Your Opinion Does Not Matter
I love it when she laughs
cos she lights up my world
I love it when she smiles
cos she fills my heart with joy
I love it when she calls out to me
my whole world reverberates with happiness
I love it when she sits and says nothing to me
because she says everything then to me
I’m sorry for being away from you
Please stop crying
It is nights like this that I miss Krungthep. I miss the sanuk way of life, I miss its culture, I miss its food, I miss its people – friends and all. No pretence, nothing. It was always fun, even with strangers, chatting with the old lady selling Thai silk, trying to convince her that I am a Malaysian, not a Thai who’s been working in Malaysia. I miss the sunset over Chao Phraya. I miss getting soaked to the bone, and chucking pails of water mixed with talcum powder at passers-by during Songkran, and I miss making little boats during Loy Krathong.
I miss all that. I miss tranquility. I miss the serenity. As I miss the sunset at Perhentian as I stand on the beach at Teluk Keke, or on the balcony of my chalet at Panuba. I miss the sound of the waves crashing onto the shore. I miss the million of stars I could see when I am out at sea at night.
Why am I writing this?
I am missing someone.
She should be sleeping tonight, missing me too. I wish I am holding her close to me at this very moment, to address her restlessness. I know she felt unsettled before going to bed just now, with me being far away from her tonight.
I still cannot believe that she and I are an item now. Thinking back how it was then, it was platonic. No real attraction, but we were somehow always there for each other, in our own ways. It has been more than two months since we started going out, and everyday it gets deeper and deeper. It is not easy to see her shed her tears, it is just not her to shed tears. However, she cried when I was leaving. That was sad to see. And it is always sad for me to leave her.
I have no real complaints on her. So far, she has fulfilled every single wish on my list. I never ask for much but what is norm for her, is always something done out of the way for me. I’m very happy with the way she treats me; as I have always wanted a wife to treat me: with respect without overdoing things. So for her, she does things for me naturally, and I love every single thing that she does for me. She loves me in a way I have never been loved before, and always overflowing; and I try to reciprocate as best as I can. She wins my heart by being simple, yet very special. And home, to me, is where my heart is.
BREAKING NEWS:
Tun Dr Mahathir announced at 12.35pm (an hour and a minute ago) that he has quit UMNO.
I’m off to dive (finally, a recreational dive trip) at end of the month – 8 of us. I can hardly wait. I have not been to this particular island since the dive season began, and am looking forward to going back there.
I am also planning to do my 3D/2N free dive trip (sans billet d’avion, of course) to Sipadan Water Village the following weekend (hopefully). Go on a Friday evening and return on a Monday. Put up a night in Tawau on Friday, get to Semporna and Mabul on Saturday, do my 3 dives on Saturday and 2 on Sunday and chill. Then on Monday afternoon leave for Semporna/Tawau and catch a flight back. Return flight should cost me around RM400 and a night in Semporna for around RM100 plus breakfast. So, that’s a RM500 trip to Sipadan/Mabul/Kapalai when it should cost at least triple that for the same duration.
Not bad.
So, who’s gonna buddy me on this trip?
I arrived home in the evening to the sound of my daughter Fazira and stepdaughter Iqa quarreling with the maid. The two girls were pointing out how stupid it was for her to agree to the price of the durians she’d bought for my stepson. Apparently, a lorry laden with durian came by the house and offered to sell some durians. My stepson, Alim, immediately jumped with joy and called for my maid. She asked for three. The guy on the lorry took the opportunity to con her by charging, what was it? RM170 for all three durians supposedly based on his weigh? I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard of the ridiculous amount she had paid for the durians. The problem was, she herself felt that it was overpriced, but paid anyhow.
When asked why did she pay that much when she knew it was overpriced, she gave Alim’s craving for the durian as a reason. I told her that she could have waited for me to come back home before making stupid decisions like that. I also told her how dangerous it was for her to even go out for a peek; the man could have held Alim at knifepoint and his cohorts could have rushed into the house to do harm, and that is not something that has never been experienced by this family. It was only 3 years ago this month that our previous house was broken into by 4 Indonesian men armed with a crowbar, parangs and knives at around 5.45am. Has she forgotten that experience? Furthermore, just three nights ago there was an attempt to break into my daughter’s friend’s house.
She knew these.
Bloody simple common sense, and even that she was not capable of thinking.
How can I ever leave my children alone and not worry?
Went for a seafood binge at Unique. We had fried asparagus, 2kg of Alaskan Spider Crab (half baked in creamy butter sauce, the other half cooked Kam Heong, baked oysters in cheese (one dozen), raw oysters (half dozen), steamed garoupa/grouper/kerapu, boiled Tiger Prawns, followed by Sea Coconut with Longan dessert. Good binge and a four-figure bill!
The venue
Boiled Tiger Prawns
Steamed Garoupa
Aspalela Abdullah Asparagus
Baked Oyster In Cheese
Raw Oyster
Alaskan King Crab baked in creamy butter sauce
Kam Heong Alaskan King Crab
Sea Coconut and Longan
This time Rina sings a sad malay song; but Aiz steals the limelight…yet again!
Rina sang a sad song at Lima Puluh Satu, but it wasn’t Rina who was the star attraction. It was the background dancer – Aiz!
1. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
2. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist,
but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
3. Why are wise men and wise guys opposites?
4. If people from Poland are called Poles,
why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?
5. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times,
does he become disoriented?
6. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
7. Why isn’t 11 pronounced onety one?
8. Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a near
miss? Shouldn’t it be called a near hit?
9. Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
10. Why is it that when you transport something by car, it’s called a
shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?
11. Why is it called a TV set when you only get one?
12. Why does your nose run and your feet smell?
13. Why does an alarm clock go off when it begins ringing?
14. Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?
15. Why is it called a building when it is already built?
16. Why do they call them apartments when they are all stuck together?
17. Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
18. How can someone draw a blank?
19. Why are they called stands when they’re made for sitting?
20. How do you know it’s an ENDLESS LOOP?
He’s bringing two bottles of this tonight and we’re gonna whack them together.
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