Thursday, July 20, 2006

The Tasmanian Devils


Memang dah lama tak jumpa these 2 Tasmanian Devils ni. Memang nakal and my sis selalu pening dengan keletah diorang. Really look forward seeing them again tomorrow night. Dua ni jelah grandchildren yang my mum has. Jauh nun kat Sabah pulak tu. Pity mum. Anak-anak yang dekat ni ntah bila nak kahwin and produce cucu.

Anyway, inilah buah hati pengarang jantung uncles and aunties dia, Karlina Kashreen (Asheen) & Noah Iskandar (Noah/Adik). Memang we spoil them rotten. Everytime we all go there or they come here, for sure dapat new clothes and toys. Before my sis went there 2 weeks ago hantar mum ke Sabah, satu KL aku pusing carikan the singing Barney yang Asheen nak. Last week aku call tanya about the Barney, she has another request.

Asheen : Achik, nak Teletubbies warna red

Aku : Kan dah ada yang yellow tu.

Asheen : Tapi ni untuk Adik. (Ingat & sayang jugak dia dengan adik dia)

Terpaksa aku rushed to KLCC during lunch break hunting for Po (The red Teletubbies). Unfortunately takde tapi dalam masa 1 jam tu sempat jugak impulsive shopping kat Marks & Spencer, Zara & Crabtree & Evelyn. Lepas office on the way home, aku singgah kat Midvalley tapi still mission tak accomplished. Looks like teletubbies are not so popular here. Yang yellow or Laa Laa tu I brought back from Dubai. Nampaknya kena suruh Liza beli one more kat sanalah. Hopefully, Asheen will be happy with the pink sweater Kema bought for her. Aku terpaksa suruh Kema hantar despatch boy dia deliver the sweater to my office pagi tadi. She saw Kema wearing a pink Ralph Lauren sweater when Kema was in KK 2 weeks ago and she wanted the same one, yang ada zip sampai the kolar. So fashion conscious now.....

Asheen memang petah bercakap macam orang tua. Pronunciation dia tak pelat sebab she grew up surrounded by mostly adults or grown up children. Kadang-kadang tu dia boleh naively buat lawak. Once, I was telling her stories about animals and as usual she will ask me to draw all these animals. Whilst I was drawing a snake, she asked, snake makan ape? Aku pun cakap rabbit, tikus, birds, kancil...Dengan muka terkejut dia tengok aku with her eyes opened wide...Hah.....kereta kancil?

Noah or adik has a very jovial personality. Gelak aje memanjang and loves to watch Teletubbies. Dia boleh tengok CD Teletubbies over and over again. Kalau nak bagi dia duduk diam or time makan, pasang aje CD tu. Sometimes, he will do the Teletubbies walk. Dulu he was considered the gentle one. Kalau the other children pukul dia or tolak dia, dia takkan melawan. However, lately, my sis cakap dia dah garang and made other children cried. Masa dia tengah main kat swimming pool at Sutera Harbour, he was upset that a Japanese boy kat situ ada pelampung tapi dia takde. He nagged the boy in his babytalk until the boy cried.

Dapat jugak lepas rindu watching their antics.....can't wait for tonight.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Hantu, Jin & Keranda

Pada hari Ahad yang lepas, aku berjalan di sebatang jalan yang gelap. Di kiri kanan cuma ada rimbunan pokok, angin bertiup sepoi-sepoi bahasa, sunyi sekali. Tak jauh, ada sebuah kereta Volkswagen Beetle berwarna kuning tersadai di tepi jalan. Aku mendekati kereta tersebut, dekat front seat ada batu nesan dan mayat seorang bayi yang telah dikapan. Aku tak boleh nak lari tapi aku teruskan berjalan dan memerhati sekeliling aku. Dalam samar-samar, aku terlihat pochong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!di celah-celah rimbunan pokok. Di belah kanan aku pulak, ada kubur. Mak!!!!

Ini kisah benar, betul-betul berlaku.....kat Muzium Shah Alam. Actually, kat sana from July until October ada pameran hantu, jin & keranda. Aku terbaca kat newspaper pasal pameran ni and out of curiousity, I went to find out what was it all about. It was not what I expected and a total disappointment. When I reached at a room with glass walls, it was so dark I could hardly make out what was inside. Yang nampak cuma benda putih atas lantai. Then, there were displays of djin dalam botol hanged to a tree, jenglot jantan, jenglot betina, djin, langsuir and toyol dalam bekas kaca. I imagine toyol ni warna hijau and mata merah tapi yang ni about 1 foot tall, kurus kering, warna hitam and gigi dia kecil macam gigi ikan. Langsuir pulak, kecil aje besar tapak tangan dengan rambut panjang keras macam landak. Tak macam yang dicerita dalam buku Tamar Jalis. One of the inscriptions yang I sempat baca, the djin was caught when it was sleeping with a woman and was not even preserved. Maknanya, djin dalam kaca tu betul punya ke? Subject to speculation! There was also an ugly looking duyung about 1.5 kaki displayed dalam kaca. Other objects displayed are kendi berbau hantu, tongkat ular, mayat dalam rumah, keranda and other objects related to the mystical world.

It was a disppointment because, not only there was not many objects displayed but there was not much information on the displayed objects. Nasib baik tak sampai 5 minit aku queue dalam barisan yang about 150 meters long to buy the tickets, ada mamat ni approached and sold extra tickets that he bought. Kalau tidak, sia-sia aje beratur panjang-panjang. Kalau objects yang displayed tu macam cerita Thirteenth Ghost, best gak.

Cerita pasal makhluk halus, ni, aku teringat my personal encounter with these creatures masa kat UiTM dulu.