was on Cikgu Karim...the tall, dashing, Physics teacher, back when I was in MRSM Kulim. He was quite a sight to behold. And he walked...in a certain manner, proud...straight... with confident strides.
He liked to walk around the room as he taught, holding that ruler in his hand...and one day, as my best friend Aween and I were staring at him, mesmerised as usual, with a thousand and one sordid teen fantasies running through our pubescent minds...he suddenly stopped. In front of us. I held my breath.
He looked down at our tables and just stared at Aween's open pencil case and seeing the word
"Je t'aime" she had stenciled inside just for fun (she went to school in Paris when younger and was fluent in French)...he smiled at her and said, "Merci Beaucoup"...what the hell for...we never knew.
But I was so jealous, because he spoke to her...in French! Darn...
Aween, I hate you!
Aween...
I remember when we took off to Kuantan and Kemaman in my distant-memory-of-a-beautiful '89 230CE Mercedes, leaky radiator and all... after a particularly bad episode, the first time I ever left my kids (I missed them the second I got on the hiway and was depressed throughout the trip)...we stopped at the Karak R&R, and the Chinese woman manning the kedai runcit we bought drinks from told me, "Haiya! Apasal lu kasi lu punya anak pakai ini macam! Manyak seksi wooo!"
"Woi! Auntie! Dia bukan saya punya anak la! Ini saya punya kawan! Aween, lain kali hang keluaq ngan aku, hang pakai guni boleh tak??"
Cepat get fat and motherly like the rest of us okay!
Cikgu Karim...
Oh yes...he was a real hunk...tall, bermisai, nice wavy, short hair we just wanted to run our fingers through...because he was so handsome, I flunked my Physics that year...I couldn't hear a word he was saying...the theories all became one muffled sound in the distance, so transfixed was I...hahaha.
And that was only a crush.
Love, I last heard, does more damage than flunking a test.
Anyways...
I'm in the mood...
to make...
banana pancakes tomorrow...
topped with yoghurt, or maybe drizzled with honey...
and butter...lots of butter.
Bananas...
They remind me of the time I had kodok pisang made over dapur kayu at his kampung when we first got married. Just me and him, and his wan. Very nice lady, arwah wan...very sweet, very old...tangan orang tua...kodok pisang on a dewy, misty kampung morning with hot tea, sitting on the pangkin...that was heavenly.
The first raya we went back to his kampung almost 16 years ago, (I think...I stopped counting...haha)...was also memorable. We had a tiff before that...and didn't talk all the way from KL to Tanjung Ipoh. Then we found, we had missed the last bus to Kampung Panglang and had to walk...I don't know how many kilometres or how many hours we walked in the pitch darkness, passing graves and secondary forests...but since we we supposed to be fighting, I couldn't ask...are we there yet??? I just silently followed him for what seemed like forever, until we reached kampung.
Hahaha...that was one longggg walk, I tell ya....
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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evocative, poignant, funny
best gila, happy sedih...macam cerita charlie chaplin...
macam meteor..it shines bright, and it passes...sigh...
Awww..sedapnya sembang2 you.Memories...light the corners of my mind..misty-watered coloured memories..of The Way We Were..shedihh laah..boohoo boohoo.
Apa jadi pada Cikgu handsome tu? Tua and gemuk ker?Dah bercucu?Or still handsome giler?
Salam An-nimr,
Just dropping by to say hello. Capt. Kapas Pirate mentioned you to me, saying that you were on the prowwwl, not sure for what though.
Wickedly nice blog you have, too. Words come easy for you, kan? Really2 envy that.
:-)
Salam:
ummi,
kakak i tanye...ummi tu artiste mana? heheh...
mamasita,
you ni...heheh, lagu tu so funny! dunno what happened to him...dah pakai tongkat (ali) kot...hahaha (sorry cikgu Karim....)
wassalam Zendra (mula2 ingat mat salleh...hehe)
not that easy lah...ikut mood (ni pun saje tulih2 merepek nak hilangkan mengantuk kejar deadline malam2 buto...buat keje ngantuk giler, the moment menulis je mata terbeliak...hehe
Angle sis..angle makes all the difference bila ambik gambaq...artist hahahaha..nak gelak tegolek.
Thanks for the complement/compliment...
shall i start on the difference between compliment and complement ;)
Hi Tigress and ladies,,,,yoohohoo
I never had any crush but had many crash with my teachers !. Alway caught in the middle btw teachers and students,,,i was elected as student council chairman/leader in school/collage etc,,,don't know why but was Mr. mediator all the time since schooling days until now too.
Its my face, they say !,,,always smiling and friendly type (don't have AK47 with me,,,sorry mamasita)
hahaha takut kena tembak nanti yoo.
Tigress ,,,yes you also can write like our friend Matt, bila nak publish buku ?.
Me,,, hemtam saja type, two sides of me-lah i.e. one serious writer another play play yoohohoo !!!.
Mamasita,,,bila nak blog balik, kami waiting ini m'cam "pungkok tunggu bulan ?" hehehe jangan marah.
Zendy,,,you might get me into trouble with Tigress grrrrr tigress !.
Ummi,,,you ada 10 kids wow !! betul kah ?.
Malay/French b/f - you jaga badan ya ! Bagi tigress marah banyak banyak. Kita menari tango depan dia next time hahaha.
Tumpanging blog rimau malaya yooo.
Pirateking
Salam Capt!
Ummi got 7, my sis got 10...or 12...i pun lupa...hahaha (and she lawyer somemore...pro like ummi also)
Pungguk la bang! Pungkok is butt....hahahaha....marah mamasita kang....heheh
Alah, Aween tu dah ade anak esok...baru dia tau...cepat sket Ween!
I cannot write lah Capt, I just for fun only...Mat memang terer, CalicoJack (A pirate doc) also terer...hahaha
Tehsin mmg dengki kat i!! ahhaah.. Capt, tango??..ehehhehe..
Kalau pun aku ada anak nanti I will try to make sure that I keep my current figure, boleh! kalau Ummi dah ada 7 kids and still look good, why can't I?? ;-p..!
for some reason, i can only imagine rupa cikgu karim lbh kurang mcm pak haji Husam, even if you describe the former as short and fair, sporting a mullet hair-do.
Hallo Aween, Im not that bad, but me wearing jubah and you in miniskirt up to there, of course la people ask me "ini lu punya anak kaaa? aiyooo!"
hahaha...
Kerpie,
I was wracking my brains trying to think of a decent comparison...man! How could I forget HUSAMMMMMM!!!! You are on the money, boy!
OI!! mana bila aku pakai mini skirt masa aunty tu tegur, i was wearing my jeans la?! and is it my fault if she commented that way ??? :-p heelloooo!
Now...this is what we call a catfight...meowrrrr!!!!
yes you were, wearing a skirt.... meowrrrr!
bila mana??? heheheh...dah hot la tu...
ingat tak fav quote mak aku "bila MANA" referring to bad men..."binatang la itu macam!" Hahahaha....
Aween...I found the picture! hehehe...you WERE wearing jeans....hahaha, but still aku pakai jubah, dia ingat hang anak aku...siul betul....
and erm...the mini skirt I think was mine, that denim one...in Kuantan back in what....1988???
hahahah...relaxla sis...saje nak kacau hang...i know la you got some aircon problems tgh hot lagi....nanti aku call kat si Amran tu, ek?
seperti biasa, satu coretan yang menghiburkan.
satu saje komen rimau, instead of asking aween to morph into some one like you, why don't you morph into someone like aween
heh heh
when some non muslim says that the jubah deprive women off their freedom, i always say it is us men who are being deprived, we are being deprived off what we like to see
see where i m coming from?
Snakebite,
I thot you dah commit harakiri! I was worried there for a sec...hehe
I suruh dia pakai guni ja..haha...
Yeah, i know where you are coming from Snake ;)
BTW Snake, I think the jubah is the most liberating piece of garment ever designed for women...haha...next to slippar gotah!
Tapi Aween tu...pakai guni pun lawa gak...heheh...some people just got it...what to do!
GUNI???!!!..ni mesti nak mengampu aku balik le ni! I know what to do with the guni!!hahaahah..tehsin tehsin..
Aween, Aween...hehehe...tau tak pe..."And I Know Her So Well"....tukar title lagu Elaine Paige ...HIM jadik Her...hahaha
Tehsin,
I had lunch with Cikgu Somchit & Cikgu Sam last Wednesday + a few of the Pioneers. When the subject of high school crush came up, of course nama Cikgu Karim(abang Karim)& Cikgu Mail came up la.
Bila you mentioned him in this blog, I couldn't stop laughing. Luckily he never taught me, kalu tak sure I pun flunk jugak...
RS aka Kak Lolly.
askm kak lolly!
laaa...I didnt know you read my blog...heheh...abang Karim?? romantiknyer!
the pioneer sisters were so matured that time...early blossomers...hahaha...
what I remember most about you was how pretty you were and your face cleansing routine no matter how lambat you woke up or whether ada air ke tak...hahaha...mana tak lawa sampai sekarang!
Cikgu Somchit, Cikgu Sam (dia husband one of the teachers kan?)...gosh...i feel so old...tak ingat dah so much of the school days...
Oh, I also remember kak Lolly and kak shaki "dating" with their respective hunks...high school sweethearts la katakan... ;)
Tehsin,
can't help smiling down memory lane.But sori, the pioneer girls got there first :p .
Lolly, abang...oops..cikgu Karim pernah ajar kita physics le.Tak ingat ke? To all yang curious...yes he still looks good. Tak gemuk pun.He still wears that killer smile! I ada ambik gambar ngan dia masa reunion kat Kulim a few years back. And I tanya satu soalan maut kat dia, jeng jeng jeng....."cikgu tau tak kitaorang panggil cikgu abang karim?" dia jawab............
Eh...komen i ni masuk ke?
khairun a.k.a kak K'Lone
salam Kak Lone!
Heheh...apa Abang Karim kata?
I'm sure he knew! I once ngan Aween pi jalan2 kat area2 umah cikgu....lalu umah dia and hoping to catch a glimpse of him,we loitered around.....then buat2 jatuh barang, bila dia keluar....hahaha...pretending to look for our stuff bila dia tanye....pathetic!
Sad thing, some women never grow up...muahahaha
K lone,
your cerita pasal tangan grabbing someone from under the bed...sampai la ni I phobia tau tak...mesti check bawah katil even tho I know it is irrational fear!
Hahaha
Nice photo by the way..! It's good to reminisce the 'good ol days' isn't it? What we want are old photos, got any you can post?
Tangan bawah katil? Goodness, I've had worse imaginings.
1. Tengah berak 3am, tiba-tiba ada tangan keluar dari mangkuk tandas tolong basuhkan/ tolong korekkan/ tolong cabut bulu/ tolong raba/ cuba tarikku ke dalam mangkuk tandas.
2. Tengah stare at the window sill, tiba-tiba ada tangan give me the finger.
3. Tengah lying on the bed looking at the horizon that is the bed edge, tiba-tiba ada tangan crawl up (this one finally did happen, my daughter trying to get on the bed)
4. A hand falling from the ceiling onto my face (a la the Aliens facehuggers)
Why is the hand so scary to us? Because it can do many, many yummy or not so yummy things...
Hidup semut!
Steven, I got the old trick photo nak? nanti I scan...heheh
Nadzrin,
Are you high?? Hahaha...
Cerita Benar
In Singapore golf and country club toilet, this guy was having a shit an a ular sawa bit his balls !.
In Temengoh Dam, this askar was happily doing his thing and an ikan toman bit off his penis !.
In a lake this guy was also doing his thing and a labi labi bit off his balls !
In Pahang jungle, this 15 years old student was swallowed by an ular sawa.
I have pictures of these events, you want to see ?.
Pirateking
PirateKing...show us! Nak tengok!
Salam MT,
I guess Cikgu Karim was not wearing turban, because if he did, certainly he would look like me. Plus physics is also my specialty.
Wassalam.
Wsalam PS,
Welcome back. I knew you would say that...;)
Sigh..falling in love with teachers. Reminds me of my first crush too. My secondary school teacher, a lanky and leggy lady named Ms Ng.
With her knee length skirt, she used to lean on the width of her desk as she lifted 1 leg partially. Pencils used to keep falling when she did that :o
Riddzy,
I think your pencil yg paling kerap jatuh...;) I saw how cheeky and frisky your cute little daughter was...ikut daddy tak?
Tehsin
I once had a crush on my lecturer. Apart from his boyish handsome, he's also very, very shy. I wasn't the only one, lots others too. Last I heard, he married one student, the first one who went to see him and told him she dreamt that they got marrierd...hahaha! Now, why didn't I think of that!!! LOL!!
Ydiana,
pandai dia eh? my sis also tackled her husband head on...hehehe he was her lecturer too, and lusted after by many!
awwww....
budak mrsm jugak rupanya U ni yek?
idup ANSARA! hehehe....
VA,
u know dalia from kuantan? your senior kot...
hubby dia ahmad, depa neibor i..dalia died last year from cancer
and left a 5 year old..nearly 6 kot...so sweet anak dia...kesian I tgk...
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