Father's Day

Selamat hari bapa utk semua lelaki yg bergelar abah/papa/daddy atau sebagainya.


Saya kehilangan abah ketika berumur 25 tahun 11 bulan. Saya dengan arwah mempunyai satu chemistry yg agak pelik. Kami sering tak sependapat... tapi kami boleh dikategorikan sebagai rapat. Antara kami tiga beradik, rasanya saya yg paling byk meluangkan masa bersama arwah. Mana tak nya, sayalah driver arwah ketika keuzurannya menjadikan dia tidak mampu memandu. And I was still his driver up to his last breath. I did most of his errands. I even nursed him... tukang bagi injection tatkala dia perlu disuntik dgn insulin setiap pagi. Semasa mak saya ke Edinburgh hampir dua bulan kerana menemani kakak sulung saya yg bersalin dan berpantang, sayalah yg 'jaga' makan minum arwah. 'Penjagaan' saya menimbulkan complaint arwah kpd mak saya...
"Lagi2 masak asam pedas... kuahnya cair pulak tu! Kalau tak masak, asyik2 beli mee bandung!'" Errr... I admit, I was not a good cook! Dan kesian arwah kerana ditinggalkan bersama anak daranya yg paling tidak pandai masak!


Kami jarang berbual dan perbualan kami hanya menjurus kpd isu2 tertentu i.e, "Malam tadi tengok game world cup? Team mana menang?" Soalan arwah ketika menemankan saya menunggu bas sekolah pagi2 buta semasa demam piala dunia melanda!

Bila kami tidak sependapat ttg sesuatu perkara... darah muda ketika itu memang akan menjadikan saya stress giler! Tahap tolerasi dan kesabaran saya memang rendah... malahan, cukup minimal! Saya pasti akan bermasam muka dan tension. Dan 'mangsa' yg akan mendengar luahan hati dan bebelan saya... sudah semestinya husband saya (at that time, we were still courting!) Dan husband/boyfriend saya punya response, seperti biasa...

"Alah... abah you memang macam tu. You just have to be patient with him."

"Mana you tahu abah I macam tu? You pernah tinggal serumah dgn abah I ke?" Tanya saya tak berpuas hati.

"Memang I tak pernah tinggal serumah dgn abah you. Tapi I satu zodiac dengan dia. We both think alike... so, I know exactly what he thinks and how he thinks!"


True enough... I should have been more patient!

Al-Fatihah untuk arwah abah... and Happy Father's Day to a man who knew what arwah abah was thinking!

AHA ~ The Pet Lover

Sejak dari kecil lagi, AHA suka betul dgn binatang peliharaan dan spesis2 yg seumpama itu.

She was not even two years old when we took her to Rabbit's Farm at Colmar Tropicale for the first time. Tapi elok jer dia main dgn arnab2 tu semua.

Melihatkan kepada kecenderungan itu, dia pernah dibawa ke Petting Zoo di Sunway, A'Famosa Safari tengok Animal Show, Zoo Negara, Ostrich Farm, Buttterfly Park. And even, kandang kambing ketika berlangsungnya Ekspo Penternak dan Peladang di Batu Buruk, Kuala Trengganu. Selamba aje dia peluk anak kambing tu dan cakap "Kita bawak balik anak kambing ni boleh tak mama? I like it so much!" Sedangkan mama dia dah geli geleman tengok anak kambing yang bertompok-tompok tu!

Setakat kucing dan kura-kura dah tak jadi masalah untuk dia. Kura-kura dia yang diberi nama Sonia dan Sania... diletakkan aje atas tapak tangan dengan dialog "Ala cayang busyuk2... mama marah awak, eh?" (Tetiba aje, saya jadi mama kura-kura!) Perli saya lah tu, sbb saya selalu complaint kata Sonia dan Sania tu busuk!

Dia sibuk nak bela hamster, tapi saya tak bagi. Another creature which I'm not fond of! But she's a real negotiator... entah macam mana dia 'berunding' dgn papa dia... at the end, she got herself a rabbit recently! Bantahan saya tidak diambil kira... majority wins! Tengok la gambar yg atas sekali tu, dia dan bunny kesayangan. Setiap kali balik sekolah, itu yg diterpa dulu... "You missed me, Bunny?" Tergelak jugak bila dengar dia cakap macam tu... tapi bunny tu memang excited bila nampak dia. Terlompat2 dlm cage setiap kali AHA sampai rumah. Dengan saya, tak pulak... walaupun saya yang bagi bunny tu makan! Bunny tu memang kenal siapa 'tuan'nye yg sebenar kot!

But no doubt about it... she's very affectionate with pets!

Tengah boring...

No interesting stories lately... no challenging activities (the time hasn't come yet... the race between the 12 years old Citroen and the 2 weeks old 206. OR the 2 weeks old 206 with the Skyline? haha)



Tgh bosan2 ni... saje copy and paste jokes ni... the APPROPRIATE DEFINITIONS??!!



School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.
Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.
Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.
Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.
Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through 'the minds of either'
Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.
Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
Father: A banker provided by nature.
Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.
Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.
Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

UEFA Champions League

Saya tak plan pun nak tengok atau temankan husband menonton MU dan Chelsea bermain utk merebut trofi Champions League awal pagi tadi. Walaupun berminat, tapi fikir balik... alahai, buang masa jer tengok. Naluri saya mengatakan Chelsea akan menang... haha... macam la hebat sgt naluri saya tu! Tapi saya terjaga sendiri pukul 4.30 pagi... dah masuk second half. Sudahnya... tertengok jugak akhirnya!

Siap buat kopi O panas... makan dgn bread butter pudding, menyaksikan detik2 cemas bila semua peluang MU tersasar. Tambahan masa 30 minit bila masih terikat 1-1... dan akhirnya ditentukan dgn tendangan penalty. Masa tu pun, saya dan husband masih rasa Chelsea berpeluang utk menang. Memandangkan pada pendapat kami, Edwin Van de Sar tak terror sgt save penalty kick ni. Especially bila Ronaldo missed the penalty... mangkuk betul la mamat tu, sama ada dia over confident atau terlalu gabra!

Tapi akhirnya, MU menang juga dgn 6-5 sepakan penalty. Edwin Van de Sar saves a penalty kick by Chelsea's Anelka. And before that, by John Terry. Wow... MU won 2 titles for this season!

Sorry to all Chelsea fans... spt kata Kieran di radio ERA pagi tadi.. "pagi yg gelap utk penyokong Chelsea" ... antaranya; adik ipar dan anak buah saya! Haha

And now, I am very... very... sleepy! Memandangkan saya sudah mengisi perut seawal 4.30 pagi dgn bread butter pudding, which can be considered as sahur... maka saya yg berpuasa hari ni boleh la tido sekejap lunch time nanti...

Devils Champions!

Berakhirnya musim EPL malam semalam dengan kemenangan bergaya Manchester United mengalahkan Wigan 2-0 dan terus menjulang trofi buat kali ke 17 (yang ke 10 di bawah pengurusan Sir Alex Furgeson) Sepakan penalti Ronaldo dan tendangan Giggs menentukan kejayaan malam semalam. Tak sia-sia Furgeson menurunkan kesebelasan utamanya.

Kalau tanya saya apa perasaan bila berakhirnya EPL ni, saya ada jawapan yang suka dan tidak, pro dan contra.

Pro/Suka:

~ tak perlu lagi re-schedule rancangan malam minggu sbb dah tak ada game yg mesti tengok terutama game yg melibatkan MU!

~ tak ada lagi stress 'monday morning blues' bila MU kalah!

~ tak perlu berebut channel tv

~ saya boleh berjaga sampai lewat malam... dan saya boleh bangun lewat pagi Ahad... dgn alasan, "kan I temankan u tengok bola malam tadi!"

Contra/Tak Suka:

~no more saturday night excitement... so, we have to create another excitement!

~ no more kutuk mengutuk dgn Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool fans... that was fun, actually!

~ tak dapat lagi tengok Alex Furgeson melompat2 sambil kunyah chewing-gum bila anak didiknya menjaringkan goal. I admire that man.. he's an enthusiast manager on the field!

~I have no reason to stay up late... and getting up late on Sunday morning! Argh....

Mother's Day...

"Mama... loving you is like a food to my soul..."

Lirik lagu yg dicipta oleh Babyface utk soundtrack filem Soul Food. Specially dedicated to my mother.


Sebagai anak, sambutan hari Ibu kami tidaklah semeriah mana tapi cukup bermakna. Semalam saya dan kakak2 berkumpul di rumah mak. Sebenarnya, mak saya baru discharge dari hospital hari Sabtu lepas. Sejak dimasukkan pada hari Khamis yang lalu kerana demam yang tak kebah2... suspected dengue. Walaupun dia dah beransur sihat sikit... tapi dia masih perlukan rawatan susulan utk penyakit2 yg baru kami ketahui. Hasil drp full check up tempoh hari. Hope everything will be fine for her. She's a strong lady...I'll know she'll make it through.


Sebagai mak, sambutan Hari Ibu pun biasa aje. AHA tepuk dahi semalam... "Alamak, lupa nak buat kad Hari Ibu utk mama!"Saya gelak aje. And I told her, the card is not that important... but being a good daughter and study hard for her upcoming mid year exam is much more important than anything else! Dia terkebil-kebil dgr saya cakap...entah faham entahkan tidak!



Received this SMS from a friend late last night: A MOM is GOD'S love in action. She looks with her heart & feels with her eyes. A mom is the bank where her children deposited all their worries & hurt. A mom is the cement that keeps her family together & her love lasts a lifetime... Happy Mother's Day to All Mothers out there!

Minggu sakit...

Three of us are down with flu. Started from my husband, then followed by AHA and now, it's my turn.

Bila saya kena selsema memang teruk, lebih2 lagi saya mmg ada mild sinus. Kepala dan muka terasa berdenyut-denyut. Hidung sudah hilang fungsi sebagai deria bau. Mujur telinga yg hampir pekak ni masih boleh membezakan bunyi ekzos kereta. Either it's the sound of a skyline, citroen zx or just proton wira! Haha... Thank God for that!

Disebabkan tuan rumah sakit, maka 'rumah' saya ni pun dah lama tak berkemas dan mula nak bersawang! Nanti bila saya dah sihat sikit... saya akan kemas rumah ni betul-betul dan update dengan perkembangan yg menarik...if there's any!