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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

A month with a gansgter final part

(cubaan menulis dalam bahasa inggeris sebelum ini kerana malu dan terkilan dengan sesuatu yang ada bersangkut-paut dan ada kaitan dengan hidup dan mati, tapi ternyata....i look stupid in english, maka sambungan akan di tulis dalam bahasa ibu pertiwi, kerana lebih feel, lebih selesa serta berjiwa dengan bahasa kita, bahasa yang suatu masa dahulu, merupakan lingua franca)

Sememangnya beliau mahu mengambil aku bekerja di bawahnya, sama ada aku mahu atau tidak. Kebetulan sejarah memang adalah minat serta bakat semulajadi aku.

Maka keseokan harinya, kedatangan aku ke tempat kerja dengan muka berseri-seri, kerana aku tahu aku bakal meninggalkan tempat ini tidak berapa lama lagi. Biarla, si pengurus itu nak marah, nak hamun, aku tetap buat kerja dengan tenang tanpa sedikitpun melawan sehinggakan si pengurus itu tak tahu nak marah apa lagi.

Boss datang dan menanyakan tentang ‘temuduga’ semalam itu. Selepas mendengar berita gembira itu, boss senyum “terpulang pada kamu, itu kehidupan awak”. Aku nekad serta dan yakin untuk tinggalkan tempat ini sebelum aku terpalit dengan berbagai-bagai lagi masalah. Boss kemudian bertanya, “si botak dah sampai belum?”. Si botak belum sampai lagi, tapi sebentar tadi apek pun ada menyakan tentang si botak, tapi botak tiada maka apek menunjukkan van yang akan di beri pada si botak. “Nanti itu botak sampai, lu kasi ini kunci sama dia oo, tangga ada dalam” sambil menunjukkan aku tangga tersebut. Flashback ku kepada boss. Lalu boss menyatakan nanti aku perlu tolong si botak pasang lampu di rumah baru boss,berdua sahaja.

Seram sejuk aku mendengarnya.....sebelum ini, pernah si botak mengamuk akibat tersalah maklumat, dia ke Mall B sedangkan barang sepatutnya di hantar ke Mall A, sehingga boss sendiri memujuknya dalam ketakutan. Si botak hanya kurus serta kecil orangnya, boss yang berbadan tegap itupu takut dengan botak....ai, apalah nasib.

Nasib baik ataupun tidak, kerja mesti dengan penuh keihklasan, itu pesan ayahku. Dalam perjalanan.....botak ni banyak betul bercakap, berbagai cerita serta kisah silamnya di ceritakan padaku. Botak menyatakan kedua ibu bapanya dah tua, tepat sangatla waktunya untuk menunaikan haji(sebelum pergi rumah baru boss, kami singgah ke Lembaga Haji). Biarpun kesuntukan masa, dia akan berusaha sedaya upaya untuk menolong mereka, mulia sungguh hati seorang bekas samseng ini.

Dalam banyak-banyak kisah hidupnya ada satu kisah yang menarik bagi aku...pada suatu hari, si botak naik motor, berjalan-jalan di kotaraya, tiba-tiba nampak kejadian meragut, botak mengejar peragut sampai.....terlepas, tak sempat, botak kata kalaula boleh dia sanggup langgar si peragut tu, botak ini sungguh anti dengan peragut kerana orang rumahnya dulu pernah di ragut dan masuk hospital seminggu.

Walaupun botak ni samseng,dia sangat berjiwa patriotik dan sangat cintakan negara. Dia sangat sedih melihat situasi politik di negara tercinta kita ini, berpecah belah, rasuah sana sini....dan “apa la orang sibuk-sibuk sangat nak beli kereta import, kalau tak kerana kerajaan berusaha nak pulihkan industri kereta tempatan, kita orang biasa, orang susah takkan merasa naik kereta sendiri, harapkan bus atau naik motor sampai tiga empat orang.

Semasa memasang lampu di rumah baru kondominium mewah boss, si botak menyanyi. Lalu botak bertanya, apa genre lagu yang aku minat. Botak menambah, lagu yang dia dengar bukan sebarang lagu, walaupun lagu rock, namun isinya itu yang penting, lagu rockpun kadangkala boleh di selitkan unsur ketuhanan, lagu seperti ini sebenarnya dah lama ada orang ja tak sedar. (aku salah seorang yang baru sedar)” Amy search tu, macam mana dia boleh lepas buat konsert di Kelantan? Yang sangat menjaga budaya, yang sangat islamic itu. Pasal Menteri Besar faham akan maksud yang cuba di sampaikan dalam lagu Amy”. Lalu botak menyanyi.......

73 pintu~ 73 jalan,yang sampai hanya satu jalan~~~..... “kau tau lagu apa ni? Tanya sama itu hud-hud, mula dengan suatu hadis tu”.....benar, memang benar aku tahu hadis itu, dan aku tahu lagu itu, tapi tiadala aku perasan akan semua itu. Sungguh aku banyak belajar dengan samseng botak ini, bukan setakat belajar pasang lampu dan kipas sahaja. Tak semua lampu serta kipas siap,maka esok kenala datang lagi. Tapi.....van kena kunci, akibat lebih masa park.

Gerun.....aku lihat botak sedang marah-marah. Dia terus ke lif, mungkin ke pejabat. “tak mengapala, kita memang dah terlebih waktu working hour, nanti kita claim kat boss”. Guard pun datang membuka, dan kamipun pulang tanpa pertempuran darah berlaku.

Keesokan harinya, dalam perjalanan ke rumah boss tu...botak menyatakan dia tak banyak cakappun, dengan aku ni sahaja dia banyak cakap. Memangpun, biasanya dia serious. Macam-macam kami borakkan, kali ini isu bahasa. “walaupun aku ni Cuma technician, apa ingat lekeh sangat ka aku ni, boss aku dulu, orang british, dia cakap english aku faham, aku cakappun dia faham, yang pekerja baru tu nak berlagak sangat tu kenapa, bukan bagus sangatpun english dia tu.” Wow....samseng ini kelas international , botak kemudian berborak dalam bahasa inggeris.....aku sebgai graduan, malu untuk berbahasa inggeris dengan dia.......(ini la punca entry sebelum ini dalam BI ya).

Hari ni kami buat kerja dengan cepat, kena balik awal, hari jumaat, jalan akan sesak sangat. Dalam lebih kurang 10 minit sahaja terlewat daripada waktu “working hour”, harap tak kunci seperti semalam,lagipun telahku berikan no telefon aku supaya tidak berulang kejadian semalam. Namun.......sekali lagi, van di kunci. Bukan setakat botak, akupun rasa nak mengamuk. Kali ni aku sama-sama naik ke pejabat. “aku takkan bayar lagi, kalau tak mau buka aku pecahkanja kunci tu”. Aku mulai gerun, apakah si botak akan mengamuk.......tapi tidak, si botak jumpa pengurus yang gemuk itu, cakap dengan penuh santun akan masalah kami. Tapi....si gemuk menghamun botak, “u lagi? Guard lain kali ingat, jangan kasi dia masuk”. Botak mengamuk, maki-maki gemuk, dan mengugut gemuk “lu ingat ar, boss saya balik, saya kasi tau dia” kebtulan hari ni boss ke luar negara. Dan kemudian guard kelam kabut keluar hendak membuka kunci, pak cik guard tu baik juga orangnya, namun bukan dia yang mengunci van, shift orang lain....”minta maaf ya, saya buka ya”. Botak membalas dengan penuh berhemah,”bang saya minta maaf bang, saya tak marah abang, saya marah gemuk yang biadap tu!!”. Sekali lagi, bernasib baik tiada pertumpahan darah berlaku, si botak cakap , kalau kena bayar juga, dia akan panggil geng-geng dia untuk membuat onar dalam kondo nan mewah ini..........nasib baik sekali lagi.

Itu semua dah berakhir, walau aku kadangkala merindui suasana riuh-rendah di kedai itu, tapi aku tahu aku juga tidak sesuai berada dalam situasi itu. Tempat aku,kerja aku menjalankan kajian, eskavasi sejarah, namun sejarah sebulan bersama samseng tetap menjadi pedoman dan pengajaran.....

A month with a gansgter part 1,2,3

A month with a gansgter

This story was originally based on the true story.

It is the ending of october, the ending of the season ,the ending of the month, the month with gangster. When october end,honestly I dont know how to describe my feeling during this period, should i be happy? I am not sure, but what i’am sure is i will remember this month until my last breath. Its all started when i try to find a job after so many unsucessfull job interview, with lost,frustrated and sadness deep in heart....suddenly my life change, not to a brighter life, but to the darkest and unbelievably motivational. Its the month that need to defend and dependable, strugle, the real strugle to continue life as human being, not as a ordinary people who only know to talk, complain, frustrated with their own life eventhough their failure is because of their own fault (or whom never ever try to improve their own life, just hoping the miracle will come).

First....i meet him, whom we(other staff and me) call the boss. I bump into him(or he accidentally bump my father motorcycle),its all started there....we talk, talk and talking (although he the one who were talking, i just hear and keep hearing, only a few times i try to open my mouth, but no sounds was out from my expensive and not so nice vocal. He offer me a job, at one of his shop at Nor City Plaza Rakyat. What did he sold....dont ask, anything you cannot imagine. Then....obviously, the offer that i cannot refuse as i was unemployed, no money, no properties, and know nothing but I can learnt how to do bussines from him, thats really attracted me.

First day at work....nothing intresthing, just a wasted boring day, nothing much i learn, just meet a new and friendly people who work with ‘the boss’. I actually keep thinking, why i accept this job, i dont know about the boss background, what actually he sold (but he only sold a legal things, ok, please kept it in our mind), but honestly i feel amazed, i was really glad because the boss look like ordinary people(a bit like a gangster also, but that time i dont know) but he really concern about praying time, even when i enter his Brabus, all i can heard wheter religious talks, quran or zikr, no songs, no nonsence. Even during opening shop, and near to Maghrib prayer, he will order his staff to recite (play will be a better word) al-quran on laptop.

The second day...the day i learn about the way the people who in the bussines. Everything was chaotic, every work i’ve done, every single steps i make, even i cant sit for a while even without customer, still the so called manager (who actually just an acting only) keep scolding me, keep saying i wrong, even a small an simple mistake also. But i am a rebellion, disobedient and reluctant worker. I just do the jobs that only the boss gave to me. When the boss came, everything change, even the act manager became so polite, so humble. Looks like everyone faced look so scared, what about me? I just continue my job, the boss told me to go to other outlets to check the stock, and when get back here, count stock here. When i come back, it already Zohor time, so i need to pray, but somebody inside the staff toilet. When i ask other staff wheter can i used the toilet downstair....he said” its only for boss, even we never used it”. Why are they so scared about the boss? I just asked the boss, i want to take wudhu only. With a smile, he said happily “if you want to take wudhu just go ahead”. See whats wrong with you guys??

The day....the day i know the reality, the truth behind the troth that is also truth.........the reality that, i actually under the same roof with a gangster(former gangster actually). How do I got to know it, i think you dont want to be in my shoes also at that time.(to be continue)

The day....the day i know the reality, the truth behind the troth that is also truth.........the reality that, i actually under the same roof with a gangster(former gangster actually). How do I got to know it, i think you dont want to be in my shoes also at that time. It was a bright and peacefull morning, we open the shop like everyday we used to do, open the doors, clean, swept the shop, and check the cashier machine. The boss come, we greet him as usual, Salam, aishma khube~ everything was normal like typical boring day, no one expect somthing terible will happen.

But it did happen. Someone came, want to meet the boss, the manager show the way to this man. I, as usuall, doing my routine jobs, checking the stock balance(everyday,boriing~). Went upstairs, looking for the beutiful robes to count. Suddenly, i heard, the boss voice. First, he only talking(but loudly) then he start shouting, the man kept talking also trying to defend and be stubborn for himself. Suddenly from upstairs, i heard....smack!!! Boom! Pang!! All the kicking and punching can be heard from upstairs, can you imagine how hard that man been hit? I’am to scared, i just wait upstair and praying,also hoping they will not fighting upstair. For about twenty minutes to half an hour the chaos occur. I heard door being strucked.Then total silent~~ then the manager call me...come down, are you finished, we need your help. Downstair...like somebody have been killed,full of blood on the floor, eveything was messy.

The boss already left, that man already runaway. I ask, what actually happen, is somebody being killed? The manager just laughing, and said....no, they were just having some quarrel, then the boss hit that guy, puch and kick him, they were chasing in the shop, fighting and then he runaway after apoligizing....was our boss also hurt?....of course not, he is strong and muscular, he the only one who hitting that guy.....means this amount of blood is from that guy. I just kept silents, dont know what to said, what to do, what to believe.......then i just hoping this day was only a dream but the reality never fair towards me,then i hope this day will end soon.....

The next day, everything went back to normal, like nothing was happen yesterday. Reluctantly i doing my routine jobs. Then i became brave enough to ask something to manager, wheter the yesterday man will report to the police or not. He just said, nothing to be worried about, then smile............the boss came, as usual, he greet as all, enter his office and do he jobs, as usual. Another day, that i hope will end peacefully, and it was peacefull day(but boriiiing).

The next day, i dont know how to describe my feeling, i am happy (i receive a another job offer) but i was scared also(how i want to told to the boss, if he became angry and then puch me directly to my focoso face). So i just kept silence and dont want to tell anybody, i scared if somebody will told boss, not in the same manner that i want to tell him, so it will be better for me to inform him directly. So, when the boss came, after he settle down, i went to his office to tell him my own version of my story. I told him, my lecturer at my former college at di’perla Island, offer me a job that was related to my course of study, but it was not confim yet. He just said....oo, good, but its up to you, if you want that jobs, its ok, just inform me,ok? Just think about it....with a smile on his face. Although it was not confirm yet then, but i feel like i am at the moon, i feel i can fly~~. I will be meeting the lecturer on polmone day, so i ask him i want to take off day on that day, as since i join him, i never have any offday before. Again, with a beautiful smile he said, actually it is your offday like in the schedule....i’m flying without wings~~

Let just skip the whole story, lets make it short, after the meeting, it was confirm that.....to be continued......

(cubaan menulis dalam bahasa inggeris kerana malu dan terkilan dengan sesuatu yang ada bersangkut-paut dan ada kaitan dengan hidup dan mati, tapi ternyata....i look stupid in english, maka sambungan akan di tulis dalam bahasa ibu pertiwi, kerana lebih feel, lebih selesa serta berjiwa dengan bahasa kita, bahasa yang suatu masa dahulu, merupakan lingua franca)