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Kosong Seperti

Selalu sangat saya mulakan ayat saya dengan, “Bila awak tak ada…” Jadi kali ini saya tak nak mulakan dengan ayat cliché saya tu. Nanti awak kata saya terlalu senang dibaca, macam buku Tadika Kemas Paya Redan. Begitu mudah dan predictable nya.

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Walaupun saya tak mulakan ayat saya dengan, “Bila awak tak ada…”, yang saya bayangkan ialah ketiadaan awak. Sebab awak memang selalu tak ada. Dan walaupun dah jumpa awak sekejap, bila awak berangkat pergi lagi, jiwa saya mesti akan jadi predictably lonely. Empty macam katil saya.

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Terima kasih for listening to my chuckles dengan hati. Ketawa saya yang berjurai airmata tu hanya awak yang tau. You looked at my smiles tak hanya dengan mata. Awak genggam tangan saya tanda faham penat saya yang tak ada tempat sandaran hati. Awak tau hati saya. Awak tau saya setia. Tapi mungkin hanya awak yang hargai. Dan mungkin apa yang saya nantikan ini tak ada erti. Saya tak tau apa yang saya mau.

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Waktu awak berangkat pergi tak menoleh memandang saya, dalam faham dan dalam terbiasa, airmata saya menitik juga. Kita berdua memang banyak bercerita dan bertanya. Kalau dulu, “Kenapa mesti mencari makna?” Tapi sekarang, apalah ertinya sekadar bertanya.

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Bila awak tak ada, hati saya jadi dingin kuat merajuk berfikir diam.

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Hati saya jadi diam.

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Yeah, what’s the point?

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If You Asked Me

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Lekin really, mere dil ko kya ho gaya. Already. Mein weary beyond jawaab, beyond samje hain. Ho gaya. Malasssssss suda! Dil nahi. Lekin mere still lah jugak. Hishhh! Ke hairani.

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For many months that have become years now, I have not been able to listen to, sing or even hum this song to its final stanza. But today I could not resist the fight. I have been misunderstood, I have been misread and I have been misheard. So I got up and sang this to myself. After three attempts and still with heaved heart, this is for those who have made my life worth sailing. And those who have made this song worth singing. To the last line…

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Sayang Disayang

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Angin menderu dahan jatuh
Menimpa batu kuburan

Murai terkejut berkicau-kicauan
Langit mendung diliputi awan
Alamat bumi disirami hujan
Sayang di sayang

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Hatiku rindu orang jauh
Tak lupa dari kenangan

Fikiran kusut merisau-risauan
Sakit untung ditinggalkan Abang
Ibarat kapal tidak berhaluan
Sayang di sayang

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Please click on the song title or my picture to be brought to my voice recording.

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Until Then…

I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.


The last time I saw her, she was smiling. Too tired to sit up. Too weak to wave me goodbye ’til I was out of her sight like she always did. Always. And the last thing I did to her was feeding her mee goreng for breakfast. Dad’s cooking. Her favorite.

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The last song I sang to her was ‘Sayang Di Sayang’. I never really got to the last line. I always ended up hiding my face in her hand crying like a little girl. But I was the last to trim her fingernails, if that would be any consolation. I held her hands like no other hands I had held before. I knew I was losing her grip.

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The last words I said to her were, “I will be right back.”.

It was her who never came back.

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Bersamaku?

There is something I have not told you. A good little something. Something that I am very grateful about. And something that I would like to thank you for. All the good thoughts you have of me, on me, for me, about me. Those thoughts were prayers that have turned into wishes, and wishes have come true.

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I’ve got the DiGi project!

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I would like to thank my special blog reader who initiated the whole thing by asking me if she could put me in contact with DiGi, and if I could be a potential training provider for her team at DiGi. I said, “Yes, please!”

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And in just about two months – after  the usual proposal stage, the presentation stage and the waiting stage… the stage is now mine!  This is, in all my humility, the first ever major project for Enida Consultancy & Services.

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So for the next ten weeks, every Tuesday and Thursday, I’ll be making smarter choices and will ‘Sentiasa Bersama’ DiGi and Digizens. Wish me all the fun!

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Thank you Nik! Thank you.

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I am gone counting my blessings!

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Love and hugs,

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Enida

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Things You Keep

Tidurlah Intan

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Sometimes when you keep filling an empty space with the things you keep on giving and not getting… when you leave, the space is emptier than empty.

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I have learned to embrace myself.
And tonight, I have a song.

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I am okay.

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Write Here

Writing has kept me on the ground. If I had not known how to write my sorrows away, I would have been under ground by my 36th birthday. Dead and dying some more, mourning not my death, but my dying life. When life didn’t come to me, I got up and looked for it. I looked for it and I found it. I found it and I took it back. I came home.

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Just that, at the moment… I am taking a deep breath.

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Still There

After the trainers’ meeting the other day, Suen and Mollie, my new-found sisters, and I sat for almost three hours talking about life. And when Suen mentioned Mollie’s struggle to come to terms with the loss of her Mom, I saw tears in Mollie’s eyes. My heart wept for my own.

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I thought I was over it. Well, I am. I can light candles every Wednesday now, feeling happy for my Mom and where she is now. I can write about her every now and again, feeling a relief that she is resting in peace, waiting for us. I can look at her pictures and smile back at her, feeling the contentment that I was given 36 years to be with a great woman.

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But what do I do with myself when I long for a mother’s touch? It’s like I have been sitting on a chair that has no back. I can’t sit back. There’s nothing to lean against. Let alone to lean on. And I’m not able to get up. To move on. I can light 7 candles every Wednesday for the next 36 years if I live that long. But this last few years of not having my Mom… is taking away the life in me.

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But when I got the emergency news this morning concerning the father of someone who has grown close to me – I was awaken from my slow death. And like a train that had been on a wrong track, I shifted directions. While that someone is taking care of his beloved father, I shall be gone to love mine. And when I kiss my dad’s hand tonight, I should apologize for being too dead to see. He’s still there for me.

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In Her Shoes

“Orang macam Enida tu mana ada masalah. Kalau dia kata dia susah, itu susah yang dia sengaja cari. Takkanlah orang senang macam dia mengadu itu tak cukup, ini tak ada. Kalau dia mengeluh, itu tandanya dia tak bersyukur. Tuhan dah bagi kesenangan, serba-serbi melimpah ruah, lagi tak berterima kasih.

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Orang senang macam Enida mana boleh susah. Dia boleh tanggung semuanya sendiri. Tak payahlah susah-susah kerana dia. Buang masa saja. Pandai-pandailah dia nanti.”

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Dalam Hati

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Di dalam hati ku menangis
Bila ku mengenang dirimu sayang
Kini jauh sudah harapan hati
Selama ini ku rindu
Ohhh

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Tiada belai kasih sayangmu
Tiada senyum yang manis lagi
Berat rasalah hatiku kini
Tanpa dirimu disisiku

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Kini ku mengenang dirimu
Aku gelisah selalu
Jangan kau lupakan diriku
Berita ku harap darimu

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Tiada belai kasih sayangmu
Tiada senyum yang manis lagi
Berat rasalah hatiku kini
Tanpa dirimu di sisiku
Ohhh

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Kini ku mengenang dirimu
Aku gelisah selalu
Jangan kau lupakan diriku
Berita ku harap darimu
Ohhh

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