selamat menyambut awal muharram

... dan yang pentingnya sebagai seorang muslim aku ingin menucapkan selamat menyambut awal muharram dan jangan lupa baca doa akhir dan awal tahun. terimakasih buat mereka yang telah mengingatkan aku yang hampir terlupa ini, walaupun secara sms.

hayatilah petikan dibawah;

doa akhir tahun, dibaca 3 kali pada akhir waktu asar atau sebelum masuk Maghrib pada akhir bulan Zulhijjah. Kelebihan membacanya :
Sesiapa yang membaca doa ini maka akan berkata syaitan, "Kesusahan bagiku dan sia2lah pekerjaanku menggoda anak Adam pada tahun ini dan Allah akan membinasakan aku pada saat itu juga. Dengan membaca doa ini Allah akan mengampunkan dosanya setahun."

doanya ....
"Segala puji hanya bagi Allah , tuhan yang memelihara dan mentadbir sekalian alam.
Selawat dan salam ke atas junjungan kemi Nabi Muhammad s.a.w serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya. Ya Allah , Sesungguhnya pada tahun ini aku telah melakukan laranganmu tetapi aku masih belum bertaubat sedangkan Engkau tidak reda dan melupai perkara itu.
Engkau telah menangguhkan azabMu yang telah ditetapkan kepadaku. Engkau telah memerintahkan supaya aku bertaubat dari kesalahan itu. Sesungguhnya pada hari ini aku bermohon keampunan dariMu , ampunilah aku dan apa yang telah aku lakukan pada tahun ini yang Engkau redai, Engkau janjikan pahala maka aku memohonnya daripada Engkau.
Ya Allah , Ya Karim , Ya Zaljala li Wal Ikram. Selawat dan salam ke atas junjugan kami Nabi Muhammad s.a.w serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya. Segala puji hanya bagi Allah ,Tuhan yang memelihara dan mentadbir sekalian alam .. Aminn"

doa awal tahun, dibaca 3 kali setelah masuk waktu Maghrib pada malam 1 Muharram
Kelebihan membacanya :
Sesiapa yang membaca doa ini maka akan berkata syaitan, "Telah amanlah anak Adam daripada godaanku pada tahun ini kerana Allah telah mewakilkan dua malaikat untuk memeliharanya dari fitnah syaitan."

doanya ...
"Segala puji hanya bagi Allah Tuhan yang memelihara dan mentadbir sekalian alam.
Selawat dan salam ke atas junjungan Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya. Ya Allah, Engkaulah yang kekal abadi untuk selama2nya. Demi kelebihanmu yang Maha Agong dan kemurahanMu yang melimpah, Sesungguhnya pada tahun ini aku memohon kepadaMu perlindungan daripada syaitan yang direjam, dari sekalian kuncunya , tenteranya dan penolongnya. Aku juga memohon perlindungan daripada nafsu amarah yang sentiasa mendorong ke arah kejahatan dan melalaikan dengan perkara yang tidak berfaedah daripada mendekatkan diriku kepadaMu. Selawat serta salam ke atas junjungan kami Nabi Muhammad s.a.w ,serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya. Segala puji hanya bagi Allah Tuhan yang memelihara dan mentadbir sekalian alam .. Aminn"

yang elok dan baik adalah dari Allah, tuhan sekelian alam, manakala segala silap dan salah adalah daripada kelemahan saya sendiri.

happy new year..

buat sahabat-sahabat di luar sana, terimalah ucapan " happy new year" semoga cita-cita anda telah tercapai(?) atau mungkin hampir tercapai, kepada yang tengah berusaha untuk mencapai cita-cita, " work hard dan work smart" saya doakan kejayaan anda.

satu perkara lagi, maafkan segala silap dan salah saya sepanjang 2008, doakan kejayaan kerjaya saya, semoga saya dipanjangkan umur, dimurahkan rezeki dan dipermudahkan dalam segala urusan, amin...

mc d

hi, prosperity burger dah keluar, apa kata .. jom kita gi mcd, pekena burger kesukaan saya tu dah tak sabar nak rasa black pepper sauce nya yang sedap tu ..

tidak marah

mungkin ada yang tersalah anggap, aku tak marah, tidak .. dan tidak sama sekali, aku ok je .. aku dah janji tak akan marah kat sapa-sapa, aku nak berbaik-baik je, yang lepas tu dah lepas, sebagai manusia kita tak lepas dari membuat kesilapan kerana kita ni insan yang lemah.

maafkan aku h******, dahla tu ...

nota kaki:(tiada)

apakah salah ...

bak kata datuk siti;

apakah salah jika aku menyinta

apakah salah jika engkau ternyata

pilihan hati

belahan jiwaku ini ...

nota kaki: jika kau dah buang aku daripada list, tak apa, aku tak kisah ... aku nampak nama aku macam dah tak ada je..

aku nak apply cuti

aku nak cuti sebab cuti tahunan aku masih banyak lagi. masih dok pikir nak habiskan cuti di mana. mula2 aku bercadang nak gi cameron highland, tapi sekarang ni musim hujan, mungkin kat sana akan bertambah sejuk! aku memang suka iklim yang sejuk dan nyaman.

kawan2 ku kat office semuanya hairan kenapa aku suka sangat gi ch, mereka tanya apa ada kat sana? mereka kata kat sana memboringkan, tapi bagi aku di sana aku dapat merehatkan minda dan melapangkan fikiran, best!

satu lagi, melaka ... aku suka melaka, ianya bandar bersejarah. aku pernah kesana 3d2n, tapi masih tak puas. banyak tempat yang aku belum aku jelajahi. masa di sana aku berkesempatan sembahyang di masjid kapitan keling, satu masjid yang sungguh unik dan cantik. istana melaka, a famosa, perigi hang tuah, makam hang jebat dan banyak lagi.

best makan ikan asam pedas melaka dan makan ikan bakar dengan nasi lemak, sesuatu yang pelik bagiku tapi okla, sedap! memang aku suka makan, kalu sampai ke sesuatu tempat, first sekali aku cari apa benda yang aku perlu makan yang mana makanan tu tiada di tempat asal ku tapi di johor, aku tak suka makan laksa johor, tapi aku suka sambal jawa, hari2 pun boleh makan ... awak pandai ke buat sambal jawa? heheh...

jangan mengeluh..

pesan orang tua-tua, jangan mengeluh.... kerana orang yang mengeluh adalah orang yang :

1) berputus asa
2) menyerah pada takdir
3) pasrah?
4) buntu or dah takde idea nak buat apa
5) cepat tua!
6) mahal rezekinya
7) hilang seri wajah (jaga2 ..)
8) tak bermaya
9) syaitan suke ...

aku tulis ini untuk buat peringatan pada diri ku dan pada sapa2 yang sudi, kalu baik ambik, kalu tak baik, buang je ... :)

terkedu aku ..

tak ..tak .., semuanya dah ok, kami dah buang yang keruh dan kami ambil yang jernih je ..
kami dah lupakan segala keterlanjuran kata-kata kami yang lepas, dah sama-sama minta maaf dan sama-sama senyum ... :)

sarawak II

Kusadari

Kesalahan ini

Yang membuat segalanya gelap jadinya

Ooohh kasihku

Kuharap kau mau

Memaafkan

Menerima

Pengakuanku

Jangan kau diam lagi

Ku tak sanggup menahan

Bicaralah kau sayang

Jiwa ini tak tenang

Cinta jangan kau pergi

Tinggalkan diriku sendiri

Cinta jangan kau lari

Apalah arti hidup ini

Tanpa cinta dan kasih sayang

sarawak I

Hi, adalah sikit nak cerita pasal lawatan kerja ke sarawak hari tu. aku berada di sana 5 d 4n, di holiday inn, pusat bandar kuching, tepi sarawak waterfront (best..) kat sana ada kawan yang tunggu kat airport kuching, check in hotel dan terus ke pasar satok utk makan tengahari.
sepanjang pengamatan aku, kat bandar kuching ni, aku tak jumpa pun restoran melayu, yang ada hanyalah kedai makan cina (daripada tulisan kedai dan rupa wajah taukey kedai) dan kedai makan mamak. kawan aku kata kalu nak beli ikan terubuk masin kat pasar ni la tempatnya, aku kata ok, tapi lain hari sebab nak balik lambat lagi...

lepas makan,balik ke hotel, aku mandi dan rehat sambil tu buka tv, tapi cerita tak best sebab tak banyak siaran astro yang ada, lagi pun asyik2 cerita sama. nak tido ke? ish... mana boleh, rugila datang jauh2 kalu nak tido, kat rumah pun boleh tido apa? aku pun siap2 sebab nak turun ke waterfront, bukanya jauh sangat, jalan kaki je.

waterfront merupakan satu landscaped esplanade yang terletak di tebing sungai sarawak, dari pemerhatian aku, sungai sarawak mempunyai air yang dalam, agak keruh dan tenang tetapi boleh berubah menjadi deras bila hujan turun ( kata orang, air yang tenang jangan disangka tiada buaya, heheheh ) terdapat banyak bot penambang yang berulang alik dari jeti waterfront ke seberang, kg boyan. bayaranya murah je, 50 sen satu trip yang mengambil masa lebih kurang 3 - 5 minit sahaja. semua sampan menggunakan pengayuh dan kuasa motor tapi yang menariknya engin motor hanya digunakan untuk 1 minit pertama sahaja, lepas tu sampan akan digerakan menggunakan pendayung dan momentum engin tadi :)

semasa jalan2 kat waterfront aku perhatikan banyak gerai2 yang dibina khas, mungkin oleh PBT untuk peniaga menjual hasil2 tempatan seperti manik2, mutiara, baju, kuih lapis sarawak dan banyak lagi local crafts. harga tidaklah mahal sangat dan berpatutan. ada juga tempat yang menjual makanan, tempat lepak sambil minum2 dan pentas hiburan.

aku suka tempat ini, tenang dan santai. best lepak kat sini sambil minum teh.. perhatikan orang yang jalan2 (kebanyakannya dari semenanjung) aku lepak kat satu kedai, pelayan tu tanya aku, " orang kl ke", aku terkejut, macamana dia tahu aku orang luar? mungkin kerana dah biasa kot? aku kata, " ya..ya, dia terus tanya lagi, " bila datang? dan tinggal hotel mana?", aku kata, "baru je, tengahari tadi, tinggal kat holiday inn", dia senyum.

masa lepak tu aku terfikir, orang sarawak ni memang peramah ( ye ker? ) tapi kalu aku kata, gadis sarawak (kebanyakanya) cantih dan berkulit putih, korang setuju tak? marah ke? ... aku tak maksud apa2, cuma bagi pendapat je ... heheheh... aku lepak sambil layan lagu kat gerai tu, lagu sheila majid, irama jazz moden, "cinta jangan kau pergi" lagu ni membuatkan aku teringatkan kat seseorang kat semenanjung, sedang buat apa agaknya dia, mungkin sibuk study .. tak dapat aku bayangkan indahnya kalau dia ada bersamaku pada tika dan saat ini .....

kawan lama

Hi, semalam aku terjumpa dengan seorang kawan lama. kami sama2 belajar di kolej persediaan dahulu, cuma dia lain university dan lain jurusan, kalu tak silap aku dia ambik geology di indiana university,bloomington. banyak perubahan pada kawan aku tu, maklumlah kami dah lama tak jumpa.

aku ajak dia lepak kat sogo sambil minum2 dan borak2. dia bagitahu aku yang dia sekarang ni kejer dengan petronas dengan gaji yang amat lumayan dan telah pun kahwin (hehehehe, dah kahwin....) yang bab kahwin ni aku terkejut sikit, kenapa ya... apa taknya, dia kahwin dengan kawan satu kolej dulu juga, yang kami kenali sebagai "wanita melayu terakhir" , yang aku hairan, dulu dia tak kawan pun dengan perempuan tu, maklumlah perempuan tu cantik dan ramai sangat yang nak try.

masa kami borak2, aku cubalah tanya, nak cari rahsia bagaimana dia dapat pikat hati perempuan tu, dengan senyum dan selamba saja dia jawab, "aku memang dah lama suka kat ... tu, cuma tak berani nak bagitahu je, kebetulan bila fly, kami dok satu u". aku tanya lagi, " so apa kena mengena kalu dok satu u?' dia kata " yala, kami dok satu u, rumah sewa susah nak dapat, jadi kami sewa satu rumah dan dok sama2", dia terus gelak. jadi aku fahamlah, mana boleh dok sama2 satu rumahkan, berdosa ... jadi untuk selesaikan masalah tu, kawan aku pun kahwinlah dengan .... , mereka kahwin kat sana dan mendapat restu dari kedua orang tua mereka.

yang pastinya sekarang, mereka saling sayang dan menyintai, betul kata orang, tak kenal maka tak cinta, jodoh di tangan tuhan, cinta selepas kahwin memang indah (ini kawanku yang cakap) dan aku doakan semoga mereka terus bahagia dan kekal hingga akhir hayat ...

bila orang dah bosan ...

hi, bertemu kita buat sekian kalinya. "bila orang dah bosan", begitulah bunyi kisah kita pada kali ini. bila orang dah bosan bermakna bila kita dah tak diperlukan lagi (mungkin) atau pun kehadiran kita dah tak de maknanya lagi atau dengan bahasa yang lebih mudah, hayatilah perbualan berikut;

aku: ade cerita tak?
dia: tak de
aku: ade nak cakap apa2 kat saya?
dia: tak de
aku: kenapa cam tu?
dia: tak tahu apa nak cakap

tapi aku tak nak ambil serius sangat pasal tu semua, biasala dalam kehidupan tak semuanya seperti yang kita kehendaki. kadang kala dalam hidup ni kita diperlukan dan ada pula tu "kita tak de pun tak pe" tapi mungkin aku je yang rasa macam tu? sensitif sangat kot... yalah, semenjak dua menjak ni aku sangat sibuk, banyak kejer dan banyak mesyuarat yang perlu dihadiri. kadang-kadang aku rasa macam perlukan perhatian dan sedikit "sentuhan" mungkin sebab tu aku mudah sangat terasa. mungkin juga sebab aku penat otak dan bila dapat berbual-bual dan dengar cerita, tension dan penat aku akan beransur hilang.

buat orang tu, sorryla kalau aku terkasar bahasa dan tersilap tulis. aku pun buat silap juga. semalam aku chat sambil buat kejer, tu yang tak dapat nak tumpu perhatian. semalam aku buat 2 kerja dalam 1 masa, mungkin orang tu terasa hati, manala aku tahu, aku minta maaf ya, aku ni asyik dok pikir pasal aku saja, maaf banyak-banyak, "jo, awak pun kena jaga hati orang lain juga, jangan pikir pasal awak je", "ok, sorry, saya minta maaf ya, :)

habis dah cerita aku....

sesat mencari mu...

Sesat Dalam Rindu

Ku

resah mencarimu dengan akal

Dengan

bersama sifat-sifat pinjaman

Kau

ku rasakan semakin menjauh

Tersesatlah aku dalam rindu mu

Ku

satukan firasat mencari mu

Dan ku

terlontar di penghujung alam

Kau

masih tidak dapat ku jejaki

Betapa malangnya nasib ku

Kerana mu

ku tinggalkan segalanya

Sendiri aku terpedaya

Punya akal dan firasat yang tidak ke mana

Hanya jalan yang sengsara

Zahir musnah bagi yang mimpi

Zahir ada rahsia mencari

Lalu ku selami di dalam diri

Dibawa arus nafas ku

Asal serah janji dahulu

Mula hidup pasti mula cinta

Engkau kasih ada di sini

Engkau kasih ada menanti

Kau kasih

aku jua kasih ...

demam lepas raya

Mood 1
lepas cuti raya hari tu aku demam,sakit sendi,pening kepala dan selsema. rasa malas nak gi kerja tapi sebenarnya mood aku yang tak ada, entah kemana menghilang. aku sambung lagi cuti, sepatutnya aku masuk office 7/10 tapi sambung lagi sampai 12/10. aku talifon office kata aku tak sihat.

mungkin sebab cuaca, masa drive balik ke trg hari tu cuaca agak panas dan jalan dan mula sesak. cuaca kat trg siang panas, petang mendung dan malam hujan, tengah malamnya pulak sejuk sangat, itula pasal aku dapat selsema. aku bertolak dari subang jaya jam 3.00 pagi, aku bersahur di shell petrol station, kat mc D sebelum masuk highway karak, area gombak.

aku ikut laluan lebuhraya pantai timur, keluar ikut tol jabor pas tu ke cherating, dungun, marang dan sampai ke k.trg ( orey.. balik kg ) sampai kat cendering + - jam 2.30pm. biasa aku drive selama 3 jam pas tu rehat sekejap. rehat pertama selama 1 jam, rehat ke dua 15 minit dan kebiasaanya aku akan berhenti rehat sebanyak 3 kali setiap kali aku balik ke kg atau dari kg ke subang jaya.

Mood 2
sambung balik cerita pasal aku demam, aku sampai di rumah di s.jaya jam + - 6.30 pm, badan dah letih dan lapar ( belum puas lagi makan rendang ) malasnya rasa nak kemas baju, aku terus lepak depan tv sambil menikmati air vanila coke.. lega ..

tiba2 je kepala aku terfikir pasal kerja, alamak malasnya, masih dalam mood raya ni.. ramai off. mate yang masih cuti lagi, keutamaan cuti diberi kepada mereka yang dah berkeluarga, yalah .. aku pun faham, aku orang bujang, mereka kata kat perlu cuti lama2
lepas sembahyang maghrib, badan aku dah rasa lain macam, sah aku ni demam, sakit kepala, batuk dan selsema. aku buat keputusan esok kena sambung cuti lagi, esok aku kena gi klinik.

Mood 3
esok jam 11.30pg aku terus ke klinik di s.jaya untuk mendapatkan rawatan. punyala ramai orang yang dah duduk menunggu untuk mendapatkan rawatan. kalu tak silap aku, aku no 13. lepas2 raya ni rupanya ramai orang yang tak sihat, mungkin kerana makan banyak kot kuikiukiukuikuik

aku tak kisah, lagi pun aku bukanya nak cepat, aku boleh tunggu sambil baca majalah kat klinik tu, boleh juga aku perhatikan gelagat orang yang ada kat situ. petugas kaunter tu pun boleh tahan jugak, kalu sakit sikit2 boleh baik kuikuikuikui... ( jangan marah ye.. )

entah...

Part 1
aku nak luahkan sesuatu dari apa yang aku rasa, tapi tak kisahlah apa yang orang lain nak kata. aku ni sebenarnya jenis yang susah sikit nak luahkan sesuatu, suka pendam tapi orang kata pendam ni bahaya, memang betul, aku akui, kalu kita tak luahkan mana orang tahu perasaan kita atau apa yang hendak kita sampaikan.

masa aku form 5 dulu, aku pernah buat kejer bodoh, jangan gelak! memang betul, masa tu aku sangat tergila2 kat seorang budak perempuan dari salah sebuah sekolah berasrama yang lain. kami jumpa sewaktu sekolahku menjadi tuan rumah pertandingan pidato peringkat zon dan diikuti dengan program2 sekolah yang lain. kami sebaya dan masa tu tengah nak ambik spm.

kami selalu buat study group, biasala, masa tu memang bersemangat giler, janji jumpa jam 9pg, jam 8.30pg aku siap dah heheheheehh,aku... yalah, aku cuma nak luahkan perasaan yang aku sangat sukakan dia dan aku tahu dia pun suka padaku, kalu tak masakan dia sanggup bersusah payah datang.

korang tahu apa yang aku buat, biasalah orang yang penakut macam aku ni.... aku dapat idea, aku ambil keratan paper lama(NST) dan aku cantum2kannya dan aku tampal di atas kertas putih A4, menjadikan bait2 lagu cinta .. arggg!!!, lagu ape? mana boleh bagitahu, rahsia... dan yang lebih teruknya, kertas tu aku hantar secara pos ke sekolahnya, hehehehehehii, sampai sekarang aku pun tak pasti samaada dia terima atau tidak surat yang aku poskan tu... ( apalah jo ni )

kesudahanya? .. kesudahanya takdir menentukan, dia sangkut dalam spm, sesuatu yang diluar dugaan dan aku menjadi orang yang paling sedih kerana hajat untuk melanjutkan pelajaraan bersama tidak kesampaian. dia menyambungkan pelajaraan di sebuah kolej swasta dan jumpa ramai kawan baru. aku pun sibuk dengan pelajaraanku dan kami sama2 sibuk ( agaknya lah )
dan yang pasti raya tahun lepas, dia telah menyambutnya bersama lelaki pilihanya. ( yala, raya tahun lepas aku tak jadi nak gi beraya kat rumah dia apa? nanti laki dia tanya, aku nak jawab apa? )

Part 2
sekarang? ya sekarang .... sekarang aku dah jumpa seorang gadis yang manja dan manis, heheheheheheheh.. ye ker? entah... jumpa tapi tak pernah tengok! rasa tapi tak pernah pegang! cinta padanya? entahlah, tapi yang pastinya aku dah mula rindu dan sayang padanya ( ha2 .. tak tahu ) tak boleh nak ganggu dia sebab dia masih lagi study, biar dia habis study dulu pas tu bolehlah kalu nak goda2 dia heheheheheh... aku pasti akan goda dia sampai cair kerana aku tahu sekarang pun dia dah mulai cair dengan ku ( aalah jo... eksen je tu.. )

cinta

Cinta .... pada pendapat aku untuk menghadirkan cinta kita perlu ada; kasih,sayang dan rindu. cinta itu buta,ya... aku setuju, kerana cinta tidak mengenal usia dan rupa. memang takut untuk melafazkan kata2 cinta jika dihati belum ada perasaan kasih,sayang dan rindu.

kita boleh mengasihi semua orang, sayang pada mereka yang rapat dengan kita dan rindu pada mereka yang berjaya menawan hati kita. hati yang rindu akan selalu bercakap2, jiwa tidak ketentuan, apa yang dibuat serba tak kena selagi wajah yang didambarkan tidak muncul di depan mata.

rindu tak semestinya dapat diubati dengan pandangan mata,luahan rasa juga lebih dari segalanya walaupun dengan media yang berbeza. internet contohnya, ym dan sebagainya dan
kadang kala ianya lebih kronik. keikhlasan penting dalam setiap percintaan kerana percintaan juga merupakan satu perkongsiaan. menerima cinta ibarat menerima satu tanggongjawab dan ianya perlu dilaksanakan dengan baik dan jujur, "tiada rahsia antara kita"

cinta sehingga akhir hayat, membawa ke mati, dari muda sampai ke tua, semasa sihat semasa sakit, susah senang tempuh bersama. cinta sejati sangat mahal harganya, bagi ku cinta sejati adalah bila aku lafazkan "aku terima nikahnya....." dan akan ku bina sebuah keluarga yang bahagia

cinta sejati akan bersatu dengan ijab dan kabul yang menghalalkan sesebuah hubungan zahir dan batin, akan ku ikat kau kemas dengan ikatan cintaku sebagai tanda kau milikku selamanya, insyallah.

Salam lebaran

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, maaf zahir dan batin kepada semua kat luar sana teristimewa buat yang teristimewa :) semoga happy2 di hari raya, jangan moody2. Buat kawan2 kat pejabat, jangan lupa kerja yang kat atas meja tu, nanti balik aku check, tak siap kena korang... yang nak duit raya bolehla bagi no akaun heheheheh.. best tak lagu raya tu? bestkan? sampai jumpa lagi, kosong/kosong!

Tak bisa memiliki

Apakah yang engkau cari

Tak kau temukan di hatiku

Apakah yang engkau inginkan

Tak dapat lagi ku penuhi

Begitulah aku, pahamilah aku

Mungkin aku tidaklah sempurna

Tetapi hatiku memilikimu sepanjang umurku

Mungkin aku tak bisa memiliki

Dirimu seumur hidupku

Lagu kita ...

Deras hatiku berdetak

Di langit aku terlihat kamu

Terang malam teman kita

Dengan angin meniup sayu

Kupetik gitar akustik ini

Dengan harapan dia mendengar

Melodi indah yang kucipta

Hanya untuk luahkan rinduku padanya

Dan aku terus

Menyanyi lagu ini untukmu

Walau berjuta mendengar

Lagu ini hanya untukmu

Arah hidup kita

Tergambar bintang di angkasa

Berkelip melukis cinta

Terciptalah lagu kita

Melodi indah yang kucipta

Hanya untuk luahkan rinduku padanya
Dan aku terus

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Semalam semasa drive balik rumah, aku on "hot fm" dan dengan tak ku sedari aku telah melayan lagu ni, check it out... .

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Realiti dan fantasi

Sekarang jam dah 4.23pm, aku rasa macam dah ter"overdose", berat kepala dan roh ku amat keletihan. banyak benar kerja2 yang terpaksa aku selesaikan, sekarang ni aku buat 3 kerja dalam satu masa. bukanya aku sorang je staf yang ade kat sini, ramai dan ramai lagi staf2 yang lain tapi bos suruh aku gak yang uruskan. bila aku kena ganti dia gi mesyuarat, maknanya akulah yang akan meneruskan kerja2 "hasil" daripada mesyuarat tersebut.

bila balik rumah je aku rasa amat letih, kul 10 malam aku dah merasa mengantuk sangat2, kadang2 sampai terlena atas kerusi depan tv, tv dah acap kali ketawakan aku ... masa drive balik rumah pun kadang2 fikiran ku melayang2, fikir pasal kerja dan tindakan2 yang perlu aku lakukan esok. kadang2 konsentrasi ku hilang, mata memandang federal highway tapi roh dan jiwa ku melayang entah kemana-mana! mahu saja aku "on"kan suis auto pilot, tapi aku pandu vios bukanya boeing 747.

bila badan letih aku dah tak ade selera nak makan, aku nak rehat je, rehatkan minda, mungkin cikyah boleh tolong, tolong "rehat"kan minda ku sekejap, macam yang bonda ku selalu buat, aku nak baring, usapkan rambutku hingga aku tertidur, dengan penuh kasih dan sayang,

Mengintai Langit Di Tasik Kenyir

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Tasik Kenyir2

Alamak... camne ni, jam dah kul 6.30pg, semalam aku dah set hp jam 5.45pg, camne boleh tak sedar ni... aku terus bangun, masuk bilik air,buat ape yang patut dan ambik air sembahyang sebab subuh dah nak habis (silap2 dah habis kot) sebelum tido semalam memang aku dah niat nak bangun awal, sebab nak rasai kesegaran bayu pagi kat sini (macam bagus je) tapi tak pe, sebab kat luar sana mentari tak keluar lagi mungkin sebab kawasan disini yang dikelilingi oleh bukit bukau.

selepas selesai sembahyang aku berdoa untuk diberi kesihatan,kemudahan dan rezeki yang melimpah (bukan ape, untuk aku dermakan kepada insan yang memerlukan) dan tak lupa buat kedua ayahanda dan bonda, ahli keluargaku, kaum kerabat dan teman2) aku keluar ke laman untuk merasai kesegaran pagi.

aktiviti pagi ni adalah memancing, memancing? aku pun naik pelik dan hairan, aku bukanya suke sangat gi mancing ni, tapi oleh kerana kawan yang sorang tu beriya - iya sangat nak gi, maka kami semua pun setujula. Macam biasa, selepas sarapan pagi kami pun bertolak naik boat ke kawasan lubuk ikan. masa makan tadi, kawan aku tu mintak nak sarapan dengan roti canai, ahahahahah, apela mamat ni, "kat sini mana ade orang sarapan dengan roti canai, kat sini pagi2 orang makan nasi", aku bagitahu dengan penuh semangat.

Pagi tu aku jumpa lagi dengan pakcik boatman tu, aku bagi salam dan dia jawab, sambil senyum dia tanya aku, "lena ko tido semalam?" aku jawab, "ok, peluk bantal terus terbang". pakcik tu kata dia akan bawa kami ke kawasan lubuk ikan. kawan aku tu nak mancing kat lubuk kelah. pakcik tu kata kat sana tak boleh mancing, itu satu kesalahan, oklah kami ikut je ..

kita dok mancing lebih kurang 3 jam, seronok ke? bolehla.. yang pentingnya kawan2 aku tu semuanya happy dan seronok. aku dapat 5 ekor ikan, 3 ikan lampam dan 2 ikan sebarau, yang paling banyak dapat ialah pakcik tu la . hampir nak tengahari baru kita balik ke chalet. ikan2 tu semua kita bagi kat pakcik untuk dimasak. sebenarnya aku tak berapa suke makan ikan ni semua, bukanya ape, sebab ikan air tawar ni banyak tulang, aku tak makan ikan yang banyak tulang, kalu ikan tu tak banyak tulang ok ..

makan tengahari pun best gak, pakcik tu kata, "ikan tadi tak sempat nak masak, kita makan lauk yang lain dulu, ikan tu kita makan malam ni", kami semua ok je, sebab dah lapar kami pun tak nak cerita panjang dengan pakcik tu, ape lagi kami pun terus ke agenda seterunya, makan tengahari, sedappp.. (al maklumlah orang tengah lapar)

petang tak buat ape2, tapi adela gi jalan2 kat sekitar chalet dan tinjau2 keindahan chalet2 yang lain. manalah tahu takut2 pas ni nak datang lagi, bolehlah dok chalet yang lain pula.
best gak tengok2 orang, ade yang datang dengan family, yang datang berpasangan pun ade ..mungkin baru kahwin kot :)

malam, aktiviti aku macam biasa, lepak kat cafe, heheheheheh masuk ym la, ape lagi, bercerita dengan cikyah, tapi line aku kerap mengalami masalah, al maklumlah, aku access pakai hp, susah sikit bagaimana pun daripada tak ade, baik ade, daripada tak dapat, baik dapat, sikit2 pun jadila, cikyah kan? kan?

malam tu sebelum tido aku dengar lagu yang baru aku download, "mengintai langit" best lagu tu, mula2 dengar dulu entah ape2 tapi bila dah lama, baru "rasa" , maksudnya ... ape ye? dalam maknanya tu cikyah, dalam tu ... sebab "dia" tak berani nak tengok depan2, jadi dia intai2 je lah, sebab di langit ade bintang yang berseri serta bersinar dan rembulan yang cantik menawan, mungkin tak padan dengan dia ... kan cikyah, kan?

Tasik Kenyir

Hi, seru dah sampai kot, kuikuikuikui... banyak yang nak ditulis tapi nak mula kat mana ye.. oklah percutian di tasik kenyir amat menyeronokan dengan suasana yang tenang, senyap dan sejuk, sebab petang2 je hujan, hujan je siap dengan ribut sekali. Sejukkk, kita sampai sana pagi 5hb julai lebih kurang jam berapa ye.... lupa pulak, mungkin sekitar 10pg kot. lepas check in, kita jalan2 sekitar chalet, tengok2 kawasanla katakan sambil sedut udara segar. ingatkan tak ramai orang yang datang, rupa2nya ramai, adelah dalam 5 buah bas sewa khas, apela diorang ni, orang datang sini dia pun datang jugak, pergila bercuti kat tempat lain....

first day tak banyak aktiviti yang kita orang buat, cuma ronda2 dan pusing2 sekitar tasik dengan speedboat. Aku dah biasa dengan pemandangan ni semua, cuma kawan2 yang tak pernah datang tu la yang nampak teruja sangat. aku cuma cerita2 dengan pakcik boatman tu je, tanya pasal sejarah tasik ni. mungkin korang semua tak tahu yang dulunya kawasan tasik ni merupakan kawasan beberapa buah kampong. air tasik ini berpunca daripada pemesongan aliran air sungai dan pembinaan tasik ni telah menyebabkan kampong2 tersebut di"lenyap"kan. pakcik tu bagitahu semua penduduk asal telah dipindahkan, diberi pampasan dan penempatan baru, kata pakcik tu lagi, bila air sungai dilepaskan masuk, dengan pelahan - lahan kawasan kampong tu akan ditenggelami oleh air dan cuba korang bayangkan jika kampong tu kampong halaman kita, sedihkan? kan? tempat jatuh lagi dikenang, inikan pula tempat bermain! aku suke dengar pakcik tu bercerita, sebab banyak benda yang aku tak tahu dia bagitahu, maklumlah orang "lama" .

aku tanya gak pakcik tu, manalah tahu takut2 ade naga kat dalam tasik, ade ke cerita yang pelik2 atau pengalaman2 yang mistik, sebab aku suke dengar cerita2 yang macam ni...
pakcik tu cuma senyum, dia kata kat sini banyak gajah dan harimau pun ade! aku kata. "alah, tu semua tak best, cerita macam nenek kebayan ke .. tuan puteri ke .. tak ade?, pakcik tu senyum lagi dan berkata, "tak payahla cerita macam tu".. aku tahu kat sini memang ade, cuma pakcik tu je yang tak nak cerita, tapi tak ape, esok masih ade...

kat sini aku asyik makan je, yelah.. masakan kampong, lagipun semuanya sedap2 yang paling best bila malam, yelah...sebab aku akan lepak kat cafe chalet tu sambil minum kopi o panas atau tea panas dalam persekitaran yang sejuk dan nyaman tapi tu semua alasan aku je, hehehehhe .. sebenarnya aku lepak kat cafe tu sebab kat situ aku boleh access internet (sukenya aku) aku masuk ym la, ape lagi (cerita2 dengan cikyah la)

time tido .. bestnya, aku on tv (sebab tak nak rasa sunyi sangat) on aircond, tarik selimut dan peluk bantal. ade gak kadang2 tu aku senyum sorang2, (yelah kan, aku baru je lepas ym dengan cikyah) pas tu .. aku terus blackout ..

Cik Yah

Kita suke panggil nama tu, "cik yah" seperti yang kita ceritakan semalam, nama cik yah macam orang dah kahwin, dah ade anak dan mungkin seorang ibu yang agak sibuk dengan aktiviti harian (tapi bukan ahli mesyuarat tingkap) cute la nama tu buat ida, kita suke ..
cik yah, hari sabtu ni jo akan ke tasik kenyir, kawan nak gi tengok tempat pembiakan ikan kelah, jo pun tak pasti kat area mana, kita cuma pernah tengok kat tv je tapi sampai sana kita tanya orang la.

pastu mungkin hari isnin 7/7 kita akan ke pulau perhentian dan balik semula keesokan harinya. kalu cik yah boleh ikut sama mesti bestkan, bolehlah kita jalan2 dengan cik yah, kita chit chat sampai pagi, tak payah tido tapi cik yah mesti kena buat air untuk jo, alah untuk jo je ... bolehlah kita minum sama2. kita tahu la cik yah memang tak suka buat kejer dapur, betul tak?

pas ni mungkin 5 - 6 hari jo tak akan online, pasti jo akan "rindukan" cik yah dan kita tahu cik yah pun pasti akan ingat kat kita, masa jo tak ade, cik yah jagalah diri baik2, jangan nakal2 dan jangan main mata (cik yah ni suka main mata ke?) jo tahu cik yah ramai kawan internet dan mungkin cik yah tak sunyi lagi pun jo ni apala sangat, kan?

oklah cik yah, jam dah 8.00am sharp, jo nak selesaikan kejer2 yang ade ni dulu sebab minggu depan nak g holiday. mungkin cik yah belum bangun lagi tapi kalu dah bangun cepat2 bukak blog jo. kalu buat air milo tu jangan lupa minum untuk jo sekali ..

Buah manggis

Manggis (Garcinia mangostana) adalah pokok tropika malar hijau dan dipercayai berasal dari Kepulauan Sunda dan Maluku. Pokok manggis boleh tumbuh dari 7 hingga 25 meter dan menghasilkan buah berwarna ungu pekat yang boleh dimakan. Buah manggis dikenali sebagai "ratu segala buah".

Kulit buah manggis agak keras dan dengan garispusat 4-6 cm. Buah manggis terdiri daripada isi warna putih yang berukur garispusat 3-5 cm. Bergantung kepada saiz dan masak, ia mungkin berbiji. Rasa manggis boleh dibandingkan dengan strawberi putik dengan rasa-rasa manis limau. Buah manggis jarang dijual di negara Barat kecuali di kedai runcit Asia. Kulit manggis menghasilkan warna merah, dan amat sukar ditanggalkan.

Manggis dibuka dengan mengopek bukannya dipotong. Buah manggis dipegang dengan kedua belah tangan, ditekan perlahan-lahan sehingga kulitnya terbelah. Selepas itu, ianya mudah untuk membuka dan mengambil isinya. Buah manggis amat berkhasiat. Bahan aktif xanthone dalam buah manggis mempunyai khasiat yang amat menakjubkan, terutama di bahagian dalam kulit dan biji manggis. Ramai saintis telah mengkaji khasiat buah manggis sejak tahun 1970an.

Xanthone iaitu bahan aktif dalam buah manggis dapat membantu pelbagai jenis masaalah seperti alergi, resdung, lelah, pelbagai penyakit kulit seperti eczema, gatal-gatal, psoriasis, seborrhea, jangkitan kulat, luka-luka yang biasa pada mulut, melecur, selepas pembedahan, penyakit darah tinggi, kencing manis, lebihan kolesterol , keletihan, kekurangan darah, ulser, gastrik, saluran usus yang bengkak dan pelbagai lagi masaalah.

Manggis apabila dimakan memberi implak ‘penyejukan’ (cooling effect). Maka adalah disarankan untuk memakan buah manggis selepas memakan ‘raja buah’ iaitu durian. Ramai yang tidak mengetahui bahawa manggis juga merupakan bahan yang digunakan dalam perubatan tradisional sejak turun-temurun. Selama ini kita hanya fokus kepada isinya yang putih bak kapas untuk menikmati kelazatan buah tersebut.

Kesimpulannya, nilai perubatannya yang telah diketahui ‘menakjubkan’ serta tidak sangsi lagi bahawa buah kurniaan Tuhan ini sangat memberi manafaat untuk kesejahteraan dan kesihatan kepada manusia

All that jazz

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"all that jazz"

David Sanborn

Renowned and revered the world over as one of the greatest saxophone players of all-time, David Sanborn is an artist whose music has inspired countless other musicians while creating a body of work that spans the genres of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, pop and jazz. A naturally gifted performer, David has helped defined the saxophone’s modern sound while influencing a generation.


Born July 30, 1945 in Tampa, Florida, David William Sanborn contracted polio when he was only 3 years old. As a part of his rehabilitative therapy, David was introduced to the saxophone. It was an introduction with consequences quite beyond the imagination of his parents, doctors – or anyone else. The selection of the alto sax – a favourite from David’s days spent listening to the radio – would prove to be a pivotal moment in the development of his sound.

Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, David was tremendously inspired by the rich legacy of great Chicago blues artists who would play their way through town. Before he was finished high school, David had played with names such as Albert King and Little Milton. "When I was 17 or 18,” David has said, "And it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice, that I HAD to become a musician. Either that or steal cars."

David studied music for a year at Northwestern University before transferring to the University of Iowa. By 20, he was married and the proud father of a son – Jonathan Sanborn – for whom each of David’s records have been dedicated. A phone call from an old friend in San Francisco – drummer Teddy Steward – convinced David to head for California. It was while in San Francisco that another old friend – Phillip Wilson – who had recently joined the Butterfield Blues Band, invited David to Los Angeles to sit-in on recording sessions with the band. “I got on a Greyhound bus from San Francisco to LA, took a bus into Hollywood, slept on the floor of Phillip's hotel room and went to the studio with him.” David has said. “Just had my horn. I think it was because I looked so pathetic, standing there with my horn, Paul Butterfield said, "Why don't you just come and play on a tune?" I sat in and I did okay. And I was with Butterfield for almost five years.”

Those five years saw David –with the Butterfield Blues Band – play Woodstock, among many other classic gigs. But the demise of that band only brought David new opportunities and within a week he was touring with another legend – Stevie Wonder. David played on Wonder’s remarkable “Talking Book” LP, rocked briefly with rock and roll heroes The Rolling Stones then toured with David Bowie, eventually performing his famous solo on Bowie’s 1975 recording “Young Americans.”

It was also in 1975 that David released his first solo album Taking Off. The record enjoyed respectable sales and while David continued working with other performers such as Paul Simon and James Taylor he also continued flexing his considerable muscles as a solo artist, eventually scoring massive popular hits with 1980’s Hideaway and 1981’s Grammy winning Voyeur.

1983 saw David branch off in a new artistic direction with his first acting roll in the Italian film "Stelle Sulla Citta" for which he also scored the soundtrack. It was also in ’83 that David released his landmark Backstreet album which proved a major hit in the world of contemporary jazz.

David was awarded his second Grammy in 1986 for the album Double Vision and in the late 1980s hosted one of the most remarkable musical television programs of all time – Night Music. Offering up old films of jazz legends, music talk and incredible jams by an increasingly eclectic roll call of musicians from different fields, Night Music is fondly remembered among music fans as a groundbreaking and genre-bursting show. Produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, Night Music brought artists as diverse as Sonny Rollins, Leonard Cohen, Hank Crawford, Conway Twitty, Sonic Youth, Al Green and the Pixies together on one program.
Throughout the nineties and into the present, David has continued to tour and record, having amassed a wide and enthusiastic fan base around the world. The albums Pearls, Songs From The Night Before and Essentials reflect the essence of an artist at peace with his own sound and development, yet still hungry – eager to explore the possibilities of his instrument and his abilities.

David Sanborn is both musician and artist – that rare breed of popular recording star as eager today as he was in his youth to continue pushing boundaries and to continue making music that challenges the mind as it rewards the heart and soul.

Alwyn Lopez Jarreau

Alwyn Lopez Jarreau (born March 12, 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), known popularly as Al Jarreau, is an American, Grammy Award–winning jazz singer. Versatile in his singing style, Jarreau is a six-time Grammy-nominated vocalist and the only vocalist in history to win a Grammy Award in three separate categories: jazz, pop, and R&B.As the son of a vicar, he had his first singing experiences in a church choir.

He attended Ripon College, where he also sang non-professionally with a group called the Indigos, and graduated in 1962. He went on to earn a master’s degree in Vocational Rehabilitation from the University of Iowa, and worked as a rehabilitation counselor in San Francisco before joining a small jazz club trio headed by George Duke and deciding that he would make professional singing his life.

He appeared in such Los Angeles hot spots as Dino’s, the Troubador and Bitter End West. Television exposure came from Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and David Frost, while he expanded his nightclub appearances to include performing at the Improv between the acts of such rising-star comics as Bette Midler, Jimmie Walker, and John Belushi, among others.He was spotted by Warner Bros. in 1975 and soon thereafter released his critically acclaimed debut album, We Got By, which catapulted him into international fame and garnered him a German Grammy Award. A second German Grammy would follow with the release of his second album, Glow.One of Jarreau’s most commercially and artistically successful albums is Breakin’ Away (1981), which includes the hit song “We’re in This Love Together.”

He wrote and performed the Grammy-nominated theme to the 1980s American television show Moonlighting. Among other things, he is well-known for his scat singing and the ability to perfectly imitate conventional guitar, bass and percussive instrumentation. He was also a featured vocalist on USA for Africa’s “We are the World” and sang the line, “…and so we all must lend a helping hand.”He has toured and performed with such greats as Joe Sample, Kathleen Battle, Miles Davis, David Sanborn and Rick Braun.

He also performed the role of the Teen Angel in a 1996 Broadway production of Grease. On March 6, 2001 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His star is located at 7083 Hollywood Boulevard on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue.

Marion Meadows

Born in West Virginia, saxophonist Marion Meadows – whose ethnic mix is Native American, African American and Caucasian – grews up in Stamford, Connecticut, where he began playing clarinet and studying classical music at eight years old.

His passion for different types of music led him to appreciate numerous jazz musicians, including Stanley Turrentine, Sidney Bichet, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins, and he naturally gravitated to the soprano sax in his high school years. Fortunately for the smooth jazz fans who have embraced his sweet and funky soprano sound over the last decade, Meadows decided to take a few very important trips to Europe during his junior and senior years.

He had dreamed of being either a veterinarian or zoologist, and assumed he would enroll in college as a pre-med major. Playing the sax was just a hobby until he saw the way audiences reacted to him and his student cohorts in Holland, Italy and Austria.“The first trip was with my high school band and the second was a graduation gift to me and a few other guys playing over there in a big band setting,” he says. “It was exciting seeing positive newspaper articles about my playing in Italy, receiving all sorts of accolades and feeling the excitement of interaction with the crowd.

It was a tremendous rush, and lit the fire.”After studying jazz with Anthony Truglia, Meadows attended Berklee College of Music, where he majored in arranging and composition. He later went to the SUNY Purchase School for the Arts, where he studied under Ron Herder. “I got a lot of sideman jobs in college, and I have always said I got a graduate degree playing clubs,” adds Meadows, who perfected his craft studying with Joe Henderson, Dave Liebman and Eddie Daniels. “Not long after I finished school, (well-known jazz drummer) Norman Connors recorded my song ‘Invitation’ and then asked me to join his band. I later produced his Passion album with him.

Things just fell into place.”Meadows first hit the airwaves in 1991 with For Lovers Only, but his career really began one day in the late ‘80s at New York’s Grand Central Station. He had been a sideman with Connors for three years with only vague notions of eventually going solo. Then one day, as the oft-told story goes, he was waiting for a train, pulled out his horn and began playing under the huge dome. His sweet sound caught the attention of fellow traveler, TV composer Jay Chattaway, who was so impressed that he hooked Meadows up with legendary keyboardist Bob James. James signed Meadows to a deal with his TappanZee label, and though Meadows’ first recording went unreleased, the experience put him on the road to his eventual success.

Meadows hooked up with numerous artists and musicians and became a well known sideman in his own right, recording or performing over the years with Brook Benton, Eartha Kitt, Phyllis Hyman, Jean Carne, The Temptations, Michael Bolton, Angela Bofill, Will Downing and Native American flute player Douglas Spotted Eagle, among many others. In the late ‘80s, Meadows stretched his usual pop/jazz boundaries as a member of a New York avant-garde band called the Aboriginal Music Society. He was performing in Japan when he got the call that RCA Records was interested in signing him to a solo deal, based on his first album which he had recorded and financed himself.

Meadows became a staple of the smooth jazz format with his subsequent recordings, which include Keep It Right Here (1993), Forbidden Fruit (1994) and Body Rhythm (1996). After moving from his home in Connecticut to Phoenix, Arizona, Meadows signed with Heads Up International and released Another Side of Midnight (1999). A contemporary tribute to city life, his label debut was considered by critics to be his strongest work to date.

His subsequent heads Up discography has been equally successful on an artistic as well as commercial level: Next To You (2000), featured a mix of R&B-influenced jazz coupled with sensual Latin rhythms; In Deep (2002), a neo-soul blend of jazz, R&B and hip-hop, brimmed with sophisticated arrangements and impressive tenor/soprano playing; Players Club (2004) paid tribute to Meadows’ fellow musicians with a seamless mix of contemporary jazz and soulful R&B.

All four Heads Up recordings have been well received by his ever-growing, always loyal fans. Dressed To Chill, scheduled for release on May 23, 2006, is the latest chapter in Meadows’ satisfying tradition of cool sophistication.“I’ve been involved in a lot of projects, both my own and group efforts,” says Meadows, “and my main objective is to keep growing as an artist and engage the fans who have invested so much emotion in my music and my career. Aside from that wonderful sense of live communication, the real magic for me happens in the studio when I put on those headphones and begin to play. That’s where the ideas just start to flow. Everything else in my musical life comes out of that moment.”

Everette Harp

What can you say about Everette Harp, smooth, real smooth sax playing!!!Everette Harp started playing piano at two and began practicing saxophone at the age of four. The youngest of the eight children of a minister, gospel music was one of Harp’s earliest influences.


Harp started playing jazz in high school, and graduated from North Texas State University with a music major in the early 1980s. While there he joined Phi Beta Sigma. Working as an accountant for a short time, Harp played in local bands before moving to Los Angeles in 1988. He immediately toured briefly with Teena Marie, and then internationally with Anita Baker.


In 1992, Harp released his self-titled solo debut.Soon after Harp played at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and began weekly appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show. He continued to play & tour with notables, including Chaka Khan, George Duke, Chante Moore, Anita Baker, Kenny Loggins, Brenda Russell, Marcus Miller, Dianne Reeves, and many more. Harp is also known for his performances with Marcus Miller along with David Sanborn and Wayne Shorter.


In the past few years Harp has reduced his side gigs to focus on his solo career. Harp has also performed at the Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival held annually in North Omaha, Nebraska in August. He also performed “Soul Train ‘93” (You Know You Want to Dance)” with the rap group Naughty by Nature in 1993.

Sadao Watanabe

Sadao Watanabe is Japan’s most famous saxophone player. Born February 1st, 1933, in Utsunomiya in the Tochigi prefecture of Japan, Watanabe began playing the alto sax after moving to Tokyo at the age of 18. He went on to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1962 to 1965.

He plays both alto and soprano saxophone, and has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Chico Hamilton, Gary Peacock, Chic Corea and Kikuchi Masabumi.

Mr Sax

The saxophone (commonly referred to simply as sax) is a conical-bored musical instrument considered a member of the woodwing family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single- reed mouthpiece similar to the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by Adolhle Sax in the early 1840s, and patented in 1846 in two groups of seven instruments each. Each series consisted of instruments of various sizes in alternating transposition. The series pitched in B♭ and E♭, designed for military bands, has proved extremely popular and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. A few saxophones remain from the less popular orchestral series pitched in C and F.

While proving very popular in its intended niche of military band

music, the saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big band music, blues and particularly jazz. There is also a substantial repertoire of concert music in the classical idiom for the members of the saxophone family. Saxophone players are called saxophonists.

History
The saxophone was developed in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian - born instrument-maker, flautist, and clarinetist working in Paris. While still working at his father's instrument shop in Brussels, Sax began developing an instrument which had the projection of a brass instrument with the mobility of a woodwind. Another priority was to create an instrument which, while similar to the clarinet, would overblow at the octave, unlike the clarinet, which rises in pitch by a twelfth when overblown; an instrument which overblew at the octave would have identical fingering for both registers.

Prior to his work on the saxophone, Sax made several improvements to the bass clarinet by improving its keywork and acoustics and extending its lower range. Sax was also a maker of the then-popular ophicleide,

a large conical brass instrument in the bass register with keys similar to a woodwind instrument. His experience with these two instruments allowed him to developed the skills and technologies needed to make the first saxophones. Adolph sax created an instrument with a single reed mouthpiece like a clarinet, conical brass body like an ophicleide, and the acoustic properties of the flute.

Having constructed saxophones in several sizes in the early 1840s, Sax applied for, and received, a 15-year patent for the instrument on June 28, 1846.

The patent encompassed 14 versions of the fundamental design, split into two categories of seven instruments each and ranging from sopranino to contrabass. In the group Sax envisaged for orchestral work, the instruments transposed at either F or C, while the "military band" group included instruments alternating between E♭ and B♭. The orchestral soprano saxophone was the only instrument to sound at concert pitch. All the instruments were given an initial written range from the B below the treble staff to the F three ledger lines above it, giving each saxophone a range of two and a half octaves.

Sax's patent expired in 1866;

thereafter numerous saxophonists and instrument manufacturers implemented their own improvements to the design and keywork. The first substantial modification was by a French manufacturer who extended the bell slightly and added an extra key to extend the range downwards by one semitone to B♭. It is suspected that Sax himself may have attempted this modification. This extension was adopted into almost all modern designs.

Sax's original keywork was very simplistic and made playing some legato passages and wide intervals extremely difficult to finger, so numerous developers added extra keys and alternate fingerings to make chromatic playing less difficult. While the early saxophone had two separate octave vents to assist in the playing of the upper registers just as modern instruments do, players of Sax's original design had to operate these via two separate octave keys

operated by the left thumb. A substantial advancement in saxophone keywork was the development of a method by which both tone holes are operated by a single octave key by the left thumb which is now universal on all modern saxophones.

One of the most radical, however temporary, revision of saxophone keywork was made in the 1950s by M. Houvenaghel of Paris, who completely redeveloped the mechanics of the system to allow a number of notes (C♯, B, A, G, F and E♭) to be flattened by a semitone simply by lowering the right middle finger. This enables a chromatic scale to be played over two octaves simply by playing the diatonis scale combined with alternately raising and lowering this one digit. However, this keywork never gained much popularity, and is no longer in use.

Kenny G

Kenneth Gorelick (born June 5 1956) better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American saxophonist whose fourth album, Duotones, brought him "breakthrough success" in 1986. Kenny's main instrument is the soprano saxophone, but he also plays the alto, and tenor saxophone and the flute on occasion.

Early life
Kenny was born in Seattle, Washington and first came into contact with a saxophone when he heard someone performing with one on The Ed Sullivan Show. He learned how to play under the direction of local trumpeter Gerald Pfister and by practicing along with records (mostly of Grover Washington, Jr) trying to emulate the sounds that he was hearing.

At Frankling High School he failed to get into the jazz band when he applied, although was accepted the following year when he tried again. He also played for his high school golf team, a sport which he had loved ever since his older brother, Brian Gorelick, introduced it to him when he was ten years old. Brian Gorelick is currently a music professor and choir conductor at Wake Forest University.

Career
Kenneth Gorelick began his career as a musician when he acquired his first ever professional job as saxophone soloist for Barry Whites Love Unlimited Orchestra in 1976 at the age of 20, when White was impressed by his mastery of the blues scale. Kenny was also studying for a major in accounting at the same time. After being rejected as a music major from Central Washington University, he went on to get a degree from University of Washington and played with the funk band Cold, Bold & Together before becoming a credited member of The Jeff Lorber Fusion. He began his solo career after his period with Lorber.

In 1982, Kenny G signed with Arista Records as a solo artist, after label president Clive Davis heard his rendition of ABBA's "Dancing Queen". He has released many solo albums and collaborated with various artists including Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Natalie Cole, Steve Miller (which marked the only time he appeared on a rock and roll album), Dudley Moore, Michael Bolton, and Aretha Franklin. Influenced by the likes of saxophonist Grover Washington Jr and the lyricism of Barry Manilow, his own albums are usually classified as smooth jazz.

He received success quite early on, with both G Force and Gravity, his second and third studio albums respectively, achieving platinum status in the United States. These sales were topped by his fourth studio album, Duotones, which shifted over five million copies in the U.S. alone. His fifth studio album, Breathless, became the number one best selling instrumental album ever, with over 15 million copies sold, of which 12 million were in the U.S. He broke another record when his first holiday album, Miracles, sold over 13 million copies, making it the most successful Christmas album to date.

In 1997, Kenny G earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing the longest note ever recorded on a saxophone. Kenny G held an E-flat for forty five minutes and 12 seconds in the Hopkins-Bright Auditorium at J&R Music World in New York City. That same year, Kenny G's song "Havana", from his album The Moment, was remixed by noted DJs Todd Terry and Tony Moran and released promotionally to dance clubs in the U.S. These mixes went to #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in April of 1997, giving Kenny his first (and, to date, only) #1 on this chart.

Gorelick's 1999 single, "What A Wounderful World" stirred controversy among the jazz community regarding the overdubbing of Louis Armstrong's classic recording. A common criticism was that such a revered recording by a musician known especially for improvisation should not be altered. Pat Metheny responded to this recording by saying, "With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music." The "duet" was produced by David Foster who also recorded the Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole duet. Gorelick stated at the time,"...I didn't want to spoil the original. I said, 'Whatever we do, if we're not going to make it better, let's throw it away and we won't do it.' So (Foster) guaranteed that it would be better, and I hope that we did a good job on it."

Some columnists countered the criticisms suggesting such a recording would bring classic jazz to a wider audience. Nevertheless, Kenny G fans considered the live performance of this duet with Armstrong on a video taped backdrop a "show stopper." Additionally, Gorelick has stated that all the proceeds from this single go to his Kenny G Miracles Foundation which "funnel(s) the money to charities to purchase musical instruments and to supplement funding for the arts in schools." As of 2003, Kenny G was named the 25th-highest selling artist in America by the RIAA, with 48 million albums sold in the USA as of jULY 31, 2006. In 1994, Kenny G won the Grammy Award For The Best Instrumental Composition for "Forever in Love"

Personal life
Kenny G is currently married to Lyndie Benson, with whom he has two children – Max (aged thirteen) and Noah (aged nine). They have expressed an interest in saxophone and piano respectively. He plays golf regularly, and has a playing handicap of +0.6. He has participated in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am tournament seven times as of Februari 7, 2008 and Golf Digest awarded him the position of number one musician golfer in their December rankings of Top 100 in Music.

Kenny is also a pilot, and has been known to fly to many events.
He has one sister, Paula, and one brother, Brian. Brian's son David is a musician and plays bass in the band "Puking up Sunshine."