Saya sayang mak sangat-sangat.

Mak jatuh motor
Setiap hari ada je orang jatuh motor – perkara biasa. Tapi mak dah tua, dah 71 tahun dan dah dekat 30 tahun bawa motor. Luar biasa. Macam mana mak boleh jatuh? Nak ke kedai beli sayur tapi motosikal tersangkut di pintu pagar (Biasanya okey je, tapi sebab ada renovation and lori besar masuk turunkan pasir dan batu, pintu pagar tu dah tersasar kedudukannya). Abis betis mak yang bunting padi tu berlubang disodok tempat letak kaki motor. Mula-mula bangun dari rebah, mak tengok cuma berlubang tapi takde darahpun. Sebaik sahaja kaki jejak tanah maka mencurah-curahlah darah merah mengalir. Alhamdulillah setelah dipaksa ke klinik dan dijahit, mak tak apa-apa selain calar-balar. Tapi keesokan harinya mak ngadu rasa macam nak demam. Rupa-rupanya bahagian dada atas mak bengkak dan lebam terkena handlebar motor. Rasanya takde tulang yang patah. Mungkin ambil masa untuk baik. Perlu sapu minyak angin dan dituam. (On totally unrelated note, mak juga mengigau/mimpi yang bukan-bukan waktu malam. Bukan setakat selepas jatuh aje. Saka lagikah?)

Kakak suruh saya (kau bujang –senang katanya) yang banyak kerja lani untuk balik tengok mak. Katanya lagi, mak dah masak lauk kegemaran saya juga. Kalau jadi apa-apa pada mak…

Dulu, mak punya motosikal yang ada tangki minyak besar di depan. Dengan motorlah mak tunggu saya balik sekolah rendah hari-hari tak pernah miss (Pergh! Bongsulah katakan - abang dan kakak semua jalan kaki). Saya akui ada perasaan malu apabila bersaing dan dilihat oleh guru-guru yang berkereta Proton Saga merah.

Biasanya saya bagitau bila nak balik awal-awal lagi dan mak akan bersihkan bilik. Kali ini saya tau susah payah mak – bilik paling hujung dan banyak cicak, lipas, dan lain-lain binatang yang hidup di siling.
Saya sayang mak sangat-sangat. (repeat 100x)
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I’m not stupid.
The same goes with everyone else. Though someone was stupid enough to believe that we, the general public can be stupid at times. Take the case in question. I was driving back from kampong, since the normally fixed radio channels went berserk (different states, different frequencies & CD player gone kaput –maklumlah local car) I had no choice while maintaining one eye on the road and tried to find the next best available station. The time was right after the call for Zuhr prayer. So, the announcer (Negri FM) said, now is the time for tazkirah (peringatan or reminder)– yes, you read it right – tazkirah. Appropriate don’t you think? Since it was solat time and everything. But it wasn’t appropriate when the so-called tazkirah was liberally laced or inundated with U*NO here and U*NO there within a space of few minutes of listening. Yes, we know that the next GE is looming in the horizon but please do not disguised the political rally under the name of religion. I’ve nothing against U*NO personally but for them to confuse politic and religion? The same rule applies to P*S too (which means that I support neither parties as totally cool)– both parties had no right to claim themselves as defender of the religion (Hudud or hadhari notwithstanding). Each parties are more sensationalist than ever. If U*NO is allowed to do what P*S is not allowed to do, isn’t it like the pot calling the kettle black?

That’s numero uno.
I’m not saying that only ustaz or ustazah are allowed to talk about our Deen. Again, the slot was said to be a tazkirah. But they’ve got a Historian (professor from UM) who is proudly claiming herself as the chief panelist (or something like that,) for the current Form 3 History text. She got me thinking, are we allowed to re-write history? She said, “Negeri-negeri Melayu (tidak) bersekutu TIDAK pernah dijajah oleh Inggeris. Yang dijajah cuma Negeri-negeri Selat (Melaka, P.Pinang dan Singapura). Negeri-negeri Melayu (tidak) Bersekutu cuma diLINDUNGi oleh Inggeris. Raja-raja Melayu tidak pernah menyerah…”
Wah, that’s new! And I don’t like it at all.
The way I see it, when the Portuguese then the Dutch followed by the British took control of the administration of these state(s) and pushing the Sultans & Rajas to one corner only (only as limited religious authority) that’s clearly colonialization.
colonialism (OED)
· n. the policy or practice of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
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They love me – They love me not - They love me – They love me not - They love me One of my brothers called last night (surprised!!) – offering his help (not surprised - kinda role/loan reversal). He asked about my study – asking me to push myself harder towards the End (which may means …*insertyouropinionhere*). He said, ada kawan dia dah gila (is this supposed to bring relief to me?) sebab sangkut time master lagi but I’d already passed that hurdle so things should be ok now – Oh, how I wish!! BTW, biasalah buat tesis ni 5,6 tahun…Man, I tell you -that’s really help!