ATOK SAYA

Lately duduk surabaya ni banyak dapat call dari bonda saya cakap slalu balik kampung... bila cite sal balik kampung ni... jadi rindu kat Atok... okke... emosi kejap...

tp time2 emosi ni slalu ingat masa skola rendah dulu... bila dah ingat time skolah, ingat jugak time atok time maghrib... sebab cucu-cucu mesti kumpulkan budak2 kat umah lepas smayang berjemaah ngan dia, dia SURUH MENGAJI!!!

KALAU SALAH LEBIH DARI TIGA KALI, TAK BOLEH BERALIH!! (masuk surah baru)

kumat-kamit nak baca supaya tak salah... amek ko... frust menonggeng baca penat2 pastu tak dapat beralih.... salah sapa? salah saya jugak tak practice...

tak salah, dulu tensen sbb tak dapat tgk Power Rangers sbb kene mengaji...

now dah besar panjang and dah khatam (ada lagi ke cucu-cucu atok yang blom khatam?)... atok pon dah jarang ajar mengaji... sedar atau tak masa zaman2 atok ajar mengaji ni, life flows exactly the way we want it to... I guess itu la sebabnya Quran ni kene baca tiap2 hari... dan bila atok ajar mengaji tiap2 maghrib kita secara tak sengaja ataupun ye dah baca Quran everyday...

Mama saya kalau call from Malaysia slalu ingatkan. "Baca Quran ke tak?"... sungguhpun mama saya digelar ustazah wannabe (haha.. sorry maaa) saya sedar kenapa dia slalu tanya camtu.... sbb atok dari dulu dah ajar kita untuk baca Quran tiap2 hari....

dan selalu yang saya ingat... kata2 atok setiap kali dia call... ayat dia lebih kurang lah...

"atok doakan sume ketigabelas cucu-cucu atok berjaya dengan cemerlang dalam bidang masing2"

knapa saya tetiba baik semacam ni? nak exam kot... ntah la... wsalam.... (:

ARE YOU READY?

The clock is ticking yeas... still... after countless pondering, the fact remains, I am set to become a dentist in the near future... So if everything flows well, I will get that degree I've been fighting for since 2007.... next semester, Insya-Allah, i will enter clinicals....

FUCK... AM I READY?

This is no mere task of failing or passing... this is about handling PEOPLE!!! and in the world of dentistry, your reputation depends on your work....

Most people complain of how tiring the job will be, but at the back of my mind, if I screw up, not only am I SOLELY held responsible, but at that instant I will be judge from every aspect of my education... is this right? Am I all set?

I BE TRIPPIN! part 3 (man... this trip is long eh?)

yeas... part three... so some of you wanted to know bout them monkeys eh??? I am getting there...

after chilling a moment by the beach and having sum fresh coconut, we bid farewell to Nusa Dua and headed out to the other side of the island... The locals in Bali suggested this place called Uluwatu... a monkey temple! This place is known for its naughty monkeys and the view... what view u ask??? THIS VIEW!!!!

This view can only be seen in ULUWATU my friends!!! it was stunning!! you know those travel commercials you see on teevee? this is the place to come and see it!!! After avoiding numerous monkeys that were trying to steal my stuff and hold them ransom for any food they can get, I w ent to the cliff sides and this greeted me!!!! Adnin and myself sat in silence.... Allah is Almighty... and ehem... it was a really really hot day in Bali so I took the chance to snap as much as I could from this magnificent scenery.. Atop the hills we met a couple that needed our help in snapping a photo... we chatted awhile and thank God they appreciated the fact that we were not locals... hahah... lovely Aussies.. sounding like a customs officer I asked their purpose of visit.. turns out they were actually working here... 6 months alreddy.. Damn... they are in Bali for a living!!! some people have all the fun!

So I tuck away the camera... thinking to myself, "if a monkey had an SLR for ransom no amount of bananas can cover the amount". On my way up the stairs to the temple, there was a pool for the monkeys to have fun... yeah... the monkeys have all the fun... damn... And what I feared most almost came true... A baby monkey went for the SLR... Snotty little brat! ur mama Spoiled you with material things... but since the brat acted all cute we decided to take a photo with it anyways... because my mama detaught me to be kind to AMINALS!!! hahaha...

Uluwatu had more to offer us when we were told to head to the surfers beach... there were 2 to choose from.. Since its our first time we just randomly selected... and we were lucky we made that choice... because it was fantastic! U gotta be askin, werent there babes in bikinis or lack there of??? well.. there were but i wont show you any photos of that since this is a family rated blog... upon reaching the beach, we had to go down thru a complex set of stairs.. and the spectacular beach lay in front of us...

we didnt go swimming cez well.. its a surfers beach and sure as hell I didnt know how to surf... so i sat there looking from far as the surfers surfed, fell and got back up again to ride the waves... I see a moral behind all this that I we all can apply in our lives but am not gonna go into that... I am on holiday... hahaha

so there you have it... the lovely ULUWATU... we packed up, got on our bikes and headed back to KUTA where I will tell about the happenings on the beach there... in my next post... stay tuned peeps!

I BE TRIPPIN! part 2 bebeh...

So lets move on eh?

our visit to Tanah Lot was entertaining... A couple went up to us and asked "permisi pak, mw ambil foto di sini bisa?" (excuse me, can we take a picture here). After shifting aside we heard them say to each other....

haaa... abang! abang! tolong la amekkan gamba saya (or sumtin like that)

hoh... Malaysian rupenya, I guess I've been here to long and they can't tell where I came from... sedih... so after the sun set, adnin (yeas, thats his name. the boy u who u thought was better looking than me, yeah.. admit it you were thinking it) and myself headed back... Dinner was a pain to find... as a Muslim we need halal food and in Bali, they say even the pork is halal (my ass....)

we journeyed back to Kuta and yet again got LOST within Kuta itself... hahaha... history wasnt much of a thing for us so we just stopped by the bombing site and took a photo... errm... thats was that I guess.. haha
we circled around and passed by Bali's Hard Rock Cafe... being hati kering and low on budget we decided not to go inside cez who knows we might need whatever cash left in our wallets... so... all we did was (you guessed it) snap a couple more photos!

alrite... am just gonna skip to the next day aite? Waking up the next morning we felt much more like we owned Bali cez we we re as hell sure where we wanted to head off to... "NUSA DUA" we sed... then off on our bikes we went... and as usual, "WHERE THE HELL ARE WE"..... the sun in Bali was no joke my friends, it was BLAZING hot.... so spending a suffiecient amount on a bike was enuf to burn you...

Nusa dua greeted us with a monument... statue... or whatever it was... it was amazing! the sun gave us enough lighting for good photography (which was the real reason i went on this trip). the view at the beach was also marvelous! we didnt bring any spare clothes so well, swimming was not an option... besides, with Naddy's SLR in my hands ( I seriously need to think about buying one of these babies) I needed to be extra cautious.... so all the "beach-related" poses u can think of, well. .. we did it.. the jumping, the staring into the air, the depressed look, the thinking bout our future pose... consider it done!

hahaha.... will continue later... next is the story of us monkeying around at a monkey temple!

I BE TRIPPIN!

It was somewhere in January that my friend had the urge to travel... "jom la pegi Bali" he said... then he went on explaining why he had the urge and so on.... and u know what, I AGREED!

the plan took a few month to come together but by the end of April all was set... a three day two nights stay in Bali it was...

so on thursday night we got on one of those shuttles that provided transportation to Bali for cheap... Rp160k per person.... BUT... the ride lasted 12 loooooonggg hours.... and being HATI KERING we endured the journey... it was insanely fast and furious... there were times when we actually prayed for our lives... we stopped for a rest at Pasir Putih and the journey continued till we reached the port at Banyuwangi...

the ride on the ferry was a short one, since I had prior experience on this I didnt spend much time wandering about...

It was 8am when the shuttle dropped us at the Bali bombing site (more on that later). and there we were thinking "okeey... what now"

you see, we planned on how to get to Bali, but we didnt plan what to do once we got there.... lucky we met a helping Balinese who hooked us up with a mode of transportation and a place to stay... the hotel was shabby as hell but since it priced at Rp100k per night, we just sed yes!

we travelled using motorbikes people! yeas!!!

it was the best choice we made thus because the traffic in Bali was insane...

we circled KUTA beach for awhile and then we made a decision to head to TANAH LOT... now what happened next was mad because neither of us knew the way.. hahahah

being HATI KERING we stopped and asked when we felt we were heading the wrong way, till we finally reached Tanah Lot... the timing was perfect since it was only an hour before sunset... so long story short here are some pics to share...

the adventure continues...

HAHA... MADE YA LOOK

alright so I think I am going insane again... life here really gets to you at times... So after months of no creative writing I think its time to start blogging again... oh yeah... whaddya think of the new layout? peace!