The Goodbye

Dear Insert-Your-Name,

HELLO EVERYBODY.

Well, if you do come across this blog, congratulations.
You are now entering my life back since 2009-2010.

I do not document everything in this web media, because well, honestly, I'm pretty much a private person. -_-
And with what I document here, I do not mean to harm, offend or hurt anyone.

When you go through of what I write here about my life from 2009 until 2010, do know that these are MY memories, something I can never alter or change, and will remain as MY memories, despite it being here on the web, or in my heart and my head.

And as for the rest of my life (Year 2011 onwards), I guess the story is yet to unfold.
And even if it does, it will not be written here. I will continue writing at > www.aziati.tumblr.com

I love you.

XOXO,
Aziati Wan Haron

I Wrote This For You #12

And I’m sorry if I haven’t written to you in a while.

It’s just that life gets in the way of living.

It’s just that my fingers were stuck together.

It’s just that all the paper in the world caught fire.

You’ll forgive me if I haven’t written in a while.

It’s just that all the envelopes made love to dragonflies and now, we cannot bring them down.

It’s just that time stopped ticking.

It’s just that all the ink ran clear.

It’s just that words ran out of letters (these are the last in the bag).

It’s just that language isn’t perfect.

It’s just, me.

Call To The Bar

Sebentar tadi, seawal pukul 7 pagi, aku ke Kompleks Mahkamah untuk melihat adik aku dinobatkan sebagai seorang peguam.

Apabila Kakak aku membaca the petition for him to be advocated as a lawyer, aku hanya tersenyum kerana obviously my brother had the greatest resume in the courtroom.

Aku bandingkan hujah-hujah yang di baca oleh peguam lain mengenai future lawyers mereka, dan bukan aku ingin menjadi 'bias', tetapi sungguh, Azri beat them all.

Kakak aku menjadi mover Azri kerana Kak Ija juga merupakan seorang lawyer, and what's awesome about today's Long Call adalah kerana kedua ibu bapa aku menjadi 'Master' yang menyarungkan 'Robe' kepada Azri.

Future-future lawyers lain mendapat Masters mereka yang entah siapa-siapa, tetapi adik aku berpriviledged untuk di sarungkan oleh ibu bapa aku, yang juga merupakan practicising lawyers.

On our way back, Daddy turned to me and said, "Out of all my children, you make the best lawyer." And then he added, "You know it's not too late."

And then he added, "Why didn't I force you to be a lawyer...." And started to wonder away.

I know it is very difficult for him to accept that my chosen career path might lead me to move on the other end of the world, and I don't blame him for it.

Me, on the other hand, don't really know what I want.

Let Go.

Setiap kali aku cuba menulis di sini, otak aku jadi tepu.
Blank.
Kosong.

Ia seolah kau cuba menulis di dalam buku nota yang sudah usang, menggunakan pen dakwat basah yang menjengkelkan, the type that will smudge everything as you write.

Then you stopped writing.
Not because you don't have anything to say.
Simply because you just CAN NO LONGER TOLERATE THE SMUDGE.

The World's Highest City

Hello everyone, greetings from Shenzen!

I miss Ayam Kicap.

Win Weekly at Shell

Today is the last day our our Win Weekly at Shell promotion.

I really shouldn't be seen walking around like /with this.

Okay, I promise to stop taking photos with the mock cheque.

-___-

I missed the train today. And you.

Hello from this part of the world.

I Wrote This For You #11

You think you know what you want.

You have a picture in your head.
A pleasant noise in the background.

But what you're really looking at, is a stepping stone.
A point in a time.

Because once that picture becomes real, you can see new things.

A new picture emerges.
A new point. Just a little bit further away.

So you find yourself wanting this new, better picture.

And, there is nothing wrong with this.

Bangkok Lane Mee Goreng

Nama Bangkok Lane, tetapi bukan di Thailand.

Jangan terpedaya, ia hanya di Pulau Pinang -__-

Selalu dengar orang sebut Mee Bangkok Lane, Mee Bangkok Lane.

So I ajak Edi & Alfian to have lunch here.

Jalan dia cantik, macam berada di negara Eropah.

Parking senang.

Kedai dia warung sahaja.

Kedai Cina.

Tetapi Mamak Muslim jual Mee, dalam kedai Cina tu.

Dekat bahagian luar pula, ada orang Melayu jual air.

Dengan Roti Bakar.

So, boleh pilih la nak duduk di mana.

Kedai Melayu, atau Kedai Cina.

Untuk makan Mee Bangkok Lane masakan Mamak Muslim.

(One Malaysia)

Buat mereka yang tidak pernah cuba lagi, this is how it looks like.

Mee Goreng.

Ini pula Mee Rebus.

Buat mereka yang tidak PERNAH rasa Mee Goreng yang tersohor di Pulau Pinang ini, nah.

I tolong makan untuk you.

Mee dia sedap, secukup rasa.

(Tak faham apa yang tersohor sangat. If you notice that I gained weight in that photo, kindly just keep your comments to yourself. Miahahahaha -_-)

But honestly, I thought that Mee Goreng Udang Sg Dua was way way nicer :P

Pasal ada Udang :P

Okay so I find the Mee - average.

But I found something else more interesting/fascinating there.

ROTI BAKAR!

Tengok cara depa bakaq roti tu?

(Chewah, ada slang macam orang Utara tak?)

-___-

Anyway Pakcik dekat sana was kind enough for letting me try to bakar that roti

(Budak jakun)

Diorang pakai arang rebus air masak.

Air masak tu untuk jual air.

Arang tu pakai untuk bakar roti bakar.

HOW COST EFFECTIVE IS THAT?

O cost to electricity.

O cost for maintenance

Best kan?!?!?

I Wrote This For You #10

The stories I tell you are ambiguous, micro stories.

The important thing I do to these stories, is that I leave out a lot of detail,

And there's a reason for this.

By leaving out things like gender, age, race, locations,

You apply the stories to yourself.

And,

There is no story I can tell you, that is as powerful as the story; you tell yourself.