Me, MYSeLF & i…

I’m sitting here wandering what to do. I’ve been blogging all my life and all about my life that it has been made public and known to everyone who stumbles upon my blog. Privacy is no longer an option when you’re made known who you are. Nevertheless, I’m not complaining. It’s too late to turn back the time, and not that I want to even if I could.

Lets see… the last entry was about the two loooong drives back to the village to celebrate Hari Raya. That was one long, or make it two, days… It was Raya. Throughout the years, this will be how it will be as long as orang tua-tua still around. Going to the villagers to say hello and minta maaf for all the terkasar bahasa all this while.

Then, there was that whole Raya Beats that I won from FlyFm. Yes! I won at it… Does it really come as a surprise to you? I hope not…

You see, in order to win a contest, you HAVE to HAVE determination. It’s like work but also a bit of luck won’t hurt. What happened was that I had waited for the que to "sms" the radio station. The prize money had snowballed to RM600 for Non-Celcom and RM900 for Celcom users. The night before, I searched throughout the internet for the Raya songs from everywhere. Compiling them and bringing them to work, I listened to FLY. All the while, I was sms-ing before the que to sms. Pathetic? Well… I was determined to win the cash!

So… after about 50 sms BEFORE the que to sms… and about 20 more after que to sms… They had called! Interestingly enough, it was lagu Dendang Perantau by P. Ramlee. That day was also the day my boyfriend went to get those P. Ramlee musical tickets.

I won. RM900. Alhamdullillah. *winks*

Then… on Saturday, 20th October 2007, me and my Chenta Hati went to Istana Budaya to watch P. Ramlee the Musical.

Review of P. Ramlee Musical :-
This acclaimed musical, the show of the year, was starred by Sean Ghazi (P. Ramlee), Datuk Siti Nurhaliza (Azizah) - as guest star, Atilia (as Junaidah), Melissa Saila (Norizan), Liza Hanim (Saloma/Sally) and Infinates (Paparazzis) alongside with many others who made the musical an interesting and funny musical.

The Musical begins with Remy (P. Ramlee) in the living room with Sally, reminiscing P. Ramlee’s time. Such a sad beginning as KL was raining heavily.

Blast to the past, we see P. Ramlee as a kid, determined and had fallen in love with a girl whose parents were rich, name Azizah. He insisted that he could cipta lagu for Azizah.. and that’s when he got discovered to be a talent.

He left Azizah and went to Singapore untuk mengejar cita-cita. He started of small and had made it to be a director of many box office movies. Along the line, he married Junaidah, but in fact he was in love with Junainah (the younger sister). They divorced later when Junaidah could not handle his fame and women wooing.

He then married Norizan. Who had then took care of P. Ramlee until some rumours about her being disloyal came to knowledge. They divorced.

P. Ramlee finally met with Saloma. The meeting and their percintaan was so cute and funny that everyone in the theater was enjoying the moment. Laughter and smiles breaks out every few seconds.

Meanwhile, Singapore was no longer with Malaya (which had became Malaysia), and hence… P. Ramlee was sent off to KL.

That’s when they come back to the beginning.

The musical was superbly done. Me and my Chenta Hati was so impressed and happy to have gotten the chance to watch it. Thank you sayang.

Now we come to the last update :-

My Call to the BAR!
Nothing could describe how relieved I felt when the three main people plus the judge had said "no objections" and also " Dengan kuasa-kuasa…"

My parents and my Chenta Hati was there to hear my speech. So was Kabir. The rest of my friends were busy with their events… and I don’t blame them for not coming. Totally understand. Either way, I had the utmost happy feeling of being call-ed & Robe-ed by my Master.

I’m a lawyer now. Phew. That’s a relieve. What next? Oh yeah… my operation. Update on that LATER. Got to go to hospital. Visiting someone…

How’s everybody doing so far? Raya given you any joy yet? Well, I’m not trying to be a grinch… but, Raya has been one <s>hell</s> of drives to and fro for me; thankx to my parents who insists that they don’t need to stay in a resthouse/hotel somewhere.

You see, our journey to <b>JOHOR</b> began at about 3pm, on the first day of Syawal itself - 13th October 2007. Why did it take so long for us to actually make our move, well… there was the non packing and the visiting to my boyfriend’s house, which didn’t take that long of a time actually.

And since we arrived at about 6pm… not exactly at our destination yet… we made a stop to Tok Uda’s house. This former wakil rakyat had his annual open house and makan-makan. This is our FIRST time stopping there instead of going straight to Air Itam, Muar. The food… OMG… superb. It made the whole journey worthwhile. The THREE hours in the car, with relentless singing and not wanting to sleep was made worth it with the food!

Then, we made our move to Air Itam… which was another hour and a half. There was a different scenario altogether. We had mercun and bunga api… supplied by our own police officer. Haha… bahan rampasan.

The boys had a great time playing with the mercun and the kids played with all the bunga api there is. I took some photos… sampai kena perli that I was gathering evidence to prosecute. Haha.. I’m not the police officer ere… the one bringing the fireworks is.

I like the front yard of the kampung house in Air Hitam… it’s wide. There was where we had the Qurban of cow for Hari Raya Aidiladha… and it was certainly the minefield of fireworks that night too.

Ok… that whole fireworks, tho illegal, it was fun to watch and hear the reactions from everyone who was playing and closing their ears.

After all fireworks burned, most of us did what we do best… trying to bond. Imagine, my dad’s siblings is of 11 (which includes him) and each of them has at least 3 to 6 kids… which makes them ALL my cousins. We try to bond. Tho… I fail to bond that well, my sister had done well with the boys.

We left at about 11pm and reached home by 1am back home. Yes… the long journeys.

Hold it.. you think it stops there? We went to <b>Negeri Sembilan</b> the next day. Made our move by 12pm and reached close to 2.30pm. Visited about 3 houses and then kubur arwah nenek. We made our move back at about 4.30pm and reached Gombak (kubur atok) at about 6pm. Arrived home at about 7.30pm.

Phew… two long days of journeys in the car. All in all, I’ve spent about 6 hours on the first day and 3 hours on the second day = 9 HOURS!

See… i’m trying my best not to sound like a grinch here… but there’s so much a person can take with being a passenger of a 9 Hours long drive…

So… how was your Raya? Mine was tiring with the drives… but, I still love Raya nonetheless. The trying-to-bond session, the making serunding (ouh.. I made serunding this year!!) and the smiles in photos, makes the long hours worth it, I guess.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to post up some photos of the Raya trip… and catch my Zzzzz…