| Tribute to Kurt
Cobain
Just sit down and have a cup of
pennyroyal tea,
And I'll tell you about the man who sold the world,
So come as you are to my private party,
Just sit back and listen to the song about a girl.
The Nirvana king that's Kurt Cobain,
Who played his life just like a game,
And ended it just at his height of fame,
And ever since, the world has never been the same.
Nobody knew much about Mr. Kurt Cobain,
Except for his addiction to drugs and cocaine,
How much he suffered the agony and pain,
How he screws up his mind and fried his brain.
Having a vision of the lake of fire,
His brain so messed up it drove him insane,
Feeling so dumb of this life which he tired,
So he stood there alone on the plane.
His speech was mixed up all because of the drugs,
Unable to even remember the notes, playing was no longer fun,
Alone in his room alone with slug,
And so he ended it by a trigger of a gun.
It smells like teen spirit is still fresh on air,
The tune so high likes a dose of ecstasy,
While some other groups play the tune
so wretched and carelessly,
As David Grohl from Foo Fighters continues their legacy.
But for Kurt Cobain the world didn't seem very fair,
In the world of punk, trash and other alternatives,
He died of pain he could no longer bear,
Although he is gone Nirvana forever lives.
And like some other legends they don't stay dead for long,
As long as they're remembered by us faithful fans,
As long as somebody keeps playing their songs,
They'll always be able to rise again and again.
- NIRVANA DIE HARD FAN -
The Art Of English
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger,
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in
France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are
meat.
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
That you comb through annals of history but not a single annal.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of
them,
what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue.
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed
to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship.
Have noses that run and feet that smell.
Park on driveways and drive on parkways.
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same?
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
How can overlook and oversee be opposites?
While quite a lot and quite a few are alike?
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things
only when they are absent?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown?
Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
Have you ever run into someone who was
combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable?
And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens
or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns down.
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers,
and it reflects the creativity of the human race,
(which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible.
But when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it,
But when I wind up this essay, I end it.
Jentayu
Apabila si garuda yang angkuh itu bertindak,
Melaksanakan sumpahnya untuk memisahkan cinta kasih,
Antara putera Rom dengan puteri China,
Muncullah si jentayu yang mulia hatinya,
Mempertahankan cinta yang abadi itu.
Walau pun garuda yang perkasa itu menang,
Dalam pertarungan dengan jentayu,
Tetapi dia gagal menghalang pernikahan,
Putera Rom dengan puteri China,
Dan sekali gus gagal memisahkan,
Dua hati yang dilamun cinta.
Jentayu kalah dalam pertarungan dengan garuda yang angkuh,
Tetapi dia berjaya menyelamatkan jiwa yang penuh bersemi dengan,
Kelopak cinta.
Malu oleh sumpahannya, yang gagal,
Si garuda yang angkuh menghumbankan dirinya ke lautan kalzum.
Jentayu yang luka parah terus terbang,
Membelah awan dengan suaranya yang rawan,
Menitipkan pesan bahawa pedamaian dan keadilan,
Haruslah diperjuangkan,
Kejahatan harus dilawan dan ditentang,
Tanpa takut dan mundur.
Dan di cakerawala ini,
kebenaran akan terus bersinar,
Cinta akan tetap berbunga,
Dengan sejuta kelopaknya.
- USMAN AWANG -
Between Me & Him
I asked for strength...
And God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom...
And God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity...
And God gave me brain and brawn to work.
I asked for courage...
And God gave me danger to overcome.
I asked for love...
And God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors...
And God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted...
I received everything I needed...
My prayer has been answered...
Quotable Quotes
MAN IS HARDER THAN
IRON, STRONGER THAN STONE,
YET MORE FRAGILE THAN A ROSE.
-TURKISH PROVERB-
THE YOUNG DO NOT KNOW ENOUGH TO BE PRUDENT,
AND THEREFORE THEY ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE,
AND ACHIEVE IT, GENERATION AFTER GENERATION.
-PEARL S. BUCK-
OFTEN THE BEST WAY TO WIN IS TO FORGET TO KEEP SCORE.
-MARIANNE ESPINOSA MURPHY-
THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES ANY SENSE IS THIS WORLD
IS THE SENSE OF HUMOR.
-WILLIAM POSTER-
HE WHO CAN'T ENDURE THE BAD
WILL NOT LIVE TO SEE THE GOOD.
-YIDDISH PROVERB-
KINDNESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WISDOM AND THE RECOGNITION OF THIS
IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
-THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN-
I ALWAYS PREFER TO BELIEVE THE BEST OF EVERYBODY,
IT SAVES SO MUCH TROUBLE.
-RUDYARD KIPLING-
THE LIBRARY IS THE TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE,
AND KNOWLEDGE HAS LIBERATED MORE PEOPLE,
THAN ALL OF THE WARS IN HISTORY.
-SOMEONE-
WE OURSELVES FEELS THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS JUST A DROP IN THE
OCEAN, BUT THE OCEAN WILL ALWAYS BE LESS BECAUSE OF THAT MISSING
DROP.
-MOTHER TERESA-
THERE'S ONLY ONE THING WE LEARN AND EVER WILL IN HISTORY, THE FACT
THAT WE NEVER LEARN ANYTHING FROM IT.
-MY HISTORY TEACHER-
EAT FOOTBALL, SLEEP FOOTBALL, DRINK COCA-COLA.
-COKE'S ADVERT-
HIDUP MESTI SELAMBA.
-ZURAIDAH THE GREAT-
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