Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Ngerichau Munyi Semalau Pagi...

Sekumbang pendiau ti udah mawa baka semawa rindang petang; terua rua anak ampang, naka meh pemayuh akal masuk kerubung pala ti di kumbai mensia anak urang alai nanam buk panjai bejagang tuchang. Bisi meh ati ngesal tang sik lah hal laban ngesal dudi sigi nadai reti; bisi mega berasai malu tang nama deh dikemaluka..ukai ulih lalaika ba tisi mua ti jai baka memuri tebelenang; ukai besai beledi penimba ai masu belakang alai belalai; ukai ulih namaka diri tama empajang gentung tibang deh wai! Nadai ngawa laban utai udah..Nya lapa deh! Tajapan bakanya asai enda nyamai, kami anak sekula maya tu kelia udah nemu tuju juluk ati laban ti udah bebulu memagang enti ditela dipeda geganjang!

Ahh nama jelu benatang ti dikumbai kita STPM tu bah? Hesss tak mayuh macham mega menteri upis pelajar menua numbuhka utai bakatu. Amai mayuh penumbuh sida ti megai pengawa dia; mayuh penemu nembiak di perinsa betukar bela. Parai kami nembiak ikak ngelekak chechukak lelanggak gegaring reranggak ngenang pengada jelu baru menua Melayu ti benama STPM tu. Nyau betuntung nesau begusung sida begau madahka bisi sabjek baru tu tadi ti benama Sastera! Nama meh utai nya laban kelia, ku kami, tu meh Litaricha(literature) bala sida hehehe R&J--> ehhh ukai insap Winston R&J Reynolds deh tu tang Romeo & Juliet, bala sida Julius Ceasar....Akai dai bakani meh sastera tu hmmm kada enda bebachaka ensera Enkeratung Ayam Raja sida Keling lau mua, sida damu bebulu burit, sida apai saloi enggau apai se-umang umang sida enchelegit tu ila yehhhhhaaaa!! Joke aside folks, this new thingy wasn't something we prepared for since our inception, since our sixth form initiation! New field, new ball, new game and of course new name in STPM! Bahlah..terima kasih was all that could be said laban mayuh, naka pemayuh bala kami ti agi beterangap thus pengerabang ngeli jarang enda meh ulih pelalaika. Ku bala sekeda meh tu meh Sijil Tinggi Pendiau Malaysia lalu sekeda bala tu suba ngumbai tu Sijil Telu Penyu Malaysia; however, we at Tanjung Lobang bisi mega jaku siti ti naka dikena bala..ku kami tu meh Sijil Tai Pau Malaysia since 'tai pau' was second to our mother tongue ba Tanjung Lobang...widely spoken! Then there was this cikgu ti ngumbai STPM tu Sijil Tidak Pandai Malaysia mega. Whatever it was, it is, and it will be..kami ti bebitau bekedayau mawa pendiau tu unfazed deh laban nemu penentu iya endang either or. Pas enggau pil enda meh dikira laban we were guineapigs ready to be sacrificed and prepared to be slaughtered! Aki gerubi enggau kaban iya dua iku ti udah di buai tu enda ngira utai bukai deh, ngatika diri laban tu meh peluang, siti peluang sekali diberi alai mutar nikalka pendiau diri ti dikumbai jai enda anchi anchi.

Enda mukai mukai mega maya bala kami ti kiruh ngerunding nyendiaka diri bakatu, berita angin ti bisi udah di perasai nyepu ari tingkah ai sungai besai Tanjung Lobang nyadi pengamai. We all thought so lah! Amai meh tuansipol Adi Badiozaman Tuah tu betukar menua tempat kerja ehhh. Tang Cikgu sebedau aku ngemanjaika berita tu, aku dulu madahka nuan laban enggai enda nerangka tu dulu...You were dead wrong ngumbai aku or the other ngupi signature nuan lalu ngelekatka nya ba papan pemadah nembiak ba jalai besai beratap nya. I didn't do it; neither did he although we had the artistic ability to forge it! Ulih nuan nanya Cikgu Naimuddin our batik teacher yang disayangi ..tried tried we with wax on kain belachu putih berseri besinar tengahari under that little pondok semak coconut tree!Yea yea yea I know who did it and what else didn't this big mouth, a social pest, a menace to society, a harmony-hazard little lachau rock lizard know!!!! He's right there now..next to you deh Cikgu selalu betemu seduai you hahaha meh jangka aku. Anyway, nothing against you Cikgu.. wish you luck bekerja ba tempat baru. Ya ya take that crown ari Putit nya; however, no clown clown around just because the two of you were acquaintances?!? Your time to step up to the plate ya. Proud of you laban you were more than deserving deh cikgu although we disagreed on several things few times too many. Di Kuching ila betemu baru ga kitai enda pia ku aku. Tu ukai utai di tengkilaka kami ari kelia deh. Kami udah nemu tuju that one day you would be big shot as a State Director of Education and beyond. I said it all along since 1981 Cikgu. Hope this incoming tuansipol can get a grip on things lah. NOT!!!!!!!Engka tu meh peluang kami ti benung tasah engkachah tu dipasukka buding baru. Dream on buddy. We shall see.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Tasah.......

Duduk rerungguk datas engkerarin rumah perintah ngenang diri tasah laban penyalah merening galun umbak tasik laut china selatan. Malik ke kulu nyau ayan ga perabung rumah panjai bala sida Polis DiRaja; malik kili nyau berupai panjai ga kemayang pasir tebing tasik Brighton. Engka ditu meh alai kami tiga sekaban tu ila ngapuska taun nyadi anak sekula Tanjung Lobang. Nasit bala nemu beguringka ikan masin gunjing tengkering kangking keru kerigai. Benasitka bala nemu berebuska telu segala bujur kerubung. Enti enda pia, sigi lapar tau lepi mali bediri duduk besugang deh. Ahhhh nadai ngachau nya deh kaban maggee mee betabas kari sigi mayuh deh! Tu meh gaya bala baru udah netapka diri dibaruh atap perintah alai ngendap. Benasit mega laban bekelala enggau Jimmy, siku urang tuai ti mentah, ngembuan penyiru enggau penyayau ke kami tiga ti tasah nadai alai ngenduh maya panas ujan; nadai panggau endur betunjan. Nyema ka semak Sri Aman nadai meh beleman.

Tumu pagi nyau meh kami tiga bedarat niki bukit enchugit jegit git ngelaban. Deka ngular ngelantar baka ripung belelak gelung kenyang, tak bedau ga bala kami kenyang bidik tau bekerja makai gaji baka urang. Enggai enda, lelak leliga, buntau empeliau pan mansang meh kami nurun ngerumban jam deka enggau kaban serambau bukai masuk ke kelas. Ahhh bisi ga maya 'udah terima' tu suba deh nepan bas laban mai buku lali ti udah besul mengkul besigung; mai pala patung ti udah kembai ngelaung laban ti 'ku jaku' ngarika sekula kin kitu betanding enggau urang. Pulai tengahari pan bakanya mega..ahhh kadang kadang enda mulai kediri bala laban ti nganti udah belatih peritis ngelelak tulang. Aki Gerubi, ka pan enda, laban ti udah sah di serah tau kumbai suah enda makai deh. Benasitka bala sekelas ti nemu kasih, sinu meda pendiau meh bala kami sebuat dipeda enda pungkang enda kurang. Yeap buddy, I still remember many of you willingly, without giving it a second thought, nyuaka handouts..Karulin, Jackie, Mary, Cindy, Stephen, Ngau to mention a few ..thank you for seringgit here dua ringgit there kena berundang kasang maya timpang pulai lemai nuju Brighton. Benasit meh aki Gerubi laban ti bisi Ruby nyadi kaki enggau jari, nyingkang kitu japai kia maya tu kelia. Nemu ga tudah datai ngusung nungkunka dapur bala kami. The rest is history, mere history remains to this very day how horrendous life could be.

An utter mess??? No lah, the beauty and deformity of being Aki Gerubi aja nya. Tang meh kami tiga naka pengaga laban bala bukai ti 'dibuai' udah diterima masuk buding kali ke berapa? Enda ingat laban untak udah tuai. Bisi meh kami tiga ngapil but to no avail. Endang bisi nyelai ga deh tudah pengetua...diau diri baka ti bisi utai??? Nama utai Cikgu? To say you gave a hoot would be a total lie..and if I lie, I wouldn't be lying to nobody but my lonesome self. Akai dai neh cikgu cikgi..enda nyalah nyalah baka lemetak bala kami neh..dibuai enda meh lari tak lekat ba kaki belama! Nya meh baka kesa nepan daun; baka kara nepan pun! Don't you worry... five or so odd months you guys have to put up with us, with me. Only then I chabut lari no more scarface to see lah until the next century! Till then, shut up and put up! We ain't goin' nowhere..up under the skin and skirts of course hehehe. Life went on. We all knew cikgu cikgi were there to teach, to progress, to climb the ladder, move up in the world, to take care of the family, to have 'golden' smile, to grow some misai and to move on..with all the blessing..enda pia? Were we the dying breed? Hell no! Aki Gerubi suspected many many more, more than a handful, who would be no less and perhaps more but who 'were' we to know?