Beautiful Life!

Aku tak ingat sejak bila family aku membudayakan annual celebration. Rasanya waktu aku sekolah rendah dulu, birthday aku cuma di’wish’. And I thought that was perfectly normal and acceptable. Even time sekolah rendah, tidak pernah terlintas dalam fikiran nak sambut Mother’s day ke…Father’s day ke…or whatever. Valentine’s Day lagilah….boleh imagine macam mana reaksi mak dan ayah kalau tau anak2 dier bercinta sebelum habis sekolah menengah. Kalau tak kena rotan, maybe kena tahan leteran sampai bernanah cuping telinga.

Back then, we celebrated meaningful occasions that may or may not come annually. Basically, something being an annual occasion was never a good enough reason to celebrate it. Contohnya, kalau aku dapat number satu ke….atau kitorang dapat straight A’s for UPSR, PMR and SPM ke, barulah mak dgn ayah nak celebrate. (basically academic performance pass as meaningful occasions to be celebrated since we do place academic performance as a very, very important thing indeed) 

Maybe sejak Kak Long masuk MRSM Taiping (rasanya semuanya idea dierr lah) that we started to buy gifts for our parents for Mother’s or Father’s Days, respectively. We also started buying gifts for each other’s birthdays then. Which, I think is one of the reasons we were quite close as siblings (when all we did most of the time were child-bickeringsback then, at least they were some occasions when we were not).

Rasanya parents aku mula2 mcm terharu juga kot, tiba2 anak2 dier start nak wish Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and all that. Mesti mula2 tu diorang rasa, dah buang tabiat ke anak2 aku nih! huuhuhu. But then, they started taking their cues from us, started taking us out for dinner for all our birthdays. So now, we got gifts for both academic performances and birthdays…which is really greatttt!!

Maybe juga sebab makin anak2 membesar, makin kita sedar we don’t have much time or much occasions dah nak celebrate together….

So, even though I still believe that we should not celebrate something just because it happens to arrive at a specific date for any given year, but those celebrations are really great reasons to just get-together, hang out, make them feel loved and love them in return.

But we still never think of New Year as a celebration. Aku tak pernah celebrate New Year….tak rasa teruja langsung dengan New Year. I mean, kalau kita jadikan New year itu sebagai salah satu cara untuk mengukuhkan ikatan kekeluargaan antara family (saling menziarahi, saling telefon bertanya khabar, bersembang dan mengimbau kenangan sama2 sepanjang tahun) then, that’s good. That means, you’ve got some sort of common sense not to celebrate New Year just because oh, it happens to be the first day of 2009.

Tapi kalau kita celebrate New Year for no other reason than that, then I suggest that we should have our mental faculty checked. Especially if it is celebrated with concerts, parties and rempits di jalan. 

I shake heads at the news of bad things happening during the eve of New Year. Konon azam baru lah…be a better person etc. 

In fact, bila aku pikir balik, sejak bila negara kita celebrate new year sampai mcm ni sekali? Aku rasa time aku kecik2 dulu, Malaysia tak celebrate new year sampai mcm ni sekali. Tak tahulah kalau dulu tak ada siaran2 langsung ni…and aku yang kat Kedah ni maybe tak tahu apa yang jadi kat tempat lain. But seriously, aku rasa New Year celebration start jadi dahsyat dalam lima, enam tahun lepas jer. Sejak kita mula start bersiaran langsung for everything and semua station TV saling berlumba2 nak naikkan ratings.

Susah juga nak salahkan artis, nak salahkan station TV or what. It’s a basic principle in business that supply would meet demand, or die trying. So kalau orang2 Malaysia sendiri tak enjoy benda2 ni…mustahil diorang nak adakan. So, it’s really our own faults, much as I hate to admit it.

I don’t have any New Year Resolutions. I only have New Day Resolution:

-hari ni siapkan homework, lepas tu masak.

-Esok bangun awal and pre-read sebelum masuk kelas.

I have new goals everyday. And my determination fluctuates every single moment of my life. I just wanna be a better Muslim, a better daughter, a great sister (though I think I am already one, hihihi) and a good medical student who can impress the doctors.

Maybe sempena New  Year ni, I will start a new blog…my Kak Long been nagging me to change for a better venue to vent all my anger, sadness, happines etc. She suggested blogdrive. I haven’t made up my mind.

She thinks it’s high time aku berhijrah…maybe’s she’s right.

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