ada orang berjuang

ada orang berjuang di jalan yang terang

meniti duri dilambung arus perang

membawa hati bepergian si petualang

menaiki oleh kerdil di dalam gelombang.

ada orang berjuang di jalan yang terang

ucapnya nista pada sang pengkhianat

teguh nadinya bisa pada janji keringat

biar lerai badan lerailah pingat

kerana di akhirat itu bukan rahmat

ada orang berjuang di jalan nan kalang

hatinya riang nafsunya tidak kekang

jiwanya meronta meminta dunia

berjuang keringat demi pingat

berjuang masa demi manusia

berjuang dosa demi dunia fana

ada orang berjuang di jalan nan kalang

dikejarnya harta tanpa budi bicara

diajaknya kita mengikut sama

kerna seronok mendapatkan peluang

dia mahu kita berperang

di jalan nan kalang

menjadi apit lempang cencang galang.

ada orang berjuang di jalan yang terang

ada orang berjuang di jalan nan kalang

ada orang tiada berjuang

ada orang hilang peluang

Please, Alice.

When I watched Alice in The Wonderland, I feel there’s an invisible hand gave a hard slap on my face. Pang. Why? It had mad me realize that:

  1. I haven’t been doing creative writing for quite a long time. Even my latest one is a crap. C’mon. It doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t provoke any kind of thinking.
  2. I am actually able to make my own decision without being influenced by anyone and I am my own master. I am an easily influenced person. I am easily carried away by emotion and stress lately. I should be more like Alice. Start a journey that can make me find my ‘muchness’.
  3. I shouldn’t give in to anything that intimidate me. Like, my stress or my ***s.
  4. I haven’t make my dream come true yet. Too much hard work and less thinking had castrate my brain.  My dream of becoming a poet or a writer hasn’t been start. I haven’t started the journey. I am far from my dream.
  5. My thinking cap doesn’t work well lately.
  6. I dream less. It’s not a sin to be a dreamer and I used to be it. A dreamer will be able to rhyme, frolicking, dance with no one and talk to the mirror. Ops I forgot. Talking (or writing) nonsense is part of it too (like Lewis Caroll).

Since Tim Burton’s latest masterpiece was an eye-opener, I hope I’ll be more independent in making decision and braver.

Ps (self-note in case I forgot in the future): This is our second Tim Burton after Sweeney Todd.

Wife’s wish

Star light, star bright

How I wish you here tonight

I wish I may, I wish I might

Have the wish I wish tonight

Star bright, starry night

How I wish he’s here tonight

Hugging me tight

Treating me right

His gaze makes me feels allright

Starry star

He is far

How I wish

He’s my dish

Sedap baa…

  • Semalam kami meronda pasar malam di Sabah. Husband cari seluar, aku pula belikan anak saudara gelang mutiara. Comel sangat. Sesuai untuk baby. RM3 saja. Omar jumpa set jewellery untuk mak dia. Rantai labuh, bracelet, kerongsang kecil dan besar, cincin, semuanya RM45. Siap bagi free gift (kerongsang) lagi. Kedai makcik tu dekat area public toilet. Sebelah la. Bukan dekat sangat. Tak berbau pun. Memang best la makcik tu. Yang lain semua takmau turun dari RM55. Yang ni dia siap bagi pilihan mix and match lagi. Bagus betul. Mudahan murah rezeki dia lepas ni. Continue reading

Review #Tunehotels.com

We decided to stay at Tune Hotel for a night and here’s my review.This might help you to decide whether to stay or not.

  • Bathroom: Not that spacious but not that crammed. There’s a power shower with central heat. You have to be bit clever when controlling the heat because at first, the water take some time to be heated. After you stay at the same lever for couple of minutes, you’re going to find the water is extremely hot. So,  you have to play with the shower lever in order to get the ideal water temperature.
  • Addon:  Tune hotels works like Air Asia flight. In order to have extra perks, you need to pay a little bit of this and that. So we decided to take 12 hours air-condition, wifi and towel facilities. You have to add more money to your bill in order to have those. They should have come with complete package because we were tired travellers and we walk in, just to check  in like normal but tiba-tiba kena berbincang  which addon to take or to opt out. Haih. Ok. The towel package comes with conditioning shampoo, shower gel and a small bar of soap. The towel has deposit value of RM5. You will get back your RM5 back when you return the towel when you’re checking out from the hotel. Smart kan. Tak payah diaorang nak kutip lagi towel. Boleh terus masuk bilik laundry. Allright, we shouldn’t have bought the air condition addon because we arrived late in the evening and malam memang tidur tak pakai air-cond. Mistake. There’s a fan in the room. A big KDK fan. Air-cond is too much for a very small room. There’s another addon that I didn’t take, which is the TV. We’re on holiday so we don’t spend much time looking at the TV. I feel lucky we didn’t choose TV addon because it’s only a small TV. The size is same as my brother in law’s computer monitor. It’s Aquos but it’s small. You know. And the TV position is not that apt as well. Kalau baring kat katil tu nampak kaki lebih daripada TV. Get it?
  • Space: The bed is queen size. Other than that, the space is just big enough to walk to your bed. Even nak solat pun my husband kena keluar bilik. Cari other place because no one can pray in this tiny room. No space at all. They play with mirrors to make the room looks larger. They don’t even have wardrobe. They just put a small stainless-steel bar cloth hanger. No wardrobe.
  • I think that’s basically it. Nothing much. Very basic. If you want to budget, this is the place but make sure you book your room earlier. Like my case, we had to fork out extra because we did walk-in and to be honest, walk-in is never cheaper than online. If we were to stay at the same place, I’d opt out the air-cond (because I can’t stand the extreme dryness of my skin+selsema) and I’d bring extra stuff.
  • I’m quite surprised because I’m comparing this hotel with Seri Malaysia (SM). SM has almost everything that you need and it makes you feel like home. Got water jug, TV, 2 towels, toilet basics, a coffee table and 2 chairs, spacious room, wardrobe, sejadah, and so forth. And I paid RM100 only. But for TuneHotel, I paid RM100++ but I get less. So, experience is a priceless lesson. Anyways, travel safe, travel wise. Have fun and carpe diem.

Dihalau dari Al-Aqsa

Seusai solat fardhu dan menunggu jemaah bersurai, aku berada di kawasan karpet merah dan di depanku, ada jemaah beragama lain turut selesai menunaikan ibadah mereka.Keadaan di masjid ketika itu agak sibuk namun tidak huru-hara seperti hari dilanda tentera rejim Zionis.

Aku melihat dengan penuh takjub.

“Alangkah baiknya jika sekiranya mereka sedar bahawa Islam adalah agama yang mulia”

Aku menunggu jemaah lain menyusut keluar dari lingkungan karpet merah kerana kami dibelenggu dengan pagar kayu yang berukir (seperti di dalam mahkamah).

Tiba-tiba ulama’ muktabar Yahudi menghalau kami dengan menjerit-jerit; “Pergi kamu ke kawasan sana! Ini bukan kawasan kamu!”

Aku terkasima dan hampir menangis kerana mereka bersenjatakan teknoloji ketenteraan terkini.Kami dibawa ke satu kawasan seperti kandang pesalah di mahkamah. Kurang luas dari kawasan sebelumnya. Apabila kumasuki ruang tersebut, kudapati karpet disimbahi kotoran yang berasal entah dari mana, juga beberapa kesan tompokan darah. Aku hendak duduk, tapi takut dan geli. Aku sedih mengenangkan kami dihalau dari kawasan kami.

Air mataku bergelinangan apabila suamiku mengejutkan aku bangun. Dadaku sebak. Kuceritakan kepadanya. Pada dia mimpiku tidak bermakna. Tetapi aku masih teringat sehingga sekarang. Terasa berada di bumi Palestin ketika itu.

Apakah makna di sebalik mimpi ini?