Saturday, January 25, 2014

Aku nombor 3?


Aku nombor 3?

Minggu lepas aku dan anak jantan aku seorang itu sengaja balik dari Ipoh ke Taping melalui jalan lama (Sg. Siput, Kuala Kangsar & Pdg Rengas). Tiba-tiba aku menerima satu panggilan telefon.

“Siapa ni”, tanya aku.

‘Ala Hassan! Satu sekolah rendah Long Jaafar dulu. Tak kan tak ingat?  Sharifuddin nombor satu, aku nombor dua dan kau nombor tiga!”.

Oh! Aku memang ingat Hassan ini. Sama sekolah rendah aku semasa tahun 1978 dan 1979 (Darjah 5 dan Darjah 6). Kami sama-sama tinggal di Kampung Pinang, Kamunting. Aku pernah berjumpa dengannya di sebuah gerai kecil belakang The Ship di Damansara Utama sekitar pertengahan 80an semasa aku “bergelandangan” ketika itu.

Tapi aku tak ingatpun aku nombor tiga. Apa yang pasti nombor satu bukan milik aku!


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Saturday, January 11, 2014

TAIPING PICKERS di CAR BOOT SALE di Coronation Park Kaki Bukit Larut



Sabtu 11 Jan 2014 8am - 1pm CAR BOOT SALE di Coronation Park Kaki Bukit Larut bersama TAIPING PICKERS.















Monday, January 06, 2014

Penyair, Suhaimi Muhammad meninggal dunia di Manjoi


Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ), al-Fātiḥah (الفاتحة)



Kenangan bersama arwah. Link

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Kalendar Kuda Pilihan Wajib Bapa





Kalendar Kuda Pilihan Wajib Bapa

Antara barangan wajib mesti ada dalam rumah kami semasa kecil dahulu di segenap pelusuk ruang dan bilik ialah “jam dinding” dan “kalendar kuda”! Ini barangan wajib bapa! Ruang tamu ada, dapur ada, bilik tidur ada, nasib baik ada satu bilik tidur sahaja. Kadang-kadang dalam satu ruang ada lebih dari satu! Boleh rujuk dalam posting-posting lama dalam blog OKOB in bawah tajuk “Ayah Yang Ku Benci”.

Kini bapa sudah bedridden dan sudah tidak “mewajibkan” barangan ini mesti ada dalam rumahnya.

Kalendar kuda juga sudah berubah! Ada member kata kuda sudah “masuk Melayu”! Masuk Islam?

Nama sahaja kalendar kuda tapi sudah tiada lagi jadual kuda berlumba setiap minggu. Malah banyak yang digantikan dengan jadual waktu Solat. Alhamdulillah, sudah insaf rupanya kuda (atau pemilik kuda?) ini.

Aku baru dapat 4 kalendar kuda. Satu dari sahabat sekelas sekolah menengah yang kini tauke kedai kereta dan fanatik VW, Satu dari sahabat sekolah tapi beza tahun yang kini tauke barangan Tok Guru. Paling aku suka mini kalendar kuda dari tauke laksa depan Cendol Bismillah Taiping.

Terbaru aku dapat super mini kalendar tauke tepung yang masih lagi ada jadual kuda berlumba. Ini bukan kawan satu sekolah Cuma tauke kedai runcit dekat rumah bujang di Changlun yang bagi.

Dolu-dolu aku selalu dapat kalendar hyper mini (credit card size) dari Kilang Intel. Boleh bubuh dalam dompet! Apa yang aku suka kalendar Intel ini ialah dia ada 18 bulan. Tahun 2014 ada 12 bulan campur 3 bulan terakhir tahun 2013 dan campur lagi 3 bulan pertama tahun 2015.

Tak pasti pula adakah aku akan dapat lagi kalenda Intel tahun ini.


Nota kaki – satu lagi kalendar yang bapa dolu-dolu selalu pesan aku cari ialah kalendar yang koyak hari-hari!



Friday, January 03, 2014

TERBAIK, mesti tonton ICE KACANG PUPPY LOVE


TERBAIK, mesti tonton ICE KACANG PUPPY LOVE

Semalam “tertonton” penuh cerita ini di TV2, RTM.

Ada ais kacang, ada main guli, ada lawan ikan laga, ada penjual roti bermotosikal dan sebagainya. Kisah persahabatan semenjak kanak-kanak,  percintaan dan drama masyarakat sekitar keluarga Kopi Tiam Malaysian Chinese. Ada kedengaran azan Subuh lagi! Tidak seperti drama barat yang biasanya mengaitkan azan (dan bacaan Al Quran) dengan keganasan.


http://orangkecilorangbesar.blogspot.com/

ICE KACANG PUPPY LOVE

The story is set in the 1980s in Tronoh, a small town in Perak. Twenty-year-old-plus Botak (Ah Niu) is the younger of a Chinese coffeeshop owner's two sons. A reserved, quiet young lad with prickly hair, having been shaved during childhood (thus gaining his nickname Botak, which means baldy inMalay), he harbors a secret admiration towards Chew Anqi (周安琪), or Fighting-Fish (Angelica Lee), daughter of a char kuey teow seller, Yue Feng () (Angela Chan), who rents a stall in the same coffeeshop. However, he was never bold enough to confess his love towards her and only conveyed it through drawing portraits of her.
Anqi entered Botak's life when he was a young boy, when Yue Feng sought refuge with Botak's mother after she could no longer stand physical abuse by her husband. This resulted in Anqi (named after 'Angel') often being teased as being fatherless by another childhood friend, a bully yet coward to stronger forces, Ma Linfan (马麟帆) (Gary Chaw), son of parents who ran an illegal betting syndicate. As children, Anqi, Ma Linfan and 'African' (later called Prince Charming in adulthood) (Victor Wong), often competed playing marbles (bakuli/buah guli) or fighting fish with each other. Anqi always won these games. After losing a game, Ma Linfan teased Anqi. She became angry and beat Ma Linfan, thus giving her a strong, fierce personality. Because of this, Anqi was given the nickname Fighting-Fish. Whenever she was upset, she would eat ais kacang (spelt as Ice Kacang for the movie) together with Botak, or idle away by the river chatting with him. She would always say that when she grew up, she would return to Penang to look for her father and move to a faraway place, which Botak desired not to realise. As a 20 year-old something adult, she was in a cold relationship with her mother, blaming her being estranged from her father.
Ma Linfan, frustrated at losing to Fighting-Fish each time in fighting fish duels, decided to steal hers, but was caught red-handed and escaped. The second time, which could have been a success, he ended up with a tussle with Fighting-Fish, which had her brushing against him on the lower bodies, causing him to have an erection. Because of this, he believed that he fell in love with Fighting-Fish and went to great lengths to win her love.
Ma Libing (马丽冰) (Fish Leong), the younger sister of Ma Linfan, was secretly in love with Botak. Throughout the story, Ma Libing was a quiet girl and was often seen holding a packet of iced barley drink (thus the nickname Barley-Bing) whenever she went. She chanced upon Botak's love letter to Fighting-Fish in her brother's room. She became upset after reading the letter and sought to win his love with even more determination. The letter somehow ended up with Yue Feng, who then knew of Botak's secret admiration of her daughter and later discovered Botak's portraits of Fighting-Fish in his room.
After a heated quarrel with her mother over her disapproval of her wanting to marry another man, Fighting-Fish travelled to Penang to look for her father with Botak. They arrived at her old home at Chew Jetty (姓周), a neighbourhood of wooden houses on water, occupied by Chinese families with the surname Chew ( zhōu), only to discover that her father (Eric Moo) now operates an illegal gambling den and had remarried with a 5 year-old son and an unborn child. The reunion was disrupted with a raid by the police. Botak, Fighting-Fish and her father managed to escape, but she realized the predicament that her mother was in 10 years ago. She sought to mend ties with her and expressed her desire to further her studies in Singapore.
Botak went after her on the day of her departure, bringing a packet of ais kacang and the unread love letter. During the journey, he was met with two accidents but was only bruised from head to toe. He handed the packet to Fighting-Fish, moving her to tears (she had also discovered Botak's portraits of her during the night before). In the haste, Botak also forgot to hand the letter to her and left the scene drenched from rain. Botak's younger sister submitted one of Botak's portraits to a drawing competition, which won the first prize, even appearing in newspapers. When Botak found out, he ran away in tears, unwilling to embrace the fact that he had hesitated to confess his love to Fighting-Fish.
Towards the end of the scene, all of the young characters had left the town, each on their own career paths. The final scene showed Botak, now older and with a girlfriend, at a pedestrian crossing in Kuala Lumpur, not knowing that Fighting-Fish was also nearby. They both walk away in different directions.