Recently, I attended a Malay wedding in Terengganu. Prior to the event, I have decided to shoot the event just to favor my growing interest in photographing people. On top of that, I have never done any wedding photography before. The Dowry Presenters.
She's my sister and many people tend to say that we look alike.
The bride and groom's (together with their respective family) dining table.
Thanks to these fellas we finally were able to squeeze our thirst.
Frankly speaking, that was one hella wedding I've ever attended. Y'know, with the El Nino effect has taken place in Malaysia, the weather was scorching hot, and still is till this day.
Hence, my father decided to have this well-shaped fresh coconut water to squeeze down the heat.
Hari ni saje rasa nak menulis pasal short vacay family aku sempena CNY Break. Sebenarnya takdelah sempena perayaan tu, tapi kitorang punya vacay tu sebenarnya pada minggu CNY Break, bukanlah pada hari jatuhnya CNY Break tersebut.
Perjalanan dimulakan pada pagi Jumaat yang sungguh mendung. Bak kata orang Kelantan; jo’o. abang aku macam biasa jadi driver rasmi kitorang. First stop ialah di Nilam Puri, Kota Bharu. Kitorang attended wedding bekas jiran kitorang dulu dekat sana. Gerak habis awal dekat pukul 10 pagi sebab nak makan tengah hari dekat sana punya pasal. Alhamdulillah kenyang perut suka hati. Gulai daging dia pun sodap mak kau!
Congratulations! Moga hubungan hingga ke jannah. tu akak aku dengan pengantin by the way.
Selepas itu, perjalanan diteruskan lagi menuju ke kampong halaman tercinta di Setiu, Terengganu. Benda yang melenguhkan bila balik kampong ni, nenda aku memang suka paksa cucu-cucu dia makan. Selagi kau tak angkat punggung dan kaki yang sedia besar itu ke meja makan kayu berwarna coklat yang berada betul-betul di pintu masuk rumah tu, selagi itulah kau kena tahan telinga kau dari mendengar panggilan nyaring nendaku itu.
Keesokan harinya, hujan turun dari pagi sampai petang. Lepas Zuhur baru kitorang boleh gerak menuju ke Kemasik, Kemaman. Kitorang dah planned nak bermalam kat rumah mak saudara aka adik abah aku tu. Rumah beliau memang betul-betul berdekatan dengan pantai dekat Kemasik tu. Tapi aku tak pergi pun pantai tu. Puaslah asyik pergi pantai je tiap kali balik kampong.
Sebelum sampai ke rumah makcik aku, kitorang singgah di Mesra Mall. Plan asal nak tengok Ola Bola. Ramai orang kata filem tu best gila tahap tak ingat. Tu yang semangat pergi booked tiket tu. Kitorang booked untuk 9.50pm showtime. Aku, kaklong dan Radzi aje yang menengoknya. Abah aku tak berapa sihat kakinya. Kalau tak mesti dia antara yang paling bersemangat nak tengok.
Sedih cerita ni. Patutlah member aku pesan bawak tisu time tengok. #thebestmalaysianmovie. berbaloi RM17 melayang. *gambar ihsan google*
Pada hari Ahadnya pulak, kitorang gerak menuju ke Bukit Gambang. Kami adik-beradik semua tak pernah lagi masuk tempat tu. Ma dan abah aku je yang pernah pergi. Itu pun masa Family Day. Sepanjang perjalanan, kabus tebal gila. Sebenarnya, takdelah sepanjang perjalanan, more likely to ¾ perjalanan aku rasa. *tiket masa aku pergi RM32-adult.
Nasib baik hari tu tak ramai orang dekat situ. Kalau tak, penatlah nak menunggu giliran nak naik slides depa yang famous tu. Sebenarnya yang bersemangat main air ialah kaklong dan aku je kot. Abang aku nama aje masuk waterpark, tapi pakaian dan badan dia kering sentiasa kot sepanjang kitorang ada dalam tu.
Kitorang naik Galaxy Slides (yang kena lalu tunnel tu), Canopy (longest slide) dan Family Rafting (walaupun aku, kaklong dan abah je kot yang main FR tu. The scariest slide I’d say FR sebab seating aku yang buatkan aku kena tengok belah kanan slide aje. Lepas tu Galaxy sebab kat dalam tu gelap gulita and the only thing that I did was holding the pelampung tightly while screaming like a maniac from the moment we were released from the top till the moment we reached the final destination which is their respective pool. Dahla aku dan kaklong tak reti berenang langsung. Mamat lifeguard tu boleh pulak buat dono kat kitorang yang tersadai tengah-tengah kolam tu. Haish!
There is another slide (Crystal Slide) and according to the signboard, it’s the fastest slide. Taktau la betul ke idak, sebab kitorang tak try pun. Penat ah nak daki tangga yang banyak anak dengan kaki sakitnya, nak usung pelampungnya lagi. Ada juga lane terrace slide tapi taknak aku buat. Tengok orang buat pun dah gerun.
Pengalaman paling menggerunkan masa dekat Coco Beach. Elok je kitorang sampai, siren ombak bunyi. Cepat-cepat naik pelampung konon nak rasa wave tu. Sekali bila naik, orang lain semuanya makin ke darat dibawa arus. Aku dan kaklong je kot yang makin kedepan dekat 1.8m. Gila cuak, nyaris lemas dibuatnya. Taknak cerita lebih pasal bendalah tu. Pengalaman pahit kot.
Ni la tempat yang aku nyaris lemas ni. takmau dah pergi. -,-* *gambar ihsan google jugak*
Benda yang paling best bila dekat our final pit stop which was the falling water or whatever the name. Ala, yang air dia isi dalam tangki dia tu, then bila penuh orang pakat tunggu kat bawah and almost get drowned. Sumpah best gila main benda tu. Aku dan kaklong siap main slides dekat kawasan tu lagi sementara menunggu tangki penuh.
Puas hati main ni. sampai jatuh terduduk aku kena hentam dengan beliau. *gambar ihsan google lagi*
It was nice after all, soaking ourselves in water, almost getting drowned (an experience and moment to be remembered), main slides macam kanak-kanak riang and the most valuable value is family bonding. Bila lagi nak merasa bercuti sakan main-main macam orang gila macam zaman kecik-kecik dulu dengan parents and siblings kalau bukan waktu macam tu?
Y’know, makin kita dimamah usia, masa berlalu, kadang-kadang tu kita tak sedar our relationships are getting strained despite the time. Anak-anak yang kecik dah jadi besar, kerja, kahwin. Mak bapak pun bukannya makin muda. With that, always bear in mind to always make the most of your time together.
It's been forever since my last entry. Just got the chance to spare my time to update this blog.
Anyway, this entry is mainly focusing on my just-published self-made website. Yeah, You heard it right. After all these years, I've just come to realize my passion in photography and decided to come out with a website. Well, I had my Viewbug account set up (some time in 2014) and barely manage the account as I was busy with something else at that moment. Now that my schedule is wide open, I decided to restart off fresh this interest of mine which I once had buried it deep underneath the ground of mine. Hence, I started to reorganize my Instagram feed. I used to have two different Instagram accounts (my personal affair and my photography instinct account : akmalgraphy) but I somehow deleted the latter. Like I wrote earlier, I wanted to restart off fresh, hence all the website, Instagram feed doing. And I started to manage my viewbug account once again.
Last month, my family and I (minus my sister) went to Kuala Besut for a family day. But I'm not gonna confide much on the whole family day thing 'cause what I'm about to write here is how spectacular the place is.
On Friday, we kicked off our journey to Demong Beach Resort at 7.30 am-ish. Too bad for me because I'm not really a morning person, basically getting myself up early in the morning and having a very very cold shower, vocationally speaking, clearly a total nausea-driven situation, at least for me.
I'd just skip the whole breakfast, stopping by a gas station, buying some lunch part as I don't find it important for this entry. After a few hours of tiring and boring journey, we were finally almost there. Kuala Besut is all about beach or sea or whatever.
Close-up.
The best part of the day was to catch a glimpse of boats floating on not-so-clear water.
The resort.
Lunchie
Had our dinner
My bro while waiting for his turn to perform dikir barat
Spot my abah there!
On the very next day,
typical nasi lemak with keropok ikan on top
for you... like autumn leaves *singing Ed Sheeran's*
Despite mingling ourselves with the crowd, Abah and I decided to get out of the resort and having nasi dagang instead. After that, abah took me to Kompleks Pendaratan Ikan LKIM, Kuala Besut. The main reason for him taking me there was to buy some fish but he didn't buy any. So I took this liberty of getting to know more on how fishermen or fishmongers work 'cause I had never seen it before. It's kinda a blessing for me, being able to witness such scene. A new experience, I might add.
LOADS of Fish.
I know this entry is getting boring and boring for you to read but, hey, I just finished writing the story! With that, till the next entry!
It's almost two weeks already since my first day staying at this gigantic building of the University of Technology, Malaysia. Some people even questioned me with all these,
'what the hell are you doing there?' 'So, you're pursuing your degree there,huh?'
well, I'd answer them,
'No, I'm not. I've a sister,doing her Master in here. So I'm kinda visiting her.'
'Pray me for the best, will ya?' -the answer for the second question. Ask no more.
OKAY. Here's the thing.
I've been here for some issues which would take me a whole world to reveal them to you. Besides, I'm kinda in the mood of travelling. Well,not quite 'travelling' though but I'd rather call this as my lil' travelling experiences here in Skudai; a part of Johor.
So where to begin with? Let's do some flashback to when I first stepped my foot in Johor this time. 'Twas August 20th, 2015, on Thursday. Basically, there were me and my other family members, in the midst of chilly midnight, crossing through all the highways (not all obviously, I'm kinda making this up) heading to Skudai, Johor.
Had nasi lemak for breakfast
Morning rise and shine from my cars #eh
We reached there by 10 in the morning on the next day. We rented a homestay; Homestay Qaisara, just a mile away from the university. It costed us RM180/overnight. Not gonna be detailed at this point, but here are some photos of the homestay.
Tanjong Malim's Pasar Malam (night market) off we go
That weekend, most of the Royals went back and the only folks left were me and Ain. To make our long weekend un-waste, we came up with a plan of a trip to Pasar Malam which supposed to be our last trip to Tg Malim. There I said, supposed to be. Because apparently on the next weekend, we went there, again.
The cost for a taxi from Lembah Beringin to Tg Malim was around RM50/round trip. Thus, we have to convince our other friends to tag along so that the cost could be divided fairly for 4 persons. Then there we were; me, Ain, Syafiq and Acap. Quite brilliant weren't we?
KY sunrise of the day
Their last paper
To Tg Malim off we go
Well, she asked for it. and that Soda water really disappointed us
Hello my dearest readers wherever you are. I'd like to talk about what was my last Hari Raya Eidul Fitri be like? Yes, I know it's already Dzulkaedah but, Selamat Hari Raya. Hope all went well and you enjoyed your raya as much as I had.
I know it's been more than one month since my last post on my blog as things didn't go smoothly as I predicted, thus no post until today.
Truthfully, my raya this year wasn't really a raya that I've been looking for. We spent our first day of raya in Kelantan, which was not really fun to be there. But, there we were, my family of 5 people, my aunt with her 3 daughters and our grandma.
On the Raya's eve, we; my sister and brother and me, played Monopoly and wooden blocks, (y'know the one that looks like zenga but small in size). Yeah we played that instead of cooking in the kitchen, making rendang or nasi minyak for raya. We (my sister and I) did enter the kitchen to do those stuff but it was 11 in the evening already. We stayed back at the kitchen till almost 3 am. There I said. cooking nasi minyak with kerutuk daging and ayam masak merah at 3am. My aunt tried to show off her skill in making the kerutuk daging but ended up making a rendang daging instead. I don't know where to put the blame on, either on her or the recipe. HAHAHAHAHAHHA
The next day, only my dad went to surau performing Solat sunat hari raya aidilfitri I guess since all the women were in the kitchen for the last minute preparation, i.e. cooking the nasi minyak and ironing our baju raya. At almost 10am, after all the messes, we, the ladies, went out from our dressing room for the raya photo-shoot.
us the siblings
A wefie from the Cikmats
The elders
On the second day of raya, I drove back to Terengganu to spent the rest of our cuti raya there. Again, this year's raya wasn't really a fun raya like it used to be.
The funny thing about this year's raya was our *me, my sister and my mom) baju raya weren't completely sewed baju raya till the point if we're about wear this baju raya on the next day, we need to sew the baju raya from where it was last left behind. Tell you what, that's the perk of being a tailor's children. Customers are the no. 1 priority.
On the next day, we decided to go out of the village, heading to Bandar Kuala Terengganu.
The new Mydin's been opened and there was my sister, being an unpaid model
We went to Pantai Batu Burok after having our lunch. The following are some photos taken by me using an iPod 5G. How's my photography skills?
Masjid Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Marang
Stopped by Kelulut, Marang to have some snacks (i.e. fried squid, fried fish and fish crackers) there
THIS IS HEAVEN!!
Not to forget, a beautiful sunset.
At night, we went over our relatives' in Marang to have some barbecue party. The not so best part of the event was, I had a stomach ache on that day, thus can't really enjoy the party. The lesson that I've learnt was to not eat too much during raya or you're gonna miss the joy of the day.
It's 2.57am right now and I couldn't sleep at all. After the early nap I took, now I am all starting fresh for the next day, early in the morning, which is, VERY EARLY, LITERALLY.
So I've decided to blog but I don't know what I should blog on about.
Anyways, time is really flying fast. It flies so fast that I, sometimes, come to think I've got really a plenty of time to be wasted of or to even appreciate everything that happens to me at the moment.
Sometimes I feel like going back the time to when I first entered boarding schools and with 'what ifs' thingy revolve around my mind. Then comes the time where I want to go back, or like a quick tour of my 2 years in KY. sobs sobs sobs.
Abah aku suka sangat tengok haiwan. kalau dia bukak tv, tak sah kalau tak bukak AWANI, BERNAMA dan NATGEOWILD.
Haritu aku dan akak aku cuti CNY seminggu dan memang dah plan sebelum cuti lagi nak pergi Bukit Tinggi lah, Bukit Fraser lah tapi plan kitorang tergendala sebab abah aku lepas tengok panda keluar buletin tv3 terus ajak kitorang pergi zoo.You heard it right, pergi zoo.
Plan seasal-asalnya adalah untuk ke Genting Highland nak naik cable car tapi tak jadi sebab under maintenance.
Kitorang gerak ke KL lebih kurang pukul 8.00 am dan singgah sarapan roti canai di kedai makan dekat dengan rumah. Ingatnya kalau sampai KL awal, hari tu jugak abah aku nak bawak kitorang masuk Zoo Negara tu tapi sebab jalan jammed yang amat kami sampai KL dalam pukul 3.40 pm ++. Maka plan terpaksa dibatalkan dan terus checked in di Kuala Lumpur International Hotel (KLIH).
Lepas baring-baring dan memasing mata melekat dengan phone, kami pergi Jalan TAR nak beli kain nak buat raya. Awal gilos beli kain pasang hahahaahahha. Takut gila masa jejalan sebab crowded gila dan bangla merata. Berjalan lelaju dan cuak je itu hari. Perasaan masa jejalan tu umpama rasa tidak selamat kerana berada di negara sendiri. Engkorang pernah tak rasa macam tu?
Lepas berjaya membeli 5 pasang kain, kami kembali ke kereta dan abah aku ajak pergi SOGO. Abah aku basically ada habit melencong ke SOGO tiap kali pergi KL aku pun tak tahu kenapa beliau menggemari tempat seperti itu.
Jom shopping seluar dekat SOGO-Abah, 2015
percayalah, tiap kali plan nak beli sesuatu dekat SOGO, kitorang akan end up berjalan keluar dari SOGO dengan tangan kosong walaupun SOGO tengah buat clearance sales masa tu.
Okay ni sambungan dari part 1 itu hari. (sila klik bagi membaca part pertama)
keesokan paginya setelah checked out dan bersarapan di gerai berhampiran sebab malas nak sarapan dekat hotel, abah bawak kami melihat dengan mata kasar kami sendiri (eceh, mata kasar... bangga Cikgu Idham cikgu BM aku kalau tau aku guna perkataan tersebut dalam perbualan seharianku ni hahahaha). sekali lagi, abah decided untuk bawak kitorang tengok sendiri Menara FELDA kebanggan beliau and by that time, ia belum di officiate lagi.
Menara FELDA
lepas tu, kami bergegas menuju ke highway untuk ke Melaka dan sudah tentu menyinggah di Nilai merupakan perkara wajib tambah-tambah akak aku dan ibuku peminat tegar segala jenis kain yang ada dimuka bumi ni. nasib baik kain buruk dekat dapur tu depa tak sayang lebih-lebih.
Nilai
jalan agak jammed itu hari. yelah, cuti sekolah kot, nak nak CNY. gila kau tak jam.
setelah beberapa jam perjalanan (termasuk tempoh berhenti makan minum solat, pilih kain dari kedai no 1 sampailah kedai no 55647,wuuuu auta gila) kereta yang membawa kami akhirnya menemui jalan keluar dari highway yang sesak menuju ke Melaka.
Markah effort: 6/10 kerana gigih mengambil gambar exit 231 ni
