Aniki bought Yamaha LC 135

According to Wikipedia Aniki means (兄貴, Aniki?), a Japanese honorable term for an older brother or a superior (frequently used in yakuza speech). As I mention in my previous post that I've been using some Japanese word in my daily life (I think I watched to much Anime cartoon hahaha), I now describe my elder brother as Aniki.



Well, after I lost my Nakama (our motorbike), Aniki bought new bike, a Yamaha LC 135cc, as far as I know, this bike is like Megan fox, it is that hot and its true, its damn true, every motorcycle shop told me that this is the bike that everyone wants to have because the design of the bike and the performance (for kapcai class) is at the top notch, the best of its class.


This bike cost around RM6200 to RM6500 (something within this range), quite expensive compare to other brands, maybe because the cc of the bike is 135cc whereas others range from 100cc to 125cc. the design is up to date, the engines is damn smooth and quite. The bike haven't been tested at full speed yet because the tachometer need to be at least 1000km (tak lepas pantang lagi kate org melayu).


There is a saying in Malay "patah tumbuh hilang berganti", I guess it's true, I've lost my old bike, but now I have new bike (although the bike belongs to Aniki) but the phrase "patah tumbuh hilang berganti" actually make sense.


Don't know why but now the phrase "And now you knows..." keep playing in my head..

Nakama

Since I'm addicted to Japanese anime (One Piece, Bleach, Naruto and etc..) I've learned few Japanese word unintentionally. One of the word I'm using in my daily life (whenever I talk to Along and my Aniki-Honorable big brother) is Nakama which means friends. I've looked up in Google and according to Wikipedia nakama (仲間) means colleague, compatriot, or comrade. I bring up the word Nakama because I just lost one.

The story goes way back, it was in May 1997, I was just 18 years old at that time Ayah bought a motorcycle for Aniki's birthday present. Although it was a present for Aniki but the actual fact is Ayah bought it for both of us because we need a transportation to go to college. Suzuki GSX 110cc, that was my ride back then, although not many people like to use Suzuki's bike(because the spare part is damn to expensive) but I'm glad both Aniki and me choose Suzuki. Compare to other bike (on the same class) Suzuki GSX engine was much faster (especially EX5 and KRISS)

Now it's gone 4ever, Aniki need a new bike due to the fact that our Suzuki GSX is to old and to costly to repair plus the spare part are hard to find nowadays. I always felt the bike was part of my life, that's why I consider my bike as my Nakama, we fell down together, we get hurt together and the fun part was every time we race, we usually wins.

Sigh...really disappointed to know that we can't be together no more, but as everyone knows, nothing and I mean nothing in this world will last. And now you knows (Hitz.fm favourite words)

Hepi Besday Ibu :D

22 July 2007 ..Ibu turn 51...just like last year, this year I bought her bracelet again :D, I remember the 1st time I bought bracelet for Ibu was with Iera, I was quite desperate to find a gift so I need somebody to guide me to buy a birthday present, I think that day both of my boss was not in the office so I grab Iera, took her to Wangsa Maju Carrefour and asked her to pick a jewelry. I have to admit jewelry can never mix with me, in my very eyes..it looks almost the same, only the price is different. but that was the old me, Now I know a little bit about jewelry (only bracelet :P). I was so relief Ibu like the bracelet (thank beb..owe u one).

The think about my mother is, she has a specific taste toward jewelry (even Ayah can't figure it out) He usually bring my mother along to choose (easy...no need to crack in his head) I follow his footstep by taking someone with me to buy it(ngeh ngeh ngeh). Anyway, I think it was a mission successful when she says "waa..pandai pilih..." I smile with my nose wide open...proud, but later I tell her that it wasn't me who choose it (beb if u read this, jangan kembang idung sgt, u r damn lucky that all..but really appreciate it...thx).

The second bracelet was a failure. Sad but true it was to small for Ibu's hand and the worst part is Ibu don't like it. She really appreciate the thought but the bracelet was meant for younger generation. Good thing about buying a jewelry, you get to change if you don't like it within one week time. So I bring Ibu to the jewelry shop and change it. It was a failure because I went on my own to buy it hahaha...lesson learn..don't go alone to buy a jewelry next time.

So come to the 3rd bracelet, I went with my elder brother(Abang), 1st we went to a florist shop to buy a 2 dozen of roses, Ibu really like flowers. Ayah told me to buy it somewhere near Central Market because it is cheap there. Just imagine 24 dozen of roses (including wrapping) only cost RM70, pretty cheap huh. If you choose imported rose it will cost you RM90. Afterward Abang decide to buy a gift for our beloved Ibu. He suggested to buy perfume. At 1st I agree with him and said "SOGO is the best place to buy perfume" but soon afterward I told Abang it's not easy to buy a perfume because different people have different taste, beside once you've bought a perfume, you can't change it later, and my brother agree with me. So next thing came to my mind is non other than bracelet.

I figure, although both Abang and me sucked big time when come to buy a jewelry, but you get to exchange it within one week time, so to me it is win to win situation, if Ibu doesn't like it, she can change it. Ibu called Abang when we're at the Jewelry shop. She started to scold on the phone because knowing that we haven't pray Maghrib yet and the time is almost finish. But we manage to reached home and pray before the mosque started to Azan for Isya'. (This is the reason why we don't go for our prayer at the mosque Ibu, we went out to buy you a gift :D)

Later that night, when the clock stroke midnight, My little sister took the bouquet of roses, when to Ibu's room and start singing Happy Birthday to her, and the best part is, when we show her the gift that we bought, she like it very much, Abang and me was so relief. Ayah going to bring Ibu to a nice restaurant I guess, maybe lunch or dinner or both..hahaha...anyway Hepi 51 Besday Ibu :)).

Choices

Yesterday, I asked my dad where is the cheapest and yet give the best service to fix my car. Maybe I should explain from the very beginning of my situation (need to learn on how to arrange my post). Anyway coming back to the subject my car can't go long distance anymore because it gets overheat easily. I've sent my car to one of the workshop and one of the mechanic confirmed that my car need to be overhaul and as everyone knows, when you hear the word overhaul (although it's just a top overhaul and not a real overhaul) a large amount of money need to be spent which currently I don't have. So that why I asked my dad where to fix. Dad told me "You go to klang laa, cheaper compare to KL and furthermore there's a mechanic who is expert in fixing Honda" by the way I'm driving a 1995 model of Honda Civic, a 12 years old car. High time to fix or change a new one :).



Then my mother came and asked what are we discussing about, so after I've explained to her, suddenly she voice out her thought "Why fix? Selling the car is the right thing to do" at that point there is a one big sweat at the back of my head(it just like in the Japanese cartoon, one big drop of water at the back of your head). Previously, I did mention to my parent that after I've finish paying the car installment I want to get a new car, and my plan to do that is next year since my last payment is on the march of 2008. Then suddenly my dad agree with my mother, and I was like "err...err..emm...uhmm..ok..so we need to sell the car 1st so we can use it for down payment later"



So the next question is "Which car to buy?" This has been playing in my mind for quite sometimes now, I know there are various number of car to pick but, it must suit your interest & the most important part is your budget, and after I've investigate, out of all the car in Malaysia, non of them meet my criteria (to have both interest of the car & enough budget to pay monthly installment) and people keep telling me that "Sham, you can't take proton car because you are used to Honda's technology" I guess what they meant is, I better think thoroughly before buying or I'll end up complaining because I will start to compare between my old car and the new one later and I think I will. Last couple of week I drove Atun's car(Inokom Atos) and I find it's quite challenging to drive an under powered car since I'm used to drive my Honda. but to me what really matters is I have a transportation to move here and there. It's just that if you have the financial to buy a better car, why choose not to? I know that some people say better to save for future need, but to me, nothing in this this world will last, nothing in this world is permanent. To me saving is good, but having a lot of money in the piggy bank and not using it emm...I mean you've been working so hard, to earn money for what? just to save in a bank? and compromise your satisfaction..that kind of idea doesn't make sense to me. But I guess people have their own reason for doing what they think is best.


So now, I'm stuck...if I chose to fix my beloved car, it will be ok in few months, because maintaining a 12 years old car is just not worth it, time after time you need to change here and there because of depreciation (wear and tear), and not to forget that later when I want to sell the car, the price will drop. These are the reasons given to me by my parent, and I think they are right. But on the other hand to buy a new car is something I'm not well prepare enough, I mean in term of my financial, currently I think I can't afford to buy my dream car, so I have to search a car with the right price and to make sure the car suits me. I'm not trying to be choosy but we are talking about buying a car here people, car in Malaysia is really damn expensive (damn tax). Unless I lived in another country. So I need to choose wisely, because I'm going to use it for a long long time.

So now I'm back at square one because currently, I can't find a car that suits me (car that I like and affordable). I don't want to regret later. In transformer, the car seller said that "the car choose the driver, it is something like a special bond between Man and Machine" Now where to find my yellow stripe Camaro :P.

Trip To Pulau Perhentian

Finally, the pictures I've been waiting for so long is in my hand, and finally, I can start to continue on my second blog :) . It wasn't like what I've imagine but I'm glad I went there. We went there from 28 of June until 1st of July. There were 11 of us 4 boys and 7 girls. Among them I only knew Ijoy, Amir and Iera. Since there were 11 of us, Three cars were used for the trip, Iera, Hana and Atun's car. I was deployed in Atun's car, Feel like total stranger in the 1st place but as the journey goes, we started to break the ice. Among the 1st question pop out from these girl (Atun, Fai & Suria) was "do you have a girlfriend? Are you engaged?" I was like what the He**....arghhhh..why start with these kind of question..but only in my heart..outside..I just said Yaa..I have a girl, and no I'm not engaged..then I kept quite. Only afterward they started to ask about the normal stuff...At that point I was relief..and I'm very glad I've made new friends.

We reached Kuala Besut around 9.30 in the morning and I never slept in the car during the journey, probably because all of the girls never slept either. We were told that the boat should pick us up at 10a.m but we have to wait until 11.30. Then finally we reach Perhentian Kecil..Matahari Chalet, when we reach there we have to wait until 3 o'clock before we could get a room which been book a month ago. what kind of booking is this? When people book a room or a place, it should be ready. It just the same as not booking at all. I can describe as the Perhentian trip as "Waiting Trip" everything we must wait, there goes our precious time. The 3 session of snorkeling was nice. But not according to Ijoy. He said Redang's beach and ocean are much nicer. But since this is my 2nd time of snorkeling, I say it was quite enjoyable. The coral and fish fascinated me, and not to forget the turtle, I dived deep to see the turtle up close..but only managed to see not more than 10 second, couldn't hold my breath :P . Every time I dived, it consume a large amount of energy, damn it was tiring, but since the scenery of underwater was so nice, the energy of my body keep generates hahah. But at the end, I always hang on to the boat to catch my breath. One of our tour guide even catches a colorful small fish for us, it just like the finding Nemo fish, he catches 3 of them, and gave it to me to bring to the boat so the rest of the group can see. The girl's even gave the fish a name Neo or something, Atun even kiss the fish before I release them from captivity :D.

Fish in Captivity

Fishes having lunch.

The second day the girls wants to move out to big island, to me , the 1st chalet was much nicer than the second one, but that ain't matter to me anyway, as long as there is a room for me to puts my belonging and sleep, it's good enough for me. For lunch and diner, we must go back to the small island, since the arrangement have been made, we can't change that except only for the chalet. The barbecue was not a barbecue at all,I thought that we need to cook on our own, but everything is cooked already, and all the dishes wasn't that nice either, except for the donut, damn the donut was so good. We had a good laugh when we started mocking iera, she always speak before think, I think Amir was the first one to mocked her...hahaha. When comes to mocking, Amir's is the man, God Of Mocking. It was full moon on that night, Don't know why, everytime I saw a full moon, it fascinates me..hmm...a night to remember.

The Girls - Stomp The Yard Wannabe

- The Boys -

1st pic is Amir followed by me,Ijoy & Zali


Again, on our last day, we have to wait. At 1st, we're told the pickup boat will arrive at 9am, but it came around 12 something, Thats why I said that this is a waiting trip. Finally, we reached the mainland (Kuala Besut), bought few souvenir for my office colleagues. We reach Kuala Terengganu around 3 or 2 something. We had lunch at pasar payang, and the girls went for shopping afterwards. I myself bought keropok lekor and serunding daging, ibu love serunding daging, kelantanese called it samba daging :) . By the time the girls finished shopping it was 6 in the evening. we stop at masjid terapung for prayers.






We start to roll out around 6.30pm, I volunteer to drive, I figure we can reached home earlier by doing so, Atun, Fai and Suria started to freak out when I overtake few cars, buses and trucks, sorry girls, didn't mean to freak you guys out but have faith and confident in me next time(If there is a next time..hahaha) I don't know why iera called me a reckless driver, beb..it's not reckless ok, I just drive like I normally do, infact I think I have reserved the way I drive since I'm not driving my own car, and not to forget you also drives fast, but I never label you as reckless driver, some people think you drive faster that's all. To me as long as we know what we are doing and anticipate what going to happen next, we are safe :p





We stop at dungun for diner, the girls want to eat sata, but unfortunately sata is out of stock, i never eat sata in my entire life, wonder how does it taste, or maybe they call it different in my home town...hmm...but anyway I think we roll out from dungun around 9.30pm or something.
We reached KL around 2am in the morning, luckily I was on leave on that day. Picture below is the whole team.

To me, best pics taken goes to this two:

Chucky and

The Perhentian cat :)