Salah siapa?

Titian usang ku rempuh
Kayu usang yang rapuh
Hanya harapan yang utuh
Dan aku tersungkur jatuh....

Karena jurang terpisah
Hidup muda penuh kerenah
Aku tersadai lemah
Di titian usang berdarah.

Pernah kalian terfikir?
Hancur punah tersingkir
Adakah di sini berakhir?
Penderitaan seorang fakir.

Kelibat haram durjana!
Mercu hina penuh tanda
Kaget halilintar bersuara
Mengugat anak telinga.....

Kini hidup ku sayu
Meratap cinta yang kaku
Memendam rasa keliru
Cinta agung mu kan layu....

Berdosa kah jiwa ini?
Tersentuh meratap diri
Kehilangan rasa di hati
Ghaib di alam misteri
Lenyap sunyi dan sepi
Hanyut dibuai mimpi ngeri.

Berdiri aku di sini lagi
Aku masih seorang diri
Terkenang manis di sisi
Rentapan janggal menuding jari!

Berdiri aku sekali lagi
Mungkin untuk terakhir kali
Pandangan dari satu dimensi
Meledak nanah hati yang benci!

Berdiri aku seketika lagi
Alunan indah bisikan melodi
Indahnya mentari pagi
Lelap hidupku berakhir kini.....

Facebook.

I have been on Facebook for a while now.

I do not understand, they do not allow me to sign up as Dade Ghost. So I had to signed up as Dade Hantu!

I am not addicted to it yet... and it is time consuming. Still looking for you guys... hehehe.... found some of you. As it is time consuming.... I am not there most of the time.....

Hope to add most of you as friends in Facebook.

To those addicted... have fun....

Children : Please do not do it at home.....

Case I

As usual, when I have nothing much to do on weekends, I started to repair some faulty or not up to standard electrical appliances.

So last Saturday was my hot shower turn. It has been dripping as though something was stucked somewhere it the piping. Just a few months back I had opened up the piping system and the hot shower itself.

It seems that the water supply actually carry lots of small miniature stones, which will get stuck in the piping system, and in the hot shower itself! So I have done the cleaning a few months back, including the one at my kitchen sink. All clogged up by the water supply, which led me thinking, what is happening to our water supplier?

This time around, I think I was over confident, as I have opened up the hot shower previously.

All went well, actually found out the problem. Eventhough, I only found the cause after dismantling the plumbing and the hot shower unit! Apparently, the gasket in the shower head was worn out. Changed the gasket, and the shower was back to normal. Ermm... First lesson, check for worn out components before doing major dismantling.

As I was about to put back the cover of the shower unit, I realised there was one pin, that I have forgotten to put back. NORMALLY, I would have switched off the main power supply, but as I was over confident and lazy, I thought to myself, it is just a small pin that I have to put back.

So I just slide back the pin..... For a fraction of a second, there was a sharp pain in my finger! Instantly I pulled back my hand. In that split seconds I realised, what a stupid action I have done.... RULE NO. 1 when opening any electrical appliance: There must be no power supply to it!

Such a small action, and yet, it could have been the end of my life....


Case II.

Any of you guys have gone to IKEA? Going out from IKEA going back to Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, you will have to drive to the highway. From IKEA there will be three lanes. Once you about to enter the highway, it will merge into one lane!! Anyone noticed that???

As I was happily driving to office this morning, going thru that stretch of road, I noticed a lorry from my rear driving very fast on my left. As I enter the bend that merge with the highway, on the left most lane of the highway, I can see a proton driving fast on my right!

I slammed the brake, luckily there was no car right behind me! The lorry passed by happily and turn into the highway. The proton passed by happily cutting right in front of me going to the left towards the entrance of the highway to TTDI, Bangsar and Federal Highway...... (Notice that I know where the highway was going, but do not know the name of the highway? Well thats me! I only know Federal Highway.).

Boths vehicle was right behind me on my left and right. Why la they can just let me passed? Stupid road. I wonder who designed that stretch of road? I wonder how many near miss accidents? I wonder how many accident has taken place there?

So, I drove happily this morning to work.... I am glad, I am still alive and in one piece. Thank you God.

Boo Boo Part II

Dang@@!!! First round of negotiation, I hit a wall. First time I was using a not professional approach on company matters.... and yeah ... it blew back on my face.

Today round II of negotiation. Will stick to the agenda, focus on the real matters and see what happen? I am just getting use to my new room and new comfortable chair.... but my 6th sense is tingling that I will be in deep shit....

Well I have been in deep shit before....

In fact, I thought my head and mind gonna hurt thinking about this issue, but it did not!

Well I am just gonna try my best, if that means I got to find a new job, then that is what I am destine to be... hehehe....

When it rain it pours. It pours dogs, cats and summons..... RM 230 gone in 30 seconds early this morning. One speeding and one parking ticket! I find it funny, if I pay early, discount 30%. If I wait a few years, they might reduce 50% to 70%! I was driving company car and doing official work, yet I have to personally pay the summon. Maybe got to negotiate with the management.....

I pray that the rest of today will be much better. Let the bed of roses has less thorns.... better still, bed of roses with no thorns.....

Boo Boo Wachamacallit.

After 9 pm last Friday.

My phone vibrated.... (Yup my phone never rings....)

Me: Hello.
Wachamacallit: Inspector so-n-so from so-n-so.
Me: Yes how can I help you....(Thinking inside my head, who is trying to pull a fast one on me....?)
Wachamacallit: Is that DG from so-n-so?
Me: Yes inspector...
Wachamacallit: We received a report that your company have ......... blah blah blah...
Me: Really inspector? Our contractor must have done it without realising it.... (Now what? Is this real or what? The inspector was actually stuttering ...)
Wachamacallit: Please call back the authorities involved and the complainant. My advice is for you to settle the matter amicably.
Me: How do I get hold of you after this? Can I call you at this number?
Wachamacallit: You may call me at this so-n-so police station. As for so-n-so.
Me: Thank you inspector (How come I am so cool, but the inspector sounds so unlike a policeman?)

So the next thing to do was to do some simple checking with my supervisor. Ermm... it actually happened. I am lucky I did not berated the not so confident inspector.

Tried to settle the matter, but to no avail. The reporting party would not take my call or return my smses. Boss gave me 48 hours starting Monday to settle the matter. I have less than 24 hours left.

I wonder what is in store for me today? Bed of roses, beautiful, but full of thorns...

Tag of love? Hehehe ......

Was tagged by KD! Hehehe!

So now this is how it work.

This linky love trail rules: When you got tagged…you have to add your name to people who had done the tag and and let the list grow!

Those Who Dunnit

Limadang.com
RamblingMoo.com
blogginginmypyjamas
StylewithPassion
Chinneeq
Dora-zooropazoo
Babyshern
Bani gundu
Frankensteina
Diyanazman
Farah (KD)
Dade Ghost

And now I am tagging all in my friends list that has not been tagged!

P/S: KD I am just doing this for you!

A Kampung Wedding

Had a wonderful weekend, but.....

Congratulation to my sister. Her wedding reception was during the weekend. After breaking off from her first engagement, finally for the second time of engagement, she got married....

I had fun. I was at my kampung since Saturday. So many of childhood friends and relatives were there. Lots of stories and memories. Overall I enjoyed meeting all of them...

So happy for my sister, finally she is off my shoulder! Hahaha.... u know la when my mother passed away, I am like the father. At times during the reception, I actually refered myself as "Abah" to her....

Yup it was tiring, but then again worth it.

Left my house for two days. I reached home about 8 30 pm Sunday. Looked for my kitten, it was no where in sight. Called and looked everywhere, it was gone.... I can feel how I felt when father died. I could not accept it then. Took me more than 5 years to come to term with his death....

Now my kitten is gone.... What a damper to a great weekend!

Belasungkawa

Belasungkawa : condolence; expression of sympathy.

The more I want to learn Bahasa Malaysia, the more I find weird and funny words. It is intriguing to me trying to find where these words were originally from. Most were from sunskrit with a mixture of arabic.

Anyhow, how come I have never heard or seen, anybody wishing someone, "Belasungkawa untuk keluarga awak, di atas kematian si ...." ?

Have fun using this new word. I feel the word is so ancient....

MPD First Monday Of The Month.

Why la I choose Monday??? Never mind, I will start with the MPD. Actually, nothing much la, I have been doing very little good deeds....

MPD

1) A cat gave birth to two kittens in my storeroom. One red and one black. Decided to help the mum and two kids have a better place to live. Put the two kids in a nice cute box, cushion with old rags. I was sad after two days the cat and kittens went missing.

2) Three days later when I got back from work, I heard a kitten meowing so loud. Saw a red kitten in between a banana tree. I dont think it was the twins, cause this one is about a few weeks old. The eyes had opened. It look so pathetic. First look, I thought it was going to die soon.

Took it home, fed it water. I dont have milk. Only the next day I managed to get milk and cat food. The kitten looks like it was going to die. Surprisingly, a few days later it was running around! Poor kitten, I can only feed it once or the most twice a day, before and after I go to work.

3) Gave training to my colleagues for three separate days. Nothing much, just to give them some idea, there are choices in life. Make them understand, we can only decide upon what is in our control. Thus it is best for them to focus on their part, rather than worry on things like the weather, or what the president of America going to do next.....

Already get approval from the management to give further training. I am having fun doing the so called training.....

That is basically it that I can remember, other than the small small things that I have been doing since last month. I hope you readers do your part to make this world a better place to live.....


Now comes the Monday blues part.

1) Flight was delayed and I arrived home at the early hours of this morning. What a start to a Monday?

2) My first day (actually November 1st, but they send me outstation) of work at the new place. Ermm.. I purposely did not blog about it... hehehe.... wish me luck people... I went in at about 11 am! Not my fault, the plane was delayed.....

3) The managers were giving me a hard time. New place, so they are testing me I guess. So far I have kept my cool.....

Lets see what tomorrow brings? A better life ...

Detik

Titian insan tersergam malap purnama
Penantian kehilangan masa
Keinsafan taklimat dunia
Berapikan pendekatan manusia.

Siapa kata kecundang dusta?
Merana meratap pemergian maya
Insaf insan terkedu bahasa
Melawan badai umpama perkasa.

Atok pernah bermadah
Tenaga cucu perlu dikerah
Wajah rakyat bertukar merah
Perlukah bumi ku pijak berlumuran darah?

Apa itu kesetiaan?
Jika penuh penderitaan
Sudah puas keperitan
Tiba detik satu perjuangan.

Kita leraikan yang kusut
Kehendak Raja kita turut
Kita dermakan harta pesaka
Kepada Raja derhaka
Kita teruskan perjuangan
Untuk Raja bermimpi keagungan......

Aku hentikan detik ini
Bukan kerana benci
Kerana tanahair ku yang suci
Dan suratan takdir ku begini!

Once upon a time when I was small......

Everytime Hari Raya, I will remember my childhood days. Both my parents have long gone. Thus I think Hari Raya will fill me with nostalgia.....

I have not thought about it for so long, and I can hardly remember the memories. We lived in the village. I was maybe about 6 years old then..... hehehe.... yeah I am really old! Electricity just came to our village then....

So being so called a better off family, we had the first television in the village. This was what I vaguely remembered.

On every Friday night there will be many of the villagers coming to our house. Some came early, just after Magrib. Those who arrived late will be sitting at the veranda. If I am not mistaken at 8 pm was the malay movie playing.

If it was a good movie, the crowd could be more than 30 people, on average it will be about 20 people. I remembered watching those movies on the lap of my late mother. Those were the days.... so simple.....

After the show, usually after 10 pm, they will all leave, some rode bicycles. I noticed that most of them will handshake my mother, giving her 10 cents.... and I saw some living 5 cents at the veranda railings.

That memory haunts me....

Looking.....

Why?

A girl age 15 plunged down 13 floors......

No matter what was reported in the daily newspaper, I still do not understand why? A lot of questions raced thru my mind.

Are there similar cases in Malaysia?

What are the numbers?

Is the percentage alarming?

Anything being done?

Who we can turn to?

And many more questions.......

To all my friends in this cyber world, I pray and hope, if any of you(or someone you know), ever think of doing something in desperation, please take your time to email me at dade_ghost@yahoo.com . I am not promising anything, but I will definitely read and listen to your issues. If needed I may be able to give some suggestion to overcome your predicament.

There are no issues in this world that has no alternative solution, accept when death come knocking on our door.

Have a great life!

P/S: I pray that the 15 year old will recover fully and love life as it is.....

Tanjung Piai Slide Show

A trip to Tanjung Piai.

I just got back from Tanjung Piai, Johor. It is somewhere near Kukup. Nothing much, but I was bored during the Raya so I just decided to go there.

I am still too tired from the journey. I hope to post up some picture or maybe some short video I took. Well let see if I can upload those picture on my notebook.

Should be getting back to work. Again see how. I might skip another day. It is getting too edgy on work front. The Raya break gave me some idea on what to do, if I really have to leave the current job.

I pray that you all have a safe and pleasant journey back to your home, from wherever you were from. To those that are already at work, we that are still on holiday are very thankful. Next year we hope to exchange places with you all (tough luck! hehehe).

My Pride Day (MPD)

You see, all my life I have been more bad than good.

So I have been thinking, how can someone as small as me (compared to the universe of God) make an impact or good changes in this world?

So I did little little things, like

1) Smiling to my neighbor.
2) Helping the blind crossing busy streets.
3) Saying thank you to all that gives me anything or render me services.
4) Picking up a puppy trapped in the drain.
5) Giving talks and advice to unfortunate kids.

and more little little things. I think you all get my drift here. And lately I have been thinking how can I do more? All this while I have been blogging, and friends have asked me to do some sort of tag or another.

So I am just thinking, why not start a tag? After consulting KH (Kucing Hitam @ Black Feline) she suggested MPD. Thanks KH I really appreciate it. I am hoping you will be the first one to do it. Guess it should not be a problem for you.

Will start with some simple rules.

1) Choose a day in a week or month or year. On that day, you will write all the good things you have done, may it be small or big. Small like the one I did and wrote up there. Big can be like donating RM 1 million or setting up a home for the orphan.

2) So the tag will be ongoing. Lets say you choose to do it every first Monday of the month. Then on that Monday you will post on your blog what good deeds you have done for the month.

3) You may tag as many you like. The more the merrier. Make sure you copy the rules and put it on top of your post.

I guess those are the rules. Who am I tagging? All that is in my friends and read list and those that do drop by here to read my blog.

The idea is to make our life a little bit better, starting by us doing and feeling great about our life. Promote this to others so that this little little things can go a long way and make a bigger impact in our lives.

If you care about all the miseries in this life, than start doing good deeds no matter how small it is. My hope is that this tag will travel all over the world, and make someone happy and maybe save a few souls.

Do your bit now!

I am choosing the first Monday of the month for my MPD starting 1st October 2007.

Hope it is not a burden for all of you to participate and be a part of making the world a better place to live.

P/S: I will be promoting this tag for 15 days. So my new post will be below this post.

Selamat Bercuti Dan Selamat Hari Raya Eidil Fitri.

Before that I want to tell you all what I learned this morning. I used the microwave oven a lot. Even to cook or bake or just to warm up left over food.

This morning I wanted to bake my big juicy curry puff that was made in Singapore. So I took it out from the freezer and put it in a container that says microwave oven friendly.

Then I preheat the oven. When preheat was done I set it to bake for ten minutes. Shove the container in and press the start button.

I tried to take some 40 winks. Woke up when I heard the microwave bell indicating that the timer is done. Half asleep, I can smell something burning. Behold, the container actually melted!

So I learn, that baking in a microwave oven, one must use baking utensils. Microwave friendly containers will melt if you bake or grill! What la, after so many years, only this morning I know......

Wishing you all a great holiday, and "Selamat Hari Raya Eidil Fitri". Do have the heart to forgive me if intentionally or otherwise, I have in any way done any of you any wrong....

Have a wonderful and safe journey for those traveling.

Isn't it great to lead a wonderful and fulfilling life? Pray that all our deeds and fasting is accepted by Allah. InsyAllah.

Pay It Forward.

Pay It Forward was a book written by Catherine Ryan Hyde, which was later made into a movie. Pay It Forward Foundation was established later to champion the project. Please refer this article in Star 6th October, 2007.

Honestly, I have not read the book, nor I have seen the movie, but I have heard of it before. So as I happen to promote doing deeds and kindness starting this month of Ramadhan this article grabbed my attention. If they can start a foundation, caring Malaysian can start one too. Caring Malaysian can be better.....

Let me elaborate on what I did,

1) Smile to my neighbor. This happened I guess it was because of the Adik Nurin tragedy. We should be more kind and getting to know our neighbor(s), especially if they happen to be one sexy lady.....

2) Helping the blind cross a busy street. It happened in the jam in Jalan Raja Laut. A blind leading a blind, got confused when they were trapped in-between two vehicles. I just happened to be there are the right time, and guide them to the other side of the street. To the vehicle that stopped right in the middle of the pedestrian crossing, sir and madam, please have heart to the blind....

3) Saying thank you. It is becoming a habit, saying thank you, to the toll collector, to the person taking order in the fast food restaurant, to whoever that is kind to me, especially if it is a pretty lady.... hehehe....

4) Picking (saving) up a puppy from a drain. For two nights in a row, I can hear a dog barking every time I came home late..... then on the third day I came back early. I still can hear the barking. When around to look for the dog, a few meters away I saw a puppy in the drain, at a ledge looking tired and hungry. Three days stuck in the drain, luckily it did not rained! I was unsure what to do, finally took a thrown away plank and elevate the puppy out off the drain.... it ran away immediately.. at least it was still strong...

5) Giving talk and advice to unfortunate kids. This has been my project for more than 7 years. I was from a poor background. I can relate to these kids. Most of them, actually are from family background that cant even afford a proper school shoe. So, some of my friends they look after the financial needs. Me, being also, "just enough", gave my time for them. Not much just once a month on the first Saturday. This might be my final year.... need to get some other people the chance to take my place... and I am thinking of making something bigger.... maybe giving talks and advice to teenagers that are facing issues in their life.... maybe...

Well, will be doing other small small things like what Pay It Forward is doing.... paying meals for strangers, washing strangers cars, etc.... But as everything is limited for me (time, money, etc) I just stick to smaller smaller things first....

As 15th of October is my birthday.... Yeah! I would like all of u that reads this, do something good on that day.... Yeah for strangers like me..... I will be grateful if all of u do good deeds to strangers as a gift for my birthday....

P/S: Just for your info, I do not celebrate my Bday, because I do not want to, and we were poor.... but now, I want to do good on my Bday.... and I hope all of you will too, as much as possible... Make our life better by helping others to make their life a little bit better..... Hehehe... I am writing too much today!

Who is that?

On Sunday I received an sms from a friend. It says something like this,"Waaa DG now you are into advertisement? Since went you become a model?".

Then five minutes later another friend called up.

Friend: "Hey, I was watching TV with my gf, and she asked me, isnt that your friend?"

DG: "Huh?,what you talking about?"

Friend: "Hello friend now you are a model, jangan sombong la...."

DG: "Hello friend, tell the story from beginning...."

Friend: "I was watching TV, during advert we notices one of the character looks like you. So I watched carefully, and yes I am convince it was you!"

DG: "No la, I should know better..."

Friend: "Hey it was you la! You being modest...."

DG: "Trust me, it was not me..."

Friend: "Ya la, come to think of it, that guy seems to look younger"

Hehehe... that was fun to me. When I was in Indonesia long ago, the hotel receptionist stopped and questioned me, "Bapak pembaca berita TV Nasional?". The moment I talked he knew I am not local, so that answers him. But he kept insisting that I really looked like the news reader.

Then when I was in Indiana, Bloomington was it? I really cant recall. A Malaysian stranger actually got hold of my arm and pulled me to meet a guy. When we were face to face, he said "Sorry la, but I just have to do this, dont you two look so alike?". To be honest, I dont think so, but the people there thought so!

Someone told me long ago, there are seven people that looks like you. It must be true....

That reminds me of what I went thru recently. I was following a friend and her family to "merisik" for his brother. When we entered the girl's house, I noticed that her brother's picture was hanging on the wall, amongst the other family pictures. So I nudged my friend and pointed to the picture, and she too was so excited and asked the family, how come her brother's picture was in their house? It turns out, that was the picture of the girl's elder brother!

Have you met one that looks like you?