Written: Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:45 pm
A couple years ago, I went to Gedung at Sri Serdang for a quick lunch. While eating my lunch, I saw a yellow haired old man who sat across a few tables away, waved his hand and smiled at me. He was persistent. "Ish siapa pula Punk tua rambut kuning itu?" I told myself. After 20 minutes, I began to recognize this old punk. He is Dayang's husband (Dayang is our faculty typist).
I quickly went to his table to apologise for not recognizing him quick enough. "Sorrylah tak kenal tadi. Rambut hang kuning. Puas aku nak mengenal siapa punk ni!" He blamed his wife's hair dye. "Elok brown on her. Tapi jadi kuning kat rambut aku! Nasib badan!"
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A couple of months later, I saw this hadith:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
When a man who had dyed himself with henna passed by the Prophet peace_be_upon_him), he said: How fine this is! When another man who had dyed himself with henna and katam passed by, he said: This is better than that. Then another man who had dyed himself with yellow dye, passed by, he said: This is better than all those. (Riwayat Abu Daud 33:4199)
If Dayang's husband had stumbled across this hadith, he could have answered "Inilah warna dye rambut yang terbaik ikut sunnah!"
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Two weeks ago, I "balik kampung". My brother passed me a remark. "Puhhh… rambut belakang hang dah penuh uban!" I said "Ye ke? This is the second time someone told me about it!" My young female colleague was the first person to tell me about it six month ago.
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Today I came across this hadith:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Jews and the Christians do not dye (their grey hair), so you shall do the opposite of what they do (i.e. dye your grey hair and beards)." (Bukhari 4:56:668).
Nampaknya probably it is about time for me to dye my hair blonde or light brown as uban nampaknya dah mula mercup on my misai! Belum terbuka hati nak pakai kuning dan hitam pula tidak digalakkan.
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported that Abu Qubafa was led (to the andience of the Holy Prophet) on the day of the Conquest of Mecca and his head and beard were white like hyssop, whereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Change it with something but avoid black. (Muslim 024: 5244)
Care to join me? Yang peliknya the westerners yang telah menglamor dan mengkomersilkan sunah!
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Getting Younger?
Written: Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:03 am
I have just come back from Pulau Sayak, Kedah. A quite kampung! Officially I am now a certified DoF consultant for QAP/SPLAM. My instructor was my former student. 2 participants for DoF auditors were my former students' ex-students(just graduated).
At the airport (masa nak balik), one of the girls asked (barangkali cuba pancing2 my age) "Dah lama Dr mengajar di UPM?" I replied "Dah 22 tahun!" Terkejut dia "Oh masa itu, saya baru 1 tahun!" dan she stopped following me!
Today, while shaving, I noticed uban yang dulunya mercup di belakang sudah merebak ke tepi...... Oh....? Dalam hati terfikir juga "Sooner I will be able to dye my hair blonde.......!"
I have just come back from Pulau Sayak, Kedah. A quite kampung! Officially I am now a certified DoF consultant for QAP/SPLAM. My instructor was my former student. 2 participants for DoF auditors were my former students' ex-students(just graduated).
At the airport (masa nak balik), one of the girls asked (barangkali cuba pancing2 my age) "Dah lama Dr mengajar di UPM?" I replied "Dah 22 tahun!" Terkejut dia "Oh masa itu, saya baru 1 tahun!" dan she stopped following me!
Today, while shaving, I noticed uban yang dulunya mercup di belakang sudah merebak ke tepi...... Oh....? Dalam hati terfikir juga "Sooner I will be able to dye my hair blonde.......!"
Something About Mary
Written: Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:31 pm
Sebenarnya this story dah lama siap. Tapi bulan munajat merdeka dah habis. Tak jadilah nak siarkan the full version. So I bagi sinopsis saja..
She is Anne and not Mary. I first saw her on board of Hasry Express bus the same raya Hafsah balik Malaysia. She suddenly stood in front of me and gave that killing smile directly on my face. I was so infactuated by that smile & face for a very2 long time. I made a silly mistake and then made a "very late move" to rectify the situation. Terlalu banyak peristiwa berlaku after that move. We kept in touch for many many years... mostly in a semi-poetic way... I left for US, I ditunangkan, a year later she ditunangkan, cooled off before her wedding, I balik Malaysia, I got married in 85 only to find out she was still single (putus tunang), sambung balik our correspondence, she got married a year later to the only boy she ever dated (once in late 70s), she dapat tiga anak, Allah blessed me with my 1st kid (in Wales) after 6 years of marriage.... And a year later, I sent her my last correspondence maaf zahir batin dalam "Poskad Dari Andalus".
p/s
Months into our "long distance" friendship, I managed to write my only radio drama script "Sayangnya kau tak tahu......!" before my last semester in UPM. It was a fiction (about a boy who merajuk ke Wisconsin and a girl who was too late to declare her love). But jalan cerita somehow hampir2 benar kebenarannya (I later went to Washington and she was 6 yrs too late?). But Tok Udin did not have the chance to direct and produce the drama as Anne was not a Paya Redan girl. She is a Paya Mas girl. A Hafsah produced and directed it. Not our Hafsah but the famous Hafsah Hassan. The drama was aired sometime in 1980. Dapatlah a quite handsome honorarium. Probably I should start creative writing again? I saw Lim Swee Tin (yang cikgu Tajul selalu bacakan puisinya)a couple of months ago. He encouraged me to start it again. May be I should make a sequel to that drama in telemovie as now I got more characters to include! Beware I may include Hj Nasir as the co-star!
Sebenarnya this story dah lama siap. Tapi bulan munajat merdeka dah habis. Tak jadilah nak siarkan the full version. So I bagi sinopsis saja..
She is Anne and not Mary. I first saw her on board of Hasry Express bus the same raya Hafsah balik Malaysia. She suddenly stood in front of me and gave that killing smile directly on my face. I was so infactuated by that smile & face for a very2 long time. I made a silly mistake and then made a "very late move" to rectify the situation. Terlalu banyak peristiwa berlaku after that move. We kept in touch for many many years... mostly in a semi-poetic way... I left for US, I ditunangkan, a year later she ditunangkan, cooled off before her wedding, I balik Malaysia, I got married in 85 only to find out she was still single (putus tunang), sambung balik our correspondence, she got married a year later to the only boy she ever dated (once in late 70s), she dapat tiga anak, Allah blessed me with my 1st kid (in Wales) after 6 years of marriage.... And a year later, I sent her my last correspondence maaf zahir batin dalam "Poskad Dari Andalus".
p/s
Months into our "long distance" friendship, I managed to write my only radio drama script "Sayangnya kau tak tahu......!" before my last semester in UPM. It was a fiction (about a boy who merajuk ke Wisconsin and a girl who was too late to declare her love). But jalan cerita somehow hampir2 benar kebenarannya (I later went to Washington and she was 6 yrs too late?). But Tok Udin did not have the chance to direct and produce the drama as Anne was not a Paya Redan girl. She is a Paya Mas girl. A Hafsah produced and directed it. Not our Hafsah but the famous Hafsah Hassan. The drama was aired sometime in 1980. Dapatlah a quite handsome honorarium. Probably I should start creative writing again? I saw Lim Swee Tin (yang cikgu Tajul selalu bacakan puisinya)a couple of months ago. He encouraged me to start it again. May be I should make a sequel to that drama in telemovie as now I got more characters to include! Beware I may include Hj Nasir as the co-star!
Flirting With Kavita
Written: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:55 am
I was among the "unfortunates" who failed to join other brilliant classmates and Hafsah to UK. Lebih menyiksakan then, dipaksa ambil Dip. Ikan di UPM. Who else among 5E2s went to UPM Main Campus after MCE? Zul Monalisa, Ibrahim, Noi, and Normah. Ada yang tertinggal? Tok Udin and Jalil Marzuki went to UPM Sarawak. Dari other classes di Serdang: Rozhan
During the first year, we had most of the classes together with the Home Tech girls and Dip Ternak students. There were Eva of Manjui, Zeta-Jones of JB and Kavita Kaur of Parit Bakar. Eva and Z in Dip Home Tech while Kavita ambil Dip Ternak. The extremely fair Eva has a natural light brown straight hair and was someone who I enjoyed "main mata" across the lecture halls. A habit I picked up dalam 5E2 (you know with who). She somewhat got addicted to that. Her best friend tried to work something for us but failed as both of us became frozen every time she left us alone. Senyum memanjang aja dan tergagap-gagap. Tak jadi apa. Arghhh… Or probably I takut Noi pi khabag kat Hafsah. So unfortunate that Jalil Marzuki or Tok Udin was not around to "pschy up" or "coach" me. But her "jelingan manja" inspired my first published poem "Sekali sekali". Dapatlah setakat RM15.
Zeta was the girl who always chased me in the lecture halls, tutorials and labs. Not bad looking but I felt "lemas" whenever she was around. Probably because I never or seldom fancy curlies and sowo matangs other than slightly curly but fair Hafsah. Tried many ways to avoid her including masuk lecture lambat, and always refused her request to borrow my homeworks, lab reports etc (but dengan Eva selalu pula I volunteered beri pinjam) and to concerts (yang ni senang mengelak dengan alasan "I tak suka tengok perkara lara dan maksiat"). But tup-tup, there she was already beside me.
Kavita was a sweet 165cm slim fair girl. Sweet macam Kavita, slim macam Aleeza (Kassim). Her friends called her Bai (At that time, Man Bai was unheard). Whenever I didn't fancy riding my twin cylindered Honda 125 home, we sometime sama-sama planned "balik kampung" on Hasry Express. Z stopped chasing me when she found out I "balik kampung" with Kavita. Alhamdullillah. Kavita was my savior. I began to somehow like Kavita although my male coursemates discouraged it by saying "Tulang! Tulang! Buat sup pun, tak dapat apa!!". And we remained "hanya kawan!". I did not pursue beyond that kerana khuatir Noi akan khabag kat Hafsah.
In Year Two, we no longer had similar classes with those girls. Kavita remained as a friend. Nevertheless, I noticed that whenever I passed by her and her Bollywood mates, her mates always became excited and suka "singong-singong" her. Being not as handsome as Jalil Mohd or Jalil Marzuki or Razak Marzuki or Jamal K or Ibrahim or Nasir waimah Tok Udin or Y Munajat, I somehow liked those attentions. But things became "luarbiasa" when I accompanied my cousin's son to her house during the next raya. I suspected he fancied her selepas gagal dengan Asma Aini. Her sisters treated me in a "luarbiasa" way. They said they like the way I talked, the way I smiled, the way I make jokes etc etc…. Tenggelam my cousin's son (sepupu Ahmad Reza. Another sentimental Y who till now remains single. Probably due to this or the curse of Asma Aini, Eva's classmate. Pernahlah teman kan Y on his double date with Asma. Asma was a beautiful girl, putih melepak with mata galak. Ramai yang minat. But I did not found her attractive because her curly hair. She kept changing her pak we every semester as each of them had to repeat semester termasuk Y. During my 3 years in UPM, I tried my best to avoid being seen with her. Takut orang speculate that I would be her next victim!) as if he was not there. This "strange" treatment happened again while we, Kavita, Noi and other Muarians were waiting for our Hasry Express to "balik kampus" after that raya. The Bollywood sisters even teased me for refusing to sit with Kavita "Hi buat-buat malu dan macam tak biasa pula!?".
I went up to Noi and asked her "Kenapa kakak2 Kavita treated me in a "luarbiasa" way?"
Noi said "Don't you know?"
"Tahu apa pula?"
"She has a crush on you. Hari2 di dorm tak ada kerja lain, asyik cerita pasal you!"
"Ye ke Noi?"
"Ye. But we don't think she is right for you. We all tak setuju!" I guess "we" means Noi and Normah!
"Oh…….." And suddenly I lost my little interest in her. Gone another possibility! Noi's jinx? Or mungkinkah kerana I began to like the Paya Mas girl (bukan Paya Redan) whom I met in the same bus and had a dinner semeja during the bus break (leaving Kavita terkebil-kebil unbelieved and devastated at another table. Was I so cruel just kerana nasihat Noi!)?
P/s Hafsah balik Malaysia that raya and I received her Raya card prior to her return. That was the last time she wrote to me. She told me she gonna move to another city and promised to inform me her new address. (All that raya I wished I could call her di JB but a phone was a luxury to my family then. I also wished she would visit Noi and Normah di UPM seperti mana yang pernah dilakukan Jalil Mohd, Sujan and Noraziah).
Bersambung ….. Something about Mary (the Paya Mas girl).
I was among the "unfortunates" who failed to join other brilliant classmates and Hafsah to UK. Lebih menyiksakan then, dipaksa ambil Dip. Ikan di UPM. Who else among 5E2s went to UPM Main Campus after MCE? Zul Monalisa, Ibrahim, Noi, and Normah. Ada yang tertinggal? Tok Udin and Jalil Marzuki went to UPM Sarawak. Dari other classes di Serdang: Rozhan
During the first year, we had most of the classes together with the Home Tech girls and Dip Ternak students. There were Eva of Manjui, Zeta-Jones of JB and Kavita Kaur of Parit Bakar. Eva and Z in Dip Home Tech while Kavita ambil Dip Ternak. The extremely fair Eva has a natural light brown straight hair and was someone who I enjoyed "main mata" across the lecture halls. A habit I picked up dalam 5E2 (you know with who). She somewhat got addicted to that. Her best friend tried to work something for us but failed as both of us became frozen every time she left us alone. Senyum memanjang aja dan tergagap-gagap. Tak jadi apa. Arghhh… Or probably I takut Noi pi khabag kat Hafsah. So unfortunate that Jalil Marzuki or Tok Udin was not around to "pschy up" or "coach" me. But her "jelingan manja" inspired my first published poem "Sekali sekali". Dapatlah setakat RM15.
Zeta was the girl who always chased me in the lecture halls, tutorials and labs. Not bad looking but I felt "lemas" whenever she was around. Probably because I never or seldom fancy curlies and sowo matangs other than slightly curly but fair Hafsah. Tried many ways to avoid her including masuk lecture lambat, and always refused her request to borrow my homeworks, lab reports etc (but dengan Eva selalu pula I volunteered beri pinjam) and to concerts (yang ni senang mengelak dengan alasan "I tak suka tengok perkara lara dan maksiat"). But tup-tup, there she was already beside me.
Kavita was a sweet 165cm slim fair girl. Sweet macam Kavita, slim macam Aleeza (Kassim). Her friends called her Bai (At that time, Man Bai was unheard). Whenever I didn't fancy riding my twin cylindered Honda 125 home, we sometime sama-sama planned "balik kampung" on Hasry Express. Z stopped chasing me when she found out I "balik kampung" with Kavita. Alhamdullillah. Kavita was my savior. I began to somehow like Kavita although my male coursemates discouraged it by saying "Tulang! Tulang! Buat sup pun, tak dapat apa!!". And we remained "hanya kawan!". I did not pursue beyond that kerana khuatir Noi akan khabag kat Hafsah.
In Year Two, we no longer had similar classes with those girls. Kavita remained as a friend. Nevertheless, I noticed that whenever I passed by her and her Bollywood mates, her mates always became excited and suka "singong-singong" her. Being not as handsome as Jalil Mohd or Jalil Marzuki or Razak Marzuki or Jamal K or Ibrahim or Nasir waimah Tok Udin or Y Munajat, I somehow liked those attentions. But things became "luarbiasa" when I accompanied my cousin's son to her house during the next raya. I suspected he fancied her selepas gagal dengan Asma Aini. Her sisters treated me in a "luarbiasa" way. They said they like the way I talked, the way I smiled, the way I make jokes etc etc…. Tenggelam my cousin's son (sepupu Ahmad Reza. Another sentimental Y who till now remains single. Probably due to this or the curse of Asma Aini, Eva's classmate. Pernahlah teman kan Y on his double date with Asma. Asma was a beautiful girl, putih melepak with mata galak. Ramai yang minat. But I did not found her attractive because her curly hair. She kept changing her pak we every semester as each of them had to repeat semester termasuk Y. During my 3 years in UPM, I tried my best to avoid being seen with her. Takut orang speculate that I would be her next victim!) as if he was not there. This "strange" treatment happened again while we, Kavita, Noi and other Muarians were waiting for our Hasry Express to "balik kampus" after that raya. The Bollywood sisters even teased me for refusing to sit with Kavita "Hi buat-buat malu dan macam tak biasa pula!?".
I went up to Noi and asked her "Kenapa kakak2 Kavita treated me in a "luarbiasa" way?"
Noi said "Don't you know?"
"Tahu apa pula?"
"She has a crush on you. Hari2 di dorm tak ada kerja lain, asyik cerita pasal you!"
"Ye ke Noi?"
"Ye. But we don't think she is right for you. We all tak setuju!" I guess "we" means Noi and Normah!
"Oh…….." And suddenly I lost my little interest in her. Gone another possibility! Noi's jinx? Or mungkinkah kerana I began to like the Paya Mas girl (bukan Paya Redan) whom I met in the same bus and had a dinner semeja during the bus break (leaving Kavita terkebil-kebil unbelieved and devastated at another table. Was I so cruel just kerana nasihat Noi!)?
P/s Hafsah balik Malaysia that raya and I received her Raya card prior to her return. That was the last time she wrote to me. She told me she gonna move to another city and promised to inform me her new address. (All that raya I wished I could call her di JB but a phone was a luxury to my family then. I also wished she would visit Noi and Normah di UPM seperti mana yang pernah dilakukan Jalil Mohd, Sujan and Noraziah).
Bersambung ….. Something about Mary (the Paya Mas girl).
Dating Dang Suria II
Written: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:10 pm
A good movie title? It was my first date (Sebab itu masih teringat although I faham pesanan Hafsah kepada Nasir to "move on!"). Although I chickened out mulanya (too nervous!), but the 1.5h date went on 1.5h later than planned. Had to thank Jalil Marzuki for his "encouragement". Rugi 1.5h to be alone with my first date.
Malangnya seconds after my first date, ia jadi kontroversi 3 segi. By the next morning, dah jadi 4 segi. By the time Hafsah forgave me, dah jadi 5 segi and ...... Yes, 24h before our Annual Dinner, ia became 8 segi! And the winner that night was Osman Semat who was not part of the segis! But I received a kezutan that night. My Hafsah bersusah payah brought Arwah F to meet me (for a 2 min 1-way chat as arwah hanya senyum tanpa words) but had a pix with the former in orange taken by Tok Udin. So confusing!!!
And I had never had a real 1 to 1 date after that till 1981. Double dates tu keraplah. Too takut my Hafsah tak restu. What a loser!
A good movie title? It was my first date (Sebab itu masih teringat although I faham pesanan Hafsah kepada Nasir to "move on!"). Although I chickened out mulanya (too nervous!), but the 1.5h date went on 1.5h later than planned. Had to thank Jalil Marzuki for his "encouragement". Rugi 1.5h to be alone with my first date.
Malangnya seconds after my first date, ia jadi kontroversi 3 segi. By the next morning, dah jadi 4 segi. By the time Hafsah forgave me, dah jadi 5 segi and ...... Yes, 24h before our Annual Dinner, ia became 8 segi! And the winner that night was Osman Semat who was not part of the segis! But I received a kezutan that night. My Hafsah bersusah payah brought Arwah F to meet me (for a 2 min 1-way chat as arwah hanya senyum tanpa words) but had a pix with the former in orange taken by Tok Udin. So confusing!!!
And I had never had a real 1 to 1 date after that till 1981. Double dates tu keraplah. Too takut my Hafsah tak restu. What a loser!
Munajat Merdeka 2004: Dating Dang Suria
Written: Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:53 pm
Apa sebut-sebut Munajat? Just mengingatkan peristiwa luarbiasa di
1976.
Jalil Marzuki planned a date with his 2M girl dekat-dekat penghujung penggal 3. Saya cadangkan mohonlah girlnya ajak classmatenya Dang Suria sekali. Boleh double date.
Dang Suria ni saya amati sering memandang dan melemparkan senyum manis kepada saya pada setiap perhimpunan pagi. So saya ingin cuba nasib. Sebelumnya saya pernah menghantar kad misteri kepadanya.
Pada petang berkenaan the two girls came to the agreed place. Di luar jangkaan saya. Saya yang tak pernah berdating menjadi panic. I chickened out in the last minute dan tak berani turun dari kelas 5E2.
Jalil pergi berjumpa girlnya. Lepas the "date", Jalil scolded me kerana memalukan dia & his "girl". Saya berasa sangat guilty dan berjanji dengan Jalil untuk meminta maaf dengan Dang Suria.
Kebetulan semasa saya dalam perjalanan pulang ke asrama, saya ternampak Dang Suria di bilik Home Science. Kerana janji saya dengan Jalil, saya paksa dan beranikan diri pi jumpa the girl. Saya meminta tolong Syed Faisal, budak form 1 yang kebetulan ada di kelas Form 1 yang berhampiran bilik Home Science itu, untuk memberitahu Dang Suria yang saya ingin berjumpa.
Nasib baiklah Dang Suria masih sudi berjumpa saya di bilik Form 1M1 tu. Saya segera memohon maaf dan menyatakan tujuan ingin berkenalan. Cepat-cepat dia warned "Kawan aje tahu! Lebih2 tak boleh!!". I was taken aback mulanya. Sudahnya she was the bubbly one. Kami bertukar cerita walaupun saya yang lebih mendengar cerita-ceritanya. She even told me that ada 2 boys nak jumpa dia that afternoon. Dia memilih berjumpa saya. Proud to be "the chosen one". Sempat juga saya bertanya "Boyfriends ke?" "Tidak." jawabnya.
Saya memberitahunya tentang sayalah pengirim kad misteri beberapa bulan terdahulu. Kandungan kad itu ringkas yang lebih kurang "Jangan kerap merenung abang sewaktu assembly, takut abang tergoda. Abang 5E2". To my suprise dengan senyuman manis she said "Saya dah lama agak dah siapa pengirim itu. Betullah tekaan saya!" Hmmmmmmmm maknanya she knew siapa yang sering direnungnya di assemblies... dan saya bukannya terperasan sendiri!
Sedang kami seronok berbual, tiba2 Y Munajat lalu di koridor. He was one of the other boys yang ingin berjumpa Dang Suria petang itu. He saw us! Since dia tak menunjukkan sebarang reaksi, tidak menyerbu masuk dan Dang Suria kata dia belum ada boyfriend, we thought it was OKle. Bersembang teruslah kami sehingga lewat asar. It was a good and happy date. We were happy. Bersetuju berjumpa lagi jika berkesempatan. Dang Suria ke bilik Home Science semula (sebelum pulang ke asrama puteri).
Sebaik saja Dang Suria masuk ke bilik Home Science, saya beredar untuk pulang. Gembira saya rupanya sebentar.
Tanggapan kami tentang kesportingan Y Munajat was wrong! Sebaik sahaja saya melalui kelas 1M2 Y Munajat grabbed me. Y Munajat bertanya beberapa kali "Mana Dang Suria?". Sangat amarah.
Melihat kemarahan Y Munajat yang meruap-ruap, terpaksalah saya berbohong sunat kata she had already long gone to her dorm. Saya bimbang sekiranya terjadi sesuatu yang tidak baik jika Y Munajat tahu Dang Suria ada di bilik Home Science. Biarlah saya hadapi consequencenya seorang. Saya minta Y Munajat berbanyak mengucap dan bersabar.
Dengan nada yang penuh emosi dan sedih, he told me he was deeply in love with her. Sudah lama menaruh harapan tinggi dengan Dang Suria itu. Bla bla bla dengan penuh emosi. Terkejut beruklah saya kerana tak pernah tahu tentang itu. Dang pun khabag belum ada pak we. Jalil dan girlnya tidak maklumkan atau prewarned saya yang Dang sedang diwoo Y Munajat atau sesiapa. Saya pun bukannya jenis yang suka merebut malah mengalah.
Kerana tak sanggup lihat Y Munajat terlalu patah hati dan mengeriau, I had to promise Y Munajat (now probably Prof Y Munajat) berkali-kali not to contact Dang Suria anymore. Saya kata "MCE dan SPM pun dah dekat. Lupakanlah. Anggaplah yang kau lihat tadi tidak berlaku. Mari kita tumpukan perhatian kat exam besar kita! Saya belum asar. Waktupun dah nak habis. Janganlah buat saya miss asar."
Saya berkali-kali memohon maaf. Y Munajat reda bila saya berjanji begitu.
Namun saya sedih juga kerana saya dan Dang Suria baru saja berkenalan dan berdating secara rasmi. Saya pun belum ada girlfriend dan baru first time berdating. Dang Suria is a nice girl. I was beginning to like her. Apatah lagi renungan manjanya. I was gonna miss that.
Apalah nasib saya. Esoknya pula, my best buddy Hafsah refused to talk to me. Sampai beberapa hari. 5E2 girls lain pun pandang den semacam. Puas risik2 akhirnya Noi beritahu yang dia pi sampaikan kat Hafsah berita I "dated" Dang Suria. Rupanya Dang was excited about the date dan khabag kat Noi.
So I had to promise Hafsah not to contact or "date" Dang Suria anymore. Sampai la ni I masih tak faham kenapa Hafsah tak restu Dang Suria although she told me "she was trying hard to get arwah (slained) Faizah Arshad for me"! Betul ke? Susah nak percaya. Tapi terima ajelah alasannya pada masa tu, asalkan my Hafsah mahu bertegur sapa, senyum2 etc. Masa itu, I tak boleh hidup jika my Hafsah terus membisu. Wonder why juga?
I kept my promises sampai la ni (walaupun when she was in UPM, I was her young fellow). So gonelah satu possibility. An S(Hmmmmm...isteri sekarang ini pun S). Wonder if Y Munajat ended up marrying her? Saya ada dimaklumkan rakan-rakan Y bahawa Y menghantar banyak puisi-puisi panjang kepada Dang selepas kejadian itu.
p/s Entri 2010: Bila terdengar lagu Diari Seorang Lelaki Pretty Ugly, teringat saya jelingan manja Dang Suria ni.
Bersambung.....
Apa sebut-sebut Munajat? Just mengingatkan peristiwa luarbiasa di
1976.
Jalil Marzuki planned a date with his 2M girl dekat-dekat penghujung penggal 3. Saya cadangkan mohonlah girlnya ajak classmatenya Dang Suria sekali. Boleh double date.
Dang Suria ni saya amati sering memandang dan melemparkan senyum manis kepada saya pada setiap perhimpunan pagi. So saya ingin cuba nasib. Sebelumnya saya pernah menghantar kad misteri kepadanya.
Pada petang berkenaan the two girls came to the agreed place. Di luar jangkaan saya. Saya yang tak pernah berdating menjadi panic. I chickened out in the last minute dan tak berani turun dari kelas 5E2.
Jalil pergi berjumpa girlnya. Lepas the "date", Jalil scolded me kerana memalukan dia & his "girl". Saya berasa sangat guilty dan berjanji dengan Jalil untuk meminta maaf dengan Dang Suria.
Kebetulan semasa saya dalam perjalanan pulang ke asrama, saya ternampak Dang Suria di bilik Home Science. Kerana janji saya dengan Jalil, saya paksa dan beranikan diri pi jumpa the girl. Saya meminta tolong Syed Faisal, budak form 1 yang kebetulan ada di kelas Form 1 yang berhampiran bilik Home Science itu, untuk memberitahu Dang Suria yang saya ingin berjumpa.
Nasib baiklah Dang Suria masih sudi berjumpa saya di bilik Form 1M1 tu. Saya segera memohon maaf dan menyatakan tujuan ingin berkenalan. Cepat-cepat dia warned "Kawan aje tahu! Lebih2 tak boleh!!". I was taken aback mulanya. Sudahnya she was the bubbly one. Kami bertukar cerita walaupun saya yang lebih mendengar cerita-ceritanya. She even told me that ada 2 boys nak jumpa dia that afternoon. Dia memilih berjumpa saya. Proud to be "the chosen one". Sempat juga saya bertanya "Boyfriends ke?" "Tidak." jawabnya.
Saya memberitahunya tentang sayalah pengirim kad misteri beberapa bulan terdahulu. Kandungan kad itu ringkas yang lebih kurang "Jangan kerap merenung abang sewaktu assembly, takut abang tergoda. Abang 5E2". To my suprise dengan senyuman manis she said "Saya dah lama agak dah siapa pengirim itu. Betullah tekaan saya!" Hmmmmmmmm maknanya she knew siapa yang sering direnungnya di assemblies... dan saya bukannya terperasan sendiri!
Sedang kami seronok berbual, tiba2 Y Munajat lalu di koridor. He was one of the other boys yang ingin berjumpa Dang Suria petang itu. He saw us! Since dia tak menunjukkan sebarang reaksi, tidak menyerbu masuk dan Dang Suria kata dia belum ada boyfriend, we thought it was OKle. Bersembang teruslah kami sehingga lewat asar. It was a good and happy date. We were happy. Bersetuju berjumpa lagi jika berkesempatan. Dang Suria ke bilik Home Science semula (sebelum pulang ke asrama puteri).
Sebaik saja Dang Suria masuk ke bilik Home Science, saya beredar untuk pulang. Gembira saya rupanya sebentar.
Tanggapan kami tentang kesportingan Y Munajat was wrong! Sebaik sahaja saya melalui kelas 1M2 Y Munajat grabbed me. Y Munajat bertanya beberapa kali "Mana Dang Suria?". Sangat amarah.
Melihat kemarahan Y Munajat yang meruap-ruap, terpaksalah saya berbohong sunat kata she had already long gone to her dorm. Saya bimbang sekiranya terjadi sesuatu yang tidak baik jika Y Munajat tahu Dang Suria ada di bilik Home Science. Biarlah saya hadapi consequencenya seorang. Saya minta Y Munajat berbanyak mengucap dan bersabar.
Dengan nada yang penuh emosi dan sedih, he told me he was deeply in love with her. Sudah lama menaruh harapan tinggi dengan Dang Suria itu. Bla bla bla dengan penuh emosi. Terkejut beruklah saya kerana tak pernah tahu tentang itu. Dang pun khabag belum ada pak we. Jalil dan girlnya tidak maklumkan atau prewarned saya yang Dang sedang diwoo Y Munajat atau sesiapa. Saya pun bukannya jenis yang suka merebut malah mengalah.
Kerana tak sanggup lihat Y Munajat terlalu patah hati dan mengeriau, I had to promise Y Munajat (now probably Prof Y Munajat) berkali-kali not to contact Dang Suria anymore. Saya kata "MCE dan SPM pun dah dekat. Lupakanlah. Anggaplah yang kau lihat tadi tidak berlaku. Mari kita tumpukan perhatian kat exam besar kita! Saya belum asar. Waktupun dah nak habis. Janganlah buat saya miss asar."
Saya berkali-kali memohon maaf. Y Munajat reda bila saya berjanji begitu.
Namun saya sedih juga kerana saya dan Dang Suria baru saja berkenalan dan berdating secara rasmi. Saya pun belum ada girlfriend dan baru first time berdating. Dang Suria is a nice girl. I was beginning to like her. Apatah lagi renungan manjanya. I was gonna miss that.
Apalah nasib saya. Esoknya pula, my best buddy Hafsah refused to talk to me. Sampai beberapa hari. 5E2 girls lain pun pandang den semacam. Puas risik2 akhirnya Noi beritahu yang dia pi sampaikan kat Hafsah berita I "dated" Dang Suria. Rupanya Dang was excited about the date dan khabag kat Noi.
So I had to promise Hafsah not to contact or "date" Dang Suria anymore. Sampai la ni I masih tak faham kenapa Hafsah tak restu Dang Suria although she told me "she was trying hard to get arwah (slained) Faizah Arshad for me"! Betul ke? Susah nak percaya. Tapi terima ajelah alasannya pada masa tu, asalkan my Hafsah mahu bertegur sapa, senyum2 etc. Masa itu, I tak boleh hidup jika my Hafsah terus membisu. Wonder why juga?
I kept my promises sampai la ni (walaupun when she was in UPM, I was her young fellow). So gonelah satu possibility. An S(Hmmmmm...isteri sekarang ini pun S). Wonder if Y Munajat ended up marrying her? Saya ada dimaklumkan rakan-rakan Y bahawa Y menghantar banyak puisi-puisi panjang kepada Dang selepas kejadian itu.
p/s Entri 2010: Bila terdengar lagu Diari Seorang Lelaki Pretty Ugly, teringat saya jelingan manja Dang Suria ni.
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