4 days! (Day 1)

Thanks to the long weekend kita semua enjoy sempena CNY.

I hope everyone had a great time with families, friends etcs.

Me, mom and my cousin pusing habis jalan2 Semenanjung Malaysia. 

It was suppose to be a whole family trip + my cousin and siblings all... but, atas sebab2 yang sis & family tak dapat elakkan.. maka tinggal lah me & mom only.

Also the same to my cousins.. last2 tinggal sorang je yang ikut.

My family was invited for a wedding kat Kemaman, Terengganu. And since plan sudah menjadi tunggang langgang, me & mom telah membuat perancangan yang agak gila actually. 

Sabtu pagi, off to Kemaman,Terengganu and Ahad, off to Taiping, Perak.

Central - East Coast - North - Central

all in 4 days

and also dalam keadaan highway yang sangat jam.

Alhamdulillah. 

We all are still in one piece. Haha.

Kami mulakan perjalanan pagi Sabtu around 9am. Turun je DUKE kat Greenwood, terus sangkut jam all the way sampai Tol Karak. Hamek ko!
Imagine paling laju 20km/jam.
T__T

Bukan von je kebas, keseluruhan badan rasa tak best.
Boleh hafal muka, plate number, bilangan ahli dalam kereta semua yang disekililing.
Sampai tahap excited nampak exit and lepas tu frust semula sebabt tak banyak kereta yang masuk.

Journey yang sepatutnya 3 jam setengah tu je, ambil masa 3 jam hanya di Tol Karak sahaja.
Lepas Tol Karak, lega sekejap... Happy gils dapat tekan sampai 80km/jam (bersyukur sangat dah ni) tapi kemudiannya kecundang kembali bila di Maran.
(insert sad song here)

MSN and his mom dah start calling berkali2. Yelah, patutnya dah dekat sampai.
Sabar ye... kami juga ingin segera sampai...

Akhirnya... selepas 6 jam didalam kereta.. we reached Kemaman!!! Yay!!!
Rasa nak stop sujud syukur kat tengah2 bandar Kemaman tu jugak. But takpe lah, adalah lebih afdal isi perut yang berkeroncong ni dulu.
Hentian tak yah cerita lah.. penuh like no other.

So, kami pun bukak la kad kawin.
Tengok map.
Eleh senang je nih. Sure boleh sampai.
Terus... traffic light... terus ada Petronas.. traffic light, take right... terus.. rumah pengantin.
Senang!

But what happened to us?
Terus.. traffic light... terus ada Petronas.. but no traffic light right after Petronas as per map.. hanya ada hutan je... and terus lagi ada traffic light but we all masih terus mencari Petronas yang betul ada traffic light berhampiran and tetiba signboard tulis.. KUALA TERENGGANU.

Sobs.

Berhenti tepi, call MSN to the rescue!
Heheheeheehehe....



Taraaaa!!!
Dah sampai...

Itulah pengantinya...
Abg Yie & wife. Abg Yie ni cousin to MSN.
Ni Majlis Menyambut Menantu.

Dek kerana keseluruhan badan cramp kerana duduk terlalu lama dalam kereta, we decided to chill lepak dulu dalam rumah.
makan tu, kemudian la ye.
padahal perut adalah lapar.
But entahlah, maybe lega dah selamat sampai.

Ni opah.
She is 90 years old this year.

Simple and nice pelamin.
Theme white & grey.
The week before at bride's side, blue & pink.
Siap pengapit pun kena pakai pink. Siapalah pengapit tu ye. Haha.

 Nak g dekat pelamin, malu.
Jejauh pun jadilah.
Tak sangka termasuk tema. KELABU.
Hoho.

Lepas tu, kami tak boleh tahan lagi.
Terus minta izin nak pergi makan.
Keluar je tengok MSN and his cousins, uncles all siap hidang for we all.
Janganlah begitu. Malulah. Dah lah sesat, lambat siap berhidang pula.
(dalam hati dah sujud syukur dah sebab boleh terus ngap)

Lepas makan, MSN ajak lepak tepi pantai Teluk Kalong. Pantai ni just belakang rumah pengantin ni jer.
Dia kata,jom lah layan ABC ke.. Lychee Kang ke..
Terus ku lupa keadaan diri yang batuk lagi demam ditambah selsema.
Tolak tepi semua tu.
I have come this far takkan nak tolak semua nikmat dunia itu.

No.

Cantik kan???
Subhanallahhhhhhhhh....
Cantik sungguh ciptaan Allah ni.
Saujana mata memandang.
Hilang penat tadi.

MSN.moi.MyCousin

Cantik sangat pantai ni.
Manakah para veteran kami? Sedang duduk menikmati minum petang.

Lempeng Nyiur.

Marvelous kaw kaw.

Ya Allah kenapa KL tak buat macam Abe ni masak weeiii???

SEDAP.

 

Keropok Lekor meletop MasyaAllah.

We had this RM3 per pinggan sebanyak 3 pinggan!
Makan berlima sampai 3 pinggan oiii...
Dengan Lycee Kang sejuk.. slrrpppp...
sedapness.

Look at me mommy.
She really enjoyed the lekor, lempeng and Lychee Kang.

Selesai makan petang yang sangat satisfying, kami beransur ke Hotel.
Hotel apa berapa dimana, Ayu buat satu entry lain ye.
(",)

Lepas check-in, mandi and solat, we all rest sekejap.
And baru fikir nak jalan mana for the night.
Mom kata dia surrender.

MSN decided to jalan2 at Monica Bay area. Pilih jelah mana2 Seafood Restaurant yang ada katanya.
Semuanya InsyaAllah sedap.
Ikan bakar lah. What can we go wrong, kan?

So, we stopped at Warung Kak Ha Pak Clamp Seafood, Pantai Teluk Mak Nik.
Pantai Teluk Mak Nik = Monica Bay

Ehem ehem... What we had that night..

 Ikan pari bakar

Kailan Goreng & Telur Bungkus

 Tom Yam Poktek

Siakap Lime Stim

All for RM 79.
(with drinks sekali)

Selesai makan, we all jalan2 bandar Kemaman pulak.
Park agak jauh sebab nampak polis tutup jalan. Sure ada CNP celebration. So, nak la tengok kot ada lion dance ke apa.

Sekali makin dekat dengan kawasan acara.
Terdengar suara Black Mentor.
Haaaaaa... terus jalan makin laju. Amboih. Cuba dengar mengaji jalan laju camtu.
#insaf

ooooo Concert Belia. Sempena CNY la sekali harung.
Layan gak..
Black pandai la berinteraksi dengan crowd.
Tak boring and semua pun anticipate with him.
Good job black. Keep it up!

Tapi sebab berdiri lama and kami pun dah melayu..
Moh la pulang ke hotel.
Esok another long journey to go.

Love, 

Ayu

Sayang by SHAE

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Lirik Lagu Sayang – SHAE

Sayang apa khabar dengan mu
Di sini ku merindukan kamu
Ku harap cinta mu takkan berubah
Kerna di sini ku tetap untukmu

Sayang apa khabar dengan mu
Cobalah kamu telepon diriku
Ku rindu dengar suara indahmu
Kerna dirimulah semangat hidupku

Sayang dengarlah permintaan ku
Jangan ragu kan cintaku
Sayang percayalah apa kataku
Kerna ku sayang kamu

Sayang dengarlah permintaanku
Jaga hatimu untukku
Sayang dengarlah bisikan hatiku
Kerna ku sayang kamu

[Ulang dari awal]

Sayang dengarlah permintaan ku
Jangan ragu kan cintaku
Sayang percayalah apa kataku
Kerna ku sayang kamu

Sayang dengarlah permintaanku
Jaga hatimu untukku
Sayang dengarlah bisikan hatiku
Kerna ku sayang kamu

Jangan ragukan cintaku
Percaya sayangku
Jaga hatimu untukku
Ku menyayangimu
Semangat hidupku
Ku tetap untukmu
Cintaku selalu milikmu

A cat situation

I am a cat lover. My mom address me as the Minister of Cats.
Ayu and cats macam ada aura tarikan. Kat mana-mana tempat ada cats sure akan kerumun diriku ini.
Setakat kedai makan, agak normal kan? But if tahap jalan2 kat neighbourhood tetiba tengok belakang ada kucing ikut jalan sama. Acaner tu? Haha.....
Sebab tu, masa Ayu ada kucing dulu, nak balik kampus adalah sesuatu yang sangat payah. Bukak kereta nak masukkan barang, siap sekor dua dah ada dalam kereta. Tak nak keluar cara halus tu.... geram tul. But very cute.


Sampailah bigD lahir, we still have cats but sangat restricted their area. Tak bebas macam biasa. They are very ok with the new rules all, but sometimes, semua macam curious nak tau apakah or siapakah yang new member yang semua orang tatang tu? So, if we all bawak bigD keluar jalan2 petang dalam stroller, berebut2 semua menyambut. Hahaha.....
So anyways, after a very heart breaking incident, Ayu serik untuk bela cats dah.
Ayu rasa, Ayu pernah coretkan kat blog ni pasal cerita ni... tak berapa pasti, but I tak boleh nak cerita lagi lah. Sedih ooooo....
Jadinya, rentetan dari semua tu, baru2 ni.. ada la seekor kucing ni... sentiasa ada in front of my house. Macam biasa, Ayu buat tak reti je. Dia tak lari pun... bila Ayu sapu depan porch, dia will usha me from outside the gate.. if Ayu keluar to buang sampah, dia will come near by giving me a very manja look.
Ayu cakap kat dia.. "sorry lah, i dont have food for you. Dah lama rumah ni tak ada kucing.."
Dia datang dekat and golek2 manja...
Cairrrrrrrrrrrr....... T______T

Since then, dia always tunggu Ayu before I'm off to work. Jadi macam theraphy pun ye jugak. I will siap awal and lepak kat luar just to spend some time with the cat. No specific name yet.. when i shout "kucccinnnnggg..." she will come. Haha.

So, now "kucing" is my hiburan pagi, my morning theraphy.
Nanti nak belikan dia food lah...
Owh no.... sudah terpancingkah diriku?

jeng jeng jenggggggg....

Siapa yang dah biasa baca this blog tau that Ayu memang ikut satu class Al-Quran with mom every Tuesday kan?
If tak tau or terlupa..meh nak intro sikit... Every Tuesday night, me and my mom ada belajar Al-Quran or ayat senangnya belajar mengaji at our nearby Masjid Tun Abdul Aziz or nama glamournya Masjid Bulat.

Of course dia dapat nama glamour tu kerana bentuknya yang bulat. Mustahil bentuknya square and we sesaja nak panggil dia bulat, no? So anywaysssssss...... malam semalam routine seperti biasa. Ayu balik sharp from office to make sure nak kejar the 830pm class.

Seminggu sekali je. So, kena show effort. Benda lain sanggup, mengaji nak mengelak. Cubit nak?

Class kami actually kat bahagian atas masjid. Masjid bulat ni ada dua tingkat. Gate pun ada dua, bawah and atas. Sekali, malam semalam, dapat notice kata untuk semalam kami kena berpindah ke kelas KAFA kat bawah.

So berbondonglah kami bertukar venue.
Masa zaman uni seronok gak jalan2 tukar venue dengan classmates ni. Tapi, kalau class ni... Ayu paling muda... so you can hear all the ouccchh aduhhhh setiap langkah mereka menuruni anak tangga.
MasyaAllah, I believe banyak malaikat turun sama dengan perjalanan makcik2 ni menuntut ilmu Al-Quran. Insyaallah....

Lepas kami dah dapat class, dah duduk all... Ustazah mula baca doa.
Usai tu, turn kami baca untuk disemak dan disoal jawab tajwid oleh Ustazah. Baru dua orang baca, tiba2 blackout.
Kebetulan kat ruang legar tu ada another masjid punya activity..  but yang pelik, derang tak panic and sekecoh kami.

Ayu siap install flashlight and tab jadi lampu untuk class. Another aunty call AJK masjid yg dia kenal using hp and another makcik call TNB to report.

Berpeluh jugak lah dalam 15 minutes macam tu. When we all tengah decide nak call it off je that night, AJK masjid sampai... dia bawak lilin satu and minta maaf.

Dia cakap...
"Maaf ye, blackout pulak. Setiap kali ada 'perubatan' ni, memang jadi macam ni. TNB ke, technician ke, contractor ke, semua tak boleh solve problem ni..., maaf sangat dari pihak kami..."

Mom terus suruh Ayu check kawasan sekeliling. Ayu keluar... memang betul, hanya masjid yang blackout. Owh my!
Patutlah orang kat luar tu semua rileks.... memang derang tau.. tengah berubat rupanya.... Dahsyat jin ni.. pandai main electric... kena kejutan elektrik kang baru tau... eiiiiiiii....

Bila Ayu masuk class inform its true hanya masjid, kami terus berjemaah berzikir...
"Bismillah hillazi laaa yadurru ma 'as bihii syaiun fil ard dhi wa laaa fis samaa i wahu wassami ul 'alimmm .. "

Non stop.
Berjemaah dan sekata.

Alhamdulillah.... elektrik kembali asal few minutes later.
Syukur.

Ustazah kata, kita teruskan. Jangan bagi dia menang. Kita baca kalimah Allah, kita kena yakin Allah ada jaga kita. Maybe sebab tu tertulis kita mengaji di class bawah hari ni...

So, sambunglah kami mengaji.

Tak sampai 15 minutes, eh blackout lagi.

But this time we fight.
Secara berjemaah dan sekata, kami baca surah Al-Fatihah dan Ayatul Kursi.

Firt round, maybe nervous, ustazah tegur certain tajwid kami. Kena semua in place. Remember, syaitan itu melalaikan.

So we do it again and again.... and Alhamdulillah, electric resume semula...
Allah hu akbar!

Alhamdulillah, kami dapat menyempurnakan pengajian kami semalam.
Syukur sangat.

Langkah je kami keluar masjid, the electricity went off again.. waktu tu, kami masing2 mampu doa kan aje lah.. masing2 dah dijemput pulang....

Apa pun.... kita semua tak boleh panic if benda ni jadi. Ingat Allah. Zikir pun cukup. Fatihah, kursi.... kenapa tak boleh panic? Sebab nanti bacaan tunggang langgang..

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Love, 

Ayu

A father figure

Ayah Chu

My ayah chu is an ex army. Kalau korang ada sedara atau sesiapa yang close as an ex army, you guys should know macamana perangai dia.

Askar ni, dia tak garang. Tapi tegas. Dia berseloroh, lembut and sangat rational. Kecuali bila dia dah marah. Dia tak bising2 macam kita ni bila marah. But dia akan cakap facts yang perlu and bertindak. Cepat and tangkas.. paling penting firm.

Ayah Chu can become my wali. He is my wali. Sebelum Ayu berangkat menunaikan hajj dulu, dia dah start tak berapa sihat. Dia risau when I come back, dia tak sempat nak jumpa ke apa.... he said.. "sebagai wali kamu yang sah, Ayah Chu izinkan kamu buat apa sahaja dan pergi kemana sahaja di bumi Allah ini, selagi ianya tidak melanggar hukum syarak".....

Pak Wea Yusoff

Ha, yang ni ex police. Tegas gila. Ayu still remember masa kecik2 dulu, time cuti sekolah, dia ajar about table manners. Jangan makan berbunyi.. kunyah mulut tutup... duduk tegak etcs
Sekali dia keluarkan keropok sebalang. Acaner nak makan keropok tak berbunyi???? Gulp.
Kulum sampai lembik wei.. punya takut kan dia.
But dia tenang je makan dengan penuh rileks. Haha.

After arwah nenek meninggal, Pak Wea setiap petang datang checkin on me. Making sure I am safely at home after my mengaji class and making sure I have done all my homeworks.

Sebagai upah, dia akan bawak ABC makan sekali dengan dia berdua. I looked forward for my evenings since then. Lepas nenek meninggal he become so close and sangat lembut berbanding garang tegas dia sebelumnya.

It was my UPSR year. Bila dia pun tiba2 sakit few months after nenek meninggal.. even dalam ICU pun dia sang me "ketipak ketipang ketipung suara gendang bertalu2...pura2 bingung hati di dalam siapa yang tahu" ... he asked me not to worry. Dia sihat, nanti dia balik. He asked me to go back and study, tak payah tengok dia.
But the machines there shows otherwise.

Encik Zahid

Uncle paling lembut dan bersahaja. Sentiasa cool. Full of stories and experience. Sangat creative dalam bidang printing and penulisan.

Mak kata, Encik ni garang masa muda2. But yang Ayu kenal, dia tak macam tu. If we were to spent our holiday kat Penang, for sure akan tidur rumah dia. He will make sure dia videos cerita2 lama semua ready for me to watch with him. Adik Manja lah, all the P Ramlee series lah.

I missed our early morning berjalan beli nasi kandar for breakfast. Where habis sekampung ditegurnya or menegurnya. Macam YB kawasan pulak. Haha. Tu lah nak tunjuk cemana Encik and masyarakat.

Satu hari Encik sakit. Dia mintak mom balik jenguk dia. It was end of May. Dia nak makan apple, dia nak mom yang kupaskan for him. Masa tengah duduk dengan dia tu... dia cakap kat mom.. "cuba Jan tengok card doctor abang tu sat. Abang kena pergi jumpa doktor 6hb 3 kan?"

I giggled and said.."Encik..ni dah hujung bulan 5 la.. tulih sini 3hb 6.."
Who would have thought? Itulah tarikh keramat pemergiannya.

Pak Wea Li

Nak bermanja? Nak melawak? Nak nasihat? Nak belajar agama? Tafsiran? This is the guy.

Tak pernah sekali Pak Wea bersangka buruk pada orang. Even that someone dah hurt dia like zillion times pun, dia masih lagi sentiasa menyambut  and melayan orang tu macam biasa.

Dia sayang sangat kat my mom. Lebih dari seorang sepupu ipar. More like a brother to a little sister. Pulangnya kami dari hajj, masa pergi visit dia, he was crying none stop.

Bersyukur sangat masih punya nyawa untuk jumpa we all.

He is one of those yang senantiasa berdoa untuk zuriat for sis and BIL. Alhamdulillah, after years of waiting, lepas dapat bigD, kita bawak jumpa dia. MasyaAllah, segunung lagi doa mengiringi kami sekeluarga dan specifically bigD.

Tak perlu segunung emas atau tanah berekar. Doa dari yang ikhlas macam ni.... sangat priceless.

Ayah Andak

Masa kecik2 time cuti sekolah, Ayah Andak sure datang KL bawak Afreem. Nanti mom will sent me there to lepak with them.

Ayah Andak ni macam penglipur lara. And dia sangat tenang hadapi apa pun. Sentiasa dengan senyuman. He is always there for everyone of us. Always. Tak percaya, tanya la semua anak2 saudara dia.

Masa sis punya wedding, Ayah Andak ni siap berkampung kat my car porch tu. Bentang toto tebal2 and pasang ubat nyamuk dengan few uncles. Kita dah bagi bilik, tapi rumah punya la penuh and dia tak trust security. Dia kata, biar dia berjaga kat luar. Rumah memang macam fiesta.

Balik Kulim Syawal lepas, Ayu jumpa Ayah Andak. He was so happy with the news that I told him. He said, if dia pejam mata pun, dia bersyukur ada orang akan jaga Ayu. Terus dia akan tangan panjatkan kesyukuran. Ikhlas sangat doanya...all of us can feel it. Sangat menusuk.

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Ya Allah kau cucurilah rahmat ke atas roh mereka. Jauhilah mereka dari seksa kubur dan tempatkan mereka dikalangan orang yang beriman.

Al Fatihah to my Ayah Chu, Pak Wea Yusoff, Encik Zahid, Pak Wea Li and Ayah Andak.

I miss you guys so much.

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Qahwaa Express

nampak nama dia?
Qaahwa Express....

(SUMPAH DAH TAK INGAT NI DRAFT BILA TAHUN BECAUSE WHAT I REMEMBER WAKTU NI, WHB MASIH WITH ME. SOBS)

Was out kejap from home waktu tu sebab nak settle some things ad-hoc. Menolong rakan2 dikala mereka ditimpa kesusahan. Biasalah. Because we never know bila waktu kita.
Alhamdulillah, semua settle.

Cuma, lepas settle perut melapo pulak. Tengok jam dan 8pm. Aisey. Tak leh lah layan berat sangat or yang lambat sangat. I got curfew you.. nanti mak i jadi singa. Scaryyyyy......

So, my friend suggested here.
Pantas. Sempoi. Murah. Sedap.
Katanya....

So, mengoder lah kami.

Mocha with ice cream

Nasi goreng daging merah with telur mata

Oglio Olio seafood

And segelas air suam.

Total bill dalam RM15++

Murah kan?

Kalau korang nak pergi, tau tak Petronas yang dekat Hosp Ampang Puteri tu? Haaaaa.... go straight on lalu SPCA tu pastu turn right... terus je, ada shoplots bahagian dalam tu. Kat situ lah lokasinya.

Simple, sedap, berpatutan.

Nyums.

Blurbings By,

Amiha Ayu

Jack Reacher (2012)

Who is Jack Reacher?

Jack Reacher is a fictional character created by British author Jim Grant (who writes under the pen name of Lee Child) and is the main character in 17 books. A feature film starring Tom Cruise as Reacher, Jack Reacher, was released on December 21, 2012.

The Jack Reacher novel series

Title	Date of Publication	1st/3rd Person	ISBN	Plot
Killing Floor	March 1997	1st		After hopping off a Greyhound bus to pursue a whim (finding out what happened to a musician, "Blind Blake"), Reacher is arrested and charged with murder. After an attempt on his life while being held over the weekend in a state prison, Reacher is determined to figure out what happened. Later he finds out that the person he was framed for murdering was Joe Reacher, his brother. Unknowingly, Jack Reacher had stumbled into one of the biggest counterfeiting schemes in the United States. Subsequently, he takes on the vicious and ruthless butchers of a well established town gang operating a massive counterfeit notes racket. This novel is set in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia.
Die Trying	July 1998	3rd		While helping Holly Johnson, an attractive young woman struggling with her crutches on a Chicago street, they turn around only to discover two handguns pointing at them. Reacher and the woman are thrown into a dark van and taken 2000 miles across America, completely unaware why they were kidnapped and where they are going. Finding themselves trapped in a seemingly remote place, they must work together to find the answers.
Tripwire	July 1999	3rd		Hanging around in Key West, digging pools by hand and moonlighting as a bouncer for a topless bar, Reacher finds himself wanted in New York by a Mrs. Jacob. She turns out to be the divorced wealthy attorney Jodie Garber, daughter of GeneralLeon Garber, Reacher's mentor and surrogate father in the Army. Jodie hired an investigator to find Reacher because her father was dying. Jack and Jodie begin investigating her father's last project, a search on behalf of the elderly parents of their military MIA son. They soon find themselves hunted by a psychopath businessman and military criminal crippled in the Vietnam War, who has a shadowy business and other secrets to protect. Reacher inherits a house and a steady girlfriend, and contemplates the joys of sedentary life.
The Visitor(published asRunning Blind in the US)	April 2000	3rd		It's tough being a high-flying woman in the Army. Very tough. When Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook are found dead in their own homes—in baths filled with Army-issue camouflage paint, their bodies completely unmarked—Jack Reacher is under suspicion. He knew them both—and he knows that they both left the Army under dubious circumstances, both victims of sexual harassment. A former U.S. military policeman, a loner and a drifter, he matches the psychologicalcriminal profile prepared by the FBI, and is arrested by ambitious Special Agent Julia Lamarr. But when the body of another woman, Sergeant Lorraine Stanley, is discovered, killed with similar precision, Reacher is released. Everyone fears there is a serial killer on the loose. But the FBI know something in Reacher's past and have strong persuasive powers. Before long Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the murder investigation. He has to find out what these women have in common and why someone is out to do them harm.
Echo Burning	April 2001	3rd	ISBN 0-515-13331-0	Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you're lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That's Jack Reacher's conclusion. He's adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She's alone, driving a Cadillac. She's beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn't kill her first. Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen's remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile, the cops can't be trusted and the lawyers won't help.
Without Fail	April 2002	3rd		Reacher arrives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, after hitching a ride with a couple of aging musicians. He is accosted there byMary Ellen (M. E.) Froelich, a beautiful secret service agent who managed to track him down. She has a special request for him: she consults him on how he could kill the Vice-President; countering those methods would help her considerably in her job: protecting the Vice-President. He accepts the challenge, and enlists old colleague Frances Neagley to help carry out the mission. Froelich asked Reacher's assistance on this matter because of suspicious and threatening letters which had been sent to the Vice-President but instead intercepted by his protective team. Together, they attempt to find the ones responsible.
Persuader	April 2003	1st		Walking along the street, Reacher sees Quinn, a man who should be dead. Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and Francis Xavier Quinn got away with murder. Now a chance encounter outside Boston's Symphony Hall brings it all back. And Reacher sees his one last shot to finish what was started all those years ago.
The Enemy	April 2004	1st	ISBN 0-553-81585-7	On New Year's Day, 1990, in a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. Within minutes, Reacher is ordered to contain the situation. But things soon escalate when Reacher discovers the general's briefcase is missing and within hours, the general's wife is killed. Reacher soon finds himself embroiled in a complex game of tug of war between powerful men in the United States Army, and beyond.
One Shot	April 2005	3rd	ISBN 0-385-33668-3	In an innocent heartland city, five murders with six shots are done by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest a suspect, and build a slam-dunk case with iron-clad evidence. But the accused man claims he's innocent and says "Get Jack Reacher." Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The defense is immensely relieved; but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked by the request of the accused, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man's guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for.
The Hard Way	May 2006	3rd	ISBN 0-385-33669-1	After witnessing an exchange of $1,000,000. Jack Reacher is hired by the underhanded director of a private military firm to rescue his wife and stepchild, who appear to have been kidnapped. While Reacher uncovers clues that might lead to a rescue, he learns about the director's dubious past which involves a murderous plot against two ex-associates.He meets a beautiful ex-FBI agent converted to private investigator who assists him in the investigation to unveil the shocking truth, and ultimately engages in a showdown on a farm in Norfolk, England. The novel is set primarily in New York City.
Bad Luck and Trouble	April 2007	3rd	ISBN 0-385-34055-9	Reacher is content with his choice of being a loner, a wanderer and being almost impossible to find. But someone makes a small anonymous deposit into his bank account, which triggers Reacher's fixation for math and his investigative instincts. Reacher finds out the deposit is a signal only the eight former members of his elite team of army investigators would know. Obsessed with math like Reacher, Frances Neagley locates him because of the brutal death of a one of their own. They race to reunite with the survivors of their old team and raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that grows more complex with more murders. With tortured murders and lives at stake of those Reacher considers family, his usual emotionless demeanor breaks and he says of the killers, "They are dead men walking." The team falls into their old roles and routines with ease, their motto still their sacred rule: You do not mess with the Special Investigators. From Los Angeles toLas Vegas, Reacher gets his old investigations unit back together to get to the bottom of what's going on.
Nothing to Lose	March 2008	3rd	ISBN 978-0593057025	Based in Colorado, travelling from the town of Hope to the town of Despair, it soon becomes clear that Reacher is an unwelcome visitor in a town with a lot of secrets to hide. Reacher cannot resist the opportunity to explore these secrets further, especially the peculiar town owner who has employed the majority of the population to work within his recycling factory.
Gone Tomorrow	April 2009	1st		Reacher takes the subway late at night, and routinely checks his fellow passengers. Four are okay, but the fifth is not. Checking against his mental list for suicide bombers, he comes to the conclusion that the fifth is one too. He is puzzled with her choice of timing and place, as it is not crowded; on the contrary the subway was exceedingly empty. He reasons with her, but she shoots herself; thereby proving Reacher wrong when he concluded she was a bomber. He is determined to discover why she killed herself and soon uncovers a massive conspiracy stretching from California to New York City to evenAfghanistan during the Soviet occupation of that country.
61 Hours	March 2010	3rd		In South Dakota, a tourist bus crashes during a savage snow storm with Jack Reacher in it. Jack gets caught up in a hunt for a murderer and the protection of a key witness. Meanwhile, a link to Reacher's past comes to his aid and brings a path to redemption.
Worth Dying For	September 2010 (UK)[21]19 October 2010 (USA).[22]	3rd		Reacher arrives late one night in a rural Nebraska town. In the town's fading motel bar he overhears a drunk doctor's refusal to attend a domestic abuse. The victim of the abuse is married to the scion of the Duncan clan, which holds that part of Nebraska in its grip, keeping the population cowed and docile. Reacher talks the doctor into doing the right thing, and ends up embroiled in a smuggling ring and an unsolved disappearance from twenty-five years prior.
The Affair	27 September 2011	1st		March 1997. Six months before the events of Killing Floor. Jack Reacher is still in the army. And there's big trouble in a small town in Mississippi, where a soldier's girlfriend is found with her throat cut from ear to ear. Local trouble? Or is the killer from nearby Fort Kelham, a giant base used by elite Army Rangers? In 1997, Reacher's orders are: go undercover, keep your distance, monitor the investigation. Eventually the army's official investigation produces a cast-iron prime suspect—and so does Reacher's undercover search. But Reacher's answer is not the same as the army's. If he keeps quiet, will he be able to live with himself? And if he speaks out, will the army be able to live with him?
A Wanted Man	11 September 2012	3rd		Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat—to both sides at once.

Source from wikipedia:

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Itu. Jack Reacher punya background.

But I want you people to watch Jack Reacher movie. Alah, yang Tom Cruise berlakon tu... terbaek wok!

OK lame. perempuan asal ada Tom Cruise je sure cerita tu best kan? But helllloo.. I am not a fan of Tom Cruise. Taylor Lautner lain lah. I will always be bias on that one. Heheh.

Pada awal starting cerita (alah part pengenalan), sepupu perempuan saya yang comel lagi cute bisik .. "cerita apa kita nak tengok ni?" I answered her.. "I don't know tak sempat google but ada Tom Cruise" ...

Sekali nampak kat screen.. "Tom Cruise Production"

We looked to each other and said .. "lahhh sendiri produce, sendiri berlakon.. layan kan je lah. tak sure best ke tak ni..."

And that is our last dialog.

Underestimate sangat.

We didn't blinked nor whisper dah. 

Glued to the screen.

Dari awal cerita... all you do is think. And setiap movement adalah sangat tidak boleh diduga.

Cerita plot menarik.. ada quality and the script sangat best..terpelajar yet logical.

Some synopsis i got from http://thefocusedfilmographer.com (<--------click for more):

Tom Cruise plays the title role of Jack Reacher which is based on the novel ONE SHOT by author Lee Child. Reacher is an ex-military investigator who is on a mission to track down the details behind a sniper shooting. The deeper Reacher digs, the more he finds that points to the possibility of a setup and a larger plot than originally suspected. The investigation becomes more dangerous and the loyalty of certain players in the scheme comes into question in this action packed thriller that also stars Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins and Werner Herzog.

I love the way Jack Reacher handle things. And how fast he understands the whole situation and how environment and the whole thing can manipulate you and your life.

Cliche? Hell no.

Go watch it if you still got extra time to spend and also if you're so stucked up with the normal random movies and films.

Expect the unexpected.

and I tell you.. army really have their back for each other.

Sekeliling

Pagi tadi dalam LRT pertama kali sejak beberapa bulan ni, semua senyap sunyi dan sesekali mencuri pandang to dua orang wanita ni.

Pilu hiba tangisannya. Sampai yang kawannya pun join sama menangis sambil sesekali memujuk sebab dia sedar ramai mata dah mula memandang.

Sorry kak. Saya pun join pandang.

Bukan nak menyibuk. But satu, ada unsur attention sebab akak sobbing kuat dan dua saya simpati sangat. Sebab boleh nampak akak betul2 dalam keadaan yang sangat sedih dan hiba.

Ada sorang dua yang lebih dekat dengan tempat kakak berdua ni berdiri bertanya anything yang he could do to help. But kawan yang sedang menangis ni, menolak cara baik. 

Alhamdulillah masih ada gentleman di bumi Malaysia ni. Hehe.

Melalui percakapan kakak tu, dia ditinggal tak bertali oleh husbandnya kerana tiada zuriat. Dan..kawan dia banyak kali nasihat that dia tak boleh tinggalkan rumah begitu tanpa izin suami. Bila kakak tu ask back dia sebelahi siapa... tenang kawan dia bercakap.. "Sebab aku sebelah engkau lah aku suruh kau balik. Jangan buat something yang orang nampak buruk kau. Ni soal agama."

Saya.Respect.Kawan.Dia

Untung kakak tu ada kawan and sahabat yang baik.

Nampak macam tindakan dia sebelah kan suami kan? But no, dia sangat menjaga maruah kawannya itu.

Lain lah kalau ini kes dera.

Ni just kes dera emosi. 

Suami tak layan, buat tak endah. Dah pandai 'berkawan' dengan wanita lain.

Wahai lelaki, kalau kamu berkemampuan, silakan.

But tanggungjawab kamu janganlah diabaikan.

If yang satu pun terabai, macam mana nak jaga 2, 3 dan 4?

Means, anda tak mampu lah tu.

Nak judge pun tak boleh. Mungkin zuriat hanya satu faktor jer.... kena juga amik tau perihal lain. Makan pakai, masalah lain. Which sangat complicated dan rumit.

Sebetulnya lari inform kawan dia pun kurang benar tindakannya tu. Hurmmm... dari lari ke family dah cerita lain pulak kan.

Focus.

Adat or Ibadat.

Today, indeed a very thoughtful journey to work.

Not only to me, but everyone in the train just now.

Semua nampak sangat berfikir.

Termenung....

Simpati...

Mengenang.....

Life.