Catuan Air dan korang semua

Last weekend, aku balik kampung kat Johor, daerah Batu Pahat. Terkejut aku bila tau ada catuan air kat sana! Air paip hanya boleh dibuka dari 10 MALAM hingga 10 PAGI. (Huh, macam internet Wimax kat rumah aku! Haha...) Katanya, empangan dah kering. Maklumlah, hujan dah kurang…

Kepada sesiapa yang memang tak kenal aku, fyi aku duduk kat Putrajaya/Bangi. Kat sini, setiap petang hujan! Paling tidak mesti gerimis, tapi selalu memang asyik hujan lebat, walaupun sekejap. Ni pun tengah lebat gila kat luar tu! Empangan mini kat Putrajaya (depan PICC) tu, bulan lepas dah cetek, sekarang dah dalam balik!

Bukan Putrajaya je. Area KL, lembah Kelang... senang cerita, area Sentral,memang selalu hujan. Hujan lebat sampai keluar kat berita Fly.fm (kat dalam berita trafik. Pasal trafic conjesction petang2)

Ini membuatkan aku terfikir…

Selatan dilanda kemarau sebab semua hujan dah lari ke Sentral ke? Aku tak tau la camne hujan kat Utara (aku jarang baca berita). Tapi kepada sesiapa yang duduk kat Sentral ni…


KORANG TAK RASA BERSALAH KE SEBAB RAMPAS HUJAN ORANG SELATAN?


Haha… Cam dalam cerita One Piece (a.k.a. Budak Getah) pulak, yang kisah Alabaster tu!

How the phone dealer cheats you

Like I promised in earlier entry, this entry will cover some tips for you when buying a phone (based on my experience). I know most of you are already aware of this, but this will be a good reminder/guide before you buy a phone, especially when you're buying CHEAP! (Aku tau la... Aku selalu kena all these stuff...)

What THE PHONE DEALERS say.... And what they REALLY mean...

When they say “Ini ori punya woo… Bukan re-conned punya!”

They really mean: “Betul ori wooo… Tak tipu punya. Ori from OUR kilang. And of course, I mean, not a legal kilang. Huahaha. But hell I would tell you that!”

When they say“This one is better than that one lor…”

They really mean: “If you buy this one, better for me. I got more profit lor… People don’t wanna buy that, so the price go down. But hell I wanna let the price jatuh punya. Barulah got more profit! Truth is, I don’t really know which one is better. If I know oso I won’t tell one…”

When they say“Ini baru punya! Lagi bagus wooo! Murah lagi ni!”

(Baru tak semestinya bagus. Especially when you see the spec is way too awesome with a price that low. I know la… I used Sony Ericsson C501. 3MP, great MP3 features, bla…bla…. But later I realized it’s just indah khabar dari rupa. Spec bagus, tapi diorang kurangkan kualiti so that the price is more affordable).

When they say “Beli kedai ni la! Harga murah punya!”

They really mean: “Of course cheap one… This price not included the memory, screen protector, the casing, the charger, bla, bla… I will only tell you after U bayar, then I pasang all these in your phone, then when I’m writing the receipt, I add on the excess fees. Hah! Padan muka you bodoh sangat! I dah pasang, so you tetap kena bayar juga nanti!”
Ni aku selalu kena! Tapi still aku senang tertipu dengan helah ni!

When they say “Hey… With this price haa… You got 1 year warranty woo… Cover everything!”

They really mean:

• “The warranty is only for the BODY. Not for if anything goes wrong in the system” or
• Right after you pay, and they are about to write the receipt, they’ll say “You nak install antivirus tak? If not, I cannot give you warranty la… Coz virus can rosakkan your phone. No antivirus, no warranty”. By then, it’s already too late for you to take back what you had paid.

When they say “Don’t worry. Ini warranty, if anything happen, just come back here, we’ll fix it!”

Sometimes, it means: “nanti bila you datang, pandai2 la I kelentong pasal terms and condition warranty ni. Gila ke nak repair free2 je?

Yang baik mesti ada buruknya. Barulah saling melengkapi. Ceh!

Aku baru beli phone! Yay! Sangat suka!

Tapi, entah kenapa aku rasa tertipu. Of course aku beli yang tak ori. Mana ada phone ori dapat murah. Awal2 pon aku dah sedar. Tapi kalo orang tu nak tipu pon, tipu la cara pro sket, cam kedai2 lain! Ada ke patut sibuk2 dia kata phone tu ori, tapi sah2 manual dia fotostat punya. Dah tu, aku tengok IMEI siap boleh tau tu dari China yang bukan ori.

Aku bukan apa. Aku memang nak beli yang pirate punya. Murah sikit. Tapi, tak yah la sibuk2 nak explain pasal keoriginalan henpon tu dan betapa gempaknya henpon ori yang tu. Aku tak tanya pon!

Tapi yang paling aku bengang, kata ada warranty setahun. Aku beli la. Sekali lepas aku bayar, dah siap pasang apa semua, waktu nak tulis resit tu dia kata “kalau tak mau pasang antivirus, I tak boleh kasi warranty la.” Sial! Tapi, since aku dah takde masa nak argue dan aku takde mood, so aku pasrah.

Just hoping nothing bad will occur…

Ni bukan kali pertama aku kena tipu dowh… Standard la orang yang jual henpon tu main tipu2. Tapi selalu aku bertuah, sebab henpon yang aku beli semua xde masalah. Kalo orang tu tipu, aku reti pulak nak condemn orang tu balik sebelum aku beli. Well, next post, aku nak buat pasal cara2 penipuan orang yang jual phone kat booth2 dengan harga murah.

And JFYI, handphone yang murah adalah tidak ori. Mahal sikit, adalah AP (aku x tau maksud dia apa). Yang ori, tuuu… yang mahal nak mati tu. So kalo korang rasa seronok tengok yang murah2 tu, of course la tu x ori.


p/s: Henpon aku selama ni memang pirate. Aku pnah beli phone tak pirate dua kali je seumur hidup! Nokia itam putih 3315 tahun 2004 ngan Sony Ericsson K715i. Ala… Korang pon ramai yang pakai henpon pirate punya. Tak payah la kutuk aku ^_^

Pengumuman penting!

Hi kawan2!~
(dengan nada kanak2 riang-ria)

Di sini aku nak umumkan yang aku telah kehilangan handphone. And of course, pencuri handphone tu telah membawa lari korang punya nombor sekali.

Jadi, kepada korang semua yang merupakan member2 rapat, bdak2 Uniten yang kenal aku (dan aku kenal korang gak. mutual relationship la konon), member2 sekolah lama aku, dan sedara mara sepupu sepapat adik angkat kakak angkat.... Sila2 dan tolong2 la menghantar mesej kat nombor aku. Aku still guna nombor lama, Celcom 013-629****! (aku dapat dari Celcom Center)

Kepada mereka2 yang dengan hampeh telah menghilangkan nombor aku gak, bleh kasi mesej kat Facebook aku (display name: Melly Amalina).

Okay?

Sayang kamu semua!~ ♥

Dear Diary

Yesterday I lost some friends...

Today I lost my phone, along with the memories inside...

What’s next?

Well, why bother? This is nothing compared to my previous losses. I don’t need to cry my heart out for some little specks of misery.

How I wished I could turn back time. I could trade everything I have to spin the minutes back to before things got really messy.

But then, this thought occured to me:

To when, exactly?

I had my life messed up a bunch of times. Mostly done by my own hand. And everytime it happened, how I pray that time would stop. Or I could just die at that instant, so that I don’t have to deal with the pain... the guilt... the anger.

I guess, what I really need is my heart back. I wonder if it’s still inside me somewhere. I can feel its beating, but I guess that’s just an obligation. It makes me feel so biologically human, makes me feel biologically alive, but that’s just it. It does not makes me feel like a... person.




Whatever.

Coz tomorrow I’m gonna be fine. Tomorrow, everything would be a sunshine again. But wait! I hate sunshine! It makes the air so humid. And I’ll be sweating! Oh crap...! ^^


Amalina
Sabtu. 3Apr'09

Membaca Amalan Mulia. Dan Aku Sedikit Mulia.

Mode: Ayat bermutu gaya cikgu Bahasa Melayu.
Mode: Lepak la beb!
Mode: Penegasan.

Hari ini aku telah memulakan pembacaan novel aku yang pertama sejak final exam aku tamat. Aku amat berharap dapat menghabiskan keseluruhan buku tersebut, memandangkan sudah tabiat semulajadi aku yang pemalas ini untuk membaca buku sekadar sekerat jalan. Apatah lagi, novel Melayu biasanya terlalu emosi untuk aku ladeni.

Oh, bila dikenang kembali, ketika di Sekolah Menengah Atas, aku tidak pernah menghabiskan pembacaan novel-novel KOMSAS. Tetapi Bahasa Melayuku tetap memperoleh A1. Terima kasih kuucapkan kepada buku-buku Sinopsis yang terdapat di pasaran ^__^

Berbalik kepada topik asal.

Sejujurnya, aku tidak begitu berminat akan novel cinta. Tak main la jiwang2 beb! Buat gatal idong je aku nak nangis2 ni! Tetapi, pilihan yang terdapat di kedai buku hanya terbatas kepada:

A. Kisah cintan-cintun tanpa kissing-kissung
B. Kisah berunsur keagamaan
C. Biografi/Merepek-meraban tentang bagaimana menjadi kaya
D. Thriller Ramlee Awang Murshid

C tu awal2 dah out. D pulak aku dah bosan. B, errrmmm... Aku selalu rasa terpukul bila baca kisah2 macam tu. So, let’s try A.

Dan mataku akhirnya tertacap pada sebuah novel:

Nukilan Rose Harissa

Kenapa aku memilih buku tersebut? Mudah... Kerana terdapat ulasan di belakang buku, “...membicarakan cinta zaman sekarang dari sudut yang belum pernah saya lihat...”. Kedengaran agak menarik! (Yeah, I’m a sucker at advertisement! Mudah tertipu dengan pengiklanan).

Berjayakah aku menghabiskan novel ini?

Nantikan seminggu lagi. Jika tiada khabar berita dariku tentang hal ini, maknanya buku tersebut telah menghilang entah ke mana di sebalik timbunan buku-buku lama di rumah. Ha-ha!~

Tunggu!~

How To Train Your Dragon : Good, Bad, So-so?

If anyone ever asked me how’s the movie and demand me to explain, I’d only say:

WHOA!~

And by the way, that’s a compliment. It’s a short for “Man, that was AWESOME! I never expected my 2 hours would be that worthy and I really thought it was just a stupid animation about Viking and dragons, but here I am trying to explain to you how great the movie is but I found myself SPEECHLESS instead!”

Teheeee......

At first, I just came in only to kill time. It’s raining heavily outside and I got nothing better to do at the mall. I had no idea it was an animation. I really thought it’d be something like Harry Potter, or Narnia sort of thing (I had no time to flip over the paper to look for what’s on the screen b’coz of all the final exams and stuff, so I had no idea AT ALL of what the story is about) and I kinda disappointed to find that it’s another animation.

It was boring, the first ten minutes or so (I didn’t look at the watch), BUT THEN, as soon as the Night Fury appeared, I was dancing in my seat! Amused by the cuteness and the amazingness!

And it’s getting even better as minutes goes by. I still remember the part that ******tuuuutttttt!!!!!*******tuuuuuuttttt!!!!*****
(Spoiler alert. Let's just not overdoing it, okay!)

Everything about the dragons completely blanked my mind. It was funny at one time, but erratic and furious at another. It was like having a sweet, melt-in-your-mouth cotton candy with a sizzling Coke at the same time!!! ^_______^





Well, whoever does not agree with me must be a no-life old hag or a fussy lady boss or a muscle-brainer jock.

Oh, by the way, I wasn't watching the 3D animation. That would probably be even better.