Hari ni hari Sabtu (actually dah Isnin, 3 hari gua amik nak siapkan post ni). Beberapa hari lagi sebelum 2012 melabuhkan tirainya, dan 2013 datang menyapa...cey mukadimah kahkah.
Gua amik keputusan untuk review apa yang jadi, apa yang tercapai, apa yang gagal dan macam-macam lagi untuk tahun 2012.
Pencapaian
- Beberapa hari sebelum 2011 tamat, gua rasa dalam 27 Disember macam tu. Gua dapat panggilan daripada ECD tempat kerja gua sekarang. I nailed it. Mereka tawarkan gua kerja dekat situ. Boom. Sebenarnya gua tak expect nak dapat, tapi pada masa yang sama gua terdesak nak duit..maksud gua, kerja sebab dah 3 bulan menganggur. Syukur. 'We want to offer you the job' masa tu gua pekup muka kat bantal pastu jerit puas-puas sebelum sambung perbualan, acah-acah calm and collected. Awesome.
- Sambutan Tahun Baru kononnya nak lain daripada sebelum ni (sebenarnya gua tak ingat bila last gua chill sambut tahun baru sebab rasa pointless) disebabkan gua dapat kerja baru tambahan pula buddies gua ajak chill jadi gua macam okey jom. So uh, nak kata sambutannya disaster tak jugak, nak kata it went well pun jauh sekali. Actually we went to top of Genting Highlands, sebab buddy gua cakap ada fireworks show. Yeah right. Gerak naik pukul 10 malam, lu tau je padahnya camne. Jam packed dengan kereta ditinggalkan tepi jalan, and we actually had to walk all the way to the top. It was stupid, for some reason kami gelak gelak gelak sampai atas. Crazy shit. And then makan McD. What the hell sial hahahaha. Nak makan McD baik chill kat KL je. And then around 2 am nak turun KL balik, visibility was near zero dengan kabus tebal. Jawabnya tidur dalam King, panggilan kepada kenderaan buddy gua ni. Sampai pukul 5 pagi baru turun. Hilarious.
- New workplace. A dream come true sebenarnya sebab gua dah bertahun-tahun berangan nak sertai agensi pengiklanan antarabangsa (tanpa narrow down kepada mana-mana agensi) dan merasai macam mana jadi copywriter sebenar. Awesome place, awesome people, awesome location (walaupun sebenarnya gua harap dekat tengah-tengah KL haha) and awesome brands to work with. Secara kasarnya, gua jadi bayi balik, bertatih macam mana nak mula, jadi newbie dengan kesilapan bangang and shit. All is well.
- Gua travel ke luar negara untuk kali ke 2, ke negara yang sama. Thailand, tapi kali ni ke Chiang Mai dengan seluruh pejabat. Yeaahaaay! Sakit jugak bontot travel ke utara ni, kena tukar flight lagi la hape. Overall it was okey sebab ni kali ke 2 pergi Thai. Yang gua perasan kelainan dia, Chiang Mai ni sejuk sikit, walaupun pukul 10 pagi hawa dingin terasa lagi. Syok. Ciki-ciki sana pun lawa-lawa even yang terserempak kat tepi jalan. Srs. Tour guide cakap orang Chiang Mai ni banyak bercampur dengan orang border jadi diorang rupa lain sikit dari Bangkok ke Pattaya ke. Selain daripada tu takde la keji macam Pattaya yang infested dengan beer bars, hooker tepi pantai dan kelab bogel. Actually gua pusing gak cari kelab bogel sana, tadak pun. Chiang Mai basically macam pekan yang chill je. Gua cuma ada masalah nak cari makanan yang halal. Ada sekali tu dah lapar gila gua makan je ayam, tah halal tah idak. Adoi. Lepas tu balik hotel gua pusing jumpa pulak gerai Muslim, jual beriyani lak tu. Ya tuhan sedapnyaaaaaaaaaa. Bila malam gua pusing market sana, tengok barang-barang etnik, chill usha-usha orang sana, naik teksi trak (diorang panggil red cab). Ada sekali tu member gua tertinggal phone Galaxy S2 dia dalam trak teksi ni, berkicap gak la kejar. Macam dalam movie sial bila gua tahan teksi lain pastu jerit kat cabbie tu ' Follow that truck cab, now!'. Gila babi bayar campak duit je pastu lompat keluar berlari cari trak yang kawan gua tertinggal phone tu. Dapat gak jumpa, apparently cabbie tu jumpa S2 tu and decide simpankan sampai kawan gua cari dia. Jujur aih. Bagus.
Selain chill dan melawat tempat-tempat yang menarik macam Bee Farm (ah dah pergi dah dulu), Sanctuary gajah (ini awesome dapat naik gajah, redah sungai, naik ox cart dan dapat makan halal food!), naik temple atas bukit sampai putus nafas, dinner sampai semua mabuk rabak and all, kami ada team building kat sana. Gua ingat LDK ke apa ke. Rupanya cooking competition, kat cooking school. Awesome, srs. Merasa gak la main api bagai, masak macam-macam. Group gua dapat nombor dua, buhaha bangga sungguh. Also dapat tengok mereka-mereka yang selama ni berkicap kerja kat pejabat tapi sebenarnya terer masak. Oh syok.
Satu perkara yang gua perasan sepanjang berada kat Chiang Mai, asal bas berenti je mana-mana gua mesti terkial-kial cari toilet nak melepas. Member gua pun perasan menda ni, dia cakap gua macam binatang tanda kawasan kahkah. Srs weh. It went well, generally speaking.
- Gua bikin makan tour ke Penang. Sebuah perjalanan yang dirancang last minute, bawak duit cukup-cukup dan pakaian seminima mungkin dengan hanya satu tujuan: makan sampai tergolek. Turned out ia antara journey terbaik tahun ni. Gua tak peduli apa pun, gua datang hanya nak makan makan makan pastu balik. Dari nasik kandar Line Clear, ke cendol popular Teochew, melantak kat Padang Brown, melahap kat Zul's Burger (bersaiz epik) sampailah melawat Toy Museum, huuu tersengih memanjang. Gua pun sempat chill dengan co-editor webzine gua masa kat Penang. Awesome. Sebelum berangkat balik KL, kami naik Bukit Bendera yang sebenarnya dah takde apa pun. Cable car sekarang dah canggih macam LRT, berdesup je naik atas.
- Sekitar Mei, gua attend KL Metalcamp. Gua sebenarnya dah malas nak attend gig, banyak la sebabnya. Satu, One Cafe dah tutup, rasa macam dah tak syok datang gig nak chill kat venue. Dua, sebab gua rasa gua dah tak relevan ah nak tengok gig. Tapi gua turun Metalcamp (siap beli pre-sale ticket!) sebab lagenda crossover DRI dan band death metal kental Hate Eternal mari! Power gila! Hate Eternal punya set punya la berdesing sampai blackout venue kahkah! Sempat jugak la chill dengan kawan-kawan scene dengan mereka yang gua selama ni kenal online saja. Awesome.
- Awal Julai, segala rasa risau gua terjawab bila menerima surat pengesahan sebagai staf tetap kat agensi ni (juga dengan gaji dinaikkan sedikit, syukur). 6 bulan hidup dalam ketakutan, ye lah mana tahu peristiwa kat NSTP berulang. Gua tak sanggup nak hadapi menda yang sama, seriously.
- Rockaway tahun ni power gila. Dapat jugak gua tengok Max Cavalera depan mata, walaupun sebenarnya gua tak minat pun sangat dari zaman dia kat Sepultura ke Nail Bomb ke Cavalera Conspiracy ke Soulfly ke. Gua sebenarnya ditawarkan untuk interview Unearth sempena konsert ni tapi disebabkan gua takde knowledge langsung pasal band ni (gua siap ingat Unearth tu Earth Crisis, punya la bangang) gua tolak la untuk elak daripada malu sendiri. Stellar concert, cuma gua berbulu dengan harga air dan makan yang melambung tinggi. Amenda Coke sampai RM5? Tahap-tahap beer dah tu.
- Barangkali pencapaian/perubahan besar gua pernah dalam hidup gua setakat ni. Gua enrol gym. Serius. Berbekalkan rasa tak senang hati melihat kawan sekolah gua meninggal akibat kemalangan, gua terfikir life is short. Jangan sebab salah sendiri (tak jaga makan, jadi gemuk gila dan berpenyakit) gua mati. What a waste. Mati itu pasti, tapi tak jaga diri sama erti dengan menzalimi diri sendiri. So far progres adalah bagus. Gua belajar mendisiplinkan diri, jaga makan, kuatkan willpower and shits. So far dah hilang 12 kilogram dalam tempoh hampir 3 bulan, Gua memang progres lembab tapi asalkan ada perubahan itu dah cukup bagus bagi pesimis seperti gua.
- Bila Dark Funeral umur mereka nak tour Malaysia, gua tak hairan sangat. Dark Funeral adalah band black metal yang cool tapi bukan dalam liga band yang gua into sangat. Tapi bila tour mereka dibatalkan dan mereka kena rip off gua pun terasa kesian dengan mereka dan baran dengan organizer. Kemudian gua di offer untuk turut serta interview diorang sebelum diorang balik Sweden. Cool beans! So gua dapat spend dekat sejam borak/interview dengan mereka kat Campbell. Nice.
- Macam biasa gua memang selalu beli releases daripada band-band gua minat. Tahun ni highlightnya adalah Eluveitie- Helvetios, Nile - At the Gates of Sethu dan Eluveitie - The Early Years, semuanya didatangkan dengan t shirt yeaaahayyy! Juga beberapa releases tempatan dan non metal gua sempat sambar tahun ni.
- Entah macam mana gua jadi minat nak cuba memasak. Ni semua jadi lepas gua selalu buntu nak makan apa lepas balik kerja dan jugak disebabkan berhati-hati dengan kalori intake gua. Jadi gua mula rajin google recipe la tengok video kat Youtube la tanya sana-sini. Dalam masa terdekat gua nak beli dapur yang lebih mantap.
- Dapat attend Kancil Awards buat pertama kalinya. Malang sekali gua tak submit apa-apa. Oh. Sedikit kecewa agensi gua gagal pertahankan kedudukan macam tahun lepas. Mmm-hmm.
Tak tercapai
- Hajat untuk memiliki kenderaan sendiri masih belum tercapai sungguhpun simpanan dah cukup menjelang pertengahan 2012. Gua risau. Hati gua kata 'jangan, belum masa lagi'. Setakat ni hati/intuisi gua tak pernah salah lagi. Jadi gua ikut kata hati. Yang sebenarnya komitmen bulanan yang merunsingkan gua. Banyak benda nak bayar sana sini bil itu ini. Gua risau gua tak mampu save duit, itu yang membantutkan hajat besar ni. Jadi gua chill aje. Balik lewat dari ofis 3,4 pagi pun selamba naik cab, nasib baik boleh claim. Sama la halnya kalau pergi recording kat studio yang jauh dari jalan utama tu. Redah je ngan cab. Pegi balik keja naik LRT. Setel.
- Gua berhajat nak beli meja study dan rak buku. Siap dah survey kat Ikea. Bila dah pendam lama-lama gua jadi malas dan lupa. Sekarang pun malas. Rasa macam bodoh aje tak beli disebabkan malas.
- Masih gagal memahami emosi dan manusia lain (baca: wanita). Dari segi kehidupan romantik, ia seperti pekan koboi. Yang sepi kebanyakan masa dan hanya ada aksi sekali-sekala. Ada beberapa wanita yang gua sempat keluar bersama (kalau itu boleh dipanggil ritual courting/dating) tapi haram takde satu pun melekat. Sama ada gua terlalu hodoh, takde perasaan, tak reti main peranan atau bebal bertimpa-timpa, gua sendiri pun tak tahu. Impak paling kuat adalah gadis dari Shah Alam, yang ended abruptly. Gua pun tak tahu apasal tah. Wanita, spesies yang lagi tricky dari memahami seekor panda. Salah satu faktor menyumbang kepada kegagalan ini adalah tendency gua untuk over analyze segala menda, mungkin. Takpe. Kita cuba lagi lain masa.
Overall, tahun ini masih macam roller coaster macam sebelum ini, albeit tak berapa chaotic sangat. Banyak benda gua pelajari dan rasanya ada laaa matang sikit. Wise to the game, kata orang putih. Ada hit dan miss, ada yang tak diduga ada yang dah boleh agak. Can't wait too see what's there for me in 2013.
Selamat Tahun Baru. Moga 2013 membawa kita semua ke satu tahap yang lebih baik!
A: An Autopsy
- A, is for Anomaly
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Adman by day, music writer by night. Closet metalhead on weekends. You may find me weird, but that's just probably you.
Monday, December 31, 2012
2012: A Year in Review
Sunday, December 23, 2012
December is ending fast.
Apparently there are few days left before 2012 comes to an end....and I still hesitate to do a re-cap on my 2012. I'm not in the mood of writing at the moment. Let's just re-cap what happened this week.
- December is the month I got really sick after 11 months of working non-stop (including countless of staying back in the office) and all. And then December started with a quite dramatic halt. I fell sick after 2 weeks of annual leave. And I learnt the cause is dehydration and food poisoning. I blame nobody but myself, because throughout that 2 weeks of leave I went to gym almost everyday and burned almost 900kcal per visit. Problem is, I didn't replenish the liquid I lost during workout. Fuck me. My bad. Also a week after I recovered, my body began to manifest vertigo symptoms. Shit getting hard man, I thought I'm going down with flu as well. But nope, demam main-main which actually pisses me off further. As of now, I'm still yet recovered.
- The office Secret Santa gift exchange went well, I think. I got my friend a room spray, I hope she likes it (since it's a Secret Santa, the identity is classified). As for me I got 2 pairs of socks. Looks cute. And about time to get new socks! Thank you SS, you read my mind although I actually wanted Aborted CD so bad :p
- On Thursday, the office held a Christmas party. I was kinda stoked since I was hoping there will be live band and free sodas ( I don't drink btw)..also I might get the chance to see my colleagues getting rabak and all drunken as fuck, that would be awesome (Apparently few videos surfaced on my FB the day after, ada video this guy all drunk while holding live crab and dance while flipping the poor crab, crazy ass shit). And I didn't attend the party. Instead I went somewhere else with some of my buddies, watched them getting stoned and then later grab an awesome dinner at nearby mamak...so weird.
- On Friday, while most people getting panicked about Apocalypse, I on the other hand, remembered exactly a year ago I set foot to this very place, attending interview for this job I hold now. Thank god I nailed the interview (actually I didn't expect to ace it because I gave shitty answers such as 'I want to be a shepherd after I retire from advertising' which sent the ECD laughing crazily) and here I am almost a year and still craving for more experience from this place.
- My brother got married yesterday (I'm the eldest). Good for him. I got lost yesterday since he gave me a confusing direction. Shit got so fucked up after 30 minutes of wandering aimlessly around that area, I sat at the side of the road crying, for real. My brother's big day, I'm late and probably gonna miss it. Fortunately a cab passed by and I managed to hail and made to the akad nikah. Mind you, I only had RM4 in my pocket and the fare was exactly RM4! Not sure if this is some kind of divine intervention but I'm grateful. I even made it before the akad nikah lololol! So dramatic. Later Brother told me he was so worried he bugged his best man countless time asking my whereabout. Only when he saw my hair (he told me he only saw my hair, weird shit) he felt relieved and went on the nikah, sekali lafaz. Saw mother but I didn't even want to talk to her (long story, I rather not tell), abah was there and spoke to him for few minutes. Also he loaned me RM50 so I can go home later. Ugh.
- Christmas is approaching in few days time and then new year. I made few achievements and still tons left unsolved. I'd like to say to 2013 'come at me bro'. This isn't going to be the last entry for this year, I'll try my best to write something to re-cap 2012. Hopefully.
- December is the month I got really sick after 11 months of working non-stop (including countless of staying back in the office) and all. And then December started with a quite dramatic halt. I fell sick after 2 weeks of annual leave. And I learnt the cause is dehydration and food poisoning. I blame nobody but myself, because throughout that 2 weeks of leave I went to gym almost everyday and burned almost 900kcal per visit. Problem is, I didn't replenish the liquid I lost during workout. Fuck me. My bad. Also a week after I recovered, my body began to manifest vertigo symptoms. Shit getting hard man, I thought I'm going down with flu as well. But nope, demam main-main which actually pisses me off further. As of now, I'm still yet recovered.
- The office Secret Santa gift exchange went well, I think. I got my friend a room spray, I hope she likes it (since it's a Secret Santa, the identity is classified). As for me I got 2 pairs of socks. Looks cute. And about time to get new socks! Thank you SS, you read my mind although I actually wanted Aborted CD so bad :p
- On Friday, while most people getting panicked about Apocalypse, I on the other hand, remembered exactly a year ago I set foot to this very place, attending interview for this job I hold now. Thank god I nailed the interview (actually I didn't expect to ace it because I gave shitty answers such as 'I want to be a shepherd after I retire from advertising' which sent the ECD laughing crazily) and here I am almost a year and still craving for more experience from this place.
- My brother got married yesterday (I'm the eldest). Good for him. I got lost yesterday since he gave me a confusing direction. Shit got so fucked up after 30 minutes of wandering aimlessly around that area, I sat at the side of the road crying, for real. My brother's big day, I'm late and probably gonna miss it. Fortunately a cab passed by and I managed to hail and made to the akad nikah. Mind you, I only had RM4 in my pocket and the fare was exactly RM4! Not sure if this is some kind of divine intervention but I'm grateful. I even made it before the akad nikah lololol! So dramatic. Later Brother told me he was so worried he bugged his best man countless time asking my whereabout. Only when he saw my hair (he told me he only saw my hair, weird shit) he felt relieved and went on the nikah, sekali lafaz. Saw mother but I didn't even want to talk to her (long story, I rather not tell), abah was there and spoke to him for few minutes. Also he loaned me RM50 so I can go home later. Ugh.
- Christmas is approaching in few days time and then new year. I made few achievements and still tons left unsolved. I'd like to say to 2013 'come at me bro'. This isn't going to be the last entry for this year, I'll try my best to write something to re-cap 2012. Hopefully.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Ewah dah nak habis dah 2012
2012 bakal berakhir dalam tempoh dua minggu.
Tahun ni gua sihat walafiat kebanyakan masa kecuali dekat-dekat hujung tahun ni. Tiba-tiba pulak sakit berturut-turut. Oh well.
Harap gua ada masa nak review pencapaian 2012 ni tak lama lagi.
Tahun ni gua sihat walafiat kebanyakan masa kecuali dekat-dekat hujung tahun ni. Tiba-tiba pulak sakit berturut-turut. Oh well.
Harap gua ada masa nak review pencapaian 2012 ni tak lama lagi.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
5 Sebab Kenapa Lu Mesti Layan KARA
Sebenarnya gua dah tak perlu nyatakan 5 sebabnya kalau lu orang dah tengok video di atas. Gua masih rooting for SNSD tapi this time around gua rasa KARA jugak adalah sebuah unit K-Pop yang mampu menggegar iman mana-mana lelaki Melayu. Love you Goo Hara bb < 3
1. Album Revolution dengan chart topping single 'Mister' sememangnya addictive, termasuk yang versi Jepun. Check out that ball busting Mister dance move (aka butt dance).
2. Apparently album Step pun agak menawan, elemen elektronik yang kuat, tiada lagi elemen remaja keanak-anakan. Trek macam Ey! Oh! (intro), Step dan KARA 4 U (outro) mempunyai hook yang kuat.
3. Gua rasa diorang ni macam..god damn it, semua hot, ini menjadikan gua kembali layan K Pop.
4. Goo Hara is love, baby.
5. Fuck it, just go get your copy k?
Okey gua nak siap, jap lagi runner pergi Rock Corner cari album Step. Yeahaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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