Tadi ada satu event known as Lagenda. An annual event of Malaysian in Manipal. Watching all those performances dari zapin ke break dance, lagu- lagu melayu, cina dan india, puisidra, fashion show, and celoteh emcees, made me miss Malaysia sooo much. Terasa macam berada di Malaysia seketika.
Sedang ralit menyaksikan persembahan fashion show, tiba-tiba tempe sebelah saya bertanya:
"Did you notice there's a cute girl in red or maroon clothes behind the one in red saree?"
Sambil mata saya melilau mecari-cari siapakah gerangannya, tempe tersebut menyatakan kekaguman beliau dengan event seperti Lagenda ini. She is an Indian national from Sikkim who just arrived Manipal a month back and currently she's a student in a college in Manipal. She came to know about Lagenda 2-3 days before and was anticipatedly want to watch Malaysian performance.
Our conversation went on along with the performances. She kept her eye on many cute faces on stage and gave compliment to them. Some performances really caught her attention and she cheered louder than other-supposely-cheering-batchmates when each performance ended.
She commented on the vocalist of Peterfan, who are damn cute (she said so), the our ex Malaysian Idol contestant who sang the Ajab Si song perfectly even he did not speak Hindi, the Bhangra guy who play the gendang or what ever you called it, perfectly (I like bhangra also), and the creative Puisidra from my batchmates which I think it was an inspiring part of the event. She admired the tarian ngajat or what is it? The one which danced by Sarawakian using that 2 bamboos? Kudos to all of you. 
That tempe really wanted to come to Malaysia and see our beautiful country. Teringat pula pesanan officer JPA sebelum fly yang kami ini sebenarnya duta kecil Malaysia yang akan promosikan negara kepada orang luar. Hurm, nampak gaya JPA kena tambahkan kami elaun bonus. Hehe.
Esok MMMC diisytiharkan bercuti sempena Lagenda. Kalau di Malaysia esok cuti sebab Awal Muharram. Tak kiralah apa asbabnya, yang penting nawaitu kita yang mendapat cuti ini betul. Semoga diri ini sentiasa menghayati pengertian sebuah hijrah yang agung berlaku 1430 tahun yang dulu. I was expecting an article about Maal Hijrah in previous Friday Article, tapi tak ada pula.
Betapa saya rindukan cerita-cerita Hijrah yang didengar berulang kali pun tak bosan. Harapannya semangat dari peristiwa Hijrah itu sentiasa kekal mekar di jiwa saya biarpun kadang-kadang ianya hampir padam. Jom, pasangkan azam baru dan beristiqamah dengannya.Salam Ma'al Hijrah 1430H
Manipal, India
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