Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Intro....30.12.2009

I was admiring with some of the stories written by some of my friends. It is inspiring me to write this in 1 Manusia and share some portion of my life. The blog's title may sound catchy,cliche and trendy...but it is like taking an exam for me to look for a blog's title. I write my story myself long hand. I find it does not interrupt my flow of thoughts.
I was born somewhere on earth in Felda Lubuk Merbau. As far as I know, there is no indication shows in Google Earth that refer to my place. To give a clear picture, just imagine how Frodo Bargain and friends had survived at the Mount of Doom to get the Middle Earth. My father was a religious teacher and my mother a housewife. We were living as traditional as normal Malaysian. I was brought up as a typical Malay boy. We were living there until now as my father was granted a plot of land as an ex gratia for longing servicing as principal of a religion school
My Pre-School - It is quite unbelievable to tell everybody that I was taught by a Japanese teacher during my kindergarten time. Tadika Kemas at my place was sent a Japanese teacher by the government and that what most remembering me during that time. Her name is Kiyokohami . There were some sweet memories that everybody was so excited in the first day looking at her. We taught she was Chinese. There was one day she came to school wearing kimono and we were surprised looking at freak costumes.

Primary -My primary school was quite okay as I didn’t create any problem yet. My father was so proud of my UPSR result. I was not so demanding at that time but hoping I’ll be accepted joining one of the boarding schools. Secondary I was offered to SEDAR School in Negeri Sembilan. My second sister who lived in Kulim has suggested me to enter Sekolah Sultan Badlishah. According to her, the school is the best in Kulim. After a discussion they agreed to send me to Badlishah, considering some reasons; momentum, distance and financial as well.

Secondary-
I registered myself at SMSB alone and without anybody accompanied me. I was placed at 1A2 and my class teacher was Cikgu Sholiah. The day I registered, I had been introduced to a Penyelia Petang, Abd. Wahab – car registration no PBN 1323, grey Proton Saga. One of big moron in this school. First day of school, there has been a lot of talk about how boring the school is; perhaps it would be a challenge for me to understand the culture of brand new school. The students were said to practise good in the school, you must be popular in many sense and form. However I believe, I just came here to study and that was my state of mind at that time. How naïve I was. Here I met my classmates like Wan Thrash, Najib Rock, Vespa and etc.lah After a week went to school by bus, my sister decided to send me to the hostel. Che Puteh, a clerk who registered my name at Dorm Kemas was the first subordinate staff I knew.

My registered bed no was 1011 and like every hostel students, we had to wear the stupid baju batik. My hostel life started from that and storyline may grow dizzy. The first night in hostel was just like hell. Some say let bygone b bygone.We should forgive and forget .But as for me, not for this one. It is easy to say if you are not the subject of plotting and vengeance. I was called off for an Induction but it turned to be a raging session. Here I like to mention those name involved. They were Jan Pahang, Faisal Hamdi, Mat Kuching and Mat Kang. Those legendary names were from Dorm Jujur. They were most brutal terrorist at that time.

At one stage they asked about my parents marriage status and punished me by heavy mental tortured. Numerous forms of raging have emerged, each person with their own style. As I try to fight back they kicked me and punched and this is like a real Guantanamo. Their mission is only to brainwash and wash your pride after a stupid question. Going to school was thrilling to me and I couldn't wait for school holidays to end. The first year of hostel life was so miserable. I was one of the targeted people by senior to be arrested.

I said to myself, May Day a Justice and God, grant me patience. But now I consider myself one of the beneficiaries as I become more independent and mentally tougher. However raging session is still not a good practice in school, I believed. I was kicked out from the hostel after caught in the act buying cigarettes at Dawood.

After a roll call, my name was mentioned to be expelled from the hostel.I was sent to my sister’s house at that night. My good life start damaged from this moments. The honeymoon year in form four was really meant to me. 4A2, formerly known as 4A2C was the most happening class. We were very close and up to share one piece of cigarettes of 5 peoples. Jaei, Nizam, Rizo, Mat Besi, Zaidi, Aruah Ish,Kayree and not forgotten Boss, they are buddies. We had our last day in form four as yamseng party in our class without girl’s invitation.

I was quite terrible being outrages. I make many problems in school. At school my attendance was flip followed by the flop. Sadly, my father transferred me out from the school at Form Four because of my naughtius maximus. I joined KSAH but SMSB give me soul of the alma maters. I owed my teachers in school a great deal. Only one of them, Miss Audrey, is alive in my brain cell. She was a great teacher and spoke grammatically correct English all the time. The rest like Mat Ton and Radzi (ET), they just gave my life horrible and my school appearance was an EPL big screen to them. To be able to study at the SMSB was a great privilege in those days. I was one of the lucky ones.

University
Schooling was such a great experience and I recall with fondness many rewarding events that I went through. I hope and pray that all of my friends remember their school days and the part that school plays in their lives. I did fairly well and my SPM result was just good enough for me to be enrolled into the architecture faculty of the UiTM. College I registered as a student in Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Survey in the year of 1995. I was placed at Kolej Perindu and many said this was a zoo because a lot of monkeys hanging at the window almost every evening. Our warden named is Halim. We called him King Kong because the size does matter. Brutally screamed at students if he found you are illegally stayed in that college.

I join this faculty and that’s remembering me some of my close colleagues such as Mama,Linda Tose, Tariq, Brut, A Peng, Bai and some other name. Here they called me Mat Lobang .In the faculty Brut was my mentor in design sketches. His figure drawings were so marvelous. Besides that, my love story was extremely publicized from mouth to mouth. Dated with little sister of Kudsia Kahar, Farahbi made my name popular. That was not intention in the first place, but because of her sister’s name, people knew her then they knew me. May be some of the stories had been speculated wrongly.

I strongly believed that she is not the right one. Too different culture and there are large barriers from a metropolis to vernacular. But I can say it was a rock n roll love story because we can share the music together. She dumped me after our three years relationship. She found someone else and later same thing happened to me. Bunga Tanjung Hard Core – a sweet memory about an established Rock N Roll movement.


I joined this group together with my schoolmates, Mat Besi. He studied Applied Science in ITM. Lots of joke about these colleagues from the moment I ripped off the ACAB cassettes and sell all to one of the music groceries in Shah Alam. We spent most weekends by attending the underground gigs in KL. Giant, Mat Pet, Belacan, Tom were really in my mind. During that time music extreme was a diorama in the university from the shirt you wear, the type of music you listened and the awex you had. Sepultura, Snapcase, Shelter, Rage against The Machine were compulsories playlist not forgotten Motley Crue. I was given financial aid which was not a scholarship. Grabbed the opportunity I filled the form.
As for me, it’s better late than never. PTPTN, I managed to settle all the debt at 2005 as I dumped all loan amounts in ASB and Public Mutual. I worked during my varsity time and that’s how I survived. Some of profit yearly, I did for my wedding and the rest I paid it back to government solely and until now I still enjoy the profit every year. Getting an education right up to University level is easy now. But we must nevertheless feel grateful for there are more than one billion illiterate people in the world. For them the future promises very little.

Career and Love
I started my carrier as Landscape Architect at Arkitek Urbanisma in Taipan. Taipan area gave a very hot atmosphere as workplace. You can easily find short skirt hot chicks all the yuppies meeting place over there. Lunas Café – one of the hot makan place, owned by my senior at school, Ogy. He and his brother run the food business. Well the brother also was friend of mine. Alistair is a famous footballer from SMKK. Some of my officemates said that I was freely eating there without any pay, but the truth was I paid them monthly. I heard they closed the business after trapped with along debt. Here I met my wife, Zareene. She was a secretary to five architects including me. Before dated with her I dated two secretaries, Zai and Nina of the same office .But finally I managed to settle down with the right one, my wife right now.

We started our love thru computer networking. I sent her some poems copied by some of the rock song to impress her. She quite impressed at that time until she knew those were rock song lyrics. I find that love at the same office was too difficult to handle then I decided to quit from the office. Moreover the late payment from the company made me to move for good. I joined a construction company owned a lady who wanted me to be her son in law. Again I faced another problem. After sometime I feel that the architecture’s industry just not my cup of tea. To draw the cross sections, composed a master plan and prepare the detail drawings were no more my interest.
I need more managerial and PR works because I believed my strength as a talker. I was champion in debate during my school time. So then, I applied some government job advertised but luckily I was accepted at Ministry of ( ..........................) Marriage I was having a leave entitlement problem whenever I joined the government. As I joined at the end of the year, the higher management decided not to give me any leave for my wedding ceremony. I begged to the DG and he accepted.

I officially became a husband at December 4th. 2004 and now with two princess, Yasmine Suraya and Yasmine Shahnaz , I enjoy my life. After four years marriage my wife just had finished her studies in Corporate Administration it really released part of my burden. Congrats to her.
I believed my good career is here and this is what I am looking for. I was giving a lot of opportunity to step higher and chances to have overseas travel. From blue colour of enrich and now I awarded the platinum one.

That’s my story and sorry for making you up and down reading this. Just want to share some experience. Happy reading my post after this......Thank You....
Chow chin chow……