Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Goodbye Optra

Optra, back in 2005
We used to call this car, Iman's car. Reason being, sehari lepas bersalinkan Iman di APSH, En Tebby telah meng-order sebuah kereta Chevrolet Optra di showroom depan nun. Showroom tu dah takde dah, dah ganti dengan showroom Suzuki. So does our Optra, it doesn't exist in our family anymore.



Nak dijadikan cerita lagi, after almost 5 years bersama kami, of course ada jugak si Optra ni mengalami kecederaan-kecederaan kecil. First accident masa Iman umur sebulan. Dia menangis non stop. We rushed to APSH and en-route, a motorbike hit us from behind, habis pecah lampu belakang. Of courselah itu pakcik motor kata kami salah kan. But we were almost static in a heavy traffic. And we were in front, not at the back of you. Second accident masa balik kampung ke Terengganu untuk raya. Masa tu Iman tak sihat. Demam, selsema, batuk berpanjangan. On the way balik, satu bapak ayam dengan ganasnya terbang di tengah-tengah jalan. Langsung kami langgar, breaking the front grill. Third masa balik dari taska. Iman demam panas. Nak keluar simpang tu, ntah macamana silapnya, bergesel dengan kereta lain. Calar balar sebelah belakang. Iman lah jugak orang yang paling kerap muntah dalam Optra ni. So, how can we not say it was Iman's car kan.



Saya pulak ada satu masalah. I always make emotional relationship to things I own. Like the breatspump, sometimes shoes, the kids' first toys and whatnots. Optra included. In fact the time it was taken away, it was an emotional separation (Tebby said it was just a car.. mennn...), Kakak must have gotten it from me. She cried for hours.




Optra in 2009 - SOLD






So, now you know what we were expecting kan.

12 comments:

y@tipruzz said...

bila dah smpi postla gambar. En transformer ke bukan ker....

tp ade emotional attachment to a car? that sounds a bit amusing to me :p But i may act like u when it comes to breastpump hoho

ummi said...

yati ~ jom intai kat LG3. takpun intai kat rumah akak. dah sampai semalam... suker... suker...

y@tipruzz said...

wahh kena main intai2 ker. Ala ape salahnyer upload..sure ramai mau tgk tuuuu :p

ummi said...

yati ~ errr... sebenarnya kamera ku tertinggal kat rumah :P

Ina Hashim said...

tie

now i'm missing 'our' optra too...*sob*...ekceli hubby's co. car...but now sokmo bg prob,overheated etc...so,he left it for other car..sedeyyyy

Tyha said...

Uihhh...ni akan jadi kereta ADAMlah kot kak...hehehehehe.Anyway...selamat menyedut bau kereta baru...I hate it...sokmo buat me semput...;)

ummi said...

k ina ~ optra tu memang elok sgt lagi. enjin ok, dalam ok. full leather lagi. tapi sbb space tak cukup, tukar keta lain.

tyha ~ ku tak suka bau kusyen baru.. rasa nak muntah!

Zuedin said...

yee lepas ni bleh buat padang bola.... besau tu en. alphard
(beb ni ku jeles sebab bleh isi barang bnyk---hihihihihihi)

BTW-- wafiy nak ucapkan happy one year old to adam. :)

mamalisa said...

salam, lama x masuk sini..wahhh keta baru kak? MPV ke?postla pic?

ummi said...

zue ~ takdelah cam padang. luas enough so that kakak dgn iman tak gado2 pasal terduduk on one another he he

mamalisa ~ semua sihat? a ah. beli MPV. nanti eh, ku tampalkan gamba

y@tipruzz said...

o0o0o en transformer yer....waahh hebattt!

Anonymous said...

Salam Puan Ummi..

Saya jadi berminat pulak dengan model optra nie..tapi sebelum tu,saya just nak tanya pasal apa-apa masalah yang selalu dihadapi berkenaan dengan model nie..sparepart dia dll..tq..