LA Crew

MELAYU.. by Usman Awang

2008-12-18T05:02:00.000-08:00

Melayu itu orang yang bijaksana
Nakalnya bersulam jenaka
Budi bahasanya tidak terkira
Kurang ajarnya tetap santun
Jika menipu pun masih bersopan
Bila mengampu bijak beralas tangan

Melayu itu berani jika bersalah
Kecut takut kerana benar
Janji simpan di perut
Selalu pecah di mulut
Biar mati adat
Jangan mati anak

Melayu di Tanah Semenanjung luas maknanya:
Jawa itu Melayu, Bugis itu Melayu
Banjar juga disebut Melayu,
Minangkabau memang Melayu,
Keturunan Acheh adalah Melayu,
Jakun dan Sakai asli Melayu,
Arab dan Pakistani, semua Melayu
Mamak dan Malbari serap ke Melayu
Malah mua'alaf bertakrif Melayu
(Setelah disunat anunya itu)

Dalam sejarahnya
Melayu itu pengembara lautan
Melorongkan jalur sejarah zaman
Begitu luas daerah sempadan
Sayangnya kini segala kehilangan

Melayu itu kaya falsafahnya
Kias kata bidal pusaka
Akar budi bersulamkan daya
Gedung akal laut bicara

Malangnya Melayu itu kuat bersorak
Terlalu ghairah pesta temasya
Sedangkan kampung telah tergadai
Sawah sejalur tinggal sejengkal
Tanah sebidang mudah terjual

Meski telah memiliki telaga
Tangan masih memegang tali
Sedang orang mencapai timba
Berbuahlah pisang tiga kali
Melayu itu masih bermimpi

Walaupun sudah mengenal universiti
Masih berdagang di rumah sendiri
Berkelahi cara Melayu
Menikam dengan pantun
Menyanggah dengan senyum
Marahnya dengan diam
Merendah bukan menyembah
Meninggi bukan melonjak

Watak Melayu menolak permusuhan
Setia dan sabar tiada sempadan
Tapi jika marah tak nampak telinga
Musuh dicari ke lubang cacing
Tak dapat tanduk telinga dijinjing
Maruah dan agama dihina jangan
Hebat amuknya tak kenal lawan

Berdamai cara Melayu indah sekali
Silaturrahim hati yang murni
Maaf diungkap senantiasa bersahut
Tangan diulur sentiasa bersambut
Luka pun tidak lagi berparut

Baiknya hati Melayu itu tak terbandingkan
Selaga yang ada sanggup diberikan
Sehingga tercipta sebuah kiasan:
"Dagang lalu nasi ditanakkan
Suami pulang lapar tak makan
Kera di hutan disusu-susukan
Anak di pangkuan mati kebuluran"

Bagaimanakah Melayu abad dua puluh satu
Masihkan tunduk tersipu-sipu ?
Jangan takut melanggar pantang
Jika pantang menghalang kemajuan;
Jangan segan menentang larangan
Jika yakin kepada kebenaran;
Jangan malu mengucapkan keyakinan
Jika percaya kepada keadilan

Jadilah bangsa yang bijaksana
Memegang tali memegang timba
Memiliki ekonomi mencipta budaya
Menjadi tuan di negara Merdeka

2008-09-11T00:33:00.000-07:00

Lagi pics makanan.. hehehe..

2008-09-09T03:26:00.000-07:00

kari kepala ikan..

karipap daging n ayam

nasi beriani ayam

set nasi beriani

papadum!!

khas utk LA Crew terutama ABE, DANI BOI n UMAR.. hehehehe..

Makanan !! utk santapan mata LA crew di LA

2008-09-09T02:58:00.001-07:00

nasi ayam tandoori

kat bawah nih plak pics
sahur kat kedai nasi kandaq beratoq, Penang

nasi kandaq
(ayam goreng n teloq bawang)

nasi kandaq
(ayam goreng, bendi n kuah campoq)

nasi kandaq lagi
(ayam goreng, teloq bawang n sotong teloq)

tue dia...
punya panjang beratoq.. hehehehe.

aku balik Malaysia !!

2008-07-18T07:04:00.001-07:00

3 sahabat
aku amat terhutang budi kat korang semua

kat LAX.. huhuhu

2008-07-03T06:25:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

As most of you know, I maintain my own personal blog, and I extensively cover most of the time spent with the LA crew. You can read about their recent visit to NYC there.

www.xanga.com/man1a

And direct links to old posts....

My first encounter with the crew in LA
Rombongan ke San Francisco
Umar's visit to the East Coast

Hope these old pictures bring back fond memories ^_^

"Romantic Style In Da World"

2008-06-24T09:46:00.000-07:00

lagu utk bro boi.. hehehe

dinner at yassin's house

2008-06-15T12:04:00.001-07:00

paco, afiq, umar, dee, yassin n nicky

From LA with love, homies!!!

2008-06-14T19:19:00.001-07:00

Its finally the weekends again, i finally get to enjoy it all to myself... hahahah... it been a pretty rigid week. 6am to 12am routine, 12 hours shift, the lack of sleep, the fatigue from work. i need to detox. LOL

yea, so im planning to cut my hair, wash my car, and do my laundry. being the master procastinator that i am, being able to do one of the above will be a big feat for me today. lol its kool though, im doing my laundry fer sure today, im doing it with my new roomate, cybelle.

I felt pretty down in the beginning of the week. I mean, it's been quite a while since i've been in LA without my two 'big brothers". Almost 3 years ive been here, only once i had to be in LA all alone without their supervision. It's retarded. I felt lost when they left. Felt like something missing, like i lost one of my limbs kinda. I know, im being dramatic, they're just gonna be gone for a week. but that's just how i feel. LOL

I managed to occupy myself with work. it's been a fortnight since i started busting this 60 hours a week shift. 7am - 10pm. Another 2 more weeks to go. Im sure ill be fine, but i can kinda feel myself burning out rite now. How do i do it? Well to quote my beloved homegirl's words, " If you can't beat them danny, join them". LOL so yea, with that in mind i manage to just make the best of whatever i have at the office and i survived. thanks sayang...

and then, work went well. i got my focus back. my team needs a savior so i think i have what it has to bring the team up again. i've been chillin with kool workmates too since i have a 2 hours break. Anya from Student Lending, Artin from Mass, people in the team, George and Kawika from Sales, Danny from Fraud and even the white guy from security!!! yes, i made many friends at work...hahahah....owh and yes abg lee, gloria came back too, and i need to talk to you bout dat too when you come home...LOL

It also helps, to have a cool new roomate who never fails to offer me a bottle of beer when i come home (around 10.30pm everyday) although the knows that ill say no every time (same answer, everyday, "Nah dude, i gotta wake up at 6am tomorrow, gotta work man") But i guess the thought that counts, it kinda makes me feel "welcomed" when i come home. A friend to chill with, to talk to in real life about work, politics and foreign policies. (she's been here for barely a week and she already cooked for me twice!!!) its good to have a chick in the house we agreed, brings balance to house...LOL...

I guess despite the sadness of not having most of the peeps around is not that bad after all. i've become more social at work, get to hang out with abe and yasin more, with my housemates too, i got more chores done, wic is tight. i learnt a lot about other cultures!!! irish (from james, my housemate), italian (Cybelle) and armenian (my workmates artin and george).

i know, its a pretty lame blog to post, but i thought u guys might wanna know how im coping with life here without the peeps. hahahaah...

A shout out to d homies out there on the trip, cherish the time you guys have over there its gonna be a while before you guys can chill with abg lee again. Take lotsa pictures, have lotsa fun and update this fucking blog!!! I wanna know wht u guys doin over there you lil fucks!!! Remember im there with u guys in spirit!!! (i quote that from Nat Pang) LOL

I guess I do experience something cool and different too from this trip u guys bust. It's part of the learning curve 'innit brothers??? Send my love to Tania, and tell her how much i miss her please. =) So right here from LA with love, peace out.

Bro Boi

tania's visit

2008-06-10T15:27:00.000-07:00

the other day, our homegirl from NY came to LA for a visit. yes, its ms tania. yes, sorry tania, we did pick u up late, i mean u cant blame us, we dont hv a "cikgu discipline" to regulate us. lol.

it was a really chilled visit if i had to describe it in short. there's always "drama" or "unexpected things" happens when tania comes to town. this time tania met azman, who turns out to be her childhood friend, and they get along really well...which is gud...and there are also rumours that they used to be couples...wic i find very very disgusting...dont know why, the whole idea just gives me goosebumps... ahahahah...

we hung out in irvine, at azman a very nice pad...we just chilled, hung out, catch up on old times, that was where the homie showed me some "tough love" where azman, diffan and tania were acting like my discipline teacher... lol

the homies after the "tough love" session.

the next day, tania woke all of us up in a manner that can be compared to a old skool skolah rendah headmistress. but yea, she managed to wake us up pretty early, although she still lose her bet with azman though. we then went to hermosa and chilled by the beach and cycled from her hermosa to redondo. it was a nice day, the sun was perfect, the breeze was relaxing, the day, to say in short, was "happy", just like each and every one of us. except for tania of course, well she was happy but not as happy as were are...i mean...cuz we have tania!!! make sense??? LOL

dee, man jawa, boi, umar n d - "happy" times

we chilled at redondo, had lunch/tea/dinner. again we did wht msians do best, makan sambil lepak sambil borak kosong sambil camwhore-ing, coolest part is, we were doing it on/by our bicycles. mcm cita-cita nak jadik rempit masa kecik-kecik dulu tercapai lak...

posing brader - umar, boi, dee

i also found a new obsession from this trip. the nikon SLR...tania's camera...i've heard and read about it before, but never knew that i can do amazing things!!! i was hogging her camera and i kinda become the cameramen for the beach trip...until i got lazy of course...lol

umar, tania, man jawa, dee - chillin like a villain... yeaeeaak, yeak yeak yeak yeaaaaaakkk...

but yea, the "tania visit" was brief but memorable and fun!!! its good to see you again tania and i must admit, we always have a gud time when ur around. and yes, ill keep it in mind, "dont destroy the dynamic of the group"...lesson learnt homies, lesson learnt. but yea...i actually gtg...umar, nik and leeana are bustin a trip to boston and NY. i guess they'll be seeing tania again there. abe and i are gna send them to the airport. so expect inputs from them as well...so yea till nxt time...peace out

bro boi and yassin reporting for the LA Crew.

theme song "bertepuk kepala bana"

2008-06-09T21:08:00.000-07:00

Umar's Birthday

2008-06-07T23:27:00.000-07:00

Dee, Azman, Danny, Yassin, Ayman
Diffan, Umar, Abe

Brothers forever...

Happy Birthday Umar!
Dah tue la ngko!

Dee and Ayman...
Always together. The Giant and the Hobbit...

We finally did it...

2008-06-07T01:30:00.000-07:00

Saturday, 06/07/2008, 1.31 am

After so many week of planning, arguing and procastinating we finally did it!!! heheh...last last jadik gak blog utk LA crew nih... LOL

it was Leeana who came up with the idea of the blog, she was like "since we always do fun stuff rite here, y dont we create a blog, so the homie back home can follow wht we're doin???". and that was the most brilliant idea that she had come up with the whole time she's in LA (not that she came up with many gud ones LOL).

i thought about it. yasin, abg lee and ida pun dah nak balik. umar gave me a green light, he suggested that everyone gets d password so everyone can input stuff to it, shameer pun bunyi cam keperitan jer kat KL tuh sampai tgk video dulu2 lg, dan ada gak bende milen boleh tgk masa stress study. Ely yg kat Miri, Tania in NY, Dilla in Davis and Jamil, i dont even know how he is doing now... dont u guys think that it'll be a fun blog??? and im sure azman and abe are down about it too...

that basically d whole idea of it...gtg hit d sack now...d boys are goin fishing tomorrow, kononnya nak keluar at 7am la kan... *wink* we'll see though... since it's all boys, so proly no gambar la kot... but ill input something tomorrow... knowing these guys, mesti ada stories punya... LOL

but yea...imma hit d sack now...and i hope these whole blog idea will work...and u guys will enjoy it...

Peace Out,
Bro Boi

Ps :- "Romantic Style In World" LOL