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Ladki Badi Enida Hai

At 5am yesterday, I found myself sprawling in the hallway with a pen in one hand, forehead in the sketchbook and my lips wet-kissing my own writing. I could not remember falling asleep. Who can, anyway. But I remember being attacked by the overflowing-ness of my ideas around 3am as I was getting to bed.

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Since I simply could not get settled, I got up, grabbed my sketchbook and my Pilot G2-07, and just sat where the light was left switched on – outside the kids bathroom. The door was left open as well so Edrick could find his way there in the middle of the night. To get myself comfortable, I laid down on my tummy. And I simply started writing.

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The next thing I knew, there was a pressing pain on the side of my forehead. Sure enough it was the weight of my sleepy head against the binder ring of my sketchbook/organizer. The first thing that came to my mind was a song from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, that is Ladki Badi Anjani Hai.

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If that wasn’t strange enough, get this… the first person that came to mind was Hans Isaac. How’s that for sleepwriting? I must have climbed Kilimanjaro with Hans and rolled down the mountain. I probably rolled  away waaaayyy too far and landed in the hallway, in this place on Pokrovsky Hills. As for Hans Isaac… uh, could that be him waiting for me in bed?

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I need sleep.

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I need a lot of sleep.

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Sejak

Sejak

Hati ini
sewaktu tak ada cinta
tak ada lagunya.

Sejak ada kasihmu
aku galas semuanya
Beban Kasih Asmara.
Aku cari walau seribu
Penawar Rindu.

Curilah lagi
hatiku ini.

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*Enida
March 26, 2010
Pokrovsky Hills.

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Fresh at the breakfast table this morning.

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Kaka: I’m going to have peanut butter, jam and Nutella sandwich.

Dedek: But why are you going to have peanut butter, jam and Nutella sandwich?

Kaka: Because that’s what I’m gonna have.

Dedek: Yeah, but I’m eating toast, cheese, sausage, cheese and toast sandwich.

Kaka: That’s what you’re eating. I’m gonna have peanut butter, jam and Nutella sandwich.

Dedek: But why?

Kaka: Because that’s what I like. And that’s what Mommy’s making for me.

Dedek: Yeah! But you have to renember, this is not a restaurant!

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Mommy was just behind the kitchen counter, her mouth wide open, her eyes not blinking, listening to her very own words being repeated. Verbatim!

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Back in 2006 when the only conversation they had was
“Peek-a-boo!” and laughter.

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And then they color my world with words.

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Brewtal

Enida is brewing a big story ni. Tang ngo ’em koy!

This Kiss

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It was the best kiss I have ever had in my life.

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I was blessedly kissed by the most beautiful sunset.
Driving to Manjung, in the late afternoon rain.
A wet kiss it was.

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And I will be longing for this kiss again comes May.
Come what may.

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The picture was taken with my RAZR2V9. It is a far cry from the best quality in soft copy. But I have a hard copy with higher resolution printed in my mind.

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Port of Call

Her battle was lost during the last year of her beautiful life. She lost it. Her memory. She used to collect everything she could collect. She used to keep everything she could keep. Just so she could hang on to everything she could hang on to. So she wouldn’t forget. So she would remember it all.

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And then she forgot it all. She lost it all. She even forgot where she was. All she could hang on to was her name and where she met the love of her life. All she remembered was where she was when she was young and when she was in love.

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She was in the Port of Dickson’s. She was in love.

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And that was the last beach I took her to, on which she walked as though she knew it was her last walk on the beach. I think she knew it. What she didn’t know was where the love of her life had been. It was all gone before she could let it go. And then she let go.

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She left.

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Swing, Tiger, Swing!

I read this a little while ago and could not help but to agree with the writer. While I have less vim in love with the supposedly better sex, I do keep my faith in love… for myself. Oh I am so in love with myself I could just kiss my own you know what.

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Swing, Tiger, swing!


I couldn’t care less what other people are doing with their genitalia, but it seems that the only subject people want to discuss these days when they’re out having drinks is Tiger Woods’ infidelity.

Now, when the news of Tiger’s multiple affairs first hit the press, I was shocked. That is to say, I was “shocked” in the Casablancian sense of, “I’m shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!”

Of course someone like Tiger Woods would be ****ing around like an over-sexed rabbit.

There are a lot of commonly-held beliefs that I simply can’t subscribe to. Global Warming, for instance (that’s the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the human race). Or that OJ Simpson killed his wife. But most importantly, I don’t believe in monogamy.

When I say I don’t believe in monogamy, I mean: I don’t believe it is natural; I don’t believe it is possible; I don’t believe it exists; and I don’t believe it is a good idea. I believe that the very idea of monogamy is anti-life, anti-pleasure and anti-human. After all, only 3 per cent of the Earth’s 4,000 mammal species are monogamous (and homo sapien isn’t, according to the anthropologists, one of them.)

There is no doubt in my mind that the only people who manage fidelity are those who are too plain, too uninteresting or too fat to have any other option. I reckon it’s pretty easy to be faithful if no one ever wants to give you an opportunity to be otherwise. Just like it’s pretty easy for us not to fly around the skies, since we don’t have wings and hollow bones and the like. But if we did have those handy accoutrements, I believe we’d be flying about all the time.

Women desire him, so, yes of course someone like Tiger Woods would be ****ing around like an over-sexed rabbit.

Because he can. Like yummy Bill Clinton could. And delicious JFK could. And – oh my – all those gorgeous footballers! And Angelina!

And anyone who can and doesn’t, is a damn fool in my opinion. Because it is the plain, uninteresting and fat ones who created the stupid Monogamy Rule in the first place, so the rest of us couldn’t have more fun than they were having. Therefore, it’s clearly an absurd idea to follow their jealousy-motivated rule. I say: let’s have a lot more fun than them – let’s take all the fun life can give us.

Pamela Druckerman, who went on a round-the-world tour of cheating for her book Lust in Translation, found Russians to be some of the world’s worst cheaters. She couldn’t find anyone in Russia who had been faithful. Good on us, I say. And yet another excellent reason to live in Moscow.

Personally, I’ve always been a serial non-monogamist. I’ve “cheated” (the word “cheat” says it all. Listen to the teary sullenness of the accusation through your remembered eight-year-old ears: “You’re cheating!” But you weren’t, were you? You were simply better) countless times on every single boyfriend and husband I’ve had. I’m not a one-man job and Tiger’s obviously not a one-woman job.

But now poor Tiger has been forced to enter a sex rehab clinic.

Apparently he’s doing yoga for about three hours a day in order to learn how to suppress his sexual urges.

But I doubt yoga can turn him into a tiny anglerfish (the only true monogamous creature on this planet). Hence I say: Good luck with all that, Woods.

I used to be like Tiger. I used to feel guilty, hate myself and regret my passionate wet/hard nights stolen on the sly. But, having realised a long ago that regret is a waste of time, the only thing I regret now is regret.

No. That’s a lie. I regret one other thing.

I’m having my publicist send this column to Tiger Woods c/o of the Sex Addicts Clinic where he’s been admitted.

I regret not having Tiger’s big, black … Well, figure it out yourself.

Thus: Mr. Woods is cordially invited to spend some time in Moscow. We can take care of him and show him a good time, can’t we? I mean, we’ve got: Faberge eggs. Cafe Pushkin. Snow. Vodka and Soviet Champagne. Me. And all the beautiful Russian women a man could want. And you know, we’ve got golf too.

*** rehab – and everything else you can. Tiger: come to Moscow.

xxoo

DD
Deidre Dare
Moscow News

Sampai Nanti

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Sampai Nanti

Sampai nanti
langit hilang birunya
samudera hilang gelora
dan antara kita
tak lagi ada puisi,
baru hilang sesalku
tak mengucup tanganmu.

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Enida
June 1, 2004
Karak Highway

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Sedangkan Lidah

Abang…

Ya.

Abaaang…

Iyyyaaa sayang.

Nak dengar citer tak?

Citer apa?

Citer orang tamak.

Citer orang tamak?

Ha’ah, citer orang tamak.

Tamak apa?

Tamak cili.

Tamak cili?

Ha’ah, tamak cili.

Cili?

Iya, cili.

Cili… cili cabai?

Iyalah, cili cabai lah.

Cabai apa?

Cabai burung.

Hah? Cabai burung?

Iyyyyaaa, cabai burung.

Citer cabai burung apa Ida ni?

Taaakkk. Semalam… kan Ida pegi pasor Vietnamese tu kan?

Hmmm…

Ida nampak cili api yang fresh sangat.

Dah cili api pulak? Tadi kata cabai burung.

Cabai burung tu lah. Sama lah tu.

Sama ke?

Saaama.

Abang rasa cabai burung tu sama dengan cili padi lah ‘da. Bukan cili api. Cili api sama dengan cabai Melaka.

Sama lah bang. Abang niiii! Nak dengor tak Ida nak citer ni?

Ehehehe. Aaaa… okay lah okay lah. Haa, citer citer.

Cabai burung tu fresh se’sangat. Ida tak sampai hati nak beli segengggam je.

Dah tu, Ida beli berapa genggam lah?

Ida tak genggam pun bang. Ida beli satu beg yang dia jual tu semua.

Hah?

Haa tu lah, Ida borong semua cabai burung tu. Sikit tak tinggal.

Jualan penghabisan stok ke apa kedai tu sayang?

Tak de laaah.

Dah tu Ida borong semua sampai sikit pun tak tinggal tu?

Dah cabai burung tu fresh sangat.

So salah cabai tu lah eh?

Tak jugak. Tu semua salah Abang.

Aikkk? Apasal salah Abang pulak?

Ye lah, Abang yang suruh Ida pegi pasor Vietnamese tu.

Eh, ni citer orang tamak ke citer Abang yang bersalah ni sayang?

Citer orang tamak dah abis lah bang. Ni citer cabai burung.

Abang ingatkan citer cabai burung dah abis bila Ida abiskan stok akak Vietnamese tu. Tak ke?

Beluuummm. Belum abis lagi citer tu. Ada sikit lagi.

Ohhhh okay. Chober sambung citer cabai burung Ida tu.

Eh chop! Tiba-tiba citer cabai burung pun dah abis jugak bang.

Pulak? Apasal mengejut sangat ending dia sayang?

Ye lah. Burung dah terbang dipipiskan lada.

Ini ada lada yang nak kena pipis dengan burung ni karang.

Abang! Jangan laaaa…

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Outta Here

Other than songs that keep me real, I have this business that I’ve been busy keeping. The business of keeping myself busy. So, apologies to Z – my dear reader from Brunei who left a comment the other day – for not responding to your comment pronto. Thank you for reading and leaving a comment,  Z! I don’t think I have any other readers from Brunei, to tell you the truth. You’re my one and only. You, my special you! Fancy having you here!

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I am back doing one of the things I love doing… helping people learn English. It started as a baby step yesterday with two gorgeous Malaysian ladies (attached with the Malaysian Embassy in Moscow). Though at this stage it is within an informal setting, I am hopeful that this could be developed into something that would benefit both sides as learning partners.

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And to say that I had a great time meeting up with the two gorgeous Malaysian ladies is an understatement. I was 17 floors up in the air – with the view of Moskva! But the best part of our informal consultation yesterday was the first class treatment I received. Though I did not consider myself as a guest of honor, I was immensely honored when I saw these…

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These were not only what I had there,
these were what they packed for me to take home!
(Hence my arcopal dish, if you so noticed!)
Thank you, gorgeous Malaysian ladies. Thank you!

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Today, I was out having an important lunch with the representatives of the United Nations. They are from China, India and South Africa. I was representing Lok Kawi, a powerful kingdom in Borneo.

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So if you were wondering where I had been wandering… wonder no more, as I wander no more.

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I am back.

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