Vanila Coklat - Short Short #2

Vanila Coklat

Short Short #2

"Ecah!"

"..."

"Hey Ecah! I know you're listening to me."

"I'm warning you, don't call me Ecah!"

"Ecah! Ecah~ Oh hoiii Ecah!"

An eight years old Amir chuckled to himself upon seeing Ecah directed her deadly stare to him and ran away from her once he regarded his mission as accomplished. He had no idea why he loved making her angry so much. He was easily amused whenever he saw Ecah became mad.

He has been accustomed to exchange banters and bickers with Ecah since he was in his tender years of age since they both grew up together due to their parents who were best friends of each other. They grew up together, yes but they were never best friends. They were more of foes because Amir loved to tease Ecah and Ecah hated him for that.

Just like Ecah, he would rush to finish his meal early during recess everyday due to different reasons. Ecah did so so she could self appoint herself as a prefect, guarding the disabled children from being teased, ridiculed and make fun of by the normal school children of her age, or older. As for Amir, he did so so he could follow and observe what Ecah would be doing.

Their primary school was kind of special since they have special classes for disabled children, too. By sharing the same school compound, it sparked the curiosity within the normal, curious young kids of their age that often lead to poking fun on the special children and Ecah totally hated that.

Although the normal children's and special children's recess time were different, that didn't stop the naughty students from visiting the block where special classes were situated and making fun of the innocent children from outside of their classes when their teachers were not around. Ecah would often ran after those good for nothing naughty students and gave them a lesson or two. She was fearless and fierce and Amir often found himself smiling upon seeing her fierce self from afar. She was fierce, but he knew her heart was actually soft, like velvet.

There was this one day when there was this one big bully in school came to the special classes' block and tried make fun of the children from outside of the classes. Ecah stopped him from doing so and a fight broke out between the two. As the kid was taller and bigger than her so Amir decided to meddle in.

It turned out that it was rather a bad decision since he was easily knocked off by the kid and was badly beaten instead. Ecah came to his rescue instead by putting into use the taekwondo lessons that she learned and in the end, the big bully fled from the scene, crying.

Ecah sighed upon seeing his wounds and started nagging at him on how he should not have tried to meddle in the fight earlier. He pouted and had his head hung low. Despite of the nagging, she surprisingly handed him a bar of chocolate that she fished out from the pocket of her pinafore to thank him. She suddenly chuckled at him and Amir's face went red due to the embarrassment.

It was a rare sight to see her laughter and her being kind towards him so he was rather delighted to receive that bar of chocolate from her.

They smiled sweetly at each other but after a moment of realisation that they were actually being in good terms for the first time, they quickly moved inches away from each other and pretended that it never happened.

"If you don't wish to have the whole school and our parents knew about the earlier incident, you better be good towards me and stop calling me 'Ecah', Amir"

Amir froze for a few seconds upon listening to the blackmail by Ecah but he just couldn't stop the urge to tease her, like always.

"Well too bad the big bully probably tell the teachers and schoolmates about it already by now. So in your dream, Zara...Ecah!"

"My name is Zara Aishah, you good for nothing Amir! It's Zara!"

He stuck out his tongue at her and ran away with the bar of chocolate that he received. He did stop calling her Ecah afterwards because she tattletale about the matter to their parents and he was later scolded about it. But he can never stop teasing her because it became one sort of entertainment in his life.

He never told anyone about this but he actually developed a soft spot for chocolates because of the one she gave him, and also secretly developed a soft spot for her ever since.


...


"What did you dream of, Amir? You were smiling throughout your nap and I find it rather weird."

Amir opened up her eyes and his sight was being greeted with a beautiful view that was his beautiful wife. He smiled, and took her hand and placed it on his chest.

"You."

She laughed over Amir's cliche and cheesy answer but smiled happily nevertheless. She never told anyone about this but she had once, albeit very briefly, developed a soft spot for Amir when he tried to fight with the bully on her behalf when they were kids.

Vanila Coklat - Short Short #1

I don't feel like giving away explanations on how this zaramir fanfic/short short was born written and suffice to say that the blame goes to this acutezaramirfangirlchitis disease I'm having at the moment.

Just like the previous posts, I have a hunch that I'll be facepalming myself when I read this post once again in the future lmao. My fangirling is rather chronic. :(

So without further ado

Vanila Coklat

Short Short #1

                                         

No words could describe the feelings felt by Amir the moment his fingers intertwined with Zara's. Her small hand fit his perfectly and the warmth felt from her touch travelled through his veins and reached his heart. He gave her an attentive look as she excitedly told him how amazingly beautiful the flowers in the garden were. He nodded in agreement, but silently told himself that for him, she's far more beautiful than the millions bulbs of flowers that were surrounding them in Keukenhof Garden at the moment. With his source of happiness by his side in this small town of Lisse, he smiled as if he was the happiest man on earth. Well perhaps he was.

He waited with a smile as she carefully opened the picnic basket as they sat under a shady tree after a long walk around the garden. She handed him a small box of sandwiches happily. He took a look at the cute, unevenly cut sandwiches prepared by Zara the rookie cook and almost broke into a laughter but suppressed it hard enough, afraid of offending her. He found it cute that although she was yet to master the skills of cooking, she would not let that to hinder her from trying to serve the best she could. She made him love her even more.

"Thank you." He reached for her hand, squeezed it tight and planted a kiss on her forehead, surprising her. She laughed lightly albeit a bit puzzled over his act. She just brushed it off with a smile and placed her head on his shoulder and she was able to smell the perfume he had on.

He took a bite of the sandwich and complimented his wife's cooking skill with exaggeration, the same way he often see his Daddy did to his Mummy. Lucky Zara didn't fall for such a trap and warned him through a light pinch on his cheek that resulted in giggles between the two afterwards.

"I have no idea why I'm suddenly curious as to who your first love was."

Amir almost choked on the food upon hearing such a random statement of curiosity by Zara. It was weird but he was suddenly blushing, and nervous.

"I... can't remember" He stuttered. He had to let out a chuckle to put a disguise on his nervousness. Zara took it as one of the teasing she often received by Amir the menace, and pretended to be sulking. She even pushed him lightly and moved inches away. He had his mischievous smile on and pulled her closer, and parked his chin onto her shoulder. Now it was his turn to breathe in her perfume.

"Sayang..."

She decided to stretch her 'fake the sulk' game to be longer so she chose not to answer him.

"I don't think it's that important to reveal who my first love was because it was all in the past. What matters now is the present, and the future. Have my words, Zara, for you are my love now and until the very end. Do you want to know how much I love you? I want you to count the raindrops that have fallen from the sky so that you'll know how much my love for you is."

Zara couldn't hold it any longer and burst into fits of laughter.

"Ya Allah, how cheesy can you get, Mr. Playboy Wannabe? Please, save the cheesiness for the sandwiches. You must be crazy for wanting me to do an impossible thing that is counting the raindrops. Go and count them yourself."

"You're killing the romantic mood, Zara." Amir pouted briefly and Zara playfully pushed his face away from hers.

"...and consider yourself lucky because of your kind of reasonable justification on the present and future thing, I've decided not to probe into the matter further."

Amir let out a relieved laugh and after a few seconds, he made his way to lie down on the mat with the back of his head rested on Zara's lap.

"A five minutes nap, please"

Zara nodded as a signal allowing him to do so while playfully touching the tips of his hair. She traced the temporary creases on his forehead with her finger and watched him closed his eyes slowly with a smile on his face. It was probably then she perfectly understood the true meaning of bliss.

Amir was slowly drifting into a brief slumber but didn't take off that smile on his face. Zara 's curiosity earlier caught him off-guard and truth was, it was not that he didn't remember. In fact, he can perfectly remember who she was. It was just that he didn't feel like revealing that to Zara just yet. Amir was slowly pulled into a dream full of memories between him and his first love. Flashes from the past visited his slumber with the details of her face, her voice, her haircut and even the nickname that he gave her back then, the one she loathed so much:

"Ecah!"

Vanila Coklat Bloopers

No words can describe my reactions when seeing the bloopers that I saw on Asia Media Content facebook. I'd prefer all those gifs to do the talking:

My favourite part of the bloopers:

Travel: Tokyo, Japan - Day 1

I have no idea why so suddenly I feel like posting about the trip to Tokyo last year. Probably because I feel like having those memories written down so I could revisit and read them whenever I wanted to in the future. Hehe. Lagipun, dah bertahun kut baru nak jumpa balik blog ni dan ingat password. Haha.


It all started when Airasia was about to launch their maiden flight to Tokyo, Japan and they made a promotion for it. When I am determined, believe me that I'll get what I really wanted. So I booked return tickets to Tokyo, Japan for 3 persons - me, Ayu and Shud. It was approximately RM1000 per person for the return flight tickets which inclusive of checked in luggage, food and comfort kit.

It all started with this, lol. Thank you Air Asia X! :D

Number of days in Tokyo: 2 and a half days. Until this day I kind of regret it for the trip was so short but what to do? It was all my fault that I settled for only 3 days so the return flight tickets price would fit in our budget. The problem back then was that Air Asia X flew to Tokyo only a few days in a week. So the cheap tickets were already gone although it was just a few minutes after the promo was launched. Besides, my goal for going to Tokyo was rather simple at that time: experience the Shibuya Crossing experience once and my trip is complete! Hahaha

The hurdle one (Malaysian) must face before we can successfully go to Japan is to obtain the visa. Yes, the application was kind of complicated. Since we will be staying in our friend(Tshee)'s house, we needed to get Tshee's letter of invitation for us to stay there and her letter of guarantee. Aside from that you need a letter of confirmation from our employer or college/ university (me and Shud are working while Ayu is pursuing Masters) to confirm that we are working or studying and also we must have our travel itinerary for the 3 days prepared. The hardest part? Well we need to provide a copy of our saving account's statement - that shows we have at least RM 5000~ 6000 in our own account. Lucky that I managed (by whatever means) to get the money to be deposited into my account for a day (so the statement can be printed lol) and I even had to request for a letter of confirmantion from the bank. Susah wooo. Actually I'm not sure whether the figure is fixed / still the same as of now. Calling the embassy is the best way of knowing the right things to do for visa application. :)

So we departed on a rainy evening of 30th January 2011. We rented the portable media player (it comes with complimentary earphones) during the flight and we regret nothing, lol. The movies stored in the e-player were mostly new. Funny thing was I didn't even realise that the flight have taken hours of our time and decided to watch 'Aftershock', not knowing we would land so soon. The movie left me in tears by the time we arrived in Haneda. So I arrived in Tokyo with puffy eyes. Lol.

Up up here we go~

'Aftershock'. This movie is so sad I can't even...! ;~;

Arashi welcomes you to Tokyo! Haha

The ever so sweet Tshee was waiting for us in Haneda and she helped us to buy 'PASMO' cards which is an equivalence to the Touch 'n Go, from the ticketing machine.

PASMO Card

Having not seeing her after a few years plus being awed by the first impression of the land of the rising sun, we were kind of excited in engaging conversations with Tshee. Other than that, we were also busy in calling / texting our families back in Malaysia that we arrived safely in Tokyo. But the other passengers in the subways were looking at us kinda weird most of the time. I was wondering, was it because we're foreigners / Muslims? But later on we were told by Tshee it was actually because people hardly talk in Tokyo subways. And people are supposed to switch off their phones / put in silent mode when they're in the trains. Lol. Patutlah~ Malunya saya! Hahaha.

At the Haneda Airport, waiting for the train

So we arrived in Kotake-Mukaihara station and headed to Tshee's house in Komone, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo.  If I remember correctly, the temperature was 1 degree Celsius and yeah, it was my first time to experience such a cold weather. Her house (with her two other housemates) was so adorable, seriously <3 After a good time chit-chatting, we hit the sack and determined to leave early to explore Tokyo the next morning.

30th January 2011 From Kotake Mukaihara station to Tshee's house.

Vanila Coklat The Movie?

AMC's status update on facebook on the possibilities of Vanila Coklat the movie

When I first read the status on Asia Media Content facebook, my reaction was somewhat similar to this:

Because that means I'll get the chance to see hashtagZaramir on the big screen. Imagine having the chance to see (while having your popcorns) unicorns, rainbows and glitters bursting out of the cinema screen by just paying RM13 or so. Lol I'm exaggerating, I know.

Imagine if there'll be more scenes like this on the big screen

Me: imagining the above scene and the possibilities of having  them more on the big screen

But seriously, I'm overly excited. I hope the plan will be materialised soon so I could witness Aiman Hakim Ridza's and Izara Aishah's great chemistry plus the amazing supporting casts once again after the series ends.
Being an excited fangirl that I am, I can't help but to imagine possible plot of the movie. Haha

I humbly think Asia Media Content should consider on venturing the relationship between Amir and Zara dated back when they were kids. The fact was already being made known to everybody but so far, no flashbacks were shown in this series to back up such claim. I need to see the receipts, Asia Media Content! Lol just kidding.

So imagine, should cutie pie versions of Zara and Amir were being introduced in the movie, I believe the whole cinema would be echoing 'awww' most of the time. Hahaha. I believe when they were small, though they often bickered with each other, they must have established some sort of a friendship since they grew up together, no? Plus, should Asia Media Content consider on exploring on the reason why Amir loved chocolate so much and how he was fond on giving away chocolates to his admirers, and link the reason with some event that happened between the two when they were small, it'd be A+++++ hahaha. Well I believe small details like those made a movie more interesting :P

Like an example, imagine the cute but grumpy 6 or 7 years old little Zara saving Amir from bullies in the playground, calmed him down by using a bar of chocolate or some sort that made Amir secretly happy and fond of chocolates and Zara from then on.  lol cliche, I know xD I can't help it because from my (over) observations of the series, it seems like Amir knew very well of Zara's angry triggers and often teases her and made her angry just to amuse himself. It's like he already knew Zara very well since the beginning (I couldn't help but to come up with a theory that he secretly liked her since they were small but put on a pretense that he hated her /bricked for the ridiculously coming out with theories lololol)

So the kids versions of Zaramir would make a perfect opening of the movie, no? Then as for the continuation of the plot, I wish they would retain the cute bickering moments between the two because those are the things that made Vanila Coklat as Vanila Coklat, yes? I suggest bits and pieces of secondary school moments of Zaramir, AMC. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee? Small ones will do~ Hahahaha

To bring freshness into the movie (to avoid from being too similar to the drama version), why not make Amir later on broke (I dunno, go and make Dato' Ahmad being declared as bankrupt or something lolol) and had to juggle between marriage life, college and part time jobs. Let him face the world, with Zara by her side. Let them work part time together but had to make their relationship a secret due to the employer's 'no couple in work place policy' or something. No more Nissan Fairlady, just imagine both of them going to college / work by taking the buses / lrt together. Hahahaha Imagine Amir's new discoveries of such a new world to him, with Zara by her side. Cuteness I tell you, cuteness! Hahahahaha. And then the climax could probably the dilemma Amir had to face when the situation burdened Zara heavily and he can't bear to see her like that. Awwwhhh. And then let the superwoman of Vanila Coklat, who is none other that Aunty Anne to save the day at the end of the day. Hahaha.

Sigh. What are you doing, self? It's like I'm writing those "Jikalau aku seorang..." types of essays in primary school and this time the title is "Jikalau aku producer Vanila Coklat the movie". hahahaha. Vanila Coklat why la you do this to me???? AMC, Vanila Coklat team and fans, I'm sorry for having no life and imagining things like these ;~; lololol.

Vanila Coklat: Causing acute fangirling syndrome so beware 

I need someone to save me from this madness. THIS! IS! SPARTAAAAAAA!!!  /headdesk

Drama Recap: Vanila Coklat Ep. 5

Other newly wedded couples' honeymoon: sweet, romantic, etc
But Izara Aishah vs Amir Asyraf honeymoon: Disaster.

A fuss being made by Amir's mother, mother in-law and wife over his choice of place for the honeymoon, which is just Cameron Highlands. But Amir was lucky for his choice was being backed up by his father and father-in-law. Yeah, girls do stick up together, and so do boys. Haha.



Students in the class were discussing their holiday destinations for the mid-semester's break - some will go to the US, Europe etc. Amir proudly told the whole class he'll be going to Cameron Highlands while staring at Zara teasingly. If Zara could eat people up by just using her deadly stare, Amir would be long gone as Zara's lunch meal. Haha.


Zara's mother is nervous about Zara's honeymoon trip. How will she pack her luggage, how will she take care of herself, etc. Her husband was being cool about it and told her not to worry and she went emo with him instead. Lolol.


Like mother, like daughter. Looks like the daughter was having a hard time packing her stuffs for the honeymoon trip and went emotional over it. She didn't know how to and got stressed out. Hahahahaha. She called her parents, complained and cried to them about it. Her parents were overly cute in teaching her how to over the phone. "lipat kecik-kecik pastu masuk la dalam beg" "Yang penting saja Zara bawak tau!" Her mom could not bear the sadness that she hung up the phone and cried herself to sleep for knowing her daughter's having a difficult time. lololol. Difficult time, yeah right. Her husband told her it's not that their daughter was being abused or something alike, it's just asking her to fold her clothes and pack her bag. Haha.


I guess Zara didn't follow her parents' instructions as her bag was literally too heavy for Amir to lift on the day of their departure. Hahahaha. Datin Dalila reminded Zara not to forget about the gift she gave her and always remember what she taught her about. Lol. And Dato' Ahmad reminded Amir to always be a gentleman. Eheemmm. LOL. Amir's expression was a total win. hahahaha.


They arrived at the destination and Amir left the grumpy Zara in the car and she had to deal with the heavy bag herself.


Zara later demanded a separate room from Amir from the receptionist but too bad because all rooms were fully booked. :P


Zara immediately claimed the bed as hers and ordered Amir to sleep on the sofa. Amir protested, but she reminded him of the agreement between them. But actually Amir, if you read the Agreement again, clause 2 of the Agreement only provides for the prohibition on sleeping in the same room. No clause that specifically mentions on the prohibition on the same bed. Ha! Haha.


Amir left Zara the sleepyhead in the room, alone, to shoot photos of Cameron Highlands at night. Meanie. So she went out to hunt for food by herself (after scattering her stuffs while unpacking her luggage lol). Meanwhile, Amir head back to the hotel and was surprised to see the hotel room unlocked and the room was such a disaster. Hahaha.




Zara tried calling her parents as she was walking alone, at night in Cameron Highlands but her calls were not answered. She then had to beg from a restaurant owner for food although it was about to be closed.  It turned out her father prohibited her mother from answering her calls so she could spend the time wisely with Amir since it's their honeymoon, after all. Her mother was sad to be imposed on such a prohibition ended up thinking of ridiculous situations that her daughter might have to face while in Cameron Highlands. Haha.


She went back to the hotel and picked a fight with Amir over her stuffs, which Amir kindly helped her to tidy up. Like she mentioned to him before, she hated it when her stuffs being touched by other people and she even asked him to put back all her stuffs the way they were before. What?


She pushed Amir onto the bed (rawr?) and Amir took the opportunity to coolly dismissed the fight by sneakily get himself under the blanket and get ready to sleep. Lol.



But he was rudely pushed, again, off the bed by the angry Zara. And she even had the triumphant smile in the end. Heh.



When they went to the tea plantation the next morning, she just couldn't stop complaining on how boring the place was. The annoyed Amir had to give in when she begged him to bring her to somewhere else so they went to the strawberry farm instead.


While Amir tried to chide Zara for eating the strawberries without washing them first, he didn't realise that he clumsily left some chocolate that stained his lip/cheek when eating the chocolate dipped strawberries (yummy!) and Zara made fun of himself because of that instead.


( Cue..! Some cute interactions between the two starts! :D ) Amir applied some chocolate on Zara's cheek as a retaliation for Zara trying to snap his embarrassing photo and then he ran away from her. She tried to run after him but fell down instead. After a moment of laughing at her, he felt sorry and offered her help but she sneakily applied the chocolate onto his face as a revenge. Awh the bickering couple is warming up to each other! \o/





When they were at the night market, Zara asked Amir to buy her the food that she wanted, because he's the husband but Amir made it conditional : the wife must kiss the husband's hand. And again, Zara's angry button was pushed and she refused (rather rudely :( ) and went away immediately.


Amir, being a sweet person that he is (haha) went to pujuk her. Awwwww *fangirling*


Both went back to the hotel, and Amir tried to school Zara on how to keep the room clean and tidy. Ah, wrong move since it sparked yet another fight between the two. Amir dismissed the fight by opting to have a shower instead and while she's alone, Zara's heart softened and she made him a cup of instant noodle. Awwww.


But since Amir failed to thank her and even questioned her sincerity, yet another fight erupted. But this time it's rather a big one that made them going back home, wanting to get a divorce. Haha.


Lucky the father got everything under control (meaning he made a pact with the lawyer that the children went to seek advice for the divorce procedures)


So the father has decided - it's time for the two to live on their own. He gave them a penthouse as a wedding gift.


Zara absolutely loved the house when she first arrived and started to make herself at home, which means - operation : messing up the house started!




Amir was welcomed with a messed up new house and that caused him a headache. When Amir was mad, there's only one name he'd call out for:

"Zara Aishah!!!"