You owe me a Kenny Rogers. A 6 months supply of Kenny Rogers, come to think of it.
b) Do NOT make stupid request like "Kopi Dangdut" song for a karaoke at someone's house when the host is your aunt who will go the extra mile to make you sing it. ALSO, do not berlagak that gelek gerudi is just a walk in the park when you know you ain't gonna do it anyway.
c) I was cleaning up the rest of my stuff (dah berenti keje 2 minggu, Shai. Baru nak kemas, ye?) when I realised I accidentally brought home trailer cds for "Angus Thongs" and "Burn". Daymit.
Do NOT put office stuff together with a bunch of your Royskopp albums. I'll deal with those later. In the words of Scarlett O Hara, "I'll think about it tomorrow". Those cds are not important, right?...................... Right?
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Let's talk about Item B
So, it all started with Aying saying "Jom pegi umah makcik."
"Kenapa?"
"Saja-saja."
Then Nad called, and told me that her tudung stock dah habis and so I said, since I'm going to my aunt's place in Pinggiran Putra this saturday, might as well she would come that day. After agreeing, I called my aunt and told her that we're coming to her house, saja-saja and plus, it's her birthday too. But my sister pergi pulak buat request nak makan macaroni la, ape la.
"It's my birthday and you want ME to cook?"
"Okayla, cuz then Syahida will bake a chocolate moist cake for your birthday."
(This is the problem with my sister. Being a lawyer, she thinks she can strike a deal without needing to consent me if I would like to make a chocolate moist cake or not. Oh well, nasib baik senang nak buat.)
Then I made the wrongest move by putting in my facebook profile this status update:
SHAI KAAMARUDIN rase adiknye nak pegi umah makciknye sebab nak karaoke. Lagu "Kopi Dangdut" ade?
Kalau tak de pun makcik akan adakan, janji kau nyanyi and gelek sekali.
gelek gerudi? ellleh, sonang baito, see the hips la.... akakaka (berlagak hari ni je, esok2 toksah kata gelek, bukak mulut nyanyi pon tanak)
Forgetting the fact that BOTH makcik and paklong - two karaoke champs in the family DO have their own facebook, and read that status update, the whole 'saje-saje nak pergi umah makcik' turned into a "BIRTHDAY AND KARAOKE" event. Maklang came with kuih talam satu dulang (ha), mum bring nasi goreng, paklong bought three buckets of KFC, I baked a chocolate moist cake and so it goes.
Thanks to my big mouth that said that "Kopi Dangdut" and gelek gerudi is easy.
But when makcik called paklong and asked him to come over for karaoke against the Kamarudin's children (kitorang la tu), he said;
"Ellleh, setakat lawyer buruk (kaklong), technician (Aying) dengan penganggur kreatif (yours truly) tu, Amalik tak heranla...."
So it turns from normal karaoke session into a competition:
Intan Mawarni, lawyer & partner of Azlin Shaharbi & Associates
Adlil Khaliq, clerk of MIDA
Nurul Syahida, freelance writer & novelist
AGAINST
Siti Maisarah Abdul Wahab, fulltime housewife and ex-secretary in IBM
Dato' Dr Raja Malik Raja Mohamed, of Global IT Services merangkap Presiden MNCC
Ramlah Abdul Wahab, surirumah sepenuh masa, dan pakar kuih talam
Daym... let me tell you one thing. There's a reason I am a monotonous person who would shake my head when a microphone comes my way. Because I don't want to start. I have an inner karaoke demon I wish not to be unleashed... so as other demons inside me that I thought of unleashing only after:
a) I'm married;
b) I have kids and/or;
c) never to be unleashed till the day I died.
But then paklong kinda drop the mic on my lap and make me sing Melly-Kris' "CINTA", and then move on to "Awan yang Terpilu" to.... what did I sang later on actually? I don't remember, but my relatives were shocked cuz I sang a jiwang song and also did a Ning Baizura improv.
Oh, come on, I can sing 'Jablay' if I want to. I just don't. Hahahahahaha... berlagak pulak. My uncle didn't wanna go home, and accused us of making him sing all night long. I can't put up the vids of him singing "Ekspres Rakyat" dengan penuh perasaan nor makcik's rendition of "Always" here cuz they threaten to put mine in facebook. So it's 0-0. After lots of karaoke, changing Ejal's diaper, layan budak2 kecik main masak2, sepinggan macaroni, nasi goreng, chocolate moist cake, KFC, kuih talam and pengat and jadi despatch sementara between Nadyeh & my relatives, kitorang pun baleyk...
Makcik also put all the blame on me for influencing her to buy all those tudung from Nad & Yeh nellyshop business. Hahaha....
Next stop, Kenirojesing with Iza and Zamel (seriously, I need to stop going out with friends while they're with their boyfriend/ husband/ future boyfriend/ future husband... rasa macam mengganggu ketenteraman percintaan orang lain... ahahaha...). Then kursus dengan Nad, and then lepak dengan Chaq.
Anybody else bored? Call me. Hahahahahaha.... (nampaknya Shai telah melupakan the fact dia ada dua deadline dan hutang review 'Le Febbre' dengan CO)