I love you, girl!
(Pic: Lovely Naem and I, BBQ Party 2004)
Apalah rasanya menjadi dia seorang Gadis, yang dirinya hilang bersama hilangnya dia. Yang jiwanya pergi bersama perginya dia. Lalu tak mampu lagi menerima cinta. Lalu tak mampu lagi merasa cinta dalam hatinya.
Apalah rasanya menjadi dia seorang Randu. Cinta yang satu itu hampir tidak menjadi miliknya. Namun dengan penuh cinta di jiwa, cinta itu tetap dijejakinya.
Apalah rasanya menjadi dia seorang Rudi. Hidupnya penuh kesakitan dan kehilangan. Sedang hidupnya singkat cuma. Lalu beruntunglah mereka yang tahu apa yang dicari dalam hidup ini, dan punya cukup waktu untuk itu.
Dalam hidup ini, cuma ada dua hal yang paling besar. Cinta dan kematian. Andai sudah bersedia untuk cinta dan kematian, maka telah bersedia untuk segalanya.
"I could die right now. I'm just happy. I've never felt that way before. I'm just exactly where I wanna be."
I think I have a somewhat spotless mind. I have the ability to place selected unhappy memories or thoughts, or nasty ones, or depressing stuff, or, I mean.. you get it, right? Any memories that could make me unhappy.. I can place them on the farthest ruang of my mind. Those who know me really well, know that when somebody try to mention a person or apa2 keadaan or whatever relating to that unhappy memories, saya akan tutup telinga, not wanting to remember. I try to block them as best I could possibly do.
Like this someone from my past. I remember him. And all the nice things he did for me. Sure I still remember the unhappy bits too, but they are too far in my head to be found. Only if I try. Only if someone make me to. Jika tidak, saya beginilah. Not vindictive at all towards him. At all. Despite of what he did (now that I am writing about him, they are all coming back to me. And it is painful). I tried to forget long time ago, and I somehow did.
I can always do that. And I love that about my mind. It keeps me from being unhappy. It gives me eternal sunshine.
People like Clementine and Joel wanted to erase each other because they wanted to forget the nasty stuff. But it is not technologically possible to pick which memories they want to keep and which ones to thrash. So they have to erase it all. Lucky for me, I can make my pick. And I do not lost those memories forever. I can still find them somewhere in my mind and that will keep me grounded. To have them erased forever like what were done to Joel and Clementine is just very unnatural, and is simply wrong.
I have a somewhat spotless mind. Not exactly spotless. But the dirts are all di satu tempat yang terlalu belakang dalam kotak ingatan saya. Sangat jauh. And I like it. Aaah to have eternal sunshine.
And believe me, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind is one of the best and original romantic movie ever made. It's strange, yet clever. Funny yet sad, and imaginative, yet honest. You don't just get to watch a love story, you fall in love with what love really is.
What masyarakat are really mad about is the fact that this boy is a very poor one, and doing such to him (despite him being a so-called law breaker) is very cruel dan masyarakat amat bersimpati. Why not anak2 orang kaya yang jadi 1st victim? Why him? Nak kasi pengajaran? But what about ribu2 others? Columnist Awang Selamat said his newspaper refused to carry Ahmad Harizal's name and photo because Utusan feels it's utterly unfair to jail the 18-year-old boy who was not able to pay a RM600 fine and exposing his identity will only add to his trauma. Awang said, "Kita tidak boleh membiarkan ketidakadilan terus berulang kerana pesalah yang tidak mampu bayar denda terpaksa dipenjara."
Sememangnya ignorance of law is not excusable tapi dalam undang2 masih ada ruang untuk mitigation dan disinilah saya rasa masalah utamanya. Apa judge tu tak belajar Jurisprudence kah? He did not have to simply follow the law membuta. He could have used his discretion and be more considerate terhadap this poor boy. And my Mr.D was rambling about this being AG's fault for prosecuting without investigating the pros and cons of the situations.
Okay I may not be an expert in law, but I have learned some from very very amazing educators, dan dari ilmu yang cetek ni, in a nutshell, saya berpendapat bahawa undang2 perlu dihormati dan dilaksanakan, tetapi pelaksana undang2 perlu jadi lebih humane, dan think outside the box. Itulah gunanya wujudnya keperluan dan kemudahan discretionary power. For more interesting comments from experts and public, click here.
