Epilog: Fius-box meletup

Takdak kipas dikala dok kerap blackout dan bahang summer datang singgah tepuk tampaq pipi dengan manja memang tak sempoi. Apa lagi sambung tulis.

• Dalam kala aku merangkak dalam berbahasa Arab Mesir, aku sedar, saban tahun berlalu, makin aku faham sekerat sekerat apa pensyarah aku berceloteh kat depan. Lama-lama sampai whole sentence disebut kadang-kadang satu perkataan yang tak dapat tangkap.

• Tapi nak faham dan menimba ilmu sains dalam bahasa Arab tu memang perit, bagi aku. Berbual, berborak itu sangatlah santai, tapi bila dalam mode ingin konsentrasi penuh, kena perah otak nak faham apa yang disampaikan pensyarah dan di masa sama otak sibuk nak translate apa yang diperkatakan oleh pensyarah, serius, OTAK AKAN PENAT.

• Sejam pun dah terkapai tercungap nak catch-up, bila pensyarah berceloteh 2 jam berturut, you're bound to blow the infamous fuse in your thinking box.

otak aku bila penat sangat

• Kadang larat aku akan semangat usaha sampai dapat, kadang penat aku tumpas dan langsung lemas lenyap terus dalam khayal minda sendiri.  Tu yang aku dapat idea nak tulis ni, ha dalam kelas tadi, haha.

p/s: 3 posts in 3 days! 

Epilog: Buta Ma'arof

• Seronok hidup kalau kita boleh berbicara pelbagai bahasa. Serious, dunia ini luas, kaya dengan budaya dan tradisi yang unik dan menarik.

• Sampaikan ada orang yang kata kalau kita dapat jadi seorang 'polyglot', kita bagai jutawan kaya, bahasa itu bagaikan harta yang bebas nilai. Tiada akan jatuh nilainya biarpun runtuh foundation dunia. 

• Hari ni aku boleh berbahasa Arab Mesir serba serbi sedikit. beza sedikit Arab loghat Ammiya' (Mesir) jika dibanding dengan dengan Arab Fushah'.

• Teringat hujung tahun lepas masa naik Tremco (mikro-bas a.k.a Van) untuk kembali ke Rumah dari Pasar. Berpeluang berborak dengan seorang pemuda Arab Mesir dan seorang lagi warga Syria. Rancak aku bersembang dengan grammar aku yang bersepah merata, tiba si pemuda Syria tu tanya aku boleh tak aku menulis since aku dah agak boleh berbicara serba serbi. 

• Aku pun kata tak sangat, dia pun kata "oh jadi kau ni macam orang-orang buta huruf kat Mesir ni la *gelak* dan dia cakap dia melawak. Aku tau, lawak yang mengguris ego, haha. Ya bagai orang buta huruf kat Mesir la aku ni. Boleh berkata-kata, tapi tak pandai baca, tak mahir tulis, apa cerita? Banyak lagi nak kena belajaq ni.

• Rahim maarop dah ada, lani kita kira jadi buta maarop la pulak. Aduh

N.B
Polyglot = Kebolehan menguasai pelbagai bahasa; multi-linguist 

p/s: 2 posts in 2 days,yeah!

Elegy: North Bound Highway

I remember,
The laughter,
The scarce cry for a future,
The purple covers craved after,
Searching eternal bliss forever.

We pondered,
5 hours non-squandered,
We gazed into the future,
Crashing thoughts,
Caught in a cluster,
North Bound Highway,
I reminisce altogether.

A sin now for sure,
Can't never conjure,
Bringing myself back together,
What in God's name am I doing here,
I believe its your call my dear,
It's His gift of uncalled pleasure,
Goodbye..ever after.


p/s: the picture used doesn't belong to me. all rights reserved to its real owner.

Epilog : Evacuation Emancipation

• Of Riots, Chaos and Anarchy.

• Disorder in Egypt. Their hate was boiling, but kept inside, the bubble of rage burst open when Tunisia's act of throwing out their ruler happened. That was the spark.

• What does this mean to me then? What does this mean to the 10's of thousands of students pursuing their goals, degrees and passion here?

• How quickly can things change? What does it mean to be stranded in a war bravely fought but you are the non-deserving entity standing there?

• How sad is it, that when Malaysians are stranded, when we needed to be transported, some politicians could still rant, point fingers and blame each other.

• What happened to securing the lives of the students first, I had never had a strong side to politics nor have I choose sides. I am always with my stand, but this is ridiculous.

• And don't even get me started with our mass media. Hyperbole, exaggeration, the likes of which we've never seen.

• I get it, everyone's worried, everyone's panicked out of their trousers back home, the first thing they shouldn't do is invigorate the terror to new heights.

• Parents are generally insecure, with their child going off first time into an unknown territory, and the media lashing out all sorts of unnecessary updates, expect panic like never before.

• Obviously the rioting was all happening, just not all of us are really affected face to face by whatever it is that's being reported.

• Moreover, what us students report back or complain to our friends and family, those words then spreads out and goes out of hand.

• In classical Malaysian lingo we'd call this "Talifon KARAT". A piece of news that goes about landing from one ear to another, but as it gets along the A becomes B than it somehow transforms to F,G and so on.

• So that's the flaw there, everyone has their role to play to ensure only the REAL stuff gets through instead of all this non-progressive, immoral reports that's only going to escalate nerves of already worrying parents.

• Now that the situation is slowly receding, we are left questioning when we'll be starting our classes, and there are others left in Jeddah who are awaiting their turns to be transported back to Malaysia.

• Hopefully everything goes well, for the stranded group and Egypt, to be honest their revolution has been long time coming. It is here now, lets hope Egypt gets their long awaited justice and peace they've been seeking. Ameen ya Rab.