466. KatSana?

Pocketeers,

Short story,

maktuk story,

'paih tu pocket pun gi lah ke depan kan, maktookkk...

depa punya la lawa pakai, masa raja kelantan ka raja

negeri mana ntah turun tu, bini dia ka anak dia punya

la lawaaa.. baju meghelit meghelap!(liplap)'

mama was listening to my story,

maktuk was listening too..

but i dont know that eyelid is opened or closed,

cause maktuk now is so old,

her wrinkles is getting more obvious.

'masa raja selangor mai kat hotel kami tu kan,

pulis pun dok eskot lah kan.. ada kot dalam tujuh

lapan bijik motor trapik.. raja turun dari keter,

semua orang dok angkat tangan salam,

ngan daulat tuanku nya sekali'

pocket never saw the royals before,

standing infront of the concorde hotel

while the royals were arriving for their

function is a bit too much for the pocket

to handle.

almaklumlah jakun sikit.

'lepaih tu la maktuk, kereta raja raja kita

semua pakai yang mahai mahai tok!

ngan tinted nya.. keter raja selangor tu

plet namber pun tak dak! punya la hebat..'

'elleeeehhhh. kat dunia ni lagu tu la,

mengebat dengan baju lawa kereta lawa,

besok kat padang mahsyar, sama gak

bogey macam kita.. dok languuut

tunggu penimbang tu nak jatuh mana..'

jawab maktuk ngan telapak tangan ditunjukkan,

macam kata..'Piiraahh!!!'

eh kesitu plak maktuk..

orang nak citer kejakunan orang,

ngan kehebatan kesultanan kita..

kesitu plak perginya dia... adehlaaa maktok.

450. Camca Plastik

Pocketeers,

kata orang 'cerita' tu takkan jadi 'cerita',

kalau tak diulang berkali kali.

bila dah permanent terhias dlm minda ni,

baru lah character nya diingati,

baru lah event nya dijiwai,

berulang ulang kali... biar sampai mati.

lupa jangan sekali... sejarah pembikin diri.

hoyeah!!

anyway.. ini cerita maktuk.

untuk yang dok baca blog ini dari lima tahun lepas

sure dah baca... utk yang baru...

hey hey, layan pun besh okeh :D

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'Aih..tadi aku nampak cam hang dapat camca
palastit?' tanya maktuk kehairanan.
'umph... dah buang dah ... ado lagi dalam
plastik sampah tu tuk... tuk nak buat apa?'
busy driving the KayBiPiThree'O'Five
'Laaa... yang hang pi buang tu buat apaaa...
simpan laa... buleh jugak buat cedok apa apa...'
'Berapa banyak la nak simpan tuk?

bukan nya nak pakai pun,

kat umah tu banyak dah la tuk'
maktuk diam sambil geledah beg plastik sampah,

mengalihkan tulang ayam, mengalihkan tisu tisu.

She took the white small plastic spoon and tuck it

nicely inside a layer of KFC tissue.

As if it worth something.

as if she's gonna use it soon enough.

Other day... Other occasion ...
'okeh maktuk .. nak pi kl dah... dekwan bawak
bubur maktuk ni na.. buleh jugak makan dalam

perjalanan kang'
'naa.. amik la camca palastit ni...

takkan hang nak langgah bubur ni kut..

tumpah satgi belemoih pulak baju hang...'
'umph.. bak mai...'
I can see a slight senyum at the corner of her lips.
'hummm.. nasib baik jugak ada aku ni yang duk
amik simpan camca palastit nii...tu la hampa.'

basically she have proven her action of keeping
those plastic spoon which u receive inside the
takeaway sauce n tissue pack
is right after all
is worth doin after all...

Ok maktuk, seronok lah tu!

terbukti kater maktuk betul tu..

seronok lah tu!!

tp memang maktuk betul pon.

pocket simpan 20 puluh jer tau,

kalau lebih pocket buang....

Pocketeers,

do you keep those packed chilli sauce

from KFC when u'r buying take-out?

Can use it for the biscuit u know :D

437. Kami Punya la Awal...

0500am

maktuk woke up early as usual,

she know its the eid adha morning so its

even more earlier then the usual.

no breakfast is needed this morning,

everyone have to eat after the eid prayer.

ohh.. all the cucu and cicit woke up already.

What a fine morning today is...

A God blessed morning without the heavy rains

that have been washing away any desire to go

out and about, leaving us poor soul wrapped in

our blanket to sleep ...even further to the land

of dreams :D

'haaa hampa jangan dok ralit, semayang raya

haji ni kena awai! satgi hampa telepaih aku tak tau!'

(Jangan leka lagi, kena awal.. jangan terlepas)

0745am

..and the cucu which is us, took our bath from

that ridiculously cold kolah of us and put on our

last year baju raya, hey hey, still looks good on

my so why not? :D

its 745... we're still looking for the butang baju.

some of us still brushing our songkok,

'maktuk ada tali dak?' asked the cucu that doesnt

know his way around sampin.

Oh it was hectic, the ladies are preparing their

sarapan and all of us couldnt even touch that

lovely ketupat maktuk was preparing from last night.

adehlaaa...

810am,

'cepat cepat! hampa lambat dah ni! ni sedekah kat masjid na..

nazar aku ni. jangan kat masjid lain pulak.. kat masjid guaq tau!..

sorang lima ringgit, balik satgi beli aih'

(Cepat! dah lewat ni. Korang sedekah utk maktuk ya,

nazar nii. Beli ais balik nanti)

This is a trick pocketeers!!

all she wanted to do was to make sure that the cucu

went to the masjid and not to other place boys could

go to, cause she know.. when it come to nazar...

most of us muslim take it seriously.

its about second to a dying wish.

830am,

all the boys went out finally,

'hampa dok kata pompuan mekap lambat,

hampa pun serupa jugak' was what i can hear

her last mumbling by the door. She went back

to the kitchen to prepare the garnishing on the

mee goreng and to pour in the rendang for the

ketupat. she know, those boys will be hungry

as soon as they reaches home with the ice for

the drinks.

900am,

The boys are back..

'awai nya hampa balik? dan semayang dak tadi?'

(Awalnya balik? sempat tak tadi?)

'daaaaannnnn... kami punya la awai tadi maktuk,

khutbah pun tak start lagi.'

'hummmm... tau dah, hampa tak pi dah la tu..'

'eh.. mana maktuk tau?'

pocket pun heran,

camana maktuk tau yer?

pocketeers??

Ohh...

335. Tulang Tu!!

ocketeers,

this was not the actual scene..
but the story was true..
maktuk was true..
the tea was true..
and the bone? was true too

Farid came to my house the other day with his wife and
two years old Aleya, as u guys already have known,
Farid is just a common name i use to describe a man..
who i dont think appropriate to put the actual name here.

Farid is a friend of us not only with me, but with all of
our families, the kind of friend who we got the privilege
of knowing not only his secret, but his family's secret
and also the whole history that made him the man he is
today.

Farid sat on the floor, his wife sat next to him,
his two years old daughter Aleya got comfortable
and start to wander around touching anything that
interest her.

Maktuk was telling how nowadays the only thing
that can make her shove the rice into her mouth
would be daging goreng kunyit, and bahulu cicah teh.

I was trying to 'mengorat' Farid's baby,
not to be his menantu or anything,
but to prevent her from pulling anything
that may connected to a cup of pure
Hydrochloric Acid i got lying around
Maktuk's house (As if ..)
well basically i was trying to keep her safe.

Aleya got friendly, she approached maktuk.
'Comey nya anak hang ni farid.. turun mak dia la ni,
kuruih kecik... mata dapat kat hang, dagu dapat kat
mak dia'
Maktuk commented about Aleya's look with her voice
decibels far higher then the allowed level in any factory.
Farid just smile, the wife was smiling too... proudly.
As the wife was picking up the tea cup.

Maktuk shout out..
'laaaa tulang dia herot nii..!
lagu mana hang ni farid?
takkan tak perasan!?'
Herot is a kedah word for
senget, bengkok, bent, not allign.

From his 'sila', farid kneel, approached maktuk
with full panic and alert.
'Tulang Herot? Tang mana maktuk?'
his face turned pale purple, no smile,
the skin in between his eyebrows wrinkled.
His wife put down the colorless tea and approached
maktuk. It couldnt be.. two years, and their daughter
having a dislocated bone without anyone noticing it.
What will others think. A mother who couldnt notice.

I could see the mother hastily grabbing Aleya by the
ketiak, picking her up to verify her back bone..
cause maktuk was looking there when she made
such comment.

'tulang seluaq nii haa.. herot ni, bagi la dok tengah..
senang dia nak bejalan'

hek enne maktuk... ^^;

145. AiDontWannaMissASing

'I could stay awake, just to hear you breathing,
watch u smile while u r sleeping, far away and dreaming,
i could spend my life in this sweet surrender,
i could stay lost in this moment forever,
well every moment spent with u,
is a moment i treasureeeeee
forever and eveeeerrr!!! (ending menaik macam penyanyi asal wat^^)

i dont wanna close my eyeee, i dont wanna fall asleep,
cause i'll miss u babe, and i dont wanna miss a thing.
And even when i'm missing uuuuuuuuuuuu,
the sweetest dream would never do
cause i'll miss u babe, and i dont wanna miss a thing.

Nananana nanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ...'(lagi ending menaik macam penyanyi asal wat^^)

'cuba hang meratip ka berzikir ka bagi kat budak tu.
baguih la jugak pada hang duk menyanyi lagu tak toghah tu,(Toghah = tentu arah)
nak kata dia tidoq dengaq hang rengkah nyanyi pon
dak jgak aku tengok. tu la orang zaman la ni,
bukan nya nak baca quran ka zikir ka, lagi dok menyanyi...
besok besaq masuk amerikan aidol.
menyanyi pakai baju tak senonoh... bla bla bla...'

'...'

baru jer nak layan erosmis, apo la maktuk niih!
Hoh!

41. Nenek Pocket

Dulu aku ada nenek,
dikala aku masih lagi darjah 2,
dia masih lagi sihat, dia seorang
yang kuat lagi
hubungan ku ngan dia? basically cicit
aku ada mak (Mama)
mak aku ada mak (Maktuk)
Maktuk aku ada mak (Nenek)
kiranya dah tua la nenek aku nii,

dia suka cabut rumput, katanya pasal
dia tak mampu nak guna mesin rumput n
chop off the rumput, memang la kan
jadi dia akan tunggu ari ujan,
pakai payung,
pegi duduk di laman tu
dan mula mencabut.

pernah cuba sekali... memang besh
pasal tanah nyer dah lembut so akar
akar nyer tercabut skali ngan rumput
nyer.
ada sikit lagi sama cam perasaan lega
lepas daging yang tersepit di celah
gigi berjaya dikorek ngan toothpick,
heh heh.

'nek... nek umur berapa dah?'
'entah la, masa nek lahir dulu depa
tak buat surat beranak lagi.'
'hummm, masa muda dulu orang jalan
pakai keris ka dak dah nek?'
'hoih!! tu zaman melaka... P'ramli
ngan puteri gunung ledang tuu...
hang ingat aku umoq pat ratuih taun ka!?'
aku plak yang kena marah
'hehehe... mana la nak tau kan...'
kata ku sambil terus mencabut rumput.
'aku ingat masa aku anak dara dulu,
masa tu kami duk kat tanjung (Pulau pinang),
pak aku duk besiap nak pi peghang ngan
orang puteh, aku kena buat bekai utk dia,
dia kena angkut meriam masa tu' kata nenek
sambil mata nya memandang keatas mencari
cebisan cebisan kenangan.
aku hanya mengangguk

kejap kejap, Sekarang pikir balik
Pulau Pinang perang dengan orang puteh
would be.. francis light?
kejap kejap, Sekarang Google balik
Check check sejarah tingkatan tiga...
francis light jajah pulau pinang tahun 1786!!
aku darjah dua pada tahun 1984, 85, 86 gitu
gitu.. nenek aku umur 200 tahun dah la masa tuu?
tp dia anak dara masa francis light datang.
back then 9 tahun dah anak dara dah...
lets consider that when i was standard 2,
me great grandmother was about 210!!! and she was
still alive and kikcking, pulling the rumput ...
(Simply orang puteh yang lain kut!! takkan la francis light....)
dia pulang ke Rahmatullah masa aku kat jpun ...
tahun 2000 kut.
Rindu la pulak kat nenek...

Plastic Pocket

'aih..tadi aku nampak cam hang dapat camca
palastit?' tanya maktuk
'umph... dah buang dah ... ado lagi dalam
palastit sampah tu tuk... tuk nak buat apa?'
kataku sambil sibuk nak drive...
'laaa... yang hang pi buang tu buat apaaa...
simpan laa... buleh jugak buat cedok apa apa...'
'berapa banyak la nak simpan tuk... bukan nya
nak pakai pun... kat umah tu banyak dah la tuk'
maktuk pun diam ...tapi still amik sudu plastic
tu n tuck it nicely inside a layer of KFC tissue

daiji ni daiji ni atsukaru
teinei ni teinei ni motsu
warenai youni
nakusanai youni

Other day... Other occasion ...
'okeh maktuk .. nak pi kl dah... dekwan bawak
buboq maktuk ni na.. buleh jugak makan kut jln'
'naa.. amik la camca palastit ni... takkan hang
nak langgah buboq kut.. tumpah satgi belemoih
pulak baju hang...'
'umph.. bak mai...'
can see a slight senyum at the corner of her
lips.
'hummm.. nasib baik jugak ada aku ni yang duk
amik simpan camca palastit nii...tu la hampa.'

basically she have proven her action of keeping
those plastic spoon which u receive inside the
takeaway sauce n tissue pack
is right after all
is worth doin after all...