So, sekarang nih aku duk kat rumah baru kat Bowburn. Kalo waktu term-time, ada bas free ke universiti. Tapi memandangkan sekarang ni cuti summer, kitorang kena la beli weekly/monthly ticket sampai bulan 10 nih untuk menjimatkan perbelanjaan bas. Tu pun 14 pound seminggu. Kos bas kat sini memang lebih mahal kalau dibandingkan dari London. Aku pun tak faham. Maybe sebab cukai kepala sikit sebab bilangan penduduk sikit, so diorang takleh nak tampung pengangkutan. I guess.
Sekarang nih ada 4 orang termasuk aku dalam rumah ni - Yusran, Amirul, aku dan Abg Nik. Abg Nik datang sini for short course. 14hb dia balik Malaysia, dan Insya Allah 14hb jugak parents aku sampai di Heathrow Airport.
Mahadi tanya, ‘how’s the new place’, lebih kurang camtu.
Okey jer. Actually I haven’t live long enough in this house. Coz ari tu balik kejap ke Ustinov. Pastu semalam ader birthday party untuk Hairi kat Ustinov. Kelmarin dulu gi beli-beli barang. So, not long enough to tell the story.
I like the new house for the fact that senang nak memasak dan membasuh. Other than that, aku berjaga malam-malam macam biasa di kala suma orang tido. More than that, em.. oh, Amirul’s choice of song is so not my type. Haha, sorry Amirul (I let him read this line for the sake of not ‘kutuk belakang-belakang).
I have just moved out from the university accommodation. This is the video log of me packing my stuff. Perhaps a lil bit boring. Watch it if you have a lot of time
Cakap fasal nama lagi. Dulu dalam blog waktu kat Brunel pun, aku tulis fasal nama jugak.
Aku call Yasmin tengah hari semalam. Pastu masuk voice mail, aku tinggal la pesanan, ‘This is Amri… [disoroti dengan pesanan]. Dia call aku balik, dia cakap la, yang dia duk mencari-cari siapa Amri. Aku terlupa pulak yang bebudak Ustinov termasuk Kak Nur panggil aku Lutfi.
Kali nih, nama aku dimaksimakan sepenuhnya. Supervisor aku panggil Ahmad, sebab waktu apply dulu dan tanya soalan, biasanya aku akan tulis first name dan last name. Jadi aku boh Ahmad dan nama bapak aku sebagai last name (sbb takde surname kan), Ramli. Jadi dia panggil aku Ahmad la. First time la orang panggil aku Ahmad. Eh, tak, dulu kat Brunel ader gak orang panggil, tapi disebabkan contact time aku dengan supervisor aku lebih banyak, terasa la kesannya.
Aku tulis laporan 2 bulan aku hantar kat supervisor, nama aku sebagai Ahmad Ramli. Aku tunjuk kat Amirul, dia terpelik seketika. Sapa ‘Ahmad Ramli?’ Dia tanya.
Tadi pun aku suruh Kak Nur tolong check surat aku. Aku cakap, ‘ha.. cari Ahmad Ramli yek Kak Nur’, sebab walaupun aku boh nama penuh, tapi diorang still amik nama first dan last jer.
Oh, tak abis lagi. Andros panggil aku Lut (dia awalnya ingatkan ejaannya Lud). I wasn’t having fun when I grow up for having a long name; terutamanya time nak isi borang OMR dan kena hitam hitam tuh, giler orang lain dah abis, aku tak abis lagi. But I started to enjoy interchanging my name and do alert of people calling Ahmad, Ahmed, Ehmet (Kak Nur, bukan Mehmet ek), Lutfi, Lut, Amri, Emri(Tahir punya sebutan bunyi Em sikit), Am; termasuk panggil aku dengan nama bapak aku - Mr Ramli. Belasah!
saya first time begitu bersemangat tgk bola   9:49 PM
sedih la plak   9:49 PM
sob sob   9:49 PM
Abg Tra:
ceittt   9:49 PM
ada entry la lpas nie tuh   9:49 PM
Aku:
entah… tgk dulu   9:49 PM
rasa semacam plak nak taip fasal bola   9:49 PM
menongkah integriti saya   9:49 PM
haha   9:49 PM
Abg Tra:
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Macam taknak tulis. But this is a new experience for me, so I write it anyway. Aku baru lepas balik dari Fisher House, tengok bola dengan Kak Nur, Yasmin dan Hairi (dia datang lewat sikit).
Ooh, damn, I’m changing. For the first time ever, I kinda attached to the game and feeling on the pressure.
Honestly, the game is good. But for someone who doesn’t like it, no worry. I think I didn’t miss much by never following World Cup and Euro, and even though I am so into this particular game and wishing for Turkey to win every seconds; I don’t think that I will lose a lot by not following any future cup. Well, let’s see how long my ego can stand:)
[Gambar: Lepas abis perlawanan, mamat kat blakang aku tuh menyarungkan topi Deustchland waktu kitorang nak tangkap gambar. Lihat muka Yasmin, pancaran sinar kegembiraan jelas nyata]
Aku baru balik jumpa doktor gigi. Dah buat tampalan. Harap-harap tak sakit lebih-lebih dah lepas nih. Semalam dia scan gigi, so disebabkan buat kat private, dia bleh bagi la gambar scan tuh. Disebabkan aku bayar mahal (tak tau bleh claim ke tak), maka aku nak boh dalam blog. Barulah bermakna sedikit.
So gambar radiograf disebelah diambil semalam.
A: Yang putih tu tampalan. Tapi ada leakage ke sebelah kiri. Aku suspek kat situ yang menyebabkan aku sakit gigi hari ni. Hari ni, bahagian A tuh ditampal semula. So far so good. Harap-harap A lah yang hanya bermasalah.
B: Gigi bongsu a.k.a Wisdom tooth yang tak brapa wisdom. Sebabnya, gigi bongsu itu keluar dari arah kiri dan menyerang gigi yang okey. So, Dr nak refer ke Klinik Gigi Hospital Sunderland untuk cabut Wisdom tooth itu.
C: Kawasan hitam itu ialah karies. Harap-harap tak akan memberi impak sakit gigi pada aku dalam tempoh 3-4 bulan nih sementara menunggu appointment ngan Klinik Gigi Hospital Sunderland. But hey Putri, my Dr say that it should be in 2 months and he asked me to give him a call if they don’t contact me in between 2 months. Well… not that good. Perhaps balik Malaysia untuk cabut gigi lagi senang kot.
Last 6 years we were sitting in front of my house near the now-gone pond, talking about stuff, singing Nsync’s ‘That Girl Will Never Be Mine’ and mean it.
I wrote it in my post entitled ‘2 months‘. Baru jer download lagu nih. So here’s the song:-
Lagu ni genre bubbly pop. Kitorang duk slalu gak dengar waktu zaman-zaman Form 5 dulu. I like the ‘cheesy’ness of this song and the lyrics as well:D. So here’s the lyrics:-
That girl will never be mine
First time I saw her at the front door
That girl, her face on every billboard
Hands down, you won’t believe the way she laid her eyes on me
Six feet, I spot her from the cat walk
So fly, we got into a small talk
Too bad she had to move along
One smile and she was gone
Can’t explain
I never thought that I was gonna lose my head
Call me insane
There’s got to be a way
How can I get next to her
Now tell me how it’s gonna be done
Will I win or lose this one?
(Don’t care about the fact that)
She’s in a different league
They say it’s no use that I try
That girl will never be mine
Next thing, she’s livin’ in my TV
That girl, stealin’ every daydream
Tough luck, she had to be a star when I’m just same old me
But last night, I ran into her briefly
Guess what, she really wanna see me
They said that I was out of line
Who’s wrong, who’s right this time?
Can’t explain
I never thought that I was gonna lose my head
Call me insane
There’s got to be a way
How can I get next to her
Now tell me how it’s gonna be done
Will I win or lose this one?
(Don’t care about the fact that)
She’s in a different league
They say it’s no use that I try
That girl will never be mine
That girl is freakin’ me out
Don’t care about the fact that she’s all that
That girl has blown out the doubt
There’s no way for me to stop
That girl tearin’ up the big screen
That girl stealin’ every daydream
Tough luck, she had to be the one for me
She will be mine
No matter what they try to say
There’s got to be a way
I wanna get next to her
Now tell me how it’s gonna be done
Will I win or lose this one?
(Don’t care about the fact that)
She’s in a different league
They say it’s no use that I try
That girl will never be mine
Prolog: Yeah, I couldn’t believe myself that there’s gonna be a pix of football match in my blog, talking about football in my blog with words such as ‘extra time’ and ‘interesting’. Crap for being sucked into loving it.
I’m proud of myself of not into football. Family aku suma tak tengok. Baik famili asas, mak, ayah, abang dan kakak termasuk kakak dan abang ipar juga famili kembangan termasuk bapak sedara (maybe Pak Su je kot yang tengok, family belah mak pun tak tengok gak).
Lepas abis makan-makan kat padang sebelah Ustinov dengan bebudak Malaysia yg lain, diorang gi tengok Sukufinal Euro, Turkey lawan Croatia. Aku balik bilik dulu, lepak-lepak. Dah nak abis match, saja gi join diorang. Ari tu waktu Pusingan Awal, aku tengok gak Turkey lawan apentah, disebabkan aktiviti makan-makan jugak la.
But it’s kinda interesting (damn for using this word) to watch this quarter final. Sebab giler sengit (bukanla sebab dua-dua power, tapi sebab tak gol gol sampai extra time). Aku bias ke Turkey sebab ari tu tengok diorang main dah.
Last-last Turkey menang, sebab skor beberapa saat sebelum extra time abis dan dibawa ke penalty (damn for describing a football match in detail and with passion).
[Gambar: Turkey lawan Croatia. Bukan setakat beratur untuk naik bas, nak tendang bola pun kena beratur jugak]
Esok Kak Nur ajak lagi tengok Holand main. Tak mau tak mau. I dun wanna sucked into world of football. Tapi minggu depan nak tengok sbb nak sokong Turkey lawan Germany. Yasmin sokong Germany, so saja nak opposite sikit.
Tapi ala-ala best gak tengok pemain-pemain Croatia menangis dengan teruknya sebab kalah. Emotional abis, aku turut kesian. Aku cakap kat Putri, ‘this is the time where you can see men being vulnerable (on tv)’.
‘Yup, yup’, Putri agreed.
‘At least, it is more manly than watching men cried in AF’, I continued.
[Gambar : Kitorang sedang menonton perlawanan bola sepak kat Fisher House. Nota: Aksi memberi tumpuan dan terkejut adalah lakonan semata-mata bagi tujuan dokumentasi dalam blog. Thanks for having ppl who love doing the dramatizing.]
I’m gonna move out from university accommodation soon. Aku memang dah cadang sejak sebelum sampai lagi itu hari, yang aku nak duk dalam uni sementara ja. Sebab parents dijangka datang. Tiket-tiket suma dah beli dah untuk parents aku, but I should say here that kalo takde aral, sampai la diorang kat sini.
Mom’s condition kinda fine and not. Sometimes okey, sometimes dizzy. So, I told her, ‘don’t worry ma, if you feel like you are not well enough, we can cancel it and I will just get the refund’. Surely la dalam BM. Mom cannot speak English. But my dad suprisingly catching up lots of English words more than I know. Ari tu, dalam sesi cuba-cuba speaking, ayah aku dapat tangkap 2-3 perkataan BI yang aku tak tau dia tahu. That’s a good thing. But just so you know, waktu aku Tingkatan 4 dan 5, me and my friends (Mahadi, that’s including you!) used to gossiping in our broken English because kononnya nak practise, but mostly because I don’t want to let my parents hear about us talking about girls and stuff (my friends used to hang out in my place).
Putri (Durham) dah demand housewarming party. Haha. Aku okey jer. Bleh la masak benda-benda yang aku sedia tahu. Kelmarin dulu masak ayam pedas. Rentetan bertanya Kak Ina (Dundee) fasal berapa bijik cabai kering nak bubuh. Erm.. agak jadi lah jugak kot. Aku bagi 3 bintang dari 5. Tak superb, tapi untuk perut yang lapar, sudah cukup sedap. [Gambar di sebelah, Kak Nur tukang pilih gambar terbaik. I showed her 2 pix, and she chose the best one to display]
Semalam bersembang dengan Putri, Kak Nur dan Hairi. Aku cerita la fasal pengalaman masak aku di Brunel dulu. Aku goreng ayam. Aku tunggu lama sikit, tojoh-tojoh dengan pisau, macam dah masak. Tapi apsal takder kaler kuning macam slalu mak masak ayam. I wonder. At that time la. Lepas beberapa hari lepas tu, lepas sembang dengan mak dan kak aku kot webcam, baru aku tahu yang aku tak boh kunyit. Oooh, kena boh kunyit ke kalau nak goreng ayam? Ingatkan kaler kuning dia tu natural. Ketika itu, baru la aku teringat yang mak aku pernah boh kunyit kat ikan dan sebagainya. Ingatkan saja-saja boh bagi tak hanyir. Terasa sedikit ‘bimbo’ macam Paris Hilton plak.
Pastu Kak Nur dan Putri cakap fasal nak buat cekodok. Aku kata, er.. aku tak tau buat. Tapi kemudian aku terbayang, ah, lenyek-lenyek (slalu tolong kacau mak aku masak kecik-kecik dulu) pastu boh tepung. Jadilah kan. Walaupun pada saat ini aku tertanya, tepung apa ek? Pastu Putri tambah, ‘hah, jangan lupa boh gula pulak, nanti you ingat rasa manis tu datang dari pisang’. Damn, I was exactly thinking of that. Kena boh gula ke??
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