Monday, May 31, 2010

now everyone can fly



last weekend pegi phnom penh lagi. bought the ticket in august last year when air asia was on sale. a return trip kl-phnom penh was on rm 70.00 per pax. sangat murah booking je dulu pegi tak pegi belakang kira. tapi last sekali pegi juga. masa on the way nak naik flight tuh iaitu dengan memanjat tangga yang tinggi itu terbaca slogan now everyone can fly. memang betul lah. i totally agreed. tapi rasanya sekarang the fare is not that cheap anymore plus the add-ons etc. but air asia memang telah membawa saya berjalan ke beberapa tempat. without airasia tak merasala pegi ke beberapa destinasi tuh.



teringat masa air asia mula-mula in the market. they will cancel the flight without informing us in advance. me and aiman had to wait in penang airport for almost 4 hours sebab masa tu they cancel and combined flight. that was the first time aiman naik flight and he was so excited tapi dah kena tunggu punyala lama. he slept all the way to kl. at that point in time there was no assigned seat. but since i was with infant boleyla masuk awal.



after that they all dah cerdik sikit kot informed early if there's change in the schedule tapi tidak begitu cerdik sebab tak de seat lagi. aduhh kena berpusu-pusu berebut seat la pulak.



but now you can pay to get the seat u want. for me bagi la seat apa pon janji sampai. but with the assigned seat taklah kita kena berebut-rebut lagi.


nowadays malaysia airlines pon have fare yang affordable. itupun thanks to airaisa because mas have to compete with airasia. in fact sometimes if you boleh plan carefully flight ticket kl-pen can be cheaper than bus ticket kl-pen. but the hassle to go to/from airport la pulak.




Sunday, May 16, 2010

the birds and the bees

my mom told me that my sister who got married in march is now 5 weeks pregnant. mom seemed happy. but she dinna announce it to the whole clan yet during our weekend gathering in ipoh last weekend. she must have her own reason.

my other sister who got married in 2006 is still trying. she's been undergoing several tests and procedures and up till this moment still not giving up hope. though we are close i am not that good in discussing this kind of issues with her. belum ada rezeki kot.

as for me for the time being i am contented with two of my own.

the first one was concieved right after we got married.

and the second one came four years after.

when i conceived my first born i was hoping for a girl. with all the dresses and hair bands in town who wouldn't. masa scanned and was told that it could be a boy i was still hoping up till the last minute that it could also be a girl. bukannya tak bersyukur. terlalu mengikut emosi agaknya. dapat boy pun ok. alhamdulillah.

when we decided to start trying for the second child i did some research as to how to conceive baby girl with the help and power of the Internet and of course that was just for fun, as at the end of the day semua tu kuasa allah.
some of my friend believed in Chinese lunar calender. but i did not. sebab tak nampak logicnya. tapi mungkin kita punya hormon ikut kitaran bulan ke ape ke? ntahlah
but it took me quite some time to get pregnant second time around. faktor umur dan terlampau mengikut tips hendak mendapat anak perempuan gamaknya.

yang bestnya allah makbulkan juga doa. alhamdulillah.
so for now my prayer goes to both my sisters (the newly pregnant and the one who's been trying) and all ladies out there of the same boat. insyaallah

selamat hari guru

selamat hari guru kepada semua guru-guru.
kerjaya guru memang mulia.
banyak juga cikgu-cikgu dalam family.

arwah opah dulu cikgu.
sebaik saya masuk form 4 dia pernah cakap
"aku cikgu; mak kamu cikgu; kamu pun nanti cikgu senang"
tapi saya bukan cikgu.

mak kerja cikgu.
dah pencen pun orang masih panggil cikgu. bagus kan?
tapi tak pernah diajar oleh mak. kami tak pernah satu sekolah. seramai 6 orang anaknya; anak yang last saja berpeluang diajar olehnya.
bernasib baik? siapa? kami? atau anak yang last tuh?


arwah ayah dulu pun cikgu. mengajar di mckk.
kalau berjalan jumpa student nya yang bukan calang-calang nampak riak muka bahagia dan bangga.
walau bukan anak sendiri; anak didik pun jadilah tumpang berbangga.
masa check-up jantung di hkl dulu pon he was attended by one of his former student.
sampai dah arwah pun title cikgu tetap tak hilang.

daripada 6 anak mak. sorang je masuk line mengajar. itupun lecturer. yang lain takde kena mengena. yang last masih belajar. tapi tak amik course perguruan pun. tak taulah kot nanti amik kpli pulak. hehehe

menantu-menantu tok pon kebanyakannya cikgu.
kalau jadi cikgu memang ramai yang nak buat menantu
senang mengurus rumah tangga katanya.
cikgu kerja half day.
tapi sekarang tak tahulah.

SELAMAT HARI GURU
(waah mesti dapat banyak hadiah!!) aiman dan hanna pon sebok balut hadiah tadi.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

pork free

last week jalan jalan carik makan.
ada satu kedai baru bukak at the corner.
quite big and the deco quite intresting.
dah lama plan nak try tapi tak kesampaian
hari tuh teringat
so pegilah namanya pon My One S******. ala ala menyahut seruan satu malaysia.
masuk masuk tengok customer agak ramai.
melayu cina india semua ada
deco sangat cantik.
tengok menu on the table ada jual beer. oh rasa tidak sesuai anak anak tengok.
tengok menu yang dia bagi alamak di tulis PORK FREE aaaa
memangla bebas babi (atau adakah percuma babi?) tapi adakah ayam/daging and ingredients ditanggung halal.
terus tekak rasa loya. sebab disebut sebut binatang itu. hahahha
kalau tak mention taklah imagine sangat.
terus keluar.
cari lah kedai lain yang tak tulis PORK FREE tapi ditanggung halal.
hilang was was.
tapi heran motif PORK FREE itu ditulis.
dan masih terpikir-pikir hingga sekarang.

Monday, May 10, 2010

perihal bibik

my maid went back to indonesia last october.
she refused to renew her contract after serving me for almost 4 years.
her reason: mau nengok orang tua di kampung
for me its fair enough since she has decided that she doesn't want to work anymore.
plus dari dia mengaku nak sambung pastu tak datang lagi kijam kan.

a couple of months after she left i got to know from another maid near my housing area that she's gonna work in singapore. all the while she's been smsing me asking bout the children and all but has never mentioned bout working in singapore thingy.

after a while i asked her bout that to show that i already knew bout her intention and i have no hal bout it. ye lah sana gaji manyak.

then she said that she dinna passed the test to work there in singapore. tahulah dia sekarang yang dia idakla pandai sangat. dalam hati ku ketawa gumbira.

she had to come to malaysia coz the agent had already did her pasport and medical and etc or not she had to pay them. so she came i think early this year. before she came she smsed me and i said kalau majikan baru kamu nanti izinkan dapatla kita jumpa since dia dok cerita teringat sangat kat hanna and all.

no news from her since she kata she nak berlepas ke malaysia.

i have been talking bout her nasib with hubby. kena dera ntah si tasini ni. but am sure no sane majikan would allow her new maid to call around telling people she's here right? so i assumed she need time to convince the majikan that she's ok then they will allow her to have phone and all.

petang semalam dapat miscall from unfamiliar number.
pastu message masuk. ibu ini aku kok tasini.

i called her back out of curiousity and kepochi (boleh gitu)
so apparently the latest news is she dah run away from her new majikan.
tak sanggup. she kata lah (am not sure its true or not)
the new majikan tak kasi saya makan, semayang, kena kemas dua rumah, kena jaga anak 4 orang and majikan lelaki mau buat jahat sama saya.

maybe it's true. pity her but now she's living with her friend and working as cleaner.ntah ntah memang nak keje cleaner kot. rileks skit ada opis hour.

dalam hati dok mengomel tulah elok elok kerja ngan aku kau nak berenti. sekarang dah jadi PATI.
kasihan tu kasihan jugak cos dia dah jaga anak kita elok kan. tapi kalau dia kata nak mai kerja balik ngan aku camana? ADUSS perasan lah aku ini ngegeeeeee

Sunday, May 09, 2010

selamat hari bunda

woke up with a kiss by ayah and had breakfast in bed prepared by him. happy mother's day he whispered. thank you. and he said i dinna have to do anything today. everything is on him. be it breakfast, lunch dinner and the kids plus the laundry. i only need to enjoy myself.









yeah right.



i woke up early morning as usual siapkan aiman pegi sekolah. nobody mentioned about mother's day. ayah did the laundry tapi i kena sidai kain. though sunday had to attend case today. out for werk for half an hour. balik umah. plan to have lunch outside (note that i am the planner here). pick up aiman and had lunch at mcdonalds cos hanna is not well so kena pleasekan dia. balik umah. angkat kain yang dah kering. dump it in the maid's room for the helper to lipat tomorrow. then only got card from aiman. ayah said (at 4pm) hari nih jgn kacau mama give her a break on mother's day and then he dozed off to sleep. and i pon tidur. while hanna and aiman main-main. and woken up with hanna nangis nangis nak minum etc while ayah still asleep.

that's a normal mother's day to me. the first one i supposed is my imaginary mother's day. bersyukur je ngan apa yang ada. those mothers yang dapat special treatment like my imaginary mother's day am happy for you.

me? i am just contented with what i have and be loved every day.

selamat hari bunda semua whether or not you are celebrated/appreciated. bukan senang nak jadi bunda.

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

an emotional week

the thing that i waited still dinna turn up. so i am now quite agitated and nervous as to why i still dinna get it. anyhow that is the main reason why i felt so emotional and vulnerable and the events that occurred is not helping to my emotional state either.
i have problems with aiman. he dinna take me seriously when i asked him to do the homework or memorize the multiplication or do this and that. plus he started telling lies you know. not a serious kinda lie but tipu kecik2 nak save his ass or not he would be in trouble kinda thing. i am so worried and though being the garang-est in the family still aiman tak kesah.(patutlah ada tag line itu) memang aiman tak kesah kot. or is it me yang sangat garang that scares him alot and thus encouraging him to create white lies. oh aiman. ( tapi i dulu pon tipu jugak bila takut kena marah)
glad to have friends having anak of the same age. it seems that most of them are facing the some problem i.e the children is lying (or not saying the truth sounds better) to the parents just to save themselves.
oh he's just 8 years old and i started having headache oredi.
and having the remark that i put on weight again and again by the most dearest person to me also hurts like hell at the moment.

warning: do not come near me at the moment

Monday, May 03, 2010

sepetang di hari isnin

i am so stressed at the moment. the helper just informed me at the very last minute that she couldn't make it today. off all days. dahla my mom is not around today. kalau tidak takla bagi impact yang besar sangat to me. plus i have to pick up aiman from school coz he got punished for not being able to answer question during chinese class. so extra class extra hour and the driver couldn't wait.
so at the very last minute when the helper said she couldn't come i had to bring hanna along to pick aiman. plus to be more dramatic it started to rain. alhamdulillah the traffic today was not that bad. i got to wait in front of the gate. no need to go and fetch him and drag hanna along since i could just waive at him from the car dan janagn lupa dalam keadaan yang berhujan.
masuk kereta aiman kata mama class cancel. the teacher dinna turn up. sangatla emosional terasa hati mahu meronta dan menangis tapi ditabahkan hati.
plus i am due for my pe***d = faktor penyumbang untuk lebih emosi.
so here i am stuck at home with these two kids and i had to cancel reschedule my appointment this afternoon.
hope tomorrow i will get wonderful tuesday

kerna ibu

we are now in our fifth month of the year. this month rasanya akan menjadi bulan yang sibuk.
mak's house yang under renovation will complete i think by middle of may so akan ada agenda perpindahan bulan lima ini. hendak packing dan memasukkan barang. the past few days pon sibuk dgn membeli brg2 rumah baru. mak pon sangat excited. she's been living with tok since ayah passed away. though she bought a house near tok's house but she do not have the heart to leave tok alone. now got another cucu living with tok. so mak ambil peluang untuk hidup sendiri.
mula-mula mak bagi reason to stay with me to look after my children since bibik balik. now she's moving into her own house 9the house that she and ayah bought but never get the chance to live together). so happy for her. and i know with her moving my life will definitely be upside down since i'll be the one who's going to have a sneak peek of her every day. takpala. apalah sangat kalau nak compare apa yang dia dah buat kat kami.
month of may is a mother's day celebration.
kira mother's day gift to mak this year is for her to live in her own house after 18 years. i think she has gone through a lot. ayah passed away when she was 44. my eldest sibling at that time was sitting for spm and the youngest was 3 years old. kami semua enam beradik.
she could not drive though ada lesen.
she never managed her money
she never even withdraw money from the atm machine.
it must be quite hard to have single handedly raised us all. thankfully we were blessed with a caring aunty and grandmother from my father's side since mak dah tak ada sapa-sapa on her side.
abang further his studies in australia. so he was there most of the time. leaving me the second in the family to look after mom and my sisters. i have done my best to kurangkan beban mak. so have all my siblings i guess. and i believed we have made her happy.
now we are all grown up. 4 of us are married. leaving another 2. only one is still studying in her final year. so mak dah boleh bernafas lega sekarang.

thank you mak for everything.