Untuk menjawab spekulasi yang berkeliaran di dalam ruangan komen entry tempoh hari:
I would usually not answer, but given that I did say if you wanted to know, stop harassing my mates and ask me instead… well. Is the speculation true: am I in love? Is marriage on the cards? Well, let’s see… the only person I am in love with at the moment doesn’t love me back, so you could arguably say that yes, I am in the throes of the only kind of love that lasts forever: unrequited.
No, there is no boyfriend
No, there is no marriage
And yes, I really am Superman.
Really, people. There are kids dying in Africa of AIDS and hunger. There are Iraqis being killed by the bombs that promised to liberate them. There are Palestinians and Israelis trying to find peace in the Middle East. There are politicians whom some of YOU voted for who are so bigoted, racist and lack common intelligence I fear for the future of the country. There are people who write stupid letters to newspapers, and newspapers who print stupid letters written to them. There are editors who can’t tell the difference between Harry Potter and Harry Porter. There is a rock star who wants to try his hand at acting.
Please. Don’t mind me. I just want to write.
So:
Pada hari yang berbahagia ini saya telah diperkhabarkan dengan suatu soalan yang begitu cepu emas. Apparently – and I am saying apparently, because as with all vicious rumours, things get misconstrued in the wash and don’t come out quite exactly right – someone rang up Fisz asking me if it was true that my boyfriend is coming to work in the UK, and therefore, marriage is now on the cards. And so the question is, is this true?
Wah. Terasa seperti artis. Spekulasi tentang perkahwinan Idlan. Macam mana saya nak jawab ya?
Macam ini lah. Kalau sesiapa yang berkenaan membaca entry ni, marilah saya katakan bahawa dunia sekarang semakin bercelaru. Terlalu banyak kezaliman berlaku, dan terlalu sedikit yang diperlakukan oleh mereka yang tidak teraniaya untuk membantu mereka yang dianiaya. Apa kata, kita sama sama cuba ikhtiar, cari jalan untuk memperbaiki kehidupan kita semua, menangkis segala kezaliman yang berlaku tidak kira atas nama apa sekalipun, kerana tidak ada ruang untuk kebencian, kezaliman dan keganasan dalam dunia yang sedia sempit dan membingungkan ini. Semoga usaha kita diberkati Allah, dunia dan akhirat.
Itu saja press statement saya. Excuse me, I have to go change and take the obligatory swimming pool dip picture for next month’s Mangga centerfold.
OK, Anuar, you can stop laughing now.
P/S: Lain kali jangan la tanya Fisz ke sesiapa kawan-kawan saya yang lain. Tanyalah saya. Kesian diorang, diorang bekerjaya, sibuk. Saya takde kerja. Student saja. Sudi membalas semua email dan surat peminat anda.
Have you ever wanted to harm yourself, he asked me.
No, never, really… I replied after a while. Of all the demented things that go through my head, self – harming has never been one of them.
I wish the same could be said of one teenager too many in Britain – a recent study shows that 1 in 5 girls between the age of 12 and 19 have wounded themselves. They say, kids in impoverished regions grow up too soon, saddled with too much responsibility, and lose out on being young. It seems the same can be said of those in the First World too.