of Being a Chembeng Boy

This morning. Like any other weekdays, park keta depan taska. Tebby walked Kakak to school. Iman tolong punggah beg masuk taska. Adam ambik barang-barang dia. Then he emerged back, muka chembeng, air mata dah berkolam.

Mak Nor kata hari ni pakai baju raya... (dia pakai baju tadika macam biasa).
Tambah dramatik, airmata pun menitik.

** semalam masa pick up dari taska dia ada sebut Ustaz ada bagi 'surat raya' Warna hijau tau Ummi surat tu **

Alas, he forgot. Ai pun forgot. But this morning he woke up extra early, extra happy, extra chirpy. Maybe he remembered something was going to take place but he too busy sorting out which toys to bring to even remember what exactly was going on.

Sebelum kolam kat mata tu pecah berderai disertai guruh dan ribut petir, kami putuskan - patah balik belakang. He insisted to come along. Balik rumah, bukak his dressers. Oh noo!! Mana baju raya?? *sambil pandang stacks of boxes tepi dinding* We have just moved in last weekend remember? Korek dresser bawah sekali jumpa baju raya past years. I coaxed him into Iman's greenish grey baju melayu. Baju Iman when he was about Adam's age. A tad bit loose but okaylah. Sorry Adam, all wrinkled up, tak sempat nak gosok.

Donned baju melayu. Siap bersongkok. Senyum simpul.

Sampai pintu rumah...
Ustaz kata bawak kuih raya punnn boleeeehhhhh Ummmiiiiiiii 

Ala, kita takde kuih raya Dik *Ummi tipu sebenarnya sebab nak cepat go ofis*
Adaaaaaaa...... Saya tau ada kat dapur. Yang Abah dapat duluuuu tuuuuuu......

Adoilah.

Pegi dapur pulak cari kuih raya. Tutup pintu rumah. Kunci pagar. Berdesup ke taska. Ada orang tu senyum sampai telinga. Sampai taska, Ustaz depan pagar sambut budak-budak.

Ustazzzzzzz... sayaaaa pakaiii baju rayaaa. Sayaaaaa bawak kuih raaayaaaaa...

:P

Jadi mak pak orang memang macam tu. Kalah dengan airmata anak-anak..
1-0 ye Dik..

of Keeping Fit

My husband really jogs these days. Weekends, daytime. Weekdays, after Maghrib or Isya', depending on time we reach home. I've been complaining to him that dia sorang-sorang je la sihat nanti. I'll rot faster than him that I do not get as much exercise.

So, last weekend we went jogging. Kat Lake Valley, near our house. (Gambar atas tu bukan rumah kami, harap maklum) It was such a long long long (bunyi cengkerik) time we last jogged here (in fact in anywhere else jugak ha ha). Rasanya seround tasik ni about 3km. My elder two, MasyaAllah, they ran with bursting energy and in no time dah sudah seround. By the time I finished doing my lap, they were happily swinging already! Apart from my flabs, fats and whatnots that slowed me down, barely halfway through, Adam decided he needed me to dukung him.

3/4 through, Tebby came to our rescue. Nampak ajer abahnya datang, elok pulak si Adam turun berlari. Ceh! Tak best kot berlari dengan omaknya eh? Serve me right. Komplen lagi tak cukup exercise, sekali dapat peluang, siap masuk kategori 'lari dukung anak' lagi..

of Being Worried..

Semalam flash-flood di KL akibat hujan lebat. Secara spesifiknya menghala ke selatan. My friend updated he FB, rasanya 3-4 jam jugak dia struck on the road. Some sampai rumah dah midnight. Those yang berkeluarga, yang anak-anak dah sampai rumah atau di nursery, alhamdulillah. Walaupun mungkin panjang muncung merajuk ambik lambat, mereka selamat di rumah/tadika.Within compound of safety, InsyaAllah.

Yang dijemput ibubapa macamana? Menunggu di pagar sekolah sampai tengahmalam kah? Guard sekolah ambil kesah kah? Ada guru berbaik hati temankan mereka kah? MasyaAllah. Memikirkan hal itu saja dah menyesakkan! Makan kah? Minum kah? Kesian sangat-sangat.

Alhamdulillah semalam kami ambik route lain balik rumah. The other route yang kami occasionally use memang congested. Jam 6.30 langit gelap macam dah hampir pukul 8.00 malam. Sampai kawasan taska sekitar 6.45 petang. Hujan lebat. Sebak teringatkan Iman yang sekolah sesi petang. Sekolah habis 6.30 petang. Basahkah dia? Masih di sekolahkah? Sedang berjalan pulang dengan kawan-kawankah dalam hujan lebat? Lega bila disambut dengan senyum simpul. Dah siap mandi. Cuma kasut sekolah basah. Syukur. Kakak dah sampai dari sekolah agama jam 5.45 petang. Adam dah siap sedia nak balik.

Itu saya. Bayangkan perasaan ibubapa yang tersangkut di jalan hingga tengahmalam dengan anak-anak yang menunggu di pagar sekolah? Dengan tiada henfon untuk dihubungi? Ya Allah, lindungilah anak-anak itu semua!

Kepada cikgu/guard yang berbaik hati mengawal dan menyelia anak-anak semalam, terima kasih tak terhingga. Saya pasti ada yang berhati mulia. Kepada Nor, pengasuh taska anak-anak saya, terima kasih juga kerana tak kira hujan tak kira panas tetap akan pastikan anak-anak asuhan selamat pergi sekolah dan kembali ke taska.

of Crabbing Good Times @Pantai Batu Burok

The kids love beach as much as I do although I have stopped doing things I did before i.e. getting wet in seawater. These days I just sit on the sand and watch them having good times.

Pantai Batu Burok.Not very far from my inlaw's.The kids beg (and nag) us to bring them there everytime we go balik kampung.We can't go out as much as we did now that my PIL has passed away last January and that my MIL is not very well herself.

Kite flying is easy here at the beach :D Lucky thing yang 3 beradik tu tak ambik pot pasal lelayang that day. If not 'kchennngggg' out duit raya beli lelayang.

They are more interested main air. As Adam puts it 'Besarnyaaaaaa swimmingggg poooolll ni Ummiiii' :D No matter how I have cautioned them not to wet themselves too much, kids will always be kids.

Adam - mocking me *sigh* when I asked him to get out from the water. Cheeky I tell you, this boy. A ball of bursting energy (and fun!)

 

 

 

Told ya, they had some crabbing good times! :D

of Relocating

We have fully moved to house next door last Saturday. The house is identical to ours. Placement of rooms, bathrooms and whatnots are the same. Except they have larger kitchen. We basically just 'cut' and 'paste' our things into the house. First morning in the rented house - I woke up disorientated not knowing where I was and wondering big time where my wardrobe was!

Sounds easy peasy huh? 

Well, not quite.
Actually it was not!! 

It was a back-breaking, muscle straining, head aching experience. And no 11.5ft wardrobe like I used to have (used to have because today they tore it down.. sobs) No water-heater (brrrrr!!!). And the hobs are faulty too. But anyway, the fact that it's just house next door, alhamdulillah. We have actually relocated our kitchen-things on Friday but did our cooking in our house.

Minyak mana?
Oh.. dah pindah rumah sebelah.
*ambik minyak masak*
Teh mana?
Oh, kat rak.
Rak rumah sebelah.
*ambik teh*

:P

Astro guy came on Friday for relocation. Called them up via 1-300-82-3838 on Tuesday. Wednesday no one called me up to fix an appointment. By Thursday noon I was fed-up enough that I have them a return call. Only to be given a contact number for me to call to fix an appointment. Not the kind of service I expect from Astro. I gave them a bit of lecture and told them there was no way for me to call up their technician. And by 5.00pm I got my appointment date and time. Call center blamed technician. Technician blamed Call Center. Yada yada yada. Actually what happened in between was not my problem. Well, it was in a way. But to pass your customer around is not something you should do, Astro.

Astro guy, Lip is doing his thing on our roof. Relocated to roof next door. Lucky thing wiring already got so just connect to the dish. Relocation FOC - for beyond. Anywhere in Malaysia tapi let them do 100%. Jangan usik decorder, wire, and dish tu.

Oh ya, Lip came an hour late :P

of 12th Anniversary

31st August 2012

thanks Yang for 12 years of togetherness (and more to come, InsyaAllah)

dua belas tahun lepas,
makan kongsi sepinggan - jimat katanya

dua belas tahun kemudian,
makan kongsi sepinggan - cinta katanya!


:D

of Pleasant Surprise!

Bunga!

I am ecstatic. Thanks Yang for the beautiful bouquet. Truly a pleasant surprise as this er... does not happen often :D Keep em coming baby (sempat lagi tu hi hi) Too happy that I can't wait to blog about it tomorrow :D

I'll be 38 tomorrow.
Will also mark our 12 years of marriage.

Ai lebiu Yang.