Blocked and Annabelle and Triffle

I am running out of stock to auto-publish already. Nak create new post tu macam terkena sindrom writer's block pulak. Ehehe acah-acah writer pulak dah. Yang sebenarnya tak berapa fasih lagi nak transfer/ upload gambar.

Last week ada pergi tengok Annabelle tapi macam tak dapat nak review sebab aku duk main phone je dalam tu. Tak berani nak tengok sangat. Lagipun dapat tiket free, so tak rasa rugi sangat.

Lagi, recently ada cubaan buat trifle the pudding. Yang sedihnya, aku punya custard tu boleh pulak terhangit. Rasa macam dah jadi signature taste dah ni. Kalau masak tak hangit, tak sah 🙄🙄🙄🙄. Tapi mujurlah anak saudara yang sorang tu suka pulak. Maksud aku, dia specifically suka layer custard tu. Mungkin dia tak perasan rasa hangit tu.

Haha. Rojak sungguh post ni. Semua benda nak cerita tapi semua pun tak sampai, kan?

Okaylah, till later.

Rajuk yang Tak Sudi

Kalau kita terlalu merajuk dan membawa diri, orang mungkin nampak kita sebagai "tak sudi".

Memanglah, kita tak boleh nak puaskan hati semua orang. Tapi aku rasa, tak salah kalau CUBA. Bukan cuba puaskan hati semua orang. Tapi cuba untuk gembirakan hati orang-orang yang sayang kita.

You know what, sometimes, a simple emoji will do. Tak susah pun.

Jadi, sementara kita terlalu sibuk membawa diri, sudi-sudikanlah memandang orang yang sayang. Yang sentiasa doakan kita di setiap langkah kita, yang doanya adalah rahsia antara dia dan Tuhan. 

Aku bimbang,

kiranya rajuk di hati

bisikan syaitan semata

bukankah kita yang rugi?

Nauzubillah.

All We Need Is A Different Perspective

That day I cracked my head thinking on how to re-organize kitchen stuffs on the very limited space of my table top to add in the water filter. The never ending problem is always - the space.

The thing that consumes most of the space is the bulky dish-dryer. At first I was thinking about moving it to the so-called working table which is on the other side of the kitchen but then, it wouldn't be practical not to place it next to the dish-washing sink, right?

Finally I decided to just change the angle of the dryer to make room for the water filter. And after that, not only the space problem has been  solved, but also the dishes loading problem I had since forever. I am now able to arrange the dishes without having to step on a stool anymore. Plus the pulling of blind string became easier because all these while the dish-dryer was in the way.

I actually solved three problems just by changing the angle of the dish-dryer.

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In a way, I am relating this in life's everyday challenge - sometimes we don't have to remove things. Or even move things away. Some changes don't have to be big or drastic to make an impact. 

A little change of perspective might do the trick.

The problem with us is - sometimes we get too comfortable with our everyday routine, and even tolerated discomfort because we get so used to it. We don't want to consider about any adjustment, because change seems scary.  We thought we have to change the whole thing, the big things and start over when what we actually need is just a little twist of perspective.

The Emoji Movie

Lepas tengok cerita ni, aku rasa kesian dekat emoji-emoji yang kita tak pernah guna tu, maka aku pun cari emoji-emoji tersebut dan cuba untuk guna mereka-mereka tu. Haha, itulah moral value yang aku dapat dari movie ni.

Movie ni memang comel, walaupun orang seat depan siap berdengkur padahal movie baru main seetengah jam. Mostly pasal perjalanan emoji yang malfunction nak keluar dari app dia (something like Whatsapp) untuk pergi ke Cloud supaya dapat re-program diri dia jadi normal. 

Okaylah, my verdict: amusing. Some parts are too cute to handle. And cerita pasal benda yang berlaku dalam smartphone, so memang terasa dekat di hati *eh, ke dekat di tangan? 

Quote of the movie:

"What's the point of being number 1 if there are no any other number?"

Karaoke ke?

I think I must have a say on this. Haha nak jugak kepochi hal-hal retis ni kan. Eh, masuk prime time evening news apa, so kira masalah negara dah tu (roll eyes emoticon).

Issue tu dah macam melalut-lalut je rasanya. And biasalah bila dah kantoi, macam- macam ceritalah nak defend dan counter-attack. Cuba kalau tak kantoi?? It'd be a whole different story already.

I don't know the whole story and not intended to know pun. Cuma baru ni tengok video yang the wife recorded to back up the husband bila ada orang komen macam-macam dan kecam husband dia. Entahlah. I think she must be tired. Sedih tu tak payah ceritalah kan.

And I wonder,  bila benda-benda macam ni jadi, can man (read: the husband) ever imagine what misery they've caused to their partner? The pain and humiliation that the wife has to face? Suami buat hal - tu dah satu hal. Nak maafkan tu, satu hal lagi. Lepas tu, tambah lagi - sampai ke sudah the wife kena pertahankan pulak the husband. The husband yang in the first place pergi cari pasal.

Yelah, dia dah mintak maaf. But does it end there? Tak pun, kan? Okay, okay, makcik emo haha. 

I have some advice to the girls. Please please please put your guard up when you're around suami orang. (Or even boyfriend atau tunang orang pun). In case diorang ajak u pergi lepak-lepak minum-minum makan-makan BERDUA dengan alasan "bukannya ada apa- apa pun. Lepak / minum / makan je pun", you always have the choice to say NO.

It always started with "bukan ada apa-apa pun". And yang I paling tak paham,  kalau betul tak ada apa-apa, apa perlunya buat aktiviti tu semua - berdua? 

Dahlah. Bebel banyak-banyak pun, I guess, kalau orang memang jenis tak kisah nak rampas bf/tunang/suami orang, dia peduli apa kan? 

Owh, nak kena clarify jugak. I tulis ni based on cerita artis pergi karaoke tu. Kang ada yang pi tanya husband I pulak kenapa I tulis benda-benda ni adoiii. Nauzubillah.

Pusingan U

What's wrong with making u-turns if it means making up for your past mistakes?

What's so wrong with making u-turns if it gets you to the right destination?

What's wrong with u-turns?


On an unrelated note, I selalu je buat u-turn kat tempat yang tak boleh u-turn ehehe. Asalkan tak susahkan orang on the other side, apa salahnya.

The Lost soul

I am here
 (but I am not exactly here)


I was there
  (but I was not exactly there, either)


This is just me
filling up the void in a space
and a blank space is never a home


I am just flesh and bones
bound to titles and roles

but underneath
I am nothing
but a lost soul



Disclaimer: All poems may be or may not be from my own experience. Some are merely from observations. Just chill, don't speculate 😝😝

The Dark Tower

Since movie ni baru lagi tayang, maka aku tulih sikit-sikit jelah kang spoiler pulak ehehe.

Kalau ikutkan genre fantasy macam ni memang not my cup of tea, but because of these two reasons, pergilah jugak tonton.

1. Matthew McConaughey

2. Dapat redeem tiket free

Based on Stephen King's novel - The Gunslinger. 

Walaupun Matthew McConaughey jadi orang jahat, tapi okaylah. Story line macam slow sikit tapi makin lama makin geram dengan Matthew tu.. Jahat bebenor dia tu (tak ingat pulak nama watak dia dalam tu), so jadi tak sabar nak tunggu scene dia kalah sebab macam impossible je nak kalahkan dia.

Tapi part The Gunslinger (yang datang dari dunia lain) masuk ke dunia Bumi ni, rasa macam banyak je dah tengok scenes macam tu kat movie lain. 

Kalau ada sequel ni rasanya tak pi tengok dah kot. Eh, ye ke?

Bukan Dungu

Bukan Dungu

"Aku bukan dungu yang sakit

yang jatuh tetap tak mahu bangkit

Aku bukan dungu yang gila

yang luka tetap tunggu dipersenda

Aku bukan dungu yang tak malu

ditinggal tapi masih tertunggu

Aku bukan dungu

Aku hanya

tetap mahu kamu"

For the broken souls.

The hardest part is always to let go,

But let go, anyway.

Disclaimer: All poems may be or may not be from my own experience. Some are merely from observations. Just chill, don't speculate 😝😝

Middle Age

I have always wondered what it's like to be in the middle-aged group. So this is it, wonder no more. arghhh. Not in the youth age anymore (although, to be honest, I haven't really felt like one, denial maybe, or still young at heart maybe 🙄)

Ada cerita perihal umur ni. Awkward situation, I must say. But on a second thought, malas pulak nak menulis pasal tu, takut terkena tulah haha.

So, I'm one year older today. Alhamdulillah. Masih diberi peluang bernafas, bergerak dan berusaha. Here's to another year wiser, InsyaAllah.

Dunkirk

*spoiler alert*


I'd give 10 stars for this movie. For this kind of genre, I don't need to know or like any of the actors, I'd still definitely watch it. Owh, ada sorang budak One Direction in it but I don't remember his name.

It's based on a true event in World War II which was called "Dunkirk Evacuation" (I googled this in the cinema when the screen suddenly went white for almost half an hour. Not sure what was the technical issue, but we waited anyhow. Sabar tak sabarlah, haha)

Basically, the story line was divided into three parts - the jetty, the air and the sea which towards the end of the movie, they intersected each other. Brilliant story line, I must say. Although for one of the part, it ended sadly...why???

The climax part was when all the little ships reached the beach to save the armies. The kind of scenes that send shivers to your spine. And knowing that it really did happen in the past, I was totally in awe. Big salute to the British who mostly came all the way, unequipped with any  military weapon,  full aware that they were risking their life and yet still answer the call to help those trapped armies. Most of them came and helped bringing the soldiers back home with just regular fishing and merchant boats and pleasure yachts, etc etc. Respect betul.

I love the brief conversation of an old volunteer who's handing out blankets to the armies:

Volunteer: Good job, son.
Soldier: All we did was survive.
Volunteer: That's enough.

Deep!

And that's one thing about war movie - they never fail to convey the message of humanity so beautifully in it. Although in reality, if there is enough humanity in all of us, I bet there wouldn't be any war around us anymore. Because there's nothing human about war in the first place.

Just saying.

Pain-Killer

The problem is that we rely too much on the pain-killers. Rather than to treat the root cause of the pain.
Literally or not.


Pain-Killer

Addicted,
I am addicted
     because I don't want to feel the pain

Denial,
I'm in denial
     so I don't have to deal with the pain

I need you
As anesthetic, although temporary
As camouflage, although it's not real

I need you
   because I'm addicted
   because I'm in denial


And I need you
so bad.



Disclaimer: All poems may be or may not be from my own experience. Some are merely from observations. Just chill, don't speculate 😝😝

Nampak Baik vs Jadi Baik

Something to ponder:

1.Kalau nak NAMPAK baik, kita akan suka bagi nasihat.

2. Kalau nak JADI baik, kita akan suka dengar nasihat.

Bukanlah tak bagus bagi nasihat pada orang lain, tapi pada masa yang sama kalau kita tak suka orang tegur salah kita / nasihatkan kita, maksudnya kita tergolong golongan yang pertama tadi.

-Prof Muhaya-

Kahlil Gibran's Treasured Writings

I am not much of a reader. But from time to time, I force myself to read so that my mind won't be so idle.

It took me 4 months to finish reading this book.  It was not an easy read for me.  With its heavy content and the limited vocab of mine - payah bebenor nak fokus.

And then it took me another months to write this so-called review ehehe, reviewlah sangat.

It's a compilation of Kahlil Gibran' many writings and there are also his letters to his friends. Memang hebatlah, tulis surat pun guna bahasa tinggi.

But there's something about it - when I found out that most of his original writings was actually in Arabic, I felt slightly upset because all these while I was reading his material in English.  Because to me, the translations normally will not do the original masterpiece justice, tu macam frust sikit terasa.

Take the Vitagen's tagline for an instance:

"Be good to your gut" but when it's translated to BM, it becomes "Sayangi sistem penghadaman anda"

Haha. Bagi contoh Vitagen pulak. Okaylah, ambik contoh yang acah deep sikit.

"A friend in need is a friend indeed" = "Kawan yang baik adalah kawan yang ada sewaktu kita memerlukan"

See? The translation wording is not as precise and on spot as the original one even though it carries out the same meaning. But anyhow, yes, even translated to English, his masterpiece is still beautifully conveyed. Imagine reading in its original version.. 

But all in all, aside from the artistic content, it's informative as well. There are some historical and geographical info in the book. Like how the opening of Suez Canal had affected the Middle East's economic in the 19th century that forced most of the people to migrate to other countries, including US for a better living. (or was this actually covered in Form 5's History subject? sorry, Sejeq's totally not my favorite subject back then)

*please excuse the blurriness of this pic since it was taken using phone yang kena tumpahan minyak*

Parah

Parah

Kalau parah

terus menadah

kuatkah?

Kalau parah

terus bertabah

bijakkah?

Kalau parah

sembuhkanlah

bukan pasrah.

Disclaimer: All poems may be or may not be from my own experience. Some are merely from observations. Just chill, don't speculate 😝😝