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Happy Birthday Daddy!

Dad just celebrated his 53rd birthday. Joyeux Anniversaire dad! So we decided to celebrate at Hotel Concorde just now. It was quick. Mummy booked a place there and for all we knew the next thing was to get ready. We bought a photo frame of a school bus where there are pictures of us now & then, when we were younger. It was really awesome weyh! Sorry Aisha, too bad Imaan didn't want to take any pictures at all. Mengade-ngade!

Anyway the present was supposed to be mum's as well because qada' ganti her birthday last december and I had to find all the pictures by myself, digged the old photo albums and passport photos. Phew!


The food was quite nice but mamak still the best do. haha.

budak gemokkkkkkk

Anyway there's a guest group performed from Indonesia. You can see it at behind. I forgot the name of it. They sang a birthday song for dad. I requested for Manbai Kau Ilhamku. *cries* ;p, Azraa requested for Kenangan Terindah from Samsons. Gler jiwang. Mummy was like "What???". hahaha. Well she knows Mamma Mia though :P

Performing birthday song .. yeyyo!

Nah, we didn't have any birthday cakes. Later we celebrate at home again.

awwwwwwwwww

U ingat i buat lawak ke! u ingat i ni ape!

Saya ada cerita menarik. Cerita ini berlaku pada hari Jumaat yang lalu. Entahlah tak tahu apa pasal. Mungkin hari itu lebih istimewa daripada hari-hari yang lain. Mungkin ada orang hendak bagi surprise pada saya. Tapi hari itu bukan birthday saya. Kring kring! kring kring! Bunyi handphone saya berdering. Eh bukan kring kring, sekarang zaman maju, bunyi true tones I'm Yours by Jason Mraz kedengaran. Mungkin peminat setiaku. Orang tidak pakai lagi handphone cikai Nokia 3310 atau yang setaraf dengannya. Oh mungkin juga tidak sebab nenek saya pakai handphone itu.

Saya mengambil handphone saya dengan penuh debaran bagaikan menanti pengumuman hari raya di kaca tv. Jam menunjukkan 6.30 pagi. "Siapakah peminatku?" bisik hatiku. Saya tidak memakai cermin mata pagi itu. Entah kemana saya letak. Mungkin tertinggal di tandas barangkali. Bau tandas bibik saya basuh semalam terasa harum apabila memikirkanya. Dia gune Febris mungkin. Saya nampak nama pemanggil bermula dengan N .. mata saya terkedip-kedip untuk memfokus.

Siapakah N? Nelly Furtado ke? Tidak mungkin sebab dia sudah kahwin. Naomi Clark daripada 90210 ke? Tidak mungkin juga sebab dia tidak se hot Annie Wilson. Nate Archibald daripada Gossip Girls ke? Oh tidak tidak. Atau Nobita & Doremon? Tak mungkin juga. Saya cuba memfokus dengan sepenuh tenaga macam Harry Potter mengeluarkan magic untuk membunuh dementor-dementor yang ganas yang hodoh dan bodoh.

La, rupa-rupanya Nadiah kawan sekelas saya! Hati saya mula berkecai bagaikan ibu kucing kehilangan anak-anaknya, bagaikan Romeo kehilangan Juliet, bagaikan Abby Abadi berpisah dengan Norman Hakim, bagaikan milo tak bersusu. Cis kurang asam boi, ganggu saya tidur sahaja!

Saya menekan telefon bimbit saya dengan sopan santun. Key pad rosak pulak. Tertera satu message baru: Clas F9 2day cncel.

Saya macam tidak percaya. Bagaikan delimma. Terasa macam angin penghawa dingin padam, terasa masa terhenti buat seketika. Mungkin itu kuasa Hiro Nakamura. Saya mencari-cari Hiro dalam kegelapan. Hiro! Hiro! Adekah itu hero saya membawa khabar berita baik atau saya hanya mengalami fantasi? Swoshhhhhhh. Saya balik ke alam realiti.

Tak kan Nadiah buat lawak kot. Rasa hendak bertanya kepada Nadiah sahaja tapi takut dia reply, "u ingat i buat lawak ke! u ingat i ni ape!". Ini Nadiah lah Rashaad bukan Aiman Hakim. Dia tidak akan membuat lawak pagi-pagi buta. Tanpa membuang masa saya terus reply: Thanks. Who told you eh?

Tidak beberapa lama kemudian Nadiah replied: Debie. patrick calld her

Saya macam tak percaya. Saya ingatkan Nadiah yang saya kawan selama ini bukan Nadiah yang saya kenal. Tapi saya silap. Nadiahlah yang telah mengejutkan saya dan memberitahu saya kelas hari ini batal. Terima kasih Nadiah!

Tapi bagaimana pula dengan cikgunya? Saya menggaru-garu kepala. Runsing. Kelas batal tapi cikgu?

Keesokannya baharu saya tahu, cikgu saya kena denggi.

My first attempt on full Malay post. Peace.

A New Hope

i guess people change physically and mentally. i came across this one section of magazine about one week ago about how to keep in touch with your best friends. i read along the way with enthusiasm feeling. the more i read it the more it makes sense. well friendship, love, honesty, the circle of your life. well i admit as we grow older, we move on ahead, our roads are diverged in different paths until at one point we just realised how far we have gone through and then we saw one of the old photographs when we were younger, all the memories came back rushing in our mind like it was yesterday and pondered upon it's truth that a thought occured to us that time flies really fast. gosh, it's 2009 already!

just how lucky we are especially those who were born in 1989, the year of snake. as daring we are, as fierce as we can be they say. it's a miraculous thing that at our age, we have almost everthing we need and accessible. be it internet, ipod, digital camera, fantastic networking, contact lenses, wireless handphone, wifi, webcam, playstation, laser treatment, plastic surgery, what about those people who were born before us like those from the 50's and 60's? how did they survive without the help of technologies in their teenage years? talking about technology, how lucky my aunties and uncles are to have the chance of playing facebook.

one word to describe 2008 is interesting. mr ben told me interesting has 2 broad meanings. it can be bad and it can be good the other way. lets give an example. i went a date the other day with my gf, she brought me to her house to meet her parents and we ate dinner together. she asked me, "what do you think of my parents?". i wanted to tell her their cookings were terrible, that i was not fond of her parents because i couldn't see how the relationship will work out while staying in the house with them. madness i thought. i didn't want to hurt her feelings either so i gave an indirect answer, "interesting". okey as i've mentioned this is an example.

2008 has been an interesting year indeed. definitely much better than 2007. so many things to write here if i list everything it will end up being a checklist. more ups than downs. more colourful than monotonous. in general, it is interesting.

i foresee that 2009 will be a challenging year ahead for me because firstly it is most likely that dad will have to work in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in february. so to speak i'll be the head of the family while dad's gone working. that means i'll be in charge in the house, manage my time wisefully, spending more time with the family, driving my siblings to school, music classes etc. secondly, most likely we won't have a maid so the burden of the house chores will be placed on us. the current maid's contract will expire on february. mum doesn't want to have a headache to hire a new maid, being already dissapointed with the performance of the current one. thirdly, since my brother got straight As in his pmr (congratulations yaw!) and he opted for mrsm, well lets say he got into one (i hope so), i'll definitely have to accompany mum to drive to & from (i hope not so). so that will be another task.

since some of my friends start leaving abroad as early as february and as late as october this year, i'll definitely be missing ya all! well, that will be another task sending them to airports. :P rifqi, mat, qaisy, ainul to Australia. mahfuz to France. aiman, adlan, aizat to UK. aiman, sofiya, asif, zikri, azlikha to US. meor to Japan. hanif to Germany ... to name a few and others of course.

happy new year to you all, with much love & respect & selamat menyambut maal hijrah 1430

the Tales of Beedle the Bard

Here are some of the events that I attended for the past 2 weeks of holidays. More pictures will be uploaded soon at MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and Flickr. Firstlty is Rock the World Concert. Frankly speaking I'm not a big fan of live gigs not until aizat and arab introduced me to their world. Bittersweet, Estrange, Esterella, Butterfingers and One Buck Short to name a few. Who says Malaysian bands are not up to a good standard? Wait until you listen to Stay from Esterella, a slow & contemporary tune and Kucing Hitam from Bittersweet.

Pergi situ dengan Aizat Tibi, Hanif, Adzraf Arab & Market and coincidentally I bumped into Kimi and bumped into college friends Azral wearing black hat haha and Noma, complaining how terrible the crowd was. I kinda agree with him though.

hey i'm still a virgin cuz i don't smoke! :)

lets practice yoga . lol neutralising the scene with our aura. can u feel the heat, the warmness & friendliness?

wecho park yeyyo!

wow, a shooting star! click the picture & zoom it. there's stars too.

for the very first time in my life, i saw 2 pengkids. hot jugak lah :P hahaha very interesting.


The other day went for a shisha with good friends Nazirah, Aiman, Megat and Chris at the Castle, Ampang. and last week went to M.O.S wednesday night, R&B Night

caughss

That evening went for a picnic at KLCC Park. You guys might be wondering why, why and why?

Baught kfc chicken, miya brought his own cooking made pasta and pudding. not bad not bad guess i'll have to learn from you. adilah with her cookies, doughnut and fruits. and there's wan shin, irene, anuar and lyanna.

betrayal, denial & poyo-nial

munchhkinsss!

ngeh, superheroes

potong stim la budak belakang tu. u just spoiled the whole picture!


Oh, this picture has been ages .. megat, zhafran (took the picture), liyana, raja, shakina & fatina

Went out with aiman, liyana, khairin, azlikha & sofiya. i really suck in this game big time! it's like striking off a ball with a chopstick!!! bapaklah susah giler do.

suppp homiess???

camewhoresss

I'm still waiting for pictures from Shakina at kedai kopi, cepatlah kina! and aizat and adilah.

currently reading Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, the Tales of Beedle the Bard and looking forward for Dan Brown's Angels & Demons ( from the widely anticipated movie of the Da Vinci Code). it's coming out to cinemas soon biatchhh! yay!

another great week of fun ... next week Port Dickson and Genting here we come!!!

Someday when I grow up I'll understand

Sometimes I can be selfish, just to think about myself, just to get what I want, just to have the feeling to hold and grap anything within my reach so that I feel satisfied, secured and sometimes proud. Everybody has that feeling but to what extent? At the expense of your family and friends? I paused and I think again. Maybe to me is a kind of achievement after all the hard work & effort and consideration you have given in doing something but not to the detriment of others. What I'm saying is you can't be selfish all the time. Well is good to be selfish occasionally but that occasionally can become a repetitive in nature, the more you do it, the more it will become part and parcel of your life.

It has been 4 years now since mum started her Ph.D way back in 2004. Over these times she has been very busy all day and night 24/7 to extent she has to sacrifice her time with her family completing her thesis, visiting various places to collect mouthful data, interviews and interviews and not enough with that, bombarded with a lot of assignments and deadlines. Anyway she's doing value engineering and value analysis. Somehow within her free time she managed to spend her time with us, accompanying me and the rest here and there, shopping, jogging at night, helped her to make fettucini carbonara and extremely delicious deserts to name a few. But what did I do in return? Complain? Nagging? Ask them to buy me this and that, send me here and there (though now I can drive). All she asked for is to understand her situation but sometimes I can be too ignorant and selfish, I only think about myself after all the natural love, affection and consideration she has given.

I dunno, maybe I'm too emo now to write here and I hate being emo-ish when I'm writing and it's like a sort of remembrance to me to act good all the time. I don't like that. Time to grow up Rashaad.

On a lighter note

i'm gonna miss your presence la since you'll be away next semester. u r the burning spirit that keeps me staying alive. i dunno what i will end up without you. u're simply the best a friend could ask for. need i say more? well have fun there, hope you'll enjoy studies and with good philosophy and great charisma of yours, there's nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams.

best regards,
rashaad