Monday, July 31, 2006

Udah Pemisi Betemu Baru..

Bendar meh tu udah merening ke tisi malik ke belakang ngenang menua injau ti dikumbai Tanjung Lobang. Pengujung pom empat di tangkanka pemisi panjai alai bala mensia nyenguk menua ngelantangka ati serta nyendiaka diri taun siti. Betemu baru mega aku enggau sulu aku Sri Aman nama Simanggang. Nadai nama nama deh; Simanggang endang mengkang meruan Simanggang tajapan indu dara nyau mangkin mayuh peda aku hahha.. Ehhh ngiga pan kitai nadai meh urang ka betawing enggau kitai ti seruran manchal serta tatau beribu pengelungau tu! Nyenguk menua Undop; pulai ke Simanggang; mansang ke Kuching lalu pulai baru ga ke Simanggang. Nya meh pengawa masau belanja tudah indai ti nyau bepeluhka tuli turun nerusur nyadi ai. Nyau 'bebulu' ku sida ti tuai..enda meh nagang diri! Udah nyambut serta ngerami Hari Krismas nyau ga ngitung minit deka mulaika diri ngagai menua injau, Tanjung Lobang, Miri. "Ah akai daii..senior meh tu deh," ku kenang dalam ati. "Anang manchal, anang tuyu, anang lungau, anang tatau mayuh penumbuh..anang tu anang nya," ku pesan urang tuai. "Udah temu pemutus peresa pom lima tu ila baru kitai bekira berunding baru," ku tudah indai ngenang pesan peminta urang ti deka mai belajar di menua the great white north. Mimpi belajar di menua tasik tu ukai utai ti ada lemai kemari ba kami sebilik enggau sekaban laban mayuh ti udah lenyau lepau baka engkechung engkarung adung lepas isin nyadi manuk sabung. Nitihka jaku pelin A urang tuai meh tu dulu. Pagila lusa, enti kur semengat tak tejanggul ngechul baka kechul buah bol ngalih ngira diri ngena pelin B.
Pun taun nyau ga ngebuka diri nepan bilun ari Kuching terebai nuju penyangkai kapal terebai Boeing MAS di Miri. Nama dehhh sigi di anti, di ambat enggau gerebang selamat datang!! Nyelai agi sekali tu laban sekali tu kedua kali ngensuruk pulai masuk kandang mensia. Nyau ga meda kepai Nyonya ngelambai nyambut penatai anak mensia. Nyonya my lady sigi boleh tahan deh enti pasal 'public relation' dalam pengawa dagang! Sigi tau di ambi nyadi chuntu lambang pemansang, tang sapa agi di dunya mit kelikit mesai kelikai would see the world my way? Her inquisitiveness enggau 'fairly charming to all attitude' have told me Nyonya tu would be around for a long time besilihka dime and nickel nyadi dollar...sen and sen nyadi ringgit for that matter. Bakani meh malas budi old lady Nyonya tu ? You were a lifesaver to many anak mensia including GerubiTuai! Ngajihka petara merekat nuan meh Nyonya.
Tama pagar empat besegi sekali tu tak nyelai asai laban nemu sida bala kaban pom enam atas endang enda mulaika diri; bansal injau Kenari deka di isi enggau mua baru, nama baru, ulah baru, enggau utai baru ti bukai mega lalu pia mega bansal Rajawali; pengajar pan enda tinggal..lepau siku dua tama. Tajapan bakanya, Pak Cik Jet digelar kami "Mokthar" mengkang ngembuan pengagit bemain bol isi parit; Jambai enggau Rosli pan meruan nyadi tukang masak yang dihormati ahhh..siku agi enda ingat nama iya...enggau Indai Atat enggau Jimmy ti suah alai kami bepintaka ai tuak..hmmm tuak bala Iban ari Tinjar ku jaku..sida tu enda mindah. Sigi bendar mega bala kami, tajapan agi muda, agi JKR( Jenaka Kurang Runding) ngenang perubah sekula laban tuansipol pan masuk taun dua ..berubah enggau enda ..bedau di asai tang bala kami ulih nyium rengut resih guring ti nyau deka meruap mansau ngumbai ngepai mai makai! Yes, Adi Badiozaman Tuah..that's who I am talking about but lagi meh nganti dulu laban malam agi muda alai kitai berandau..afterall Kung Pusu mesan kitai anang beguai deh..patience is virtue enda pia Cikgu? Change was inevitable...Paleolithic to Neolithic??? dialectic!!??! Utopian state of change?! Entah lalu bedau di peda..we were waiting nyau kasak kasak! Udah dikelala 'ambitious miniature political/governmental structure ala what..bedau temu tang kami nemu somebody had a bigger fishie to fry! Shooo shooo shooo..Ang get away..go ..get..gone..do your stuff ..munyi lagu ari "Another Brick On the Wall" ..leave those kids alone. Mr. Lau Ung Ngie..square-jawed hmmm don't really know what to make out of this guy..fresh Masters graduate ba Mathematics datai ari New Zealand!! Iya tu meh nyadi ketuai nembiak ngasu 'pasun' di Tanjung Lobang., enda pia unggal Lambat Lindong? Ti dikerinduka aku ..Daud Kubu, Mr. Poh enggau Mr. William Laing..good teachers ba penemu aku..of course lah Mr. Awalludin enggau Cikgu Naimuddin. Ahh agi naka pemanjai jam alai bekenangka kita..the good, the not-so good, the bad and the worst, the beautiful enggau the ugly ..rojak Tanjung Lobang masam manis lacking sugar eh.
Kami ti udah begulai diau ba bansal Kenari nyau pambar bebagi dua. Setengah nama bala ti digitang ba papan penerang sekula diau ba Kiwi lalu ke laluh utai nya diau begulai enggau bala pom enam atas 1981 ba Cendrawasih burung di awan heheheh...as Apin 'si Setan Pendek' used to say....di hujung sana..too poetically influenced kaban siku tu hehehe..Sepiak tunga ke padang entap madang lalang bala kami sebala pom lima lalu sepiak nya bala sida pom enam atas. Nguji ngingatka pendiau bilik bala; pom enam atas..Vincent Rading, John Herbert enggau Nawan 'Orang Utan' Luhat , George Labo, Jeffery Ngelambai, Ali Ragai nepan ba sayap kanan Cendrawasih..sayap kiba hmmm di tepan bala pom lima..Apin Pauzan, Ali Omar Hamid, Neilson Ilan Mersat, Bobby Dickson Forster, Phillip Singkek, William Jawa, Ishak Musa, Paul Gusi, Joseph Bunyau, James Mawan Bala, Chia Pin Pin, Ling?? I think lah..Zakaria Haji Hussaini, Mart Amat. Hah..nyuruh Lau Ung Ngie bepusin kening bekalih pending laban bala ti diau di sayap kiba penginsap magang except four or maybe five..di beri nama sayap 'keretapi tanah melayu' laban asap ti pansut ari perabung pagi hari! Sepiak pan bakanya mega..majority bala penginsap..entah nama kebuah tak di segulaika bakanya kini!!! Penginsap taun 1981 tu nyau everywhere!!! Apoooo nyau pansut ari kerubung magang magang..akai dai bendar bala sekeda ngetan ngetat ngelalaika diri pom empat! Tu meh penyalah lumor satu ti ngelanggar adat sekula taun 1981. Tu meh pun penatai kali kedua..renggat kedua new chapter was in the making nyau deka betanda bejugit begujit bedansing...rock on kaban!! Bala kami ti indu baka sida Jacqueline Ajang, Norina Umoi, Doria Lusoi, Cinderella Phillip, Mary Kayong, Lipang Bulan, Julia Solomon, Sandra Ringgit, Diana Rose, enggau sida ti bukai mega pan nadai mindah tang ngaku diri magang nampung ba Tanjung Lobang. Udah pemisi betemu baru meh kitai cikgi cikgu.

11 comments:

Unknown said...

Ngenang bala kaban lama ke udah enggau kitai di Tg Lobang suba, bakatu ke penunga sekeda ke bisi di temu :

1. Anthony Edward Megat
Gawa di salah sebuah bank di Serian
Leboh ka mansa, aku selalu 'make an effort' ngetu mai iya ngirup kopi, just to keep the friendship going...laban i need to. Anthony became my 'Best Man' during my Wedding in 1991 .

2. Azeni Sahat
Gawa di salah sebuah bank di Sri Aman. Selalu betemu enggau iya.

3. Philip Singkek
Nyadi pengajar di salah sebuah sekula di Saratok.

4. Effendy Rosli (Bapa)
Tuan sipul ba SMK Sri Aman sampai ngagai 2004. Diatu enda nemu endor iya posting..

5. William Jawa
Lama udah ninggal ka kitai, way back in the mid-80's .

6. Norina Umoi
Ke diatu din di Pekan Baru, Indonesia. Agi occassionally on E-mail contact.

7. Alice Doria Muti John
Di Kuching, occassionally di Semunjan overseeing Family Plantation sida iya dia. Agi occassionally betemu maia bisi function.

8. Diana Ross
This lady was in the news recently... she open up some sort of a Cultural Village, in Mukah.

9. Julia Solomon Itang
Ngajar somewhere ba salah sebuah sekula di Betong dia. Married to a Paderi. Selalu mega enggau betemu.

10. The Rest, deka endar meh nemu endor sida iya & betemu baru, especially all those pretty ladies back then. Taja pan diatu di jangka udah indai orang magang, tang its always a nice feeling to recall back all those memories..
Diatu tau kitai sama ketawa ka semua pengawa ti sama di kerja maia nya suba ! Ni ko nuan Aya Gerubi Tuai ?

7.

podgykat said...

I come across Diana Rose quite frequently. The place she runs in Mukah is called "Lamin Dana"-it showcases the melanau way of life,from eating habits to the dances etc It's also a homestay sort of thing for anyone who wants to experience the 'real' thing! Sadly, no more seashells on the beaches there for me to collect-or did I collect them all?!! Hahaha. Cheers, GT

GerubiTuai said...

Joe, Enchaluk di Serian? aduhhh nadai aku nemu ehhh..Maia aku enggau bala soldadu aku mansa Serian tu suba bisi tepeda ka John Lungan-senior kitai tang semina beperening aja..urang enda nanya enda ga kitai eh..enti kita enda madah enda nemu pendiau bala kelia tu Joe. Norina is married to my cousin!! betemu di Kenada kelia kini eh..Hmmmm..nadai meh urang indu ka ke aku tu Joe..nyau besembur ludah sida kelia nyumpah bala including myself ehh..I must be that terrible ehh. Ya Joe, nya meh nguji ngarang cherita kelia ngambika bisi nyuruh ketawa serta isin mimit hahaha..may need your help polishing some of the cherita ehh. So, come and visit often!!

Podgee maam, if you ever bump onto Diana Ross in the very near future, I say hello...Good for her to do things like that lah. I am happy for her.See if I can track her down the cyber way hehehe. Looking at the collection, must be..you must have collected them all..those things are so very expensive here..once turned into some kind of interior decor! I couldn't believe my eyes!

Regards to you folks.

podgykat said...

Sure will do if I come across Diana-I'm sure you'll be able to find something on the net about the place that she runs. She won an award for that work too.

Shells, shells, I just love shells. I know how expensive they can be when turned into decor items. How we took things for granted then, GT, all those shells were practically at our doorstep! I'm glad I have some in my collection. I've a shell-crazy friend who forked out RM500 for one shell from Sabah. I haven't gone that crazy yet, ummmm, maybe one day! LOL. Good days GT!

Wonder where's Mr. lawyer, quiet these few days?

GerubiTuai said...

Podgee maam, I have found the site and read several articles about it too. Looks like it's a nice getaway place. I am proud for her..she was one of the few who were nice to me.. as a schoolmate and a friend. Never sombong attitude lah katakan.

Ya..granted punya granted until we realized the value of certain thingies! I must admit that I am a little tight on things like that..I go for real bargain!!My other half gets on to me all the time because I won't pay anymore than 30 bucks for a pair shoes!!!!but 30 bucks nowadays doesn't get us anywhere!!! Somebody's junk is someone's treasure I guess..

podgykat said...

Yep, Diana will be very surprised to hear from you if you do get to email her. She's still very nice..

hahaha-take a look at the price of the kiddos sneakers and clothes nowadays-we just couldn't afford to wear anything like that back in our time eh? Never mind, we give the pleasure to our kids lah. Anyways, you get good bargains overthere-here, they just sell you the "chiplak" stuff and then after I month everything falls apart!:) Cheers.

Unknown said...

The REAL Surprise is everyone of us who are still around today looks very much so ATTRACTIVE and REFRESHINGLY 'YOUNG & GROOVY' - with a lot more Charm & Appeal, compared to what we were back then, immature & green !

There are reasons for saying that. You got the drift ?

That is also an indicator we have appreciated & enjoyed our lives, to the best of our ability, with a Happy Light-Humoured Heart !

Keep IT ON....and readily as well as accepting the fact that we will really physically grow old when the time comes...Gracefully - but, having nothing to look back at, with regret !

A REAL LIVE & DIE GUY - BEING A GERUBI BIAK AS WELL AS A GERUBI TUAI !

GerubiTuai said...

Yes sir Joe..copy that roger and out...Nya meh kelia menya aduh ehhhh the monkey in us really berayun ari kayu to kayu butt-naked neh. Too bad tak nadai iku belakang, iku mua aja!! Otherwise, hmmmm. Ehhh nama ti bangat nyuruh ngesal ehhh!! Say hello to Enchaluk maia mansa Serian. Bisi ga betemu enggau Judas Lingon enggau Basri lebuh maya di Sri Aman suba..Nadai nemu Effendi Rosli nyadi tuansipol ba Sabu..enti enda nyau nundi iya kin hahaha. Nah..I know Bowyek(Sazali Suip) jadi enggau indu Sri Aman, but no news suba..and Nordin 'Bapak'Ahmad left Sri Aman's land and survey for another ???Hahaha..Joe..endang baka iya nya kaban. FYI, baru udah nerima berita ari Diana Rose! Of course, she doesn't have a clue who I am tak igih igih nemu ngirum berita???

Cheers.


Cheers

GerubiTuai said...

Podgee Maam, I just got a greeting news from Diana @ Lamin Dana..

Poohhh I know..kiddos nowadays aduhhhh ehh, but myself..I really do not mind since I didn't have the luxury to enjoy those kind of treatment while growing up. Growing up in a 'broken' home environment hmmm susah nak kata ehh. Steadfast and keep on pluckin' I guess.

Regards.

podgykat said...

Hi Groove-glad to hear you got a response from Diana. Must be a real surprise to her! Mana tau, you can promote her facilities overthere! Haha. Have a good weekend-not so good overhere, we're down with sore throat and my little girl had a fever the day before,so stayed home from school. Have a good weekend with the family.

GerubiTuai said...

Podgee maam, not really because she questioned my identity!! Hahaha of course she wonders who the hell would write in like that. I have yet to get a reply though..people over the internet are always suspected lah..we never know who's on the other side! Gladly if she let me..and I did ask her or may not be Diana if I could link it up with mine. Permission first before doing lah. Haiya..sorry to hear that..get well soon lah. It's hot here and kids are gearing for school too..sales everywhere..no tax sales this weekend...we aren't too crazy over it..just got what we need only lah.