Mengimbau Kenangan Open House Di Obersi

Eventhough raya di kampung halaman sungguh meriah tetapi sebaik saja kaki ini dijejakkan ke Penang suasana raya lenyap sama sekali. Balik-balik dari cuti hari Isnin pagi pergi hospital berkepam sampai tengahari petang pergi lecture seolah-olah macam bukan bulan Syawal pun.

Memang ironi sungguh waktu di Dublin dulu walaupun takde cuti raya tapi kemeriahan raya terasa sampai sebulan. Semua rumah mesti buat open house, melainkan rumah yang nakharomm kedekut ataupun yang ahli rumahnya spesis yang masak air pun boleh hangit. Meriah raya sampai sebulan terasa sebab boleh gathering sembang-sembang di rumah terbuka berskala kecil ini.

Tak perlu menu bombastic dan presentation 5 bintang, cukuplah sekadar soto/mihun sup yang dihidang dalam mangkuk beli kat Argos selonggok 8 euro. 

This was at my open house in Dublin.

Fun times.

Bila dah balik Penang ni dengan takde masa plus duit pun tak berapa nak ada jadi memang tak mungkin lah nak buat open house macam zaman muda-mudi dulu. Nak makan hari-hari pun catu bajet weh koser pulak aku nak bagi makan satu batch.

Jadi disebabkan last week kampung halamanku telah mengadakan open house sempena bulan Syawal yang mulia maka haruslah ku menjemput beberapa rakan taulan ke kampung untuk sama-sama me-revivekan suasana open house yang telah lama ditinggalkan.

Tapi paham-pahamlah kemalasan berganda nak snap gambar sekarang ni jadi gambar yang ada cumalah gambar sebelum majlis sebab segan nak ambik gambar guna henfon zuhud di khalayak ramai.

Menu adalah banyak melampaui batas. Ada nasi ayam,kueytiow goreng,lemang,rendang,spaghetti,soto,sate dan macam-macam lagi. 

Only 4 of my friends came. I should've invited the whole class.

Before the event started ada orang datang untuk set up P.A system. And they had a karaoke set siap dengan list seleksi lagu rock kapak yang sungguh banyak. 

Maka haruslah ku meng offer diri untuk test mic. Tak agak-agak test mic lagu Awie Senja Nan Merah terus.

Selesai dendangan lagu Senja Nan Merah yang pitch perfect itu daku mendongak ke langit dan....

Some people should just stick to Redbox.

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Happy Birthday Aiman =)

Today is my younger bro's birthday. Happy birthday Aiman!

Being raised in a family who is too cheap to celebrate birthdays, a "hoi bongok happy birthday" text message would suffice. Since i am such a good and loving older brother lemme kick it up a notch and dedicate a blogpost for this auspicious day.

Me and my younger brother wasn't that close when we grew up. Sebab jarak umur adalah lebih kurang 5 tahun (a rough estimation since i cant remember his exact age now.Ingat birthday dah cukup baik). I was closer to my older brother. For a while there were just two of us, me and Hanis.

So i was definitely have gotten used of having all the attention from le parents for the first few years growing up. When mama decided to get pregnant again with Aiman i wasn't thrilled. But luckily i got over my last-child-syndrome phase as soon as he was born because mama decided to popped out another 2 kids after Aiman. -____-

This was us. Photo taken circa 1997

Looking back at this picture i realize two things.

#1 : It was 1997 and i already nailed the duckface pose. That 5 days MC girl got nothing on me.

#2 : Once upon a time all of us were kurus. Now Aiman is the biggest in our family.

-sorry but this is your only kurus picture that i can find on facebook.

Aiman is definitely the most boleh harap one. Me and Hanis were top students during our primary school years. But we went downhill as soon as we enter secondary. Early bloomers sangat kann. But Aiman is the only one among us who manage to maintain his top student status throughout his school years. Pfft overachiever.

Plus with his religious school background dia je la yang boleh harap menghafal doa-doa dan sering tak miss sembahyang. I went to the same religious school as he did but only stayed for a week before i decided to ditch the place for a much cooler school in KL akibat hormon muda remaja yang mendambakan hiburan kotaraya.

Now he's all grown up (got awek some more) and will be flying off to Jordan to further his studies- 4 years course in dentistry. Memandangkan exam yang dah nak dekat most probably i wont be there to send him off at the airport. I might not be there in person, but my doa's are always with you.

But of all places, why on earth did he picked Jordan?- the decision that still baffles me. 

I was positive at first, mungkin panorama indah Jordan seperti dalam drama Nur Kasih mesti best satu family datang melawat dia tahun depan ni. Then i looked up on Tripadvisor for top three best hotel in Irbid, Jordan and this image came out.

Ermmm... maybe aku tunggu je la kau balik 4 tahun lagi.

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