31 December 2011

1 year old.

happy birthday not-so-secret thoughts.
2011 was one hell of a year wasn't it?
may 2012 pose even more challenges, so i can write more things in you.
thanks for being here, when no one was around. 
i love you.


p.s: change is good. and bad. 

29 December 2011

:)

senyuman, 
semua orang nampak
hati yang rosak?
siapa lah yang tahu.

that sly curve of your lips
i think,
it's hiding something.

senyuman,
sangat manis di bibir
hati yang hancur?
hanya kita yang tahu.

that sweet curve of your lips
i think,
it means something.

senyum, smile,
walaupun pahit
senyum lah
we only live once.


p.s: a smile a day keeps the pain away, doesn't it?

26 December 2011

indah pagi.

indah pagi pabila ku bangun
ku masih bernafas
indah lagi pagi ku pabila bangun
kau juga bernafas,
di sisiku
lalu tersenyum
dan mengucapkan

"selamat pagi, honey," lalu
mencium dahiku

alangkah indah pagi ku,
alangkah.


p.s: dan kita berpeluk, tidak lepas-lepas.

a harsh reminder.

these, are the grounds
i used to walk on
these, are the steps
i used to take
that, was where i sat
this, was what i ate
she, was the one i loved
he, was the one i loathed
they, were the ones i admired
them, i could not remember.

i breathe in but there's no air
i look around
and nobody seems to care
i wave and i smile, and i shout
and i cry
but they can't seem to see
me.

their faces are solemn
no laughters, no smiles
just gloomy faces
all around.

as i look up
then i look down

"ah no wonder,
i'm 6 feet under, ground."


p.s: precious, precious life. 



23 December 2011

a gentle reminder.

there's this huge tree on a field. this field is in the middle of Kuching city. the tree is huge and wide, but it is not tall. it's been there for as long as i can remember. through rain, shine, storm; the tree is there, standing strongly its strong and tough roots holding on tightly to the ground, as if choking it. 

the tree has been there for as long as i could remember.

its bark is rotten, the trunk is full of moss,ants converge upon it: millions of them walking up and down the tree, just minding their own business. the branches and twigs are all decorated with green leaves as if nothing is troubling the upper part of the tree. the leaves just flourish and reach upwards towards the light blue sky. sometimes the leaves are not there, especially during monsoon seasons, but the tree can still survive.

if it can, why can't i?


p.s: look up, the sky isn't always gloomy. life isn't always harsh. 

22 December 2011

this hardship

some things in life are never meant to be sometimes. like when you fall for a person and that person doesn't have the same feelings as you do or like when you think you have everything under control but then everything falls apart and you don't know where and when to pick yourself up or when you are happy then you receive a bad news and everything in the world seems to crash down on you and you are left there, breathing, struggling, drowning, dying for every bit of survival. 

what will you do in times like these?

i am usually an optimistic person but lately it seems that the world tends to be hard on me or maybe i am being too hard on myself? have you ever felt like you have given your best and yet you feel like no matter how much you try to change something it just will not happen? like you keep praying, hoping and working so that things will work for you but it never seems to happen.

where is God, you may ask in times like these.

i never ask. i know God is always there for me. the question is, have i ever been there for God? 

i wish too many, i dream too much. i get my head high up, too high up in the clouds sometimes i swear i just want to stay there for as long as i can but logic rules. i fall down face first on the flat and hard surface of the earth and i may cry from the pain, but what else can i do but just move on and face the consequences? i try not to cry but sometimes it just doesn't seem to work. i end up crying anyways.

you know how sometimes people say how lucky it is to be "you"?

well, i say, it's lucky to be you. it's always better to be someone else in our eyes, right? what is satisfaction in humanity? nothing. satisfaction is when you have everything and you feel nothing. it's just, a great sigh of relief; an overwhelming sigh of relief.

this is just a phase i know, people keep saying that, but how far of a phase of this i have to cover? i have been in this phase, i have been living for 21 years and yes there are changes within me, but nothing beyond me has a changed. not even a little, not even a bit.

i am getting sick and tired. sick, and tired.


p.s: let's just get this over and done with.

19 December 2011

peace of mind

peace of mind.
and a piece of peace of mind that's mine.


p.s: hard to attain peace, isn't it?

18 December 2011

f***

when will this misery end
i've been fighting for so long
i need it to stop
i can't go on much further
please, stop this insanity
i don't need it anymore
i'm done
i'm through
fuck you.


p.s: SICK.

untitled 2

if i could cut open my chest
and let you see this 
beating heart
the way it bleeds
they way it needs
some sort of magic 
to fix its irregular beats
to make you see that
only you have the power
to heal me
completely.


p.s: i need some sort of recovery.

16 December 2011

each other.

they hug at night
sleeping with a smile
waking up with laughter
they tell each other secrets
that no one else can know or hear
they hold hands when no one else sees
they kiss when the night comes by with a breeze
they make love when their hearts are ready to be free
and celebrate a love no one else can compare in life's brief history
so they smile, laugh, cry, share, take care, understand, protect each other
the promises they hold on tightly to, those promises they made during beautiful nights
of staying true, regardless of ups or downs, happiness or sadness, together or separated


they will be together, no matter what.




p.s: i call this the stair-case poem, and a solo ending. haha

14 December 2011

stab my heart.

stab stab me in the heart
yes you can
try to bring me down
you think you can?
tear me to pieces
push me until i fall
no i won't give up now
i have gone so far
i have given it my all
i won't succumb now
it's too late to turn around

the road not taken has been picked
i won't lie 
i am scared
i do feel like death is following me
everywhere
stab stab me in the heart
i won't give up now
i have gone so far
i have given it my all
i won't die 
not here, not now.


p.s: burned-out.

12 December 2011

dead.

take this heart of mine
smash it into tiny pieces
any way you like.
take its little pieces
and burn them in a fire
or drown them in the ocean
or lock them in an air-tight jar
suffocate them to death.


p.s: i feel like i don't matter, sometimes.

11 December 2011

human(s), only.

in what way can you tell
from a person's laugh and eyes
that (s)he is really human?
from the way (s)he stares
what words (s)he chooses to utter
how human can one be?
from those carved smiles
to the little twitches of the noses
and those twinkle in the eyes
are you human?
from the way your arms move
the loudness of your voice
the slight whimper of your breath
can you be human?
from the way you walk and the
way you stand
from the way you hold my hands
the way you kiss 
the way you please
are you human, for me?

ah but there is only one way
to tell if one is human
if we can see the heart
and the functions of the other's brain
surely we can tell
if there is indeed a human
living in that attractive shell.


p.s: over-rated.


little blue birds

those little blue birds
innocent they look
spew nasty words
of wisdom

those little blue birds
carefree flying
always moving
never stopping

those little blue birds
fast and agile
always current
never a burden

those little blue birds
they see and hear
they chirp and leer
and they also jeer

those little blue birds
they tell the truth
hardly lying
not always compromising

those little blue birds
the little bullets of death
masked by structure
or lack thereof

those little blue birds
they change things
all around,
all the way

those little blue birds.


p.s: even the littlest things change you.

09 December 2011

so much for a poem.

take my hand and come with me
to a place we both have never been
where i heard the grass is green
the air is free
the water's fresh 
and full with fish

don't you want to tag along
and go to a place where we both belong
together forever and all those ding-dongs
where we'll sing love songs all night long

this poem may be rubbish to people
but it's the best one i can think of
the structure's not there
the rhymes doesn't fair
i am not a writer
just another dreamer, caught in reality's lair

so forgive me if this poem is nothing
compared to Shakespeare, Po and Kipling's
but what i can do
is write what i feel
this poem best describes how i feel
tired, stressed, loved, and complicated
and whatever it is in between

oh! wait. 
i thought this poem's about going
going to places where 
where? what?
where dreams exist and reality doesn't
oh wait.
i already am at the place.
it's all in my head.
all these while, all along, in that tiny space.



p.s: this is how i feel right now : crazy.

06 December 2011

#notetoself

i have or had, plenty of things to write but i have or had been preoccupied lately with things that i have ignored you, oh-blog, to the extend that you are now so dusty and neglected. life's been fuckin hectic and yes as usual, as the semester draws to a close, all the assignments are piling and the lecturers all want them in one go. how exciting is that?!

in another unrelated point, people should just stop and think more. i should do this more. instead of being irrational, we should think and stop and stare and think. get me? instead of occupying our minds about other people that we don't actually like, why don't we think of happy thoughts instead, or thoughts of people that make us happy? i mean, there really is no point in getting stressed out about other people when we have ourselves to care for. 

i should practice saying things i really mean to people instead of talking behind their backs. oh yes, i do this too. 

if it is of other people's business and not of yours, please don't be so nosy about. it really isn't nice or cool being nosy about things. stop procrastinating. it's not good. always adhere to the original deadline. 

oh i once was talked for throwing all my emotional rubbish on Twitter. i have stopped (kinda) doing that but it seems other people are following my footsteps. so interesting, right? it's interesting to me as well that some people keep talking trash and being angry at other people for other people's faults but actually, in reality, those people are doing the same thing. funny right?

i think we should just all live in our own bubbles for sometime, or increase more of "me-time" instead of being  bound to something. and we should all once-in-awhile stop being so unnecessarily judgmental and stigmatize people and discriminating them. we're humans after all, we all have our faults. 

i know saying bad things about others behind their backs is a natural thing to do but i think we should all tone down a bit yeah? and one more important thing, we should not make assumptions. ok, maybe we should to some extend but we should at least know the levels of our assumptions. making assumptions doesn't help in anything really. or much. so stop, or tone down a bit. 

and oh, stop stereotyping. it's not good for anyone. it doesn't do justice on anyone. 



p.s: #notetoself