Tuesday, June 26, 2007.

latte lessons for the caffeinated


sometimes words just hurt too much.
tears will spring to your eyes even before you can say them out.
or sometimes, as soon as you hear them being said out,
something inside you dies.

sorry, mak. i really am.

Labels: off-kilter

{ 8:18:00 PM }

wordplay

(when you have too much time on your hands, this is what happens.)


Pak Turut, Pak Turut,
kudut kedekut
rambut kusut dagu berjanggut
muka berkedut, parut di lutut
dahulu gendut sekarang dah susut
bila jalan tiada berkasut
lagak tak ubah seperti badut.

Pak Turut, Pak Turut,
bualnya karut suka mencarut
cakap besar rupanya penakut
hati kecut, ada pulak semput!

Pak Turut, Pak Turut,
dari rekrut jadi tali barut
katanya, biar pecah di mulut
jangan pecah di perut -
adakah patut?

Pak Turut, Pak Turut,
sudahlah tua suka melalut
usia dah lanjut belum nak maut
katanya, pantang luput sebelum reput!

Pak Turut, Pak Turut,
bila makan jangan berebut
kalau tersedak, ada yang sebut
kelam-kabut, kalah mengejut
hai, kenapalah mesti ribut-ribut?

Labels: off-kilter, random

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Sunday, June 24, 2007.

Where Were You While We Were Getting High : the one where she (finally)turns 19



Allah selamatkan aku
Allah selamatkan aku
Allah selamatkan Nurhayati Tahar
Allah selamatkan akuuuu......


i have mixed feelings about turning 19,
the reasons for which are too painful to share.
or perhaps at the ripe old age of 19, i've become paranoid, weak, sensitive and grossly sentimental, among other dreadful ailments you can get while growing up.

but thanks for everything, you guys, my Gengmilah sayangs - thanks for surprising me with that candlelight dinner at sun freaking plaza park, thanks bah for that sinful chocolate cake, rao for those cheesilicious lasagnes, madds for that cute hair accesory that just screams 'from krabi with love' hahah, and everyone else.
oh, and thank you very much for the CDs you guys put together for me - reeeeaaaally nice stuff.

mr. john mayer, i think i'm falling in love with you all over again *blushes*
you look quite cute in those photos found in your CD sleeve for Continuum.

no, i didnt buy his new CD. i only got to take a look at the CD and listen to its contents thanks to that friendly cute long-haired chinese guy behind the counter of that used CD store in marina square.

by the way, i'm not in the mood much for describing in detail, so if you want a more accurate(and hilarious) account of my birthday celebrations, just go to madds' blog.
and you guys called it Operation Starry Night, i like that.

oh, and mak? thanks for the 'mee birthday' today.

Labels: birthday, music

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Thursday, June 21, 2007.

menurut limau purut

Labels: off-kilter, tv

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007.

how to stop an exploding man

cows arghhh mati tonggek i was supposed to do work but wasted the afternoon watching two Heroes episodes instead.
argh i blame milo ventimiglia.. and his too-long fringe. macam nak pakaikan die sepit rambut je.

Labels: random

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007.

and a thousand unwritten blog entries later

Labels: off-kilter

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Sunday, June 17, 2007.

anatomy of a murtabak daging.


warning: this is going to be a really dry entry.

so far it's been a really dry sunday. i'm too lazy to go out, not that i have plans anyway, so hakim and i have been lepaking around the house like beached whales, while najam goes out with his friend. abah is sick, so i'm being denied my all-time yummylicious asam pedas ikan pari. no, maddy, even though we managed ayam masak merah, i'm not confident enough yet to cook something like asam pedas.

we had bubur(well, actually it was meant for abah), followed by canadian pizza for lunch and more recently, murtabak daging washed down with teh susu. and yea, some ayam goreng.
yes, i know. sheeeeeesh. i can't stop eating when i'm bored.
bad news for them babats...

oh, hakim just said this to me - cepat ah...! aku tau kau tengah nak update kau punye blog kan? cepat ah... if not i cut off your neck! -

how adorable of him. love you too, pendek.

which reminds me. the only other reason i find myself getting so bored, besides having no movie/book to read/watch is because there's no soccer. ch 21,22,23,24... zero. nothing. nada. no last season games, no highlights, nothing. not even irritating jamie yeo & sheikh haikal on Nokia Football Crazy.
no wonder i feel something missing.

in fact it's getting so bad here that in between stuffing our faces with food and watching endless xiaolin showdown repeats on CartoonNetwork, hakim and i have resorted to farting in each other's faces and then laughing ourselves silly just for some entertainment.
see? it ain't pretty.

not only that, i have a pretty good idea about how i'm gonna spend the rest of my sunday night - watching the premiere of the latest DisneyChannel Original movie, Jump In, featuring Corbin Bleu of High School Musical fame.
and before you ask me how i know all these things, let me tell you that i have two brothers - both over 12-years-old - whose two favourite shows are Pokemon and Power Rangers SPD. oh, and Suria Segar, maybe. najam likes Suria Segar.
they also watch a lot of DisneyChannel.

Labels: food, random, soccer, tv

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Saturday, June 16, 2007.

walking on knives


as if by coincidence, mak and kakak both left on the same night - mak on a 4-day package tour thing to Tambon, which is i-don't-know-where and kakak on a 3-day diving trip to Pulau Aur, which is i-also-don't-know-where.
and of course, abah has to go to work in the day.
which leaves the three of us to fend for ourselves at home.
which is probably a piece of cake, considering all of us are over 12 years old. well, snort.

it's not easy, okaaaay. going to the market and trying to get all the grocery shopping done and later attempting to cook something reasonably edible out of whatever you've bought... is like going to war. or something.
especially if you can't cook very well at all and you don't even have the complete ingredients to make that dish.

but, hey, we did it!!! Yataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! -does a hiro nakamura imitation-
between najam and i we churned out freaking ayam masak merah and a vegetable dish.
not that they tasted excellent,but whatever muahaha.
so yeah, of course we'll survive the next few days.

by the way, is it just me or is everyone going on holiday except me?
i mean, madah's just back from krabi, naza is probably already at phuket, or atleast going to go, wadah just got back from somewhere too, mak and kakak are both away... even john terry and his new WAG are going on honeymoon - on roman abromavich's yacht, no less.

haiz. i know i'm just being drama about it, but yeah..
hey, maybe, just maybe, some long-lost acquaintance will whisk me away on my birthday and take me sunset-watching on his private hot-air balloon and then dancing under the stars after, and not only that - send me back in time for the start of second term on Monday! haha.

oh, speaking of England stars and their WAGs, neville, terry, gerrard and carrick are all getting hitched. atleast according to today's TNP, they are. because there i was thinking, 'isn't neville married? doesn't terry have a son?' ok, maybe i have my facts wrong.
funny, a little while ago i was just thinking, 'oh carrick has such a nice surname. wouldn't it be nice for people to call you mrs. carrick? like, hey, good morning mrs. carrick, how are you doing mrs. carrick?'

oh in case you haven't heard, sharifah amani has pulled a britney and bald-ded her head for her upcoming film, muallaf. a case of seni before religion, eh sista?

Labels: family, food, random, soccer

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007.

Michelin Man




three days into the term break and between busting my cash on movies, late nights and rotting at home, i've been doing nothing much, really. so this will be pretty random.

Pirates : At World's End was well, too long. i'm sorry to say but as much as i enjoyed the special effects, there were parts where i kinda tuned out. in fact, i even went to the toilet at one point.
but of course, this is not to say that it was a bad movie. hahah, love you johnny.

oh, but Ocean's Thirteen was crazy sexy cool. and funny. and clever. love those guys.

and afdlin shauki's Sumo-lah was, well, ok lah. because i think i expect a made-by-afdlin shauki movie to be hysterically funny. but it wasn't.

before i forget, nuraini bte rafik, happy birthday and also, congratulations sayang, on your ehem2..

Labels: movies, random

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Sunday, June 10, 2007.

@cik ru's


camwhoring in my baju butterfly, friendster shots, eating, drinking
and a lot of laughing.

Labels: family, random

{ 3:06:00 PM }

Monday, June 04, 2007.

patahsayap.



bosan. kadang-kadang bosan.
ingat dah kayuh jauh-jauh, tapi masih kat situ jugak.
situ-situ jugak. tak bergerak.
sampai berkerak.
mati katak.

Labels: off-kilter

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Sunday, June 03, 2007.

i can be your Superman


between this post and the last, i have

- been involved in another one of those special missions carried out by the formidable serta tak stable milahtary unit, which included ambushing aisyah at the bowling alley and me discovering my not-so-spectacular talents at bowling. snort.

- finally finished 'the black album'(phew!) and have started on another kureishi, 'the body'

- watched The Covenant on DVD(special effects a bit off)

- started(and finished!)reading another paperback, 'in the cut' by susanna moore. which had uh, too much sex in it, by the way.

- watched half of dirty dancing 2: havana nights, half because dad just had to interrupt and flip the channel to boring tennis. ugh.
but yeah, i have this to say : diego luna has this cute, dishevelled boy-next-door demeanour about him, which makes the guy très irresistible, really.


ok, unnecessary information stops here. love this song, btw.

I’m a single person in this universe
And I am here to say to you:
On the day that I die I’ll just give a smile
And fly into the blue
Cause we’re all just
Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
That rest on a Sunday
Work on a Monday
/the cat empire/

Labels: books, movies, music, random

{ 9:52:00 PM }

Friday, June 01, 2007.

'but theeeese are not haaaash brownies. we are just Dutch baaaakery!'


yessa finally, some soccer action tomorrow morning.
kakaaaaaaa!!!


and heinze, this is just to say that i'll never speak to you again if you make that transfer.
okay?

Labels: random, soccer

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