Si Tenggang’s Homecoming

Lucky is experiencing something good in life that we do not expect it to happen or normally wouldn’t happen. That is my definition. Max Martin and his friends describe lucky as ‘having it all’ in his lyrics of Britney Spears’ song - Lucky. Some simple understandable example of getting lucky is reaching at the station and the tube/LRT come right away with no need of waiting, discover 5 bucks in your pocket or even getting a girl out of your league(it goes both way, but we assume guy to have more to offer to girls(money and all). See: double standard!)
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As much as in movie potrayal of getting a good luck with charm(tangkal), avoiding bad luck by not doing certain thing or by doing a particular action such as putting a black bracelet on babies in our culture, we should clearly see all of this action as ‘just for display’. As a Muslim, believing in such thing will bring out great bad consequences. Not much discussion as I assume my reader knows about it (can be discussed by request).
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As for myself, I view ‘lucky’ things happen to me as spices of my life. As I also have some bad lucks, I think I would love to share more about ‘lucky’ little things as it is more interesting. As I believe that every person has his/her lucky time in its on way conciously or not, I feel that my examples wouldn’t be seen as a bragging.
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Some time ago

Reaching here for the first time with no conformed accommodation was a bad experience. But I was having a good luck because I was able to get a house to stay on the very first day. Contrary to local practise where a renter will be given chance to view the house, wait for few days before the landlord give permission for us to stay after going on an elimination process in his list of prospective renters, I did it all in 8 hours after I arrived (my landlord said it is quite impossible to do what I did).
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And then

Going to Scotland is another good luck. As going around Europe is basically possible for people who are living in UK, going to Scotland is not a big trouble. But as I managed to go there with Tahir, I was able to save a lot of money (compare to going on my own) of transportation and accommodation. And it was just 2 months after I arrived.
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Recently

As I do not plan to travel anywhere on my own, probably up until I go back to Malaysia on September (InsyaAllah), I was thinking about treating myself by buying a Nintendo DS. I was already in the Game store when I called Tahir and he told me that he can sell me his DS (as they have 2 of it - old version and Lite). Although I would love to have a new one, I think buying from him is a good option as it can save some more money.
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On the other hand

As a lot of bad moments visit me every now and then, having some lucky things happen in my life made me feel that I shouldn’t lose my hope in life. I know that I am not having a bad luck because I forgot to bring amulet or wear some good charms. And I know that getting some good things going my way was not because I am a man with good soul either.
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So I guess that is something special with our belief (if you have the same belief as I do). We see the good things as a bless, and something to feel gratitude for and view bad things as a test of life, a challenge and also thankful for not having a tougher life some other people may have. And the most important part (actually not the most, but just to make the sentence sounds good), we can live our life normally regardless a black cat crossing in front of us, or random prophecies in zodiac segment in The Star, and for girls: you can sing in the kitchen while cooking with no fear of marrying and old man!

8 months and counting. Actually I am out of idea to write on my so-called monthly report as I spent most of my time in my house recently since exam is over. So there’s nothing much to talk about. Besides, I’ve been saving some thoughts after I get my exam result which is next week. But let me think of something good to share with my fellow blog reader and friends who will be coming over to UK next fall.

Makanan

Sejak aku balik semula ke sini, aku hanya masak nasi sekali sahaja. Yang lain aku beli nasi segera kat Tesco. If there’s something wrong about what people say, this should be the one. Orang cakap yang kalau duduk sendiri, pandai masak. Sampai sekarang resipi masakan aku masih tak berkembang. Mungkin juga disebabkan aku sendiri pun malas nak membuka-buka resipi dan mencari-cari bahan.

[Gambar: dalam kereta Aftab(flatmate Chris) tengah hari tadi, balik dari Sainsbury]

Semalam, perut aku angin sebab mula hari dengan makan nasi. Anyway, ni bukanlah masalah kat sini jer. Memang sejak kat Malaysia pun, aku tak berapa boleh makan nasi sebagai sarapan. Perut angin bila makan nasi (Pelik ek). Tu sebab kalo kat USM, aku slalu singgah makan McD alas perut awal2.

Maka, disebabkan perut aku yang tak berapa supportive, maka menu makanan aku dah berubah banyak. Tambahan pula takde makanan Melayu kat sini. So, pagi - roti, cheese dan choc spread (ppl over say that it is disgusting to mix it up like that but I luv it), pastu petang dan malam berubah-ubah dari roti+kebab, roti+sosej, pizza beli, nasi+ayam goreng, burger dan macaroni+cheese beli.

Maka nasihat kepada kengkawan, bersedialah untuk mengubah menu makanan jika anda adalah seorang yang malas macam aku:)

Bunga

Musim bunga adalah musim yang paling best di UK. Sayangnya, cuaca kadang-kadang turun ke 4 darjah, maka sejuk la jugak. Kalau cuaca baik, memang selesa giler la sepanjang hari. Tak terasa sangat panas, dan tak terasa sangat sejuk. Sangat sesuai untuk keluar jalan-jalan tapi kalau takde duit, maka takde apa la jugak (I’ve been saving my money for something else).

Sepanjang 8 bulan (tolak 3 minggu) aku di sini, bilangan hari aku tidur tanpa selimut kurang dari seminggu. Maksudnya, cuaca kat sini memang sejuk sepanjang tahun la. Tidak rugi kalau bawa stokin banyak-banyak. Entah musim panas sepanas mana, aku pun tak tahu.

Sebenarnya aku agak confuse samaada sekarang sudah musim panas atau belum. Orang UK sendiri pun macam tak pasti yang sekarang ni sudah summer atau belum (Rujuk gambar: Brunel Uni Internationanal Student’s Newsletter. First paragraph: … the summer is (almost) here …)

Other than that

Selain daripada benda-benda fizikal, aku terasa beberapa impak dalaman hasil daripada perubahan suasana dan budaya. I guess I have realize how much I had back then that I never really felt gratitude for. I was blessed with time, fun, friends, family and more other things previously and when it all had been taken away, I know there are a lot of things I can’t put a price.

But in term of growing, it is in between of both ways. I may have grow older in term of the way I think, as I am considering a lot of things I never think of before such as __________ (fill in the blank with appropriate words, anyone please…). But on the other hand, after Chris said, ‘8 years old kid play that‘ this evening, I feel like I am reliving my kids life after feeling so excited of the idea getting a Nintendo DS (this sounds cool but wait until the end of the line) and playing Pokemon Pearl that I’ve just received yesterday (I bought it thru Ebay. I will talk more about this DS thingy in other post).

[P.S: Cakap takde idea awal-awal, last-last panjang gak tulis]