I Want My Bruschetta Baby

Bruschetta...broos-ket-ta

Baby, I’m-a want you
Baby, I’m-a need you
You the only one I care enough to hurt about
Maybe I’m-a crazy
But I just can’t live without…

Your lovin’ and affection
Givin’ me direction
Like a guiding light to help me through my darkest hour
Lately I’m a-prayin’
That you’ll always be a-stayin’ beside me

Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Feeling all the while and never really knowing why…

Lately I’m a-prayin’
That you’ll always be a-stayin’ beside me.

Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Then you came along and made me laugh
And made me cry…
You taught me why…

Baby, I’m-a want you
Baby, I’m-a need you

Oh, it took so long to find you, baby

Baby, I’m-a want you
Baby, I’m-a need you

Video Trip – MIDE 2007

I made this video for the Malaysian International Dive Exhibition 2007 (MIDE 07) and it was shown to the public throughout the exhibition. The aim was to show the various types of diving members of the Malaysian Underwater forum do – recreational, wreck and technical. I just thought I’d post this again here.

I’ve not made a single dive video since Sipadan.

Swing Bowl

Mangkuk = Bowl

Pukul 2 pagi.

Aku baru sahaja melantak dua pinggan nasi lemak sejuk bersama petai masak tempoyak dan sambal telur yang aku jumpa dalam peti ais sebentar tadi. Biarpun mata terasa amat berat namun panggilan perut mendapat keutamaan.

Aku gemar membaca.

Perangai ini aku perolehi daripada orang tuaku. Beliau pada suatu masa dahulu amat gemar membaca sambil makan. Jadi aku yang lebih kurang berumur 11 tahun ketika itu cubalah membaca akhbar Malay Mail sambil aku makan tengahari. Sehingga kini, tabiat tersebut masih aku lakukan, terutamanya jika aku makan seorang diri. Aku dapati diriku selalu dahagakan maklumat dan perlu membaca sesuatu, terutamanya semasa makan, dan tabiat ini juga menular sehingga semasa aku membuang air besar. Aku akan membaca apa sahaja ketika di dalam jamban. Kegemaran aku adalah majalah berkenaan dengan pertahanan, selam skuba, atau buku-buku panduan, surat khabar dan sebagainya. Hinggakan walaupun kata orang kepala taik dah muncul, aku tetap tidak akan memulakan pekerjaan besar tersebut tanpa membaca sesuatu. Maka akan aku capai botol syampu, ubat gigi dan apa sahaja yang mempunyai sebarang tulisan di atasnya. Barulah dapat aku lakukan yang sepatutnya.

Berbalik kepada tajuk: Mangkuk Ayun.

Pada firasat saya, ayat ini adalah gabungan dua patah perkataan, iaitu, MANGKUK: sebuah bekas yang tepinya tinggi, biasanya digunakan untuk bahan berkuah; dan, HAYUN: yang membawa maksud, sesuatu perbuatan yang membuaikan sesuatu tanpa suatu arah yang khusus. Menurut Kamus Melayu Bongok Edisi Keempat keluaran Dewan Bahasa dan Puaka, gabungan perkataan-perkatan tersebut adalah berbaur lucah. MANGKUK disamakan dengan kemaluan wanita, dan HAYUN pula membawa maksud perbuatan tujah-menujah yang biasa dilakukan oleh orang lelaki semasa melakukan jimak. Maka ayat tersebut membawa erti seseorang yang kegunaannya hanyalah untuk memuaskan nafsu semata-mata. Dalam ertikata yang lain, dianya adalah seorang yang tidak berguna.

Di manakah hubung-kait MANGKUK AYUN dan MEMBACA?

Sedang saya membalun nasi lemak tanpa belas kasihan sebentar tadi, saya terbaca akan sebab-sebab perletakan jawatan yang diberikan oleh Tan Sri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad dan mendapati sebab-musabbab yang diberikan hanya layak dilafazkan oleh sesuatu MANGKUK AYUN. Masakan (masa-kan…bukan masakan untuk makan) tiada jawatan dalam barisan jemaah menteri bermakna beliau tidak boleh bertugas dengan baik sebagai Setiausaha Agung UMNO dan BN? Apa kena-mengena jawatan sebagai menteri dengan jawatan dalam parti? Maka nampak sangatlah MANGKUK AYUN ini terlalu mementingkan jawatan sebagai menteri daripada jawatan dalam parti. Maka dapat disimpulkan di sini bahawa beliau berpolitik untuk kepentingan diri sendiri dan bukannya untuk parti.

Dengan itu, saya hanya ada suatu ayat untuk beliau seperti berikut:

“PADAN DENGAN MUKA PUNGKOQ HANG! MANGKUK AYUN! NAK JADI MB PEGHELIH TAK DAPAT, JADI MENTEGHI PUN DAK. PI BALIK KANGAQ JUAI AIYAQ NIGHA DENGAN PULUIK SAMBAI!”

Bak kata orang Hokkien:

“LAM PAH PAH LAN!”

She’s Got Balls

When I saw the photo below, it reminded me of a song by AC/DC:

She’s got style that woman
Makes me smile that woman
She’s got spunk that woman
Funk that woman
She’s got speed my babe
Got what I need my babe
She’s got the ability
To make a man outta me

But most important of all
Let me tell ya
The lady’s got balls
She’s got balls

Miss Phuket???

32 And 1

I am sitting here beside this grey pillar I sat to meet someone 32 weeks and a day ago today. This is where some beautiful memories started that culminated into something very painful, that I can now look on with some smile. The smile may not be perfect but it is a smile nevertheless. Why do I still remember such things? Well, how many years has it been since you broke off with your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband? Do certain memories still haunt you, be it in a sweet or bad way? And here we are talking about 102 days since I lost someone who meant the world to me.

I sit here now looking at this beautiful woman in front of me wondering what kind of a life companion she would make for me. I see gentleness in her face though there is that hint of sadness in her eyes, either that or she has had too many a sleepless night due to work or personal problems. Either way, I think she would make a pleasant and loving wife, judging by her facial character.

I still dream and long to have a loving wife. I still long to have a loving wife who would straddle my lap, smiling sweetly at me, while I hold the back of her head and pull her lips upon mine, and kiss her passionately. I still long to hold a loving wife at night, and gaze upon her face lovingly as she sleeps, and continue so until I fall asleep, and again when I wake up the next morning. I still long for a loving wife whom I can tease and disturb while she cooks in the kitchen; who would smile at me with the most sincere smile as I walk into the house and hear her tell me how much she loves me even without her uttering a single word, as I hold her close to me.

32 weeks and a day ago those dreams began. They have just gotten stronger by the day.

Also Stumm Zarathustra

Arthur C Clarke is dead

Thus silenced Zarathustra.

Just as I began to harbour this secret thought of learning the arts of space travel without having to turn gay or have the government sponsor my trip, my guru, Arthur C Clarke, famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died. This is definitely a sad moment for Friedrich Nietzche’s apprentices worldwide.

I don’t know if Clarke was ever a Nietzchean, but when they made 2001: A Space Odyssey a movie, they used Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra a.k.a Thus Spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, its theme song. Strauss wrote that score based on Nietzche’s book of the same title.

So, without space travel, I will now never know if God really is dead, or if Superman (depicted as Übermensch) exists, or if Hillary Clinton actually have a video tape of Monica Lewinsky smoking a Bill Clinton cigar.

And Elvis will never get that free ride back home to Earth after being kidnapped by aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Ribut Yang Menghempas Denai Tidak Berupaya Mengubah Pasar Chow Kit

Sedang aku meniarap melayani petikan daripada Yoshida Brothers dan lagu ributnya, aku mula terkenang akan suatu masa dahulu di mana bernaung aku di bawah puing-puing kehidupan umpama tangan atau jari atau kepala seorang pengebom bunuh diri di sebuah pekan berhabuk bernama Falluja di mana agaknya memberi Fellatio kepada diri sendiri merupakan satu method of escapism bagi mereka-mereka yang tidak mempunyai peti televisyen untuk menonton Star Trek: The Next Generation untuk melihat raja perempuan Borg bernama Collective dan buah dada yang membonjol akibat ingin melepaskan diri masing-masing dari dalam baju yang ketat itu. Mungkin pada asalnya Gene Rodenberry ingin mengutarakan para pendapat hak milik Freiderich Nietzche; akan tetapi revolusi bunga-bungaan sekitar tahun 1960-an telah membangkitkan naluri syahwatnya dan mula melencong ke arah Sigmund Freud pula.

Di luar sana titis-titis hujan sudah lama berhenti dari membasahi bumi yang arid disebabkan proses kegondolan yang dilaksanakan di bawah pemerintahan seorang budak Jawa berambut putih berpipikan Botox yang sering kelihatan memegang penyapu tetapi kini begitu sepi dan lebih sepi dari adik Sharlinie yang posternya masih segar ditampal di serata bumi yang tiada belas kasihan ini. Longkang yang dahulunya sungai yang dihidupi mergasatwa marine kini kaya dengan bahan galian yang terhakis, seraya mempromosi minuman kegemaran rakyat Malaysia, iaitu teh tarik, yang mungkin juga telah memainkan peranan menambahkan berat badanku sebanyak 15 kilogram sejak tahun 1990.

Aku masih berada dalam keadaan seperti mencapai nirvana tetapi otakku ini berasa begitu buntu; malah lebih buntu daripada otak Pak Lah yang terpaksa diperah untuk membentuk sebuah kabinet yang mungkin berfungsi persis sebuah kabinet dapur yang tidak lain tidak bukan hanyalah tempat menyimpan barangan dan tiada kegunaan lain untuk mereka. Tetapi mungkin juga kebuntuan otak Pak Lah kini adalah satu hikmah kerana beliau seumpama tiada mempunyai sebarang sel di antara kedua-dua telinga beliau pra-PRU 12.

Mungkin nukilanku kali ini membawa lebih penyakit darah tinggi mahupun migraine bagi sesetengah pembaca, malah mungkin ada juga yang terkencing dalam seluar. Hakikatnya, sesekali perlu aku meluahkan perasaanku dalam bahasa yang agak normal.

Biarlah aku mengundur diri buat kali ini dan menyorok di bawah perdu pohon taugeh.

It Is Just Amazing

Arrow through the heart

It’s amazing how I feel when you are near
everything becomes great there is no fear
my life that was dark with the colour of doom
suddenly turns into a lovely bloom

Sunshine bathes the meadows of my heart
and keeps it warm when we are apart
you give me hope with your feelings so real
and slowly life’s joys begin to reveal

I have my temperaments, sometimes up, sometimes down
I will try to smile always though at times I may frown
you must know that a possession you are not, but you are a goal
you are my love, my life, you are joy to my soul

If it is just within the hour that I am condemned to die
I will smile with the thoughts of you, and only you, the reason why

A Century Of Rainy Days

Today is the 100th day. And it rained like hell. As it is the 100th day, it would be my last day of mourning, and from tomorrow I should stay happy (I hope).

Coincidentally, a year ago today, Gee and I left for Perhentian for one of my best dive trips. We had Katakpink, Rj Ena, Nafi and some of the other guys joining us on this trip.

Gee and I at the Bentong Petronas

I just want to be happy after this. I just want to have some kind of hope in life. I just want to have someone to look forward to being with, to wake up with, and to look at before I fall asleep. I just want someone whom to me would mean everything, and vice-versa.

Questions On My Mind

A chapter slowly closes on me, the curtains start to fall
I try hard to inch forward, behind me I leave them all
The weather is sunny yet the waves are restless in my heart
I wonder if the path ahead is clear or will I suffer another cut

I want so much to move forward but I pause before I even start
I have this love in my heart but it strikes me like a dart
The river meanders beautifully but it is where my life flows out
This mind gets confused more as I try to turn about

There is so much love in my heart to give
There is so much in this life for me to live

I want to hold my love as her head lies on my arm
I want to be the one who protects her from every kind of harm
But each time when the night comes it is cruel, cold and empty
Which is why I want to move forward so there’s someone loving me

I want to sail away, be bold, and brave the world
I want to skim the waves, with one heading and make the sails unfurl
But the horizon I see is flat, not round, and beyond it I cannot see
And I always fear at the end of it is a chasm that will swallow me

I begin to drown even on dry land, like a bat that is blind during the day
Only my fingers are seen to breach the surface, I hope you can pull me away

You know who you are…you know who you are to me…