Lagu 3 Kupang

Manneken Pis
Piss

Peeing: the act of excreting urine from the body system.

There is that sense of relief once urine has been passed. You no longer have that added urgency that was suddenly added into your routine, and almost always at critical times. Alan Shepard Jr had had to pee in his spacesuit after his first flight into space was delayed by some technical uncertainties. Adult diapers were not there yet for NASA’s astronauts to use.

How many of you have peed in your pants or knickers after the age of 18?

Oh, own up, people!

There was a time when I almost peed in my pants. This was in Hong Kong, and I was caught in the channel tunnel in my limo heading out from the island towards my hotel in Kowloon, on the mainland; and I had just had 16 mugs of pure orange juice sans ice without going to the toilet. After lunch, I went back to my hotel in Kowloon via the channel tunnel that links Hong Kong island to Kowloon on the mainland – and was caught in lunch-hour traffic. I remember struggling to tell my body to hold back that 16 mugs of fresh orange juice firmly in the bladder. After 20 minutes I began to wonder if the driver could smell my urine if I peed inside the limo. Common sense prevailed and I held on, agonisingly, and ran straight to the hotel’s washroom at the lobby without closing the limo door.

Holding back your pee can be disastrous if you suffer from Rhinitis like I do. There I was, rushing to the gents. As I stood in front of the urinal and fingers fumbling with the zipper, the sudden change in temperature from cold to warm, caused me to sneeze. KABOOM! Wet the front of my pants a bit.

Peeing can also be painful. I had had my renal stones removed via a procedure called Ureteroscopy. Basically, it is an intrusive procedure. First, after knocking you out with General Anaesthetic, they stick a guide wire through the dick’s little hole, through the urethra and into the ureter. Then they stick in a Ureteroscope and grasp the smaller stones into a basket, and pull them out of the ureter. For the bigger stone, they actually used electrohydraulic lithotripsy. Sounds complicatingly technical? You must wonder how on earth can all that go through the dick’s opening. Well, at least someone knows why my dick’s girth is big la.

So why is that painful? When I came to, I had the biggest headache, I was disorientated because of the after effects of a GA, and because of all that water that was pumped into my bladder, I felt like I wanted to pee. My lower back ached like hell. I stood by the toilet bowl and tried to pee. Initially, there was nothing. Then there was a kind of blowback, maybe because of the Double-J stent they had left inside my ureter to keep it from swelling shut after the procedure. Imagine all that urine blowing back inside…painful! Then as it passes through the urinary tract, down to the dick, the dick already had cuts inside…arrghh…burning sensation…then I hold my urine back…another blowback. And it wasn’t just urine. Because of the wound, I was also peeing blood…lots of it. Frothing blood filled the toilet bowl, and I was moaning in pain, my hands squeezed whatever I could grab hold of, just to overcome the excruciating pain. For more than a week I was peeing blood.

Two weeks after the procedure, they repeated the process to remove the Double-J stent. Painful…painful. At least someone’s benefiting from the pain I had to go through. Hahaha!

And if you are in a public area, like a mall, do carry enough coins with you to pay for ‘toilet fee’. I had one 20-sen coin and thought it was enough for me. Then when my bladder was threatening to burst, I rushed to the mall’s toilet, only to be refused entry by the Indon female gatekeeper because the fee was 30 sen. God! I did not realise that inflation has caused not only petrol and essential goods prices to go up, but the cost to take a leak as well? As I argued with this Indon, a fellow Indon male and two Bangla male colleagues of hers decided to turn up with menacing look on their faces. They looked a bit like that poster from the movie ‘Pendekar Bujang Lapok’ where Pendekar Mustar, Sudin, Ajis and Ramlee walked towards the camera in unison to confront Ahmad Nesfu and his cohorts. I wasn’t going to be bothered over a fee that costs ‘3 kupang’ (30 sen in Perakian), nor was I going to pee laughing looking at their facial expression.

So I rushed for the stairwell and peed behind the fire-resistant door. Those bujang lapoks can always mop the floor after.

At least I got to pee for free…

BFF – Best Friends Forever, Or, Butt-F***ing Foe?

Nisaa and Farhan asleep
My two best friends: my daughter Nisaa and my son Farhan, both occupy 80% of my bed. This is how they look like when they are not fighting.

Friend or Foe?
I want those who get to know me
to become admirers of my enemies

A friend confided in me yesterday afternoon: not only has her boyfriend’s dumped her for her best friend, her best friend is now bad mouthing her to their common friends. The worse part is they all come from the same organisation – therefore wherever they go they are bound to bump into one another, unless someone quits.

I don’t know what to tell her. She’s been going steady with this guy for a couple of years now; and that is now gone. She is angry, bitter – because her best friend stole him away, and he’s dumped her totally.

I have only one advice for her: move on. Forget him. He doesn’t deserve this friend of mine. No use dwelling over this petty issue. I know it is easier said than done, but this is the best that she can do. There is no point thinking of stupid people.

Some friends are like that. Some live happily spreading rumours about you, or someone who is close to you so that you and the other person this friend likes to talk about, will have a fall out. It gives pleasure in this kind of people that they are above you in the foodchain pyramid: knowing one ugly detail about you is like having opened your Pandora’s box. So your downfall is their happiness.

At least this friend of mine has a reason not to talk to any of the other two. Some can be bitter that you have moved on. Seriously. They break up with you, dump you without thinking twice, expect you to agree to their decision that somehow affects your life badly – but treat you as if they still own you. Then when you move on, they abandon you, and your new partner (especially if she knows your new partner personally). Some friend, huh! To cap that ugliness, some would even call up your ex to talk about your private life. Hey, hello! Which planet are you from? Ex means GONE! Nothing doing! Get a life or get a cucumber and use it on yourself. These are self-centered people who think the whole universe revolves around them. Maybe they get orgasm looking at their own shadow.

Talk about EXs..how do you spell that? Exes? EX’s? Whatever. Some ex still think they own you. In a rather complex scenario, a friend, who is an Ex of someone who is an Ex of another, is still fighting a war with the other two Exs. Okay, that’s a little confusing. Let’s call this friend Ex-A; her ex we call Ex-M, while his other Ex we shall call her Ex-B. Why the odd letter arrangement? M is for male, while B comes after A. Ex-B recently sent an e-mail to ex-M about some gory details of what ex-A did. Question One: why should ex-M care about what ex-A does? She is his EX after all, right? But ex-M goes ballistics and shouts profanities at her. Silly billy. Question Two: why should ex-B even bother doing such a thing, unless she is sick from something she’s ingested over the years. We’ll come to that later.

This reminds me of Glaucoma Monkey who, almost three weeks ago, thought he still had some perverted rights over his ex. I had to whack him to make him understand the reality. Maybe that is the only way for people to understand things – give them a good whacking.

EXs are supposed to remain friends; you have both shared something through the years, or months. But like some friends, EXs can be a pain in the rear. I treat my EXs like friends, but they take advantage of my soft stance towards them. I won’t elaborate here as I have written enough about them in the past. Suffice to say that I am cutting them some long slack and hope they hang themselves soon.

In a related development, there are three common friends. Friend A and Friend B play hockey, but Friend C is a footballer. When Friend A has a problem with Friend D who is also a hockey player, and would like to confide in both friends B and C, Friend B advised Friend A against calling Friend C in because Friend C does not belong to their group – and they are all common friends. Weird? I think I’d stand a better chance at sanity counting the number of stars in the night sky. These are friends who love to run your life for you – dictators in a small sense.

Some are just friends with you because of either who you are, or because they think you should be going out with them. The moment you tell them to back off, they become your enemy. Sore losers.

So choose your friends carefully, and treasure those you can have as best friends. And keep the rubbish out. It’s healthy that way. The rubbish would normally, by some freak chance, come from relatively the same area as the other rubbish. Maybe all their shit’s contaminated their water table – the very source of drinking water that they, in that area, have.

And I am easily amused by this best friend of mine who was imitating every moves of a boy on ASTRO CERIA’s Tom Tom Bak>. She’s one of my best friends. And no one can change that status of ours.

Nisaa dancing and singing

I Miss

I miss you when I woke up this morning
I miss the way you look at me when you wake up
I miss you

Dry And Dehydrated

On the way to Koh Lipe

I sit here and read status updates on my friends’ Facebook profile. Almost all are either already diving somewhere, or going diving tonight. Yesterday, Boatman called me up telling me how diving has been great in Perhentian. Yesterday morning, some friends text me that they were boarding either a speedboat, or a ferry somewhere – all island bound.

Yes, I know I always do that to other divers. I am guilty of spending every weekend diving back in 2005/2006, and spending long durations on islands in 2007, and diving when others don’t, such as during the fasting month and on Hari Raya.

This year, apart from doing jobs underwater, I have only gone on a dive trip ONCE! And I have yet to go back to Perhentian. Well, the last time I was in Perhentian it was during Hari Raya – it was sunny the first day I was there, then it rained like mad, as it did then in my heart – the very reason I went to dive on a Hari Raya.

Perhentian has improved a lot since my first dives there: seahorses, more sharks, marine life in abundance, fantastic marine life at the Sugar Wreck, including occasional sightings of Blacktip Reef Sharks. Come to think of it, almost everywhere has been the same lately.

I have to go back to Perhentian for a recreational dive trip very soon – and I will also need to go and do dives using the Yellow-Box-Of-Death (YBOD) in Tioman. I need more underwater photographs, and I need them soon.

And I can hardly wait…

Let’s Burn Da House Down!

Let's burn da house down, dudes!
Let’s burn da house down, dudes!

“Culture is roughly anything we humans do that the monkeys don’t.”

Looking at the live telecast of the Q&A session during the first day of the first sitting of the Parliament after the last general elections, you cannot see human beings at all.

The Information Ministry should work towards providing the rakyat a channel dedicated to the live telecast of Parliament sittings so we can all see how the simians we have elected will behave, and if they are doing the jobs we have elected them to do on our behalf as our servants.

We chose them. We are their bosses.

Konsentrasi Jejaka Kepala Batas

Huaaarrggh
“HuuuuaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaarrRRrrgggGGghhHHHHhh~*”

Awat nih?
“Lerr…awat nih? Payah betui nak celik mata…”

Tongkat
“Tak pa…aku tongkat lagu ni depa ingat aku dok konsentret…”

Jatuh
“~*zzzZZZzzzzzZZZzzz….*snort*…eh, terjatuh plak muka aku…”

Islam Hadhari stance
Ah, tak pa…aku buat lagu ni nampak macam aku dok ngaji Qur’an…nampak la aku promote Islam Hadhari sambil bersidang baca Qur’an…”

Pssst...
“Pssst….wei…Pak Lah dengan najib dah tidur…apa lagi, jom la tidur…diorang tak nampak!”

Jangan kacau
“Okay…aku tidur. Jangan kacau aku!”

Tidor
Tidor
“Presiden dengan Timbalan dah tidur, kita apa lagi…ikut teladan pemimpin la!”

Best tidur
“Best la meeting macam ni…boleh tidur….so jom kita para tetamu, tidur juga!”

Aku, Lelaki

Lelaki Terindah

5.29 pagi aku duduk termenung di sebuah restoran mamak berhampiran rumahku sambil membalun dua keping roti canai kosong banjir bersama segelas teh tarik kurang manis yang boleh membunuh sang semut tatkala tersentuh sahaja kakinya. Aku masih tidak dapat memahami isi kandungan The Meaning of Our Cheerfulness hasil nukilan Nietzsche, mungkin kerana tidak ada apa-apa yang begitu menceriakan seorang lelaki seperti aku yang tujuan merayau jam 5.29 pagi hanyalah semata-mata untuk makan roti canai.

Hidup engkau bagai tiada tujuan,” pernah orang tuaku leter pada ku lebih 20 tahun yang lalu apabila aku enggan menurut kata-katanya supaya aku menjadi seorang akauntan atau peguam. Tetapi, pada ketika dan saat ini, pada pukul 5.29 pagi, makan roti canai adalah satu tujuan hidup yang baik, berbanding dengan aku yang mungkin terbaring terlentang di atas Federal Highway mencari sisa otakku yang bertaburan akibat terjatuh motorsikal selepas berlumba dengan rakan-taulanku.

Gott ist tot,” adalah ungkapan yang mungkin Nietzsche akan luahkan padaku ketika ini sekiranya beliau bercadang untuk bangkit dari kubur. Hodoh. Aku lebih sukakan Maya Karin melayang di waktu malam tanpa seurat benang pun agar dapat aku letakkan portretnya di dalam Facebook ku.

Dalam menungku, aku terkenang akan hidupku yang bercampur-baur dengan kejadaman, keperitan, keceriaan dan kehancuran. Aku lebih suka berada di sekolah – tanggungjawab hidup ketika itu lebih mudah: lulus ujian, dan tentukan cicak-cicak yang mati akibat dilastik disapu ke bawah pintu pejabat pengetua. Aku tak perlu fikir masa hadapan anak-anak; aku tak perlu fikir adakah jantungku masih akan berdegup semasa mereka masih memerlukan aku; aku tak perlu fikir mengenai apa strategi bodoh yang akan diambil oleh bekas-bekas isteriku yang suka melihat kerut dahiku bertambah dari satu hari ke satu hari yang lain akibat tindakan-tindakan bodoh mereka – petty, tetapi menusuk jantung kewarasanku – hanya kerana inginkan kemenangan pyrrhic yang membunuh semua yang lain, termasuk kewarasan anak-anak. Aku sukar memahami sang isteri yang sembahyang ketika mengalami kesempitan hidup (tak sempit, tak sembahyang) , tetapi pada yang sama, melayan aku, si tiketnya untuk memasuki syurga, bak tiket bas RapidKL yang telah digunapakai.

Aku sukar memahami isteri yang berpelajaran tinggi tetapi otak diletakkan di dalam kepala lutut.

“Sudah pukul 9 malam! Takkan kau nak keluar lagi ke kedai mamak depan dengan adik engkau untuk teh tarik? Dah lewat, kau faham tak, jantan?”

Ceritanya bagus, tetapi bila basuh berak ataupun period, tak reti nak simbah lantai. Bila aku suruh dia mencuci segala khazanah yang ditinggalkannya selebet di atas lantai bilik air, perempuan ini menangis dan menelefon emak aku. EMAK AKU! Bukan emak dia. Lepas tu panjanglah FM STEREO yang aku terima dalam telefon bimbitku. Jadilah berminggu-minggu aku tak bersapa dengan mak bapak aku sendiri.

“Tak guna punya anak? Suami apa macam ni? Tak boleh nak tolong bini sendiri! Gila talak ke?”

Taik dan darah sendiri pun tak boleh cuci ke? Tak pernah ke dengar kata-kata orang tua-tua era Tun Sri Lanang:

SENDIRI BERAK, SENDIRI CUCI

Aku tak boleh fahami isteri yang tukar padlock pintu hanya kerana aku tiba di rumah begitu lewat kalau mengikut piawaiannya – 5 minit selepas jam 7 petang.

Aku, lelaki. Aku tidak pernah minta supaya sebungkus Maggi yang siap dicelur air panas tersedia di hadapan ku 24/7. Aku tidak pernah minta agar kau kangkangkan pehamu seluas kangkang gajah supaya aku tersenyum kepuasan. Aku tidak pernah minta kakiku dicium supaya kau boleh mencium haruman Firdausi. Walaupun aku tidak pernah bersetuju sepenuhnya dengan pendapat Nietzsche, tetapi kekadang naluriku berfikir sendiri; tanpa ingin memulakan sebarang blasphemous rumour, naluriku berkata mungkin tuhan juga mempunyai sick sense of humour. Perkahwinan dicipta di heaven sepertimana juga guruh dan petir, membuat jantungku luruh dalam getir.

Rambling aku mula tiada haluan. Mungkin roti canai sudah mula diproses, dimangkinkan proses pencernaan oleh kari dan dhal yang berusia paling tidaknya dua hari.

Aku, lelaki. Aku inginkan kebahagiaan hidup. Masakan (sekali lagi ia berbunyi masa-kan, bukannya masak-an) bisa (bukan dari ular, tetapi kebolehan) aku mencapai kebahagiaan di akhirat kalau di muka bumi ini pun aku tidak bisa tersenyum (aku tak ada taring ular nak berbisa). Ramai wanita yang profess akan cinta mereka kepada ku tetapi akhirnya aku tidak lain melainkan hanyalah pemampan emosi bagi mereka. Apa? Kau orang ingat aku ni macam besi pemampan tepi highway yang bas-bas langgar sebelum melanggar tol PLUS di Jelapang?

Ada yang kata mereka cintakan aku sepenuh hati: tetapi bila aku lambat tiba seminit, lagi teruk marahnya dari herdikan kepada budak kilat kasut di Chennai yang tersilap guna Kiwi cokelat untuk kasut hitam.

“You are one minute late!” tengkingnya. “Do you know that it bores me to death because you are one minute late? You are always late! You are never on time!”

“But I love you!” sambungnya. “But you are late by one minute! Next time if you cannot be on time, don’t see me!”

Kau tak tahukah betapa gilanya kelajuan aku memandu untuk sampai tepat pada waktu yang kau kehendaki? Aku tak control cara orang lain memandu, BETCH!. Kau pedulikah kalau dahiku terbelah dua setelah kepalaku terhantuk di steering sekiranya aku berjaya meremukkan bahagian hadapan keretaku dan bahagian belakang kereta orang lain pada kelajuan 180km/h? Kalau kau gembira, aku mintak otakku terpelanting dan pecah di muka engkau pada saat itu.

Aku juga sukar memahami perempuan-perempuan yang menyatakan cinta kepadaku yang tidak berbelah bahagi, dan yang teramat sangat, tetapi berbuat sedemikian hanya untuk membalas dendam terhadap seseorang, biasanya terhadap orang yang dikasihinya yang bersikap jalang.

“Aku cintakan kau lebih dari aku cintakan nyawaku,” pernah satu ketika diungkapkan kepadaku. “Tetapi, tidak cukup untuk aku meninggalkan jantan jalang yang merobek hatiku ini dan menghabiskan sisa-sisa hidupku yang pathetic dengan engkau.”

Atau,

“Aku cintakan engkau teramat sangat, tetapi jangan persoalkan tindakanku sekiranya aku berdiam selama 3 bulan tanpa boleh engkau menghubungiku.”

Dan paling aku tak faham ialah bagaimana mereka membuang aku lebih teruk dari plastik bungkusan Twisties yang telah kosong. Biasanya perbuatan tersebut akan didahului dengan disclaimer yang tangible, iaitu I WANT TO SEE YOU HAPPY, I HOPE TO SEE YOU HAPPY; dan satu disclaimer yang intangible, iaitu WE HAVE BROKEN UP BUT YOUR ASS IS STILL MINE WHEN I NEED YOU WHENEVER I AM NOT HAPPY. Pelik dan ajaib, tetapi benar. Bila aku move on, sepuluh jari mula menuding seperti Jejaka Kepala Batas yang mula menyalahkan orang lain bila keputusan pilihanraya umum ke-12 macam sial.

Well, sebenarnya sial pun lagi elok rupanya dari keputusan PRU-12. But that is a different matter entirely.

Aku, lelaki. Aku hanya dambakan senyuman manis yang datangnya dari hati yang ikhlas, yang terzahir akibat cinta yang suci. Aku hanya dambakan sedikit respect, dan akanku balas berganda-ganda sekiranya aku dapat rasakan perasaan-perasaan yang ikhlas.

Itulah kisahku, lelaki. Cannon-fodder, punching bag, emotional buffer.

Nasib baiklah ada yang menyayangi aku kerana aku adalah aku, dan dengan ikhlas.

Get Well Soon, My Brother

I received a text from Oneon saying that a former colleague and a good brother of mine, Jai the Bhai, or better known as Faizal Sanusi (former Deputy Youth Chief of PKR), has been hospitalised for heart attack. He is now in CICU of the UMMC and is not allowed to receive visitors at least until tomorrow.

He was returning from KLIA with another colleague after a meeting when he had the heart attack.

Get well soon, bro. And please have good rest after you’re discharged. We still need you to attend this year’s Ramadhan’s Perjumpaan Talam 4 Muka.

Talam 4 Muka - 2007
Talam 4 Muka 7th October 2007, Uptown Mosque – Besut Stud a.k.a Ah Keong, Lan Chao, Jai the Bhai, SeaDemon

Your Ways

The way you love me
the way you touch me
the way you look at me
the way you smile at me
the way you feel when I hold you in my arms
the way you kiss me
the way you make every single day in my life beautiful
make me want to ask God
for a special place in His Heaven
for you
and even if I cannot make it there
and am condemned to taste Hellfire
I hope,
I can be placed closest to Heaven’s gate
so I can see you from there