apa ada dengan merdeka?

Salam 'alaikum. Salam buat semua.


Selamat menyambut hari ulangtahun kemerdekaan Malaysia yang ke 56 yaww!
Tahun ini ulangtahun Malaysia ke 50. Bakal.
Kalau ikut kalendar manusia, harus Malaysia dilanda krisis umur pertengahan yang tak berkesudahan (baca: mid-life crisis).
Tapi yelah. Kalau ikut kalendar manusia.
Tapi Malaysia tanah. Atau mungkin bendera? Atau sekadar nama? Atau mungkin sekumpulan manusia pula? Arghh!
So what is it that defines a country?
It's border or it's name or it's people or it's people's mentality or it's infrastructure? Or...?
So kalau kita cakap negara tu besar maknanya apa?
Area dia besar?
Population dia besar?
Rakyatnya berjiwa besar?
Kalau kita cakap negara tu miskin pula?
Negara tu negara maju?
Negara mundur?
Ahhh! Apa jadah tanya soklan-soklan macam ni pepagi hari Merdeka ni?

Bila tiba hari ulangtahun merdeka, kita akan lihat orang ramai mula cuba define erti kemerdekaan. Cliche.
Apalah ertinya merdeka kalau jiwa kita tidak bebas.
Merdeka 56 tahun, tapi mentaliti... huh!
Dah lama merdeka, patutnya dah tak timbul isu racial unity. Sebab patutnya memang dah unite dah.
Merdeka apa kalau seluruh kehidupan harian kita, apa kita pakai, bila kita kena makan, apa bentuk hiburan kita, semua tu media yang dictate?
Erti merdeka bukanlah terletak pada laungan "Merdeka" tengah malam di dataran.
Bersyukurlah Malaysia masih aman.
Apa benda yang merdeka, ----------- depa, apa benda yang merdeka?
And the list goes on.

Habis, apa ada salah kata-kata orang tu?
Hoi, aku tak cakap pun salah.
Aku cuma nak point out betapa cliche nya ayat-ayat tersebut yang diulang sebut saban tahun.
Aku cuma tulis semula, bagi tembus skull sampai ke hippocampus biar melekat terus.
Ahh. Tiba-tiba aku rasa aku yang quarter-life crisis.
*Tinggalkankuuuu. Perlahan-lahan ku terima. Sungguh ku tak sangkaaaaa. Dia membawa jantungku bersamamuuuuu*
Ngape ngko?

My favourite saying for Merdeka this year, by kukubesi, as for now;
Kalau tanya aku apa itu merdeka maybe aku tak la feel sangat, tapi aku tau aku sayang Malaysia.
Wuhuu!

Adakah benar merdeka?

Dari penjajahan minda?

Dari segala sudut dan segi?

ps: Mari kita retrospek dan introspek, how far we've come, how hard we've worked, how high we're planning to reach.

ps2: Rasa-rasa macam Malaysia memang tengah dilanda mid-life crisis je? Eh.

ps3: masih menunggu Tanahairku tanahairmu jua. Oi cepatlah!

ps4: Jom ngap sayot!

With 9 hours to go...

Salam 'alaikum. Salam for all.

I'm not quite sure what I've been doing these past few days.
I mean, I know what I've filled my days with, but I'm not quite sure what I've been doing.
Or rather why I've been doing what I've been doing.
I've been putting off packing up until now; and my flight is in less than 12 hours.

Two and a half months away.

I miss it already.

"But you didn't complain about it"
"Because I know you'll always find excuses not to make my life easier"
"But you're not here to make life easier. You're here to discover the meaning of life"
*frowns*
"You're here to discover yourself"

Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with.

And that is why they forget their dreams.

- The Zahir - Paulo Coelho - 

ps: Get off the beaten path, someone said to me.

ps2: Alhamdulillah. Unofficially a 5th year med-student. (^_^)v

Hadiah 27

Salam 'alaikum. Salam for all.

It's already half way through the year *fiuhh* and there's only been 4 posts. *krik...krik*
Oh well.
Juggling while standing on a circus ball is no easy feat.
And in between, well, you just might get lost. Somewhere.
Fall, for that is what makes a life (and worth laughing at in 10 years time).
But don't stay there. Move on.

Moving on...

Prioritise...

and sacrifice.

ps: Final is really just around the corner, waiting to ambush. Let's just do our best, and keep praying (^^)v

Ini kali kah?!

Salam 'alaikum. Salam for all.

Sometimes I wonder...
I think...
And more thinking...

And I came to the conclusion (as for now, probably)
Attitude matters.
And our attitude reflects more of our alter egos, than of our principles (or upbringing for that matter).
Don't you think?

And our alter egos, well.
Probably just reflect who we really are.
Maybe not. I don't know.

I've just come to realized; my favourite word in any of the Malaysian language is...

"laah". 

I mean, it's so Malaysian and so universal, who doesn't use it?

We need to be the change we want to see happen.

ps: Nasi lemak rendang kerang is definitely Malaysian!