P. Ramlee The Musical..Kenangan P. Ramlee..

Since small, I memang minat dengan P Ramlee. Mana taknya, my early life was surrounded by his movies and songs . When we moved to Penang and stay with Pak Bib and Mak Tok, we were staying in Counter Hall Road (now known as Jalan P. Ramlee), where the house P Ramlee was born is located about almost 1km away.

I remembered mama bought for us this one book about P. Ramlee (I think we bought that book masa we visited Pustaka Peringatan P. Ramlee dekat Jalan Dedap, KL) yang dah naik lunyai dikerjakan dek we all. Selalunya we use the book to refer to the lyrics - especially lagu Nasi Goreng and Hai Obat..(masa kecikla..)

Tukang masak kerjanya enteng

Bangun pagi masak nasi goreng

Campur cili campur udang kering

Bila makan mata naik juling...

Bila dah grow up, the kegilaan tu dah berkurangan sikit.. yela dah digantikan dengan the pop singers and actors yang up to date kan.. Tapi his stories and movies tetap melekat in the back of my mind.. Sekali sekala bila tengah mencari citer2 yang best kat Astro, kalau ada citer P. Ramlee mesti nak tengok.. seronok, walau pun dah berkali-kali tengok..kelakar.. Ada one time tu I think it was last year, I and Nasir, saja one weekend we went to Pusat Peringatan P. Ramlee in Jalan Dedap again -- saja jalan-jalan.. Dah dewasa ni, perspektif tentang kehidupan P. Ramlee tu berbeza.. In fact, we also notice that after P. Ramlee meninggal dunia, ada fans yang sanggup mengupah orang untuk pegi menunaikan haji untuk P. Ramlee dan Saloma. Kat rumah tu, ada sijil pengesahan yang haji telah dilaksanakan digantung dalam frame.. Sayangnya la peminat-peminatnya kat dia..

Anyway, bila bersungguh my sister Yone mengajak pegi tengok the musical teater, I pun agree ajela.. I'm glad I did go, it was really fun. I was amazed with the props, the stage work (the New World stage movement was mesmerising), the music and the choreographs.. The acting pun boleh tahan. My favourite characters are the small Ramlee and Sukardi, Saloma and P Ramlee (in that sequence). Sean Gazi did a good job. He was really good and I almost thought that he was P. Ramlee.. My favourite scene would be the courting scene between P. Ramlee and Saloma. I guess ramai yang suka that part..

The music was really good, lagu the opening sequence memang best.. Sayangnya masa we all tengah get ready to enjoy it, a couple of late comers enter, and the stupid Istana Budaya punya usherer masatu la menyibuk nak suluhkan tempat duduk. Spoilt betul our first impression. Geram betul.

Ni tiket to the show on the 3rd of November, at 3.00pm

Me and Cha while waiting for the curtain to rise (Yone pun ada, tapi had to cut her out, sebab she said her gambar here, tak cantik..hehehe. Nanti tengok je la gambar dia kat blog dia)

The view of the stage from where we were seating

My favourite characters - Sukardi and Ramlee kecik.. pictures courtesy of P. Ramlee the Musical website

My favourite scene...cutela..

The saddest scene/part..

teater pun dah habis..

Bergambar dengan poster je la..Jadik la..

Another one with a bigger poster.. I think this was meant as a press conference backdrop kot..

And the priceless one, with Liza Hanim a.k.a "Sally"..Sayangnya, I was the one who took the picture. Terlupa plak lepas tu nak mintak orang lain plak tangkap gambar I.. Anyway, tak kisah.. sempat berbual and congratulate her on her acting.. Asked about the next round.. She said, they are also hoping that there will be a second round of show..

After the chit chat and on the way to the car, Yone said "Yong bersembang dengan Liza Hanim macam sembang dengan member ja.." Abis tu nak sembang macamana ???

Tehran: Covering your head and dress appropriately..

By now, semua secretariat ABU yang ditugaskan untuk pergi ke Tehran dah selamat sampai and have to work very hard to make sure this year punye GA is a success. But the bigger challenge is for IRIB, the Iran National Broadcaster. They not only need to make sure it's a success, tapi also to make sure it's safe for everyone to travel to Tehran or Iran.. Ever since we found out that this year GA akan buat kat Tehran, banyak la kata2 yang sinis dan pedas terdengar sana sini..ada tanya why do you decide to do it in Tehran ? Takde tempat lain ke nak buat..

Sebagai seorang muslim, I have a great respect for the Iranians. Somehow, they are able to persuade people to come to their country at this most critical time with the impending threats of attack from US. Not only that, they were also able to persuade the non-muslim women to cover their head and dress in a respectful dress code when the women arrive in that country.. Mula-mula when all the non-muslim heard about this particular restrictions, macam-macam complaints yang kedengaran.. Kadang-kadang tu malas nak layan.. naik bingit telinga.. Of course as westerners, they all mesti la tak suka di kongkong dan diarahkan sebegitu..Tapi the fact that in the end, they did it in order to show respect to that country.. ok la jugak..

Kenapa la kat Malaysia ni, yang muslim pun tak nak cover their heads and dress appropriately ?

Kat Malaysia ni yang I've seen something like this implemented is kat UIA.. Kat tempat lain tak tau la plak..

Sayangnya I tak dapat pergi..Rasa teringin jugak nak pegi ke negara yang tahan digertak dek US..

Anyway here are some of the pictures of women attending the GA.. courtesy of Tehran GA website http://tehran2007abu.irib.ir/

Yang duduk kat belakang tu is my boss -- a British woman.. Yang depan tu orang RTM

A couple of women from Vietnam

Yang kanan sekali is the Programme Commitee Chairperson dari KBS Korea..

Sakan beraya.. Part 2

Hari raya ke enam, mama, abah, adik-adik (minus Meor), Adi, Wan Chik, Wan Chu, Pak Su, Didi, Rizal & family datang ke KL, first stop my house for lunch..

Pagi tu dalam pukul 9.30 baru kelam kabut pegi Giant beli ikan and other barang2.. Sampai balik ke rumah dah 11.30, diaorang semua dah sampai Sungkai.. Kelam-kabut buat ikan bakar portugis (the trick is the sauce - achik yang ajar masak sauce dia ni..tapi achik pun dapat dari resepi chef wan), masak lemak, sambal belacan + ulam2.. Memandangkan dah beberapa hari makan daging je, so I decided to switch to ikan la plak.. Alhamdullillah.. semua langsai dan licin.. by 3..3.30, semua dah nak bergerak beraya ke rumah Kak Ina kat Bandar Rahman Putra, Sg. Buloh.

Nasir talking to the kids on the "Angkasawan Program". Anak-anak neighbour datang beraya on raya ketiga.. masa ni I just got back from work, tengah mengemas rumah tak sempat habis, they all dah sampai.. Kuih raya pun tak sempat letak dalam bekas kuih lagi..

Suprisingly, the journey only took us about 20 minutes. I think the main reasons were because kereta tak banyak lagi on the road, and the sg. buloh constructions pun dah siap, so no more traffic jams..

Kak Ina jamu meehoon soto + wantan..Sedap.. wantan + bergedil kejap je dah licin.. Then we moved on to rumah Kak Iza.. Kak Iza plak jamu nasi tomato and lauk-pauk yang sedap.. According tu Kak Iza, Abang Shukor yang masak lauk ayam.. Kak Iza masak nasi and jelatah je rasanya..

This is the landscape kat rumah Kak Ina & Abang Kidin yang Nasir was hired to do when he first started in the landscaping business 2 years ago.. Nasir was very grateful to Abang Kidin for the opportunity and trust.. He's also very happy to see the plants are healthy and growing well.

After that, singgah plak rumah abang a for the mee curry..By this time, perut semua orang dah terlampau penuh dan dah tak boleh masuk.. so sian kak yan, masak teruk2, tak banyak yang kami makan.. Tapi Nasir cakap mee curry kak yan memang sedap..nanti nak try la.. Nasib baik ada rombongan lain lagi yang nak datang kat rumah tu, kalau tidak membazir plak..

Abah, yone and Pak Su kat rumah abg a.. Abah baru buka posa 6..

Meor Adi Fimiyun with his lovely 'sisters'.. Suka betul dia.. asyik2 pegi kat diaorang, pegang tangan diaorang..Tangan ayah ngah tak nak plak pegang..Tapi bila ayah ngah dukung, agaknya rasa macam sama abah dia dukung, terus peluk, and tepuk2 belakang ayah ngah..

Semua orang tengah enjoy makan mee curry kak yan..

Malam tu, we all balik rumah dulu sebab esoknya I have to go to work..

On Saturday night, for the first time, Kak Iza and family datang ke our house since we were married for almost 7 years ni. Ayah chik and achik pun datang sekali, siap dah tak kenal rumah sebab lama dah tak datang.. Disebabkan I was taken ill for a few days (which started with Asthma attack), tak la sempat nak masak apa2. Nasir however, has gone all out to jamu orang datang bertandang.. He bought lemang, rendang, sate, sup ayam + tulang, nasi goreng ayam.. boleh tahan jugak la left overs nye..

Esoknya plak.. Nasirnye siblings and anak buah plak datang beraya.. Sebelah petang plak, abang a and family plak datang beraya.. Disebabkan masih tak brapa sihat, terpaksa la jugak membeli.. mintak maaf la ye..

Anak-anak adik Nasir tengah main kat courtyard, bawah loteng kat rumah..Budak2 memang suka spot ni, sebab banyak benda boleh explore..

Kakak, adik Nasir and me berehat kat tengah2 rumah while discussing recipes..

Abang A and family enjoying the sates..

Sakan beraya.. Part 1

After the hectic week at work, now only I am able to update the blog with a raya entry.. Alhamdullillah, eventhough me and Nasir takdela prepare beria sangat nak beraya, sambutan and the feel raya tahun ni memang meriah..

First of all, tahun ni giliran beraya kat Penang so hari Jumaat (last day Ramadhan) early morning we all bertolak balik Penang. Baru sampai ke simpang keluar kat Greenwood tu nampak ada kakak tu jual kelongsong ketupat, terus beli...sajala nak rasa buat ketupat daun betul.. asyik ketupat Nona je, boring jugak. Alhamdullilah, the traffic tak la teruk sangat..

Sampai Penang dah tengahari.. terus tolong mama prepare untuk buka puasa hari tu.. sempat buat inti popiah goreng lagi.. Yone and Cha dah penat tolong mama buat rendang ayam pagi tu..so, bagi ‘can’ they all relax dulu..Meor, Rina and Adi balik esok pagi lepas sembahyang raya..So, malam raya tu ada 3 je la anak mama & abah kat rumah.. plus 1 menantu..

Malam raya tengah sibuk mengisi beras dalam ketupat...ee.. best kan.. baru real rasa macam raya kat kampung..

Pagi-pagi raya, we all semua pegi solat sunat aidilfitri kat Masjid Negeri.. Nasir teringin nak solat kat Masjid Terapung Tanjung Bunga, tapi sebab dah lewat and tak sure kat masjid tu sembahyangnya pukul berapa, we all tukar plan..

Lepas solat, beraya dan bagi duit raya kat mama and abah, we all makan breakfast – rendang ayam, ketupat nasi (kelongsong and Nona), sup daging/tulang famous mama, roti benggali and kuih2. Lepas makan..semua siap nak pegi beraya.. first stop rumah ‘Memah’ – mama’s aunt duduk dekat je kat satu taman dengan we all. Baru nak kluar, Meor & family pun sampai.. tak sempat masuk rumah, terus je ke rumah Memah..

Adi masa baru sampai kat rumah Memah..terus cari TV..ntah apa ntah yang dikerutkan tu..Probably someone is blocking his views kot..

The whole family tengah beraya kat rumah Memah..

Pas rumah Memah, pi rumah ‘Mak Chom’, mama’s eldest living cousin.. Rumah Mak Chom ni paling klasik la yang we all pernah jumpa..Nasir sibuk meng'interview' Mak Chom pasal rumah ni – according to Mak Chom, rumah tu dah dekat 43 tahun dah.. design ala2 kolonial, lantai – colourful tiles ala2 spanish.. The most beautiful thing is the door.. ala2 stain glass tapi style dulu2.. Malangnya asyik bersembang, terlupa nak amik gambar..Nasir teringat nak amik a family picture in front of the door, tapi sebab panas, semua orang dah berlari ke kereta memasing, tak terbukak plak mulut..

Lepas rumah Mak Chom, we all pi lunch kat rumah Mima (mama’s youngest sister)..Banyak la Mima masak..tak terlarat dah we all nak makan.. Duduk sekejap je for about an hour..

Lepas makan tengahari semua orang balik rumah, semua dah ngantuk dan kekenyangan.. Sebelum semua orang beradu.. we all took family pictures tapi ada kat dalam kamera Cha.. terlupa nak download.. So, please upload kat your blog k..Then dekat2 Maghrib, me and Nasir pegi beraya plak ke rumah Mamu Ekan, Mami Khairun and Mamu Non (my uncles and aunty). Mamu Ekan and family dah bertolak ke Alor Setar so tak sempat la nak jumpa.. Kat rumah Mami Khairun pun banyak gak makanan..tapi yang paling best sekali tengok Ayu dah kurus – she lost more than 20kg kalau tak salah in almost 1 year..Teruskan usaha Ayu!! Kak Anom ni tak tau la bila lagi..

Tengah menjamu selera kat rumah Mami Khairun.. Lawakan cermin besar tu.. dah dekat 20 tahun umurnya. A friend of Mami Khairun gave it to her, tapi she tak sampai hati nak amik free, bayar la sikit.. Kayu jati tu.. berat.. Ayu plak bersembunyi di sebalik mamanya..

Ni makanan yang Mami Khairun hidangkan..kat Penang, we all suka makan ketupat pulut palas yang ada kacang dengan rendang..Since lately ni susah dapat ketupat palas kacang, we resort to lemang kacang (actually buat macam buat kuih lopeh..tak pakai buluh pun)

Mamu Non was alone kat rumah.. Mami Timah and kids pegi rumah Tuk Undai kat Sg Pinang (Rumah mak Mami Timah) .. Almost midnight, we decided to leave and not wait for the kids and Mami Timah.. Baru jalan keluar, terserempak.. Dah semua kena masuk balik..Mami Timah jamu plak nasi minyak and ayam 'piru' (ayam belanda) masak merah..I think dekat pukul 1 pagi baru we all berdua balik rumah Mama.. Flat dan kekenyangan..

Hari Ahad second raya, pagi-pagi lagi me and Nasir bertolak balik ke KL.. sebab kena beraya kat KL plak with MIL and family.. Sebelum balik, Nasir kena siapkan dulu tiles kat garden mama..hehe..mama demand dengan menantu nii..kenala buat..

Sebelum balik sementara menunggu Pak Sir siapkan garden Mak Tok.. sempat la menangkap gambar dengan si kecik Fimiyun ni..dengan baju tidor lagi.. (Zaili, ada iras muka Fariz kan..)

Dalam perjalanan balik, ingat nak singgah Pengkalan.. tapi tak de sesapa kat rumah, so teruskanla perjalanan. Lagipun, in a few days akan jumpa Wan Chik, Wan Chu and Pak Su.. so tak la ralat sangat.

Sampai kat Rawang singgah beraya di rumah Abang Manap (Nasir's eldest brother) and malam tu pegi beraya kat rumah MIL...As usual, MIL masak 2-3 round Nasi Minyak and lauk pauk on first raya..ayam je selalu tu dekat 15-20 ekor sekali masak..My MIL memang terrer bab masak-memasak ni, so memang licinla selalu first raya..Sedara-mara ramai bertandang but anak cucu pun ramai jugak sebenarnya..

Okla..panjangnya entry raya part 1 ni.. ni la kot entry paling panjang I've done..Sakannya Raya Part 2 akan menyusul.. tungguu...

Another girl missing

The New Straits Times Online

Girl, 10, leaves home to buy VCD, goes missing By : Audrey Dermawan

GEORGE TOWN: Even as Nurin Jazlin Jazimin's abduction-cum-murder case remains unsolved, another girl has gone missing under almost similar circumstances.

Ten-year-old Rekha Ahamad left her squatter home in Kampung Kolam alone at 9pm on Monday to buy a VCD at a nearby night market.She has not returned.Police are baffled why her stepfather, Ahamad Omar, 49, allowed Rekha to leave home alone at night.They are also puzzled why the girl wanted to buy a VCD as there is no electricity supply to their house. They don't even have a VCD player.

Rekha, a Standard Four pupil of Sek Keb (P) Island at the city centre here, was last seen leaving her home after she managed to coax Ahamad to give her RM5 to get the VCD.Her mother, Salmah Sellamah Abdullah, 41, was at work at a factory in Bayan Lepas at the time.Rekha, the sixth of seven siblings, was wearing a white T-shirt with the "Ultraman" character printed on it, and a pair of shorts, when she left home.Ahamad said it was not the first time he had allowed his stepdaughter to go out alone."She always goes for a walkabout near our house and has never encountered any problems."She always returns home around 8pm or 9pm but I don't know what happened on Monday.

She left and never returned," he said when met at home yesterday.Ahamad said he and a few neighbours went out to search for Rekha when she failed to return home about midnight.The couple lodged a report at the Central police station early on Tuesday morning."We are worried sick about her.

We have not seen her for three days and we just don't know where she could have gone," said Ahamad, a sidewalk trader.Asked why Rekha wanted to buy the VCD although their house did not have any power supply, Ahamad said his stepdaughter usually watched movies in a relative's house nearby.Salmah said she had been praying hard for Rekha's safe return.

Meanwhile, Northeast district police chief Assistant Commissioner Azam Abd Hamid said investigations were ongoing and police had yet to pick up anyone in connection with the case."We view this case seriously as there have been many similar cases before this. We will intensify the search for the little girl," he added.

Rekha's disappearance comes in the wake of Nurin's murder, which, more than a month after her body was found, remains unsolved.It was reported that Nurin, a year two pupil of SK Desa Setapak, went missing on Aug 20 after going to a night market near her house at Section 1 Wangsa Maju in Kuala Lumpur. Her naked body was found stuffed inside a sports bag placed at the bottom of a staircase at a shoplot in Taman Petaling Utama on Sept 17.

Note: they all ni, tak belajar-belajar lagi..tak serik agaknya..

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir dan Batin

Ikhlas dari

Nasir & Anom,

Berbuka Puasa with good old friends and weekend..

Setelah lama tak berjumpa in a conducive environment , last Friday me, Leen and Zaili decided to berbuka puasa sekali with the hubbies and kid (Zaili's).. We decided to berbuka kat Vistana Hotel sebab the buffet is the cheapest and the spread's not bad. Besides, nak solat pun senang so Vistana Hotel it is..

Zaili, Onn and Fariz was the first one to arrive, then Leen ,me and Nasir followed just minutes behind. Memandangkan dah lama tak jumpa, topik perbualan bukan main banyak lagi.. sekejap2 dah tukar topik -- tapi kebanyakannya berkait dengan hal kerja la.. Fariz being the only kid around was as active as ever -- first dish he took was cendol tanpa apa2 kecuali ais..(meaning shredded ice ajela..).. Disebabkan terlalu sibuk bersembang dan makan, terlupa plak nak amik gambar.. Anyway, it was an enjoyable outing. Sayang it was only sekejap.. we had to wrapped up by 9-ish coz Leen had to leave for Melaka the next day. To Leen and Zaili (and the hubbies), thank you for the night out and all the advises given.. Will see how it goes and update you all soon.. Next time kita buat pot luck kat rumah la, lebih comfortable and boleh sembang lagi lama..

On Saturday, misi buat chocolate cookies for hari raya berjaya tapi tak de la great macamana pun.. lupa nak be a little bit more creative.

Chocolate cookies instant..hehehe..

Bila malam, amik Cha kat LRT stesen (lupa plak nak citer, Cha decided to come down again to KL on Saturday -- nak bukak posa together with her ex-IKIP friends) So, overnight kat my house..

On Sunday morning lepas sahur, terus start buat another kuih raya -- recipe dapat kat one of the website --tak ingat plak kat mana...Peanut Butter cookies with Strawberry Jam.. Start buat dough dulu sampai pukul 7.45.. Pukul 11 baru started baking with Cha's help..

Tapi by 2.30 dah stop sebab had to send Cha nak balik Melaka at 3.30pm..After dropping her off kat LRT Sentul Timur (so that tak payah go through the jam kat Pudu), we all singgah kat rumah Mak kejap..

Nasir wanted to picked up the boys (anak2 kakak and abang Nasir) for operasi menebas kawasan kubur ayah Nasir (atok bebudak tu).. Disebabkan ayah Nasir dah meninggal lama (I think masa tu Nasir pun form 5), the cucus sorang pun tak pernah jumpa atok diaorang. So, you can imagine la bila Nasir ajak diaorang pegi kubur tok..Ada yang macam tak paham ..the youngest boy dengan tangan patah (gambar dia kat bawah) siap tanya Azlil (cousin dia -- yang dah umur 15 tahun)

Fazli: "Abg Lil, kita nak pegi kubur sapa ?"

Lil: "Kubur Tok, suami nenek"

Fazli: " Oo.. kita nak pegi kubur Tok Abg Lil, ye??"

Lil: "Apa la kau ni, tok aku, tok kau la jugak.."

Si Fazli yang masa ni baru patah tangan

Another conversation kelakar masa diaorang tengah menglearkan kawasan kubur -- between Nasir, Faiz (14 thn - anak abang Nasir) and Hairi (21 thn - anak kakak Nasir) and the rest..

Hairi: "Pak Sir, masa Atok meninggal, Pak Sir umur berapa ?"

Nasir: "Pak Sir masa tu tingkatan 5.."

Hairi: "Pak Long ?" (Eldest brother Nasir)

Nasir: "Pak Long dah kerje dah.."

Hairi: "Abang Wan ?" (the eldest cucu)

Nasir: "Isk.. abang Wan dalam perut lagi.."

Tiba-tiba Faiz mencelah: "Pak Sir, pak Sir.. Abah Faiz dah ada dah ke masa tu ??"

Semua org terus ketawa..

Hairi: "Abah kau memang la ada.. kan ke dia abang Pak Sir.. kau ni apa la.."

Anyway, niat awal diaorang, nak singgah menziarahi kubur Nurin Jazlin lepas menebas kubur atok.. tapi sebab hari dah mendung dan nak hujan, tak sempat.. Lagi pun kawasan kubur tu memang besar.. nak cari kubur pun payah jugak.. So, Nasir ajak semua baca al-fatihah untuk Nurin dari jauh aje..

Bila cakap pasal Nurin.. teringat la plak kat anak2 Faridah (adik Nasir).. ada yang sorang tu ada iras2 Nurin..

Dari kiri--Shawani (umur 7 tahun), Aina (6 tahun - sepupu) dan Sharina (iras Nurin - 4 tahun - dah start puasa penuh.. tinggal the first 3 days of puasa je -- willpower kuat)