Warung Kopi See Sharp Minor

Lewat asar, kira-kira jam 5:30ptg member aku telefon ajak turun mengeteh di warung mamak berhampiran studio. Aku layankan saja permintaan sahabat ini tanpa banyak soal sebab aku sendiri pun dah naik tepu melayan kerja yang masih berselirat di pejabat. Assalamualaikum… Apa cerita bos? Tegur sahabat yang barangkali ternampak mata aku yang macam beruang panda sebab dah beberapa hari tak cukup tidur. Tak ada apa cerita sangat… cerita penat ada laaa, jawabku berseloroh. Teh O panas satu macha. Sama. Member menyampuk pantas nak mudahkan order minum. Cuti hujung minggu baru-baru ni kan aku balik ke Penang dengan famili. Ada cerita yang aku rasa engkau minat nak dengar. Azhar, member sekampung aku yang sama-sama merantau ke ibukota memulakan cerita. Bagi aku ‘hint’ ringkasan cerita tu boleh tak? Kalau aku rasa tak best, tak payahlah kau cerita… hahahaha. Saja aku ‘menganjing’ bak kata orang muda2 sini.  Hmmmm… Azhar berfikir sejenak untuk ringkaskan ceritanya dalam satu ayat. OK, ...

“ Burung Kenari riuh berkicau …”, “ Oh burung nyanyikanlah, katakan padanya aku rindu …”, “ His eyes are on the sparrows …”, “ Eagle fly free let people see …” and a lot more birds were recorded as song lyrics all over the world. Birds with the ability to fly and roam the sky are simply ideal to represent free-spiritedness that beats the odds of human capacity. Flying men and women are popular myths; with superman, batman, supergirl, wonder woman or even X-men for that matter is not sufficient to elucidate the special feeling of birds flying and chirping. ‘Burung’ is the Malay word for bird. Countless species of birds in this whole world have given us different stereoscopic meanings in life. Perhaps some inherited negative meanings such as Vulture as carcasses’ scavenger, Crow as garbage vandal, Chicken as coward etc are just a small friction of birds' negativity. Our cultural legacies that affect our worldviews sometimes offer contending definitions to similar species such as Owl ...