Friday, July 15, 2011

to care or not to care

hello everyone.

OK, harini kita nak bercakap tentang jiran. Semalam aku duduk-duduk dekat homestay sempena menenangkan fikiran dan makan buah longan segar dari pokok, and I realized, eh, aku ni dekat kampung ni, ade lah paling banyak pun 8 rumah je yang aku kenal penghuninya. Duduk sini dah 15 tahun. I know more people dekat taman perumahan dulu dari jiran-jiran di Kg.Melayu ni. Lepas tu aku teringat pasal insiden minggu lepas di sebuah kawasan perumahan lain.

Masa tu, mama singgah rumah kawan beliau, so, abah and I just waited in the car. Few minutes later I saw two girls bersiap-siap nak keluar rumah. Mula-mula I was like, sayangnya lah kan, kenapalah budak-budak sekarang ni tak kisah showing to others things they shouldn't have. Kadang-kadang orang lain yang tak berpakaian sopan, kita pun jadi segan sama kan. Then tak lama lepas tu, ada dua motor datang depan rumah tu and the girls hop on, dan berlalu pergi. Adik-beradik ke bukan ke I don't know, but I don't think so - we are all aware how screwed up masyarakat kita harini.

Being a stranger, all I see is, most probably mak ayah nya tak kisah ke anak dara dia keluar naik motor berdua-dua macam tu. I don't get it, what kind of parents allow that to happen depan rumah. Kalau tunggu dekat stesen bas lain cerita, maybe lah budak nakal, ini depan rumah. Then few minutes later, selang dua rumah pun macam tu jugak, ada budak lelaki datang, hon-hon, budak perempuan keluar, naik motor. Lepas tu ada pulak budak kecik keluar dari rumah tu main pasir depan rumah and I was like, kesian budak ni, she's gonna grow up thinking it's ok and normal to do that.

If it were me, I'm sure the boy's gonna be chased off with parang, and I'll be grounded for life. haha. When my sister was in high school, I've seen how strict my parents were, kalau pergi tuisyen, balik rumah mesti sampai rumah dalam jangka masa yang logik, tak boleh menyinggah. Naik basikal tak boleh beriringan dengan budak lelaki, tak boleh ada kawan lelaki call rumah, hantar surat dan sebagainya. Same thing goes to me jugak walaupun baru sekolah rendah. Kalau ada tiba-tiba kawan datang rumah nak pinjam apa-apa pun, I would be scared to death kena marah dengan abah.

Masuk sekolah menengah, there's no such thing as "keluar pekan" bersama kawan-kawan. my outing hanyalah balik rumah, singgah giant or UO kalau ada barang nak beli. Pernah dua-tiga kali je keluar dgn kawan-kawan, sekali sebab bulan puasa dan abah tahu i won't go merata-rata, beli barang kelas/persatuan dan sekali selepas spm. And pergi Taman Cempaka untuk fotostat soalan. Lepas masuk U pun, kalau kawan-kawan nak jumpa (note that my friends are all girls because i went to girl school kan) suruh datang rumah. Very hardly I'll get to go out with my friends. Lain-lain mestilah diiringi adik beradik atau abah n mama sendiri.

This is definitely how I'm going to raise my kids. As strict as this.

To Care or not To Care

berbalik kepada isu jiran tadi. in the ealy 90's dulu, I believe my parents main concern masa tu bukan sebab isu ikhtilat. dulu mana ada kefahaman lagi tentang ikhtilat-ikhtilat ni kan. mainly just sebab maruah dan malu kalau jiran-jiran nampak dan kata apa-apa. Biasa kan tengok dekat kawasan perumahan dekat taman or depan rumah ada kerusi batu boleh dating tu, my house tak ada kerusi batu tu, jangan kan nak berdating, duduk bersidai dekat luar lama-lama pun tak boleh tau. 

So, I said to abah, "Ish ish ish...macam mana lah satu kawasan perumahan siang-siang macam ni boleh anak dara keluar macam tu dengan budak laki-laki..." abah's response was, "Jiran-jiran semua tak kisah lah tu, tak de amik tahu...semua jaga hal masing-masing...". When I was in taman jaya delima, news spread very fast, which is why parents are really concerned about the children's behaviour. 7 years, and we only know 2 families yang anaknya "huha-huha" istilahnye... dan kalau anak kita buat benda tak elok, memang akan sampai ke pengetahuan mak ayah kita. Nak-nak pulak kalau macam my parents dah lama kat sini, dan dah kenal ramai orang, so, kita anak-anak ni nak buat apa pun kena beringat... sebab tahu dah mak ayah kita ada banyak spy.

Jaga Tepi Kain

The thing is, sibuk-sibuk nak tahu hal rumahtangga orang memanglah tak boleh. Tapi, kalau kita dah nampak anak orang tu siang malam keluar tak tentu hala dengan bukan mahram, pergi la slow talk parents dia... takkan biar je.. esok-esok kalau berlaku maksiat dalam kawasan perumahan kita, bala sama-sama dapat. haaa... tapi zaman sekarang ni agaknya kalau kita cakap kat parents tu pun, silap-silap kita kena balik. Ha....jangan kita buat mesyuarat tingkap lepas tu menganam ketupat pulak, tak ada faedahnye...

Ok bebel panjang pulak kan.

Take-home message

Kalau kejiranan kita tak ada usaha tegur-menegur, nasihat-menasihati ni, kita kena hidupkan kembali. Kalau dah sedia ada, kita kena pastikan it lasts forever :-)

ok sekian terima kasih..

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Running With Nike+ : Part One





It's been almost a month since I've been running with Nike+ Pegasus 27 and perhaps 3 weeks running with the Nike+ SportBand. Exhilarating. The only word to describe my feeling after every run. 

I have been asking along to but me the shoes and the sportband since last year, and the deal was made, it was an almost impossible to achieve, but being along, all that matters is the effort, not the result. So, according to my effort, all I'm entitled to is the SportBand. The shoes on the other hand - I'ma have to pay him back when I get my allowance. Good enough for me. So I dragged him to Nike outlet in ipoh parade as soon as he came back and get the shoes. a week later, he took me to MidValley Nike for the sportband sebab ipoh dah tak ada stok. 

My AdiCool by Adidas running shoes of three years age are undeniably more comfortable. I've never owned a pair of nike shoes before, but for the sake of tracking-make-easy I bought it anyway. I don't spend much on my clothes, bags or gadgets, but shoes is something I'd invest on. It has never disappoint me before, and last quite long. Well, obviously 3 years because I dont use them to run. haha. Pegasus is good for trail, and road and of course treadmill. So, good if you want to join marathon as well. Fit, Flexible and Cushioning. what else I would ask for from a running shoes.

Masa mula-mula tu, my aim was just to have nike+ shoes so that I can track my workout, more inspired to lebih rajin berlari, lose more weight? But that doesn't last long. I haven't lost much weight, and I don't think about them as much nowadays. All I want to do is run further, run faster, and perhaps win some challenges. The weight will come off sooner or later.

Let's take a look at nikerunning.com

track all my runs

Inspired to beat myself each time

Achieve my goals :-)

and you can also join challenges... so far tangga corot-corot lagi i ni... ye lah bukan hari-hari pegi jogging kan... and there's this coach program, and I started with "walk to run". 1.25 km sehari je sepatutnya, but since I went with abah - we'll talk about it in part two - kalau buat 1.25 je mau kena tinggal je kat padang polo tu. haha. letak goal 30km for a month pun abah was like, "hek eleh..." je kan.. so others i'm going to finish is to run at 9'00" pace - which I managed to do today, yeay me!!! and complete few more runs to run at least 10 times in a month.

My achievement is not something I can brag about, but I'm feeling great because running is no longer as hard as they used to be when I first started running again. I stopped running in 2007, run again 2009, terjatuh, injured dan never run outdoor ever since. Hopefully I will lead a healthier life after this. :-) The thing about running is that, I get to feel good about myself for things I do, not for things I own. and God knows how liberating that feels.

I learn to eat healthily. When you start running you need fuel. And I've learnt I need healthy food, junk food, fast food will never be good fuel for me. And I drink plenty of water - something you don't see me doing, unless I have a sore throat.I eat A LOT. but thank God abah change our rice to mixed brown rice. so, takdelah guilty sangat makan nasi. One day, at the end of my run, rasa naaaaak sangat minum pepsi. haaaa... But I told myself, "kau dah lari penat-penat ni, free-free kau nak minum pepsi???". tak jadi terus. 

Harap-harap berkekalan lah semangat nak berlari ni... I started reading about running and learnt some new things. Along tell me after some time, I should start training for my first 5k, then my first half-marathon, of course it's a long way to go. But i'm looking forward for that :-)

Ok lah. So next in Part Two : Abah, The Best Running Partner

oh ye. finally.
 yellow sportband tajaan along

Dah sebulan...kasut pun comot-comot....

Pelik Tapi Benar




I didn't write anything regarding the recent Bersih 2.0 Rally. I didn't get to go neither. We just follow the updates at home, I purposely start a twitter account so I could follow the updates more efficiently. Of all videos about the historical event for the nation, this is the one I'd put here on my blog, in case people haven't seen them.


when i was a little girl, I think the federal reserved unit were awesome. i know they protect us from the bad people. but today, I'm just disgusted. and I totally don't get it, and neither can I accept how shallow it is for people to say, "Polis dah kata jangan buat, memang padan lah kena macam tu". Like, seriously? Are you even human when you make such comments?

No one deserves to be treated like that. This is just embarrassing. And it doesn't make sense when you say, "Korang nak negara luar tahu ke negara kita ni macam ni? Pelancong takut nak datang, harga barang naik sebab ekonomi negara tak stabil, aku taknak negara kita kena jajah." hello.. The most contributing factor that causes foreign investors to hesitate to invest in our country is the corruption index. Please do some research on what's our country corruption index. How would a one-day event scares all the tourist away? Those people from developed countries are of first-class minds, they know how to analyze thing and see what's really going on, and that there's no need to panic over it.

We are well informed on how other countries treated peaceful rally, but our country choose to go with what we can see from the previous video. Then when we say, it's normal to have peaceful rally overseas. There will be people who says "Dekat sana memanglah...buat apa kita nak ikut sangat negara luar tu..." Now, this one is weird tau. We want to follow the western countries in almost everything, apa saja gameshow dia, semua kita nak ikut, style dia, music dia, movies dia, and when it comes to the part they respect people's right, kita kata buat apa nak ikut? Kita ni pelik ke ape?

orang kata kita tak bersyukur. but do u guys even know what are u being grateful for? the fact that the country is so corrupted? that our children's education is jeopardized? that we're denied a clean election? that our mainstream media is bullshitting on our face 24/7? people wants to bring change for a better future. if you don't want to, at least don't bring them down. well, not that they're gonna be affected by you anyway. and as for me, i just want to create awareness.