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Keep Bleeding, Luv!

January 12, 2011 by Enida

It wasn’t a new year’s bloody resolution or anything. I was just trying to bloody create a new habit of making blood donation annually on my bloody birthday – now that I am back in Malaysia where I bloody speak the languages. So I bloody went to Pusat Darah Negara (The National Blood Center) a day after December 29th, 2010. Didn’t make it in time on THE day as I was bloody busy running away.

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But I was bloody turned away! And the reason being that I just had a bloody immunization shot. Good thing I mentioned it to the doctor who bloody interviewed me prior to him pricking my bloody vein. So I was to bloody come again three weeks after the bloody shot. I got the shot on my Mom’s birthday, December 20th.

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And so today I bloody went again. Guess what? I was bloody turned down again! This time the bloody reason was this:

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But this time, I was told I am not welcomed anymore as I was declared a bloody Permanent Deferral. Yes, I do feel bloody rejected. That’s for sure. But if that’s the way it is, that’s the way it bloody is, I guess. My blood donation is not accepted because I have lived in bloody Europe longer than six months between 1980 and the present.  I bloody spent a year in Milan, Italy between 2001 and 2002. I was in bloody Moscow, Russia for a year and a half until July 2010.

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The explanation given by Dr. S Thayani at Pusat Darah Negara was long and bloody reasonable. But for now I just want to learn to accept it without trying  too hard to bloody understand it. Maybe someday the ban would be bloody well lifted. Who bloody knows?

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Do I sound bloody perturbed? If I do, I am bloody sorry, Vladivostok!

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After You

January 12, 2011 by Enida

The idea for a very serious entry was steamingly brewing when I was in the shower. Well, what doesn’t steam and brew in the shower for me anyway. That’s where I sing, that’s where I think. And that’s where I do my crying.

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So yeah, the idea for a very serious entry was brewing steamingly hot when I was having my evening shower just now. But that idea, and that entry will have to wait another day.

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I just remembered that I need at least 5 hours of good sleep before I get to do it. And I am going to do it in the morning, the very first thing in the morning after getting Monchies ready for school, and after taking Monchies to school. Yeah, the very first thing in the morning after being a mom.

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So hold me in your dreams in heaven tonight, Mom.
For I am going to do it all for you.

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It is Wednesday.

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And I miss you.

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Pengisytiharan Penting

January 10, 2011 by Enida

Dengan ini dimaklumkan jadual baru Pusat Didikan Enida Supian-Johnson yang dihadiri khas oleh Kitreena dan Edrick Johnson:

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Sayugia diingatkan, bahawa kegagalan menepati jadual yang ditetapkan akan menyebabkan hukuman spanking mandatory menurut mood dan kestabilan penguatkuasa Pusat. Denda, hukuman dengan pengajaran yang setimpal adalah menurut budibicara Jawatankuasa Agung Pusat yang terdiri daripada Bibik Caskinih Kawi dan Duli Yang Maha Mulia pengasas dan penyimpan mohor Ma’am Besar Pusat Didikan Enida Supian-Johnson, iaitu Madam Enida Supian-Johnson sendiri. Tiada dua, tiada tiga hanyalah baginda Permaisuri sahaja. Ampun Tuanku!

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Or Not To Say

January 10, 2011 by Enida

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“Peminat-peminat adalah majikan saya.”

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memperjudikan?

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live?

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Sesekali

January 8, 2011 by Enida

… Andainya engkau pepohon nan rendang
bawah bayangmu aku menumpang.

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Stand By Me Monchies

January 7, 2011 by Enida

It was early morning on Thursday, the first week of school. The kids were sitting in the back seat, the radio was not on. The sun was nowhere even near the horizon, prolonging the darkness much welcomed as it made it feel it was still very early.

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Just about 200 meters after leaving home, Kitreena started humming her ‘Yippee Yai Yai Yippee Yippee Yai’ song. A few seconds after, Edrick followed suit with his Mozart’s tune he played on the piano a week earlier. And the humming went on and on and on for almost halfway the drive to school.

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My heart was so light and easy, I thought I was flying! And I promised myself that I would never ever want to miss any day like that day – for anything in the world. Anything.

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The radio remained on standby for the rest of the ride to school.

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Color Me Red

January 7, 2011 by Enida

In my younger years, I spent a lot of time alone. Looking at paintings. At Balai Seni Lukis Negara. It was just a few steps away from the central KTMB (train) station, then. I would usually start with the painters’ corner at the Central Market, down to the walk-through gallery at Dayabumi and on to the National Art Gallery. All by myself. All day long. In the weekends.

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I didn’t have many friends back in uni. Even good friends then thought I was too artsy-fartsy to be spending hours looking at painted canvasses. I still don’t have many friends now. But I am proud now to admit that I am still that artsy-fartsy Enida.

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Over the years I have also fallen in love with skin-staining art.
These two pieces by Wahyu Srikaryadi (2009) are simply brilliant!

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I’ll let your eyes speak to your mind now.

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Steady Equilibrium I

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Steady Equilibrium II

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Batang Ai Kah Berjuntai?

January 6, 2011 by Enida

Imagine you are eavesdropping on a telephone conversation between your spouse and an unknown caller. And within the conversation, your spouse mentions one or two of these words (or maybe ALL of them). What do you think is going on? Could they be talking about their next move in bed?

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  • keras
  • basah
  • batang
  • tegang
  • celah
  • biji
  • main

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Or could they just be talking about their last badminton game?

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Hello Is It Me You’re Looking For?

January 5, 2011 by Enida

Apasal susah sangat nak call Ida ni haa?

Eh, ye ke? Phone Ida okay je.

Dah tu, asek tak dapat. Manjang masuk  peti suara.

Mana Ida tau.

Malas dah Abang nak call Ida.

Dah tu Abang call saper bila tak dapat call Ida?

Abang call lah girlfriend.

Oh eh? Elok jugak tu.

Hah?

Ye la. Tak lah Ida rasa bersalah gayut dengan boyfriend.

Hampeh! Bak sini phone, Abang ganti kan dengan phone baru.

Yay! I love you too!

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Catch Me If You Can

January 5, 2011 by Enida

This is no English tutorial. But I would just like to post a little reminder to myself and to those who find English Grammar difficult. Well, tell you what? It is challenging. But we are doing not too bad actually. Okay ladies and gentlemen, here’s the gentle reminder:

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DO QUESTIONS are those that use ‘do’, ‘does’ and ‘did’, such as:

  1. Do you have anything planned for the holiday?
  2. Does she really change her Facebook status every half an hour?
  3. Did you see Tron with your kids last Sunday?
  4. Why do you say things you don’t mean?
  5. Where does he get his supply of keropok every month?
  6. How did you two meet?

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If you noticed, all the underlined words are in the base form. And that’s the way they should be. “Do Questions” do come with another verb that should remain in its base form – not past tense, not present singular, not participle or progressive tenses.

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But how many of us do this:

2. Does she really changes / changed / changing her Facebook status every half an hour?

3. Did you saw Tron with your kids last Sunday?

5. Where does she gets /got / getting his supply of keropok every month?

6. How did you two met ?

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Well, now that you know you shouldn’t be changing the verbs in ‘Do Questions’, it is up to you to be grammatical or non. I still catch myself making mistakes. And that is before YOU catch me. And if you can catch me, catch me gently ya? Hehehehe 🙂

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