Sinatra_Z - Lagu Lama, Nilai Lama

Masa saya sekolah rendah dulu, lebih kurang darjah tiga dengan darjah empat,
budak-budak sebaya masa tu tergilakan lagu Untukmu Ibu nyanyian kumpulan Exist.

Masa tu mamat penyanyi kumpulan tu,
kemudia bila masuk darjah 5 dan darjah 6 zaman KRU pulak,
Norman, Edry dan Yusri habis menguasai ruang udara radio dan budak-budak semua menyanyi lagu Awas dan sebagainyalah. Meriah.... 4U2C dan Fiona lama sangat, tu zaman kakak saya.

Yang peliknya, waktu budak-budak gilakan Exist dan nyanyikan lagu Untukmu Ibu, saya terbeli kaset warna hijau putih dekat pasar malam, lagu-lagu P Ramlee dan sangat gilakan nyanyi lagu Bila Mama Pakai Celana dengan Dengar Ini Cerita.

Kemudian masa AWAS tengah meletup saya beli kaset Louis Armstrong dan di hujung kelas saya nyanyi lagu Skokkian, What a Wonderful World, When The Saint's Go Marching In dan Moon River. Memanglah lagu tu lagu zaman dulu kala tapi saya baru dengar kali pertama jadi rasa macam meriah gila la.

Waktu tu saya je yang macam lain sikit,
dan satu-satunya kawan yang boleh layan saya dengar lagu-lagu aneh waktu tu ialah Ali Akbar, ketua pengawas. Dia memang minat muzik. Jadi semenjak dulu, saya memang suka benda-benda lama, terutama lagu dan gaya fesyen lah. Waktu budak-budak minat gila seluar Jun Saito dan Alien Workshop saya rasa teringin nak pakai suit kelabu, topi dan tie biru muda macam Frank Sinatra pakai dalam gambar album dia.

Jadi memang sejak dari dulu, minat dekat benda-benda lama ni membuatkan saya ni agak "lone ranger" sikit. Tapi saya tak risau sangat, kalau sekadar lagu-lagu dan gaya je apalah sangat, bukannya kesunyian mana pun, kawan masih ramai, minat masih sama dan sebagainya. Boleh dikatakan saya masih lagi agak "Main Stream"

Tapi kan,
saya selalu ingat, yang sesetengah perkara masyarakat akan simpan dan hargai walaupun zaman berlalu, iaitu budaya dan adat resam termasuklah nilai-nilai lama. Benda-benda macam, hormat menghormati, resam padi makin tunduk makin berisi, nilai-nilai moral dan keugamaan. Saya ni tidaklah alim mana, jauh sekali, tapi saya masih kekal pegang kepada nilai-nilai Islam dan masyarakat melayu, nakal tu adalah tapi tidaklah jahat.

Tapi sekarang ni bila tengok,
dulu tukang tadah tangan baca doa dekat perhimpunan sekarang steady dengan JD dalam tangan, anak murid kesayangan cikgu yang terkenal dengan sifat keislaman dengan selamba kesana-kemari sampai buat benda saya pun tak jangka boleh jadi.

Suddenly sleeping/drinking/screwing around becomes normal....

Ini apahal lah ni?
Tak lelaki tak perempuan, tudung ke tak tudung ke apa kejadahnya,

Aku sorang je ke,
bukan dulu masa sekolah dan sebagainya aku ke sepatutnya yang nakal?

Biarlah,
kalau nak jadi arus perdana atau "main stream" ialah untuk meninggalkan nilai-nilai yang kita telah diterapkan semasa membesar, saya lebih rela duduk di hujung dan menyanyikan lagu Louis Armstrong. Mungkin dalam perjalanan yang tampak macam sunyi ni, saya akan jumpa beberapa kawan dan rakan, yang boleh sama-sama duduk sekali layan zaman-zaman yang telah lama berlalu.

Sinatra_Z - The Incident

Tonight it's the red BEN,
the one without the power steering, came back from his barbecue suddenly an SMS came into my phone.

At first I thought it was one of those tea drinking sessions in Desa,
Sh, Limau, Joe and the rest were probably plotting with a cup of teh o ais in their hand while we, quietly enjoy those great barbecue meat that he had always cooked.

Regardless of the subversive nature of our barbecue it was actually a good day. My article cam out in the portal, stoked some big attention arguing about the usage of Allah. Many-many angry comments which naturally makes me quite turned on by it but also many-many more quielty supporting it.

"Thank god, someone like you stood up for us" or "Nice argument bro, we need more people like you"

Being nice was no longer the option, time to burn right in front of their face, be it what they may call me but that's how I do it.

Then of course, the SMS came in.

"The Church in Taman Melawati got torched, some unknown assailants was seen throwing molotov cocktails into the compund."

Carefully drove down, hoping that this was a minor incident, perhaps maybe just a door or a window got burned. But it was not so, it was the real thing, with smokes and glass broken, the whole compouned was burned badly.

"This is a protestant church for crying out loud, not only are these idiots stoking some serious shit but they hit the wrong #*&(*#&$$(* Church, how dumb can they be?"

I parked my car,
called on Joe to get some confirmation and just stood at the side of the building. Quite some distance, and from afar I can see the three of them looking on the burning church, then her family came.

There I was sending messages to some of the boys saying

"Holy crap shit has hit the fan."

Speechless as ever, though I still stood firm on my beliefs yet can't help but feel really really bad inside of me.

After an hour plus and once I saw them going off, with smokes rising and firemen clearing up the scene I wen't back.

Then I saw the update

"A Church in Taman Melawati got torched today, unknown assailants came in and broke the window, Salam 1 Malaysia"

The the most Ironic part is that,
on the chat we talked about the article I wrote and how gung ho I was in defending what was right.

And Ironically, that night, that churched was torched.

I hardly have any Drama in my life,
but this..... well this is quite something.

And so,
I emailed my Editor.