A (Hu) N G R Y

As usual, this morning, I drove out to get my sons' breakfast at Section 4.  Hampir2 b*ntot MyVi nak kena langgar dek mamat yang keluar dari simpang and ikut rapat.  Huhuhu.. sampaikan abang jual nasi lemak tu pun seriau and tak henti2 mulut dia membebel "dekatnya.. dah nak langgar dah.. takut saya".  Tahu lah orang dah dapat gaji tapi tak kan berlebih sampai nak sponsor b*ntot kereta aku..

This morning I decided to go for my usual Murtabak Singapore.  Dengar2 keluar kat JJCM last sunday.  Jengok dari jauh.. Hmm..macam ok je.  Parking masih banyak.  Park depan kedai dobi bersebelahan kedai MS.  Capai buku cerita dan keluar kereta.  Sambil lalu tukang buat MS, buat pesanan sekali.  "Akak punya macam biasa, satu lapis garing sikit, ye".  Mamat tu pandang, dan angguk kepala.

Melangkah masuk kedai.  Mak oii.. semua meja penuh dengan orang dah.  Ish.. dari mana orang2 nie.  Agaknya dari tempat futsal sebelah kot..  Nampak satu meja yang masih kosong dan bersih.  Berlalu dengan cepat dan duduk.  Seorang pekerja datang dan took my drink order.  Buka buku dan mula membaca.  Sini tak ada Wifi, jadi tak boleh surf.  Sambil2 tu mata menjeling pada pelanggan baru datang, duduk di sebelah (a couple), di hadapan kiri (a family) and right in front (3 boys).  Kesemuanya placed orders long after I did. 

I waited and waited.  Couple sebelah dah dapat order MS mereka.  I repeated my drink order to the waitress.  Family depan dah dapat order minuman mereka.  Lepas tu budak2 depan pun dah dapat air mereka.  Another worker noticed I still had not got anything, asked what I wanted to drink.  I placed my order AGAIN.  (3 kali order air!!)

Glanced at the clock.  Rasa2 macam dah nak dekat sejam dah duduk situ.  Satu hapah pun tak dapat lagi.  Dah 6 muka surat aku baca buku "Iman Suraya".  Huh.. pack up my things, walked pass the waitress and said "Cancel semua!!  Lambat sangat." 

Walked into my car and drove to my favourite breakfast port.  As I walked into Fariz Maju, noticed that most of the tables are full.  Iye lah mak/ayah dah dapat gaji, breakfast kat luar lah ye.  Eyed the table nearest the kitchen (it usually ensure me getting my food fast).  As I walked to the table, I passed the cashier who recognised me and said "Biasa ka akak?  Mee goreng lebey kueh, takmo cili api.. nescafe air kurang manis".  I just nodded and sat down.  Started surfing fb.. belum pun habis membaca dan menjawap posting kawan2, air nes dan mee goreng panas dah terhidang.  Macam tu lah servis yang baik...

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I think I should avoid MS until its fame subsides.  Kalau dulu servis dia slow and sengal, sekarang ni lebih2 lagi lah.  MS dia pun belum capai piawaian MS dari JB.

Bowling? Not..

11pm: Faiz fb~tibe2 terasa best kalau dapat hang out dgn Quya :-p 

So a plan was hatched to go bowling.  Initially I wanted to go along.  Saja nak window shop.  But an accident occurred this morning and I ended up having to mop up the floor.  The accident?  The bag of fish curry broke and spilled on the floor.  Mamak fish curry smell will linger even when you have wiped the floor clean and only when you use a pine/lavender scented floor cleaner will the smell dissipate.

So.. I was planning to rest my aching back the whole afternoon.

However when Quya arrived on my doorstep (she came all the way from Hulu Langat), i changed my mind.  I had sent Quya in search of maggi asam laksa mini packs (that my doter asked for) on the other side of town because I failed to find any over here.  Susah kan, orang dalam camp dah mengidam ni.. (Fatimah and Ina.. jangan lah mintak yang susah nak cari ek, masa you all mengandung nie).

So we went to Metropoint, Kajang.  The kids went upstairs to have their game while Mama went shopping.  First stop was MyDin, across Metropoint in search of the illusive maggi.  Nope, none there.  Next stop was Romantica.. I love browsing through the shelves of bric bracs and flowers.  Ended up buying cotton material with small rose prints.  I want to make a dress for Fatin, maybe in time for Hari Raya..hahaha  Then I went to another favorite spot aptly called Hot Value Mart.  Bought a box to store the kids' neck ties.

Then I went to see the kids bowl.  All the lanes were full and I had a tough time looking for Faiz.  Quya jangan cakap lah.. dengan size XXS dia, memang tak nampak, unless dia pakai neon jacket.  Plonked myself in the seat and watched them bowl.  Malay music was blaring away..loud.  Songs of yesteryears.. mendayu-dayu.  Sah2 bola semua boleh jatuh 'longkang' sebab menahan pilu...hahaha..  I asked Faiz, "boleh tak request tukar lagu?".  To which he retorted, "Ni bukan kara-oke lounge lah maaa".  Iye lah, pasang lah lagu2 yang up sikit, baru lah seronok nak main.  Hmmm.. I took out my hand fan (walaupun air cond agak kuat, but I was perspiring~ladies dont sweat, ok~, maybe I am having a hot flush.. I dont know).  I started fanning myself.  Opened my story book and continued where I stopped.

Finally the kids finished their game and we drove back, smack into the heavy rain and traffic jam.  So we headed to Alamanda (to avoid the Kajang jam??) and had pizza.  Otw there, Faiz overtook a red Gen2 and I saw the driver with a handphone in his hand!  It passed my mind that this driver was asking for an accident.  Just as we turned left heading towards Alamanda, Faiz saw in the rear-view mirror, the same red Gen2 swerving left and right trying to gain control of his car!!   Dont know what happened to the Gen2 as he was lost from view.  Haiya.. why lah risk your life (and maybe others), using the handphone while driving and in the rain some more!!!

The drive back was just as nerve wrecking as we try to avoid the jam that has sprouted because of the rain.  Finally reached bangi safely after going round and round putrajaya/cyberjaya.  Told Faiz to detour to get job application forms for the kids (not me!)

Home Sweet Home.. and BED!

Sukan d0lu2

Terbaca status kawan tentang "berlari dalam guni", suddenly teringatkan majlis sukan zaman sekolah rendah dulu.  Nak bandingkan dengan sukan zaman anak2 sekarang.. rasa2nya enjoy habis zaman itu. 

Latihan demi latihan di jalankan walaupun kita hanya berlari dengan telur dalam sudu, berlari dalam guni dan "elephant walk" siap dengan topeng yang di buat masa arts class.  Itu untuk murid yang berada dalam lower primary (darjah 1-3).

Bagi yang lebih "senior" (darjah 4-6), sukan lebih 'serious'.  Relay atau lari berganti pun di anggap serious.  Bukan senang nak 'passing' baton.  Mula dengan tangan kanan dan passing pada tangan kiri kawan.  Bila dah selamat tangkap dengan tangan kiri, hendaklah di tukarkan ke tangan kanan pula.  Macam mana berlatih pun, ada kala nya jatuh juga baton tu.

Oleh sebab kita ni agak tinggi, kenalah masuk lompat tinggi.. tapi tak le tinggi mana pun kalau nak bandingkan dengan standard professsional!  Haha..  Minat jugak dengan discus and javelin throwing.  Teringat satu incident di mana discus yang kawan nak baling terlepas kebelakang dan hit batang hidung budak yang kebetulan duduk dekat.  Huhu.. sampai sekarang kalau nampak orang tu, kita ingat balik.. Orang tu sekarang bergelar Datuk dah pun.

Minggu sebelum sukan di adakan, kita sibuk dengan 'march past'.  Kita lead lah...  almaklum suara kuat.  Hehe..  kemudian sehari dua sebelum sukan, kita kena decorate khemah mengikut warna kumpulan.  Kita dari rumah biru, jadi segala dalam khemah kena berwarna biru dan sehingga kini saya ingat bunga warna biru tu, iaitu bunga telang.  Sekarang baru kita dapat tahu bunga tu di gunakan untuk buat nasi kerabu.

Habis sukan, pasti akan bawa balik banyak hadiah juga trofi2.  Hamper2 akan di buka dan kandungan nya di bahagi2 sama rata.

Seronoknya zaman kanak2.

Sentuhan Cinta ~ Haiza Najwa

This time round, I took a longer time to complete reading this novel, but complete it, I finally did.  Sorry lah HN.  What with my niece's wedding preparation, I was side tracked so often.  In fact, sometimes I didnt even have the time to read the newspapers.

I began reading but before I could even finish the first chapter, I was put off by the big bombastic words!  Haish.. how to keep my interest and finish reading the book!  I pacified myself by saying, this is one of her old novels.. (first print in 2007).  I trudged on and before I knew it, I was hooked and looking forward to know what is in the next page/chapter.  (Hehehe.. HN, this time I did not skip to the end, ok).

Sentuhan Cinta is a story about Hurin Ain's life.  Born from a mixed marriage, Hurin's looks takes after her european mother.  After her mother's death, she was brought up my her step-mother.  Vengeful because of what life has brought her, the step-mother brain washed Hurin into thinking that she is ugly and undesirable. 

She married a chinese convert because the man she loved did not give her any indication of his true feelings for her.  Even though she married Redzal after her divorce from Steven, more hardship was in store.

Read the book to know the end.  Many lessons inserted in between the chapters of Hurin's life that can be applicable in our actual life.  That is one of the reasons I love HN's books.

~~ cuma satu je, HN gunalah bahasa yang lebih difahami orang biasa2 nie.. e.g. curmudgeon (page 4), why not stubborn? Hmm..

I want cake...

This morning I saw at my friend's FB, the various types of cakes her sister bakes.  What attracted me most was the Red Velvet with cream cheese Cake.  It was so red and (yes!) velvety in texture.  At first I thought she used rhubarb to get the deep red colour. 

So, this evening I googled for the recipe and found on the internet a step-by-step instruction on how to make the cake.  Oooo.. they used red colouring to get the colour.  But what set the difference in the cake was that they put in a mixture of vinegar and soda!  I wonder how that taste.. 

As I finished dinner (leftover chicken hanith from Saba restaurant), I asked Faiz if he wanted some cake?  Hehe.. he was game for it.  So off we went to hunt for cake at Sec*ret..where else..

I had a slice of pecan butterscotch while Faiz asked for the choc fudge.  The young couple in front of us bought a slice of chocolate indulgence (ultra sweet) and even had inscriptions of birthday wish and a single candle.  Talk of budget celebration!

I am now on a sugar high...

Sudan dan Saba

Two days ago, I received a call from my friend Salina, telling me that my BFF in Sudan is back for good.  It seemed that Salina was trying to locate her friend and instead called my BFF, Eda.  The last time Eda was in town she was rushing to see her sister in hospital as well as her son in boarding school.  I told her to attend to family and its ok if we dont meet.  Family comes first, right?

As soon as I knew she was back, I quickly texted her and asked for her whereabouts.  Yes, she was back in Malaysia for good and moving back to Putrajaya.  Since her own house is not ready yet, she has to resort to renting a house near to her brother's house.  And since the rented house is not livable yet, she is staying in a hotel.  She gave me the address for her rented house.

This morning she called me to say that she will be at the house to unpack her things and also to see the contractors putting in the air conditioners.  Since Faiz is getting bored, I told him to google-map Eda's house.  He got the coordinates and with the assistance of the GPS dude, off we went in search of Eda's house.

We found the house easily.  In a beautiful section of Putrajaya.  Very quiet place and the gardens was flourishing with beautiful plants and flowers.  Haha.. if the same potted flowering plants were in my area, pasti akan hilang and end up at someone's house.  But then this is Putrajaya..

Anyway.. met Eda and family.  Stayed awhile only as I can see that Eda still has alot to do and I am hungry.

Next on the agenda.. search of lunch/dinner.  We are bored of Alamanda food fare so I told Faiz to locate Saba restaurant.  With the help of Azhar, who gave us the coordinates to the restaurant, we headed blindly with just GPS dude to direct us.  We cant see the restaurant from the main road.  Instead we have to access the restaurant from the back lane.  From outside, we thought the place was full but when we went in, there was still many empty tables.

But Faiz was more comfortable eating at home, so we ordered take-away.  I was very disappointed they dont have mandy rice.  It was there in the menu but they said they no longer offer it.  Hmm.. since we have travelled so far, I wasnt going to go back empty handed.  I opt for 1/2 Chicken-Hanith.  I wasnt sure of the size of the portion so I ordered extra rice.

Faiz reminded me not to buy barbican, the malted bottled drink, because the last time I drank it, I ended up with an upset stomach.

We headed home with the chicken and rice.  OMG, the rice was so looooong..haha..  Sedap.  The chicken is tender and moist.  Alhamdulillah.. it was worth it.

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On the way back, I saw some mynah birds hopping in the grass.  What was strange about the birds was, they all were almost bald!  The mynahs must have been a fight and got all the feathers pecked off their head.

Air FREEEE

Walk to the letterbox to retrieve the water bill.  And guess what??  At last I get to use water for FREE.  Eat your heart out Azri!  Hahaha..

Note the words "AT LAST".. I have been trying hard to get free water but to no avail.  Having a daughter who changes clothes as fast as she blinks her eyes doesnt help either.  Luckily I only have ONE daughter.  I can imagine the pile of laundry (washing) I would have to go through daily if I have.. 4??  Hahaha.. that's how many my ex-madu has.  Now that KA is away in camp, I only do washing on alternate days.  Otherwise it could be twice a day!

My son azhar on the other hand has been enjoying this perk for ages.  In fact, SYA*BAS owes him money.  Azri would like to enjoy the advantage but he lives in another state.  I think I will savour this while it last.  The next state goverment might take back this perk.  Huhu..

**  Hey, upon checking the bill again, I in fact used less than what is discounted!