Saturday, December 31, 2011

Rombongan Cik Joyah Ke Melaka

Bersempena dengan cuti hujung tahun, keluarga besar Haji Rasdi telah bercuti secara berjemaah ke negeri Melaka.

Percutian ini malangnya tidak disertai oleh Haji Rasdi sendiri kerana beliau lebih gemar bersantai di kampung halaman menjaga kucing yang hampir due date beranaknya. Namun begitu seperti dalam trip yang lain, Opah turut serta untuk mewakili suami beliau.

2 unit apartment 3 bilik terpaksa disewa demi menempatkan keluarga besar yang borderline obese semua anggotanya ini.

Pusat kanak-kanak berkubang pagi dan malam.

Kali terakhir pergi Melaka ialah waktu masih bersekolah. Jadi kagum seketika dengan pembangunan pesat bandar ini. Tahap kebersihan boleh dibanggakan namun perlu improve public transportation sebab musim cuti ramai gila orang woiii nak carik parking macam nak carik jodoh.

Dulu pergi waktu zaman hingusan Dataran Pahlawan tak berapa nak bukak,sekarang siap extend bangunan lagi. Kelas kau maria.

Lepastu dah ada Menara Taming Sari sebelah tu. Wah wah harus jakun dan naik.

Konsep Menara TamingSari ini adalah ala-ala Solero dekat Genting.

Once again Opah conquered her fear of height. Syabas. Actually the best way to enjoy Melaka's scenery is by beca. 30 ringgit for 30 minutes, not that expensive eh? Considering that most of us are fatasses, 30 minit itu mungkin boleh akibatkan hip joint pengayuh beca dislocated.

And most of these beca ada radio, got subwoofer sumore i tell you. To hell with Dondang Sayang, they play Rihanna and LMFAO songs.

-beca Mercedes. anda mampu?

Memandangkan Opah juga tak berapa fit untuk berjalan kaki di area Jonker Walk maka khidmat 7-8 beca terpaksa digunakan untuk mengangkut satu family. Perarakan beca keluarga Haji Rasdi ini menggamit perhatian pelancong untuk mengambil gambar. Justeru memberi feeling Miss Tourism kepada ahli rombongan.


Selain menikmati perasaan like a boss takpayah berjalan kaki, dapat juga mendengar penerangan pengayuh beca tentang historical spots dan tourist attractions seperti makam Hang Jebat dan Masjid Kampung Kling.


Kunjungan ke Melaka tidak sah jika tidak disertai kunjungan ke Medan Ikan Bakar. The one in Umbai is overrated sebab last time pergi tak berapa best. So we went to the one in Serkam, few kilometeres further dari Umbai. Gambar ini diambil selepas ritual melahap besar-besaran.

-4 meja cantum,berekor-ekor ikan,2 kilo udang goreng tepung,2 kilo sotong goreng tepung,kupang,kepah,kerang,ketam,20 bungkus nasi lemak,nasi putih tambah,dan beberapa menu yang lain. *usyar harga treadmill online*

Another attraction ialah Melaka river cruise. The best time untuk naik ialah pada waktu malam.Di samping view yang gorjes, complexion kulit yang sediakala 10 di skala hitam juga dapat diselamatkan dari bahang mentari.

-the historical Kampung Morten

-buildings along the river are decorated with awesome murals

River cruise ini is wayyy better than Venice's gondola ride. Air Venice dahlah bau longkang, harga cekik darah plak tu. Sungai Melaka ni after restoration dah tak berapa ada bau. Lepas tu bot siap pasang lagu-lagu klasik and commentaries as we go along.

Bridge ala-ala Venice pun ada. Suck it, Italy.

All in all, we had a blast. Percutian secara berjemaah begini memang seronok,lebih-lebih lagi takpayah keluar duit lol. Maybe next time boleh ke pulau pula, because i'd like to see Opah in a diving suit. Pasti comel melampau.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Rombongan Cik Kiah Ke Pulau Langkawi

Spent the first week of my holiday at my kampung. And few days in Langkawi with my uncle,his family and Opah. Aaaand also few other mak ciks who work for my uncle. Kinda like a year end kompeni vacation.

Mak Ciks + Langkawi = No beach, just pinggan mangkuk shopping.

There were 13 Mak Ciks, 14 including Opah so its safe to say that this trip is solely for shopping. But we still managed to squeezed in few tourist attractions in between those money spending fiesta.

Last time i went to Langkawi i was around 6-7 years old. So i was pleasantly surprised dengan pembangunan pesat pulau peranginan ini. But there's this one little problem;


Yep,that is the famous Dataran Lang at night. The lampu around this place were not working. So with that little amount of spotlight left you could easily mistaken that helang for a giant chicken. According to one of the shopowner at that area, majlis daerah tengah buat wiring. And this wiring has been going on since raya. Im guessing these people doing the wiring are melayu.

We also went to the cable car ride. It's a highest cable car ride in Asia or something, so this holiday season expect hundreds of people queuing up for this one.



Opah has never been on any cable car her entire life, and she's quite afraid of height.

Siap keluar tisu lap airmata haha. At one point she prayed out " ya Allah selamatkanlah anak cucuku" hahahahaha. Drama queen much? -__-" Doa suruh selamatkan anak cucu padahal dia yang takut lebih tehee.




Among other places that we went to ialah Galeri Perdana. Still the same after all these years. Just exhibition of stuff that people/other gomen gave to Mahathir during his years as PM. Some of the stuff are quite awesome,some i think are stored there just because Tun Hasmah couldnt find any empty shelf at their home.

- a horse carriage from the Argentinian government

Collection of dolls pemberian the more cheapskate governments;



Random fact: do you know that now you have to pay 5 ringgit to enter Makam Mahsuri? I didnt know this at first but wow this place has changed a lot.


Despite having to pay 5 ringgit, you still have to pay extra 30sen to use their toilet. Dahlah toilet kotor gilak bayar 30sen tu tak tau lah ke mana hala nya.

On the first day of shopping spree we went to Idaman Suri, a huge mall selling stuff that only can be appreciated by Surirumah. Hence the name of the mall. Those makciks went crayyyyyzeyyy. They're like a bunch of fat kids in a candy shop.

Opah was no exception.This is her,trying to rationalize her purchase of 3 sudips.


And yos truli was her PA for that day,carrying her shopping basket while she went oohh ahhh over some frying pan and kuali steam.



On the second day of shopping spree;



At the end of the day all the makciks datang dengan satu beg, pulang dengan satu gedung barang perkakas dapur.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Minggu-Minggu Hell Dalam Hidup

Sejak dari zaman Intec hinggalah waktu menuntut di Dublin, acapkali ketika musim peperiksaan kamar tidur akan secara automatik bertukar menjadi seperti tempat babi hutan berhibernasi. But this time around, tiada lagi kekusutan dalam kamus hidupku.


Entah kenapa roh Eric Leong merasuki diri tiba-tiba nak transform bilik jadi feeling resort. Kau mampu? Cantimnyewwwwwwww (baca dengan tajwid Eric Leong)

Langkah pertama haruslah beli scented candle jenama Tesco untuk memberi efek aromaterapi. Kemudian beli fresh flower 3 ringgit dari gerai india tepi jalan sebelah Shell.
Ini hasilnya;

Sebuah makeover perasan resort tidak lengkap tanpa elemen air ataupun water feature. Jadi dengan gigih angkat aquarium kura-kura yang seberat seekor anak sapi untuk diletak di dalam bilik.

Bukan saja dapat menikmati bunyi deruan air pam tahi kura-kura, bahkan dapat saksikan aksi kura-kura genit ini panjat memanjat batang kayu.

Tetapi sure enough, keadaan bilik kembali kepada fitrahnya yang buruk selepas beberapa minggu teheee. Tak dapek la nak beli bunga tiap minggu woi baik beli nasik lemak 3 ringgit.

Lepas exam, seleberet adalah dengan menonton wayang cerita Puss in Boots. We got out of the cinema around 11 ish pm. Lantas menuju ke Delicious untuk late night dessert.


But when we got there, they are closing down oredy. Jadi cuma boleh tapau dan makan di luar menghadap laut ;')

Tahukah anda hanya tambah 2 ringgit,anda dapat bawa balik gelas kaca berisi Black Forest cake itu? Ya tak perlu ke Mydin untuk dapatkan gelas murah.

We spent hours talking about the future and whatnot. The possibility to end up being foreveralone, berangan nak beli mansion dekat selatan England dan macam-macam lagi. You know, stuff that losers like us usually talked about T_T.

So basically that's it. That's what has been going on in my life this past few days when i temporarily disappear from the blogosphere. (macam ada orang tanya kan??)

Friday, December 9, 2011

The Video Vault #4


Lepas exam i went to watch Puss in Boots. The movie was hilarious. Everybody go see it.

Anyway,dalam movie tersebut ada scene Puss dan Kitty SoftPaw menari flamenco. Ive seen live flamenco show once, in Seville Spain. Here are some of the videos;

Tarian duet tsunami cinta;



The star of the show; La Tona



Encore; Si Tua Bergetah - Ada apa pada usia?



To read about my Seville trip, kelik di sini.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Video 6 Saat Paling Sia-sia Untuk Ditonton



My last update was like a week ago. Macam biasalah the reason for this temporary hiatus is due to an upcoming exams. Jadi untuk mengupdate secara senonoh di blog ini adalah sedikit mustahil,but i will as soon as exams are over.

Thanks to those who follow and those who 'Like' posts in this blog ( especially the tudung Yuna post;the most number of Likes to date).

Sebagai penghargaan terimalah video Kura-kura terpantas di dunia. Sila kagumi.


I still tweet occasionally tho,ala-ala micro blogging.But early reminder,most of my tweets are offensive lol. Kalau offended takpayah susah-susah nak tweet 'tak baik you cakap macamtu #tersinggung ' because i wont respond. Baik unfollow terus.

So to those who are civilized enough to own a twitter account, you can follow me at @hatimrazak (kelik imej burung dibawah)


Follow hatimrazak on Twitter

Thankyou. Dah habis peruntukan masa seploh menet nak update blog.bye.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Toyota Wish Dari Neraka

Disclaimer :this post contains strong language. Reader discretion advised



If you've read this post im sure you know how much i loathe Penang drivers. I mean seriously everyone here should re-enroll themselves in driving school,that way we can cut down next year's Ops Sikap mortality rate by at least 68%.

Petang tadi myself and few friends went to Gurney to have early dinner sebab konon plan nak balik awal study untuk final exams. We went to Teppanyaki which by the way serves the most shiteous food we've ever tasted. The drinks itself is freakin expensive,dahlah nama air Black Temptation. Sumpah geli. But that is not the point of this post.

Ni yang nak cerita nih,

On the way balik ke rumah macam biasa lah jalanraya time-time petang komfem ramai gila sampai jam. Jalan nak masuk ke area rumah pulak ada satu simpang dengan traffic light jahanam yang hijau 30 saat sahaja. Maka line di traffic light itu adalah maha panjang. Siap boleh nyanyi 3 lagu sementara nak tunggu turn jalan. Lagu Leona Lewis, Mizz Nina dengan apetah lagi satu.

Eh terpesong.

Ok back to the story.... Bila dah hijau je tiba-tiba ada satu kereta Toyota Wish mencilok di depan. I was like "beyotch gila kau orang dah beratur lama gila kau nak potong line ngalahkan anak raja". Lepastu boleh plak si cibai ini berhenti secara mengejut tengah-tengah simpang waktu lampu trafik tengah HIJAU. Bodoh ke bangang ni?

Ditambah dengan faktor hujan renyai,maka kami sekereta mencium bumper belakang kereta Toyota Wish jahanam itu.

Kerosakan minima yang dialami oleh Toyota Wish dari neraka;

Ketika ditanya mengapa beliau memandu sebegini gampang? Alasan yang diberikan adalah sebab nak cepat pergi dinner. Wehhhhhhh kisah plak aku kau tak makan lagi????
Dasar $%^$!@#@$#%

Raut wajah pesalah
Biodata- Nama: Mrs K
Bangsa: Cina
Personaliti: Annoying

Tuan punya kereta; Saudari Dyla sedang menghubungi ejen insurans beliau

Beberapa lama selepas itu,suami beliau datang to the rescue cause bitch clearly couldnt think of any solutions. Surprisingly si suami was a very pleasant young man, and he gave us two options. Either bayar at least 700 ringgit or go to police station and make report. We choose the latter. Because either way we still have to pay sebab kita yang melanggar walaupun dia yang drive macam cilaka. At least kalau pegi balai kena bayar maximum 300 ringgit.

And 700 ringgit = one month scholarship, jadi kalau bayar dia 700 ringgit,bulan depan nak makan langsir?

So off we went to balai polis. Since i am the only accomplished writer (ehemm) among us 5, i was given the responsibility to write the report.

Obviously,the best police report ever written in Malaysia.

Moral of the story, do not drive in Penang during maghrib. Should've just stayed at Gurney and karaoke instead.

owh and the policeman is from Pilah. so saman cumalah rm120 sahaja hahahaha


Sunday, November 13, 2011

Tajuk Perbahasan Hari Ini: Yuna, Tudung dan Role Model Islam


Spent last night watching AIM 18 with some friends. Those of you who are following me on Twitter surely know this since i was tweeting like a maniac during the event. Owh and 3 people unfollowed soon after i wrote this;

If i get a penny for everytime someone is offended by my tweets,i'd surely be rich. Note to self: do not make inappropriate jokes on twitter about Anuar Zain in the future, his fans are probably writing a threat letter as we speak.

So as usual,i started Sunday morning (tak berapa nak morning sangatlah bangun pukul 11 woi) by browsing through gossip blogs just to read other people's thought on last night's show. Dan seperti dijangkakan isu gaya pemakaian Yuna menjadi salah satu topik hangat diperbincangkan.

Yuna

gambar pinjam belog Budiey

Antara komen dari rakyat marhaen berbunyi;

"ini bukan menutup aurat.pakaian ketat macam ni ke jadi role model budak perempuan sekarang?"

First of all,im not a die hard Yuna fan. So this post is not for me to defend Yuna and her outfit of choice. Lets discuss this like an adult. So let say Yuna came clad in a syariah compliant tudung labuh, with jubah and socks, will that be OK?

Even if she sing afterwards?

So everytime i read these kind of comments it baffles me. What do we want from them artists really? Mula-mula festaim bila dengar Yuna nyanyi kita yang impressed,lepastu siap share-share dekat facebook kagum gila ada juga wanita Malaysia bersuara lunak merdu macamni.

We admire these people's amazing talent, indirectly encouraging them to become a singer but at the same time expect them to be ikon Islam Hadhari. You want them to be a world known pop star but at the same time an ustazah pilihan. Where is the logic in that?

Contoh lain pulak bila kita tonton rancangan realiti. Sewaktu fenomena Mawi, semua orang undi si botak ini sebab dia innocent sweet budak kampung yang berperibadi kudus selalu mengunjungi surau. Tambahan pula menjadi bilal di kampung. Wah wah lagilah menjadi-jadi makcik di kampung beli topap 60 ringgit seminggu semata-mata mahu AFUNDI imaginary menantu ini.

Kita suka peribadi Mawi yang sebegini-warak dan tidak lupakan Tuhan. Tetapi at the same time kita undi dia supaya dia berjaya capai cita-citanya untuk menjadi penyanyi pop yang terkenal. Kalau Mawi masuk Akademi Nasyid lain cerita lah. Ini konsep rancangan Akademi Fantasia itu sendiri terang-terangan memang tak menerapkan nilai-nilai Islam.

Lepastu bila Mawi jadi artis kita persoalkan kenapa dia tak sealim seperti zaman pre-Akademi Fantasia beliau?

Jadi persoalan untuk kita semua di sini;

-Adakah adil untuk kita expect artis-artis menjadi ikon Islam sedang kan kita yang bersubahat menjerumuskan mereka ke dalam dunia glamor?

-Adakah even possible untuk artis menjadi role model islamik kepada anak muda?

-Kalau kita mahukan hiburan pure Islam,sanggupkah kita tinggalkan semua ke-lagha-an dunia ini? ( and yes that is including K-pop and terkinja-kinja di konsert Maher Zain)

Dan soalan terakhir;

-Mengapa kita susah-payah harapkan Yuna jadi idola untuk anak-anak kita sedangkan ada idola Islam seperti Siti Khadijah dan Fatimah?

Ini bukan salah Yuna dan tudungnya. Bukan salah Najwa Latif dan video-video laghonya. Bukan juga salah Cikgu Shida *tibatiba*. Ini salah kita sendiri dalam memilih idola, salah kita yang secretly dambakan hiburan duniawi tetapi terus-menerus salahkan penampilan manusia lain untuk tutup nafsu sendiri.

And i think its about time we start blaming ourselves for all these. Dont you think?



ps:post lepas pasal lady gaga tiba-tiba ala-ala alim pulak.bipolar gila kau

Friday, November 11, 2011

The Video Vault #3


When i first heard Didie Alias' new single- You & I on the radio,i thought this song sounds familiar. Macam pernah kudengari di mana-mana. And i was right.

This video was recorded semasa zaman muda-muda lagho dahulu di The Monster Ball Tour in Dublin last year. You & I was one of the song that she sang during her piano session. Rupa-rupanya berkurun sebelum album 'Diberanakkan Seperti Ini' dihasilkan, lagu ini sudah pun dinyanyikan secara live di konsert-konsert seantero dunia. How cool is that?




Sunday, November 6, 2011

What Raya??


So how's your Raya Haji? Fun? No fun?

My Raya Haji was as good as any other holidays. Hari yang penuh barakah ini dimulakan dengan bangun pukul 10 lebih,maka secara automatis terlepas sembahyang raya. Bangun-bangun cuma sempat tonton khutbah raya terpasang di RTM. Redho. T_T

Di Nilai,aura perayaan hampir tiada langsung. Jiran-jiran sekeliling semua hilang disyaki beraya di kampung halaman masing-masing. Maka memang takde langsung orang datang berziarah. Bila takde orang datang,jadinya juadah raya sendiri masak sendiri makan.

The best soto ayam in Nilai.

Other than eating non stop like there's no tomorrw, i spent the whole morning watching raya related movies and browsing through Twitter.

Cerita Korban Tak Jadi lakonan Jalaludin Hasan. Kelakor gila.

Lepastu dah tengahari sikit terasa diri ini sungguh tidak produktif. Duduk melepap di rumah ketika cuti begini kau apahal si gemuk? Cuba bawak-bawak berjalan sket,getus hati kecil. Lantas ajak adik-beradik untuk keluar menonton wayang.

Konon ah assume shopping complex pasti lengang raya begini. Sekali macam ada open house 1malaysia dalam Jusco tu. Korang ni tak reti raya ke weh?? Apa buat ramai-ramai kat shopping kompleks ni?

Can you spot a lady changing her kid's diaper in public? Sia-sia kontraktor bina bilik tukar lampin.

We watched a borderline shiteous movie- Tower Heist sebab semua movie lain sold out. Yang tinggal banyak seat cuma movie Alamak Toyol. Yang tu kalau Neelofa ajak dating tengok pun sumpah taknak. Komfem sampah.

Habis movie tak tau hala tuju mana. Out of nowhere muncul cadangan ke Istana Seri Menanti since i've never been there before. Shocking,i know.

Dahlah tadi pestaim lalu jalan baru Bukit Putus tu. Omaigod tak sangka kemajuan sungguh Negeri Sembilan sekarang. Dulu jalan bengkang-bengkok macam litar drift Syamsul Yusof sekarang jalan dah highway u ollls!!! Siap ada the second highest bridge in Malaysia kau mampu? i dont know how you Pilah people not brag about this. If this is in Nilai i swear you'll never hear the end of it. I mean, second highest bridge! Kagum sebentar.

-satu lagi projek kerajaan Barisan Nasional

-pestaim sampai. *nanges*

Lepas ronda-ronda pekan Seri Menanti which offers practically nothing to see, we headed to Senawang. Watchu have in Senawang you ask? Satay Tulang!

Im pretty sure you wont find it elsewhere. I first tried this sate few years ago,it was love at first bite.

Orang yang tak pernah rasa sate tulang mesti kata ini tulang ni makanan jin. Jin tak marinate tulang ok. Lu tak rasa takyah banyak bunyik,orang negeri sembilan je yang tahu menghargai kehebatan sate tulang ni. Kau kalau nak kena hentak dengan ekzos motor cuba ah kutuk sate tulang depan orang nogori. Wah over kau maria.

Akibat terlalu laris terpaksa guna kipas angin untuk mengipas.

Sate Tulang Jelebu di Dataran Senawang. I approve.

So basically gitulah Hari Raya Haji saya. Raya tak berapa nak raya ah tetapi still bersyukur dapat juga spend masa dengan family kecintaan =)

Raya anda bagaimana?