Cerita daripada Mawi sendiri

Dari seorang penyumbang, encik asMawi...

As you know, I happened to be born and given that name by my father many many tens of yrs ago :)
And I happen to be not a follower of Mawi even though our names are similar.

In 2003, when I had the opportunity, I bought a new car and registered MAW1XX and put the characters very closely (and infringing JPA regulations by so doing. SO far tak pernah kena saman lagi :)

Then in 2005 Asmawi Ani masuk AF3. Masa peringkat awal pertandingan, nobody bothers my car or me when I am driving. Then sometime in July someone approached me when I was parking my car in front of a mamak restaurant in Sg Buluh, asking " En ni sedara Mawi AF3 ke? hehee...dengan senyum saya jawab, takde lah. cuma kebetulan nama saya Asmawi jugak :). At that time Mawi belum menang AF3 lagi. But that was the beginning of the trouble.

Selepas Mawi menang AF3 keadaan menjadi semakin huru hara. Saya pernah diiikut dari belakang secara dekat dalam jarak yang agak jauh..ber km2, dan bila kereta tu dapat overtake saya, driver nya berhenti tepi jalan dan menoleh ke belakang. Agaknya dia nak make sure, yg drive kereta tu entah2 mawi ke ? hahaaa..

Now its becoming worse. The first impression people get when they saw me in my car is that " you must be a big fan of mawi!!!". So much so that I even registered my car close to his name :)

Now I am getting very very tired of having to answer those questions. My standard answer for that question is" Saya peminat setia diri saya sendiri :) :), sebab nama saya pun Asmawi.

And its embarrasing for someone of my (old) age to be perceived as a fan of an AF3 singer at that. And of course I dont like it very very much. To be perceived as sedara suku sakat Mawi ok lagi. But to be seen as a fanatic fan of Mawi AF3 is just plain too much for me :)

wassalam,

asMAWI mohamad
(not) a fan of AF, whether its 1, 2, 3