Best Man Speech

Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (Sometimes, Never Say Goodbye) is not exactly my favourite movie. Not because it is not a good watch, but rather because it is brutally true. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdRq94jXOGs

watch from 3.08.00 until the end

Towards the end of the movie, Shah Rukh Khan says, 

'We just wish that the journey to find true love didn't have to be paved with broken hearts'. 

If it is not meant to be, then it shouldn't be. Try to see it from a different perspective. 

This post was meant to be published on the 30th of December 2013. You were barely sober. Insensible and heart-broken to be precised. You did not eat, you did not laugh, you did not have a mentally stable mind. You just did not care. There and then, I prayed very hard. Oh heaven, have mercy upon her soul. Send her an angel to guide her fragile heart. Let her be free of all the hatred and misery. 

It has almost been a year. Just a year. How time flies. And look where are you now. Remembering those dark moments just makes me want to ridicule you more. Drama sangat. My ex boyfriend got a new girlfriend! My ex boyfriend uploaded a picture of her new girlfriend! My ex boyfriend emm apa lagi salahnya ya! Semua salah!

He found the one who suits him well.
You found the one who suits you better!Suits you best!
And the world is so unfair, you got married first!

Selamat pengantin baru, best friend! Love you to the moon and back!

P/S: Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna is the last hindustani movie that we watched together with Aufa, Ain and the rest

Keep calm and just keep calm

I laughed during the first vow, of course.

Who could resist it when he said, aku terima nikah dengan mas kahwinnya seriibb... seratus ringgit.

I know lah that you're rich, but the dowry agreed was only seratus, not seribu. 

Okay... Repeat... said the Tok kadi.

'Aku terima nikah dengan mas kahwinnya seratus ringgit tunai'

Alhamdulillah.

I knew. I knew it. I knew very well. So I kept it in my head

DO NOT BE TOO EMOTIONAL. IT IS A HAPPY DAY. HOLD IT IN.

*blink blink blink blink*

What is this water welling up in my eyes? 

Close your eyes and sniff!

Well now it's streaming down!

Quick! Find a place to hide and make it go away.

Keep caaaaaaaalm

Nope! Nope! It's coming again. 

Yes! yes! Look up and just stare at the ceiling

Look... Nobody is cryiiinnggggggg...

Then, the mom cries.

Oh my God. Should we cry together?

I felt like some part of me was snatched away by a Physics teacher.

Oh! Maybe he discovered a way to break the atoms in a human's body and take one atom awayyy.

Atom? More like an organ. 

I used to see it as a blessing.

And now I'm thinking maybe it is a blessing, but as a curse in disguise.

Because it is harder, harder and heavier to let go.

It is still a beautiful curse, though. 

A path towards maturity?

Can I just cry and take the road not taken?

Can I just scream and ask for my best friends back?

Can I just stomp around, roll on the floor, kick the wall and ask for my best friends back? 

Cannot! I AM F****** 26! 

People come and go, Adibah.

Only The One will stay.

Yang Maha Esa. Yang Maha Agung. Yang Maha Penyayang. Yang Maha Pengasih. Yang Maha Mengetahui. Yang Maha Pemelihara dan Maha Tempat Pelindung.

More are yet to come. Like i told you before, we must be independent and strong. 

Kita mesti matang! (the word that we hated so much before)

And may this kinship that we build together not be shaken by this small teeny tiny test challenge inflicted upon us.

Apalah ni! Kahwin saja puuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnn.

I love you, my best friend. 

Selamat menempuhi alam bahagia :)

Though we may not be privileged like before, I would try my very best to steal you from your husband once in a while. 

And we would chat about 'hantu house 31' over Neslo panas. 

EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE. INSYAALLAH.

Just like how we went through 'hantu house 31' hahaha

Now I miss Fatin Syuhada Mohd Zainy 

Love you too, dooooooooooooooooot!

Dogmatic

We saw a lecturer for afar.

‘Assalamualaikum’, my friend greeted the lecturer.  

She smiled and we returned that smile. I bowed a bit as well as a sign of my respect.

‘Hei kamu. Kamu batch mane ni? Kelas ape?’

‘Emm. Tesl. Marjon’

‘Oh… Saye tak mengajar kamu kan? Kamu kenape tak bagi salam?’ she cried while pointing towards me.

At that time, I was dumbfounded and absolutely lost for words.

‘Lain kali, bile nampak lecturer, bagilah salam’, in a rather condescending tone.

For those of you who do not know, the purpose of giving salaam is to avoid arrogance within ourselves. That is why sometimes in the airport you can see Muslims greet each other as if they are acquaintances. We are brothers and sisters anyways.

In fact, it has been narrated from Ibn Umar, that the Holy Prophet said, "He who speaks without firstly giving salaam, then do not answer him ( to what he has to say)".

In the lecturer's case, then, I shouldn't have paid attention to her in the first place. The world has become so fucked up ain’t it if the higher up expects the ‘insignificant ones’ to initiate salaam? Absolutely defeating the purpose of giving salaam. In my defense, it was not my intention to disrespect the lecturer.

In this country, most of the time people have the knowledge; they just do not have the brain to process them.I bet she knew giving salaam is encouraged but just too noble! to make the first move. I was the arrogant one? Okay, baiklah, Puan. 

P/S: Or maybe because I despise being reprimanded by someone I call stranger!