Smokin'!!

Syukur ke hadrat illahi.. Hari ani si Jirin cool down sudah.. Maybe ia buang tebiat di pantai Margate.. or maybe sudah pass PMS nya.. But whatever it is, its nice to have peace in 82, St Peters Grove again.. Tadi pagi, i cooked mee goreng not once, not twice but three times! Alhamdulillah, licin habiss and customers keenam enam satisfied.. Nda apa, kali ani free, lain kali 3 pounds sepiring, insya allah.. (nadadeh, inda kan main charge mun makan d rumah..inda kan daras gila harta sampai cematu..) Time aku masak tadi, si Jirin papat kuku arah big toe. Padahal kuku nya atu sihat, tapi di papat nya jua masih.. Babal!! Akibatnya, terpapat sampai isi sikit.. Labat lah berdarah his toe. Di balut nya sudah, tapi berdarah masih dengan labatnya. Kesian ku meliat lah. So what i did, ku bandage big toe nya atu properly dan alhamdulillah, berkat hati tulus ikhlas dengan niat suci murni untuk membantu kawan, pantan (berhenti berdarah) tah luka nya atu..

Gambar hiasan semata mata

Anyways, blog ku ani actually pasal shisha. Baru baru ani aku lose my shisha virginity. Shisha that time rasanya nda berapa nyaman lah. Mun melintas kadai shisha, baunya semerbak tidak terhingga. Memberi taislur!! Sudah ku try, disappointed ku lah. Nada pun macam fruits dancing on my tongue or something like that. I saw on the box, the flavouring thingy is actually made up of molasses and tobacco. Sekali ku research lah pasal hazards of shisha ani:

A review published in the medical journal, Pediatrics, found that the concentration of cancer-causing and addictive substances in water-pipes may be considerably lower to those found in cigarettes, with the heat involved being insufficient to generate carcinogenic substances (Knishkowy and Amitai, 2005). Studies have shown that the typical hookah (also known as shisha) smoker spends more time per smoking session exposed to the smoke than do other smokers, but it has been proved that with the absence of carcinogens, tars, and nicotine the smoke can be considerably less harmful. Thomas Eissenberg, a professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, co-authored a review on hookah smoking which found that a session of hookah smoking which lasts about 45 minutes, delivers 1/60th the tar, 1/10th the carbon monoxide and 1/200th the nicotine than a single cigarette. Generally, a cigarette will last no more than 5 minutes, which takes approximately 14-37 cigarettes in order to compare to the 45 minutes hookah session. (information available from Wikipedia.org)

Being bulky is the reason why Popeye opted for a pipe instead..

So kira good news lah for shisha enthusiasts. As for myself, im not a big fan of shisha-ing. Anyways, since there has been quite a lot of info in this blog and i want to relieve some tension for users here is something that is:

"Bwoh!! Nampak kepala!! Alhamdulillah, ada kepala!!"

Haha, that pic was taken time Azah punya Birthday party at Kaka May's house. There was a nice ball in the backyard and me and Jirin decided it would be funy to take a picture of my water breaking with him as Bidan Kerajaan. Sakit usul ku ah.. Anyways, till next time. Bye! (Haha.. starting to sound like a corny after school special show..)

Mari menganiaya si Jirin~! ^_^

Hai!! I feel so perky right now!! Post ani saya tujukan buat kawan dan sahabat saya yang saaAaAngat karib, Khairul Hazirin. Khairul.. Suatu nama yang boleh menyebabkan dahak awda terpancut keluar apabila menyebutnya. Sebenarnya post ini bukan lah untuk mencari kelahi, sebenarnya sayang ku si Jirin ani. Orang nya cali, sudahpun cali baik dan pemurah lagi. Mun kana suruh arahku untuk pilih siapa yang ku recommend masuk syurga firdausi, Si Jirin or George Bush, sudah pasti ku sokong application si Khai ani. Allah selamatkan Khairul!

Anyways, post ani half driven by guilt.. Dari tadi aku menganiaya si Jirin. Siuk lah. Dari pagi sampai malam kami saling atil mengatil. Iatah kan ku ceritakan satu persatu secara terperinci.

Pagi hari Khamis, si Jirin di atas aku d bawah (hahahaha.. Dodgy bunyinya..) Maksudku si Jirin tingkat atas, aku di dapur. Ku lihat piring mangkuk yang alum kana cuci bertimbown!! So aku, dengan inisiatif seorang lelaki tarus start mencuci the aforementioned pinggan mangkuk. Sudah si Jirin nampak, ia kata ia INSIST ia cuci piring coz alasannya andang ia set his mind to clean them last night. Oleh kerana si Jirin lagi basar dari aku, aku pun mengalah lah. Tapi kurang ku puas hati lah sebab aku biasanya finish what i started. So eksen tah ku di kaki tangga and aku berpura pura berdialog dengan si Melo (time atu si Melo tidur dalam bilik pulang masih..)

"Kenapa Melo?"
*pause*
"Di dapur ia cuci piring.."

After that, aku pun gtau si Jirin "Jirin, Melo panggil kau." So si Jirin kan cuba cakap dengan Melo FROM THE KITCHEN. "Kenapa Melo?" kira kurang logik lah, so si Faizah kata "Cubatah ko aga, Jirin." Si jirin ani, di aga nya ke kaki tangga terpanggil panggil Melo. Sampai ia naik ke atas lah. Di check nya bilik si Melo, rupanya ia tidur masih. Si erman start lah saspek aku buat act of mischief "Cuba check muka si Adib ani. NYANGKU!!! Ketawa ketawa ia!" Time si Jirin turun, i already cleaned one plate. Lapas atu, ia takeover balik cuci piring tapi nyaman lah hati gue sebab boleh menghasilkan lakonan ala ala Kudil Sukor..

Aku cari kelayi sama si Jirin lagi patang atu.. Time atu ia sembahyang di atas and liftuf nya tinggal di bawah.. Apa lagi, ku pasang lah gambar George Bush pakai thong berwarna pelangi basar basar arah skrinnya.. Udah atu, ku gtau ia yang ia ada email masuk "Dari siapa?" tanyanya. "Mana ku tau, ku dangar bunyi email alert saja." Udah ia turun, kedangaran sampai ke atas ia bersumpah basar basar.. Time atu, aku baru angkat takbir sembahyang asar, ketawalah ku.. In fact, tiga kali ku angkat takbir.. Ketawa lah punya pasal.

Gambar perhiasan semata-mata

As if nda cukup aku atil ia dua kali, ku atil ia kali ke tiga dan terakhir. (Well, ada pulang penganiayaan dan penderaan kecil kecilan, tapi mun atu ku masukkan, panjang macam doctoral dissertation karang blog ku ani.) Like i said before, best trilogies come in threes. so ku complete kan lah with this last teasing. Si jirin ani, banyak mendapat comment "Wah kurus ia udah!" dari familynya in his tagboard. So aku pun masukkan lah comment yang berunsur gosip..
Comment tersebut berbunyi:

<Adib>: PERHATIAN!! Kurus jangan di sangka sihat!! Khairul Hazirin disyaki menghidapi ANOREXIA! Harap maklum ahli keluarga Khairul..

Begitulah kisah untuk hari ini.. Cerita ini diniatkan untuk informasi bersama. Hidup ani, mun nada joking around and messing about, will be quite dull nyanta!! Kepada khairul hazirin, mun tuan peramba kan launch counter-attack, dengan hormatnya dipersilakan.. :p

Cerita cerita sikit..

Assalamualaikum! Ive been staying at Jirin, Erman and Melo's house di Canterbury since last friday. So far siuk lah stay ku as usual. Ive been lazy though time cuti ani. This post ani pun just to let some time by.. Lately ive got this thing on my mind, making me kusut lah jua.. so if anyone sees me looking like im down or deep in thought or macam in sombre mood, dont worry lah. Im just memikirkan hal keduniaan.. Aiseh! Well, since im blogging ani, I guess i might as well toss in a story or two.. Kajap ah, menghirup teh dulu..

Right, im sure all of us pernah do some sort of mischief time damit damit dulu (some more than others) .. Apa jua inda, kanak kanak pintar selalunya gauk lah, makin pintar makin gauk.. inda jua kan di doakan supaya tuyu kan? Iatah, I must admit, me and my brother teramat gauk lah time 5-6 years ago (masa ani pun gauk jua masih lah, mudahan jua anak-anak ku nda mewarisi luan banyak deh.. Jauh palis!!) Anyways, i have about 20 cousins lah and that is balah bonda ku baru, yang balah my father basar basar udah.. Since my siblings are the eldest cousins, kami tah conquer jadi kepala angkatan cucu Pengiran Hj Ismail bin Pengiran Hj Sabtu. Dan sebagai cucu-cucu lelaki paling senior, hobi me and my brother ialah menganiaya cousin yang lain (udah menangis oleh kami baru tah kami run for cover..) Siuk lah main atil-mengatil. Especially time ada family gathering. meriah tah tu kanak kanak berlusir lusir sana sini umpama babun yang jubur nya terpalit lada padi.. Siuk ada jua tapi selalunya membari gergitan and sakit kepala ibarat nyanyian William Hung..

Anyways, i still remember lah time kami ada majlis arah my Ngangah. Time atu aku chill dalam bilik my sepupu, skali tarus tarus my brother masuk macam orang guilty.. Lebih kurang macam Scofield dalam Prison Break.. Ku tanya arah kedidia kenapa ia cematu. Rupanya ia bagas mengatil my cousin sampai menangis.. Apa lagi, marah lah my Tua.. My tua ani bagus urang nya, iatah jadi Judge Dredd di rumah abis nini dulu.. Judge, Jury and Executioner.. Haha, tukang disiplin lah pokoknya.. Beliau memang digeruni kanak kanak family PIF (Pengiran Ismail & Fatimah) mun ternampak sikit matuka BMW nya masuk geres, berlusir tah kami bertapuk and berlakon jadi budak budak soleh dan solehah. Anyways, iatah my Tua atu kan punish my brother, biasanya kana suruh duduk dalam surau and baca surah banyak banyak (bagus jua tu!!). Tapi me ada buah fikiran la kan selamatkan my brother ani. Me suruh ia dress macam orang Alim: Bertasbih, berkain sembahyang and bertopi haji.. For final touch, ku pasang watercolour purple arah dahinya (kira takah kuat sembahnyang lah tu). So udah atu, ku gitau my uncle my brother (Si Awie namanya) ada dalam bilik my cousin. Time my uncle masuk bilik, memang ia marah, tapi aku konfiden plan ku ani pasti akan berada di ambang kejayaan. Nah, udah ia liat my brother cematu dengan senyuman yang manis menusuk jiwa, terkidum then ketawa tah my uncle. tapi lapas atu nampak ia struggle untuk stop ketawa. kan cuba marah balik tapi apakan daya, cali bah!! my brother lagi buntak and bulat time atu.. So off the hook lah si Awie thanks to abangnya.. Anyways, ku suruh si Sofi buat komik pasal hari atu..


Macam miatu tah cerita ku kali ani. Ginis kan? Bah, minta diri abis peramba dulu ah.. Kusung parut nyanta!!

Mari Melawat Muzium!

Ahh!! I finally have time to post again! Its been such a long long week. The first few days of my easter hols have been quite uneventful.. So i decided to pop down London for a bit. Now for some Bruneians, they'd think "Eh, mun ganya Lundun, alum lagi eventful tu.. Boring ada lah.." Now, while I agree that London can be quite dull sometimes, but I seriously appreciate the fact that its such a busy and bustling city.. The buildings, the sheer amount of people and the ridiculously constipated traffic are all trademarks of this city some of us call home. I went to London mainly just to get away from Gillingham. I needed a change in enviroment badly. Gillingham is a small town and it is very very serene area. London on the other hand is almost always alive with people (di Gillingham atu sunyi nyanta eh.. Sundays its almost a ghost town..)

SO, i went with Sofi, katanya ia kan lawat national gallery pasal kana recommend for Fine Art students to go there. Kami jumpa di Victoria station sebab Sofi ani first time ke London since arriving in October. So aku teach lah ia ani cana pakai tube and stuff. I was so flabbergasted when i found tat a single tube ride costs frickin 4 pounds udah!! It was 3pounds last January. Ugh.. teruk inflasi sini ani eh.. When we got to Brunei Hall (headquarters ku!!) we just rested for 10ish minutes and tarus ku bawa si Sofi jalan ke Oxford street.. I just loved how the city was at night. Sunyi and peaceful with lit up buildings.. The weather was on our side as well with occasional cool breezes. When we reached niketown, we headed back to Brunei Hall before heading back out to hve dinner at Nahar. Ok lah makanan nya sana.. Nyaman lagi Malaysian Hall or Mawar. When we got to Brunei hall (for the third time that night), called my friend Diyana anak Cikgu Ibrahim to see if her offer to show me around London was still valid.

The next day, we met up with her and we went to the Science Museum. Siuk lah sana atu, macam macam info ada and it was really interesting. We were there for 3 hours and we still couldnt finish going around the museum!! We also went to Chinatown in Picadilly and this coOoOoOoOl bookshop called Forbidden Planet. Unfortunately, when we wanted to get back to Brunei Hall, we got stuck in traffic for one and half hours.. That sucked...

The next day, kami aga National Gallery pulang. Our guide this time was Asyura. I didnt think looking at paintings was gonna be too interesting but it turns out to be quite a fun!! Here are some pics i took at the Science Museum and the National Gallery:

Spoil bini bini ah.. Asi asi ia masuk shot ani..

I just HAD to take this pic.. That sign was asking for it..

Haha.. Peraduan taik idung siapa basar..

click to enlarge..

Artificial pacemaker.
Could also be the look of a new Apple innovation: internal hard disk music player..

Microscopic..

What did he do to deserve such punishment??

Kerusi untuk menolong melancarkan "pelaburan" yang keras lagi degil..
Uhh.. No comment..

In the bus where we waited ONE AND A HALF HOURS to reach Brunei Hall!!
We had so much fun lah those two days in London, educational and fun! I even wanted to stay longer di London for opening of the Primark in Oxford Street. But i heard it was so crowded and ada people even pacah kan one of the display windows. Bah, adang ku dulu eh. Peace!

My eyes!! MY EYES!!

Assalamualaikum! I watched "300" the other day and it was such a violent movie. Penuh dengan adegan cucuk menyucuk, tabak menabak and kepala punggal memunggal. Patut jua rating nya Mature. Mun d Brunei, 35 tahun keatas pun nda di syorkan meliat kali. Ganas hantap.. Anyways, after watching the movie. I did some research lah arah online encyclopedia. Rupanya movie atu based on a true historical occurance! Wah! Hebat banar spartans atu. Mun ada orang cipta umu atau ubat gigi jenama Spartan gerenti aku mau try!! Research punya research, datang arah satu page pasal Battle of Thermopylae (Hot Gates in the movie ah). And arah that page ada drawing kana lukis depicting the battle. Sekali ku zoom in, rupanya BUGIL orang sparta ah!! Aku appreciate yang director atu nda insist membiarkan movie atu di shoot dengan pelakon bugil. Bermuscle pulang kali anunya, but nda jua tahan kan dua jam liat *ehem* bergantungan dan berkeliaran (well, nda pulang berkeliaran.. Saja pakai word atu for dramatic effect..) 300 atu lagi quite a vigorous movie.. Anyways, lukisan nya indah dan molek but i feel it is my responsibililility untuk ubah sedikit gambar atu agar sesuai ditonton oleh semua lapisan masyarakat ("U" rating lah kononya). Oh, the dude in the middle is supposed to be the King.

There we go! Nda jua membari rabun mata meliat. Enjoy! (Cam biasa, click to enlarge image.)
Mun pihak abiskita kan melihat jua versi 18XXX nya, here's the link.
P.s. Tanggung sendiri ah mun termuntah arah komputer..

Nasi Katok in Britain??

Moshi moshi!! I feel so relieved right now coz IM FREE!! Haha.. No more annoying assignments, no more lectures and the best part is: Easter holidays!! Hunting talur tah ku ni nda lama lagi.. Heheh.. Oh, I finally added a tagboard for my blog, try scrolling somewhere lower in the page, ada ia tu palak-palak.. I think i might go to london this weekend, insya allah, and hopefully i'll get back in time for the delivery of my shoes, or trainers as they call it here, from America. Anyways, its been six months since ive arrived in UK and naturally, i miss some of the Bruneian foods that i love to eat (and god knows, I just love to eat!) Last week when we were on the way back from Brunotts, our journey got held up coz some genius thought "Hold on a minnit, ive go' me an excellent oy-dea. Why dont we close a major highway and should save it from wear and tear!! Briliant, innit?" and that caused our journey to be extended from 3 hours to six and a half bloody hours!! The driver had to find a small road that could lead us back to the highway, balik balik he had to as kfor directions. I dont know much about biology of the ass but my bum was almost made flat that day, duduk for almost 6 hours.. Atu kan bisai voluptuous udah.. (Haha! Perasan..) Anyways, all that time gave us the chance to reflect the food we (by "we" i mean Zul, Wafi, Sofi and myself) missed and nasi katok came up. Nasi katok Mata-Mata lah, nasi katok Jangsak lah, nasi katok Restoran Alma lah.. "eeh, awu nyaman tu sana, tapi berminyak", "awu , berminyak, tapi nyaman", "awu, tapi berminyak..". Macam macam perbincangan kami ari atu. So the next morning, i asked Jirin, "apa baik di masak ah?" and his initial answer (as usual) would be "antah ah.." And i smiled a bit and suggested (with repeated raising of the eyebrows) "Mun nasi katok?" and he agreed. So we woke Melo up and and we went grocery shopping. Mula mula kami aga this small greengrocer arah westgate, then we went to the oriental shop nearby. "Bah, apa kan ko bali di sini?" nya si Jirin. "Eh, kau jua bawa aku ke mari!" i said. "Kau jua kata ko kan me mari!!" he blurted. To be honest, i still dont know who bawa who there that day.. (although it did suspiciously feel like Jirin yang bawa..) Once we got all the stuff we need, we went home and I prepared the marinade for the fried chicken. At first, the flour and the eggs dont seem to want to mix and i thought i had done something wrong. Since no one was looking, id figured if i had chucked the whole thing out and start again, no one would know. But i tried mixing them again (kuat kuat!) and they finally did mix.. Hmm, macam arranged marriage.. Mula-mula malu-malu but mun lama-lama udah atu, ok lah dorang.. Next came the question of frying the chicken, baked or deep fried? Since Melo and Jirin knew aku ani health conscious and nda suka minyak, we decided to have a compromise and shallow fry. Then, while we were cooking, datang tia si Erman and Faizah and not long after that, Sofi. Takut ku ayam atu nda cukup so membali tah some chicken di Munchies and everyone was happy. The sambal was very very hot. (Nando's Peri Peri sauce atu cam ayeng mun compare dengan power sambal ku..) Well, nda sengaja lah buat padas cematu coz the chilli extract i used atu cam industrial strength.. Nauzubillah padas nya nyanta! For a while it felt like summer with me sweating buckets. But the main thing was, taisliur kami semua kan makan nasi katok dapat jua di sampaikan walaupun jauh di negara orang pew-tey (and kana puji masakan ku. Yeah, mesti mention.. :p) bak kata pepatah: "perut kenyang, hati pun senang".


Sekian blog saya/peramba/kaola, Wassalam.

Makan dengan tangan beramai-ramai. Itulah cara Brunei. Macam niniku udah style Sofi ah (far right.)
Mun batah udah nda liat atu, yang simple pun buat air liur menitis.. I miss u, nasi katok~!!

Build you up to knock you down..

I was at Jirin's house last weekend (as usual) and this time I was with Sofi, (who had never been to Jirin's house before). We were waiting for dinner to be cooked and we talked about various things. One subject that came up was A level results. Jirin's maths breakdown was AS Pure maths (A), AS Stats (E), A2 Mechanics (A) and A2 pure maths (E). Mr Goo congratulated Jirin on his result for mechanics, "Wah Khairul! So good lah your mechanics. I feel like ive passed something on to you!" Basically, Mr Goo was impressed that Jirin got an 'A' for his mechanics (and considering he used to skip lessons, an 'A' was an excellent result!). Actually, according to Jirin, Mr Goo was complimenting himself to be able to get a student an 'A' even when student didnt attend classes regularly (or sumthing like that). Anyways, right after complimenting Jirin for his achievement in mechanics, he mentioned that he did horriblly in his A2 pure maths.. To make things worse, he mentioned that he actually expected Jirin to get a 'U' for it! Iatah, Jirin so didnt see that coming. Baik jua nda jauh hatinya.. Anyways, i have an analogy for what happened with Jirin and Mr Goo:

First, Mr Goo can be sed to lift Jirin up. All is well, and Jirin is happy.


And then, with his negative comment, things suddenly changed tone.. Cam kana bagi "powerbomb"..

Ibarat kana "powerbomb".

And with his final remark, macam kana bagi elbow drop..


Anyways, the moral of the story is: please try to use the sandwich approach when possible untuk jaga hati the person. Si Jirin kata he didnt feel too bad pulang , coz ia biasa dah teacher's looking down on him. Haha. The sandwich approach: one good comment, then the criticism and another good comment. Kira untuk sugar coat the bitter comment lah kirakan. Anyways, udah practice dua tiga kali, u guys should be biasa udah with this method. Bah, till next time on Adib's courtesy 101, bye! (haha, si tayi..)