Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Goodbye MH370


Nearly three hours have passed after the announcement that killed all hope. Still numb...

You don't need to be a member of a family or loved one of someone on MH370... we're only human... they're most than just statistics - and ultimately... we lost 239 people.

Lost... such an easy word. Yet so painful.

My respect to the Prime Minister... having to utter those words must be the hardest thing ever...


If indeed you lie in the ocean of our tears, rest well until we're able to find you and bring you home... goodbye MH370.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Merak kuning lambang kebanggaan!


Sabtu lalu, dengan Stadium Shah Alam buka pintu kembali - dan aku pun turun la nak layan Selangor lawan Kelantan.

Bersemangat sebenarnya. Tapi kekadang sebab dah lama tak layan bola, rasa out of sync.

Jujur kenal pun beberapa player je dalam Selangor ni. Haven't been following them as I used to. Tapi minat tetap.

Kalau dulu ikut jersi, posisi, stats setiap pemain dalam kepala. Which goal, how, what drama - on field or off... semua amik pot.

Dah nak 15 tahun or so tak amik pot sangat, aku turun untuk match semangat berkobar jugak lak.

Tapi nak masuk stadium saja sudah rasa sedih...

Sedih - kena lalui go karting course yang patutnya lokasi di tempat lebih strategik. Ni antara car park dan stadium... jalan kaki kena redah sepak tayar bagai. Ye lah... beribu ribu manusia nak lalu...

Sedih - kebab kat luar berleluasa jual jersi fake. Ada yang akan kata ada yang tak mampu... biarlah. For me, if you love something so much, you will make the effort. Sama cam kes piracy music, and illegal downloads. Sokong apa kalau tak beli? Beli pun sebab quality kan? Ni konon sokong tapi tak pakai licensed merchandise. Baik takyah... bail beli saja t shirt ori yang tak semahal jersi tapi nyatakan sokongan. Sapa rasa tak betul takpe la...lantak pi.

Sedih - sebab nak masuk stadium, luar tu aku rasa rugi saja meka tak wat some activities. Dah paling tidak 10,000 ada tu... banyak leh wat. Banyak sponsors leh ajak tuk meriahkan... good for business, and good for fans to be entertained, kan? Bukan setakat ala pasar malam mini saja.

Sedih - Hall of Fame kat Stadium Shah Alam... dah lah cam pindah tengah malam nya rupa... nampak kosong je. Lampu tak pasang, pintu tak bukak. Match day kot... banggalah dengan Red Giants yang kaya dengan sejarah bolasepak yang mempengaruhi the game for our country. Bila lagi peminat muda nak belajar sejarah team kita? Lain lah kalao ko wat cam EPL - siang-siang bukak pintu leh tour facility semua demi sayangkan team... tu kalao wat pun ok la gak.

Sedih - Seating. Tahu lah stadium baru bukak balik... tapi seats kotor gila. Obviously ngan jerebu baru lepas and dust...da ada one thick layer of dirt. Ni tambah lak taik burung bagai... takde orang bersihkan ke? Korang maintainence memang cibai sangat?

Sedih - refreshments. Siapa tak kenal 'burger stadium'. Skang lagi sedih sial! Daging pun takleh cam, nampak mentah, takde sayur ke apa ke dengan dua keping roti. Air karbonat campurkan dengan air supaya nampak banyak (lepas tu campak masuk ice, bila da cair - katalah sebab ais cair)

Sedih - Ultras. Ok... bab ni mesti ada yang marah. Aku actually kagun semangat bebudak Ultras. Tapi bila masuk bab state clubs, aku rasa Ultras ni, tak perlu (bergantung pada situasi). Maksud aku, contohlah... Selangor. SSFC sudah lama wujud. Aku dulu bertahun ikut meka semua home and away. Semangat kami tahap Ultras gak... kenapa kena ada fan faction baru? Kenapa tak gabung saja dengan SSFC. Pecah belahkan peminat saja. Kat stadium riuh tu best - tapi aku lebih gemar cara SSFC yang kecoh waktu perlu. Ultras ni tak ada off switch. Bagi semangat bila perlu... ni masa announce nama pemain bagai nyanyi melalak. Give some respect to the team.

Ada one part tu...nampak la peminat Selangor ni masih pandang pada siapa for fan leadership. Ultras konon nak lead cheer. Section meka je kecoh. Sekali gendang SSFC berbunyi... satu stadium, bergema. Ini baru betul.

Tapi Ultras aku respek satu benda sangat masa perlawanan dengan Kelantan. Lepas berkumandang Negaraku, mereka nyanyikan lagu negeri Selangor. The rest of the Selangor fans beridiri nyanyi sekali. Hah! Camtu best lah...

All in all... aku da cam semangat balik nak all out for Selangor again. Cuma aku rasa kali ni nak berjumpa pihak FAS untuk berbincang some possibilities that I have in mind. We'll see...


PS - Aku hairan kenapa lagu Merah Kuning tak lagi berkumandang di Stadium Shah Alam... ke aku miss (am sure I didn't sebab sampai awal dan balik at the very end)

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Monkey needs home

Petang tadi ke lokasi shooting seperti biasa. 

Because of delays, si Amir nya scene belum jalan pun. Lepak jap... then gerak ke satu lagi lokasi dalam kampung tu. Ada kolam pancing ikan. 

Sambil crew set up semua...perasan a small group of the crew gathered around one of those polystyrene cooler boxes. Rupanya... kata meka ada anak monyet.

I was like... oh yeah... sure. I took a peek. Holy fuck! 

Memang ada anak monyet kat dalam tu!!!


The poor thing was in foetus position. Tutup muka dia. I could sense the fear and distrust it had...

Everyone left it alone after I got irritated and said, "sudah-sudahlah... dia takut tu... da kecik berapa bulan tu perlukan mak dia".

No one touched it until Iqram came. Dia pun tau anak nyet tu pun memang ketakutan.

He took it and put it against his chest. The poor thing just opened its arms and hugged Iqram.

Kita borak dengan orang jaga kolam pancing ikan tu. Katanya, meka pasang trap and terjerat la ibu monyet dan anak monyet dia ni. Meka lepaskan si ibu, tapi simpan anak dia.

Adoi... korang ni perangai lagi teruk dari binatang. Arghhh... I can't hear shit like this about how people think it's ok just to grab a wildlife's offspring.


Iqram bonding gila. Aku tak nak dekat. Bukan takut ke apa... comel sangat... and kesian sangat. Jap lagik aku bawak balik rumah aje kang.

Iqram offered nak beli dari tokei tu... dia tanak jual.


Poor thing lepas kejap dia ok ngan aku dan Iqram... dia relax sikit.

Tapi bila ada orang lain datang je... dengan suara kuat "EH COMEL LAH" or anything like that, it cowers in fear as I first saw it. Poor thing.


And actually bukan saja cerita anak monyet ni... tu orang yang dok jual sugar glider tu. Banyak-banyak tu mati cepat sebab I've seen some sold below 3 months ago. It needs to be nursed by its mother...

Don't buy all this sort of wildlife. It's cute for you, but you're actually encouraging a heartless business. I avoid pets shops and all that have this deplorable practise concerned only with making more money than even giving a shit that these animals are living creatures too.

As for kes orang kampung ni... for all the trauma you're putting this little monkey through... I hope you take care of it just like one of your own...

Monday, March 17, 2014

Sandai Kitetsu - precipitative protection

After waiting about two months, I finally got my Sandai Kitetsu in the mail. I swear Poslaju takes forever. Ok maybe I shouldn't be blaming Pos Malaysia's services alone - since my package did come all the way from China. Still.. of the many times I've bought stuff on eBay, usually it's Poslaju's fault. 

So anyways... what is a 'Sandai Kitetsu'. You have to be a One Piece fan to understand. It's the name of one of the katanas used by Roronoa Zoro.


So why am I buying a katana? This is special. It's not only a replica of the Sandai Kitetsu... it's also an umbrella!

Ok.. I'm sure you've seen those around. Back then I bought one for RM120 - nowadays you can get bad Made In China knock-offs for cheaper (with bad workmanship).

However this is the first time I know of in Malaysia someone has the umbrella version. Yeay me!

I thought workmanship was going to be so-so... but there is a solid feel to the build of the Sandai Kitetsu umbrella. It does feel expensive. Not bad since I spent about RM100 on it (the umbrella itself was USD$25).

And since I bought the Wado Ichimonji and Shuusi cosplay swords already minus the Sandai Kitetsu, this sort of completes my collection. Imagine cosplaying as Zoro, carrying all three swords - it stars raining - and voila! You whip out a katana that become an umbrella.


Looks awesome, doesn't it? Below are the three katanas that is used by Zoro in the manga/anime.



And this is the Sandai Kitetsu I bought. The only thing I dislike about it is that it's standard umbrella length - which is too short for a katana.


Still... who cares. I've graduated to uber fanaticism for buying this just because it's a One Piece merchandise.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Merry minxed

Perasaan paling cuak dan sakit hati, dalam tempoh beberapa bulan pertama pakai kereta baru. 

Masa tu berjaga tahap nak mampus, dapat satu calar leh menangis tiga baldi gitu.

And my Going Merry (yes... that's what I call my car - One Piece fans akan faham) got her major smackdown dalam baru tiga bulan kot sejak aku pakai ni. And the best thing? It was parked!

To be exact, it was parked right outside my house. 

Ceritanya jirang celaka depan umah ni, anak dia memang main suka hati campak keta block jalan. So turns out it was the morning tukang amik sampah mai dok angkat kawasan kita. Yang bak lori sampah tu lak rupanya psycho sikit... dia da tau sempit, suka hati mak bapak dia, redah gak!

Apa lagi... kena sagat la bontot keta aku. 

I of course was dead asleep as it was 7:30am. Too early... then again for me, anything before lunch is too early.

My dad heard, ran out, and yelled at the driver. Celaka tu rupanya tengah reverse nak wat bodoh. Too bad in my area memang semua jiran aku prihatin... semua da keluar rumah pun. I love my neighbourhood... tak kisah jiran aku bangsa apa, semua very the united jaga kawasan.

Dad called out to me, and the moment I saw my car - memang mengundang malapetaka la mamat tu...meroyan la tahap gaban aku ni.

Dari dia nampak moka kerek tak kisah... jadi muka kelam kabut. Terus dia call supervisor dia.


Hah! Ni la lori celaka main sondol jek! Cipet tul...jalan pun rilek la... da tau kawasan perumahan lama... sempit jalan... ko ada hati nak Fast and Furious gitu kenapa? You rushing somewhere, bro?


Supervisor dia nak mai pun sejam lebih. Sampai je aku tak nak banyak cakap - aku suruh dia tengok number plate. "Baru lagi kan? So camna ni..."

Dia setuju hantar ke dealer terus... yang kebetulan tempat dia gi gak. Service center punya orang borak punya borak kata sempat nak wat hari ni.

Total work, new bumper - kena spray, dan mudguard belah tepi ala koyak tu kena keluar balik sikit dan cat gak. Total damage : RM850. Kimaks terkejut aku... nasib baik bukan aku yang kena bayar, kalau tak memang kena campak dalam lori sampah la si driver tadi. Sekali supervisor dia.

It was very much an inconvenience. I planned to sleep in after a late night of work last night. And not only did I have my sleep disrupted - I had to check on the progress and collect the car again later in the evening.

But the result...


Ah. Merry is fine again.

And I admit. There are two or three minor scratches on the bumper (entah celaka mana gesel kat bumper aku ada tanda sikit) that were bugging me. So having a new on just solved the problem of my OCD having to look at it.

All's well that ends well...

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Hot, hazy days...

It's been over a month now and the dry spell is still horrible. 

For those who have to be outdoors, it's a real bitch. It's hot, the mosquitoes are just asking to be smacked down... and not only you stink, you don't know it because the air smells so bad on its own.

March is shooting month, and with a lot of outdoor locations, it's definitely a pain...


Tambah lagi kami shooting banyaknya kat kawasan kampung. Tapi kampung lak dekat area Puncak Alam dan Meru di mana banyak kawasan hutan sana, disebabkan cuaca kering - terbakar dengan mudah.

Memang kalau biasa drama Malaysia ni kena bakar bekas telur nak dapat efek foggy gitu... kali ni memang asap bagi free jek. Whether you want it or not.


The nights are really humid...

And going back past 2am looks like a horror movie...




Sunday, March 09, 2014

#PrayForMH370


Pray.

Pray for the 227 passengers...

Pray for the 12 crew members...

Pray for the families and loved ones...

Pray for the men and women searching...

Pray for them

Pray for us

#PrayForMH370