SPM result next week.

Many hearts miss a beat or two after learning the result of a five year academic struggle to be announced to the world next week. Many will jubilate next week and many more will quietly slip away into their own small worlds, trying to digest the news and it's consequences; how your future is shaped by this SPM?
Would like to share with you some stories I've gathered over the years so they might give you some perspective.

Putting things into perspective is important so that you can estimate the importance or ranking of a certain thing in relation to other things.
My friend, Dr Khairy Dimyati sat for his MCE(what SPM was known at that time) 3 times(while the rest of us went on to university) but today he is a Phd holder.
My ex store keeper failed his SPM but today he drives a Merc.
So what does this tell you?
Though you have to give your best shot, you owe it to yourself, bad SPM is not the end of your world. It's just a hiccup, a change of direction or a new start.

Playgrouns on my mind

Aktiviti masa cuti semasa kami kecil ada banyak. Hanya terhad oleh imaginasi & season.

Dry season( March to June)which is also fruit season, there's a lot fruit trees(ours & others) ; mencepu,rambai,rambutan,kuran, jambu air, kuini,manggis & durian. At these times we would disappear in fruit tree canopy. You can only tell where we were by the sound of fruit skin droppings.n You can ask Ayah A on his adventure with buah durian. Can't blame us on our deeds, we're just having fun the kampong way.

During this time, the mighty Pahang river,offers endless round of fun. Practising tarzan jump by climbing on trees on the riverbank before made our dives into the river. Looking for kijin, a kind of river shell, eaten after boiled, was heaven.

The swamp is another swimming pool albeit smaller one. We practised our swimming in the parit below our home. The thing is with mandi air paya, after you are air dried, you're covered by something white or creamy. And we got nice beating for that. Forget to scrub properly, the mud would show afterward.

Season biji getah, is also during the dry season, That's when the mature rubber seeds explode and send it's seeds flying everywhere. There was a kind of rubber seed which has a peculiar looking and an especially hard shell. we would gather these shell and challenge anyone to a contest,by placing two rubber seeds together and press them hard.
Dry season is also the season to fish. We would descend into paya with all kind of apparatus to corner our favorite fishes. This is where my fishing passion develops.

If everything else didn't fancy us, we resort to our own invention: single action & semi auto bamboo rifle.-all beg our attention.
So you see we're quite busy. we didn't harass our elders to entertain us.
We did it ourselves.
We have the whole kampong to ourselves.
We know all the tracks, the shortcuts and the interesting places & things in the kampong.

Money grows on this tree.

What this tree meant to me? It probably meant pocket money or ticket to the movie with nasi ayam thrown in in Temerloh. This tree is the mainstay of Lipat Kajang economy.

It's like cash box. All I have to do only wake up early, don my uniform and do my round. At 11am I complete my round and free for the day.

That's me.

Can't really remember when the pic was taken. Couple of years ago. The age is showing but that's life.

Unlike salmon?

This pic was taken maybe 5 years ago. Not very sure. Camera x date.

Some of the cucus during Hari Raya.

Now dah besar belaka. Ada yang dah lepas ke Colorado. Some won't be seen alive with those hairstyle?

Will they come back to this place & pose with their sons & daughters?

Only time will tell.

Hj Jantan

This is Atok latest pic I pick from another blog. Semoga he is always sihat sejahtera. We all pray for him. I realise I need to upload a lot of photos so we can have fun looking at ourselves.

Asal usul keluarga kita.

Pokok keluarga?
Ayah kepada Tok(Hj Jantan) ialah Hj Mohd Latif. Ayah Hj Mohd Latif ialah Tok Bujal. Saya tak pasti samada moyang saya pergi ke Mekah atau tidak. Sesiapa yg ada maklumat bole lah contribute info. Kebanyakan org Lipat Kajang berkahwin dgn org Lipat Kajang juga. Org Lipat Kajang kebanyakan ialah org Bugis yg merantau meninggalkan tempat asal mereka kerana pelbagai sebab.
Hj Mohd Latif ialah seorg usahawan yang menjalankan pelbagai 'ventures'dan antara yang saya ingat ialah berniaga kerbau. Berniaga kerbau ialah sejenia perniagaan yg banyak di jalankan oleh org Lipat Kajang pada masa itu. Oleh kerana Lipat Kajang mempunyai banyak paya iaitu tempat kegemaran kerbau(kubang) untuk berehat di tengahari. Kerbau akan makan rumput yg tumbuh liar dan apa apa tanaman lain. Setelah kenyang, kerbau akan berehat di dalam kubang.



Peniaga kerbau akan membawa kerbau yg diniagakan kehulu Sg Gombak, dimana peniaga dari Selangor menunggu. Ini berlaku di tahun30's dan 40's. Agaknya jalan pada masa ini adalah jalan tanah merah untuk laluan pejalan kaki atau binatang seperti kerbau & kuda. Memandangkan tidak terdapat jembatan yang baik seperti hari ini, apabila terdapat sungai, peniaga akan membawa kerbaunya berenang menyemberang sungai. Bayangkan berapa banyak sungai yg perlu di semberangi untuk sampai ke hulu sungai Gombak?

Disampaing itu beliau mempunyai kilang padi. Di Lipat Kajang terdapat beberapa Kilang padi di masa itu. Kilang padi Hj Latif terletak di Carok Sepulih. Beliau selalunya memesen (proses menukar padi masak kepada beras)padi di sebelah petang. Org Lipat Kajang masa itu banyak menanam padi dan menoreh getah. Dimasa lapang mereka akan ke paya dan sungai untuk menangkap ikan.
Banyak cara dan alatan yg digunakan untuk menangkap ikan dimasa itu. Dan semuanya amat menyeronokan.

Sementara sebelah mak saya, Yang Masari, adalah anak kepada Wan Siti dan Tok Hamid. Rumah keluarga Hj Jantan di sebut Paya Baru, sementara rumah Tok Hamid di Tanjung Perian. Jarak antara dua rumah ini tak jauh, lebih kurang 2 km.

Di antara perkara yang menarik diantara kedua rumah ini ialah empang semen(concrete sluice gate), pokok kuran (meranti?) empang semen, tanjung kubur yang mana terdapat kubur, kedai serikat, balai raya. Kami (adik beradik) selalu tidor dirumah Wan Siti semasa cuti sekolah. Pada masa itu sepupu(anak Ayahngah Razak) kami pun tinggal dirumah Wan. Pada waktu nak tidor, Wan Siti selalu bercerita tentang cerita hantu sambil hisap rokok. Oh yes she was a heavy smoker. Kami yang ketakutan akan masuk selimut and very soon fall asleep after a long day.

Pesan Ustaz.

Pagi tadi semasa nak pegi weekend jogging terdengar pesanan Ustaz yg buat tazkirah di surau sebelah. Dia kata kalu kita ada hajat nak minta dengan Allah swt, ada beberapa amalan sunat yang bole di buat nak bagi hajat kita cepat makbul. Tapi yang paling cepat di makbulkan ialah amalan sedekah. Tak perlu banyak seringgit pun bole tapi kena niatkan hajat tu. Anak2 yg nak ambil periksa, apa apa aje lah.

Zaman ni.

Assm.
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