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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Better reading for ramadhan

This morning i nak pi bikin rambut and kuku for raya. Cam my friend cakap, sebenarnya takde sapa pun yg nak tengok we all ni...especially idakle teman ni set yg sociable gila yg pergi dari satu ke satu rumah tokcik, tokpak, ayahalang, busu, segala neka kan...balik2 dok umah mak i, kalau tak tolong hidang kuih, i'd be menyakat bebudak...yakni anak2 i sendiri. I hope i can say no to 'extras' yg akan disogokkan oleh hairdresser tu nanti...the last time i was there i came back, i was nearly RM1k poorer..idakle i ni extravagant gittew, as my mum would say, beli meh (mas) lagi ada pekdahnya. But it's so difficult to say no! Org datang jual magazine subscription i sign...adik datang jual CD alifbata ke rumah, i beli...pakcik yg kata dia mai dari Pattani ketuk tingkap keta i jual keropok, i beli, walaupun keropok tu idakle sedap sangat as commented by MG. I kesian...People have to merayau2 cari clients, berpeluh2 ketiak...whereas i dapat dok kat opis berhawa dingin (kenkadang tu sampai sejuk sangat tangan tak dapat pegang pen). People have to menapak di tengah panas, whereas i only need to keluar masuk keta i yg posh tu (weii tak malu...cakap besar!). Dalam dunia ni kita mesti ada perasaan belas kasihan. OK ini tazkirah i utk hari ini..(makes a better Ramadhan reading).

I went to collect data at a new place. Workplace B has exhausted its supply of the target group i wanted. Kat tempat baru, the staffs are friendlier...i nak apa, cakap je, even though they are busier (bukak sampai kul 9pm and not 8-5pm). Idakle ada sapa yg bertanya, 'surat mana?'. Or, 'sorry..kitaorg tak ambikkan blood utk study'. I was there yesterday from 7.45am till about 2pm...masalahnya...parents my subjects suka norr bersembang dgn i. There i was sitting at the table nak key in data, and diaorg pun datang dok sebelah..sembang2 pasal penyakit anak diaorg, pasal pembantu rumah, salasilah hidup i, kpi, raya etc. Mesti la kena layan....dah la kita ambik darah anak dia kan...yang i ni pulak, macam pandai sangat nak bersembang2 dgn orang...cuba put me in a setting cam kenduri ke, dinner company MG ke...dok la i kat situ sengih2 je..(aku ni sawan ke snob Esah??)

Anyway, on other matters. I have been married to MG for 8 years. Kitaorg tak bercinta pun sebelum decided to get married..we'd probably the 2 people left out and not married at that time. Bila bincang pasal nak kahwin pun it was very bussinesslike. All we knew about each other was dia takde penyakit gila babi and that my side of the family takde sapa yg psycho (ke tahap yg ubat2an moden tak dapat ubati) and less than 2 months, there we were married. He's not a talker. I think within the first 2 years of our marriage, i dah habis dah benda yg nak cakap dgnnya...

People say marriage is all about communication....if that is true, mine is really in the danger zone. How to talk when the other person tak tanya? So one day i thought (ni bebaru je ni), it's OK, i will 'educate' him about me. Kalau org tanya, what does your wife do? Jangan le cakap je, oooo..she teaches. Cakap le jugak, she's also a consultant, she only sees children and no, not healthy ones so tak yah tanya if uols boleh buat appointment anak uols dgn dia..OK, topic mengenai diri sendiri i dah i update dgn dia. What else can i tell him (susah tau kalau dapat laki cam penyu..diam je dok dalam cengkerang and kebil2 pandang kat kita).

One day i said to him during dinner...do you know that when male lion mates with a female tiger, you'll get a baby liger? Do you know that baby liger will grow very big, much bigger than the dad but will also die young? Because ni genetic freak, which doesn't happen in real life, i think i read somewhere that it has excessive growth hormone etc.? MG pi cakap, waa so clever you! I menyampah tau! Cam nak sindir2 pulak...how can i forget yg he's not an animal person like me? Ye la, minda kita kenalah sentiasa terbuka...takkan nak cakap pasal lampu hiasan jenin, kaler cat laura asli, sofa laura asli, zara, raoul, massimodutti sokmo??? But still, i wasn't deterred..I tanya lagi...do you know why i won't go to SporeZoo? Because they have the white tigers...and you know how they get white tigers? Through inbreeding...satu lagi benda yg would not happen in nature. By that time mamat tu dah tak sabar2 nak habis makan....

Satu hari di dalam keta, i test lagi...apakak perkara yg membatalkan puasa? Cepat je mamat tu cakap berjimak...i asked lagi? Korek hidung said he..So i said to him..you know the class ugama i attended not so long ago by Bro K from UIA? He said kita ni kat mesia banyak campur aduk bebenda dlm bukuteks ugama kita masa sekolah2. For instance he said, hanya ada 4 perkara yg membatalkan puasa iaitu makan dgn sengaja, minum dgn sengaja, seks (bukan saja seks rambang ye Esah) and haid and nifas. He also said no such thing memasukkan benda ke rongga2 yg lain. For this MG said, ikutlah you, entah2 dia mazhab mana tu! I said, no, kalau buat statement mana2 Bro K akan selalu cakap, ahli sunnah will do this and that. Bila MG dah cakap camtu, i pun pi mengoogle gigli and here's some info i obtained from the net: http://www.abuanasmadani.com/?p=401. Hence, terpulang pada masing2 utk buat keputusan sendiri (tapi idakle i pi korek segala mala rongga kat badan i depan MG just to prove a point, kan?). Yg i tau for so many years, i yg berpenyakit asma yg tegar ini maka terbatallah puasa i, i thought, each time i nak guna inhaler..islam is never menyusahkan. Bro K jugak pernah berkata2 yg kita ni selalu macam nenurut tradisi..for e.g. woi, bacalah yassin pada malam jumaat. Dia cakap, takde nas2 yg mengatakan baca pada malam jemat, pahalanya lagi cepat sampai ke Allah. He said benda ni semua bidaah. Samalah jugak cam konket di malam Jumaat ye para suami di luar sana (bukan suami i). Idakle dapat pahala cam membunuh orang kapir.

Dulu ada sorang makcik ni bagitau i..weii takleh pi buat facial masa bulan pose. nanti kalau keluar darah dari jerawat boleh batal pose (ni according to her cikgu ngaji). I said, ada keluar cam period ke darah tu. This makcik said, kita ikut je, kalau dah was2. She said, sometimes hukum allah tu kita tak boleh question. I said, what is the reference? Hish ko ni..nak jadi kapir ke? Semua nak soal, kata makcik ni lagi pada i. This same makcik also said kalau bulu kucing jatuh atas sejadah, it's najis. So i asked her, apa beza dgn kita gugur rambut? Najis ke? Kucing bukan binatang haram dipegang pun, apasal rambut dia yg gugur boleh najis lak?

Seriously la some people..rasa bangga gila ikut menonong je bila cikgu ngaji cakap apa2. To these people, lagi susah agama tu, lagi rasa dirinya dekat dgn tuhan. Tapi sapalah saya nak komen lebih2..

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