Note: This spontaneous piece was written at around 10pm last night, when I was piggy-riding on the neighbour's Wi-Fi signal. However by the time I'm done with the piece, the signal was already out. Now, I'm somewhere near KLCC hopping on someone's else signal, so there...
It has been a while since I felt like writing anything in English, or for that matter even in Malay. I'm supposed to complete the editing process for my second book in Malay, "Berpetualang ke Aceh: Membela syiar yang asal" (literally translated: "The journey to Aceh: Advocating the true faith) or BKA II... After all, there's only the last or closing chapter left, just 12 more pages to go before the editting process for the 300-page book is completed, then it's just a matter of final reeditting and layout using InDesign before turning the whole document into PDF format ready for printing. But yet I found myself rather lethagic the last 2 weeks, unable to even string a few words into a proper satisfying sentence.
To top it all, I'm also supposed to submit a brief 2-page summary of the first book "Berpetualang ke Aceh: Mencari diri dan erti" ("The journey to Aceh: In search of self and meaning) or BKA I to a tv programme producer but even that I haven't finished. And I haven't even started writing for the latest installment of the "Laksamana pulang ke Perak" ("Admiral returns to Perak") for the Malay-language Kencana tabloid paper of which I have become a regular contributer since late last year.
Tonight, after returning from a massage session (decided to have one to unblock my system), I opened up the Internet to enter my favourite forum, Forum CVT only to find an internal server error blocking the page. In the morning, a friend had called saying she had been trying to enter the forum several times and found the same error. Apparently, the forum is going through some updating process and some friends guessed it has something to do with the fact that the forum and some forumers were featured prominently in the latest issue of Kencana which came into market the last few days.
I bought one yesterday and had a good laugh. The March 1-15 issue which happens to be the 113rd edition is the first to feature stories from the forum following a discussion held among prominent members. It happens that Kencana's editor is among them so he had dedicated 5 pages of pictures plus our tomfoolery in the last few pages of the tabloid... The main focus, the gathering we held in Manjung, Perak on Jan 27 attended by some 20 plus forumers, also the trip to Pangkor made by four - me (MerahSilu) and the forumers with nick-names AbnormalSuam, DiamondArcher and Master C-Fu.
Why, there's even a complete article on our friend PenditaGila who is getting married soon. Imagine the laugh I had upon seeing that just below that article was another about advices given by another friend who uses the nickname Kuali - on the do's and don'ts of having sex, the title, "Pesanan Kuali kepada bakal pengantin" (Kuali's advice to the future groom). Among the advice, don't have sex under a tree which is bearing fruits... Or you might end up with a baby who will grow up to be a fierce beater or something like that, haha!
Admittedly, it is serious advice based on old wisdom but still I can't hold myself from laughing like a jackal... Must be the context of the situation. Come to think of it, there's another article about forumer KurmaJalis who got lost on the trip from Ipoh to Manjung. It should have taken only an hour or so but this dreamer actually took 7 and half hours to do the job! And just below that article was a picture of one forumer posing in meditation with his head covered by a towel. It was taken for fun but the serious twist given in Kencana was just too hilarious... I mean, yes the pose was a serious one normally done by advanced meditators but the accompanying article which seemed to imply this particular forumer is a member of secret sect sounded rather spooky and zany.
Anyway, I'm just writing all this to let go off steam.... At least I'm writing something in English especially in this blogspot which was last updated almost a month ago.
Hopefully this should unblock whatever it is that seems to make me very lazy to write the last few weeks. Oh did I tell you that I've completed a trip to the East Coast then down south to Muar and Pulau Besar, Melaka then up north including travel to Langkawi and a climb alone at night up Gunung Jerai in Kedah? Come to think of it, that could also be the reason why I was so lethargic. Yes, the trip was completed more than a month ago but it did take nearly two months to do and only God knows the circumstances I was in while making it.
Hmm... Enough for now. Hopefully, I will feel like writing again here soon enough... Cheers! :]