he he he......

  • A few days later Abang Hammmmm came to see me and said this "I have a friend by the name of S****. Would you like to get to know her? She is a very nice person. At least you boleh ada kawan kat sini". As I said earlier, I was in the doonno & don't care mode so whatever. Kalau kawan Abang Hammmm surely baik macam dia...."OK".

  • In my mind, this S**** is an Indian as my good Cindian freng also is S*****. Another Indian freng also by that name. So my perception is that kalau nama gitu, sure Indiana Jones.......Neber mind la...what ever also can.....

  • A few days later, someone knocked on my door and when I opened the door, there they were. Abang Hammmmmm and a lady that I could not placed her race or personality but look sober enough to be my freng......."Hi A*****, this is S****,". I shook my hand with her and my happening life began shortly after with Badak Pres in tow..........................:)

  • Next - my worst enemy is now my besfreng

-Badak VP-

Monday, September 8, 2008

how I met bebadak yang lain... (part 2)

Sorry sebab kena pen-off early the last entry sebab kena pi kelas. Bulan posa ada tension le sikit kalu kelas late petang. By the time tiba romah ngam-ngam je buka. Tak dan nak buat apa-apa. I'm not the kind suka beli kat pasar ramadhan unless the food there is really good. The one that so the very close to my house tu, I tak recommend langsung. I would rather buat cucuk bodoh then pi abis duit on tasteless food.

Anyway, let me continue with telling you how I met the badaks especially badak 5. Yang lain tu dah cerita dah in the last entry. Badak 5 ni was my neighbour before badak4 jadi neighbor. I guess our first lepaking session was at my place one night. That was during badak VP's visit (Badak VP masa tu duk kat Paris and will come down to Penang whenever ada urusan) and lepak at my place. So we invited badak5 to come over and buat ketupat. That was how it started. I remember her first car (here in Mesia), the blue Charade. Pernah took a ride in it. GOD takut je teruntuh tengah jalan. Glad that after a while she got rid of the car and bought her "CikBadakDebab".

But what's most important is all my badak friends are awesome. May Allah bless all of you.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

How badak3 met bebadak yang lain...

I was introduced to badak Pres. by Badak VP when I came back for my fieldwork in 1996. Prior to the meeting I was already briefed of how badak Pres. would look like - a 'physically challenged" person who wore miniskirts or shorts and rode a kapcai. BTW, I knew Badak VP long before I knew the rest of the clan. I'll elaborate on that later.

We picked her up at the management school and went off to I-don't-remember where. Like badak 4 had mentioned earlier, badak Pres. was a very nice person. We hit it off instantly. A multi-skilled person who can cook, sew, bake, make 'bunga telur" and best of all, repair shoes! She's a lifeguard at the univesity's pool. She dives too. What else didn't she do? Oh I know.... housekeeping is certainly not her forte! I remember during the time when she was squatting in the school's office, we use to frequent her room and had lunch there. She would cook rice and baked fish there. She even baked hariraya cookies in a toaster oven that she had in the room. Imagine the aroma... I guess Badak Pres. is the most carefree person I've ever met.

Badak VP. I've known her since ITM (ITM, not UiTM!) days. Never liked her. She was already a "loud" person then. But we became good friends when we in the same university in the US. We were also leaving in the same apartment building and eventually in the same apartment. When I was first told by a contact that I should contact her before I left for Boston, my heart fell to the ground. God! That girl!? But she turned out to be a kind person. She cooked and prepared my bed for me. At the end of my first semester there, we became friends and now, very good friends.

Badak4 did not mention this but I first met her way back in 1994 when we attended the SLAB together. There she was in tattered jeans and slippers walking into the room. Then there was one afternoon when she walked into the room holding a thermal mug in her hand and everybody was looking at her. She reminded me so much of how american undergrads looked like. Then when we met again in 1998, she turned to be my neighbour.

Bedak4 moved in next door after Badak5 moved out from the apartment at the transit block. It started with just smile and hi, then elevated to exchange of food and later lepakking at each other's places.

The rest, they say is history....

Friday, September 5, 2008

My first encounter with Bebadak

Nampaknya ada orang buat percubaan nak tulis about baju tidoq. May be short besaq yang dijahit dengan penuh kasihsayang oleh Badak5?? heheheh..

Badak pertama yg wa temui of course Badak Presiden. Yang membantu menjadikan 6-month attachment wa di universiti back in 1993 a fun one.. Kami berenang bersama dan makang bersama (maklumlah badak, mestilah aktiviti berenang dan makang sesuatu yg penting heheh). Paling menarik about Badak president ialah her warmth, her readiness to help, her dont-give-a-damn-about-what-people-think attitude, her willingness to break the rules, and her sense of her humor.. All of these are characteristics (i hope) also describe me. hehehe.. With badakpresident, I felt I can do anything, panjat pokok, pakai lipstik sambil naik motor hehehe..

BadakVP I met through Badak president. We didn't hit it off immediately.. I thought she was a bit Ms show-off, the one that must develop rapport with the brand of the shoes before buying one (???). She thought I was Ms goody-goody and ala ala manja (????). But fortunately, we were given more chance to interact later on and managed to find out, we are not so different after all.
Badak VP turned out to be a good friend with a great, great sense of humor.. Whatever little differences between us, we already learnt to accept them and accept each other.

One of the most unforgettable experience with Badak Secretary was that we both pitam masa panjat Bukit Jambul.. hahahha.. Maklumlah perasan fit dan telah buat cubaan panjat bukit cepat cepat.. hehe.. Badak secretary is a friend of Badak VP but also happened to be my neighbour for a few months back in 1999. She too is a warm and generous person although can be a bit rigid at times ("aku hanya boleh makan Ikan baung dari sungai segamat sahaja"). hhehe..

Badak5 used to be in the same department with me. Our relationship was slowly built and by now, like everything that was slowly built, it is rock-solid. :-)) Badak5 also happened to be very generous and kind and always ready to help people in trouble, friends or no friends. Although we shared many many ideas and sentiments about the world, issues and people but occasionally we do get into these (what I would like to think as) 'academic' debates. Sometimes the debates can take place over the phone, in a meeting, but mostly, we have them in my office. I absolutely enjoyed these discussions!

I guess what I want to say about my badak friends is that we love every one of us just as they are. We don't expect anybody to change and be somebody else. We will help each other out as much as we can, we are here for each other, through good and bad times. We are here to laugh and to cry together. I love you all and I hope our friendships will continue for as long as we live!

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Mari lihat bilik keramat Badak president.............

  • Sebelum memulakan perjalanan ke bilik Badak President, kita perlu bertawakkal dan redha dengan apa sahaja yang kita nampak. Kata-kata dan ucapan tidak diperlukan. Lihat dan lihat sahaja. Hidup akan kurang kompleks dengan cara itu.

  • To begin with, Badak P tidak mempunyai bilik sendiri sebab ketika rumah itu dibaikpulih, Badak P hanya menyumbangkan sedikit sahaja dan oleh itu tidak layak mendapat bilik (he he he). Bagaimanapun, Badak P bernasib baik kerana adiknya sudahpun membeli condo dan tidak tinggal di situ lagi maka secara automatiknya, Badak P menjemput dirinya untuk menginap di bilik adiknya yang siap peralatan tidor termasuk alat penghawa dingin yang mana adalah keperluan utama Badak P.

  • Bilik itu ada satu katil Queen, dua almari baju (pembetulan tiga lemari, satu lemari empat pintu dan dua lemari tiga pintu, satu side (dressing, satu kotak harta karun fella design) table dan attached bathroom. So, sangat simple and just nice for one person. Ruangan juga agak selesa dan jika Happy Badaks mau sleep over, can just lepak up and down nicely. (err ko nak lepak kat mana? bawah katil or kotak harta karun fella design)

  • However, those are history. Today, what do we have?. Boxes, boxes, boxes and more of boxes. What else? Boxes, boxes, boxes and more of boxes. Anything else? More of boxes laaaaaaaaaa.....Where did that come from? Itu adalah LIFE Badak P. Her whole life is in those boxes. Boxes yang dibawa dari Penang sejak bertahun-tahun lalu dan masih kekal sebagai boxes. Along the way, she managed to collect more kerapah and dumped into new boxes. She simply adores boxes. All her kain baju and life histories are all in the boxes. Need I say more? err wa baru beli 1 box utk letak barang basuh kaki dan dua kotak tupperware....

  • Her room may be cluttered but she knows what is where. To begin with, that is her guiding life principle - SEMAK....:)

  • And what else is in her room? I don't know - for all I can see are boxes, boxes, and more of boxes.........

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

APA ADA DALAM BEDROOM BADAK5?

OK, since badak5 yg buat suggestion ni, dia kena jugaklah buka rahsia bedroom badak couple cung-nye.

Bedroom badak5 adalah agak sementara buat masa ini, so badak5 tak kuasa la nak jadikan ia comfortable sangat. Badak5 awaits patiently for badak couple cung's newly acquired bedroom to be completely renovated before making any permanent plans for comfort.

Also, because our current bedroom tu belongs to badak5.5 (ie badak5's other half) since he was prolly 5 yrs old and semua kerapah dia masih ada kat situ and badak5 cannot usik one...So, the condition of badak couple cung's bedroom at the moment is not unlike this one:


In terms of furniture, fixtures, fittings and content, of course, ada bed and almari baju. Katil dan almari baju ni agak2 antique la coz they were custom-made masa wedding mak and pak badak5.5 lebih 40 tahun yg lepas. 2 months ago, we made history by breaking the bed (well, we have to live up to our badak name, what...?) but after much hassle, now the bed is usable again and still retains its antiqueness. Good lesson also is that now we must be bersopan bila nak duduk atas katil. Cannot la hempuk2 our cute, badak punggung. Bad news is of course, certain happy-badak-couple activities cannot be attempted unless we want to risk calling the person yg repair tu for the second time and this time he may just be tempted not to be discreet and for all you know our actually non-existent romp will be pasted all over the local tabloids.

Sebenarnya the antique closet is large enough to only fill in badak5.5's meagre clothes collection, but being the bossy bini, badak5 has taken all his clothes out and replace them with her own. So, badak5.5's clothes are either in his mom's room or lying around all over the place in the room. And of course badak5's clothes cannot all fit into the tiny closet, so we have plastic boxes all over the place to fill in the clothes. Badak5 has long given up coding the boxes so if you see badak5 wearing the same clothes every other two days, itu bermakna dia tak kuasa lembang kotak2 tu and would just resort to taking laundered clothes right off the clothes lines.

Our room is also filled to the brim with all sorts of books, magazines and papers, mostly badak5.5's. badak5 prefers her books in the office. The bedroom has been a long-time office for badak5.5, which explains his perfect badak-ness. No exercise. There is a workstation with badak5.5's computer and paraphernalia about two feet from the bed. His journey from his 'office' to 'home' is just a bed-hop away. On days when he doesn't feel like making the 2-second walk to the 'office', the bed will serve as his makeshift workstation.

The other must-haves in our bedroom is TV (and related electronic items) and air-cond. This is so that we need not relive that horrible experience of being squeezed into the minute couple seat at the panggung. We can comfortably snuggle-up to watch movies and other programmes, badak5.5 leaning on the headboard and badak5 leaning comfortably on badak5.5 water-bed like tummy.

Itulah sahaja yg badak5 boleh kongsi berkaitan bilik tidur badak couple cung.


One last thing, badak5 tak kisah sangat la dengan lack of comfort with our current bedroom because the sole 'item' that makes badak5 keeps coming back to the bedroom is this:


Happy nesting, everyone!

my room? hmmmm...

Suma orang ceta pasal (bed)rooms masing-masing. Well mine, not much. Almaklum jele rumah sewa. So malas nak decorate beriya. Maybe by raya next year I would be in my own home yang I boleh decorate.

So for the moment, I only have the basics. No bed, just mattress. Nevertheless, a spring VONO mattress lagi. An IKEA chest-of-drawers that I brought it all the way from KL and assembled it myself (very proud of that) which I filled it up with tudungs, tudungs and more tudungs, lingerie and some clothes. One computer table yang tidak digunakan untuk computer but you can find table lamp, some kitabs and al-Quran sitting on a rehal on it (yang setakat ini hanya dibaca dalam bulan posa je), and off course phone chargers and that electric mosquito thing. There's also a hanger and a box where I put some bags in it. As usual on the chest-of-drawers, you'll find the basic cosmetics like compact, moisturiser, toner, lipaticks, hair brushes, box of brooches, a box of tissues, a packet of facial cotton, a few perfume bottles and body spray, and some things that need to be sorted out and thrown away.

There's also a small cabinet next to my mattress. I store most of my toiletteries in there. BTW I bought that cabinet at Argos in Brighton. Since muat masuk kotak, so why not bawak balik mesia...

Tak muat nak put in all the clothes in the drawers, so you'll see a small colorbox at the corner where I shelf my homewears. The good ones are in the next room, hanged in three lemari plastik. don't plan to by proper wardrobe sebab susah bila pindah nanti.

Don't have a balcony sebab rumah atas tanah. But do have some hanging stuff ----- cobwebs...hahahaha. Almaklumlah rumah tepi sawah..... Outside my bedroom window, you'll see my driveway. Next to it is the lawn. A friend once asked what I planted on my lawn and I told him "kucai".

Bedroom wa (Badak4 with 3 anak badaks)

Sebelum wa mulakan citter bedroom wa, wa sungguhlah bersimpati ngan jiran jiran Badak VP kerana terpaksa menyaksikan either Badak VP tengah kroh kroh or Badak VP tengah bogelo (or kedua-duanya sekali). Yang pastinya ketiga tiga event cannot be a very pretty sight, especially compared to langit biru.. hehehe..

Bedroom wa pun ada balcony which I love very very much.. Ada hangings plants of pelbagai variety and now comes complete with a bird nest and baby birds. Plus ada satu basikal exercise yang akan digunakan sekurang-kurangnya sekali seminggu.. Dalam bilik ada satu lemari yang dibeli dengan harga yang rendah dari Badak secretary yg generous.. (Thank u) Lemari ada dua parts, his and hers tapi guess which part yang lagi besar..??? mestilah hers.. hehehe..

Dalam bilik juga ada satu sofa hijau yang digunakan mostly untuk letak tilam anak anak Badak.. No katil in the room at all, hanyalah tilam tilam sahaja. Of course we also have one chest of drawer dan a TV kecil untuk hiburang semua.. Dan bilik selalu juga akan dipenuhi dengan toys toys lebihan, buku buku bacaan anak dan ibu sebelum tidur dan tiga orang kanak-kanak lelaki yang melompat lompat sana sini..

What's in OUR ROOM.....

Since I missed out the entries on what's in our bags and shoes and cars and Badak 3 had it all correct (bravo! bravo! bravo !), I would like to start off with what is in my bedroom as suggested by Badak 5.

Badak VP Magical Bedroom
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(it is magic because the minute I go into the room and baring2, I will immediately be transported to the la la krohhhhhhhhhhhhhh land....effortless..:)

What do I have there? Of course my super magical bed from Fella Design that I truly adore with a magical coconut fibre apatah mattress yang kononnya sangat good for the back but already lekok di tengah and I paid so much for it......chessssss....On the bed, I have my loyal kucing kering "Freezy" and a cow by the name of "Milky head" given by kekanak....I also have "penggaru" which is so berjasa to me.....my reading glasses (aheeeemm)... a story book...a Yassin...a box of tissue........

I also have a dresser with 5 drawers. Each drawer with a different theme and contains itemized items...he he he.....and I can't mix and match...each must stay where it belongs otherwise I cannot tidor malam thinking I placed it wrongly.....then I have to bangun at 2pm to alihkan the tshirt that should be in drawer 3 and not 4......he he he......Top of the dresser is loaded with lotion, lotion, lotion, lotion, more lotions........parfum, parfum,parfum and more parfums....body spray, body spray, body spray and more of body sprays, seketul moisturizer, 2 hairbrushes, manys exotic bracelets from Bali and Sabah and Sarawak, sebotol mineral water, a pix frame of me in Boston and a mirror.

Apart from that I also have 5 teddy bears boxes of clothing (usable and non-usable but malas to get rid off), my carry bag, a trolley shelf full of harta benda from Christchurch that I never get to sort out, another teddy bear box full of printed pictures from places that I have been to, a few plastic bags full of kerapah and more bags and boxes under the bed......

Oh I also have a bedside table with a disfunct minicompo but never get to get rid off it and a big pix of meself with Raja Perlis during my PhD walk of ego......also a few Bali's CDS and of coz Abang Jamal and one of Sudirman.......

On the wall, I have a big picture poster from Bali, 3 picture frames - families, me and more of me....As you may have noticed, I truly adore meself and thus the many pictures of me in me bedroom....neber mind the other parts of me home.....he he he .........

I love my bedroom because I have a nice balcony and get to see the langit when I baring on my bed. That is very important to me i.e to see the langit when I go to bed.........People from the other apartments also get to see me kroh - bogelo or otherwise..........ha ha ha........

what's in badak5's handbags, pockets and cars

Oleh kerana tukang entry yg lepas mungkin sudah lama tak tengok handbag, poket dan kereta badak5, dia kurang arif sket tentang kandungan semasa ketiga2 ruang tersebut. so, here goes:

HANDBAG:
Depending on the days,
Weekday handbag (is now a battered bag from c&a in bruge, but passable for meetings and such, plus reasonably large to contain all my must-take-with-me-on-weekdays items):
inside got green purse, tapestry coin purse, defunct model of nokia phone, university tag (coz donno wear to put and i certainly AM NOT going to wear it over my neck!), calculator (to double check tesco receipts and other kira2), pens curtesy of all sorts of research grants (tenkiu rakyat malaysia!), travel-related receipts awaiting claims, floor depot voucher awaiting redemption, two tiny notebooks especially for noting down recipes and to-do items (palm top got also but rarely in handbag now coz too berat and sakit bahu, so need the notebooks as temporary 'palm') and...a small tape measure, in case jumpa baju besaq for my other half and need to confirm fit or not (i got tired of using my finger to measure berapa jengkal and make deduction, that was what i had to do in bruges and utah)

Weekend hadbag (most of the time green, fabric bag pemberian badak4): inside normally i transfered my green purse, coin purse and phone only plus a couple of tissues to wipe DG's chin and shirt after eating at pak wan's or mamak's.

POKET:
normally baju no poket, but when i wear pants, there would sometimes be keys and loose change or DG's phone

CAR:
shoes, shoes and more shoes. kerapah from meetings yg tak sempat bawak masuk opis, kotak kasut, parking receipts, shades, odd-sized homemade cushions, badak vp's umbrella, own umbrella, jadual waktu buka posa from kasim mustafa (badak vp pun ada ni). And of course i already mentioned items in my boot in the comment box.

Want to continue with what's in OUR ROOM?....

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

What's in your cars?

Badak Pres.: Files, books, bags of clothes (sendiri punye or adik beradik's), shoes, ornaments, and whatever car gadgets that she fancies...



Badak VP: Shoes, shoes and more shoes, bags of clothes for emergencies, bag telekong, trolley, umbrella, a box of tissues, books, cinnamon sticks, bottles of mineral water...



Badak 3: Shoes and slippers, 1 bottle of mineral water (has been there for ages), umbrella, a box of tissues, a cushion, parking receipts, sun glasses, bag telekung, trolley...



Badak 4: Have not been in her car for quite sometime. Don't really know what she has but pretty sure there are some children's things lying around...



Badak 5: Slippers and shoes (both badak 5's and hubby's), cinnamon sticks, car screen shades, umbrella...


What's in your pockets?

Badak Pres.: Keys and tissues, probably, coins and notes...

Badak VP: Tissues (definitely!), coins and notes, handphones...

Badak 3: Tissues, keys and handphones...

Badak 4: Underwears????

Badak 5: Keys and coins and notes.....

what's in the handbags??

Badak President: Purse, handphone, camera, hairbrush, hairclips, a bottle of perfume (botol besar), pens, whiteboard markers, stapler, thumb drive, keys...

Badak VP: Purse, handphone, keys, lipstick, a bottle of perfume, packets of tissues (lot's of them), pens in different colors tied together with a piece of rubber-band, some aspirins, minyak cap kapak...

Badak 3: Purse, handphones (2 sebab satu nombor tak cancel lagi! Bukan kaya), lipgloss, ubat BP, minyak cap kapak, a travel-size bottle of perfume, a blue-ink pen and white-board markers, thumb drive, a packet of tissues, address book, receipts from all over dated back to early of the year, sanitary pads (for emergencies), keys...

Badak 4: Purse, handphone, pens, keys...

Badak 5: Purse, handphone, pens, keys...

Badak bukan sebarANG badak

Badak bukan sebarang badak
Badak cun dari utara
Semuanya pandai, bijak belaka
Kalau tak percaya, cubalah periksa

Badak bukan sebarang badak
Badak berhemah lagi beriman
Kalau memandu, sentiasa bersopan
Kecualilah bila ada Arab di depan
Masa tu aje barulah naik tangan

Tapi badak-badak ni memang bukan sebarang badak
Hidup selalunya ceria terutama bila ada makang dan kawang
Yang penting kami hidup amang
Memang tak peduli pada manusia berpura-puraang

Kemewahang pung bukanlah jadi ukurang
Oklah sekadar cukup pakai dan makang
Dan dapat beli handbad baru setiap 3 bulang
Dan sekali sekala dapat belanja kawang makang

Apa apa pung kami Gang badak bersatu
Akang cuba bantu kekawang apabila perlu
Dan menghiburkan kekawang setakat mampu
Dan hidup dalam lindungan Tuhan yang satu
(phew, nasib baik Tuhan tak de "g:)
Sekiang hiburang di hari rabu