Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Binatang Peliharaan

Apabila saya berada dikaunter pembayaran dan perlu memilih untuk menghulurkan duit cantik atau yang sudah rosak, saya akan hulurkan duit yang cantik. Anda bagaimana?


Sewaktu saya minum teh tarik bersama rakan sepejabat di restoran Kapitan tadi, kami telah berbincang mengenai binatang peliharaan. Betapa comelnya kucing, iguana itu mahal harganya dan ada juga orang yang membela ular sawa.

Timbul cerita tentang seorang kawan, kepada kawan, kepada seorang kawan yang anaknya ada membela seekor ular sawa. Anaknya dalam lingkungan umur 10-12 tahun dan telah beberapa tahun membela ular sawa kesayangannya itu.

Pada suatu hari ketika ingin memastikan yang anaknya sudah tidur dibilik, beliau perasan ular sawa itu tidak tidur melingkar tetapi memanjang disebelah anaknya. Yer, anaknya tidor dengan ular sawa. Keesokan malamnya, si bapa tadi perhatikan lagi tabiat ular sawa itu dan seperti semalam, ular sawa itu tidur memanjang disebelah anaknya. Selama empat malam berturut-turut, kejadian yang sama berlaku. Beliau mulai risau.

Pada hari kelima, dia pergi berjumpa seorang doktor haiwan dan menceritakan pengalamannya. Doktor haiwan itu menyuruhnya melepaskan ular sawa tersebut dengan berkata, "ular sawa itu sebenarnya sedang mengukur. Jika dia rasakan masanya sudah sesuai dan badannya sudah boleh menerima, dia akan menelan anak tuan". Bapa budak itu terus terdiam dan bergegas pulang kerumah.

Petang itu si anak menangis teresak-esak ketika ayahnya merampas binatang peliharaan kesayangannya dari tangan kecil beliau.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Being Rebellious



One of the most famous quote by the late icon Steve Jobs was, "It is more fun to be a pirate than join the navy".

Everybody wants to be a rebel. This is the norm in society. I accept this fact because I was once a rebel myself. When I was a kid, given the chance I would never listen to anything my parents say and I always wanted to be a Jedi so that I can join the rebel alliance.

I can also understand adults staying rebellious over things that are trivial such as pushing the 7-eleven door when there is a "pull" sticker the size of an elephant on the glass. But this form of rebellion does not make headlines.

What I fail to appreciate is the fact that someone can rebel over everything, his/her entire life. One might say that it is a matter of principle but hey, things around you change and when they change naturally you should too. Not in a drastic way but in a subtle, uncompromising, politically correct manner.

People grow up. Don't you?

Maybe they are just scared of something which reminds me of Master Yoda's word of advice, "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ucapan Ala #Ecah

Created on the 17th of September 2012. Yes, posted 2 days late. Slowpoke. Ecah.

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Inner Peace

Memory serves me well but sometimes when I remember the stupid things I did when I was young, I feel really really sad. Bad things that I did to people. 

When we were kids, we do things out of peer pressure and most of the time those things were pointless.

I just wish that I can say sorry to those people that I hurt but sorry can be the hardest word.


Maybe one day I'll have the guts to spill it out loud and seek forgiveness from them and find peace.