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[quote]Assalamualaikum
This is where it all started. SMSS is where it all started. Di bumi SMSS ini lah saya mendapat inspirasi hidup saya. I am not saying this because I have to speak in front of all of you I am not saying this because the organizers have told me to "Izham tolong cakap bagus2 pasal SMSS and pasal macamana SMSS ni tolong Izham dalam kerjaya Izham sebab ni Homecoming Dinner". I am saying this because it is true. This is where it all started.
Hati saya sebenarnya memang berat nak buat ucapan ini. I've made hundreds of speeches: to the music industry, to the TV industry, to the legal industry, on TV, around the world, to students, tolecturers, to professors. But tonight saya rasa serba salah. I've been told that pada malam ini I must talk about "kejayaan" saya di dalam karier saya... and that makes me serba salah. Kalau siapa yang betul-betul kenal batch 86, diaorang tahu yang kitaorang ni sebenarnya tak suka menunjuk-nunjuk. Dan saya memang rasa tak sedap bila nak bercerita tentang diri saya. Ni yang saya belajar dulu kat SMSS "jangan eksyen".
And sampai sekarang saya ingat pesanan kawan2 saya tu, My friends in SMSS have kept me grounded, they have kept me humble... especially yang duduk kat situ. Tengok2 malam ni diaorang pulak yang eksyen. But the organizers, especially Kak Latifah, said "Izham, do it for SMSS. Do it for the students. Tell them what you have done. Maybe that willInspire them."
And I guess that's why I am here tonight. Not for the food. Not because of Homecoming. Not because of Kak Latifah. But because of you guys. So I hope what I am about to say, you will take it as something you can maybe learn from and maybe, in some way, can help you along your way. Maybe help you to be more confident about reaching for the impossible, to be more confident about your future, to be more confident about yourselves.
I hope you realize how much potential each and everyone of you have. And how SMSS can help you reach your potential. I hope you realize and appreciate what an amazing school SMSS can be. An amazing school, if only you know how to use it. I hope my story will help you.
This is my story.
Saya dikenali melalui syarikat rakaman Positive Tone, yang tujuannya untuk melahirkan artis2 yang memang lain dari yang lain, dan kini saya baru melancarkan stesen televisyen terbaru 8tv, juga yang menunjuk program yang lain daripada yang lain. Kedua2 usaha saya ini, alhamdulillah, telah mencapai kejayaan di mata orang ramai.
Now, before you guys think, "There's no way I can do that. It's already hard to learn about an industry. It's already hard to become an expert in one industry. It's going to be nearly impossible to become an innovator in one industry; what more TWO industries".
Before you guys think "Ah. That's tough. Let's play safe and just follow the crowd. Follow what people say. Don't be a hero. Abg Izam got lucky. He got support. Who are we? Let's just play safe".
I am telling you now. Your craziest dreams, your fantasies, your mission, IS possible. Whatever you have been dreaming about, nak jadi roket saintis ke, nak buat space station ke, nak jadi perdana menteri sekali pun.. IS possible.
And if you look around you, if you look really hard, you can find the key to your dreams right here in SMSS. Because I found my dreams in SMSS. I found the thing that started the whole thing, my music, in SMSS. That's why I said from the beginning. It all started here.
Saya tiba di tingkatan satu, Satu Usaha ya, (Hidup Perwira!) pada tahun 1982. (Colour lain tak best). Saya ditempatkan di dorm A05. Saya ni bolehlah dikategorikan dalam "budak-budak baik" sebab saya ni tak banyak cakap tapi kitaorang tak skema lah. For the old boys, skema tu sama lah dengan belia. Iwas a very small boy, very quiet tapi pernah kena penampar dengan Cikgu Sulong. Tak tau kenape dia jeles sangat.
Dari kecil lagi saya memang minat muzik. Anything to do with music. Pada tahun 1982 abang2 form 5 ada buat band. Ada gitar, ada drum, ada bass. Seronok..Tapi saya tak berani nak dekat. Zaman tu budak2 Form 5 semua memang ganaslah. Kalau junior2 kita ingat batch 86 ni ganas, batch 82 lagi ganas. Tapi saya memang minat nak masuk band tu. Saya nak main bass.
Sebenarnya tujuan utama saya nak masuk dalam band tu bukan apa; the main reason why I wanted to play music was simple: I wanted to impress the girls. Saya sekolah rendah semua lelaki, jadi bila masuk sekolah menengah dapat duduk sebelah awek, terus jadi tak betul. Menggelatar. Macam jakun. Disebabkan kekurangan pengalaman untuk menarik perhatian kaum hawa, maka saya membuat kesimpulan "hey, if I'm the bass player, the girls will be so impressed".
Jadi saya pun berharaplah dapat main dalam band tu bila saya Form 2 dan bukan freshie lagi. Tapi malangnya bila saya Form 2, Gurubesar yang baru masuk dan telah mengharamkan kugiran atau pun band tu. Jadi tak dapatlah saya pegang bass tu sebab saya rasa semuanya dibuang atau dibakar.
So I did the next best thing. I turned to the school piano yang buruk tu. Ya, dulu pun buruk jugak. Saya tau saya boleh main sikit2 piano ni. Tapi dalam keghairahan saya untuk mendapat perhatian from the girls, saya betul2 practice piano ni. Masa prep, masa main sukan, masa weekend, masa ada kelas, I keep going back to the piano. Everytime the girls walk by, ceh, I will play as best that I can.
Disebabkan selalu sangat practice, I got pretty good at it lah. Ada satu hari tu, saya dapat macam mesej muzik dan rahsia muzik tu (dari jin muzik kot). Tu hah, kat piano buruk kat dewan tu, kat situlah saya mendapat ilham muzik ni. Kononnya dah terer lah tu.
Fuh, lagilah saya buang tebiat. Saya start main piano untuk apa jenis function, orang jemput ke tak jemput. And tiba2 saya dapat beberapa kakak angkat. "oooh best lah adek main piano" terangkat saya. Terangkat sampai dapat kakak angkat. Tapi malangnya, tujuan utama saya untuk mencari awek masih tak kesampaian. Awek masih tak datang. Kakak angkat pulak yang datang. Salah skrip. I guess the girls were looking for more macho people. That's why orang macho macam Zalizan, macam Maryus, banyak girlfriend. Saya pulak dapat kakak angkat.
I tell you this story because of a very important lesson. It was a fun story but what a lesson: Dedikasi, komitmen, visi dan wawasan, dengan satu misi: to impress the girls; made me work hard, so hard, that I became really good on it. Saya rasa ini boleh apply kat apa2 bidang pun, tak semestinya muzik. If we work on something really hard, suddenly you become very very good at it.
Masa Form 2 tu lah yang the music really flowed. Saya mengambil kelas flute. Saya memasuki pancaragam dan bermain trumpet. Masa tu saya pun dalam pengakap dan ketua pengakap memang bengang dengan saya sebab saya masuk pancaragam jugak. Mana boleh. Jadi saya tak pernahlah pandai dalam bidang pengakapan ini. Buat khemah pun roboh. Masa buat ujian Pengembara, kitaorang naik teksi. Tanya Abg Yunis tu, dia pun naik teksi jugak. Tapi dapat jugak batch pengembara.
Dalam pancaragam, saya main trumpet tak lama. Sebab rakan2 batch 86, especially kawan2 saya kat dua usaha tu, Bulat, Yunis, Rosdeen, Azlin diaorang ejek saya kat kelas, katanya semua orang yang main trumpet ni.... macamana nak cakap ni..., semua yang main trumpet ni |
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