it's the season

wah teruk sekali this week. FLU geng. one of the worst i've ever had. all curled up in bed, sneezing badly at work (i'm sure my bro pun takut kena the flu from me, cuz that means amir will get it too and eventually his wife will catch it too), nose runny, eyes watery, body feels cold but my head is steaming hot!

sigh...means no photography outing this week :( this sneeze could literally make my nose come off! i guess it's the flu season, apart from me, 3 of my friends also have the flu (though i'm positive one of them got it from me, sorry babe heeee)

so everyone else who didn't catch it, arm yourself with more vitamin-C. as for me, i'm going to my doctor tomorrow.

Sungai Mengalong

akhirnya, budak-budak ini (sepupu-sepupu, adik, dan anak buah) sudah merasa mandi di air sungai mengalong (juga tidak dinafikan mesti ada yang terminum juga air sungai mengalong), baru lah boleh mengaku "Ya, saya anak jati SIPITANG".


my sister claims that she's 'terlampau bandaran' because she never got the chance to enjoy 'swimming' in Sungai Mengalong, padahal sungai tu di belakang rumah saja. when i was younger, every Hari Raya i looked forward to 3 things (a)meeting with cousins (b)FOOD galore and (c)mandi di Sungai Mengalong. Mulanya uja besia (sikapnya Pacik Salim jaan Angah Mastul) ada biawak tu Sungai Mengalong tu. au mengasi tu caita besia tu, we were out of the water in a nick of time! that's the only way they can pull us out of the water, by telling such stories. i think when my sister was younger, we didn't continue swimming at the sungai because most of my cousins are getting older like me, jadi kiranya malu lah kan bmandi2 di sungai sudah, and the little toddlers were really little (belum qualified untuk mandi) and aunties and uncles pun sudah limpas zaman kan mbawai kanak-kanak mandi. so for my sister Zura, yesterday was her chance (though not really swimming lah, we were only walking in flood water because simpang jalan tu tanggalam baah aing sungai mengalong) to know what it feels like to have air sungai mengalong between her legs. au bejasa ne sungai mengalong ne.

ani tah anak KADAYAN damanya -- this is what we call as anak kadayan. my cousin acha and my nephew amir dgn seluar pinjam nya tu. nampak betul xmuat kan? dua-duanya berenti mandi when my brother caught them swallowing too many water.. kalau di sungai nda pa jua, ani di jalan raya depan rumah ne, air banjir dari sungai mengalong sj. sebenarnya ndada yang di izinkan daddy untuk mandi aing baah (air banjir), but it started with one cousin...then another, and another, and another, hujung-hujung semua pun dalam air sudah -- including my brother yang claim he's only there 'untuk jaga anak' but i know deep down it's not that! ha!

ini namanya bgubang -- small sampan. doesn't look like my cousins are getting out of the water anytime soon...perhaps they haven't heard the story about biawak? heee mesti sepantas kilat dorang blari naik if they did.

bukan main lagi dorang sengaja masukkan air, as if they're finding the thrill in scooping out the water later on.

taking pictures and freezing their memories gave me great satisfaction, because i know how they feel playing in water. it feels like 14 years ago past so fast, but at last i can reconnect the feeling through the joy i see in their eyes. where ever we go, sungai mengalong tetap di hati, no matter what!

this was what it looks like around the house...

the actual river only starts after the rusty 'tong', so yang bahagian depan ne actually air sungai yang naik. mum pointed out and says 'sungai ne nampak macam bhantu saja' and later she carries on telling us stories about the famous dragon that lived up on a mountain, and everytime it floods, it is said that the dragon is also coming down from the mountain. some call this dragon 'tambuakaa' in mother tongue. my grandma later tells me that this 'tambuakaa' is GIGANTIC and is very long. 'maasai kau telihat kah nik?' -- have u ever seen it urself? and she said... 'au mistiiiiiiiiii lah inda maasai'. idih. i thought the long mistiiiiiii means she ever saw one. she said only few people did, but she assured me that there's such thing as 'tambuakaa'. interesting. more on tambuakaa here (a link to blogger A.S Kasah). tangah, minjam ku blog mu ah! thx :)

sungai mengalong, mun ku inda takanang yang aku ne pun basaa sudah, batah sudah ku mencabuu dlm aing tu kalamaie.

new pattern of flirting

i promised myself that i would blog about this, if and only if it happened to me for the 10th time. so everybody, feel lucky because it happened today, and the counting completed to 10. and because i promised myself that i would blog about it, here it is -- a blog, dedicated to the new pattern of flirting (at the risk of embarrassing myself).

since i started working, i happen to meet a lot of ppl; from all walks of life. some i can relate too, some i can hardly recommend anything that they would like. since working with my family means most of the time i would be at the shop, most of the customers i meet are woman because they are our major targeted end-user, but our real niche market are MEN.

some are genuine buyer, but i have met 10 that used the new pattern of flirting. yes, move over old fashion flirting ('hello, hi, can i have your number'). now we have something more appealing.

lelaki nowdays (not generally, at least the ten men that tried it at my shop) have a new tactics, subtle, yet it answers all my theory of STATISTIC. (see ren, this is what i mean by statistic).

how they operate:
jalan2 dalam kedai complimenting products that we have, sending friendly gestures, warm laugh, long eye contact (1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, 4 Mississipi), asking question that have obvious answers and the blah blah blah that easily be summed as flirting. then sebagai finishing touch (the orthodox men would ask for number ka, single ka apa ka) they would say 'ok nanti i bawa my orang rumah untuk tgk2 sini'.

hah?? apa la tu?? i wasn't comfortable with the flirting in the first place, but was later insulted with such remark. apa kau nampak aku pun tertarik sama ko punya flirting tu? until u have to say that statement to repel me away from u?

then it all got connected in my brain (that have nothing better to think about) that it's all about the statistic. if Alice of L-word have The Chart, then i have The Statistic. it's all out in the open. why would a guy want to come into the shop, telling all his glory of his taste in fashion and how he's also eyeing what i think is beautiful, how he pose in all his expensive things, hinting how much money he have and hinting how important the project he's having (thus the need of mencari batik which led him to the shop), but in the end topping it off with a statement saying he's MARRIED? even if i were interested, that would definitely pull me away (one way or another?)

but according to my statistic, women are outnumbering the guys. there won't be many guys practicing monogamy anymore (men of my time), that's in my humble opinion. these 10 guys that did flirt and also told me that they are married are the kind of guys who thinks that being married is another quality marked as 'desirable'.

ntah lah. figure that out. maybe it's just me. but these 10 guys proved my theory right.

move on pls! move on!

it's like a death. but things that are surreal, sometimes sinks slower than it should. it's nearly 2 years, but it's hard to move on. death are better than this, because "people" say we can actually die of a broken heart.

nearly 2 years, i never thought it would be like this. until the 17th day of the third month this year, i must say, i'm still so into it. oh, this is hard to give up :) waiting for the next bus with rena. rain or shine baby, rain or shine! move on please.

and would u be ever so kind to spare me your change? i'm getting on the next bus...though leaving heavy-heartedly was never an option.

brain-racker

i've been racking my brain this week to finish various sets of sudoku and yet i never did finish any. it's HARD! tahap evil punya HARD. everytime i try to finish one, and i can't, i'd tell myself this must be because this one is evil stage (hardest). but when i scroll down i see it's labeled : EASY PEASY LEMON SQUEEZY. well it's not easy for me. ntah lah. could be that i'm a ****ing retard. sigh. how can an economics graduate like me who always play with numbers can't figure this out? sigh..

curiosity makes the kid turn away

my best shot this week. zoom skit gelang amir, it's PEMUDA BN SEDIA GEMPUR.
Pemuda yang sangat lah muda.

Kerusi N28 Sindumin

yesterday was voting day for Malaysia. sadih jua bila tlihat byk negeri yang di perintah oleh parti pembangkang. We, in the family strongly believe that 'there's always an ending to a beginning' and i'd always add that '...and often it's going to be very painful'. why so? sebab lumrah manusia, temaha tamak haloba, anything that they can get more of -- surely they will tighten the grip of it instead of stepping down. so once the 'END' hits in, it's going to be painful. example? Datuk Sami Vellu (or Value they like to call him) sudah bertanding 9 penggal! bukan kita tdk suka Datuk Sami Vellu, but Pak Lah should have send pendekar yang lebih tangkas, changes should be made before org jemu mengundi yang samaaaa saja for the past 32 years or so. kebanyakkan kerusi yang dimenangi pihak pembangkang mempertaruhkan muka baru dan muda.

election 2004 : PKR menang satu kerusi saja.
election 2008 : Jari kaki jari tangan pun nda cukup mau kira brapa dorang sudah menang
election 2012 : If still no changes, then a new dawn for Malaysia tu jadi realiti, but what kind of dawn i'm not sure. more like a dusk for masyarakat pro-kerajaan UMNO.

what changes we need? remember what Tun Dr M said, 'satu penggal cukup...' tapi nampak gaya nya 'tiada lah janji-janji begitu...' ok as u wish...

APA LA MAU JADI SAMA MALAYSIA, pembangkang sudah ada suara besar dalam parlimen. hopefully, suara besar saja la. kalau suara kuat tu, mengkhuatirkan. hopefully everything would be ok, i know so little, masih mentah dalam politik.

yesterday i was given the privilege to become 'unofficial photographer' for calon N28 Sindumin. actually nda la terror sangat, saja ja testing my 'reporter shots' konon. cheh!

Calon N28 Hj Ahmad Hj Bujang mbantu ayah, Hj Bujang Jamal setelah siap membuang undi di SK Sindumin. walaupun tidak dpt berjalan, namun tidak mematahkan semangat.

'ani besalam inda dapat batah2 ne kaang uja dangan ku bkimpin lagi'

the result was in a bit after 9 p.m (if i'm not mistaken). Hj Ahmad Hj Bujang (HJ A HJ B) won with majority 1,904. i think orang kampung sipitang already expected this, as N28 was never in the hands of the opposition party. but HJ A HJ B did made some early changes, he managed to pull some 236 voters that voted for the opposition on last election (based on majority won bt Datuk Sapawi Hj Ahmad on 2004).

SYABAS, lepas ne boleh lah blanja makan reporter ne heeeeee

at last!

yes, i know, readers myb yawning because most of my post is photography-related, i promise i'd blog about something else next time *wink*.

as i told yesterday, today is a joy day as it's the day my 50mm f/1.8 II joins the family!

my skill may suck, but this lense doesn't! i'm still stumbling here and there with configuration, but the bokeh (blur efect) of this pic is to die for!

another to join my canon camp...

yeah! everybody be happy! i'm gonna get my 50mm f/1.8 II tomorrow...gonna get that nice bokeh on all pic after this...as my daddy said, this is such a spoilt child hobby...once started, can never be stopped. i guess my mom n dad accepted that a few hundreds ringgit ago!

above is the lens referred to as 'fantastic plastic' as it can achieve a very nice bokeh like the black&white picture above..it's el-cheapo yet very satisfying!

update!!

ciannnn my blog ne nda kena peduli bah. tuan nya pun melimpas2 bukan menjenguk, saja ja masuk untuk masuk link yang lain. hooo kesiannya...

nothing much interesting happening lately, thus nothing to blog about. recently, because of kesibukan of everybody in the family, most of the time i'm working alone in CPS instead of Karamunsing. Suprising enough, i still manage to arrange coherent words after nearly a week working there. CPS is soooo boring! my laptop is at karamunsing, so i have no interactive interaction whatsoever! my only chance to chatter away is either i have a customer or a friend (or two) would drop by. tsk tsk... i'm not used of CPS, karamunsing rocks much better because i know more people there and it feels like home.

but since i'm working at CPS, means i'm nearer to my camera heaven! >> investline! went to pick up my long awaited close-up filter (ya la ya la belum ada duit mo beli macro lense!) which is amazing because it can blow up pictures!

FOR MY HEROES

When we ask for Strength, God gave us Difficulties to make us strong.
When we ask for Wisdom, God Gave us Problem to solve.
When we ask for Prosperity, God gave us Brain & Brawn to work with.
When we ask for Courage, God gave us Danger to overcome.
When we ask for Love, God gave us Troubled people to help.
When we ask for Favors, God gave us opportunities wide open.
We receive nothing that we wanted, but EVERYTHING we needed.

to all my fighters, i wish u long lasting determination to face every obstacle. to my dear Dad -- i love u, you are the strongest fighter ever! and Mom -- u can do it! and last but not least to my dearest Lybby, you are always locked deep in my heart no matter how far u are...