JANJI

KERBAU DIPEGANG PADA TALINYA

MANUSIA DIPEGANG PADA JANJINYA...

Simple... straightforward... tak macam bidalan dan peribahasa lain dalam dunia sastera dan adat melayu, peribahasa yang ini sangat simple, sangat straightforward... tak perlu diterjemah, tak perlu dihurai. Sekali baca dah faham.

Dan itulah yang aku harapkan bila orang berjanji dengan aku - terutamanya kalau orang itu adalah orang yang aku harapkan, orang yang aku anggap penting dalam hidup aku. Sebab kalau tak boleh nak pegang pada janjinya, nak pegang pada apa?

Menunaikan janji adalah ukuran sebuah kejujuran dan keikhlasan... tidak menunaikan janji walau sekecil mana janji itu adalah menandakan ketidak ikhlasan, malah juga sebuah pembohongan. Apatah lagi, jika janji itu adalah sebuah janji yang besar, yang mana pada janji itulah disandarkan sebuah harapan.

Ada yang menganggap perkara ini remeh... kalau remeh kenapa ada hadith Rasulullah mengenainya?

Dari Abu Hurairah RA, bahwasanya Rasulullah SAW bersabda, 

“Tanda orang MUNAFIQ ada tiga: bila berbicara, ia berdusta; BILA BERJANJI IA MENGINGKARI dan bila diberi kepercayaan (amanah), ia berkhianat.”

Menidakkan kepentingan menunaikan janji adalah sama dengan mengingkari hadith Rasulullah...

"Ramalan Bintang"

I came back from work late tonight (about 8pm)... like that is unusual... hah!!!

Anyway... while I was driving, in a slight drizzle, my mind went wondering, like that was unusual too, and I suddenly got a craving for popiah... dont know why... but I was thinking... kat mana nak cari popiah malam malam buta ni... and what was worse is that I have a dr's appointment tomorrow morning. I have been an extremely good girl today,  I skipped lunch and had only plain water all day today... just to make sure my blood sugar stays below 8 tomorrow... (oops.. I did have a cup of nescafe 3 in 1 regular at around 3pm... yikes!!)

Aaaah... thank god for pasar malam... so I dialed MJ's no to ask him to go to pasar malam with me... Yup! I'm guilty of talking on the fon (without handsfree) while driving, which I very very very seldom did... that shows how bad my craving was... he told me to wait at home as he would pick me up in his car (I'm not sure if I told him that I was actually driving home from the office when I called him)...  when I reached home, he was already waiting in front of my house...

Hm... panjangnya mukaddimah... actually the purpose of me writing this entry tonight is to talk about an old song that I heard on the radio on my way home from the pasar malam...

The title of the song is the same as the title of my entry above... the singers are A. Ramlie and Maria Bachok... and to my own surprise, despite not hearing the song for years I believe, I still could remember most of the lyrics and I was even able to sing along with it...

I tried googling for the song on youtube as soon as finished eating one whole popiah plus a bowl of curry mee... but to no avail... I only found a video of a couple singing (well... trying to sing) that song on youtube... cari lirik pun tak jumpa...

I'm sure I'm gonna be humming that song for days to come...

Here are some of the lyrics as I remember them...

AR: Mengapakah engkau diam wajahmu pun muram...

MB: ku teringat sabda bintang nasib masa depan...

AR: janganlah kau percayakan semua ramalan

MB: da da da da da da da (forgot this line)...

MB: Dalam sabda bintangku kita akan berpisah

disebabkan sengketa atau kerna bencana

hati rasa tak tentu kalau benar berlaku...

tiada tempat mengadu.....

hm... lupa pulak the rest of the lyrics...

Anyway... sesiapa baca blog ni, kalau ada MP3 ke, or come across the song on youtube ke, or know the rest of the lyrics ke... please email to me at aasmahani@gmail.com. I would really appreciate it. :)

Oh... it's almost 10.30pm... dah way over my bedtime... good night... hope that I will dream about my childhood tonight (circa 1970s) when the song was popular... and life was so much easier and I was definitely sooo much happier...

Tripple wedding

We often hear of double wedding... itu pun org cakap kalau boleh elakkan... sebab nanti org banding2 kan pengantin mana yg lebih cantik, yg mana dapat anak dulu, suami siapa lebih handsome... etc etc etc...

Tripple wedding memang amat jarang kita dengar, in fact I think I have never been to one such wedding, until recently... it actually took place on 11 December 2010 and the wedding is (or is it the weddings are?...) of my cousins... 3 beradik sekali kawin... all girls... Munirah, Nuwairah and Athirah...

These girls are daughters of my auntie who is actually my late father's sister from my grandfather's second wife. My late father is the second son of the first wife... huh! berbelit salasilahnya.... so, nak ceritanya, we are not that close... jumpa pun beberapa tahun sekali.... last jumpa my auntie ni rasanya masa wedding of her first son in December 2004...

Father of the brides are of the very alim type... so no bersanding2... there was even no pelamin... ada cuma satu corner tu ada lah letak 2 teak chairs with a very simple curtain at the back with a big frame of a quranic verse on it... if we can call that pelamin, that would be the simplest pelamin I've ever seen in my whole life...

So, oleh sebab tak ada bersanding, I just requested them to take the following photos with them...

MJ and me and the brides (I just remember the middle one is Munirah, the other 2 are Nuwairah and Athirah, tapi tak ingat which is which... that's how "close" we are... hehe..)

MJ and me and the grooms - nak tau which groom belongs to which bride, just look at the color of their outfit, the blue groom belongs to Munirah, the pink groom belongs to the pink bride and the purple groom is the purple bride's husband... :-) In fact, bilik pengantin was also decorated ikut tema color masing2.... the curtain on the door of each room is according the pengantin's color theme... my auntie said "to make sure pengantin tak tersalah bilik malam ni"... hahaha...

Me and the mother of the brides (my auntie, I call her Acik Leha)

Me and my girl, Mia (she is 13 and already taller than me...)

Semoga ketiga2 pengantin ni hidup bahagia sampai akhir hayat... and you bet next time I see their mother, my first question would be... siapa dpt anak dulu... hehe...

Interesting news on TV3 tonight

I was watching "house arrest" on HBO tonight... the movie was quite interesting that I almost missed TV3 news... so, as soon as the movie was over (almost 9pm) I quickly flipped the channel to TV3...

And... extremely interesting news was shown...

KAMBING BERANAK ANJING...

yup, u read it right... KAMBING BERANAK ANJING... kambing hitam pulak tu...

hahahaha... how appropriate... hahahaha...

Now I know why.... rupanya all those anak kambing are actually anak anjing...

Read more here:  http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/Anakkambingberwajahanjing/Article

and here's the foto:

Azam baru...

New year hasnt begun, but I have already decided on my new year resolution, that is...

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending...

 Random photos...

On the way back from kampung after Raya Haji... waiting for the kids outside of the ladies' room...

Annual dinner UMW Corporation 23/11/2010

Perfect weekend...

Weekend is meant for rest... but I very seldom get to do that... being a working mom, weekend is normally for washing and cleaning and dusting and mopping and what ever one thousand and one "ing" more... but not this weekend... not out of plan, it just happened... and I just have to thank my kids and MJ for that...

At first, I was contemplating to go to a wedding on Saturday - wedding of a cousin's son. The invitation was put on facebook (tagged by the groom's auntie). I asked my brother if he was going, and he answered before I even finished my question: "buat apa?" or "for what?"... The question that my brother gave as an answer to my question was because of a long story or rather long history that I dont wish to elaborate here, because the story/history would open many old wounds... and I'm just in such a good mood today that I do not wish to dwell on sad old family history... So, I ended up staying home all day Saturday (after coming back from office of course - yup, I work half day on Saturday)...

Since dah tak jadi pegi kenduri kawin, I thought I would just stay home and just lazing around in front of the TV sampai malam... but tiba2 MJ called and asked to pick him up at the bus stand at around 9pm. He is normally away during weekends and only comes back on Sunday. So, naturally I asked him "mimpi apa balik sini on saturday?" His answer was short "Saja.."...

Anyway... dah MJ balik awal, I suddenly got an idea to bring the kids see a movie... so, that's what we did.. me, MJ and the kids... we managed to catch Rapunzel at the 10pm show...

It was a good movie... and it was a good (short) outing... MJ was like a little boy asking so many questions about the characters in the movie... hahaha... a few times I had to hush him.. well.. for one, rapunzel is a fairy tale that normally little girls read about, while boys are busy playing with guns...

And today, we just spent lazing around in the living room... tido satu hari... best... sampai nak masak pun malas... it was Muaz who prepared lunch today (ayam masak kicap and vegetables)... thanks Muaz... my own chef in black.. hehe..

So... I had a very good rest this weekend (which is very rare)... to prepare for another week  (minus Tuesday - public holiday for Maal Hijrah) of kelam kabut at the office.. I just hope that there wont be any bidan terjun job for me to do again this week...

Bisikan hati...

Tiba2 teringat lagu ni...

Dengarlah bisikan hasrat hati

Yang merindu menjelma kembali

Ingatanku yang telah lalu

Bersama berjanji sehidup semati

Kini tinggal hanyalah kenangan

Dikau hilang di mana gerangan

Tiada berita kudapati

Hanya ingatanku di masa yang lalu

Kasihanlah kepada ku sayang

Tiap hari jua wajahmu terbayang

Ampunkanlah segala dosaku

Seandainya kita tak lagi bertemu

Dengarlah bisikan hasrat hati

Yang merindu menjelma kembali

Ingatanku tetap bersemadi

Walaupun kau kini telah mungkir janji

Another last minute assignment...

I tend to get more and more of this nowadays...like I have become the official bidan terjun for the faculty... Aduh... letihlah macam ni...

One colleague commented: "sebab u perform jugak walaupun last minute, that's why management pick u..."

Is that really the reason? Serba salah pulak kita... kalau buat keje ala kadar, kena label "sloppy", kalau buat elok2 asyik kena "pick" la pulak... diluah mati mak ditelan mati bapak...

But really... I'm really getting tired of being assigned last minute to do something which sometimes is not something small... like the time I was asked to be in the organising committee for an event launched by a minister... nasib baik the launching went well, kalau tidak, mau putus leher aku kena pancung...

The thing about last minute assignment that pissed me off is that I normally have to set aside something else which is actually my real KPI or tugas hakiki... So, when the deadline of the original KPI is not met, sure kena pulak, the appointment-to-do-the-last-minute-assignment excuse is never accepted. Instead, bad time management is usually blamed...

In some instances, like in today's case, I was told to prepare a presentation to be tabled to the management tomorrow, this morning... And I had a class in the morning, and 3 meetings in the afternoon - all these cannot be canceled or postponed... So, basically I was not given any time to prepare for the presentation. When I commented about it to my immediate boss, she said "u kan otai... kacang je tu..."... aduh...

Letih... letih... but what to do... as one friend puts it "kita ni mentimun, mereka durian, menggolek kita luka, digelek kita luka"... huhu... sob sob...

Oklah, got to go... got to finish the presentation... wish me luck... :))

Facebook...

To me, like people always say about guns... it is not the gun that kills people, it is the person pulling the trigger...

Even drugs can be used as remedies... like me right now... I'm on drugs (medicine) for my blood pressure and blood sugar problems... as a friend puts it, if you have 1kg of morphine in your pocket during solat, your solat is still sah...

Anyway... FB can be used for many good causes... yet ada juga nak salah guna... agaknya sebab tu la FB is banned in China....