Guest of Geng KY

Another Shah in the house. Orang Muar. Ex-student of the school which I wish I had enrolled into. Sekolah Menengah Agama Sultan Muhammad. Masa zaman aku bersekolah dahulu, ada tiga sekolah yang ingin menjadi idaman pelajar dan ibu bapa iaitu SMA Sultan Muhammad, SMA Sharifah Rodziah dan tentunya, Sekolah Menengah (sekarang ditambah perkataan "Sains") Sultan Muzaffar Syah.

Instead, I went to Sekolah Tinggi Melaka. Tapi aku syukur, betul-betul syukur kerana dapat menjejakkan kaki ke STM ataupun lebih terkenal dengan nama Malacca High School. Banyak pengalaman yang ditimba, dan banyak ilmu dipelajari.

Tapi aku tak pasti sama ada penampilan Shah ini hanyalah one-off, ataupun akan dijemput lagi dan lagi.

Anyhow, it was nice meeting and chatting with you.

Mus akan memulakan tahun baru di tempat kerja baru. Seperti biasa, aku ucapkan selamat maju jaya buat dia. Menjadi harapan aku agar tempat kerja ini berjaya mengikat kesetiaan Mus. Penatlah nak kemas kini phonebook, Mus oiii!!! Satu lagi, jangan lupa untuk open table tau! Jawatan pun dah besar, tentunya gajinya besar juga. Kongsi-kongsilah dengan kawan-kawan :)

Sham, pula aku tak pasti sama ada dia sudah benar-benar pindah ke Pandan Indah? Rasa macam sudah, tapi tiada pengumuman rasmi pun!

To another Shah, I really hope that your colleague cum housemate is really okay now. I heard about the mishaps and insya Allah, will try to pay a visit as soon as possible. Motorsikalnya ok tak?

Last but not least, all the best to Eijam for your final. I know you can do it. Insya-Allah.

Melalak, Melalak Lagi

This time around, the attendees were Geng KY members, minus Eijam who was busy preparing for his exams and Mitch who was out of town if I'm not mistaken.

We started the night with a dinner at our favourite hangout spot, no other than Kedai Kak Yah (I think we should renamed the group as Geng KKY). I, however, had to give it a pass due to some technicalities and traffic jam at the flyover of Jalan Pandan Indah and MMR2 interchange.

And I don't know why my mood wasn't there too, whereby I only song 3 songs - my compulsory opening number, J. Mizan's Hari Ini Dan Semalam, my second attempts of Afghan's Padamu Ku Bersujud and Kaer's Izin Ku Pergi.

Mus did complain about my anti-social behaviour on the night, whereby I was busy surfing on iPhoneKu than paying attention of my friends' colourful renditions of Malaysian as well as international hits. Sorry Mus and I'm really, really sorry guys. It won't happen happen. Insya Allah.

But the hightlight of the night is when Mus sang his first ever Malay song in any of the karaoke outings that I've joined him all this while.

Nak lagi, Mus!!!

After melalak, we stopped by at Q Bistro for a light supper before we call it a day. Once again, I'm really sorry guys for sleeping at the table while all of you were catching out with each other. I'm sure all of you saw fir yourselves how struggling I was to keep my eyes open. Once again, MAAF banyak-banyk.

Night at A Farmosa

My friends came down to Melaka to attend my sister's wedding. They stayed at Mahkota Hotel. There are five of them, namely, Mus, Sham, Eijam, AJ and Shah.

Since I was very occupied during daytime, I could only joined them at night.

At first, I was planning to bring them to Jonker Street. Later, I found out that the area was packed with participants and fans of body building competition. If I'm not mistaken, they held the 3rd World Body Building Championship here in Melaka. I'm puzzled why they chose Jonker Walk as the venue.

In fact, the boys already strolled the infamous street themselves in the afternoon.

Instead, I met them at Mc Donalds! Nazrol was later joined us after meeting Geng Bebudak Melaka. They cannot stayed long because Fendy and Ed need to go to bed early because they will be going to Jempol for another make-up job. Similarly, Nazri need to attend a state function on the next morning.

As usual, we started our gathering with latest updates on what happened in Kuala Lumpur for the last one week plus that I'd left the city. Some are juicy indeed, some are boring. Then, the bashing part. As always, it was all about "negeri maju" vs. "metropolis kulaijaya".

If AJ didn't remind us how late it was, we could have continue talking until subuh! Before we dismiss, we promised to meet again for brunch at Restoran Ayam Golek Bachang.

Mc Sahur

Ini kali pertama aku bersahur di luar pada ramadhan tahun ini. Pada mulanya, perjumpaan ini berlangsung di kediaman Mus, untuk acara buka puasa. Oleh kerana kesuntukan masa, ada yang perlu balik awal untuk pelbagai alasan, kami rancang untuk teruskan sembang-sembang ketika sahur nanti.

Ada beberapa perkara yang aku pelajari di acara ini.

Pertamanya, meraikan teman. Ada yang membangkitkan kenapa aku bersahur di McD? Bukankah aku anti perlambangan imperialisme moden seperti Mc Donald's dan Coca Cola?

Pendeknya, aku masih berhati-hati dan peka tentang hal ini. Tetapi aku juga telah pelajari peri penting menghormati teman dan 'tetamu'. Kerana ada hadith yang riwayatkan kurang lebih, kalau kita berpuasa, dan kita mendapat undangan kenduri, kita diharuskan berbuka dan menerima undangan itu. Tetapi aku percaya ini tidak terpakai ke atas puasa wajib iaitu puasa di bulan ramadhan.

Dalam hal ini, sekiranya kesemua kawan kita inginkan McD, berbanding kedai makan mamak dan sebagainya, I think it would be a bit self fish for my side to insist NO McD? Don't you think so?

Aku cuba istiqamah dengan memesan bubur dan secawan milo panas dan teh o panas.

Keduanya, aku juga pelajari bahawa apa yang aku syak sebelum ini benar belaka. Ada beberapa individu dalam Geng KY melakukan pelbagai aktiviti, tanpa mempelawa aku dan kadang kala, Mus. Aku syak mungkin salah seorang daripada mereka tak selesa dengan kehadiran aku.

Aku sebenarnya tak sentap pun kerana memang selama ini aku percaya sepenuhnya tentang hak berkumpul dengan selesa dan gembira. Dan kita semua sedar tidak 100% orang menyukai kita, Rasulullah pun tak semua suka dan sayang, inikan aku.

Cuma persoalannya, wajarkah kita bersyak wasangka, wajarkah selindung berselindung?

Hmmm...

Ketiganya, apabila kita berkongsi luahan rasa dan pandangan dengan teman-teman, sedikit sebanyak mengukuhkan sifat toleransi sesama kita. Biar semana kontroversi ataupun dangkal sesuatu pendapat itu, apabila disuarakan dalam kumpulan yang mempunyai silaturrahim, sedikit sebanyak, setiap seorang cuba belajar memahami. Tidak semestinya, bersetuju dengan empunya badan, tetapi lebih memahami. That's the power of sharing.

Terima kasih Geng KY for another meaningful gathering. Alhamdulillah.

Geng KY Get Together

Shah and Eirul invited all members of Geng Gerai Kak Yah for a makan-makan last Sunday, plus to welcome their new housemate, Yazeed.