Thursday, April 29, 2010

Di Brussels..aku mangsa penyeluk saku!

Sewaktu berjalan pulang dari dinner malam ini, ada dua orang anak muda arab menghampiri. Siap bagi salam lagi...
Aku happy lah jugak sebab bertemu orang Islam di brussels ni. Seorang dari mereka bertanya jika aku ada rokok. Apabila aku jawap tak der rokok, dia tepuk2 poket jacket aku....dan aku mengelak. Mereka berdua ketawa dan beredar.
Sejurus itu juga aku menyedari wallet aku sudah tiada di dalam poket seluar.

Di dalam wallet ada credit cards, work permit card untuk Saudi, dokumen permit keluar masuk ke Saudi, kad pengenalan Malaysia, lima ribu Saudi Riyals serta beberapa ratus duit Euro! Fikiran aku terus tertumpu kepada work permit card dan dokumen permit keluar masuk ke Saudi. Aku mengekori mereka yang telah memasuki lorong dan menjerit meminta balek wallet!
Mereka membaling wallet ke tepi jalan, sambil ketawa dan terus melarikan diri.

Semua wang aku hilang, kecuali lima Saudi riyals yang di tinggalkan. Semua credit cards, dan dokumen lain selamat. Alhamdullillah!

Memang lah rasa marah sebab kehilangan duit! Tetapi yang betul2 membuat aku marah ia lah perbuatan itu di lakukan oleh manusia di lahirkan sebagai Islam! The feeling of being 'invaded' membuat aku rasa tertekan! Cubalah bayangkan bagaimana perasaan mereka yang di cabul kehormatan! Allah saja yang tahu! Geram, sedih, marah, tak puas hati, semua ada bercampur aduk. Yang aku pasti, perasaan aku memang tertekan, rasa susah nak bernafas buat seketika!

Sebenarnya, sewaktu aku di himpit itu, dah terlintas untuk membuka silat...tetapi boss aku yang juga berbangsa Arab menasihatkan aku supaya beredar dan jangan melayan pemuda2 Arab tadi. Sekali fikir menyesal juga aku tidak 'boxingkan' saja muka mereka tadi. Tetapi setelah perasaan tenang, terfikir juga mereka mungkin bersenjata! Jika tanpa senjata pun mereka lebih muda dan sasa! Nasib baiklah 'baran' Melayu aku tadi dapat di kawal...jika tidak, ada kemungkinan kejadian yang tidak di ingini dan lebih malang mungkin telah berlaku.

Sekarang aku di Brussels dengan lima riyals di dalam wallet! Perasaan aku kembali damai setelah aku lakukan solat, berdoa dan redha dengan apa yang telah berlaku. Tentunya ada hikmah dari Allah! Itu aku yakin...

Apa2 pun, untuk pembaca2 entry ini....berhati2lah jika ke Brussels. Bukan nya yang nyata Kafir yang harus di khuatiri....tetapi manusia di lahirkan Islam yang berperangaikan Syaitan~! Dan begitu ramai sekali manusia Arab di Brussels ini, terutamanya pendatang dari negara2 Morocco dan Tunis.

"Ya Allah...berilah mereka perasaan sedih dan menyesal dengan apa yang mereka telah lakukan kepada ku semoga mereka bertaubat kepada Mu, seperti mana aku merasa sedih dan kesal dengan segala dosa2 yang telah aku lakukan! Aku bersyukur Ya Allah, kerana Kamu memelihara ku dari bencana yang lebih sukar untuk aku hadapi di waktu aku bermusafir di bumi Kamu ini!"

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Wonderful tonight...!



I have not laughed like I did tonight for a long time. It was fun, it was clean light hearted fun of having decent conversation about every day things ~!

The presence of Lil and two of the younger boys Haziq and Luqman joining Amirul and I in Jeddah provided us with an opportunity to do one of the things we enjoy doing - entertaining friends at our home for dinner.

This evening, we played host to Ahmad Kamel, Idris, Tengku Arif, Nasir and family, and His Excellency the Consul General of Malaysia in Jeddah and his wife.

The theme was obviously the Prawn of Arabia! I went to my prawn farm this morning and came back with 5kg of freshly caught ones. Lil cooked seafood tomyam with extra portion of prawn, sambal udang, goreng udang, and the boys did BBQ prawns.

For variety sake, Lil prepared daging dendeng~!

The evening was wonderful, the house was filled with laughter throughout. Perhaps the prawns had magical effect, or maybe the kuih Koci sweetened our sense of humor, whatever it was, our funny bones were appropriately tickled. It went to prove that adults could have fun simply by having decent conversation about everyday things ~! There were no government bashing, no scandal gossiping, no fantasy churning or the likes! The topics may not be memorable, but I know that I will remember the wonderful time and the good feeling!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Message to all the women who're in love with STAR old boys!

"If you are looking for a ride through calm waters, don't marry a STAR old boy!"

"STAR is unique! Unlike some other institutions, STAR has been breeding wholesome men; men who knows how to enjoy life and unless you are on the same wave length (reads as equally lepak or cracko!), he is capable of spoiling yours (life) !"

"And if for some unknown reasons, you ended up marrying a STARIAN, then I can safely say, the things which are constantly annoying to you now are the exact same things which enchanted you to him in your carefree days! Contradicting the law of nature where most things change with time, STARIANs do not! It is your mistake Mrs Wives if you expect us to mature along with you and change! We joke when the situation call for us to be serious. We prefer a night out with our ex school buddies regurgitating the same old stories such as the one about our own Mat Hero kicking the winning points thrashing the Kolej Melayu in rugby final. When a family gathering gets a bit too serious for comfort, and in the presence of your parents, you can count on us to break the ice and bring some light moments. We wouldn't think twice about breaking wind out loud, and in all sincerity we would hope others would laugh! Trust us, it is never our intention to be impolite but we are so often misunderstood as rude, unpolished, and lacking social grace!"

"As wives to STAR old boys, it is encumbered upon you to defend us. For some reasons not yet understood, STARIANS believe the world have got most things about us all wrong and we are grossly a misunderstood lot!"

"Bear with us when occasionally we ask to borrow money from you! You see, in our younger days we used to share everything, that includes our pocket money. We were habitually 'broke' by spending on Sunday Matinees, Laksa sold from the back of Pak Pin's (after whom I was given my nickname of Pakpin) Raleigh, and Kacang from Muthu's Honda cup! On hindsight, I started to think there could have been some kind of conspiracy between the head boy and those peddlers! How else could one explain how those peddlers were allowed to come in and enticed us into spending the money we didn't have. We did enjoy the Nasi Lemak Kak Melah, but while most of us paid for them, a few managed to extend their hands through the crowd and walked away with another self justification why they deserved free lunches!"

"Dear Wives, Please do yourself a big favor by not expecting too much from us; materially speaking! We were the sons of farmers and fishermen and are happy to live moderately. BMWs or Bungalow on a hill are not really our scenes, we are way too modest for those worldly symbols. With us, it is the thought that count! We stress intention rather than execution. It is our intention to romance you when we invite you for a romantics dinner at Leha food in Taman Melati. We believe only pretentious insecure husbands burdened with guilt who bring their wives for candle light dinners at posh places!
Emotionally though, we can compete with anyone in loving you, through thick and thin.
Just when you thought that we have ran off with the neighbors' maids, we come back to you, tails between our legs maybe but we come back. We are really bad in breaking up our own marriages, although we are quite capable of causing havoc to someone else's marriage!
In that sense we are very loyal to our wives!!"

"You would be happier if you stop believing some of the bravado talks from STARIANS. There are amongst us who like to brag about our libido, affairs and the like; take my word for it, most of us lie! The truth is, STARIANS generally are not even capable of asking a woman for road directions without feeling awkwardly shy, what more to woo and date them. Only a handful are gifted in this arena; and the few whom I know are past their prime, age wise! Worry not, dear wives~! "

"Girls of today, if you are in your courting phase, and your boyfriends happen to be one of the STAR old boys, what I have written above does not necessarily apply! I am really talking about the STAR old boys when STAR was what it was! A school for winners from kampung across the country. A school who took pride in winning, and whose students were proud to be known as "Budak STAR!"

This posting coincides with the 1st of April...my license to 'fool' around a bit as pointed out by one of the readers~! Hehehe.