Penyair Dari Gunung

It was a practical teacher from one of the teaching college in Kuching, Sarawak who taught me this song 20 years ago. I was in Form One then. I love the song ever since and and selalu je nyanyi bila bosan-bosan. Yeah I'm kind of boring like that. Hahaha.....

Kalau ada yang perasan, this was the song I sang masa kena nyanyi sorang-sorang kat PULADA on ambush night. But then halfway thru I terlupa lirik la pulak. Hahaha.... Tak pernah ok kena nyanyi sorang-sorang depan orang. Memang mendebarkan.

Anyway, this song sangat mendalam maksudnya dan memberikan semangat. Nyanyi ramai-ramai dengan penuh perasaan memang boleh naik bulu roma ok. Sape tau lagu ni? Jom kita nyanyi sama-sama......

Penyair Dari Gunung

Akulah penyair yang turun dari gunung

Beratus tahun telah ku duduk di situ

Beratus-ratus tahun

Kini ku turun ke lembah

Melihat manusia

Kecil miskin lagi hina

Hidup mereka melata-lata

Tangan mu ku genggam ku julang ke udara

Akan ku jerit bagaikan halilintar

Kebebasan abadi

Akan kita susun perbarisan

Menjulang keadilan

Milik kita

Milik semua

Kita hidup bahagia

Milik kita

Milik semua

Kita hidup bahagia

Tak berapa nak ada mood

One whole day semalam kat rumah aje. Even pintu utama pun tak dibuka ye. I buat laundry, kemas apa patut, online and melipat all the laundy (3 cycles of it). Actually bukan la banyak mana sangat pun baju tu tapi biasalah kalau rajin I suka nak seperate the laundry hence the 3 cycles. I didn't have breakfast and cook sardine for lunch. Dah lama tak ke pasar so bahan mentah adalah limited. 

Rasa sangat tak productive semalam. Even plan nak baked cookies pun terpaksa dibatalkan sebab tetibe kemalasan melanda. Since I memang tak de apa nak buat, I dok mengadap kain baju aje lah. Kejap-kejap terbalikkan, kejap-kejap pindahkan from ampaian dalam ke balcony luar. Seriously itu je lah keje I semalam.

Hari ni pun rasa macam tak berapa nak ada mood sebab gigi sakit. Actually dah lama I tak pakai the elastic band. Tak bagus tu sebab lambat la nak elok gigi ni kalau malas-malas kan. So semalam start pakai balik and terasa la kesengalan dan kesakitannya tu. Nak makan memang la sakit. Even breakfast dengan pau aje pagi tadi pun dah terasa siksanya. Ni perut dah lapar tapi dah terbayang kesakitan nak makan nanti. Tsk.....   

Ok I'm off to lunch. Kejap lagi ada training. Hopefully performance akan lebih baik dari before. Of all player, I rasa I la yang paling teruk. Hmmmmm.....

Future fashionista ke

Those who knew me long enough would know how unfashionable I am. Always in jeans and t-shirt. No matter how much I wanted to change into much girlier looks in no time I'll revert back into my jeans and t-shirt. I just love dressing in those; comfortable in every weather, maintenance yang senang, boleh siap dengan cepat and not that expensive. Kalau malas sangat, just sarung aje. Tak payah nak iron-iron. Dasar pemalas sangat kan. Hehehe.....

So imagine my shock when I received this from Alamanda. They've gotta be kidding me. Biar betulllll.....

Tang mana Fashion VIP sangat I ni? Tanya pasal latest trend pun hampeh I tak tau

Siap ada card tu. Nak guna untuk apalah card ni? Entitled untuk discounts tak? Kalau ye barulah best

Exclusive privileges includes sale previews, high tea fashion show invites, fashion makeover, giveaways, newsletter and much more. Huh dalam banyak-banyak ni, I suka yang giveaways tu je

Actually I suka sangat tengok fashion show yang ada models doing catwalk kat runaway tu. Sejak dari zaman sekolah lagi. Terasa kagum dengan badan models yang slim, kaki yang panjang and the fascinating catwalks. Tapi tak de la sampai nak pegi fashion show ke apa. Sekadar suka tengok kat TV aje. Patut la sebelum ni I pernah dapat invites on high tea fashion show ni. Rupa-rupanya I ni Fashion VIP. Hehehe.....

Wah lepas ni kena la jadi fashionista kan. Baru lah ada kelas. Sesuai dengan status Fashion VIP tu kan. Hahaha.......

Perbelanjaan yang tidak menggembirakan

Ok now on the story of pengeluaran duit yang tidak menggembirakan langsung. In a month, I've spend more than RM1k for that darling Savvy. Ni yang dah rasa tak berapa nak darling ni. It is so true that Savvy ni maintenance tinggi. Bawak memang la best tapi kalau service pun dah banyak ratus, kalau dia sakit lagi la. Menangis ok.

Few weeks ago kan ada masalah dengan battery. So I dah replaced the battery and it cost me RM200. Then kenaikan harga minyak RON97 yang melampau from RM2.50 to RM2.70 and finally to RM2.90 within a month time. So budget balik Kuantan memang makin meningkat tapi tu tak pe lagi sebab selalunya akan dibayar oleh Bang Long and Eman. I selalunya bayar tol tapi kadang-kadang share bayar minyak jugak. Thank God I go to work with bus nowadays so perbelanjaan untuk minyak kereta bolehlah dijimatkan.

Then masa balik Kuantan last weekend, tetibe kereta rosak la pulak. On Saturday tu masa I keluar shopping ok lagi. Sunday morning tetibe engine kereta bergegar teruk gila. I pun tatau la teruk camne sebab I tak tengok pun. So Monday morning before balik tu Bang Long and Eman took the car for repair. They changed the spark plugs and engine mounting and the total cost was RM600++. Eman paid for it. Tapi still tak ok lagi. Masih bergegar a bit and bila tekan minyak macam tak larat aje the car.

So semalam I took the car to the Renault specialist that I've been frequenting all this while. Abah kata kalau nak hantar kereta ke worksyop, stay with one worksyop aje (provided worksyop tu bagus la kan) sebab mechanic yang dah biasa dengan kereta kita akan tau what went wrong, what to change and stuff. So turn out the culprit was the ignition coil. Nak tau berapa the cost to change it? RM520. Pergh menangis dengar ok. Patah semangat kejap. I tak suka tau spend duit banyak-banyak kat kereta ni so macam perit aje bila dengar harga ignition coil tu. Tapi takkan nak biar aje macam tu kan so terpaksa tukar jugak.

Since I ni dah kira loyal customer, the owner tak charged me for the labour cost. Dia charge on the parts aje. But stillllll....RM520 tu. Tambah sikit lagi dah boleh beli the folding bicycle dah tau. Tapi tak pelah. Untuk kesejahteraan bersama kan. Kereta tu pun banyak jasanya. So kena la jaga baik-baik.

Due for servis pun tak lama lagi dah. Duit lagi. Savvy....Savvy..... Tak cost saving langsung. Lepas ni tolong la jangan sakit-sakit dah ye. Tuan punya ni almost sakit tenat bila dengar Savvy dia sakit tau. So tolong simpati kat tuan tu ye. Hehehe......

Syukurlah Eman sponsored the earlier repair. If not lagi la sengsara rasanya sampai banyak macam tu kena spend untuk repair kereta aje. Tu baru Savvy tu. Kot pakai kereta lain nanti makin besar jugak la belanja agaknya. Tsk....

A birthday gift for myself

Yesterday was spent spending money here and there. Hehehe..... Actually spending money ni sometimes boleh menggembirakan and sometimes boleh mengecewakan. Both I rasa semalam. Yang bab mengecewakan tu deserve a special post on itself so this one I nak cerita pasal yang menggembirakan aje.

I kan suka je beli hadiah untuk diri sendiri ni kan. Tapi last month sibuk beli hadiah untuk orang lain sampai I punya tak sempat nak beli lagi. I have a few in mind; a camera, a watch or anything yang I terjumpa and might feels like kena ada. Cewah over gitu tau. Actually semalam keluar bukan la semata-mata sebab nak beli hadiah tapi tetibe terbeli la pulak. Wah boleh gitu? Alasan sangat tetibe tu tau. Hehehe.....

Anyway, I keluar dengan Rehan semalam. We went to Midvalley and Garden. Mula-mula she said she wanted to look for a camera so I teman la dia tengok. I already have one in mind so I malas nak survey-survey dah. And since that morning I learnt about big sum of money yang akan terpaksa berpisah dengan I so I was not really in the mood for shopping. Ye lah sangat tu kan.

Banyak kedai masuk tapi I tak beli apa pun. Wah sangat menakjubkan ok. Maybe sebab asyik la terfikir pasal yang berita pagi tu kan. Just tengok-tengok and belek-belek aje. Oh semalam I terjumpa sesuatu yang menarik and terus masuk dalam senarai benda yang I nak. Hehehe..... Nak tau apa? Mesti korang gelak nanti ni. Bukan kasut, bukan handbag, bukan gadget, bukan barang rumah. Hoh semua bukan, apakah benda itu agaknya ye.

Yes..... ianya ialah folding bicycle. Actually dah lama dah teringin nak beli basikal tapi duduk apartment ni macam susah pulak nak simpan bicycle tu kan. Nak letak kat bawah confirm tak selamat tapi nak usung turun naik lif macam tak kuasa la pulak. Pastu kalau dah bawak naik pun macam susah jugak nak simpan dalam rumah kan. So I've found the perfect solution for that with this folding bicycle. Nak bawak ke mana-mana pun senang. Semangat I try the bicycle semalam. Dah la masa tu sorang-sorang. Yang tokeh tu pun rajin je melayan I. Hahaha......

Cuma harga dia aje yang tak memberansangkan. I plan nak beli bicycle dalam range RM200++ je. Nak beli mahal-mahal buat apa, bukan la I ni athlete ke apa. Sekadar nak suka-suka berbasikal around Putrajaya aje so tak payah la mahal-mahal kan. As for this folding bicycle, yang model atas tu harganya RM745 and and second one tu RM675. Considered mahal la for me. Beza antara dua tu ialah yang atas tu lebih ringan dari yang bawah. Yang bawah tu although slightly heavier tapi ada spring so kalau lalu kat kawasan berbukit-bukit ada shock absorber. Berat both tu between 13kg to 15kg. Agak berat tapi boleh la diusahakan untuk diangkat bila dah ada tu nanti. Ada a few model lain yang I minat tapi nanti bila dah betul-betul nak beli baru I akan pilih la. Wah bunyinya macam nak beli aje tu kan. Hehehe.....Tunggu dan lihat je lah dulu.

From Midvalley ke Garden. Hoh kedai kat Garden ni takat boleh lalu kat luar ajelah. Takut nak masuk or usha dari luar. Harga barang dia mahal ya rabbi. Tapi dalam pada takut nak masuk tu ada la a few kedai yang still affordable. Kira orang selekeh macam I yang suka pakai t-shirt and jeans ni tak la ditengok lain macam oleh the sales assistant. One of it ialah kedai yang I selalu pegi; Fossil Boutique. I dah aim nak beli jam from Fossil ni. Selalu usha online. Hehehe....

So semalam telah berjaya membeli hadiah untuk myself. A rose gold tone watch yang sangat cantik. Rehan bought the same watch but in a different shades. I loves watches. I tak kisah tak de jeweleries tapi watch mesti ada. Tapi jam I tak la semahal jam Siti Nurhaliza yang boleh beli kereta mewah or bungalow sebijik tu. The most expensive watch yang I minat pun takat Tag Heuer aje. Yang itu entah bila la boleh dapat tu.

Cantik tak? Cantik tak? Cantik kan.... (Sila baca guna nada macam Eric Leong). I suka simple watch aje. And mostly my taste would be the same. Cuma ubah sikit-sikit here and there aje. Memang sangat tak bercitarasa I ni kan. Hahaha......

Last year kan I dapat APC. The money I got for it selain diguna untuk belanja my family and officemate makan, telah digunakan untuk membeli watch juga. I suka my watches to be a memorable one. Lagipun watches ni kan tahan lama. So semua pun akan ada memori tersendiri.

Casio chronograph range. Dalam tu pun ada diamond-like stone. Wah bling-bling aje my watches ni eh. Hehehe.... Ok in considering for a watch, the first criteria (selain dari rupa yang cantik according to my taste) mestilah the durability. I suka jam yang tahan lasak sebab I kan boleh tahan lasak la jugak. Ecece..... So both watch walaupun bling-bling tapi boleh bawak pegi swimming and even diving ye. Tapi diving takat 100m je lah. Kalau nak dalam lagi kena la ada professional diver watch, tak gitu? Lagipun I mana la reti nak diving ni, takat rendam-rendam dalam sungai boleh la. So both watches adalah tahan for that kind of activities.

I paling suka Casio watches sebab sangat kena dengan citarasa I. In fact that chronograph watch adalah my second Casio watch. Yang pertama dah rosak (after 7 years of hard usage) and tak sempat nak hantar repair lagi. Tapi lepas ni maybe nak try Seiko or Titus pulak. Itu kena tunggu tahun lain la pulak kan.

Although dah dapat jam ni, I still nak beli jugak the camera dengan alasan sebagai birthday gift. Hahaha..... Berapa banyak gift mau ni??? Saje je alasan untuk bershopping kan. Hehehe......

Lunch hour baking project

It's been a while since our last lunch hour baking project. Balik from monthly assembly on Tuesday tu kitorang decided to buat baking project on the coming Friday which was yesterday. For days I've been thinking about the project. Abenda la yang nak dibuat within that period sebab masa singkat so the thing to be made mestilah simple and cepat masak. Tetibe teringat pasal something marble with cheese and brownies. When I told Puan K about it she also actually thinking about the same thing. So set la kitorang nak buat marble cheese brownies (not brownies tapi chocolate cake kan Puan K)

Anyway, ini adalah sedikit gambar ketika kejadian. Wajah-wajah suspek terpaksa dirahsiakan atas sebab-sebab tertentu. Hehehe.....

Puan Y sedang mixing the cream cheese with sugar, egg, vanilla essence and lemon juice

Puan K sedang menunjukkan cara untuk menggreasekan the baking tin with butter and flour

Puan I sedang mempraktikkan ajaran Puan K tadi

And so the process of mixing the ingredients for the chocolate cake begin

Setelah di hias. Siap ada nama ok. Nama sifu je tak de

This is how you make the marble design

Ready to bake

Eh sebelum tu add some choc chips dulu ye

The finished product. Sedap ok

While waiting for the cake to be baked, we had pizza lunch again like last time. Dah itu je yang senang kan. Nak masak or nak take away nasi macam leceh la pulak. Meriah betul makan pizza kat rumah ramai-ramai.

Anyway, thanks to Puan K kerana sudi mengajar kami satu lagi resepi baru. Oh dan juga tips-tips yang sangat berguna itu. Thanks to Puan Y and Puan I kerana sudi singgah di penthouse I yang tak seberapa tu. Pasni rajin-rajin le kita buat baking project lagi ye.

Next project nak buat apa pulak ye? Suggestion please.....

p/s: Eh kenapa gambar Cik E tak de ni?????

Makan-makan sempena birthday April and May babies

So ini cerita birthday bash (konon-konon la kan) untuk April and May babies. Tak pernah buat ramai-ramai serentak camni. Memang pokai abih la beli hadiah. Hehehe..... The plan tu jemput sekali jenjiran adalah terpaksa dibatalkan atas sebab kekurangan ruang. Boleh gitu? Hahaha..... Iye la kalau nak jemput jenjiran ada lebih 60 orang ok. Kitorang je dah penuh satu hall depan tu. So next time kalau nak buat makan-makan with jenjiran, kena buat kat luar la. Lagipun dah ada canopy kat luar tu. Meja and kerusi je tak de.

Anyway, let the picture do the story-mory ok.

All presents already wrapped.

My tonne of muffins; choc chips, strawberry, blueberry and orange poppy seed. Percaya tak I didn't eat any of those, not even a pinch. Entah kenapa.

Must have food every time buat birthday. Selalunya selain mee ada sate tapi sebab muffin melambak so tak beli la sate. Mee ni memang sedap bangat. I guess masak seguni mee pun tak cukup. I dapat makan sikit aje. Frust betul. Each time pun macam tu. We jokingly said this mee sedap sangat sebab peluh Jannah (si tukang masak) terpercik-percik dalam tu menambah perisa. Hahaha.... I know it sounded gross tapi nama pun melawak kan. Mostly my brothers la yang suka keluarkan statement berbunyi gross begitu.

My cheesecake that no one ate that night. Semua pulun makan mee, buka hadiah and cabut tengok game bola Arsenal lawan sape ntah. Next morning baru la kitorang makan this cake

Dik Manan. Ish bila tengok gambar ni rasa rinduuuu sangat. Si masam air liur meleleh tapi ceria sepanjang masa ni

Ayum ripping off his present from me; a board tactical games. Mencabar betul ok. I pun tak reti nak main. Hahaha....

Adah also got a board game; a mini one

Nabila too. Eh baru perasan tak amik pun gambar si Meera

Epoi reading a card from her wife that was written by me. Hahaha..... He got a new watch

Dik Man got a Nokia C3 from me and Nivea deodorant from Adah. Kan dah kata dah..... Memang kecoh la sebab Dik Man dapat handphone baru. Hopefully dia akan jaga this one dengan baik. I told him that if he lost this one, he got to pay me back 5 times the original price. Hehehe......

Eman with a new watch from me and Nivea deodorant from Adah. Hopefully he likes the watch

Hayat with a new sandal. I ni bukan reti sangat nak beli sandal girly-girly ni tapi that sandal kind of cute la jugak and hopefully she likes it

Zakiah got kain pasang from me. Kain sutera bersulam warna purple for kebaya. Alamak ustazah pakai kebaya la pulak. Hahaha....

No one gave me any hadiah pun. Kesian I tau. Tapi tak pe sebab ada orang belikan hadiah and kasi I senyap-senyap sebab yang lain tak dapat. Hahahaha..... And dah dapat right on Saturday morning. So tu pasal la I tak kisah sebab tak dapat from orang lain. Hehehe.... Eh kalau orang lain tak kasi pun I tak kisah sebab bukan semua mampu nak beli kan. Since rezeki bulan April I murah sangat so merasa la semua dapat hadiah ratus-ratus. Kalau idok puluh-puluh je lah ye. Yang bulan lain-lain tu sila jangan jealous ye. Ada la tu nanti rezeki masing-masing nanti.

Flip N Cook pan. Ce teka sape kasi? Ce teka...ce teka.... Hehehe.... Mak le sape lagi. Terima kasih Mak. Pasni kena belajar la masak guna benda alah ni. Mesti best kan

Hopefully semua orang suka dan gembira la dengan hadiah masing-masing. Itu je yang termampu nak bagi. Tapi I tak puas hati betul sebab dapat makan mee sikit sangat. Hahaha..... Balik ni nak suruh Jannah masak lagi. Selain Mak, mee goreng Jannah la yang paling sedap sekali. Ish sebut-sebut dah terasa lapar. Hai sedapnya kalau dapat makan mee goreng Jannah ni......

After 21 years

Last night I went to sleep with a wide smile on my face. Something funny happened and it felt like I'm that always-giddy-with-happiness 12 years old girl again. Hahaha..... It seriously didn't felt like 21 years has passed since our last time together; all 25 of us in that 6 Melur Class of 1990. The best class ever and we were quite close with each other even though we were only together for a year. We haven't found everyone yet but few of us are quite active in FB; Mardiana, Azman, Aida and me. Others would be Noorul Hisyam, Rosmaini, Khairul Zakiah and Norshanita.   

Recently we found another 2; Hafiz and Errazudin. Hafiz commented something on our class photo; "Eny Yusof tu Zainiah ke? Aku ingat dia sebab dia pakai tudung pelik sikit". Hahaha.... Baru nak rasa bangga because someone do remember me but then it's because of my weirdness eh. Cettt.... Hahaha.... Actually my tudung is not that weird la. Everyone else wore plain tudung but mine with some lace on it. It's quite pretty though. Mom bought it so I just wear la kan. Who am I to comment on what she bought for me. Nak kena rotan? Hahaha.....  

Anyway, Errazuddin commented that he missed his "girlfriends" but he can't seem to remember her name. That comment has left me and Mardiana to become a minah kepoh sibuk nak tau sape. Hahaha..... I even put every girls name to help him remember. Then I added him as friend with a message, "oit member sebelah". He sat beside me in that class. Wanna know what his response was? 

Seriously I tergelak terbahak-bahak when I read that message. When I told Mardiana about it, she also tergelak terbahak-bahak (I guess la because we were chatting). He said, "Hai darling. Rindu kat I ke? Bla..bla..bla..." Even while typing this pun I dah tergelak-gelak ni. Seriously funny ok. Both me and Mardiana beria-ia bergossip bagai nak tau who that girl was. No I'm not saying I was that girl la but then we were quite close during that whole one year. Nama pun duduk sebelah-menyebelah kan. Mesti la geng. So maybe he referred the word "girlfriends" to those girls who were closed to him back then. Not "girlfriends" as in couple-couple ni. Hahaha..... But to be called darling after 21 years memang very funny ok. No wonder tersengih-sengih aje malam tadi. Geli hati sangat-sangat. Hahaha....

I really missed all my friends then. We were in the top class hence teachers made us responsible in so many things; choir la, nasyid la, brassband la. All that practices over practices made us closed with each other. Memang geng ok especially with 5 boys who sat next and in front of me; Rashidi, Rosmaini, Hafiz, Errazudin and Hisyam. Geng lawan pamadam, geng lawan chess, geng main mahkamah-mahkamah, geng main bola tampar and segala mak nenek geng lagi. Gengster je tak. Hehehe....

We're planning for a mini reunion in near future. Seriously can't wait to see how's everyone after 21 years. Mostly dah beranak-pinak la pun. Saiz pun dah berubah. Hehehe.....     

Eny is kerinduan

I haven't got time to update cerita balik Kuantan hari tu la. Kind of busy and tak sempat nak upload gambar. Kalau tak de gambar tak best pulak nak cerita kan. Anyway, the past few days ni I adalah diamuk rindu. Ecece.... Tapi betul la. Rindu sangat kat seseorang. Eh bukan la seseorang tapi berorang-orang. And amukan rindu ni memang la selalu terjadi bila lepas balik Kuantan. Agaknya orang bercinta tu macam ni la kot kan. Lagi jumpa lagi rindu. Hahaha.....

I missed my anak-anak sedara la. Although bila balik selalu jugak la geram dengan diorang tapi bila jauh-jauh ni rindu pulak. Rindu dengan mulut becok masing-masing. Lagipun dengan diorang tu terasa macam sangat disayangi. Hehehe..... Not that tak de orang sayang I selama ni tapi biasalah budak-budak ni kan sangat expressive. Maybe bukan dengan kata-kata sangat but tingkah laku. Action speaks louder than words gitu.

Knowing that I'm coming home, diorang sanggup tu tunggu sampai tengah malam. By 12 tu I tak sampai-sampai lagi terus la mak diorang paksa suruh tido. Takkan la nak tunggu sampai pagi kan. We reached Kuantan around 2.30am so memang budak-budak tu dah sampai ke London pun dalam mimpinya.

Saturday morning I terus kejut Meera bangun. Makcik ni selalunya liat sikit nak bangun tapi bila I cakap, "Meera, bangunlah. Cik Ngah dah balik ni" terus celik mata and bangun. Hai kalau hari-hari senang kejut macam ni kan bagus. Dengan air liur basi tak cuci muka, terus pegi rumah my brother. Tengok budak bertiga tu pun dah bangun. I brought along the cutlery's set from IKEA. Memang gembira la masing-masing dapat sorang 2 set kan. Satu letak rumah my brother and satu letak rumah my parents. Jadi tak de la nak berebut-rebut.   

Lepas Zuhur we (the 4 kids, Zakiah (my SIL), Jannah and me) went to East Coast Mall for a shopping sessions. Kecoh betul ok. Beli hadiah, beli groceries, beli makanan budak-budak tu and we had a late lunch kat Pizza Hut. Semua licin kena bedal dengan budak-budak tu. Paling terkejut tengok Nabila la. Contrary to her sister who can wallop everything, Nabila is very picky eater. Susah betul nak makan. Tapi dekat Pizza Hut tu, semua benda dia bedal; soup, pizza, spaghetti and bread. Kalau selalu makan banyak camtu kan bagus. Memang western betul makcik sorang ni. Kalau nak suruh makan nasi memang bercinta ok. Silap hari bulan boleh kena darah tinggi kalau nak kasi dia makan.  

Adah my eldest niece is very observant. Kitorang cakap dia suka sekodeng. Hahaha..... Kaki sekodeng sebab suka tengok orang bersiap. But I guess everyone pun macam tu kan. I pun suka tapi bukan la tengok orang pakai baju ke apa but more to bersolek bagai. By being such an observer, she remember who wear what, baju sape and etc. And by that, bila keluar bershopping, she always wanted to buy present for everyone. Normally toiletries la. For the uncles birthday present, Adah choose Nivea For Men spray deodorant for Eman dan Dik Man and hair gel for Ayum. The aunties got nothing. Sampai hati Adah ni tau. Later on when I asked why she didn't gave me any present she said, "Cik Ngah kan keluar sekali. Nanti tak sepress (surprise) la". Amboi nak surprise-surprise pulak.

That night she wanted to sleep with me but the dad tak perasan kot so bawak je dia balik. Esok tu my SIL cakap Adah menangis kat tepi dinding sebab tak dapat tido dengan I. Alala..... kesian la pulak. Sunday was a busy day sebab I sibuk buat muffins. Meera kena buat kerja sekolah yang super banyak so she can't come close to me until she finished everything. So kurang sorang yang nak kena layan. Tapi 2 makcik tu pun dah tak terlayan ok. That night semua suka la dapat hadiah. And dapat tido dengan I jugak. 

Dari dulu lagi I have this passion in terms of how you say it eh, menjaga kebersihan budak-budak. I love to potongkan kuku diorang, bersihkan telinga, mandikan, siapkan diorang. And I love to suapkan makan jugak. So sebab tu bila balik mesti diorang suruh mandikan and suapkan makan. Despite mulut I yang suka membebel tengok kuku panjang and kotor, mandi suka melompat-lompat sampai I basah, makan lambat sangat and all but deep inside, I suka buat semua tu. Membebel tu sebenarnya is my way to teach them; what to do and what not to do. Sounds familiar sangat kan. Just like my mom with her long list of do's and don't. Like mother like daughter la kan. Hehehe....

On the last day at home, penat I asyik nak kena jawab soalan diorang, "Cik Ngah nak balik dah ke? Kenapa tak cuti lama sikit?" Sekejap Meera tanya. Sekejap Adah pulak tanya. Pastu nanti Meera tanya lagi. And then Adah pulak. Hoih saling berganti. Last-last, "Berapa kali nak tanya ni? Dah kan cakap dah tadi." Tapi bila fikir-fikir balik kesian pulak kat diorang. Orang tu tanya sebab sedih Cik Ngah dia dah nak balik yang Cik Ngah ni cepat aje nak marah kan. Bukan marah tapi ada sikit geram la jugak kan. Hehehe......  

Adik Manan pun dah makin besar. Dah ada dua batang gigi bawah and dah pandai mengisut. Kalau tengok Dik Manan mengisut memang kelakar. Bersungguh-sungguh macam berenang aja gayanya. Tak lama lagi mesti pandai merangkak sebab dah start angkat badan macam pumping tu. Geram je rasa nak gigit tapi dengan besi berceracak dalam mulut ni kalau gigit mau luka karang. Hehehe..... 

Hai rindunya lah..... Bila la nak jumpa diorang lagi ni. Oh by the way, I stumbled upon a blog yang menjual permainan kanak-kanak yang best. Semua benda best and teringin nak beli. Murah pulak tu. Kepada yang berminat, check out this blog here. Cakap pasal permainan ni kan, I ingat I nak beli board games la untuk makcik 3 orang tu. Macam best pulak tengok diorang main the small board games I bought earliear. Tapi too small the board it makes even the small hand pun macam susah nak main. Wah lepas ni memang kerap la pegi Toys R Us kat Alamanda tu. Hehehe....

Next time balik kena amik gambar diorang banyak-banyak la. Kalau rindu boleh tengok. Ni selalu terlupa nak amik. Anyway, I hope they would still love me the same until I die la. Selalu terfikir macam tu. Kecik-kecik ni memang la sayang. I la segala-galanya. Kot esok dah besar dah lupa kat Cik Ngah ni. Harap-harap tidak la kan. Tetibe sedih la pulak. Hmmmmmm......        

Running out of "chop"

Last Friday, on the way back to Kuantan, we stop by at a restaurant somewhere in Gombak for a dinner. Not long after placing our order, someone came to our place and asked if there's anyone had ordered oxtail soup coz they are running out of it. It was Bang Long and he said to replace it with bones instead. Then she moved to the next table and this is what Eman heard.

Cook (agaknyalah) : Ada order chicken chop tak?

Customer : Ada

Cook : Chop dah tak de lah.

Customer : bla..bla..bla... (changed it to another dishes)

Chop dah tak de? I can't stop myself from laughing all the way. Seriously I couldn't understand what does that "chop" refers to. Anyone?