YB Eny

My oh my….. begitu banyak benda nak buat ni. Naik pening kepala tak tau nak buat and tengok yang mana dulu. Just got back from Johor last night and barang-barang pun huru-hara belum dikemas sampai terlupa nak pakai tag hari ni.

Pagi ni sibuk mengeluarkan surat dan memo yang patutnya dah lama keluar tapi dok terperap aje sebab banyak benda urgent yang terpaksa didulukan. Dan tiba-tiba mendapat arahan kene keje juga this weekend; pegi Seremban untuk attend persidangan on record thingy. There goes my plan untuk mengemas rumah yang dah lama terbiar tu. Ye kawan-kawan saya ni kemas rumah on weekend aje so bila weekend tak de kat rumah maka rumah saya itu akan berkeraklah jadinya. Sila jangan datang rumah saya ye. Hehehe…

Anyway memang confirmlah I won’t be attending my PTK exam. Next time maybe. (Klynn, tawaran sentiasa terbuka kan) I’ll be in Seremban on Sunday, Alor Star on Tuesday and Johor on Thursday and Friday. Wah I mengembara sekeliling Malaya you. Memang sangat YB. Yang busy gitu.

Dah jadi macam masa keje swasta dulu; dah tak tau hari ape, haribulan berapa sebab keje tak tentu masa. Memang peninglah. Nyesal tak beli kopi anti stress semalam. Boss I cakap memang hilang stress bila minum. Nak kena cari nanti ni.

Ok nak sambung buat keje. Nanti I’ll update on program kat Johor tu. Banyak yang menarik dan lawak gilos.

Apa???? Next week???? Aiyo!!!!!

Just got the shocking news. Terkejut hingga hampir gugur jantung ni. Bengang pun ye jugak. How dare they do this to me (and all of us here). Oh lupa nak bagitau, Aisa called and bagitau next week kene pegi PTK. And I thought my status was “Tidak Berjaya”. Bencilah macam ni.

I’ve blocked the date from everything immediately after I filled up the application. But since that “Tidak Berjaya” status was known, I telah mengunblocked the date. In fact semalam baru je buat meeting with other panel penilai yang dilantik in which next week I’ll be in Kedah and Johor. Dah la I’ll be in Johor from this evening till Thursday. So tell me, bilakah masanya untuk saya study all the Pekeliling and ntahapekebenda lagi yang banyak untuk dibaca itu.

Apa diorang ingat pegi PTK ni senyum-senyum terus lulus? Ya Allah cabaran sungguh. Memang tak sempat nak study ni. Lagipun komitmen kerja dah dibagi, it would be unfair to other panel member if I tak de. Kalau ikutkan memang berat lah hati ni nak pergi.

What should I do? Pegi ke tak pegi? Will there be any side effect (ceh macam makan ubat plak) kalau tak pegi? Haish…..

Oklah nak balik amik baju and nak gerak ke Johor dah. Tengok lah camana nanti ye. Bye.

Keluar je kejenya

Ok sambung cerita Ahad. Eman borrowed my car so ingatkan I can stay at home and finally kemas all the kebersepahan tapi tengah rajin melipat kain, Dayah called ajak keluar. Selalunya I would say no when I have things to do tapi ntah kenapa mulut ni laju je kata ok. So siapkan lipat kain and terus keluar. There goes my rancangan untuk mencuci dan mengemop. Hehehe dasar pemalas telah melanda.

We went to apa kebenda tempat tu ntah kat Bangi. Shopping complex lama. Agak serabut dan memeningkan kepala (wah eksyen maklumlah dah lama tak pegi tempat macam tu) tapi baju-baju banyak yang murah kat sana. Serius I pening masa kat sana. Masuk pasar raya nak beli mineral water and I can’t breathe. Sesak nafas, bertambah pening and nak termuntah sebab terlalu busuk. Yuks… Kenapa eh? Mengada-ngada ke huh? Ntah la tapi memang bukan buat-buat ye. Serius tak tahan.

Later ke Alamanda. Hah barulah lega and dapat bershopping dengan agak selesa. Sempat la beli satu backpack ni. Senang nak outdooring nanti. Pastu beli t-shirt. Ntah la, I ni kata je nak pakai yang girly-girly tapi kesudahannya t-shirt jugak yang dibeli. Dayah keep on suggesting baju yang girly-girly tapi macam tak minat la pulak. I just love wearing t-shirt. Sangat selesa ok.

Malam Eman datang and as usual kitorang talks on many thing, mainly pasal agama dan kehidupan. Bagus jugak to reflex on things like that kan, tak la kejenya asyik mengumpat atau mengomel atau gossip artis aje. Hehehe….

Malam ni banyak la benda nak buat. Kene iron baju batik 2 pasang and pack barang untuk ke Johor esok. Ye saya akan berada di Johor sehingga hari Khamis. And next month I akan keluar ke sana sini sebagai panel penilai. Sibuknye….

Oh I tak update lagi gambar ke Kenyir tu kan. Nanti ye. Ok nak balik. Bye.

To Lenggong with Nora

Eh perasan tak? Hari ni cepat betul terang. Pukul 6 lebih dah terang macam pukul 7 lebih je. Kenepa eh? Anyway mari kita bercerita tentang what happen on my weekend.

Sabtu tu seperti yang dirancang, I and Nora ke Perak, specificnya Lenggong and Grik. Wake up at 6am, terus bersiap sekali dengan mekap-mekap ye. Sekali si Nora datang wearing t-shirt aje. Kalau tau memang I pun pakai biasa-biasa je dulu. Left Putrajaya around 7.30am, breakfast at Sungai Buloh, toilet break at Tapah and by 11.30am, we’re in Lenggong already. That’s when F-1 wannabe yang drive.

Nora’s penempatan kampung was in Lenggong; Kg. Changkat Berangan. So singgah ke sana dulu. Ingatkan nak tukar baju saje sekali kena makan you. So makan la kami and then gerak to my kampung pulak. Oh for those yang tak tau, Lenggong is my real kampung. Abah orang Kg. Gelok so dah alang-alang sampai tu singgah la jumpa Opah dulu. Lagipun it’s been more than a year since my last visit. Ye I memang cucu yang teruk.

Sian Opah. She can’t really remember who I am. I feel so bad. Jarang dapat jumpa and spend time with her. Now that she kind of lost her memory, I feel so bad for there’s not so much of memories pun that we had together. Anyway, gembira to meet all of them. Kebetulan Pak Lang and Mak Lang pun ada. Cu dok kenyit-kenyit mata bila nampak si Nora. Hahaha…. al maklumlah they never see me with any man before.

Singgah sekejap aje pun. Then ke rumah pengantin at Kg. Kenayat, not so far from my own kampung. On the way terserempak with rombongan pengantin lelaki but we didn’t stop to join in. ex-housemates and officemate pengantin dah ramai yang sampai. Tapi geng-geng pengantin lelaki tak nampak batang hidung pun lagi. Biasa lah diorang tu….

Pengantin sungguh lovely. Warna tema pinkish purple. Very the cantik you. Makan-makan and bergambar pastu terus balik ke rumah family angkat Nora. Mandi and bertukar uniform. Pastu kene makan lagi; laksa yang mampu membunuh. Pedas gila ok. Memang tersiksa nak habiskan semangkuk tapi berjaya jugak habiskan. Fear Factor betul. Tapi ada orang tu makan 3 mangkuk. Memang juara Fear Factorlah.

Ingatkan petang nak balik tapi dok delay-delay. Jalan-jalan sekitar kampung pastu pegi beli ikan pekasam, makan malam and melawat tok angkat Nora. Tok angkat tu ada dua ye, Atuk dan Tok Chik (adik dia). Baguskan cucu angkat sorang tu.

Left Lenggong exactly at 10pm. I was so sleepy by then so tido. Sian ada orang tu drive sorang-sorang. Hehehe… Stop kejap beli buah and by 12.30am dah ada kat KL. Memang F-1 sangatlah. Macam nak terbang rasanya. Ntah macam mana kat Kl tu boleh pulak tersesat sampai ke Kepong, Jinjang etc. Sampai rumah kul 1am. Mata ngantuk ingat nak terus tido tapi sampai nak dekat kul 3am I dok menggelupur sakit perut. Rasanya sebab makan pedas and banyak makan kot. Ni stok sakit kaw-kaw punya, tapi bukan nak poo-poo. Suspense jugak sebab dok sorang-sorang kalau jadi apa-apa susah plakkan. Alhamdulillah lepas tu ok.

Overall I had a good day; except for the sakit perut part. Thanks Nora for the great time.

Funny moment for the day was some remarks from Nora’s mak angkat. Remember this entry where I met Nora’s tok and nenek angkat? Yeah gossip kampung memang hebat. The description about me sungguh tepat dan diorang ingat tu. So the mak cik said; “Ini ke orang Kg. Gelok yang dok kat Kuantan tu?” Wah siap ingat nama kampung ok. Iyolah mak cik…. saya la tu….

Cerita Ahad sambung lenkali ye.

Nampak tu F-1 wannabe yang sangat concentrate bila memandu

View along the journey. Sangat cantikkan. I memang sangat suka kalau balik Perak sebab keliling nampak gunung-ganang yang cantik

Welcome to Kg. Gelok. Bawah tu Opah, Cu and Pak Su

Pengantin perempuan jalan laju gila ok. Tak sabar la tu.... hehehe

Pengantin, pelamin dan hantarannya

Kami yang datang. Ada orang baru beli Blackberry so ada la orang yang jakun tu (me!)

Yeah pengantin dah tak sabar nak menimang anak. Sila amik berkat. Hehehe...

Congratulations Rehan. Masih ada masa kah nak lepak sama lepas ni?

Nora showing around. Teringat-ingat ye... . Budak-budak tu adik angkat Nora and kawan or saudara dia

Saya yang memang suka kawasan kampung. Semua pun cantik aje...

Orang kampung bela arnab ok. Budak-budak tu beria kejar arnab tu. But I didn't pegang pun the arnab, takut bulu melekat kat baju (logik ke alasan ni?)

Beli ikan pekasam and melawat kolam udang galah. Kagum seh, tempat jauh gila terpencil tapi ada kolam udang yang banyak dan maju. Ada orang tu takut pacat ke?

Apo nak jadi ni.....

I very the busy you!!!! Mana nak buat paper la, nak buat surat dan memo la, nak buat minit la, nak buat report la, perancangan yang macam-macam dan tak habis-habis la, nak buat itu dan ini dan itu dan ini lagi dan lagi dan lagi. Tu baru cakap pasal keje ye. Tu rumah apa nak jadik la tu. Lintang pukang. Mana nak lipat kain baju la, nak cuci sana sini, mop sana mop sini dan macam-mcam lah. Sigh… ni baru cakap pun dah terasa penatnya, belum pun buat lagi. Sigh…

Last week dah pergi Terengganu kan. Esok nak ke Perak pulak. Pastu next week nak ke Johor. Perak tu acara social la, menghadiri majlis kawin tapi Johor tu acara kerja ye. Bila dah jenjalan tu, keje kat opis ni sape la nak tolong settlekan. Dah la workload doubled sekarang ni. Eh lupa plak nak bagitau, colleague I dah selamat pun menambahkan umat manusia jadiknya I terpaksalah tanggung keje dia. Memang la dapat duit tapi keje weh… bukannya bersukaria.

Pening kepala pikir nak bagi cukup masa untuk semua perkara. Tu nasib baik tak kawin lagi tu. Kalau dah kawin, ada anak pulak hai tak tau la camne. Mana nak layan suami la, anak-anak la, mak mentua la (eh pak mentua pun jugaklah ye) dan juga sedara mara (biasalah kalau dah kawin kan sedara mara suka je nak datang ni). Memang tabiklah kat orang yang dah kawin and beranak pinak tu. Korang memang hebat.

So marilah kita sama-sama memeningkan kepala berfikir dan fikir dan fikir untuk mendapatkan idea, ilham, semangat dan motivasi bagi menjadi orang yang cemerlang, gemilang dan terbilang so bila buat semua benda yang tersebut di atas tu, relax aje, takde tertekan dan hasilnya pun meletop. Any idea?

Kata ganti nama

Mengapa ada begitu banyak kata ganti diri dalam BM? In English ada satu je, kan senang.

Like me. Ada begitu banyak nama I used to refer myself.

Eny, Kak Ngah, kita, saya, aku and I.

Eny and Kak Ngah tu of course with family members la kan. Tapi ada gak some friends yang guna nama sendiri as kata ganti diri so I’ve to do the same too. Contoh;

Eny, Eny free tak petang ni. Nani ingat nak ajak Eny keluar.
Tak dapat kot Nani. Eny nak kene stay back hari ni.

Kita. Yang ni I used until form 1 aje pastu stop and change to saya sebab selalu kene ejek bila guna kita.

Saya. I memang guna saya sehinggalah masuk PTD kerana ramai or mostly semua kawan yang kenal dalam PTD guna ganti diri aku walaupun baru pertama kali kenal. In fact dulu masa pool kat Kementerian ni,. I am the only one yang guna saya where else orang lain semua guna aku. Kan ke pelik bunyinya tu so terpaksalah tukar kepada aku.

Aku. Yang ni dulu-dulu reserved untuk kawan yang betul-betul rapat aje. Mak marah guna aku especially ngan adik beradik so kalau depan Mak kenalah cover sket. Kadang-kadang Mak dengar conversation ngan kawan-kawan guna aku pun Mak tegur. Apa ni cakap aku-aku ngan kawan. Tapi bila guna aku ni rapat and mesra je rasa. But sometimes masih kekok nak guna especially dengan orang yang first time met.

I. Yang ni untuk beberapa orang sahaja iaitu Nurul, En. Afnan, En. Nasrol (sometimes) and of course blog ini. Eh blog ni orang ke? Apa-apalah labu.

Basically jika diberi pilihan, I’ll start off with saya awak. Sopan kan bila guna saya. Tapi sekarang I’ll wait for the one I interact to start off first. Kalau dia ok, then I guna saya awak. Kalau dia cakap aku engkau then I used aku engkau jugak. (Eh tapi kalau boss-boss or senior tak lah sebab macam tak sopan aje). And kalau dia guna I you then I pun I you jugak.

English cuma ada I and you saje. Kan senang. Sopan dan pendek aje.

Sombong ke saya?

I was getting ready to sleep when I checked my phone and saw one unread sms.

Salam.nk tnye.knp sombong sgt.

Short ones from unrecognized number.

My answer was short too.

Sape ni?

And it went unanswered.

Kalau ikutkan I can jawab panjang lebar but malas lah.

Depends on who’s asking.
I don’t owe anyone an explanation on my behaviour.
I don’t even know you so I’m not sure what, why or when was it yang menyebabkan I am being labelled as sombong.
Bla…bla…bla…

Anyway, being called sombong is not something new. Dah banyak kali dengar. Nak kata lali pun boleh tapi terasa la jugak. Tak kenal tak ape nak kata sombong. I am not sombong. Ask everyone who knew me.

I don’t talk to strangers.
And sometimes depending on my mood, kawan-kawan pun I ignore jugak. Hehehe….
Yelah sometimes I got this feeling in which I don’t feel like talking. Nak senyum or say hi pun malas.

I talk as much as write. Panjang lebar, details and sometimes melalut-lalut. Diam bermakna I’m angry, not in the mood (yang disebabkan oleh banyak benda like banyak kerja, tak sihat, bosan dan lain-lain), shy or simply lazy. Ye walaupun mulut saya kecoh tapi saya pemalu apabila berada di khalayak ramai atau bersama orang yang saya tak kenal. But once I start (to talk) or feel comfortable, nyesal you all biarkan I bercakap ok.

I can accept if being called moody or sensitive tapi sombong. Nah I’m not that. Too bad you caught me when I’m in that malas mood to do just about anything.

Nasib baik ada Nora

Last Friday I wrote about my headlamp yang suddenly gone kaputkan. Well, until today I haven’t got time to do anything about it yet. Yelah I’m not home until Sunday and I just don’t have time and energy to send it for repair due to my never-ending tiredness plus my oh-so-painful menstrual.

Luckily I have a friend; a good friend yang sangat baik and willing to help. He told me that he’ll be on leave today to send his brand new car for service. So I dengan begitu tak malunya asked for him to look for my car too. He said ok. Just like that. Hehehe….

Since I can rely on him to help, I asked him to check on the problematic key too. If that is not enough, I asked him to send my car for washing too. I just can’t remember when was the last time I sent it for washing. And of course provided he got enough time to do so la. Melampau kah? Hopefully not.

I’m not taking any advantage or anything. It just a simple act of asking for help and of course from someone whom you can rely to and trust. Tiada unsur-unsur paksaan di sini ok.

So have to wait and see how things go with the car. Hopefully everything will be ok. I can’t thank you enough Nora. Nak belanja makan is too common, I’ll cook for you la eh. Tapi tak janji bila la kan. Eh tapi kan dah beli keropok lekor banyak hari tu. Hehehe….

Updates:

I just got my car key back. Savvy ni memang pemakan duit yang tegar tau. I hate you…. but I love you jugak.

Nora said it was the bulbs that need to be replaced so he changed both. One bulb cost me RM48 so 2 bulb RM96. Apekah bulb yang begitu mahal itu???? Eh bukan I bukan marah kat Nora but kat Proton for using expensive bulb for Savvy. Nora said his ex-Neo’s bulb cost him RM10 aje.

As for the key, gone case so kena duplicate the good ones. Or maybe if got times send for repair kat Proton Service in which I’m not sure whether akan ok or not and hopefully won’t cost me too much.

Yeah Nora telah mencuci kereta itu. Balik ni naik kereta yang bersih. Hehehe.

Dan Nora juga telah tolong mengisikan minyak sekali. Baik kan….

I gave him RM50 thinking that a bulb won’t cost that much. Obviously I’m wrong. Instead of having duit baki, I now owe Nora RM74.60. Banyak tu… can buy foods, groceries or even CD’s. Tsk!

Anyway, Mucho gusto gracias Nora. Next time help me again eh. Hehehe…

Kenyir Pt 2

Ok sambung yang semalam. Wake up early on Sunday coz 7.30am breakfast and by 8.30am dah kena naik boat. Me and family siap pack extra clothing sebab ingat nak mandi sungai la apa la kan. Kalau dah kat Terengganu tu, breakfast apa lagi kalau bukan nasi dagang kan. Destinasi hari ini ialah Kelah Sanctuary.

Naik boat besar ke pengkalan boat kecik. The view was stunningly awesome ok. Sampai sana me and family were the first to board the small boat. One boat boleh muat dalam 10 orang. Ada dua boat aje so kena la ulang alik. We all yang first sampai ni kena la tunggu sebab guide naik boat last.

Tengok kat papan tanda tu kena jalan dalam 1.8km. Kalau landai aje tak pe ini tidak, kene hiking you all. Sian my parents, being the oldest participants and Ayum the youngest and smallest. So I pun jalan kat belakang sekali la with my parents. Abah ok lagi Mak la kesian. Dah la sakit lutut bagai. Dik Man pun kesian coz he was down with stomach ache, kelat aje muka sepanjang perjalanan. Akak la yang paling steady sekali.

Start off aje dah mendaki so agak kesemputan la jugak. Host bekalkan everyone dengan packed food consisting of sandwiches, bananas and mineral water. Mana bawak beg lagi, bekal makanan lagi. Mencabar… mencabar…. I think this is my first time doing adventurous thing dengan family member. Selalunya ngan kawan-kawan aje. Masa kecik-kecik dulu masuk hutan nak memancing pun ngan Abah je. Mak bukan orang yang adventurous; contrary to everyone in the family. So sangat best ok. How I wish semua pun boleh join. Bang Long sure loved all the beautiful scenery. In fact kalau Bang Long ada, perjalanan sejam boleh jadi 3 jam ok sebab nak stop and snapping photos here and there.

We were the last to arrive. By the time kami sampai, orang lain dah puas berehat/main ngan ikan. Baru je kami nak berehat orang dah nak gerak and nak main ngan ikan pun tak lama. Sampai kat first sanctuary, kecoh gila ok. Semua orang tiba-tiba bertukar menjadi jakun. Excited gila tengok ikan kelah yang sangat jinak. Since kami sampai lewat so sempat sentuh sikit-sikit aje. Baru bukakkan kasut si budak kecik tu orang lain dah gerak so kene la gerak jugak. Sian Abah…. tak dan nak main ngan ikan kat first sanctuary tu.

Sanctuary kedua agak jauh jugaklah and again kami yang terakhir sampai so port baik semua dah occupied tapi tak pe masih ada ruang untuk kami masuk dalam air and bermain-main dengan ikan yang jinak tu. Best ok. Abah was the first masuk dalam sungai tu. I mula-mula amik gambar je pastu syok tengok Abah so nak try la jugak. Kind of menggelikan mula-mula tu coz ikan tu kan licin so bila dia gesel-gesel kat kaki tu terasa macam makhluk sungai yang pelik-pelik aje. (Ye saya memang kuat berimaginasi). Since tempat kami tu sempit so boleh masuk kaki je. Duduk pun kat celah-celah aje and atas batu yang tajam tu. Lenguh punggung. Abah pandai berenang so dia berani la turun ke dalam air sepenuhnya. Mak memang tidak la. Tengok dari atas saje.

Abah memang sangat teruja ok. Menyesal tak amik video Abah main ngan ikan tu. Mula-mula masuk kaki sampai paras betis aje, pastu turun sampai pinggang last-last terus masuk seluruh badan dalam air. I masukkan pergelangan kaki aje. Tu pun kat celah-celah Abah je. Akak pun sama. Ikan tu banyak and sangat jinak ok. Siap boleh main tangkap-tangkap ngan tangan lagi. My brother, Epoi kaki pancing. Kalau dia tengok memang menangis la… tangkap ikan ngan tangan aje ok. Tapi tak boleh bawak balik la. Tangkap lepas tangkap lepas aje.

Tak puas main dah nak balik. Yelah nak jalan datang sejam, nak jalan balik pun sejam gak. Masa nak balik tu pun dah hampir pukul 11am camtu. On the way balik Dik Man was in so much pain so I kene take over angkat bekal makanan tu. Since kami tak sempat makan so kena usung bekas makanan and air yang masih penuh la. Masa datang mendaki, masa balik menurun so banyak kena menahan la kan. Abah dah hampir flat sebab kaki nak kejang. Mak pun dah tak larat. Nasib baik I ok. I guess kalau datang with my own family mesti boleh jalan relax-relax and enjoying all the scenery sepuas hati tapi dah datang ramai-ramai ni and semuanya mengejar masa so we have to rush jugak la. Anyway I’m so proud with my parents. Kuat ok.

Masa kami sampai bawah yang lain dah gerak naik boat so kami kene tunggu the second trip. So sempat la dip dalam sungai tu dalam 5 minit. Jadik la daripada tak merasa langsung. Abah tak puas-puas nak mandi sungai, tadi dah nak flat tapi bila dah sampai bawah and jumpa sungai terus ok sket.

We were the last to leave. Naik boat kecik balik ke pengkalan and naik boat besar. Sampai balik ke PIR dalam 12.30am. Kena balik bilik, packed barang, mandi and lunch cepat-cepat sebab by 2pm dah kene gerak. This time memang gila flat la. Dari jeti nak ke bilik memnag separuh nyawa keletihan. Dah la kat sana mendaki kat sini pun sama lah. Penat….

I keep rushing my family suh cepat. I don’t want people to wait and nanti cakap family I ni lambat la apekan. For those yang tak biasa mesti rasa I ni kind of annoying sebab suka rush people but that just me and family I dah biasa. My favourite word kalau ngan family; cepat sket… cepat la and sekarang…sekarang…sekarang…. Ye the word sekarang tu mesti disebut 3 kali berturut-turut ok. And I memang suka bagi timing ni. Cepat mandi. 3 minit je. Hahaha… memang tertekan sape deal dengan I ok.

Kul 1.45pm baru siap and pegi lunch. Ape lagi main sumbat cepat-cepat la and by 2pm ada ade kat dalam boat. Yang tak tahan tu, kul 2.30pm pun masih ada yang lenggang mak limah baru nak ke jeti. Sabar ajelah.

We left PIR around 2.45pm and sampai ke Pengkalan Gawi kul 3.30pm. All the way balik I duk kat atas je. Mata ngantuk sangat tapi I try not to sleep sebab nak menikmati pemandangan yang cantik tu. Ntah bila la dapat datang lagi kan. Tapi kadang-kadang terlelap jugak seminit dua.

Sampai Pengkalan Gawi, settled payment and gerak balik kul 4.30pm. Masa nak buat payment tu agak kecoh jugaklah. Macam-macam hal. As for me, mula-mula I kena bayar RM480. Terkejut jugaklah tapi lepas tu managed to get adjusted and bayar RM160 macam yang lain. (Thanks En. Zamri)

Gerak kul 4.30pm and Abah follow dari belakang. Air-cond bas dah ok. Sampai Ajil kami berhenti untuk beli keropok lekor. Abah didn’t stop and teruskan aje perjalanan ke Kuantan. They reached home around 7.30pm. Whilst kami yang naik bas ni sampai kul 2am ok. Bercinta nak sampai. Nak tido tak boleh coz diorang dok tengok action movies; bising lah and I ni pulak telinga terlebih sensitive, tak boleh la ada bunyi sket bila nak tido tu. The only time I dapat lelap sket was masa diorang turun dinner. I malas nak turun so dapat la tido dengan amannya. Tapi bila diorang naik je I terjaga balik. Next time nak cari alat penyumbat telinga la so that kalau travelling dengan bas with orang Kementerian yang suka tengok cerita/karaoke dalam bas ni, I can still sleep peacefully.

Sampai tumah memang terus tidolah. Tak de maknanya nak mandi ke apa. Cuci muka pun tidak ok. Pagi bangun as usual and by 7.20am I dah terpacak kat ofis. Penat tok sah cakap lah.

Oh nak share something sket. Kan semalam tu we all minum air rebusan Tongkat Ali and Kacip Fatimah kan. Abah minum 2 cawan kecil air Tongkat Ali tu. Since on Monday Abah ada appointment dengan doctor so on Sunday Abah kene check his blood sugar 4 kali; pagi, tengahari, petang and malam. That morning the reading was 9+ whilst tengahari 6.8 aje. Wah sangat happy ok. Tapi by petang dah naik tu 12+. Malam down to 9+. On Monday plak it was 9+. Tupun sebab Abah dah makan. Doktor kata dah ok. Selalunya tinggi. Menyesal I tak amikkan Tongkat Ali tu untuk Abah. Diebetes ni memang la takkan baik, nak-nak Abah sekarang ni insulin dependant tapi dapat reading yang below than 10 tu memang kira ok la kan. So for those yang ada family members with diabetes tu, minum la air Tongkat Ali. Insya Allah boleh membantu. Tapi kena make sure the original akar la sebab yang orang selalu jual tu kayu dia aje which is tidak berkhasiat seperti akarnya.

As for the photos, that one kene tunggu ye. I’m not feeling very well this past few days so bila balik rumah tu dah tak larat nak on lappy apatah lagi nak ngadap ratusan photos and nak edit-edit lagi tu. Tunggu ye….

Kenyir Pt 1

Eh yang pasal semalam tu kan, dalam paper Utusan semalam pun ada hal yang sama dibangkitkan. See…. I’m not the only one complaining ok.

Anyway, nak cerita pasal journey to Kenyir itu hari. We left Putrajaya around midnight on Friday. It was a freezing journey for the air-cond was soooo cool. Since my family pun join sekali so janji untuk jumpa dekat tol Jabor aje. We reached Jabor around 4.30am and terus lah convoy together. On the way tu berhenti untuk solat Subuh somewhere dekat Kuala Berang, very near dengan rumah my immediate boss. Kebetulan air-cond yang sejuk beku tu rosak pulak pagi tu so tak delah sejuk sangat lepas tu.

We reached Pengkalan Gawi around 8am. Kalau ikut tentative ada disediakan breakfast tapi there’s none to be seen. Contact person pulak tak dapat dihubungi sebab line telephone macam tak berapa nak clear. So breakfast lah sendiri-sendiri. Me and family makan roti canai yang super sedap. Tapi air dia fail la. Nasib baik I order milo ice so boleh la nak minum. Sape order teh or teh tarik memang tak lalu la. Rasa inai diorang cakap. Later lepak-lepak dekat pengkalan menunggu ketibaan dari ahli-ahli mesyuarat from Johor, Kedah. KL and Kelantan. Sambil menunggu tu barulah dipanggil untuk breakfast. I’ve to decline sebab perut senak gila makan roti canai 2 keping. My family pun.

We were supposed to board the boat around 10am tapi kul 11am lebih baru gerak sebab nak tunggu semua ada. Boat tu besar, boleh muat dalam 50 orang macam tu. Baru dan sangat selesa ok. Ada dek kat atas yang boleh muat dalam 10 orang macam tu. Best la boat ni, I kejap naik kejap turun. Later mengantuk sebab tak cukup tido malam tu so macam tersengguk-sengguk jugak lah.

Halfway kitorang berhenti kat Pulau Herba. Tengok pokok-pokok herba, dengar penerangan pasal Tongkat Ali dan Kacip Fatimah, jalan atas batu refleksologi dan of course bergambar la kan. Oh yang best sekali masa dengar penerangan tu adalah diorang sediakan air rebusan Tongkat Ali untuk lelaki dan air rebusan Kacip Fatimah untuk perempuan. Tak pernah cuba tapi tengok semua pun minum so I minum jugak la 2 cawan; nasib baik cawan kecik macam teh cina tu. Rasa dia pun macam teh cina je, tak de rasa ape pun. Diorang siap bawak balik lagi Tongkat Ali and Kacip Fatimah tu. Abah ngan Mak pun minum jugak.

Perjalanan diteruskan ke Petang Island Resort. Sepanjang naik boat tu, rasa kagum sentiasa di hati. Subhanallah cantiknya ciptaan Allah di Tasik Kenyir. Semuanya cantik. Air jernih dan kehijauan, pulau-pulau kecil dan besar, tunggul-tunggul yang terpacak dari dalam tasik dan macam-macam lah. Banyak lagi tempat menarik kat Malaysia ni yang I tak explore lagi rupanya.

The journey from Pengkalan Gawi to Petang Island Resort would take roughly 1 hour tapi dah campur dengan sesi lawatan ke Pulau Herba so kitorang sampai kat PIR dalam kul 2pm. Tempatnya cantik tapi mak datuk kena naik tangga and bukit. Dah ala-ala kat OBS rasanya. I kesian kat Mak ngan Abah la. Penat tu nak mendaki. Dari jeti naik ke atas and terus dihidangkan dengan minuman yang pelik rasanya. I tak boleh nak detect rasa apa tapi diorang kata tu teh o halia limau. 2 minuman pelik dalam masa sehari ok. Dari atas tu kena mendaki ke atas lagi untuk ke tempat makan. Ya Allah penatnya weh. Tempat makan…. subhanallah cantiknya pemandangan. Tak dapat nak didescribekan dengan kata-kata. Gambar pun tak dapat nak tunjukkan kecantikan tempat tu. Lunch sangat sedap ok. Ikan yang sangat fresh.

Since me and my family ada 6 orang semuanya so they gave us a suite. Besar suite ni, ada 2 katil queen size, ada air-cond, meja makan, sofa dan macam-macam lah. Tapi cuma ada satu je bilik air. Tapi I tak amik la pulak gambar dalam suite tu. Yang tak tahannya, suite kitorang ni yang paling hujung sekali so agak jauh la nak menapak ke tempat makan. Tempat tu agak berbukit so penat jugaklah nak berjalan tu. Tapi surrounding sangat cantik ok. Dok turun naik bukit dah rasa macam berDPA aje. Seronok jugak exercise macam ni sekali sekala.

Lepas makan, balik bilik dan berehat. Penat tu. Duduk pulak dalam air-cond. Sedapnya tidur. Tengah sedap-sedap tidur tu blackout la pulak. Tapi nasib baik la blackout kalau tak sure tido sampai ke petang. So bangun mandi dan bersiap-siap la nak report. Dah alang-alang keluar tu kitorang amik angin petang berjalan-jalan ke sekeliling. Cantiknyalah tempat ni.

Lepas dinner balik bilik bersiap and ke bilik mesyuarat. Biliknya kat area atas sikit dari jeti. Dok menapak turun naik bukit ajelah kejenya. Since I duduk paling hujung, I suruh Dik Man temankan ke bilik mesyuarat and suruh tunggu kat area makan sampai I siap mesyuarat. Sambil tu dia boleh la tengok TV. Mesyuarat habis kul 12am camtu and lepas supper balik tido. I siap tapaukan untuk Mak ngan Abah sebab diorang dah tido and tak larat la nak bangun menapak ke tempat makan tu.

What a day. Penat sangat. To be continued…..

Sneak preview Kenyir

Tengok la gambar-gambar ni.... Nak termuntah la nak edit. Ada beratus-ratus keping ok.

Makan tak beradap

Ya Allah penatnya. I reached home exactly at 2am this morning. Sungguh jauh dan memenatkan perjalanan itu tetapi aktivitinya sangatlah best. Tak sabar nak pegi lagi but hopefully next time would be longer ones supaya boleh enjoy all the activities to the fullest and tak delah rushing manjang. Nak cerita panjang pun tak guna sebab gambar tak de so sabar dulu ok.

Sekarang ni nak membebel sket pasal hari ni. This morning I went to open house Kementerian yang dihostkan oleh…. perlu ke sebut nama eh? Kang kontroversi plak kan. Anyway, tempatnya adalah somewhere di Kg. Batu. Tau tak kat mana ni? Alah kat area Sentul sana hah. This is my first time attending open house Kementerian sejak join servis ni; 1st time missed sebab tengah berDPA whilst 2nd time buat kat rumah mantan YBM masa tu so macam malas nak pergi. Tetapi sunnguh keciwa dengan perjalanan majlis hari ini ok.

Reached the place around 10am camtu and it was quite crowded already. Banyaaaak lah tetamunya kan. Usherette yang bertugas punyalah ramai so ada sense of welcoming lah memula tukan. Tetapi kecewa betul sebab tiada meja yang dikhaskan untuk kami dari Ibu Pejabat ni hah. Alah bukannya ramai pun kami ni, tak penuh pun sebuah bas. So rasa macam merempat aje duduk di satu khemah yang hujung. Mula-mula tu siap kene berdiri tapi later diorang bagi la kerusi.

As orang yang selalu terlibat dengan penganjuran majlis ni, agak bengang jugak lah dengan the way diorang treat tetamu macam kami ni kan sebab sepatutnya kalau kita jemput orang luar datang, we have to reserved some place for them first before giving the place to our own people. Ini tidak, penuh dengan orang diorang aje. Dan tak nampak pun orang-orang dari agensi atau jabatan yang lain.

Setelah mendapat kerusi kami pun duduklah. Tempat dah la panas, ditambah lagi dengan hati yang panas. Rasa agak menyesal jugak datang. Dah la pening and penat semalam tak habis, ingat dapatlah merehatkan diri tapi hampeh.Kalau dok kat ofis sure sejuk and hati pun tak la sepanas hari ni. Setelah beberapa sesi ucapan maka tibalah saat yang ditunggu semua iaitu sesi menjamu selera or should I say melantak, mencekik or menketedarah. Bunyinya agak kasar but itulah reality di depan mata.

Semua orang menyerbu ke buffet table and berlakulah adegan yang “malu saya dibuatnya”. Mind you kebanyakannya adalah wanita-wanita yang memegang jawatan sebagai pendidik atau pembimbing masyarakat. Bagaimanakah mereka-mereka ini membimbing dan mendidik orang lain sekiranya diri sendiri tidak terdidik atau terbimbing. I was so ashamed la.

Memandangkan semuanya berebut makanan (seolah-oleh tak makan berhari-hari lamanya), and I malas nak terlibat sama di dalam kerebutan itu so I pegi lah nak amik the drinks first. Beratur punyalah lama tapi tak gerak pun sebab begitu ramai yang dengan selambanya potong queue and terus amik je air itu tanpa rasa segan silu. Itu satu hal. Satu hal lagi ialah mengambil air hingga penuh segelas tanpa memikirkan orang lain. Amik jelah half glass dulukan, ramai lagi tu yang tengah beratur. Sungguh semangat menjual ikan betullah mereka-mereka ini tau. Dengan penuh kecewanya I pun mengeluarkan diri dari barisan itu dan pegi mencari alternative lain iaitu hot drink. Yelah panas terik macam ni sape nak minum the tarik kan. I took 2 glass, one for me and one for staff yang sama-sama join I.

I’ve lost my appetite melihat betapa rakusnya manusia-manusia yang hadir mengambil makanan. Dah la berebut-rebut pastu amik macam tak hengat dunia punyalah. Ada Gunung Tahan, ada Gunung Kinabalu, ada Gunung Ledang. Everest pun ada jugak. Selambak penuh makanan kat dalam pinggan memasing. Nasi selambak, ayam 2-3 ketul, daging, acar buah, dalca dan macam-macam lah. Tak cukup lagi tu, tambah ngan sate yang lebih dari 10 cucuk sorang. Ish ada bela jin ke diorang ni. Downright embarrassing ok.

In the end, I didn’t eat anything pun beside 2 gelas teh tarik dan segelas air oren. I duduk sekali dengan staff-staff from the same division. Diorang ni agak gigih la jugak mendapatkan makanan, walaupun masing-masing dapat sorang sikit tapi diorang beria jemput suh I makan sekali. Sian diorang ni. Tapi sorilah ye korang, tak de mood nak makan bila tengok perangai manusia-manusia keliling yang membela jin tu. Hehehe…

This is not something new. Orang Malaysia memang macam ni. Berebut-rebut sentiasa dan sangat mementingkan diri sendiri. Kalau orang dulu-dulu kata, tak de adap. Agak-agaknya kan, kaedah apa yang terbaik untuk mendidik orang Malaysia ni supaya beradap eh. Berapa banyak peruntukan dan berapa lama agaknya masa yang diperlukan tu. Ke sampai bila-bila kita akan jadi macam ni? Sedih la kan sebab orang akan melihat everyone as a whole. So I pun included la jugak kan sebagai orang Malaysia yang tidak beradap tu. Setakat 2-3 kerat yang sedar tapi yang berkerat-kerat lain tu tak sedar susah la jugak. What a shame….

Anyway terima kasih Mak sebab mendidik kitorang dengan tegas supaya menjaga adap dan kelakuan di khalayak ni. Walaupun masih banyak perlakuan yang deem to be tidak berapa nak beradap jugak kitorang ni (among family member la kan but I guess itu normal) tapi in general, perasaan malu sangat menebal jadi bila ada rasa malu, automatic akan menjaga adap bila di khalayak ni.

Jadi moral of the story, tanamkan lah sifat malu dalam diri setiap orang ok kerana bila ada perasaan malu, kita akan sentiasa menjaga perlakuan kita. Betul tak?

Jom pi bercuti

Tadi baca dalam paper ada iklan Air Asia, tiket murah ke Sabah. So lepas tu terus lah surf website Air Asia. Tengok punya tengok terus terasa gatal tangan ni nak mengetik sana sini and walla, dah beli tiga tiket ke Sabah. Journeynya April tahun depan. Tiket pergi balik ke Sabah tu cuma RM143 aje sorang. This time I tak order meal sebab petang pun flightnya. Boleh makan kenyang-kenyang sebelum tu.

Mula-mula tu call Mak sebab ingat nak ajak Mak gi Sabah. Baaaanyak kali call tapi Mak tak angkat. So apa lagi, call Kak Sobir la. Ajak Kak Fatin sekali sebab Kak Fatin ni orang Sabah. Dua-dua ok so on terus. Yeah tahun depan saja I ada 2 plan cuti-cuti Malaysia ok. Februari pegi Sarawak dengan Mak and Siti. Tiket Mak yang sponsor, cuma RM310 aje pegi balik untuk 3 orang. Tu dah termasuk dengan in-flight meal; Mak punya nasi lemak whilst Siti and me sandwich something la. Lagipun Mak dah lama ajak pegi Sarawak, rindu lah tu dengan kawan-kawan. 6 tahun kitorang dok sana ok. Banyak la tu kenangan. Best dan tak sabar rasanya. Tak penah lagi jalan-jalan bercuti macam ni.

April plak pegi Sabah. Kak Sobir kata bolehla pergi Semporna. Cantik ke tempat tu eh? Wah kene la berjimat dari sekarang. Nanti tak de duit plak nak berjimbarama dan bershopping sakan di sana. Hmmm cakap aje nak berjimat tapi lepas tu bila bershopping je mulalah lupa diri, lupa daratan kejap. Hehehe…

Anyway, mari kita berjalan-jalan di Malaysia kerana baaaaanyak tempat menarik kat Malaysia ni ok. Nak pegi Indon memang tak la, nanti kene tikam pulak dengan buluh runcing. Hahaha…. iye saya ini sangat nasionalis sekarang ok.

Updates!
Mak and Siti pun join gak. Beli another 2 ticket and diorang duduk just behind ours. Wah best ni. Boleh ajak Mak pegi pasar Philipines tengok gelang-gelang. Hehehe... Oh mesti ada yang jeles nanti ni, nak-nak yang kecik tu. Haaaa tu lah sape suh sekolah lagi. Siti free sebab baru lepas STPM masa tu. Lenkali nak bawak orang lain la plak macam ni, kalau tak tak adil la kan.

Macam-macam hal

I’m going to Kak Zah’s open house during lunch hour today. Later after office have to do packing and by midnight push off to Terengganu. Nah I’m not driving; riding a bus together with other ahli-ahli mesyuarat. And yes I’m going to Terengganu to attend a meeting on Saturday night. Eh not to just attend but I am the organizer. Whoa workaholic la sangat sampai buat meeting during weekend. Dah chairman kene kurung dalam lab during weekdays so have to sacrifice la sket kan.

Anyway, keje on weekend tak semestinya tak best kan. The meeting will be held at Petang Island Resort, nun di tengah Tasik Kenyir tu. My first time going and yang paling best sekali, my parents and siblings will be joining me too. Sambil menyelam, kita minum air. Tapi jangan sampai lemas pulak. Tentatively we’ll ride a boat to that resort. And before check in, akan singgah di Pulau Herba and Air Terjun Saok dulu. Malam meeting. Sunday morning pulak akan ke Kelah Sanctuary Park. Best kan. But we’ll see how la things going after this. Hopefully semuanya akan berjalan dengan lancar.

Tapi kan, ada sesuatu yang tak best telah berlaku this morning. Pasal kereta I tu. Both head lamp tak menyala ok. Eh bukan tak menyala langsung tapi I pusing je tempat lampu tu, menyala dalam 2 saat and terus gone. Kenapa eh. Adakah both lamp gone kaput dalam masa yang sama (sehidup semati gitu) or something was wrong with the wiring. I ni manalah pandai sangat bab-bab ni. Kat mana lah nak hantar ni eh. Paling tak suka nak hantar kereta ke worksyop. Not only tak tau nak hantar kat mana tapi worksyop ni selalu menipu tau. Sebelum ni tak pernah lagi hantar kat worksyop biasa selain dari Proton Service Centre tapi service diorang pun sama teruk gak. Dah la charge mahal gila, repair kejap pastu kaput balik. Contohnya alarm kat kunci kereta tu, power window switch and macam-macam lah.

I have this love-hate relationship dengan my Savvy ni tau. It’s my first car and my first long term commitment. From penakut I telah berjaya memandu ke beberapa destinasi. Walaupun bukanlah pemandu yang cemerlang tetapi ok lah kan. Cemerlang bukan bawak kereta dengan berhemah tetapi cemerlang berjalan ke sana sini ye kawan-kawan. Yang paling best, boleh bawak adik jalan-jalan with my car, tak de lah asyik dok suruh Taha hantar ke sana sini or suruh Abah jemput memanjang kan. Dapat balik Kuantan together dengan Bang Long and Eman dan macam-macam lagi.

For those who lived in Putrajaya ni memang dah arif sangat dengan masalah parking yang tak pernah selesai. Parking berlapis and parking di kiri kanan laluan sempit tu memang benda yang perlu dihadap hari-hari. Nasib ada Savvy yang kecik ni, senang nak menyelit-nyelit. Kalau kereta besar sure susah nak lepas. Tak pasal-pasal calar and kemik sana sini. Tapi tidak dengan Savvy. Hehehe…

Tu pasal I sayang sangat dengan Savvy ni walaupun selalu menganaktirikan dia. Menganakatiri as in jarang basuh. Kalau rumah tu lepas kemas, kemas, lepas kemas kemas tapi Savvy ni jarang hantar cuci sebab ada je hal. Malas lah, sibuk lah and hujan lah. Ada je alasan. Sian dia, comot aje.

Tapi kan selalu jugak sakit hati dengan Savvy ni. Walaupu ramai kata handling Savvy ni best especially in cornering, tapi I benci bab tersengguk-sengguk tu. Boleh rasa bila nak tukar gear tu, tak smooth langsung. Pastu dulu memang la fuel saving tapi tidak lagi sekarang. Savvy tak boleh pakai minyak RON95 tu. So kena lah isi gak minyak RON97. Dah tu, kat Putrajaya ni ada satu je stesen Shell and dia tak jual RON97 tapi dia jual yang V-Power punya dan harganya RM2.25 seliter. So bayangkan dari RM1.80 kene bayar RM2.25 sekarang. Saving apekebendanya tu. Kalau kebetulan ada kat luar Putrajaya je baru dapat isi RON97 tu. Tapi kebetulan tu sangat la jarang sebab I ni nama je ada kereta tapi tahap keberjalanan itu sangat lah kurang. Dan banyak lah lagi benda yang membuatkan I rasa sakit je hati kat Savvy ni. Tapi yelah kan, benci-benci pun sayang tau. Banyak duit dah habiskan kat dia pun. Memang rasa macam nak tukar kereta lain tapi tulah, kereta besar tak sesuai kat sini ye. Nanti mesti resah gelisah je tengok kereta calar and kemik sana sini.

Tak pelah, pakai je lah dulu kan. Kot besok dah kaya boleh la tukar kereta lain tapi nak yang compact jugak amcam Jazz ke. Yang besar memang lah boleh bawak barang banyak and sangat selesa kalau nak bawak adik jalan-jalan tapi bukannya selalu pun dapat bawak diorang kan. Yang selalu nak kena hadapnya ialah lorong sempit itu.

Oh by the way, sape ada baca paper semalam? Starting 1st December ni Parcel A,B,C,D dan E kene bayar parking RM80 sebulan eh. Ada sapa-sape boleh bagi more explanation. Semua ke kene bayar or camne?

Retak sana retak sini

I now live in fear. Fear for my own safety and fear for my much beloved crib. Last Monday, my kitchen-facing neighbour (the new friendly ones) called me and told me that there’s crack all over near her unit. The week before she heard a loud bang, pretty loud ones coz those in maintenance office and cleaners downstairs could hear it too. They can’t detect where the sound came from but this neighbour (I can’t really remember what happened la but it involves the husband, checking all around the house and stuff la) found few cracks and off she went to report on it.

For 2 consecutive days (Thursday and Friday) peoples flocked our level (there’s only 4 units in my level) and yes they found some disturbing crack. They told her if the cracks were to become more than it is now, she might need to moved out. And they also told her that horizontal cracks are still ok but not vertical cracks. Horizontal cracks can be dangerous. She also learned from the cleaners that both lake-facing blocks (A & F) are sinking a bit. How scary huh.

She told me to check my house and see if there’s any crack. So I did and to my horror, there’s a lot of crack in my unit and it’s vertical. And mind you it’s not just hairline crack ok. Oh my….

I love my house so much. Not only I spend so much money and energy on it, I grew with it (the changes it makes me; becoming more brave and independent, discovering new things like cooking and stuff) and I just love the view. No other apartment can give me the same view; of the nice lake, lush greenery, new building (still under construction), PICC and everything la. Only those who have seen it will know how pretty the views are.

But my safety and my life is the utmost important. I’ll make a report today and see la how’s things goes after this. Hopefully there’s nothing serious that they can’t fix. Oh this morning after throwing the rubbish, instead of the normal using the lift I climb the stairs. And guess what, bigger and scarier cracks can bee seen on both level; basement and ground floor. Oh my….

I’m wondering, after all the earthquake and that loud bang, doesn’t this people bother to at least check all around the building and see if there’s any danger it might posed to the residents. Or at least gave some notification to the resident to check on their unit. Malaysian with its’ tak pe attitude is really disturbing la. We never take precaution. It’s always the knee-jerk reaction and yet we never learn. We rather wait and let people died first before we act. How sad huh….

Ya Allah, lindungilah kami penghuni 18R8 dari sebarang mara bahaya, mala petaka dan bala bencana baik yang diakibatkan dari kecuaian kami sendiri ataupun kecuaian orang lain. Hanya kepada Mu lah tempat untuk kami memohon pelindungan Ya Allah. Amin.

Behind the front door

On the ceiling just above the front door

On the ceiling just few steps from front door

On the ceiling above the kitchen door

Above the kichen entrance; it's big and deep

On the ceiling in between master bedroom and guest room 1

On the ceiling above the master bedroom door

From ceiling right down the wall in masterbedroom, just beside the bed
On the wall above the guest room 2 door

Pig skin everywhere

On Saturday I went to KLCC. I can’t remember when was the last times I went there but it was years ago. Nothing interesting there and definitely not a place for me to shop (I’m a cheapskate). But that was the easiest place for us (Rahmah and me) to meet so ok kan aje.

Me and Rahmah, we used to be colleague at Guardian Ampang Park. Both were management trainees then. Later she was transferred to Bukit Bintang or somewhere around that area whilst I went back to Kuantan. I can’t remember our last hang out session too but definitely years ago. Hehehe… I am slacking in catching up with friends ni.

Since both lived in opposite direction there’s no way for anyone to pick up the other one so we agreed to just meet at KLCC. Considering the traffic and parking plus I’ve never drive there so I used public transport aje. Pun setelah sekian lama. Everything that day was after sekian lama lah. Park my car at Putrajaya Central, ride a bus to Central Market and from there took LRT to KLCC. It took me around 1 hour to reach KLCC and the total one-way fares were RM5.40 only.

Had our breakfast at 1901 and I like the tagline; Food for Friendship. We only went into few shop aje pun coz most of the outlet are meant for really rich people. Tak berani and tak ingin pun nak masuk. I went to Isetan when Rahmah went for her long-queue toilet break. I was browsing some shoes when I saw the pig-skin lining sign. I tried to look closely looking for that famous 3 don’t but couldn’t found any. Have to look close enough and changing my view from different angle baru lah nampak.

I was trying a shoes displayed just beside the pig-skin lining brand when Rahmah came and after seeing me trying few pairs, she took one from that brand and said “Eny, yang ni pun cantik ni” Apparently she didn’t notice the sign. I was kind of shocked a bit and said “Hey kulit babi tu!” Even the sales assistant nearby was running towards her. It was funny but disturbing ok. Eiii terpegang kulit babi.

KAn dah nak kena samak tangan tu. We were looking for pot with some soils in it but couldn’t find any. Later we went looking outside and luckily found one lot of available soils due to some construction works. Aktiviti menyamak diteruskan di tandas. Hehehe…

We were jalan sana jalan sini when I stumbled upon Ijah, my Guardian’s colleague too. We were together in Kuantan and she’s my longest and closest serving partner. Wah mini reunion untuk ex-Guardian nampaknya. Sangat terkejut and teruja berjumpa coz actually Ijah and hubby stayed in Kedah. Last-last kat KLCC kita bertemu. Got to met Adam too. Adam yang sangat comel.

Before leaving KLCC, we went to Isetan to buy the shoes yang I try-try tadi tu (tapi tak beli pun coz saiz dah abis) when I saw one cute Aldo shoes with 50% discount tag. Apa lagi amik and try terus la kan. Sekali bukak aje I saw the 3 dots ok. Hampir luruh jantung ini melihatnya. I pun menggelabah la kan tapi sales assistant tu cakap it was not pig skin. Cuma printed to look like one aje. Kalau real pig skin they would put some tag/sign on it. I tanya baaaanyak kali ok just to make sure. I trust her (a Malay girl) so selamat lah. Kalau tak kena la membuat aktiviti menyamak lagi.

Oh masa kat Parkson pun ada banyak kasut with pig skin lining. Yang kesiannya the sales assistant was a Malay girl. How huh? Antara lain, tugas sales assistant ni comprising of arranging, displaying and even cleaning the stock. Haish…..

We left KLCC after maghrib and I reached home around 9 plus. Besides some two-way cake (bedak ye bukan kek makan) and brush, I didn’t but anything else. Hmm bagus jugak pegi kat tempat yang mahal-mahal ni kan. Takde la rasa nak beli je semua benda.

As for Sunday, I went to Mak Long Nor’s house at Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi with Eman. Later in the evening Nora picked me up and off we go to Shah Alam for Didi’s reception. Yang tu nanti update ok. Nak sambung buat paper yang tak siap-siap ni.

Scary marry Friday

Something bad happened today. Really bad that I’m still in shock. Just can’t believe myself that it really happened. It’s an accident; involving a car with me in it. Scary ok. Luckily it’s not me behind the steering, if not I would be so traumatized to drive again.

We were on the way to some place to settle some work. My EO sat in front whilst I sat behind and me who would normally buckle the seat belt didn’t do so today. Both men were very chatty when it happened. I guess the driver was so much into the conversation that he didn’t noticed the red light. I was reading the newspaper when suddenly I heard my EO said something like “ehh… ehh…”. I look in front and I saw this BMW coming from left. I was like “ehh… ehhh…” too.

I thought it would be a loud bang but luckily the driver managed to brake in time thus slowing the impact. We did collided with car though and even though it was kind of soft bang but not to me in the car. I hit the front seat; face first. A bit numb but not much of pain. I was so shocked I didn’t even get out of the car. I stayed in the car, rubbing my face and read the paper back. Haha…

Luckily the BMW was so hard that it didn’t suffer any damaged. Our car did but not serious though. After some discussion between both drivers, we went off to settle our job. Once there, I started feeling the cramp here and there and mostly at my hand. But I’m ok now.

All the way back to office, I was a bit worried every time the driver pressing the brakes. Every thing feels like meeting with an accident all over again. Alhamdulillah I’m fine now. A scary experience though. I might look calm; laughing and all but it did scares me ok. What if both cars were fast. BANG!!!! and……

To all drivers out there, drive carefully ok. Remember the loved one. I’m so grateful to Allah for taking care of me all this while. Syukur Alhamdulillah.

Wedding dedication

2 of my good friend are getting married this month. Same batch, same ministry and same group during that 6 month course. Although it didn’t seem that we were closed during that 6 month coz everyone got their own clique but there are times we still get together for some photos session. And yes we are still good friend till today.

Didi’s wedding will be on this weekend at Shah Alam. She’s tying the knot with Syazwan, the love of her life. I’m glad they still make it despite all the up and down and heartbreaking moments.

As for Wan, the wedding would be on 24th October, about 2 weeks from now and it’ll be held at Grik, Perak (bride’s side) and Tawau, Sabah (his side). 2 weeks from now Wan would be the man of Rehan’s life; she’s one of our batch mate and group mate too. I’m glad his wish come true coz I can still remember few weeks before going for that course, he kept telling us during one tea break session that he’s going to look for a girlfriend there. And yes he got what he wants.

To both friends; congratulations on your wedding. May it be filled with all the greatest and the happiest moments. Life might not be great at all times but you have each other so make the best out of it.

Didi, Wan and us during that course

Sweetest moment shared with Wan (with Fadhley and Hafiz too of course)

Few of me and Didi

6 Melur of 1990 at SRBMJDI

Yeay I found them. Thanks to world greatest invention; internet. I googled my school name, got few links, and few clicks later, gotcha. Got one thru his blog. Left a comment at his blog and we’ve been replying email since. He even sent me the class photo. Hehehe…

As of today, I got another one. This time I googled few names; full name that I can still remember and got another 2; a Facebook account and a phone number. Of course I can’t connect with the Facebook ones so I tried smsed the number I got. And yes gotcha again.

Oh this is fun. Hopefully we can make some reunion. Anyway, here’s our class photo. Guess which one was me.

6 Melur of 1990

Sekolah Rendah Bantuan Mejar Jeneral Dato' Ibrahim, Kuching Sarawak

p/s : I was 1.53m then and 1.55m now. Back then I was one of the taller girls.

Someone do remember

Yesterday I got a call from HSBC. The caller said they are considering on giving me a second card. I’m not interested on it coz I’ve never use my HSBC card pun but still layan kan aje the call. Bla bla bla and later the caller, a guy asked me;

“Cik ni dulu sekolah kat Sri Mahkota ke? And lepas tu sekolah kat SABS?”
I was like terkejut coz I didn’t remember putting something about my school in my application form dulu but then what he said is true so I said; “Aah”.

“Kenal saya tak? Kita ni classmate dulu.”
Although he did mention his name earlier but biasalah kan when calls from bank or any company ni I don’t really give much attention on their name so I’ve to ask again, “Sape ni ye?”

“Nazri”
“Yang gelap tu ke?” Hehehe hampes punya question ek.

And yes I remember him, there’s only 3 guys je pun; Nazri, Valentino and one more whom I can’t remember his name (even tough Nazri did tell me yesterday). He said my name sounds familiar and he bet no many people have the same name like me so he just has to try. Bagus kan. To be honest, I feel flattered when people know me or remember me coz back then I’m kind of invisible and I don’t stay too long at one place thus normally people just don’t remember me. And the fact that I was there for a mere 6 month and yet 13 years later he can still remember makes me feel so honoured.

We talk about so many things. He’s getting married in December so maybe we can meet then. I'm sure there's many to catch up on that 13 years gap we had. But then he’ll be busy with the wedding and stuff. To make a mini reunion is not possible for I’ve lost contact with everyone whilst he lost many contact number when he lost his phone 2 years ago. It would be great if we can meet; a few if not all. Sure kelakar kan.

Recently I’ve thinking a lot about reuniting with my long lost friends. How I wish to meet primary and secondary schools friends. I bet it would be great then to see all of us after all this year. But then again I hardly have times for my friends; the available ones keep complaining of not enough me and there I am thinking about the long lost ones. Berangan ajelah Eny.

Anyway, people remember me. They do; although not many of them. I’m not that invisible after all. Hehehe…

Blank mind attacks

Why is it every time I had some urgent and important works to be done I just don’t have any idea to start off until the eleventh hour? I don’t like last minute things but on that very last minute la all the brilliant ideas come. It stressed me out every time.

Like what I’m having now. I have 6 papers to do in which I’ve to compile all the reports I got from 13 divisions, 3 departments and 6 agencies. I need to study their report thoroughly and come out with summaries out of it. Not to mention to study the report on figures that can be up to hundred millions ok and filled up the tables I’ve prepares for it.

I am now stares at all that blankly despite all my effort to concentrate. Wait till 2 days before the meeting and walla all the ideas on what to write will come out profusely. By that time it’ll be too late and I’ll be freaking out trying to make sure everything is in the paper and the slides are in order and stuff.

I don’t like doing things in a rush; thus explaining my strict punctuality manner. But in terms of coming up with ideas especially in writing things, my mind would be so slow, even slower than snails ok. I’ve been thru this problem since forever. Back then when I as a student myself, I would start early on doing revision or studying with the hopes I can read everything and well prepared for whatever test or exam. But then I would stares at the page blankly (as if reading things in Spanish) and feel sleepy few minutes later. It happens every times ok. But say the final exam paper on that subject is tomorrow, I can magically understand everything. Oh like this… oh like that. Now I understand. But then it’s too late already. I can’t finish reading everything within a night plus I have attention disorder where I can be distracted easily and surely I can’t remember things I read in rush. So every times I freaked out during final exams, I vowed to start off early for the next semester but then as I said earlier, all the books I read suddenly turned into Spanish books.

It happens again now. Every times I freaked out preparing the reports at eleventh hours; I promised myself that I’ll start immediately after finishing the meeting and completed everything soonest as possible. But now instead of putting more words on my report, I’m updating my blog. Haish…. And later I would have sleepless night worrying about works and datelines. I have no one to blame but myself. Is there any exercise or anything that can help me concentre?

Busy October and November

This month and next month I’ll be busier than a bee or even an ant. My 2 big quarterly meeting are scheduled for this month. With new agencies coming in, new office and stuff, the report and even the meeting itself will be more complicated than before. I’ve changed the date 2 times already due to Mr. Super Big Boss tight scheduled. And now, it’ll be more difficult coz he’ll be away for more than a month for the NKRA lab thingy. There’s a written rules in the Pekeliling specifying the chairperson for the meeting and all the alternative officers given are also away at that time. So how? Sigh…

Besides preparing for the meeting, I am also the assessing committee for some quality and innovation competition thus I’ll need to go to every department and agencies to assess on the asset management matters. There’s 9 department and agencies involved; 1 in Putrajaya, 1 in Bangi, 3 in KL, 1 in Johor, 1 in Terengganu, 1 in Kedah and 1 in Kelantan. To make things worse, the dateline to submit the report for the assessment would be in the middle of November.

And then there would be another big event this month at Johor involving the TPM; 28th and 29th October. As usual, big event mean we in this division would be busy with protocol matter. 2 precious days for me to spend coz that very next week will be my PTK exam.

Yup I’ve registered for the exam and according to the scheduled given; mine would be on 2nd till 6th November. And until now I’ve no idea at all on how the PTK would be. The format, the things I need to prepare and stuff. Surely like everyone else, I have high hopes to pass with flying colour in one sit but considering my lack of everything now, maybe I should just take this one as simulation. Wah…

There’s wedding to attend, 2 of my batchmate in this ministry are tying the knot in this month, one in Shah Alam whilst another one is Grik, Perak. As for November, Along my cousin wedding in Kedah on 21st/22nd, balik kampung to Lenggong for a week as planned by Abah and celebrate raya haji there too.

Oh one more thing, another officer in my unit is counting the days before delivering her 3rd child and I was supposed to tanggung kerja for her. With my own work, hers, meeting, assessing, exams, wedding and all in between, how am I going to take that 1 week leave? But come what may, even if I won’t get the tanggung kerja allowance, I will still take the leave for it’s not always I can go back to Lenggong to meet Opah; once a year only and she’ too old already. Like Abah said, we can never know when would be the last time to meet.

Fuh…. how la like this? Baru tulis pun dah terasa penatnya. I can only hope and pray that everything will go well as planned and everyone will be happy; be it at work or at home.

Weekend with bakal hajah

Uih malasnya nak keje hari ni. Weekend went by too fast la. Rasa cam baru je hari Jumaat, dah hari Isnin. I had so much fun kot sebab tu masa berlalu dengan pantas.

Friday tu after work I pegi pasar and top up some foodstuff for weekend. Later at night tunggu Kak Sobir and Kak Fatin yang tak sampai-sampai. They had fun bershopping sakan kat KL membeli barang-barang nak pegi haji sampai malam ok. I nikan tido awal so setelah smskan direction I pun terus tido. Lagipun lately ni, malam-malam je pening semacam. Tengah sedap-sedap tido tu, terkejut dengar bunyi handphone. Rupa-rupanya diorang dah tersesat. I was like mamai and pening and mengantuk so macam tak boleh nak captured kat mana diorang tu. Explain punya explain last-last Kak Sobir suruh jemput diorang.

To be honest, I was a bit bengang la masa tu. Dah dekat nak pukul 11 malam ok. Tempat adalah sunyi, I mengantuk and pening so agak merbahaya untuk drive alone. Shopping tak hengat kan dah susah sesat malam-malam ni. Kalau siang I tak kisah pun. Tapi bukan selalu diorang datang kan. Lagipun masa dok sesame dulu, banyak diorang tolong I so takkan hal kecik macam ni pun nak marah kan. So I pun melilau la carik diorang kat Putrajaya ni. A few phone calls later, barulah dapat trace, diorang kat Precint 11. Macam mana boleh sampai sana I pun tak tau.

Sampai rumah layan serba sedikit and I terus tido. Pening lah. Pagi esoknya awal-awal diorang dah bangun. Diorang nak pi cari batu untuk melontar so I cakap carilah kat bawah, di tepian tasik yang cantik tu. I sambung tido sampai dalam kul 7 camtu pastu bangun buat breakfast. I was in the middle of cooking masa diorang balik. I masak mee goreng je and mendapat pujian melambung dari Kak Fatin and Kak Sobir. Wah sangat bangga ok. Diorang pun sangat kagum dengan I sekarang. Wah tak sangka Eny yang brutal dulu ni dah pandai masak. Sedap pulak tu. Hehehe…. Last time I met Kak Fatin was years ago and I was more than 10kg lighter. Kak Fatin cakap dulu I kecik and kurus je. Sekarang… ehem-ehem. Biasalah dah tua-tua nikan metabolisme tu agak rendah sket.

Kak Fatin kan ada kursus haji kat Masjid Putra. Tabung Haji buat macam simulation supaya diorang tau what to do and what to expect. But I’m sure Kak Fatin takde masalah coz dia dah pegi umrah 3 kali and she’s very celik in terms of benda-benda macam ni. Mind you I dulu duduk dengan kakak-kakak bertudung labuh and warak-warak ni. Bagus duduk dengan diorang ni sebab rasa macam baik la sikit perangai tu. Since Kak Sobir tak boeh nak join sekali, kitorang hantar Kak Fatin and pergi berjimbarama kat Alamanda.

Kelakar ok kakak-kakak I ni. Kak Sobir pakai crocs warna pink and Kak Fatin tak berkenan dengan crocs tu so dia asyik membebel aje pasal crocs tu. Tak sesuai and macam-macam lah. So Kak Sobir nak pi cari kasut lain yang agak decent sket la. Setelah puas memusing kat Parkson and Clarks, akhirnya berjaya jugak la Kak Sobir membeli sepasang sandal Scholl and sepasang kasut kat Sachs. Later singgah Carrefour, beli makannan untuk Kak Fatin and ada makcik sorang yang dah gastric kat sana and some makanan yang nak dimasak.

Masa nak hantar tu, jalan semua tutup tau. Kak Fatin pulak kejap-kejap call, kejap-kejap call. Risau betul. Last-last sebab Tabung Haji danh tutup sana sini, kitorang park kereta dekat PjH and jalan kaki ke Masjid Putra. Jauh ok. Sempat la snap few photos guna phone Ka Sobir sementara nak menyampai ke masjid tu. Later sampai diorang dah berkumpul so kitorang dropkan makanan tu kat khemah urus setia. Masa tu kan I macam agak bengang dengan tourist-tourist yang ada kat area tu. Dah la pakai baju ntah ape-ape kat area masjid, pastu kat situ ada khemah makanan untuk peserta kursus tukan. Tourist yang tak tau malu ni (ramai pulak tu) dengan selambanya pegi minum air ynag dah dibancuh tu and siap amik air mineral and makanan lagi. Orang Tabung Haji tupun I rasa tak terlarang dah. Ish kalau I memang I sound aje. Kita pegi melancong kat negeri diorang pun tak denye sesuka hati nak amik makanan minuman kan.

Pastu balik and melepak kat rumah. Melepak as in makan and menyembang. Malam pulak selain bersembang kitorang amik gambar kat balcony. I ni nama je ada camera tapi tak explore sangat pun camera tu. Wah rupa-rupanya camera I tu boleh amik gambar yang cantik ok. Tapi kalau sorang-sorang tak de maknanya I nak lepak kat balcony malam-malam tu kan.

Pagi esoknya Kak Sobir buat breakfast. Makan chapatti dengan sardines. Sedap. I pulak masak lunch terus sebab plannya nak amik Kak Fatin dalam kul 11 and pastu diorang terus nak balik. MAsa nak amik Kak FAtin tu, semua jalan tutup. Ada larian ape ntah. I pun sampai tak tau nak menyelit tang mana lagi dah. Last-last kitorang pegi kat MOF and Kak Fatin kene berjalan dari masjid sampai MOF dengan beg ynag berat tu. Kesian dia. Balik rumah terus lunch. I masak taucu dengan sayur petola. Tak habis-habis diorng puji. Hehehe.... I pun tak sangka I can changed to be a person I am today. Dorang kata sangat ladies gitu.

Since Kak Fatin penat sangat so dia tido. Plan nak ke IKEA petang tu dibatalkan and they planned to come again lepas balik haji nanti. I plak berborak tak habis-habis dengan Kak Sobir and makan buah. Diorang gerak balik dalam kul 5 and before tu I sempat la buat minum petang utuk diorang. Ala goreng karipap and buat air teh-o aje. Diorang kata kesian pulak nak tinggalkan I sorang-sorang aje. Tak pe I dah biasa. Tapi sedih jugak bila diorang dah balik. Ntah bila lagi boleh lepas sesame macam ni. Dua-dua dah pegi umrah and ni nak pegi haji pulak. Bila la time I pulak ni.

For those yang nak tau, Kak Fatin ni umur dia 39 tahun and bujang lagi. Lecturer kat UMP and sekarang tengah buat PhD. Kak Sobir plak tua setahun je dari I, baru 32, bujang jugak and keje kat UIA Kuantan. Diorang ni bukan setakat bekerjaya, pandai in terms of akademik, pandai masak, independent and macam-macamlah, yang penting warak ok. Haish kenapalah tak de orang lelaki nak kawin dengan diorang ni. Everything cukup lengkaplah.

Anyway saya doakan moga-moga Kak Sobir and Kak Fatin dilindungi Allah dan dipermudahkan semasa menjadi tetamuNya nanti. Mudah-mudahan selamat pergi dan selamat kembali dan Insya Allah dapatlah haji mabrur. Jangan lupa doakan saya sekali and thanks Kak Sobir sebab bagi buku Travelog Haji tu. Dah khatam pun semalam. Nanti balik haji datang rumah saya lagi ye.

Uih panjangnye…. Ok nak sambung keje.

Repekan Jumaat

Hmmm dah lama tak tulis in BM kan. Baca post-post lama tu macam best pulak. The expressions were much livelier. Anyway, ada sedikit berita gembira yang hendak dikongsi bersama. This Ramadhan, not only I dapat puasa penuh, I even managed to shed some weight. 4kg ok. I know 4kg tu tak la banyak mana but still sebelum ni nak turun 1kg pun susah tau.

Oleh sebab itu, I terasa begitu bersemangat untuk meneruskan rutin yang sama macam masa berpuasa which is sarapan awal dengan kurma (macam bersahur la), skip lunch and amik dinner saje. Tapi kan, kenapa bila bulan tak puasa je rasa lapar tu datang membuak-buak? On Wednesday, for breakfast I makan biskut and milo, skip lunch and makan nasi for dinner. Ok je. Semalam I puasa tapi petang tu my menstrual masih bersisa sedikit so balik I makan biskut and masak nasi. As for today, dengan gigihnya I telah membuat nestum sebelum pegi ofis tadi. Kak Mah ajak makan pun I dah decline.

Tapi kan, my tummy macam dah berdondang sayang je sekarang ni. Pastu I just got a call from Wan, dia jemput turun untuk join open house bahagian dia. Masa cuti baru ni I baru je dapat tau adalah berdosa kalau kita dijemput ke sesuatu majlis and kita tak pegi. Woooo banyak dosa I ni. I rasa dah berpuluh wedding invitation yang I dapat and tak pegi. Manyak dosa…. mintak ampun dan maaf pada yang menjemput ye. So, I’ve promised myself that come what invitation after this, insya Allah I’ll attend. Jadinya kenelah pegi invitation open house tu ek. Pegi mean kenalah makan-makan. Camtu I skip dinner lah today. Ahad pun ada invitation open house cum birthday party. Jauh tu. Tak tau camne nak pegi tapi orang dah jemput so kenelah pegikan.

Anyway, hari ni Kak Sobir and Kak Fatin nak datang. Kak Sobir ni my senior, my ex-roommate masa kat part 4 kat UiTM and my ex-housemate whilst Kak Fatin ni my ex-housemate. Masa dok sekali dulu, we shared a room (Kak Sobir, Kak Fatin and me). Kak Fatin ada kursus haji kat Masjid Putra. Kak Sobir ingat nak menyeludup join tapi tak boleh so nak lepak and jalan-jalan kat sini la.

Balik ni kenelah kemas rumah dengan gigihnya. Biasalah bila family datang ni, banyak benda yang diguna; tilam, bantal, tuala and whatnot so semuanya nak kena kemas and susun balik kat tempat asal. Nak kene pegi pasar dulu to stock up on my foodstuff. Yelah nanti tetamu datang nak jamu dengan apa kan. Nak masak apa nanti ek.

Ish lapar sangat la. Kene makan jugak la nanti kan. Makan tu tak salah tapi kadang-kadang susah nak mendisplinkan diri. Kat rumah sangat berdsiplin, makan satu pinggan nasi je and meratah lauk. Bila balik Kuantan aje, terus lupa daratan. Eh tak la lupa sangat, makan tak la banyak mana tapi kalau macam best sangat, bertambah-tambah. Cuma masa raya tu tak makan banyak pun sebab sangat gembira dengan berat yang turun 4kg tu sampai nak makan pun rasa sayang je…. takut naik lagi berat tu. Sekarang ni memang kene betul-betul mendisplinkan diri supaya tak makan banyak sangat. Kalau dah makan banyak, have to skip dinner la.

Ok nak sambung buat keje. Nanti citer lagi.