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!
