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Sunday, 25 January 2015

Ulasan : Kerana Aku Untukmu



Ulasan Novel :

KERANA AKU UNTUKMU

Pengarang :

ACIK LANA


Acik Lana merupakan seorang novelis yang tidak asing lagi bagi para peminat novel Melayu. Barangkali, karya beliau yang paling tersohor adalah Maaf Jika Aku Tak Sempurna dan juga Aku Bukan Mistress. Walau bagaimanapun, kedua-dua karya tersebut bukanlah karya pertama Acik Lana yang aku baca. Karya pertama beliau yang menjadi santapan mindaku adalah Akadku Yang Terakhir.
Aku mendapati yang karya Acik Lana memberi sedikit kelainan dari segi susunan plot dan Acik mempunyai gaya penceritaan yang baik dan mampu membuatku setia sehingga ke akhir bacaan.

Bila aku ke MPH Alamanda baru baru ini, aku sempat mengintai senarai Top 10 dan aku dapati salah satunya adalah Kerana Aku Untukmu. Tanpa berfikir dua kali, buku tersebut terus berada di dalam genggaman! Aku membeli buku tersebut pada hari Khamis dan habis membaca buku tersebut menjelang tengah malam pada hari Jumaat.

Kerana Aku Untukmu merumuskan tentang kesetiaan dalam berkasih. Watak utamanya ialah Darriz Imdad dan sebagaimana lazim, watak anak muda yang kacak, bergaya, bersifat pelindung, setia dalam berkasih dan sudah tentunya kaya raya. Watak heroinnya pula ialah Zenia-nama yang agak unik,yang bermaksud bunga dan sudah tentulah heroinnya juga cantik, lemah lembut tetapi tidaklah terlalu merimaskan. Beliau merupakan wanita yang bekerjaya dan tidak terlalu 'menurut'. Digambarkan sebagai seorang wanita yang sangat tabah.

Zenia merupakan seorang anak yatim dan banyak terhutang budi dengan Pn Norizan,tuanpunya sebuah Rumah Anak Yatim. Pn Norizan mempunyai seorang anak yang liar-Fakhry. Fakhry dipaksa berkahwin dengan Zenia dengan harapan agar perkahwinan dengan Zenia mampu mengubah Fakhry. Zenia terjerat. Walaupun beliau pasrah tetapi Fakhry jelas tidak menyukainya dan melayan Zenia dengan buruk sehingga akhirnya ianya membawa kepada perceraian.

Darriz Imdad pula jatuh cinta pada Zenia pada pandang pertama dan merasa amat kecewa apabila mendapati yang pujaan hatinya itu sudah pun berkahwin, Zenia pula merupakan pekerja di syarikat di mana Darriz merupakan COFnya, Berada di bawah bumbung yang sama membolehkan beliau terus dekat dengan Zenia..dekat tapi jauh. Berlaku beberapa insiden di mana Zenia telah diselamatkan oleh Darriz sehingga akhirnya Darrislah orang yang menolong Zenia ketika Zenia teruk dibelasah oleh Fakhry.  Sifat Darriz yang penyayang dan berkongsi keprihatinan terhadap Aiman-seorang anak yatim yang comel, membuka hati Zenia untuk membiarkan cinta melamar dirinya lagi.

Walaupun pada awalnya ibu Darriz melarang keras akan perhubungan tersebut, perhubungan tersebut berjaya juga diikat dengan perkahwinan. Fakhry kemudian hadir memeriahkan plot dengan sifat 'gila talak'nya. Sifat tersebut telah membuat beliau menculik Zenia, mendera dan merogol Zenia tetapi kasih sayang Darriz yang menggunung telah menjadi penyelamat kepada segalanya.

Sebagaimana lazim, hero dan heroin hidup aman bahagia dan si jahat Fakhry disumbat ke dalam penjara.

Sesuatu yang lain tentang novel ini adalah keberanian Acik bercerita tentang hubungan intim di antara dua karakter utama. Saya suka karakter Zenia yang mempunyai kekuatan wanitanya yang tersendiri-soft but naughty at times dan kesabaran Darriz apabila mendepani setiap cabaran. Ini barulah sungguh- Cinta hingga ke Jannah!

Tahniah Acik Lana!  Saya bagi 4/5..

My Leisure Time

My husband and I went to visit my daughter, Nurul Afiqah in MRSM Parit. We departed from home quite late..at about 12 noon and arrived in Parit at 4.00pm. We parked our car at the usual place which was near the bus shed. From far, we saw our Afiqah walking towards us,ever so slow. My husband made a remark on how slow she walked and commented on the fact that I wanted to send Fiqah to UK so that she could learn to walk faster.

We took her out for shopping. We only had two hours. We went to Billion in Sri Iskandar. Shopped for her favourite food stuff and less than an hour we were done shopping. I then took a few minutes to buy some brooches. I thought they were quite cheap but I knew they would not last long. We sent her back at sharp 6 pm.,gave her the birthday present and you could see an almost immediate spark in her eyes. We then knew that she truly loved the present which delighted me.

As a mother,it worries me to see her not smiling. I miss her 'happy go lucky' attitude and the fact that she rarely worries about things. But I also know that she will talk to me when she is ready. I sure hope that whatever is bogging her will not be bogging her for long. There is nothing that a mother wishes for except the happiness of her children!

Sunday, 18 January 2015

Time Without My Kids

January 2015 forces me into a new phase of my life as a mother. My children are away from me in their noble quest-searching for knowledge. My eldest, Muhammad Solehan is in his final semester of Diploma in Networking; Nurul Afiqah is in Form Three in MRSM Parit, Perak and my youngest,Muhammad Akmal decided to go to Johor Bahru-just to join the Art School-one of three in Malaysia. Only my second child-Nurul Syifa remained at home,waiting for her SPM results. She has always wanted to pursue her study in Video and Filming or Screen Arts and I am praying hard for her to get good results so that she could reach her dream..I am hoping that she would go to UiTM. Sending her to private institutions would have costed me too much..As for now, she is my protege. I am trying to turn her into a woman with the characteristics agreed by this eastern society. In other words, I am teaching her how to cook and clean the house. I am paying her though..RM200 working from 3.00pm-7.00pm , Mon-Fri.I see it as an incentive.
    Now, coming back to the point of my children leaving the house-I have dreamed of this moment-of when they will go off paving their young lives..charting their own course of life. But, it was only after  two days that I felt the emptiness of the house. I never thought that I would say this,but I actually missed what I had taken for granted. I missed the sound of the van at 6.30am honking in front of the house and in the evening, I missed the sound of the van sending my children home: the heavy sound of the van's door opened and slammed. The footsteps approaching the house, the opening of the door and a very loud,'Assalamualaikum'..Surprisingly, I also missed their smell...young children coming back from school has this one kind of smell...During the first week of them not being at home, I could still 'smell' them on the couch but the smell is gradually disappearing...sad,,,
    Now, at the end of every solat, I include a new line- I pray that Allah will protect them wherever they are. My du'a is for them to be happy with their friends and their lives at the hostels. I hope that they will be well taken care of by those in charged. I hope that my children can deal with whatever challenges that come on their way.
   I have also learned to cherish every moment that Allah has given me with my family. At the end, it is them whom I hope to see surrounding my death bed. Wallahu'alam. May Allah give me strength ..