No 1 Jalan AU5C/1

Since I tengah mood rajin nak cerita ni, let me share with you guys pasal rumah KL I. Not mine la but my parents. My parents bought a house in AU5, Lembah Keramat way back in 1982. It's a corner lot double storey terrace house. Besar ok the house. Compound dia pun luas. When we lived there, my dad tanam macam-macam pokok keliling dia. Ada pokok mangga, rambutan, jambu, kelapa and what not. Sayur-sayur pun sama. Basically it is where my kampung is because Mak Ngah lived just behind us (ours rumah no 1 and hers is rumah no 4). Mak Lang lived a few streets away (within walking distance) and Mamatam too. Now that Nenek no longer lived in Kedah, she lived with Mamatam so kalau nak jumpa Nenek kena la pegi sana. Kira macam balik kampung la tu kan. 

Can't remember when we moved in there, maybe in 1982 or 1983. That house adalah best sebab sekolah rendah depan rumah aje. Betul-betul depan ok. Lintas jalan dah sampai sekolah. Best betul masa I primary 1 and 2 dulu. We lived there until 1986 aje pastu we moved to Kuching and later to Kuantan where we've been living until today. After I dah masuk servis ni, barulah I tau siapalah jiran sebelah rumah I tu. Famous rupa-rupanya. Nak tau sape? Tan Sri KSP. Hahaha.... Tak sangka kan. Tapi I tak pernah la bercakap dengan dia. I bercakap ngan wife dia aje. Tu pun tahun bila entah.  

Anyway, that house we rented away and telah ada macam-macam penghuni yang tinggal. Kerosakan pun banyak. Pastu ada macam-macam cerita lampau jugak. Kira ada berjuta kenangan lah rumah tu. Pahit manis masam payau kelat semua ada. A few years back (lama dah tak ingat bila) ada penyewa baru. Dia nak buat rumah tu jadi tadika. So now rumah tu dah berwarna-warni with macam-macam tambahan. Kadang-kadang rasa rindu dengan kenangan lama masa duduk kat sana. Ye la setiap kali pegi rumah Mak Ngah mesti akan nampak rumah kitorang tu. Tapi nak buat macam mana. Memang takkan dapat dah nak duduk sana balik.

In Kuantan, we live in a rented house. Kecik aje but boleh la. Abah memang tak mau balik KL dah sebab life in KL is way too hectic for him. Dia sukakan ketenangan kat Kuantan tu although I rasa dah tak la setenang mana pun. So he bought a piece of land to build our own house. Maka di sinilah cerita lagi panas bermula. Rumah kat KL tu dah habis bayar. It took them 25 years ok. Although there are 4 of us here in KL, I don't think we can live there sebab jauh tu nak commute ke tempat kerja. Lagipun the rental for that house adalah mahal and we can make some money la kan. 

But to build a house, kenalah ada modalnya. Now that is something that my parents don't have. So they decided to sell the house. As a courtesy, mestilah kita kena tanya penyewa dulu kan. In fact we already asked them like 2 years ago kot. Rasanya masa my dad first bought the land in Kuantan. The penyewa kata the price offered adalah begitu mahal so dia nak mempertimbangkan dulu. So we let them la but takkan la lama sangat kan. After 2 years of waiting for their consideration, my dad dah tak sabar so we advertise the house in Mudah.com. Alhamdulillah ada buyer berminat. Although we didn't got what we actually want but boleh lah takat nak buat rumah baru kan. 

Now bila dah dijual, barulah penyewa tu kecoh-kecoh nak marah my dad sebab buat macam tu. Hello..... my dad call her many many many times but she didn't pick up. Orang nak discuss dia tak mau. Bila kita jual nak melenting tak tentu pasal pulak. Pastu stop paying the rent plak tu. Geram betul. We keep reminding her to vacant the house tapi banyak pulak songeh dia. Siap mintak no telefon the new owner nak discuss la apa la. Fine semua my dad ikut je. 

Last week when we went there, we saw the house in pretty big mess. Ok diorang tengah nak pindah la tu. Actually macam nak singgah tengok tapi entah kenapa tak jadi. Big mistake betul la. Sebab apparently mereka telah merosakkan rumah itu sebelum pindah. Ada dinding kena pecah, bumbung kena cabut and what not. Actually baru tau semalam sebab the new owner ada call to complaint that the house look really bad and wanted us to repair everything first before they moved in. My mom called Mak Ngah asking about the house and Mak Ngah pun bagitau la kata rumah tu teruk sekarang. Air masuk semua lah. Ish..ish..ish... orang macam ni pun ada ke? 

Ni yang konon-kononnya islamic sangat ni. Buka tadika islamic, hantar message to my dad bukan main lagi kupas pasal agama tapi her attitute tak mencerminkan langsung. I tak faham la orang macam ni. Tak tau ke when you do bad things to other, you'll have to pay thousand fold over. Setiap kebaikan atau kejahatan ada pembalasan dia. 

Kan my dad dah susah hati. So he's coming down today and akan cuba settlekan everything about the house. Nak pasang bumbung baru and repair apa patut. Kesian betul. Instead of making money, we're losing it. Tak pelah maybe adalah hikmah disebalik semua ni kan. Ish tapi geram jugak dengan orang tu. My dad ni bukan jenis reti nak bercakap berbidas semua ni. Semua anak-anak dia pun sama. Hai macam manalah nak deal dengan the previous penyewa ni. Kalau ikut pengalaman, she's kind of mulut lantang ni. Time-time ni lah I teringin sangat nak bermulut puaka. Hahaha.....    

Hopefully segalanya akan dipermudahkan lah. Amin. Hopefully our new house akan siaplah in 2011 ni. Insya Allah.