[Tulisan ini dikirim oleh sahabatku RAY yang menerimanya dari internet]
Tahu tak, cinta sebenarnya sama seperti seseorang yg menunggu bas. Bila bas tu datang, awak nengok bas tu dan awak kata pada diri awak,
"Eee... penuhnya... tak de tempat duduk."
Jadik, awak katakan pada diri awak,
"Saya akan tunggu bas yg lain."
Awak pun biarkan bas tu berlalu dan awak tunggu pulak bas yg lain. Kemudian, datang pulak bas yg kedua.Awak nengok bas tu dan awak akan cakap,
"Eee... bas ni buruk sgt... mesti tak selesa. Dan mungkin bas ni akan rosak kat tengah jalan."
Jadi, awak pun biarkan bas buruk tu berlalu dan awak bercadang untuk tunggu bas yang seterusnya. Setelah beberapa ketika, datang lagi sebuah bas. Bas yg datang tu kosong, tak penuh dan tak seburuk bas yg tadi tapi kali ni awak kata,
"Emmm.... takde air-cond... cuaca pulak panas. Lebih baik saya tunggu bas yg lain."
Dan sekali lagi awak biarkan bas tu berlalu dan awak bercadang utk menanti bas yg seterusnya. Tiba-tiba awan mula gelap, cuaca semakin mendung dan baru awak perasan yg awak pula dah terlambat rupanya. Awak mula panik dan terus naik bas yg datang ketika itu, walaupun bas itu tak sebegitu sempurna. Dan kemudian barulah awak sedar bahawa... awak dah naik bas yg salah.
Jadi, selama ni awak dah membazir banyak masa dan wang untuk menunggu apa yg awak nak. Walaupun yg datang tu adalah bas yang berair-cond, adakah awak dpt pastikan bahawa bas tu tak akan rosak di tengah jalan atau mungkin bas tu tak terlalu sejuk untuk awak? Jadik, (terutamanya golongan perempuan) lelaki pun samalah mengingini apa yg awak idamkan tu memang tak salah. Tapi, tak salah juga kalau anda sanggup memberi satu peluang pada orang lain, kan? Sekiranya awak dapati "bas" itu tak sesuai dengan awak, apa yg perlu awak lakukan hanya tekan loceng dan turun daripada bas tu. Tapi... saya pasti awak semua tentu ada pengalaman yg macam ni.
Awak nampak sebuah bas datang (tentulah bas yg awak nanti-nanti kan), awak tahan bas tu tapi pemandu bas tu pulak buat tak faham dan pura-pura buat tak nampak awak dan terus berlalu tinggalkan awak! Hahahaha.... Bila ada bas yang lalu melintasi saya macam tu, apa yang saya lakukan ialah BERJALAN!
Bodoh sebenarnya untuk mengejar bas tu sebab setiap kali, awak akan terjatuh dan menyakiti diri awak sendiri. Jadi, bercinta tu adalah ibarat menunggu bas, sama ada awak nak naik dan beri peluang pada bas tu... semuanya terpulang pada diri awak. Dan bila awak berjalan, awak sebenarnya cuba melarikan diri daripada cinta!
[Berikut ialah reaksi sahabat saya RAY:
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Kalau cinta itu ibarat menunggu bas,nampaknya saya salah bas stop, bas tak lalu .
Friday, September 19, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Resepi Biskut Kacang
Adik Embak, Si Uda minta buatkan dia biskut kacanglah pulak. Memang kegemaran kami sedari kecik lagi. Akhir-akhir ni tak buat lagi sebab malas menerap. Tapi adik punya pasal, insyaAllah Embak turutkan juga. Tapi resepinya dah hilang. Sabtu lepas, sambil-sambil buat penerangan insurans, Embak tanyakan resepi biskut kacang pada emak sipelanggan. Dah tahupun dia ada, tu yang Embak minta tu. Tahun lepas Embak beraya di rumah makcik tu, dah test hasilnya. Sedap. Jadi, Embak ambik kesempatan ni nak abadikan resepinya di sini. Buat rujukan Embak juga di masa hadapan.
Bahan-bahan:
2 biji telor ayam
10 oz mentega
10 oz gula halus
12 oz tepung gandum
12 oz kacang tanah goreng, dikisar (nak lebihkan pun boleh)
2 sudu teh esen vanilla
1 sudu teh baking powder
Kalau tak biasa dengan sukatan empirikal, tukarlah sendiri ke metrik.
Adun seperti biasa. Suhu ketuhar, semacam.
Bahan-bahan:
2 biji telor ayam
10 oz mentega
10 oz gula halus
12 oz tepung gandum
12 oz kacang tanah goreng, dikisar (nak lebihkan pun boleh)
2 sudu teh esen vanilla
1 sudu teh baking powder
Kalau tak biasa dengan sukatan empirikal, tukarlah sendiri ke metrik.
Adun seperti biasa. Suhu ketuhar, semacam.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Le Tour de Egypt
(Pic) At the Pyramids, Giza 
(Pic) Catching the sunrise atop Jabal Musa aka Jabal Thursina aka Mount Sinai. 26th Aug, 2008.
Four days after returning from Egypt, I am still having dreams about the place. Cannot recall the specifics, but they are busy dreams. I met up with a fellow trip member on Tuesday, and we talked about our experiences with much enthusiasm, and lamented how our family members and co-workers just don’t get it. Best not to divulge too much information lest we’d in the end lose the feel of the whole trip; hence, the minimal reporting in this post.
In summary, the trip was a blast. It exceeded many of my expectations, which I smartly set very low. Take the airline, Egypt Air, for example. Before the trip, I never knew it exists. Even though it’s not of Emirates standard, it’s not too bad an airline. The food and the pilots were excellent, the latter evidenced during turbulence and landing. The only peculiar thing is that the people who served our food are mainly males who could be pilots on rotation judging from their outfit.
Secondly, the lodging- I was expecting a hostel with rows of bunk beds. Instead we got a fairly new apartment with 8 rooms, clean bathrooms with working washing machine and microwave oven plus baroque furniture to boot. And a decent cafetaria downstairs serving Malaysian food.
Thirdly, the Al Azhar Qiraat students who acted as our tour guides are excellent youths. The visit to their college and students' centre in Shoubra humbled me and proved that simple lifestyle can produce positive characters. We had a very memorable session with one of their sheikhs , and learnt first hand how fierce they are. No wonder the students get their lessons fast.
Finally, as mentioned in Al Baqarah 61, ….(Moses said to his people) Go to Town (Egypt), and you shall find what you want!”. True enough, many things that I wished for, I got!
Some interesting tid-bits :
1. They are more 26 million people in Cairo alone! That’s the whole of Malaysia in one city.
2. The Egyptians pronounce the letter “J” as “G”. eg. Gamal instead of Jamal.
3. They omit the letter kaf in many words, eg 'ahwa' instead of 'kahwa'.
4. The Egyptians revere the Nile River so much that they don’t bother to bring back zamzam water from Mekah.
5. Egypt is still in the state of Emergency. In certain areas, like al-Fayyoum, the police will escort every visitor, and by 5 pm, all visitors’d have to leave the area.
Notes to my roommate: Sal, I expect improvements in a particular chaunteuse’s tudung sense and styling soon, thanks for the magnesium tip and Baraka is not the best habatussauda capsule, it's the ONLY brand available.
Note to self: I want and need a new camera!
(Pic) Catching the sunrise atop Jabal Musa aka Jabal Thursina aka Mount Sinai. 26th Aug, 2008.
Four days after returning from Egypt, I am still having dreams about the place. Cannot recall the specifics, but they are busy dreams. I met up with a fellow trip member on Tuesday, and we talked about our experiences with much enthusiasm, and lamented how our family members and co-workers just don’t get it. Best not to divulge too much information lest we’d in the end lose the feel of the whole trip; hence, the minimal reporting in this post.
In summary, the trip was a blast. It exceeded many of my expectations, which I smartly set very low. Take the airline, Egypt Air, for example. Before the trip, I never knew it exists. Even though it’s not of Emirates standard, it’s not too bad an airline. The food and the pilots were excellent, the latter evidenced during turbulence and landing. The only peculiar thing is that the people who served our food are mainly males who could be pilots on rotation judging from their outfit.
Secondly, the lodging- I was expecting a hostel with rows of bunk beds. Instead we got a fairly new apartment with 8 rooms, clean bathrooms with working washing machine and microwave oven plus baroque furniture to boot. And a decent cafetaria downstairs serving Malaysian food.
Thirdly, the Al Azhar Qiraat students who acted as our tour guides are excellent youths. The visit to their college and students' centre in Shoubra humbled me and proved that simple lifestyle can produce positive characters. We had a very memorable session with one of their sheikhs , and learnt first hand how fierce they are. No wonder the students get their lessons fast.
Finally, as mentioned in Al Baqarah 61, ….(Moses said to his people) Go to Town (Egypt), and you shall find what you want!”. True enough, many things that I wished for, I got!
Some interesting tid-bits :
1. They are more 26 million people in Cairo alone! That’s the whole of Malaysia in one city.
2. The Egyptians pronounce the letter “J” as “G”. eg. Gamal instead of Jamal.
3. They omit the letter kaf in many words, eg 'ahwa' instead of 'kahwa'.
4. The Egyptians revere the Nile River so much that they don’t bother to bring back zamzam water from Mekah.
5. Egypt is still in the state of Emergency. In certain areas, like al-Fayyoum, the police will escort every visitor, and by 5 pm, all visitors’d have to leave the area.
Notes to my roommate: Sal, I expect improvements in a particular chaunteuse’s tudung sense and styling soon, thanks for the magnesium tip and Baraka is not the best habatussauda capsule, it's the ONLY brand available.
Note to self: I want and need a new camera!
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