Perca-perca Kehidupan

BabeyGrey sound makan2 seafood Ahad lepas. Julung2 kali dapat jemputan ni aku pun sekonyong-konyonglah membawa perut. Tempat yg kitorang serang kawasan yg si BabeyGrey panggil Todak, waterfront berdekatan dengan Hyaat Regency. Utk round pertama ni, BabeyGrey rekemenkan gerai ni. Tak tau le autentik Jawa ke tidak masakannya. Sbb yg aku biasa dihidangkan kat rumah kalau Jawa2 ni tempe bercampur hati ayam aje. Kalau tak kacuk Jawa pun macam aku ni menu yg ada tetap secukup rasa. Menu yg pertama sampai. Sotong masak sambal ek namanya dia? Lazimnya kalau sotong2 ni aku prefer buat sotong salut tepung. Tapi bila dah makan sotong ni, aku rasa elok le jangan. Sotong dia ni liat sikit. Perfect sotong salut tepung mesti rangup di luar dan isi sotong di dalam lembut. Ini kangkung masak apa ntah tak tau. Dah pesan kita makan aje le. The least hidangan yg aku gemar hari tu, kalau nak tau lah. Jaw drop bila pelayan hantar ni ke meja kami. Dried butter prawn yg begitu menyelerakan. Tak tunggu menu ak...

Abaikan rambut aku yg serabai itu. Dalam gambar ni aku tengah testing eyefish effect lense kat monopod yg aku baru terima Isnin baru ni. Nafsu punya pasal, aku hangkut jugak satu monopod. Tak nak kalah dengan my brother, aku beli yg datang dgn shutter button sekali. Once paired, press the button, you got the picture... Hehehe.. Tak payah set timer dah. Canggih gitu, tapi takde apa yg boleh dibuat dgn rupa model tersebut. Tetap tak berubah ensem walau pakai apa monopod sekalipun. Ada aku kisah? Ini mmg sakai abis sudahlah ni. Sampai-sampai tempat kerja, terus keluarkan monopod snap-snap. Suasana masih gelap lagi ni, almaklumlah dah tiba di tempat kerja sebelum pukul enam. Snap2 outdoor pulak, tapi muka payah nak mengukir senyuman. Tak tau le pasai pa... Snap dengan monopod muka terus memekong. Giliran Babu Kuntum pulak mencuba monopod. Seronok tak terkata beliau tuh, sampai mintak tolong pesan satu. Aku pun kata boleh, tapi aku mark up lah kan? Bisnes mesti nak carik untong... Hahaha......

Who was Hikaru Genji? What moved the author to create such character? Was it work of fiction? Or simply drawn from Shibuku's experience? This is the mystery Genji Monogatari : Sennen no Nazo (2011) try to explore, not by the fact but rather in the imagination of the audience. Tale of Genji perhaps is the first novel known to the modern world, written by a noble women and lady-in-waiting during Heain period: Murasaki Shibuku. Murasaki's Genji would have been a successor if he was not half noble. The fact that he was also handsome and popular, somehow didn't garner him much support from the court to be in line as the next emperor. He must have been left frustrated. To make thing worst, he fell in love with the emperor's concubine whom he grew fond since he was a little. *Susah jugak jadik pompuan cantik ni yek... Budak kecik pun jatuh chenta* The romance that Genji can't attain he acted out as Kasanova. This led to tragedy, some death, some fled. Hardly any thing new ...

Terkebil-kebil mata cuba nak tidur. Mula-mula mengantuk sampai terbuntang mata. Dari masa nak haplot sampai youtube nak proses memakan masa berejam. Seakan macam nak sama dengan kisah bungkusan yg aku videokan nih. Dua minggu baru sampai, walau kau pakai expedited punyer servis. Apekejadahnya nih? Yg lagi hairan, DHL balik2 kol tanya aku dah selamat dapat bungkusan atau tidak. Lebih hairan, dia punya original wrappings from factory dah takde. Invois dari Amazon.ca pun lesap ntah ke mana. Yg ada cuma surat cinta dari Haji Abdul Razak Bin Awang Duraman. This is joking right? Lawak! Sampai surat bagai nak lepaskan BD+DVD ni ke Sabah. What the hell is going on here! Speedy kat Mesia pun ada jual menda ni la! Apa yg nak kena tapisnyer? No wonder lah my original order from Amazon.com declared as undelivered. Tidak dijelaskan kenapa, simply return back straight to Amazon.com. Mungkin inilah sebabnya. Skrg menentang segala arus nak cuba jugak dapatkan - yg lagi murah pulak tuh - jadik pulak ma...

Ni kira-kira nak mengamuk atau fedap ni? Dua-dua boleh? Barang dah sampai Kota Kinabalu, since 5hb April lagi. Skrg dah 20hb, tapi masih tersangkut lagi di kastam kerana perlu FINAS screening. Utk lepas masuk Malaysia mesti dptkan certificate FINAS dulu. I was like??? I don't get it!!! Why something like LOTR needs to be screened. Come on? I have ordered LOTR before, and it went through just fine! Not so lucky this time eh? So how long this will take -One hand on the hip one hand clutching my handphone- ? It can't be FOREVER right? I have to wait almost two weeks now as I yell to the DHL customer service. And the answer? The officer for the clearance went to TAWAU. For the whole wideworld, can't they have someone else do just that? No. Just this particular dude only. WTF?!? All the previous anticipations has automatically vaporised. I have lost interest in the parcel all together. Come what may.

Ingat tak kes guest tak setel bil penginapan yg aku sorot sikit2 dalam bbrp entri sblm ni? Hahaha... Macam le ramai sangat yg follow nak tanya mcm tu kan? Alah for the sake of continuity plus malas dah nak story balik. So awal minggu ni kesnya concluded. Dipendekkan cerita, bil yg tak dijelaskan tu terpaksa diserap kosnya, di mana separuhnya datang dari aku. Selebihnya, anak2 buah yg tanggung. Melayang jugaklah duit yg sepatutnya boleh beli BD or DVD... Hahaha... Begitu pun aku tetap bersyukur sbb bos dah bertimbangrasa utk kurangkan jumlah yg perlu dibayar. Kalau tidak meraunglah jugak dibuatnya! Memandangkan aku ada bahagian dalam menolong orang2 susah ni, jadi tak salah kalau aku perkenalkan mereka2 ni kan? Bilik didaftarkan atas nama dia dia ni. Tak seperti dalam gambar kad pengenalan, penampilan si Masyitah ni jauh bezanya. Di luar dia berpenampilan ala2 tomboi. Ini surat yg digunakan oleh Masyitah utk meyakinkan pengurus kami yg dia bekerja di Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Sabah. Namun a...

These past few days, I've been agonizing old resentments. Pondering over something that I knew too well won't make any difference now. In my constant sleep deprivation, dwelling the past seems like a perfect sanctuary. Amusement within reach, but remotely has any connection to my real future. Before it all making any sense, Can't Fight The Moon Light, breathes new meaning. You CAN'T lose what you never had. You CAN'T keep what is not yours. You CAN'T hold onto something that doesn't want to stay. But, YOU, stay somehow. Or at least that what my heart told me.

After seen it on IG, as Kak Kiah Cake House is also recently open, I decided to have a look at what this little shop has to offer. Possibly sampling some. It wasn't that hard to locate that little shop in Papar. Look for Public Bank, and there it is. I felt very welcome once I'm in the shop and quickly introduced to the new flavours for the cake in the jar: Avocado. Since this was my first time, I decided to go for more familiar flavour. You don't want to get it all wrong on the first try, do you? In the end, I bought three jars to take away: Strawberry, Green Tea and Strawberry-Chocolate. On a blazing hot day, this could be a real partner in crime escaping all that heat. It could melt your heart!  RM 7 per jar.

Lovely! Just bought myself a tripod for less than RM40 (excluded postage). Gonna used it, mainly, for recording unboxing BDs or DVDs videos... Might use it for other occasions... But don't think I have any, just yet. Trying it out on my Nokia. Put in place, my dark knight, looking rather dashing, don't you think?

I won't be doing reviews here. Just sharing my excitement. Received the notification while still island hopping. The expected arrival was on 15 April. So, I won't be expecting it so soon. At least not yesterday.  I ordered it on 8th April. And I was like, that was fast! Super fast. Expedited? No! Priority! Hiks... Finished watching it just now. Can't wait for the extended edition later this year. Especially the bonus features! What with the 3rd movie coming too. On not so bright side, my other parcel, ordered early this month is still waiting for custom clearance. Hopefully it will be released by next week. I'm sooo hopefull...

Island hopping today with family: Sapi-Manukan-Mamutik. Today, I'm not going to bore you guys with the details of the trip. Instead I will be sharing with you guys some pictures taken using monopod. So hip and trendy lately. Even tourists stop and ask what it is. At the ticketing hall, Jesselton Point. Next to me my brother and sister; Firdaus & Sarah. Also in the view is my younger brother: Syufaat. Still at the ticketing hall, now with my parents. Waiting our turn to depart. Fresh out of island we posed in front of this infamous telephone booth. Pouting and it went like this: "Hello? May I speak with Mr Holmes?" Late lunch at Anjung Senja. True to my diet regime, I ordered lamb chop. Unfortunately it was so tasteless I had to order something else. Sate Kajang to the rescue.

Finally had time to watch The Conjuring. My first reaction was, it wasn't as scary as I was led to believe. What saved the movie was it was based on real story. It helped selling the idea how malevolent the spirit. Other than that, it was fairly average scary movie. There is this one scene hooked me up. Cleverly done. Suspense build up was pretty great here. And it marked something important to development of the story. As later we witnessed the horror possesing Mrs Perron. You felt like, this is it! Come on! All in all, 3 out of 5.

Caught in the act while trying to get a decent macro. I like my macro to be sharp and crisp while making sure the colour is lively and vibrant. In order to do that, I have to aim my subject perfectly still... Shaky camera will result a blurry pic. I might sulk if that happen and won't walk away until I got what I thought the best. Click to enlarge the pic. This is probably the best snap out of a dozen that I took this morning. No editing was required to improve the picture I dare say. Although all the pictures captured the details and colours exceptionally, I personally loved this one. At this moment and frame, there was a light just fall directly to the center of the lotus. Making it feels like the lotus has been spotted. All pictures, except the first one has been taken by Nokia Pro Camera of Nokia Lumia 1020.

Kejadian ni berlaku tengahari semalam. Kisahnya guest ni nak dapatkan diskaun sepuluh per sen. Diskaun ni adalah utk kakitangan kerajaan. Utk dapatkan diskaun ni perlu bawa ID. Apabila diminta ID, guest ni pun menyerahkan satu kad lusuh. Selepas belek, aku pulangkan semula kad tu dan jelaskan yg hotel kami tidak terima kad ID tersebut tanpa perlu menyebut yg kad tu dicetak dan dilaminate sendiri. Namun guest bebal ni tetap berdegil, malah dengan yakin menunjukkan cop rasmi dan tandatangan di belakang kad. Kononnya itu sudah cukup utk membuktikan yg dia orang gomen. Kalau cop dan tandatangan tu jelas dan terang tak apalah. Ini dah kabur org mata 20/20 pun ragu2 apa yg tercetak. Tak cukup dengan itu guest tu berani pulak mendakwa yg kalau dia 'wave' kad tu di Sri Aman, orang lepaskan dia masuk. Sri Aman mana tak tau lah. Yg aku tau kad homemade kau ni hotel aku tak terima. Lain pula ceritanya dengan pasangan yg satu ni lagi. Selepas dapat bil, dia terus teriak, "kenapa saya ...

Sori kalau video selalu tersasar subjeknya. Masih belajar lagi bagaimana nak tangkap video pakai sepai-gajet yg aku beli tempohari ni. But you got the whole idea kan apa yg aku nak sampaikan? Apa pun cerita disebalik video dulu. Aku sebenarnya sedikit frust bila pesanan asal aku undelivered. Aku pun tak faham kenapa DHL hantar balik barang yg aku pesan tu balik ke Amazon. Remote area ka? Utk mengubat rasa kecewa tuh, aku tempah X-Files. Kali ini aku dah tak boleh tunggu dah sebulan lebih mcm Hobbit 1 Extended tuh. Jadi, aku pakai servis AmazonGlobal Priority. Fikir lajulah sangat.. Hado jugak... Yg dari sana cepat bergerak. Tapi bila sampai Malaysia lidut nak mampus.... Boleh je sampai yesterday. Tapi perap lagi lelama kat Shah Alam. Sampai2 aku cuti plak. Nasib baik ada Babu Kuntum. Kebetulan plak hari ni kami berjanji ziarah Ros dan baby baru lahir dia. Jadi mintak dia tolong angkut lah sekali... Ahaks. Mintak maaflah gambar tak ambil bagi menghormati permintaan Ros dan suaminya. Sat...