Tok Pa’s Lecture & 2 People Reminiscing Back

In my family, from my father’s side,
each time you’re about to move to a NEW PHASE in life,
You’ll get a lecture from my grandfather, Tok Pa.

Be it when you’re stepping into secondary school,
moving into college, finally being conscious of the opposite sex,
getting married…

Although I said lecture, it’s not in a nagging way.
It’s real- grandfather to grandchild-
talk about life.

Last night,
I got my ‘transitioning into university life’ lecture- Part 2.
(Part 1 got triggered from last week)

After he’s finished with his part,
he asked me what else I’d want to know about.

I mentioned about how scary it is to meet people that you really just can’t agree with in college.

TOK PA:
Ah, about that.
I think it’s better to ask those who have been through this same thing.

As if it was God answering our call,

Mak Su (my aunt) entered the house looking flustered from work.

She paused after sensing the silence and realized that Tok Pa and I were looking at her for a long time.

MAK SU:
What?!

TOK PA:
(smirking)
Why don’t you ask our social butterfly there?

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And so this got one person to reminisce back about her old life in college.

How she had a bad reputation,
got kicked out by her dorm mates,
joined the cooler dorm mates…

Feuh, what a way to start her first semester, right?

Then my dad jumped in on the conversation too.
He recalled what a glorified creature he was back in the old days.

DAD:
I was friends with a lot of the seniors back then.
The guys of my batch were extremely jealous of me!

But they can’t do anything to me!
Because they were afraid of the seniors.

Yes, that’s right.
NOBODY had the guts to bother me!
(cackles)

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And when you’re in university,
you really can’t avoid getting some weird people in your room.

My dad didn’t describe much about his dorm mates.

But Mak Su had a really dangerous mixture of roommates.

There was one girl who kicked her out of her dorm earlier,
One girl who sleeps naked in her bed with a big knife under her pillow,
and one really emotional girl by the name of Susila Anak Kambing
(An example of the name since I can’t remember it correctly)

MAK SU:
The third girl was the most problematic.

Each time when we’re saying something like,

“Hey, I feel like eating lamb.
Aku rasa aku nak makan kambing la.”

Then she’ll start shouting,

“Oh, so kau nak makan bapak aku la?!
Kurang ajar kau!”

She’ll get so emo about it and locked herself in her room for the longest time.

I mean, we were talking about lamb’s meat! Not her father!

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When my dad continued on how he was the envy of his peers,

JAZ:
(whispering)
I think my dad is still living the ’sorority life’.

MAK SU:
Let him be.
He can’t let go of it.

DAD:
Of course I can’t let go of it!
‘Sorority life’ rawks~!

Yeah, believe it,

Your papa rawks!

MPH Stock Clearance Sale 2008 and my 3 years worth of birthday presents

Thursday, 1st May 2008.

Mak Su, Unc Azim, and I went for the MPH Stock Clearance Sale.

It was about 8:30am,
Unc Azim was speeding.
Mak Su was encouraging him to go faster.

And I was at the backseat, gripping to anything I can reach for, terrified of the speed.

ME:
What’s with the rush? The sale is going on the whole day, right?

MAK SU:
a) We’ll get good parking spaces.
b) We’ll have the whole place to ourselves.
c) We don’t have to wrestle with other bookworms for our books!

Hold on tight, girl!
Azim, step on it!!!

Taking Pictures With His Schoolmate

Do you know how the world is really small?

After a few years of not meeting someone,
suddenly on that day, fate has brought you to stumble upon them?

This happened to my Uncle Azim.
We were all hanging around at Sunway Pyramid trying to search for keychains.

Then, he stopped walking and was looking at a particular guy.

He asked for me and Mak Su to snap a picture of him with his ex-schoolmate.

He went to the guy,
who was in charge of promoting a toothpaste brand, Sensodyne at the exhibition.

So I was expecting my uncle to strike up a conversation with that guy.
Instead, he only said,

“Excuse me sir, could you please move a bit?
I’d like to take a picture with my fellow ex-schoolmate here.”

Eih?
That guy isn’t his schoolmate?
So who is it?
I don’t see any other people around there.

It only dawned on me after Unc Azim posed beside a guy with his shiny teeth,
telling us to quickly snap the photo of him with his classmate.

Lorh!

His classmate was the Cardboard Cutout Image of the Sensodyne model!

Ceyh, buat suspense je!

For Underestimating Your Brother

Last week, we attended the Bumi Armada’s Family Day at Botanical Park (Putrajaya).

Since it is afterall a FAMILY day,
they had a lot of telematches and competitions for kids.

Asyraf got to know that there will be a Coloring Contest on that day.
He packed up his color pencils eagerly and stuffed it into my mom’s handbag.

Jazmeen and I however, didn’t really think of it as a good idea.

His coloring skills are such a failure.
We decided to brainwash him into thinking that he’s 6 years old and pushed him into the kids category.
(He’s turning 7 this year)

And so we sat there with him for about 20 minutes until he finished coloring.

Yeap, absolute fail.

No fancy rich colors.
Just very very light colors with even strokes.

After submitting, we went rolling around in the fields waiting for the time to pass.

Then, it was the prize giving ceremony.

Asyraf’s ears perked up as he heard them announcing
“And the 5th place for the Kids Coloring Contest is…”

He left us and ran all the way to the stage,
right in front of the steps of the stage,
unconsciously blocking the winners from going up the stage.

After 5th, 4th, and 3rd place are announced,
Jazmeen and I knew to not hope for Asyraf going up on stage then.

JAZMEEN:
Hey, wouldn’t it be funny if Asyraf got 1st place.

JAZREEN:
(Laughes)
Yeah, impossible.
Look at his coloring! There’s no way he’d win.

JAZMEEN:
If he does, then it just goes to show just how low of a standard that contest is!

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Now, let’s switch to my mother’s point of view.

She was sitting with her friends, right beside the stage.
And she was surprised to see Asyraf blocking the way of other contestants to get on the stage.

“Eh, Asyraf! Tepi lah! Step aside!
Yours aren’t pretty, you won’t win.”

“Asyraf punye buruk, Asyraf tak menang!”

And she shooed Asyraf away from the stage,
oblivious that the announcer was about to announce the runner-up of the contest.

ANNOUNCER:
And the 2nd place winner goes to…

Ahmed… Asyref… Azmen!

My mother went numb for a second.
She froze in her pose of shooing Asyraf away from the stage.

Then she came to her senses and did the opposite of that,
she pushed Asyraf TO the stage this time.

“Asyraf menang! Asyraf menang!”

She looked back to the tables,
furious that the family’s photographer weren’t around to take pictures of her little baby boy winning the Kids Coloring Contest.

—- And that’s when I came back into the picture.

Running through the crowds,
rushing to snap a picture-
leaving Jazmeen at the table laughing her neck off at what just happened.

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After the prize giving ceremony ended,
I took Asyraf to the side to take pictures of him with his prize.
Still laughing at the whole ridiculous thoughts of him winning.

While I told Asyraf to pose with his prize,
Jazmeen left the table and came to join us.
She, too, was still laughing at the ridiculous idea of Asyraf winning.

“What just happened? He won?!”
“Yeah, I wonder how too. He had an ugly piece.”
“It just goes to show the quality of the contest!”

We talked bad about him in front of him (still posing),
like he wasn’t really there.

Then he interrupted us:

ASYRAF:

Heh! In your face! Tu lah~!

(Imitating a girl’s squeaky voice)
“Your colors are ugly.”
“You have horrible coloring skills.”
“You’ll definitely lose.”

“Asyraf punye buruk.”
“Asyraf punye tak cantik.”
“Asyraf kalah.”

Then suddenly,

(with a BOOMING voice)

AHMAD ASYRAF AZMAN!

6 YEARS OLD!

And even on our way home,
we still didn’t stop laughing at him for winning.

[PICSPAMS] JAG Shoot 17th April 2008

How long has it been since you last seen pictures of JAG?

Anyway, these are pictures from the shoot of Episode 2.

I got my cellphone tucked in my bag at the dressing room,
so not much pictures here.

I was lucky enough to smuggled my phone during one of the scenes.