Saturday, June 30, 2012

A Cul-de-sac of Life

They are pouring on their best mind, tactics and everything, but the thing does not seems to move even an inch. No progress at all or, too little progress is being made.



Impasse [ im passe æmˈpɑːs ˈæmpɑːs ɪmˈpɑːs ˈɪmpɑːs]. The origin is from French word. It means a road of passage that having no exit, a cul-de-sac.

Often it is refers to a situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate: reached an impasse in the negotiations. It can be anything, such as in business negotiation, political decision making, in a war and also, in an emotional relationship.

A husband feels he can’t do anything to salvage his family. A wife thinks her husband does not care anymore. A then loving couple can’t get along any longer or, a flirt lost the charms in a midway. In an impasse situation, normally the parties are trying the hardest, with the best possible option. They are pouring on their best mind, tactics and everything, but the thing does not seems to move even an inch. Still, it bears no progress at all or, too little progress is being made.

It is a hectic, tiring, frustrating thing to experience with. And as far as the focus, the mind usually broken into pieces.

In short, a cul-de-sac.

So, what is the most likely result of an impasse?



A business negotiation cul-de-sac - A stiffer competition like Coke and Pepsi.

A political cul-de-sac - A devastating war.



A cul-de-sac in a life of a husband and wife - Try harder, if possible.

A cul-de-sac of a new relationship? Retreat. Know your limit. And go somewhere else.



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Comments:

Irna • 15 Jul 2012
Sgt bijak berkata2. Experience u sndri ke?

mie4life MOD • 17 Jul 2012
Sangat pandai memuji juga. I hope this link still works > http://kadayanuniverse.blogspot.com/2008/03/wonder-of-writing_16.html

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Go Sojiro, Keep on Smiling



One day you may find yourself get stuck in petty things and daily inconveniences and your grim face becoming the Grinch that stole Christmas.



Well, whatever transpires beneath you aren’t the concern of the entire world. Keep all the sorrow, pain, sadness within the boundary of your microcosm, at least that is what Sojiro thinks. Because up there in the entire world, all sentient beings too, are busy managing their own business.

So, you are practically all alone by yourself and therefore, you gotta cheer yourself up. here, I give you some kick starts.

Dr. Seuss - Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Louis Armstrong - When You’re Smiling

Cmon, Smile. Just keep on smiling. Like Sojiro.



But who the heck Sojiro is?

Ok I admit. I was the avid fan of japanese manga until not-so-long time ago. One of my all-time favorites is Rurouni Kenshin, or Samurai X in English.

Sojiro [Seta Sojiro] appears to be a jovial person, polite, and above all, constantly smiling. But all this manners actually stem from his tragic past. He is the the right hand of Sushio Makoto, the main antagonist character in Rurouni Kenshin. An illegitimate child that forced to then lived with the father’s family. There, the whole family were badly mistreated him. Sojiro built a defense against all the hardships by put on a smiling face, and endured the torture until they got tired of beating him and left him alone.

See? Just Smile. Smile and the world smiles with You.

And by the way, this is the work of the great Jalaluddin Rumi on smile.

A Smile and A Gentleness

There is a smile and a gentleness

inside. When I learned the name



and address of that, I went to where

you sell perfume. I begged you not 



to trouble me so with longing. Come

out and play! Flirt more naturally.



Teach me how to kiss. On the ground

a spread blanket, flame that’s caught



and burning well, cumin seeds browning,

I am inside all of this with my soul.

From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks

And the Sojiro’s tragic story of the past doesn’t simply ends there. He actually killed all of them, I mean his father’s family, shortly before he became part of Sushio’s army.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

I Believe I Can Fly

Just a short break before I move on something today.



Words sometime can be fascinating, like this one. It all started with the word “I believe …”, and it can be anything from there. Here’s some of them

R. Kelly (1006): I Believe I Can Fly

Obama: I Hope You Still Believe In Me

Katy Perry: I still believe in love

Charlie Sheen: I don’t believe in rehab

In Daily Mail: I believe I am Hitler’s grandson

George of The Jungle II: Shep the elephant that believes she is actually a dog.



Najib : A superstitious Malaysian who believes in number one, #1, numero uno. 



He is the 1 who takes credit of all the absurd programs such as 1Malaysia, BR1M, KR1M, Salam 1Malaysia and the likes. 

How about someone who wish to start anew in life?

Would you believe that? Of course you may, or you may not.

Just think like the story of the olden days when a king decided to abdicate the throne and becoming a derwish, leaving everything he posses behind. Siddartha Gautama is the classic example.

It is about the willingness to explore a new life, with lots of uncertainty, pull and push, but fresh, nevertheless. I mean a total reboot, just like a computer. Unshoulder all the burdens, or unburden oneself totally just like a newly-born baby.



Unshoulder and Unburden. Hence, here’s the last catch. I Believe I Can Fry :)

Thursday, June 21, 2012

When They Want To Write Off This Old Fossil

The machine in my room has been there since 2008.

And thinking about getting older, ehh? If only it is alive, no one understand it better than this computer. It, and I mean all computers, they will die before celebrating the second birthday. I mean years. Two years is the death on natural causes in computer life cycle.



Maybe their  lifecycle is extendable via hardware upgrade. But even so after 5 years, there is nothing much you can get out of it, except much of frustation, unbearable waiting time and lots of pissing off eventually.

I was happily browsing and working with it two years ago.

Was happy with Office 2007 suite, but with 2010 version it  becomes a turtle.

Was considerably good with OpenOffice.Org 2.XX, but with LibreOffice 3.XX it becomes a turtle.

Was happy with Firefox 3.x, but with Firefox 12, it becomes a turtle.

Was happy with GIMP 2.6.x, but with GIMP 2.8.X, it becomes a turtle.

So with Chrome, Chromium, Seamonkey, Opera, Safari and so forth. All gecko based, trident based and webkit-based browsers variances. You name it, I tested most of them on this fossil and bring the same result.

Turtle. Turtle.Turtle.

Processor seems ok, but the memory is too tiny by 2012 standard. So its is now equivalent to a 200 years old turtle.



I gonna talk to my boss about this. But I know that he is also a turtle. Too bad that he is an equivalent of 201 years old turtle.

Getting Old, Ehh? The PC in my room does.

This is actually a turtle dilemma. The slower they are, the longer they live.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Please, You Even Called This 'Hacking'? :P

It all started with direct twitter messages, via persons that are in my followers list. The messages were interesting enough, saying “Hello someone is posting nasty things about you” and “Hi someone is saying horrible rumors about you”.



When someone says that, then it is only natural for us to know what it is all about. Then the clicking begins. The URL links forwarded from one shortener (t.co) to another (bit.ly) and, finally the trick is presented before your eyes.



Hold on. First, put on your glases and read. It is ‘tvvitiler’ not ‘twitter’ despite of all the striking similarities.



Here, you are prompted to fill up the ‘twitter’ username and password. And therefore, I filled up mine.



A mock username of course, as the dumb is for the dumb.

After you click the ‘sign in’ button, it will be diverted back to the real twitter page. And of course, twitter complaints that your action was a no-go. There, you have been tricked and now time to weep. In a few minutes your account gone bye-bye.



But this is not hacking, it is called phishing. The trick works only if you aren’t careful. Or maybe, your glasses are misplaced somewhere.

This technique has great flaws in order to get me because I assigned different passwords with certain allogarithm and encryption to every account. Plus, I never touch a keyboard to fill up any login sessions for years.

C’mon, just ask my twitter username and password if you want. But, I don’t even memorize what my password is, so, try harder next time.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Chrome The Leading Browser, Android The Leading Smartphone OS

It is the time to redefine your computing skill. Google Chrome now is the leading internet browser with around 37% of global market share. Firefox is second and Internet Explorer, the third. Google chrome is based on chromium open source, an open initiative also set up by Google Inc.

Comes the Android. Also of Google’s, now conquered around 60% of the smartphone market.

So it is about Google and google. With others trailing closely from behind.

How about Google + Facebook + Twitter? RockMelt, a chromium-based browser is definitely worth trying.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Heck this is a blog

There are many reasons why strong words made their way up here in this blog. In shortlisted form it could be like this



Intentionally, yes.

To poke pun, yes.

Sarcasm, yes.

Bad taste in mouth, may be.

Foul language, very seldom. Not that I remember any.

Hatred, Nope. Nay. Never.

For most part of the reasons, it is because my writing style has been developed this way, I mean in blogosphere. Blog or in its older term, web-log is meant for online diary. It is a personal or semi-official log book in electronic form with frequent updates just about anything that come across in the mind of the author.

Mind your language. Of course. I remember that too.



But any statements always expressible in two forms and it still bring about the same meaning in people’s mental plane.

For example, please compare the saying of Jesus, “Do to other what you would have them do to you” with the saying of Confucius, “One should not treat other in a way one would not like to be treated”.

One positive and the other one is a negative statement, but the meaning still the same, not?

Friday, April 27, 2012

Scabies, scabies ... Cakap ler Kudis Buta

Tiba-tiba seorang kawan macam cemas saja.

Anaknya kena penyakit bahaya scabies. “Scabies ni akibat mites”, katanya. Bahaya! Nak diubati pun ambil masa sebulan. Macam-macam lagilah diluahkannya.



Aku tanya dia apa tu scabies, apa tu mites. Mites tu dia fahamlah, sejenis parasit, hama. Akan tetapi pasal scabies tu dia mengaku dia pun tak tau.Tapi dia bersikeras, doktor kata merbahaya. Cepat merebak, jangan ada binatang peliharaan, jangan ada kucing di rumah.

Scabies, scabies penyakit kritikal serba barukah? Tapi macam pernah dengar. Kepalaku terus mencongak. Alamak, tahun lepas pun doktor bagi krim sapu “Scaboma lotion” takut aku terkena kudis buta. Ditulis dalamnya “treatment for scabies …” Aku bagitau dialah, “kudis buta bah tu”. Ha ha ha…



Masa sekolah menengah, satu asrama budak-budak tingkatan 1 - 3 terutamanya kena kudis buta. Sampai kalau terlampau teruk kena suruh balik. Memang cepat merebak, sungguh tidak selesa akibat rasa gatal dan susah diubati dalam keadaan begitu. Kiri,kanan, depan dan belakang pun ada kudis buta. Guru penyelia asrama ada penyelesaian sendiri. Pagi-pagi dia akan menyediakan sebaldi air suam yang ditaburi serbuk belerang. Setiap murid yang dijangkiti kudis buta akan merendamkan kaki dan tangan mereka di dalam baldi untuk mengubati kudis.

Sama ada doktor atau si kawan itu cakaplah kudis buta, jadi orang lebih senang faham.

Scabies konon. Selain dari kesedapan menggaru berpanjangan, luka-luka dan cepat merebak, di zaman moden ini kudis buta tidaklah kritikal mana.



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Kay Masingan 27 Apr 2012
hahaha..scabies oh. dia mau kedengaran orang yang kebandaran kali kan? atau dia malu mengaku kudis buta, so bila orang dengar scabies, bunyi saintifik lah, jadi penyakitnya sesuatu yang baru kali?

mie4life  27 Apr 2012
Tu belum lagi tu Kay, mangarasi bah. Bahaya kunu ni penyakot. Siap bagitau lagi tu mites dia ialah sejenis hama yg tinggal di bawah kulit. Klau bertelur mcm telur ikan dan itulah yang bikin jadi scabies. :)

Kay Masingan 28 Apr 2012
hahaha...mcm telur ikan ah..nah sandi tu orang tu..hehhe

Mamula 01 May 2012
Uinaa kau, butul macam telur ikan pula ne

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Being Human is More Than Just Getting Older

Cooling down :)



I won’t be mumbling on trivial matter this time. Was at my brother’s house last night. My other brother, not the one that some of you may familiar with.

This brother of mine, I seldom met as we live apart in quite a distance. Once a fierce looking, a tough guy hard-to-deal-with type, he seems settled down much already.

I brought two friends along with me early on the evening. There was a lot of talking and laughing in a breezing cool air.

Till 3 a.m., before we called it off.

It is a human dynamics, which I pretty much agree with. Human does change, and as far as my brother is concerned, he changes for the better.

I wish I could do the same.


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Kay Masingan 26 Apr 2012
Changes for the better - Ya, setiap orang pun mahu begitu. Perubahan yang bermakna dan saya yakin kita semua mampu buat begitu. Mungkin susah, mungkin mudah. Semuanya terletak pada diri kita sendiri. Happy Thursday Bro..:)

mie4life 26 Apr 2012
:) Ya, sekurang2nya mempunyai keinginan dan azam utk menjadi lebih baik. Saya skrg di keningau sini sis, bsok baru balik kk.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Eat Your Own Karma, Sooner or Later!

Divine retribution or karma perhaps, is outbound to some number of people.

Atheists for instance, believe in no God. For them, the existence of universe is based solely on the randomness occurrences that maintain the cosmos.



Yes, you heard it correct, randomness. It creates a day, and generates a night. And hey, due to a membrane of awareness, a fixed-like chain of events in a form of day and night showing in perpetuity for every 24 hour.

So, how about using the same general rule of thumb to understand what karma is all about? The randomness of action creates a fixed-like reaction, and the membrane of awareness generates a steady flows of reciprocating events, can we agree on that? Maybe isn’t too convincing still, I may say.



But atheist or not, it doesn’t really matter as far as karma is concerned. Lets opt for an agreeable juncture, the science. Consider Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” or simply every action will face reaction. Back to the crux of matter.

Say, just throw a ball unto a wall, it is sure bounces back. On the same binding, do bad to other and they will react the same to you later, if not immediately.



So to speak. Hence, please bear in mind of the saying of Jesus, known as the golden rule or the ethic of reciprocity, “Do to other what you would have them do to you”.



Or perhaps, to consider the saying of Confucius, the silver rule of the same ethic of reciprocity in negative form, “One should not treat other in a way one would not like to be treated”.

As simple as that, isn’t? We don’t have to become rocket scientist in order to figure it out.



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AK47 Machinegun 24 Apr 2012
Upset over something? ya saya percaya akan karma but most of the time i prefer: let bygone be bygone. Bagi saya, dengan begitu hidup lebih aman..:)

mie4life 25 Apr 2012
Yo my jovial friend! Nope, I'm not. It just a boring advice that I wish to immortalize online so ppl can benefit from it long after I perished. :)

Never messed up someone's life

Don’t be cruel to others.

Don’t messed up with someone’s life.



Those are the golden rule of life that one needs to observed all the time. And this is how I gonna fill up the posting, with the novelty piece of boring advice, please read on if it still bearable to you.

Ever heard of the saying that “crime doesn’t pay”? It is absolutely true. But it doesn’t just stop there. Life is cruel, too. There is no such thing that letting bygone be bygone, just like a snap of fingers in life, hell no. As a matter of fact, every misdeed of yours in the past is like stealing something from someone who will demand, and haunt you back on a later stage of life.

Do noted that the demand always comes in two forms, human revenge and divine retribution. And it is equally bad to know that the retribution of crime just doesn’t has an expiry of whatsoever.



Nah, one probably think, “I have power and money to prevent the restribution of whatever mideeds I had commited, of any kind.”



Wrong.

Just look at what Hitler did in WWW II era. Nearly a century later, today, the jews are still busy haunting on the every living sign of holocaust criminals.



Can you see it, now?



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Comments:

Boboy 3 30 Apr 2012
In term of fighting spirit, bouncing back and revenge, learn from Achehnese. During colonial era, they had scared Dutchs like hell. Practically Dutch never employ Acehnese as domestic helpers---- do some searching on this and post later.

Boboi :-)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

So, your life hits the rock bottom

The famous die-a-slow-death incident was by Admiral Takajiro Onishi in 1945.  He ended his life as slow as possible and stabbed his belly inch by inch before eventually dies 15 hours later.



Note: My deepest condolences to a close friend of mine on the demise of her beloved mother two days ago (16/4/2012). This post may be co-incidentally related to, but it is not about her anyway.

I’m talking about up and down of life.

So one day you find yourself lay down on the bottom bed of the ocean, the bottom rock of your life due to unforeseen circumstances. And totally depressed, full of pain and sorrow. There you’re,  barely alive, and hardly breathing, but still alive by the way.

Too weak and can’t do anything about everything. Can’t get yourself up and to grab a decent rope if there is any, somewhere around. And even if you have the rope in hand, pity that you can’t find a proper place to hang yourself in order to end the misery.

What a pathetic state of life, suits the ‘rock bottom’ name like the pair of glasses.

But hey, there is a good news actually. As you’re now on the deepest bottom, it simply impossible to sunk further, deeper than that.

There are only two options left. Either let yourself die a slow death, or to get up from there.

Lets talk about the first option, die a slow death.

The infamous, modern day planned die-a-slow-death incident was by Takajiro Onishi (1891 - 1945). He was the admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy. When Japan defeated and eventually unconditionally surrendered, he committed a ritual suicide known as seppuku or harakiri in his quarters on 16 August 1945. According to the record, he purposely ending his life as slow as possible and stabbed his belly inch by inch before eventually dies 15 hours later.

You know, seppuku is an honorable act of dying for Japanese people not-so-long time ago. It is done in two steps.

First, to stab the belly wide open horizontally, and then twisting the sword, so part of the intestine piles out as the evident of honesty (see pix).



Second, when the first step above is done with, the helper (a kaishakunin / second sword - see or click the staged seppuku ritual captured by Peery, 1897 on the pix below) will beheading the person to quickly erase the pain.



It was said that Takajiro Onishi refused the second steps (kaishakunin) in order to die a slow death. He begin the ritual on 6 a.m. in the morning and dies in about 9 p.m. on the evening.

What a freaking guy he was, you sure think. Yes, it is. But he was the trained samurai, living with the warrior’s Code of Bushido.

You, on the other hand aren’t. Other than that, you’re too weak and, may not capable of handling more pain than what you already have. I don’t know what you think about this, but the best possible option is to get up. Get up, get a new life. Explore the world and you will be given the second chance, always.

No matter how hard it is, it is always better to stay alive than to die. The sooner you realize it, the better :)



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Mai Da 19 Apr 2012
Easy 2 say, but hard 2 follow...

mie4life 20 Apr 2012
:) understood. It s the virtue of living a difficult life. Even to say something like this is difficult when u r there at the bottom pit of life. One can say thing like this after he succesfully get out from there, not b4 that. But again, there are only two options to choose, either to stay alive or to die. If both dying and living are difficult to choose, then i propose to stay alive~regards.

Mai Da  22 Apr 2012
Sorry sir, my comment not mention to anybody, 100% to myself...what i always feel
4 months ago by: 203.217.176.31

Arimi 21 Apr 2012
No lar sis... Tak tersinggung sikit pun, ikhlas cakap, tq sbb sudi memberi pendapat. Saya pun bercakap dari pengalaman sendiri :)


mie4life 25 Apr 2012
I'm glad that you share the same poibt of view, ty

Mai Da 30 Apr 2012
Setuju..sebagai muslim kita pun dah selalu diperingatkan agar tidak berputus asa terhadap rahmat Allah...tiada jalan pintas dengan memilih kematian.


Mai Da 15 Jul 2012
Apa kah karne tiada jalan keluar, maka sudah begitu ramai yang mengambil jalan membunuh diri, mungkin saudara juga telah mengkaji

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Insect Politics

“Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects don’t have politics. They’re very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can’t trust the insect.”~ The Fly (1986)



These words has became famous since then. In that film, this speech made by a physically and mentally decaying Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) to his girlfriend Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis), when they were last met.

How true it is. Or is it?

The politics is an art of controlling, an art of deception, and lot of lies. This is where Machiavelli ideas came in handy. It is not so much about reality but about realistic means and realistic goal. It is about managing public sentiment and guiding the flows to where it goes.

Oh, you sure think this is merely my exaggeration of the idea on what politics is all about. But consider these. In ancient China, the sentiment was that an emperor is the Son of Heaven. In ancient Japan, every clan to claimed that  they are the descendant of gods (ujigami).  And in modern Germany, the Aryan is purportedly the pure race, above others. This is how UMNO survives all this while, by keeping the sentiment that it is the champion the Malay causes.

Remember “The Kennedys” series and the trailer: ‘It’s not what you are, it’s what people think you are’.

Whosoever control the public sentiment, they control the people.

Bypass Blue Coat Filter, It Gettin on My Nerves

It started since January this year. Partly because of Blue Coat web classification where  the filtering based there on, and partly because the policy set by the IT administration.




Almost every websites being categorized by Blue Coat. The result is, even Facebook behaves erratic. Tumblr and this account is inaccessible. One moment it goes fine, the other time only Blue coat warning appears.

The previous trick using google translate to access some sites is no longer works either.

OK, Blue coat or admins, I hate you both. Now since you forced me, I spend the whole morning to bypass this irritating censorship. And now, I succeeded.

Update on Nov 19, 2012: The simplest way to avoid this irritating web filter is by using FreeGATE
 



Next please.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Once a Blogger, Always a Blogger

Hello all.

Just jotting down some words on this blog. I'm struggling to capture and to gather some tinniest friction of ideas to show that this blog still alive, so am I.















Will come back for more, real soon.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Kembali Ke alam Maya

Asalamualaikum & Salam sejahtera,

Kadayan Universe kembali beroperasi atas permintaan ramai. Untuk tidak mengelirukan pengunjung, ini merupakan laman rasmi bagi kadayanuniverse yang sebelum ini menggunakan url kadayanuniverse.com dari 2005 - 2010. Sila rujuk pengumuman kami di SINI.

Domain kadayanuniverse.com sekarang ini diambilalih oleh seseorang yang tidak diketahui siapa pemiliknya dan tiada kena mengena dengan Kadayan Universe.


Oleh itu kami tidak mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan laman berkenaan. Sekian terima kasih.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Blue Is My Favorite Color

Note: 18 Apr 2012 - Thanks to a blogger / friend, Kay, for pointing out Tumblr possible integration with Disqus. I now integrates this blog with my facebook profile and twitter. I don’t know how to enable posting to my facebook page, yet. Also I’m still in dark on how to change the font color of the posting text. The standard html opening tag <p style = “FFF0000”>  doesn’t seems to work, neither does <font color=”green”>

sample text

See, the above text is supposed to be in green, but it stays in black instead.

Will figure it out soon :(

I’ve just completed the registration with Tumblr.

Look like that the default theme is blue, somewhat dark blue. I like it anyway and I’m not going to change it anytime soon.

Further customization? Probably, but not now. Still shaping my learning curve to move around Tumblr.

And I know some of you, my die hard fans (if there are any, lol), are watching zealously to what I’m going to do with this new Tumblr blog. Okay, seriously, nothing. I just want to keep going and continue from where I stop last time.

That is, to keep on writing.

I once said, writing is about encapsulating the flows of idea in the form of text so other can see them for as long as possible.

This is why I decided to be on tumblr!



This is why I decided to be on tumblr!



Please take a look at the above Alexa rank. The traffic rank  for tumblr.com is the 21st in US, and 36 in the world. The features less then blogspot, but of course richer than twitter.

So let see how it goes.

Update on 19 Nov 2012: I opt out from tumblr since Aug 15, 2012 due to some reasons. I then redirected all the feed to my tumblr account. And for that my tumblr.com account has been suspended indefinitely. I'm not complaining, No sweat!

Hello Tumblr!

I’m on Tumblr from now on. I have been blogging for too long that my mind exhausted and looking back, I’m now resting for nearly two years.

But then, actually I love to write.

Only that I don’t want to write too seriously like before, nor that I want to become too casual tweeting on Twitter every minute.

And Facebook? Nah, my home page are full with friend’s emotional displays and daily inconveniences. According to Buddha, life is samsara my friend, samsara. Unless the person realize it, he can’t free himself from the persistence chain of inconveniences.

Each to their own by the way. Now I choose Tumblr and by the look at it, I hope that I make a right choice.

Cheers,

mie4life.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Anecdotes of Mimie - A Woman With The Heart of A Lion

Dek kerana bodoh atau ingin menjadi taat pada abang-abangnya, si kecil yang telah remaja, mengikut sahaja, malah hampir pula menempah tali gantung dengan membantu abangnya meproses ganja.

About two weeks ago I received an email from a lady who claimed that she is an avid reader of my blog, asking why there aren't any updates for quite sometime now. I replied to her like this (partly I just wanna poke pun at her), "Well maam, sorry if I hurt you by saying this. Blogging can be fun and addictive too. But at the same time I need to eat. Too much blogging for years nearly ruin my family, I must say, because they felt I sunk too deep in virtual world and eventually drowned".

I thought thats the end of the story, but no, it isn't. Earlier this morning, I received another email from Mimie (not her real name I suppose) again and with some interesting writeup about her. "Its all yours to share", she said.

I read it and I deeply, deeply touched by her story. Please read and I'm sure you can feel how innocent, genuine and authentic the story is.

CERITA 1- ASAL KELUARGA

Ada la sorang bayi ni, emak dia mati masa umur dia 2 tahun, lepas tu, kakak dia yang bela hingga umur 5 tahun. Bila kakak kahwin, tinggal la dengan bapa dan 3 orang abang. Kebiasaan la, bapa pasti kawin lagi, alasan kukuh amat, siapa nak jaga baby ni dan abang-abangnya kan, dah tak ada orang nak jaga makan pakai.

Bapa pun kerja nelayan saja, kata bapa, itu umpama peminta sedekah di lautan, hari ini ada ikan, mungkin sekadar buat makan, atau dapat la lebihan untuk dijual. Masalah mula menimpa si kanak-kanak kecil yang belum tahu erti hidup ini bilamana pada hari bapa dia kawin, dia telah pun dipersogokkan istilah si ibu tiri, walhal, kalau diikutkan, muka mak kandungpun dia tak pernah tengok, tak ada walau sekeping gambar pun sebagai kenangan, rupa sebenar seorang emak.

Bermula pula episod kelana dalam hidup kanak-kanak tersebut apabila sentiasa dibawa lari oleh si abang-abang bila mana timbul sengketa. Membesar tanpa kasih sayang mahupun dididik seperti seorang gadis yang pasti akan meningkat remaja dan menjadi wanita. Mungkin tiada dalam kamus keluarga yang lain, semua abangnya pasti dihalau keluar rumah bila sahaja bapa mendapat berita buruk dari tetangga mengenai perangai anak-anaknya. Pada bapa, orang lain benar belaka. Namun sikecil yang terluka, tidak dihalau sama hanya mungkin kerana dia bakal membawa aib yang lebih ketara jika dihalau juga, senang cakap, takut jadi bohsia.

Semasa tingkatan 3, perceraian bapanya berlaku, dan rujuk semula, sedang dia bergelut menghadapi SRP pada masa itu. Dek kerana bodoh atau ingin menjadi taat pada abang-abangnya, sikecil yang telah remaja, mengikut sahaja, malah hampir pula menempah tali gantung dengan membantu abangnya meproses ganja. Bila si remaja mula berani bersuara, mudah saja jawab si abang, apa yang kau makan semua hasil duit curi aku tu la. Abang yang di atasnya pula dalam kepayahan, berjaya juga ke menara gading, sayangnya terkandas kerana menjadi “doktot” tak bertauliah, entah hidup mati sekarang tiada siapa yang tahu. Sukar nak dibaca fikiran si dara, tinggal dia seorang diri, memendam segala kata nista, cuba sedaya upaya agar aib keluarga tidak diketahui oleh sesiapa jua, baik guru, rakan apatah lagi para jejaka di luar sana.

Dalam hidupnya, dia sentiasa diperingatkan, engkau bukan siapa-siapa, tidak punya rupa apatah lagi harta. Tingkatan 4 pula, kerana sekeping gambar jejaka, dia telah diselar anak derhaka dan hampir diberhentikan sekolah. Mampukah sigadis meneruskan hidupnya kalau dia tidak kuatkan jiwa? Kata abangnya pula, andai kujumpa engkau berpacaran dimana-mana, pasti engkau aku terajang sampai ke tangga. Beranikah lagi dia? Memang pelajarannya tidak seberapa, malah dari tingkatan 1 hingga ke tingkatan 6, biar berkali-kali kaunselor mencuba mengorek rahsia, dia teguh menyimpan semua derita, biar pecah di dada. Apa yang ada dalam hatinya? hanya ingin lari jauh dari semuanya, tapi tiada upaya, lalu dia berwayang dengan semua yang ada, hidupnya bahagia dan gila-gila malah menyebabkan kebanyakan salah sangka pada tingkahnya.



CERITA 2 – REMAJA

Keputusan SPM tidak sebaik mana, tapi merayu untuk tinggal di asrama. Tujuannya satu, ingin lari dari dilemma. Tapi, ceria tidak lama, berita keluarga tersebar juga di antara beberapa kenalan di sana. Sigadis kembali seperti sediakala, tidak lagi peduli pelajaran atau apa-apa, dan pasti tidak berani mengucapkan kata cinta. Naluri remaja, perasaan hadir bukan keinginan sendiri mahupun dipaksa.

Benarkah si jejaka ingin mengisi hati si dara? Ketakutan pada pesanan keluarga, membuatkan si dara cuma mampu bergurau senda walau hati ingin menyambutnya. Bila hati ingin berbicara dan menyahut huluran sidia, sang gadis terlewat sudah , jika diteruskan, dia hanya menjadi orang ketiga atau si jejaka memang sengaja ingin bercanda……

Jangan, itu tak mungkin dibiarkan. 

Cerita tentang orang ketiga, semestinya amat difahaminya. Abangnya juga mempunyai dua orang isteri. Jelak lah, asyik menjadi orang tengah bila mereka bersengketa, baik semasa menaiki kereta, siapa didepan atau siapa penumpangnya. Apatah lagi bila tiba giliran malamnya, muak melihat wajah-wajah yang duka salah seorang darinya. Tanpa sedar, persekolahan tamat, dan terpaksa kembali lagi ketempat asalnya.

Rindu? Tapi pada siapa?

Tiba-tiba dua pucuk surat datang berselang, tak pasti yang mana dulu kemudiannya. Hati kembali berbunga, bila mana diakui oleh seorang teman, betapa si jejaka benar-benar ingin mengisi hatinya. Sayangnya, kiriman surat kali ketiga, tiada lagi balasan datang bertandang. Tahukah betapa luka hati si dara? Riang-riang yang berseloka dan bercahaya, kini entah di mana. Maka jadilah ia bahan ketawa, sudahlah hidup umpama cerita P.Ramlee si Penarik Beca, berangan-angan menjadi bagai cinderela. Akui akhirnya kata keluarga, aku bukan siapa-siapa yang tak punya rupa apatah lagi harta dan budi bahasa, mengapa bermimpi disunting sang jejaka yang kaya dan bijaksana.

Walau sedar kebenarannya, tapi hati tetap lara, yang tinggal kini sikurus yang hanya tinggal tulang dan kulit membalut diri, 10 kilo entah kemana perginya. Entah dari mana datang keberanian dalam diri, si jejaka dihubungi untuk ke akhir kali, Jawapannya? Aku sudah punya isteri, sedang berbahagia dan menanti kelahiran sibayi.

2 dekad telah berlalu, hati masih ingin mencari jawapan kenapa ia diperlaku sedemikian rupa. Benarkah aku dulu pernah mengisi taman hatinya? Atau sekadar membalas dendam dan ingin menunjukkan yang dia menang juga akhirnya?

Siapa sangka, teknologi mampu merealisasi impian yang terpadam selama ini. Tapi, bila dilihat bahagianya keluarga mereka, maka kutahu, kenapa Allah tidak membiarkan impian dulu terjadi, aku memang tidak sepadan dengannya. Si hina takkan sama dengan orang “ada-ada’. AMIN.


CERITA 3 – RUMAHTANGGA

Hina sangat ke aku ni, dalam ramai yang datang merisik, keluarga hanya maklumkan para sang duda?

Kerana simpati, aku terima juga lamaran seorang darinya. Tapi, aku memang tak mampu berdiam selamanya, entah apa silapnya, kata-kataku mengguris hati mereka. Terpustus sudah satu ikatan, cincin tanda mohon dikembalikan kepada mereka. Tidak mengapa, aku pun tidak pernah memakainya.

Entahlah, minta kerja tak juga diterima, nak belajar lagi, bapa kata, usaha sendiri, dia tak mampu menanggung bayarannya. Pengalaman abang membuatkan dia tak percaya lagi pada anak-anaknya, agaknyalah. Mohon IKM, pegawai temuduga bertanya, kenapa tak minta ITM? Jawabku selamba, IKM bayar saya. ITM saya yang bayar mereka, dan saya tak punya apa-apa, sebelum boleh dapat apa-apa biasiswa.

Kalau bukan rezeki kita, buatlah macamana, tetap bukan kita punya. Dapat tawaran IKM, tapi di Pekan, Pahang sana, kata bapa lagi, minta lah duit pada abang-abang kalau diorang ada. Dalam poket aku, hanya RM20, tambang pun tak lepas untuk kesana. Maka biarkan saja.

Apa lagi daya yang ada? Aku mesti keluar juga, tapi macamana? Ha.Kahwin, tapi dengan siapa pula? Entah kekuatan apa, datang tiba-tiba, hilang segala rasa malu, konon ingin menjadi seperti Khadijah, aku berdialog dengan bapa:-

Aku : Si A dah bertunang ke belum?
Bapa : Belum
Aku : Bagi kat saya je
Bapa : ?????? tak terkata

Rupanya perigi yang mencari timba telah diterima. Aku telah menjadi seorang yang tidak punya deria rasa agaknya, aku beritahu keluarga, jangan letak sebarang belanja, cukup aku minta mas kahwinnya, dan bertunang tidak boleh lama. Hari bertunang, aku tak adapun dirumah, bukan sebuah majlis berwarna-warni yang sidara disarungkan cincin oleh keluarga teruna. Yang aku tahu, sepulangnya kerumah, aku ditunjukkan sebentuk cincin tanda, takpa lah, kusimpan saja dalam laci meja.
Semasa sesi temuduga di pejabat kadhi, ini pula dialog nya.

Kadhi : Awak kenal Si A?
Aku : Tidak
Kadhi : Ha, kena paksa ke?
Aku : Tidak, saya terima
Kadhi : Ohhh….

Pesan ku pada keluarga, di hari nikah nanti, jangan sesiapa berani datang bertanya, aku sudi atau tidaknya kalau mahu semuanya sempurna. Tidak kusediakan pun persalinan indah diraja, hanya sekadar pakaian biasa yang boleh dipakai pada bila-bila masa. Aku tak bertanya juga tentang rupa si A ataupun meminta gambarnya, hanya berhubung surat memaklumkan sebarang perkembangan, bukan ayat-ayat cinta, maka kata si A padaku kemudiannya, kawan-kawanya kata, aku sidara yang sombong orangnya. BIARKAN SAJA.

Selesai akad nikah, aku terus berkain batik dan berbaju T, anak-anak tetangga yang datang riuh bertanya, mana anak dara, jawapanku senang.TIADA.

Aku jengah mengintai-ngintai semasa rombongan ingin beredar, manakah orangnya yang sah menjadi suamiku kini. Maklum, nikah gantung, kenduri belum ditentukan hari, takut pula berselisih, tak kenal suami sendiri.

Mengapa dia yang ku pilih? Mudah saja, kerana dia dan keluarganya mengenali aku dan keluargaku. Jadi aku tak perlu risau untuk menyembunyikan aib kisah cerita pertama tadi. Lagipun, dia memang sekelas dengan abangku yang tersasar. Jangan nanti kisah keluarga menjadi ungkitan dalam rumahtangga kami.

Bak kata orang, apa-apa yang ingin ditanya, biarlah pada masih indahnya berkeluarga. Lalu kutanya, sejauh mana harapannya pada ikatan kami, adakah ia mampu bertahan sampai ke mati? Dengan senyum simpul, dia hanya menggelengkan kepala.

Maka aku persiapkan diri, bagai sebuah pilihanraya, setiap 5 tahun sekali, adakah aku masih diundi? Aku tidak mahu menangis lagi. Rupanya dia juga punya cerita sama. Bezanya, dia memang benar-benar bercinta tapi tidak direstui keluarga, sedang aku, tak pasti bercinta atau hanya berimaginasi. Namun, terima kasih kerana menerima aku apa adanya.


Cerita 4 – MIMPI

Angka usia memang dah tua Kalau diterbalikan pula, kena tambah perkataan bangka. Tua+bangka? 


Masih ingin bermimpi, menyimpan rindu kisah lama yang tak termeteri. Walhal, masing-masing sudah punya keluarga sendiri. Hanya igauan ngeri, agak-agaknyalah, kala usia dah masuk isyak, yang ada cuma gusi tanpa gigi kelak. Bilamana dah tinggal sendiri-sendiri, bolehkah sejarah tercipta? Kasih lama tersulam kembali, hari ini bersatu, esoknya dah kembali ke sisi Ilahi?

Namun, satu yang aku tak dapat hindar hingga kini. Rasa sakit hati, biar sekadar ucapan balas mereka hanya salam dan terima kasih, hati ini rabak tak terperi. Aku masih ingin mengetahui jawapan sebenar. Adakah aku dulu hanya sekadar sebuah boneka, yang menjadi bahan wayang mereka berdua? Atau aku benar-benar pernah dicintainya? Ya Allah, jangan sampai aku kehilangan jiwa akibat cerita lama yang tidak memberi sebarang untungnya.



As I always reiterate, this blog of mine isn't a political blog nor it is too personal and becoming a love story's blog. Mimie's story is more about how she struggling and trying to fit into this world, on her own way. 


Thank you mimie!