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Monday, June 17, 2013

Cerpen: Lagu (Part IV)


*Demo to Brader Furu: due in 10 days time*

Hairi keluar menuju ke kedai buku Kinokuniya di KLCC untuk mencari buku yang Pakcik Mon rekemen beberapa hari sudah. Hairi ke seksyen genre buku seperti yang diberitahu Pakcik Mon. Namun, apa yang ditemui oleh Hairi hanyalah rak buku komik manga Jepun. Hairi rasa mesti sebab kekerapan staff Kino ubah seksyen2 buku kat kedai tu. Hairi kecewa. Hairi pun membatalkan hasrat mencari buku berkenaan sebab buku apa pun tak tahu, inikan pula nak mencari kat satu kedai Kino. Ingat kecik ke Kino ni?!

Sedang Hairi meronda-ronda di bahagian buku Asian Fiction, Hairi ternampak seorang gadis comel yang sedang mencapai sesuatu dari rak yang tinggi daripada dia. Gadis itu ternampak Hairi yang berada berdekatan lalu meminta tolong Hairi untuk ambilkan  sebuah buku dari rak yang tinggi itu. Hairi dengan machonya berjaya mencapai buku tu tanpa sebarang insiden memalukan diri seperti tshirt terangkat sampai nampak perut atau boxer spongebob squarepantsnya. Gadis itu mengucap terima kasih dan kemudian masing-masing beredar macam takde apa-apa berlaku sebelum tu. Hairi rasa macam kenal gadis tu tapi tak pasti siapa.

Setelah meronda tanpa sebarang niat membeli sebarang buku di situ, Hairi beredar keluar dan pergi ke kedai medan selera bawah TGV Cinema untuk minum air kopi. Masa mencari tempat duduk, dia ternampak lagi gadis yang sama tadi dan kali ini dia tengah minum sorang-sorang sambil baca buku yang Hairi tolong capai tadi. Entah buku apa entah. Oleh sebab macam takde tempat duduk sebab food court full sesak gila babi, Hairi pergi menyapa gadis itu dan dengan tak malunya minta izin untuk tumpang duduk minum bersama satu meja. Gadis itu tidak kisah dan mereka mula berborak-borak kosong pasal suasana sesak di KLCC. Hairi berasa semakin pelik sebab semakin lama berborak, semakin familiar perihal gadis bernama Sofea itu pada Hairi.

Selesai pekena kopi, mereka menuju ke stesen LRT untuk pulang tapi masing-masing ambil tren yang berlainan arah. Hairi dan Sofea sempat bertukar nombor telefon namun oleh kerana henpon Hairi dah lama habis bateri hari tu, dia terpaksa tulis nombor Sofea kat tapak tangan je.

Setibanya Hairi di rumah, dia terus caj henpon Blackberry jenis yang cepat habis bateri tu untuk masukkan nombor Sofea. Tapi malang semalang-malangnya buat Hairi. Nombor yang ditulis kat tapak tangan tadi hilang atau lusuh mungkin sebab keadaan tren tadi yang panas sebab aircon rosak jadi peluh kat tapak tangan Hairi menghilangkan tulisan nombor tu. Hairi bertambah kecewa. Sangat kecewa. Emo. Takde mood nak tulis lagu malam tu.

Dia pun terus tidur.
Kbye.

***

... bersambung tak lama lagi.

(17/6/2013)

Tq=)

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Cerpen: Lagu (Part III)

Part I
Part II

Part III

*Demo to Brader Furu: Due in 13 days*

Hairi keluar jalan-jalan cari idea. Dia duduk di sebelah seorang lelaki tua bernama Pakcik Mon dalam tren LRT. Mereka berborak sepanjang perjalanan. Walaupun Hairi ter-missed station tapi mereka continue berbual. Pakcik Mon bertanya Hairi mahu ke mana. Hairi menjawab yang dia nak pergi jalan-jalan mencari ilham menulis lagu. Pakcik Mon rekemen kat Hairi satu buku. Dia tak ingat buku apa tapi beritahu satu seksyen buku kat kedai buku Kino KLCC. Pakcik Mon juga cakap kat Hairi yang Hairi mengingatkan dia kat diri dia masa muda dulu-dulu. Suka jalan-jalan cari ilham.

Sedang Hairi berjalan pulang ke rumah, dia terjumpa kat depan rumah dia kucing cantik sama yang dia pernah jumpa kat depan kedai Pak Brahim dulu. Hairi masuk ke dalam rumah dan cari makanan untuk diberikan kepada kucing tu. Tapi bila Hairi keluar balik, kucing tu dah hilang.

Semacam deja vu buat Hairi.

Malam tu Hairi cuba tulis lagu sikit. Dapatlah kod gitar asas sikit.
Bergeraklah jugak.

***
... bersambung esok!

(17/6/2013)

Tq=)

Friday, June 14, 2013

Review: Man of Steel



I rated it 3.5 stars. I wanted to give it 3/5, but... kesian sikit.

What Made Me Hate This Movie?

1. General Zod. Michael Shannon was not natural and convincing enough as the villain. I'm sooo disappointed about this.

2. Amy Adams as Lois Lane looked like she's not Lois Lane.

3. Laurence Fishburne as Perry White. Wasted! Along with his colleagues.

4. The flashbacks didn't work for me. Just leave it to Arrow series.

5. The movie's pace was pretty much like Battleship. Boring storyline but extravaganza action scenes.

6. The fighting scenes at some points were annoying. Fight, spaceship come and go, fight, spaceship come and go, fight....

7. Just like that Clark first got his costume?

8. Clark Kent and Lois Lane fell in love so easily. Oh come on...

9. Zack Snyder's new cinematography style: shaky cam + zoom in and out many times = so unoriginal. Stick to slow-mo, Zack!

10. Just an average DC Universe flick. Not convincing enough to be a kick-start for a Justice League movie. Everything was rushed in this.


Some positive things about Man of Steel:

1. Henry Cavill is perfect as the new Superman/Clark Kent. Keep him for next sequels!

2. Diane Lane, Russel Crowe & Kevin Costner were great as supporting role. The veterans won.

3. Some fights between Supes and Zod's army kicked ass!

4. Krypton world was beautiful.

5. That's all.


Later~

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Review: KIL


High notes: 

1. Good casting. Overall, the cast were awesome! Redza Minhat and Cristina Suzanne looked natural on their part. Supporting characters like the fruit auntie, the boss, Johan Iskandar and others gave some memorable moments and lines too.

2. Good sub-plot on Johan Iskandar's marriage struggle and his stand on making films. This kind of deep and soft thought-provoking contents should be constantly discussed in future local movies. Refreshing.

3. Bold premise/main storyline on suicide.

4. Standout soundtracks! Guba, Monoloque, Bo and others rock!

5. That cameo by our queen of rock with a fat cat.

6. Juliana Evans wearing school uniform.


Low notes:

1. The way the story is told or maybe the editing could be better. For example, one scene should be told before/after another scene (i.e. the fruit auntie plot's revelation should be at the end).

2. Obvious use of 500 Days of Summer template? Well, maybe it's just me. It's alright but kinda felt awkward when it came to the lift and chalked wall scenes.

3. Too grim and emo at some points in the movie it bothered me.

4. Predictable ending, no? Especially the whole thing about the company.

5. Itu je Juliana Evans? ceh.


***
Bravo to this film. Need more of this in local movie scene (and its take on designing promotional posters).

I rated it 3.5/5 stars.

Monday, June 3, 2013

The Stone



Haris, 20 years old, was mute but not in the dreamworld.
Haris met a girl named Diana in his dream and they fell in love.
They always met each other in 'shared' dreams but never in real life.
In those dreams, Haris always sang one same love song that Diana really liked.
In dreamworld, Haris is a singer Diana adored so much.

One (dream)night, they planned to meet in real life.
They gave to each other own address but Haris tended to forget
about it once he woke up from sleep.
(a normal thing for everyone after dreaming.)
So Diana gave him some signs that would lead him to her home
and Haris needed to remember and seek them.
Since that dream, Haris never dreamed of Diana again.

Haris started to search for the signs, especially a big stone which
always appearred in most of their 'shared' dreams.
Haris finally found the stone.
It led him to Diana's house not far away.

There, he met a lady but she's not Diana.
Her name is Sarah.
Sarah told Haris that Diana had died years ago.
Diana was 80 when she died.
Sarah was Diana's caretaker and now staying at that house originally belonged to Diana.
Sarah also said that Diana was blind and deaf,
and never got married.

When Haris told Sarah his name, she recalled something.
Sarah said Diana constantly told her same stories about her
meeting a boy named Haris in her dreams back when she was young.
And that boy is the only boy she'd seen and fell in love with,
in her entire life.
But Sarah didn't believe that Haris is the same person as told by Diana.
Haris, to convince her it was him, hummed the same song
he always sang to Diana in the shared dreams.
Sarah was shocked and she cried.
It's the same tune Diana kept humming on her dying bed.

Haris sadly left the house.


One fated (dream)day, Haris met Diana again.
And this time for forever.


In dreamworld, Haris, a mute, would have a smooth beautiful voice.
In dreamworld, Diana, a deaf, would listen to Haris' singing all day
and never failed to be amazed by it.
In dreamworld, Diana, a blind, would see a beautiful world for 'real'.
In dreamworld, everything is possible
...and everything is real.


***

"And that's why I love to sleep in class, Cikgu.
I would achieve an A+ in my dream."
The entire class laughed.
Cikgu Sarah just smiled.
It reminds her of something.


THE END

(4th June 2013)

(photo credit:  Astro)