Ramadhan Day 28: So sad Ramadhan is leaving...

Today is the 28th day of Ramadhan. Feel sad that the Ramadhan is leaving. But it is so ironic kan, when at the start you want things to go quickly, but when you are nearing the end you want it to go really slowly. Honestly, this Ramadhan, my appreciation towards Ramadhan sangat kurang, was pretty busy with the writing, more worried about the research, rather than enjoying the fasting month. Hopefully I will be able to go through next coming Ramadhan penuh dengan rasa syukur, able to appreciate every single day of it. Harap dapatla ke masjid untuk tarawih sok-sok.

OK... hmmm since Ramadhan is ending, kite tukar mood raya pulak. Am going to work until 2pm today, that is about 2 hours from now, then I need to prepare things for cooking today, then off to fetch yaya and have a brief meeting with her teacher. It is nearing the end of the school term as well, next week is the last week of school for this term, then the school will be temporary close for 2 weeks. Then balik rumah, solat, then I will start cooking for iftar, at the same time preparing ingredients for gotong royong tomorrow, yup this is regarding to our kongsi raya open house, insyaAllah on Friday. I will be incharge of the kuah kacang, aiyoh, never cook for 200 people lorrr.... nervous den. So tonight I will need to call mak for tutoring, hohoho. Then, tonight, I will make kek batik for the open house. Masak siap2, kang besok tak sempat. Nasib baik semalm dah gosok baju raya siap-siap.

Oh yes, just for the record, adik has been without the pacifier for two weeks now. Satu pencapaian yang baik. Though sometimes she asked me about it, but I kept telling her that her puting dah busyuk, nanti sakit perut. She accepts the excuse everytime, yela dengan rupe puting yang dah hampir nak hancur tu, what more she can do kan. I will definitely not buying her a new one.

Ok laaa... jom dengar lagu raya...hahahha... since we are not going home for raya this time, these two songs really reflect our feeling currently.... but somehow I don't really care...because what ever it is, this is going to be our last raya here xD






I may not be able to blog really well for the next couple of days, yela with the gotong royong n open houses, tak sempat. But I may update through mobile, so it is going to be short everytime. Moreover, my time will be pretty tight with the dateline approaching, aiyoh less than a month before the milestone, tengok task nak kena buat sebelum 'batu jalan' muncul pun dah tercunggap-cunggap, so maybe this is the last long entry kot, before I can find a very suitable time to write a good long story. So until we meet again, selamat berbuka, selamat hari raya, selamat jalan raya, selamat makan-makan di hari raya, apa-apa pun biar sederhana ok. 

yours truly,

antara Hujan dan Airmata..... Segalanya Pasti

Dah lama tak tempek lagu-lagu favorite den. Nie antara lagu-lagu yang selalu gak den nyanyi kat dalam bilik air...ahahahahha...dulu masa kat U selalu melalak dalam shower hostel, kire femes gak la den nie sebagai penyanyi bilik mandi (perasan) wakakakakkak...

Tapi bila nyanyi dua lagu nie, memang terasa sungguh, tetiba jek emo. Tu la kesan nyanyian nie kan, boleh membuai perasaan. Dan vokal dua orang penyanyi nie, arwah Sudirman, dan Aida Agil, memang tiada tandingan. Range dia besar. Rasa yang paling hampir pun Ning Baizura (pun fav gak nie). So bila den nyanyi mmg sangkut laa part2 range ujung2 tu..wakakakakkaka... tapi tak malu gak nak nyanyi

Layan aje la ala-ala video clip nie. Den cilok kat youtube yo. Credit pada mereka yang upload video nie ya.







p.s. Lagu-lagu nie takde kena mengena ngan hidup den yo ...hehehhehe... nak gi tau awal-awal, kang takut ada yang ingat den tengah frust menonggeng pulak :D

yours truly,

Dendang Perantau...

Dendang Perantau is a song by the late P Ramlee, one of the renowned Malaysia actor, singer, song writer, director, or simply said entertainer. One talented and gifted artist he is. He died in 1973. To date, P Ramlee is still present in Malaysia, not physically (duhhhh....), but through the television and radio. Although his film are all black and white, except for one, these films are well accepted and welcome by many Malaysian, from young and old, across different ethnic and religion.

Dendang Perantau is one of the most popular song played during Ramadhan, to celebrate the coming Eid Mubarak. It is a song about a person who is living away from his hometown, and remembering the wonderfulness of his hometown, in Malay we call 'kampung' , and also his former girlfriend. But due to some reason, he couldn't come home. Trying my best to describe the song, hope I managed to get it close...ahahhaha... correct me if I am wrong. Dendang in English is 'melody', perantau means 'traveller'.

For those who live abroad, Dendang Perantau is one of the highly chosen song to listen to, to celebrate Eid Mubarak. And now, I have set this song as my ringtone. Enjoy the song.






yours truly,

Disagree : To prevent the earth from moving with you

One of the best local band in Malaysia.

Listen to their new single, OSAKA here.

Their new album will be out soon, end of this month.

Read more about this band at Wiki.

p.s. sempat rembat satu sebelum pulang ke Brisbane nie :D

yours truly,

Mimpi yang musnah - Johnny benci Jazz

ahahahha... layan perasaan jap. one of my "nyanyian dalam bilik air" choice of song maso kecik2 dolu :D.







tapi video clips nie poyo laaa...

Selling off....

I want to sell these CDs.... anybody interested? There are in good condition. I only have enough of listening to them :D

I'll Fly For You - Spandau Ballet

~Alamak, I've just realised I pasted the wrong code....OK...I have made the correction~

Last weekend (a weekend before this recent weekend), when I was relaxing after spending hours in writing a paper, out of nowhere, I remembered this song...ahahahahhaha .... Giler punye lame lagu nie (and yet I am suffering from short-term memory lost). Actually for weeks, atang has been asking me whether I have particular songs that he could find on the web (owhh the list is long dear). Atang has been downloading songs from the 70s and 80s (yup, we are old folks...ahahahah..). Well to us, songs from that era are nothing to forget (not all ya). Talk about disco, rock, jazz, modern wave; from the Scorpions, to Depeache Mode, from Sade to Bangles, from BoneyM to Duran Duran.... woohhhh... I better stop now...

And this song was one of my chosen song to sing in the shower (yup, during teenage year, I can spent almost an hour in the bathroom or until Mak came shouting and knocked on the door). It was (or may still is) my sistah fav song.... enjoy

Gloria Gaynor "I will survive"

This is one of my fav song. I can't never sing this song, too fast for me, short breath. I remember Farhan (AF) sang this song, and she did it so damn well.

Nil by Mouth

I came to know this group when they came to Malaysia. Bought their cassette, but it is now broken, having played them repeatedly. Been searching for the CD for quite sometime (sape tau Tower Record kat KLCC dah pindah kat mana, ke gulung tikar terus??), and finally I found one (and the only one, as if waiting for me) at the CD shop at Adelaide St. Enjoy the vids by this kiwi band.

(Rating M+18, for mature audience, it contains coarse language, I recommend adult supervision, hehehe....kat sini TV station akan bagi warning lebih kurang camnie la utk bagitau rating)

Veni, Vidi, Vici

These are what I bought;

The Fray : Hit song "over my head (the cable car)". I have posted their video clip months ago.



Blindspott : Hit song "Nil by mouth".



Anyone knows how to crack CD code so that I can save it to my laptop? Coz I can't dload Blindspott album (even play it on any media player). U know they used to secure CD with special code, but not anymore. Blindspott album was release in year 2002, so at that time CD is protected from being copy. I usually dload CD using realplayer. But can't do that with Blindspott. I need to dload this to my Sony walkman...SOS.

Garbage "It's all over but the crying"

Layan music video pulak. This is one of my fav band, Garbage. Kalau dengar lagu nie, mesti nak rewind banyak kali. errrkkkk zaman digital nie, apa perkataan yang sesuai untuk ganti rewind ye?

OTH Season 4

Yesssss.... I have finish watching OTH season 4. There are 6 cds, and 21 episodes altogether. Total time spent : 15 hours (I skipped the boring part). I think enough for the movie marathon, for now. Am now busy writing a paper and preparing for data collection.

Am not good at reviewing TV series. So don't expect me to that ya... :D. But for those fanatic of OTH (who have missed out the season, especially Ms Taj) go and grab it. I saw a number of episodes available on youtube.

Enjoy the famous OTH theme song, sang by Gavin DeGraw.

Beautiful day .. wont you be my inspiration

Just find out that Dolores O'Riordon, The Cranberries vocalist has a solo album, launched last year. Have asked atang to look for a second hand CD at ebay, and only found one. But the price was just almost AD2 short from buying a brand new CD. May worth looking at the CD shop.

Dolores O'Riordan : Ordinary Day
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In your head...in your mind...some memories remain

I am currently listening to The Cranberries No Need to Argue album. Yes that addicted, never enough, haunting album. The killer song Zombie was one of the hit singles in 1994. Listening to the album especially the song Zombie brings in a lot of memory, sweet and sad to my mind. So many things happened during that year. The most unforgetable memory was falling in love with someone, and later, was heart broken by the same person. First love that was actually started without a declaration and was also ended without a conclusion. It was a bitter experience but I came over it.

However, it is something that you couldnt easily forget....first love.. who can forget about the first time you falling in love. I have been in and out of relationship before I really fell in love with someone. It was definately one strange experience. Yup I experienced the 'walk on cloud' thing, the 'mandi tak basah, makan tak kenyang' thing. hahahhahah... Anyway that has long gone. Without that experience, I may not find and understand what true love means. And I found it. Hopelessly devoted to it.....

........suddenly I feel lump in my throat....so enjoy the vids .......


Cranberries - Zombie
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hmmm....I heard that The Cranberries is taking a break and Dolores is doing solo album. Anybody knows about this?

Yaya thingy with the Bratz...

Yaya has watched all Bratz movie available so far at DVD rented outlet where babah would often visit every Tuesday. No more new Bratz movie for yaya to watch. So she keeps playing the only Bratz dvd that babah has bought her.


Though we knew that lately yaya has shown her affection to Bratz, there are no Bratz merchandise own by yaya, except for this dvd. Mine you, Bratz toys are more expensive than Barbie. Even all yaya's Barbie dolls where bought when there were on sale. Occasionally Kmart would cut the price during clearance sale. But not on Bratz dolls. We are not being stringent, just that we know that one day it will be on sale. So we are waiting for that moment.


Which character you think yaya love most, can u guess? hah...Yaya loves Cloe. When I ask her why, she said because Cloe is beautiful, yup that is her exact answer. Cloe is the blonde girl. She even talks and walks like Cloe. I did mentioned before,that yaya likes this girlie, beautiful things (unlike her mother). My beloved sistah told me that her only daughter also fond of Bratz. So yaya, you have kak mira to share and chat about this thingy when we go back to Malaysia soon.

Oh yes...about this particular movie that yaya keeps playing whenever she is permitted to watch a movie. There is one song in the movie that is so kewl.... "So Good". Even I like the song. I did recorded yaya singing and dancing this song, but the size is to large to post it here. Instead I post this video clip for you guys. Just a note, yaya is strumming the guitar imitating Cloe in the video that I have captured. Enjoy....

Down...flu....memory lane

Cold...shivering cold.... chilling wind would stay for next couple of days... snow near Stanthorpe, further south of Brisbane...nose block, sleepy eyes... brain freeze.... that are the symptoms of winter laziness.... yawnn...

remember the old days, back when I was doing first degree.... during slugish moment....would blast off my stereo (I know I was thoughtless of other people neighbouring my room...my apology to all) with alternative tune...often nirvana...sometimes GnR, garbage, metallica,green day.... other time frente, dinasour jr, offspring.....

Atang has influenced me a lot on my choice of music after I started dating him in '96... we have similar liking but not all his favourite became my enjoyable and vice versa. He first introduced me to SP... "frail and bedazzled" was once written in his letter to me...hahaha... then came others like weezer and those under "industrial" alternative band.

Mew is currently top of the list. And till today I still listen to alternative rock, the only different is, not that often that I am use too. Today atang was testing a set of speakers that he won from ebay.... and he chose system of the down.... chop suey was the killer song for me....never get enough listening to it... dont take the lyric seriously.....just enjoy the tune....


System of a Down - Chop Suey
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Exhausted

Have you ever feel sooo tired... that you want to drop everything and just lie down on the bed....staring blankly at the ceiling..... ignore everything around you....lie down doing nothing, thinking nothing....

dumb and deaf at the same time.... your brain refuse to work....your limbs failing you.... your eyes seeing emptiness...... only your heart beating and pumping the blood.....

maybe this is the sign of aging.....or maybe I am really exhausted.... I feel drained out.... or maybe the PMS....

too many things to do....too many things to complete on time.....

need something to boost me up...

are any of you a fan of garbage...nope..not garbage the rubbish.....Garbage, the vicious Shirley Manson...... bring it on Shirley....

Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
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Over My Head

One of the fav song I have in my collection....Enjoy



The Fray - Over My Head Cable Car
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The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car) lyrics
Artist: The Fray
Album: How To Save A Life
Year: 2005
Title: Over My Head (Cable Car)

I never knew

I never knew that everything was falling through

That everyone I knew was waiting on a queue

To turn and run when all I needed was the truth

But that's how it's got to be

It's coming down to nothing more than apathy

I'd rather run the other way than stay and see

The smoke and who's still standing when it clears

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head Over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind She's on your mind

Let's rearrange

I wish you were a stranger I could disengage

Just say that we agree and then never change

Soften a bit until we all just get along

But that's disregard

Find another friend and you discard

As you lose the argument in a cable car

Hanging above as the canyon comes between

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head Over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind She's on your mind

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head Over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind She's on your mind

And suddenly I become a part of your past

I'm becoming the part that don't last

I'm losing you and its effortless

Without a sound we lose sight of the ground

In the throw around

Never thought that you wanted to bring it down

I won't let it go down till we torch it ourselves

And everyone knows I'm in

Over my head Over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind She's on your mind

Everyone knows

She's on your mind

Everyone knows

I'm in over my head I'm in over my head I'm in over...

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head Over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind She's on your mind

[ Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]