NASI BAMBOO SUNGAI KLAH lived up to expectations! Big crowd today (as usual), but they have a good self service system going, so you'll get your food hassle-free. And most importantly, semua sedap. Alhamdulillah. The nasi buluh itself is a winner. Good stuff from the grill station too: kambing salai buluh perindu, ikan tilapia, ayam panggang, semua 👍👍 Air per jug murah. We also had the keledek and pisang goreng. Panas and so good. So overall, highly recommended 😊
I just read this on RollingStone.com :
"Ziggy Marley is a global music royal with a deep Rolodex."
A couple of things. Pretty sure most of the younger generation don't even know what a rolodex is. And really, do people even use it anymore?
But most of us would know what the expression means. Even if not literally. So you can say that the sentence works.
Which brings me to something I've been thinking about. If you've been writing for a long time, you're used to old school idioms, metaphors and expressions. So, is it time to evolve and update our own writing, or maybe it depends on the platform and audience?
I mean, when I read "Lagu yang sering bermain di corong radio", I'll be like, who has radios with corongs anymore? Or even, "Lagu yang menjadi siulan ramai". Really? People might share the songs on TikTok, but whistle? But still, we know what they mean lah.
When I wrote the lyrics to "Lihatlah" for Yazmin Aziz, I began with "Malam tu aku terima nota suara". Cos I highly doubt people breakup via airmail or the public phone anymore. (Hey, at least I try to sound young 😕 )
So, what say you guys? Should we be dropping these words and expressions that have nothing to do with real life anymore, or do we keep them cos you know, we're incorrigibly old school...
A new month and the world is recovering. Best time to do some self-auditing. What is different now compared to 3 months ago? Are we kinder? More empathetic? More thankful of what we have? Or it's Business As Usual as per the pre-covid days? We live in a world where we need to APPLY to perform some of our prayers and the mosques are still closed at certain times. Let's ponder over what that truly means.
If we have less of everything now, imagine those who didn't have anything to begin with. How are they coping? Or does it mean we just have to be more selfish since we're getting less of the world's abundance? Think about our lowest points during this period. What were we praying for? Protection from the disease and death? To go out to buy bread? To see our loved ones? To keep our jobs? And what are we praying for now? So much to think about. And thank Allah that He actually stopped everything to make us sit and ponder, before it's simply too late.
