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Personal Poetry

[1151] Mengenai merindui kehijauan kebebasan

Baring sebentar di atas permaidani;
terfikir sejenak tentang kehidupan;
sibuk mengejar harta dan nama;
mula terasa kebosanan hidup.

Teringat kembali turunnya salji;
sungguh tenang melihat ke luar;
masih segar di dalam ingatan;
bermimpi tentang ketenangan hidup.

Sedih mengenang kebebasan dahulu;
mahu kembali ke masa lepas;
biru langit di musim bunga;
terbang tanpa belenggu di kaki.

Malangnya hidup di menara tinggi;
Bagaimanakah ini yang dicitakan dahulu?
Tolong! Ku rindu tumbuhan menghijau;
Semangat luntur setelah berpisah.

Categories
History & heritage Poetry

[1005] Mengenai Rumah Bok

Jalan-jalan Jalan Ampang,
ada ternampak rumah besar,
rumah agam di tanah lapang,
di mata kasar, masa kasar.

Jalan-jalan Jalan Ampang,
tiada lagi rumah besar,
tiang tidur di tanah lapang,
di mata kasar, manusia gasar.

Fair use. Copyrights by The Sun, Malaysia.

Menurut The Sun, Rumah Bok sudah tiada:

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 15, 2006): The legacy of Bok House or Le Coq D’Or on Jalan Ampang came to an end Thursday, with it crushing all hopes and fervour of heritage activists.

Burning questions now await the authorities that be for allowing something so beautiful and beloved to be forever erased.

The building’s roof tiles were the first to be taken down on Thursday morning and hoarding on the Jalan Ampang frontage was put up from 6pm that day. Friday saw the destruction of sturdy pillars which held up the house.

Walau apapun, Rumah Bok adalah harta peribadi. Pemilik berhak menentukan masa hadapan hartanya, walaupun tindakan pemilik itu sungguh menjijikkan.

Saya telah menyumbangkan satu rencana pendek tentang Rumah Bok kepada Wikipedia Inggeris, takut-takutkan saya terlupa sejarah bandar ini di suatu masa.

Categories
Economics Environment Poetry

[723] Of haiku on ocean and maybe, on Proton too

In bid to win $20 worth of Greenpeace merchandizes. Haiku on ocean! In Malay though:

Di ufuk sana,
biru laut memikat,
mengejar mimpi.

Roughly means, still in 5-7-5 format!

On the horizon,
the blue ocean calling us,
us, chasing a dream.

Anyway, there is a very high possibility that I will travel go to Terengganu next week and lend a hand to a conservation project . Well, a project cum holidays. I’m pretty much excited because it’s been more than ten years since I last bathe in the South China Sea. And sitting by the South China Sea, I will be vomiting more lame haikus for all to suffer!

The only thing I might about travelling to Terengganu is that, there is no rail service. And I don’t wanna drive either. So, looks like bus for me. Seven hours in a bus won’t be too kind to my ass.

While in the bus, penning a haiku or two for Proton might be something to distract me from boredom. Why Proton on all the sudden? Well, instaed of Volkswagen, Proton has a new ally; Mitsubishi. Again.

Mitsubishi Motors to form new tie-up with Malaysia’s Proton

38 minutes ago

TOKYO (AFP) – Struggling Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors will form a new tie-up with Proton that would help the embattled Malaysian carmaker develop new models, a newspaper reports.

The tie-up will include a technology transfer, mutual supply of auto parts, including engines, and allow Proton to create new models, the Asahi Shimbun reported, quoting unnamed company sources.

It has only been about about two years since since Proton and Mitsubishi last decided to part ways.

Proton and Mitsubishi should just marry each other. Enough with the flirting already. Hell, let’s do one haiku for Proton now.

Hail Mitsubishi!
A setting red giant star,
trying to save us.

Categories
Activism Environment Poetry

[717] Of haikus for whales!

Remember the Greenpeace’s ship that collided with Japanese whalers in the southern seas?

Well, they’re holding a haiku contest and the winner will win USD 20 worth of prizes of Greenpeace’s merchandises. Heh, and I say, why not?

Blue are the skies, seas,
Birds flying, whales swimming, safe,
Spring’s coming, rejoiced!

Haha. Lame.

p/s – a gem! Q & A: Our Omnipotent President by Fafblog. (via)

Categories
Environment Poetry

[671] Of father, is a rhinoceros a dinosaur?

Fireflies live in our lore,
so do our turtles since they are no more,
turtles fled and stole our corals,
and hail now for rhinos in murals.

End of Johor rhinos? No sign of animal in national park
Sim Bak Heng

JOHOR BARU, Sun.

Where have the Sumatran rhinoceros in Johor gone? The five animals recorded in the Endau-Rompin National Park 10 years ago are believed to have become victims of poachers…

…A United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility study in the late 1990s was abandoned after some time because they were unable to detect the animals.

p/s – thecicak.com has a new look. Do check them out.