Jika diberikan peluang, saya mahu strangle seekor ayam di kawasan perumahan ini. Ayam ini, walaupun hanya seekor, mampu mengejutkan seluruh kawasan jajahan DAP ini dengan kokokan-nya (?) yang nyaring - jam 5:30 pagi, setiap hari. Sometimes i feel like ayam tu sebenarnya tidur di balkoni aku. Or under my bed. It’s not fair okay! I need my sleep! You know how tiring it is to be solving riddles and battling demons in my dreams? Pffth. If i dont get the ayam to shut up then there will be blood soon!

I won tickets to see Backstreet Boys tonight. Tiket tu adalah sumbangan dari the investment team here. Alangkah malunya bila satu Company mendapat email pengumumam bahawa aku telah memenangi tiket tersebut (yelah selalunya email untuk all staff adalah berkenaan market indeks atau berita2 hangat dunia kewangan). I cant walk anywhere without anyone singing a BSB tune today. Haha very funneh guyz.

It’s so hard to get up in the morning today. My snooze normally goes off twice before I get up, shower, make coffee, catch the news on CNN and then perhaps watch a bit of CSI. On Channel RTM2 normally ada rancangan ‘Jom Minum’ (I still think the name of the show promotes alcoholism LOL) yang selalu membuat saya rasa lapar dan ingin pulang ke Kota Bharu for a bite of roti bakar di White House.

Speaking of which, don’t believe all the crappy stuff they’re saying about Kelantan. I know it’s the election fever and all but please, seeing is believing. Poverty is poison. But who am I to say this, all I can do is switch the channel and pretend that Obama will rule Malaysia instead. Yeah. Hillary pun takpe, I tak kisah.

Last Saturday di Annexe, Amir Muhammad launched his New Malaysian Essays 1 and Sufian Abas dengan Kasut Biru Rubina-nya. Suf, terima kasih di atas kata-kata perangsang tersebut and-of-course-i’m-being-sarcastic-here. But since i am a wonderful friend, here’s the book promo: Get yourselves a copy of these books. Sangat best! Tolonglah beli! Feed the starving artists! Hack the planet! :D

Saya juga berasa amat gembira kerana dapat bertemu teman-teman lama pada malam itu. Walaupun gaya hidup baru (bebas tanpa unsur hedonisme) sedikit sebanyak menjarakkan kita, namun jelas persahabatan kita semua masih utuh! Apa-apa hal, Sabtu ini kita jumpa di The Loft ok! Hehe.

Di Annexe, aku telah memulangkan sesuatu pada Saharil:



This is why you all should lend me money! I always pay back (er, well, most of the time), I always return things that I borrow! In this case, after 7 years, Jukstaposisi dipulangkan ke pemiliknya.

Gotta run. Starbux is giving out free coffee here!

Kasut Biru Rubina! 16 FEBRUARY 2008!

Kasut Biru Rubina! 16 FEBRUARY 2008!
Originally uploaded by sufian_abas

I'm such a bad friend! Anyway, my greatest critic (no, actually he's just that mean and sarkastik to me - dia umpama personifikasi budak2 Mean Girls tu, minus the boobs), hey apa aku rambling ni, so yeah anyway Sufian Abas is out with a new book! Aku tak marah walaupun my face didn't make the cut for the cover (ini bukan cerita dongeng) but yeah, he's awesome! Filosofia terulung! Dia rawkz!

(Annexe tomorrow, 8:00 pm. Jemput datang ye)

Demam. Well, slight fever. So tak boleh lah nak mengada sangat.
Bukannya tak boleh bangun, bukannya tak boleh berfikir.
But after 4 days break baru nak demam? Itu yang agak upset tu.

Bertambah upset apabila pergi ke doktor panel,
Doktor panel mengesahkan bahawa ya, you have slight fever
Tapi you tahu ubat apa dia kasi kat I?
Panadol & Clarinase
Like hello, kalau setakat bagi ubat2 macam ini,
I pun boleh jadi doktor okay!

In fact, i take Panadol and Clarinase all the time
Sampai sudah tiada effect dah. Like coffee.
Which is why i go see a doctor!
Grrr, geram sungguh.

Anyway, ketika cuti CNY i took my nephew and niece main layang-layang di Taman Metropolitan Kepong.
Angin sangat baik sekali, walaupun in the 1st place i was more interested in going home, layan America Votes 08.
Tapi bila layang-layang (Pocahontas kite, mind you) sudah tinggi, wow, syioknya!

Here’s a tip, di taman tersebut, untuk mengelakkan dari layang-layang tersangkut dengan ratusan layang2 di ruang lapang itu, go fly your kite by the lake. The wind is better there, and tiada gangguan! Manyak syiok!

Speaking of my nephew, he is 15. Muka sudah berjerawat, suara sudah pecah, maklumlah dah adolescent.
Gemar memakai baseball cap dan berbaju warna hitam.
Kemahiran utama adalah menari ‘shuffle’ walaupun dia selalu kena maki ngan aku:
“Why can’t you dance like Usher or Solja Boy instead!!!”

Anyway ketika kami di Jusco last Saturday, ada minah gedik ni (around his age) usha anak buah aku.
Amboi adik manis, tengok saya punya anak buah macam nak makan ye! *roll eyes*
Aku tengok anak buah aku sama control macho, sambil memberikan jelingan tajam dan senyuman ala Peter Petrelli pada awek tersebut.

Pergh, boleh tahan playa jugak anak buah aku ni. Ikh, budak2 zaman sekarang.
Makcik is very proud of you Danial! Hehe.

Suddenly I feel very old.
But harap2 Danial akan terus membesar menjadi seorang lelaki yang menghormati wanita.
I dont know, we’ll see about that.
Jangan dia mengurat awek rempit macam kat Jusco hari tu sudah.