Tragedi Seberang Prai

Kiranya sudah 4 bulan aku duduk di Pulau Pinang. Pulau yang sekelumit ini  terletak jauh di utara Malaysia. Saiznya pula tidaklah besar dan dari segi sosio ekonominya tidaklah sehebat negeri Johor.

Di Pulau Pinang ni, aku ada seorang kawan. Nama dia Nabil, berasal dari Kubang Semang yang terletak di daerah Seberang Jaya, Pulau Pinang. Minggu lepas, sesudah waktu Maghrib, Nabil pun sampai rumah aku di Georgetown. Rancangan malam tu nak pekena roti canai sekeping dua. Saje nak test power roti canai orang Pulau Pinang seberang. Dengar cerita mamak Pulau Pinang paling gangster bab roti canai.

Dari Farlim, kami bergerak ke Jelutung, menghala ke Bayan Lepas. Nak ke seberang, dah tentunya kena lalu jambatan Pulau Pinang. Jambatan Pulau Pinang ni panjangnya 13.5 kilometer. Kalau dulu masa baru-baru datang Pulau Pinang, setiap kali lalu jambatan ni mesti rasa nak bukak tingkap. Kalau sempat, ambik la gambar sekeping dua. Tapi lepas dah berpuluh kali lalu, ternyata perasaan jakun tu pudar. Bak kata orang Penang, "tak dan aih"

Setibanya di kawasan seberang, nak ke area destinasi mamak tu mestilah melalui highway. Sebenarnya aku dah lama perasan hal ni, cuma malam tu aku tergerak nak tanya Nabil.

Aku : Highway-highway macam gini pun ada simbol lembu eh?

Nabil : Oh memang. Sebab lembu banyak kat sini.

Aku diam. Seingat aku, tak pernah lagi aku jumpa lembu berkeliaran dekat atas highway.

Aku : Tapi aku tak pernah tengok pun.

Nabil hanya terdiam. Tiba-tiba si Nabil brek mengejut atas highway  disebabkan ada kereta tukar lane tak bagi signal.

Nabil : Ni hang kata tak pernah tengok lembu? Depa ni la lembu. Lembu pun tau tunggu kereta lepas dulu kalau nak melintas.

Aku setuju,

Siapa nak bawak kereta di Pulau Pinang memang kena banyak bersabar.

Nasi Lemak

The building I work have many different companies which doing all sort of different business. Approximately more than hundred of workers from different background. 

The thing is, the workers are human. Human needs food. Apparently we all do have about the same period of lunch time. 

That building have a cafe on the third level. So everyday on 1 pm the place would be crowded with people. The rule is plain and simple : first come, first serve. 

Sometime you havr to wait 20 mins just to get your order of plain fried rice. That's mean you just escape your burden of work and get into the burden of waiting and waste quarter of your precious lunch time. 

What I do is exactly the same. I would go to ground level. There's a small side cafe name "Harveys". I would have my white coffee and cold nasi lemak. Sometime I would have tuna sandwich. Got 3 tables with 3 chairs each, and my place is always at the second table as the first one will always occupied with this Indian uncle drinking coffee and reading News Straits Times. 

The point is, I don't mind eating cold nasi lemak every noon with my mind thinking of other hot delicious meals I could get on level 3. 

Well, my rule is simple too : I won't fight, I won't wait, I won't argue, I won't talk for something that aren't worth my time. 

Bless

Kadang-kadang dalam hidup kita tak semestinya perlu meminta-minta

Kadang-kadang cukup dengan rasa syukur pada pencipta atas apa yang dikurnia. 

Memo 1

There's a rule in this world saying ; 

When people doing a nice thing to you,

You ought to do the same way back. 

Then you will try really hard to do all sort of nice thing to that person even there's time you feel exhausted, feel like your body pumped with gases waiting patiently to explode

Or maybe that nice doing thing of yours is one sided. Apparently the one feel the good isn't you. 

You feel want to stop but you don't know how. If you stop now, you'll be the jerk. If you want to continue, you feel like an ass. 

Penang

Esok bermula hari baru di Pulau Pinang. 

Harap segalanya lancar dan pass. 

InsyaAllah. 

3:58 am, kamar kuning

Concept Karma

Sometime I wonder if its worth of lending hand when there are no hands for you when you really need one. I thought the law is to give and take in everything. Like karma, you will get good when you did good or you will receive bad when you did bad.

There, I believe those law, the give and take. The sole problem is when you gave all yours but nothing ever coming back at you. Then I start thinking wether the law is reliable or it just me can't comprehend the meaning of the law I believe in.

To think about it, led me to 2 different question which gave the same answer ;

1) Are you really expecting some nice reward in every good deeds you do? If so, where is your honesty?

2) Are you sure your good deeds are big enough, more than everybody so you think you deserve more than anybody else? If so, prove it.

The 2 simple questions, yet I did not have the answer. One thing I'm sure is, in everything I do, as long as it makes me happy and everybody around me happy too, it is enough. The concept of life is that, the basic reason of life ; happiness. What's more wonderful than a happy life?

Adil ke Tuhan?

Hari Sabtu lepas aku ke Seremban atas urusan supply barang. Selepas selesai, aku balik ke Melaka. Nak di pendekkan cerita, pada sebelah malam tu, aku ke Parameswara seafood.

Masa tengah makan, tiba-tiba Farhan bersuara ;

Farhan : Aku rasa gaji macam tak cukup je setiap bulan. Bayar kereta dah 5 ratus lebih, tolak duit ASB dah 2 ratus lebih. Belum lagi duit rumah, makan minum.

Aku : Kau gaji sebulan berapa?

Farhan : Ada la jejak 5k

Haziq time tu tak banyak cakap. Mungkin bengang dengan ketam yang dari tadi tak lepas-lepas nak mengopek kulit.

Aku : Kau gaji 5k ok la tu. Kau bukannya dah berkeluarga.

Farhan : Eh, zaman sekarang duit makin kecik. Setakat 5k kejap je.

Aku : Ala, pelan-pelan la. Rezeki dari tuhan. Kalau kau mintak ikhlas mesti dia bagi.

Farhan : Tu la, aku rasa macam dah banyak doa tapi tak dapat-dapat jugak. Macam tak adil.

Haziq yang dari bengang dengan ketam mula bersuara ;

Haziq : Macam ni la, kau nampak kucing bawah meja ni?

Farhan jeling bawah meja.

Haziq : Dari tadi kucing tu mintak makan dekat kau. Aku tengok kau takde bagi pun. Boleh ke kau cakap tuhan tu tak adil sebab tak bagi kau duit banyak setiap bulan?

Masing-masing diam lalu mula join Haziq ratah ketam.