Surviving Another Night

Kalau tak silap aku, roadtrip kali ni aku yg suggest - sebagi tambahan kepada aktiviti suamiku yang nak balik kampung menziarah orang tuanya. My Parent-in-Law is experiencing ‘empty-nest’ sebab their youngest sudah masuk asrama dan balik sekali-sekala saja. So depa tinggal berdua aje kat rumah. That’s why I suggest to go to Perlis, and sebab my BIL (and Shahirah!) ada kat sana.

The day after arriving at SP, we started off quite early, like 10am to PB. 5 of us in the car!

Full tank of fuel is RM130 now!! Freaks. I remembered the day I was using this car, a full tank was RM85and that was already a burden. I spent RM250 a month alone. Can’t imagine what’s gonna happen next year.

This is at Chuping, Perlis - The famous jalan Ladang Tebu yang mana Rosyam Noor kejar Nisdawati (or is it Lisdawati?) dalam KL menjerit tu. I did watch KL Menjerit haha. I recomend if u ever go to Perlis, please use this road. The view is … Subhanallah.

Sesampai di rumah BIL J, abah tunjuk pokok bunga dulu kat Ammar. Mata kuyu sebab silau.

Masa mula2 jumpa Shairah nangis macam nak rak, diikuti oleh Ammar. Tak la lepas tu ok dah. Boleh pulak show off talent memasing.

I noticed that Ammar is also a shy person. Hopefully not as bad as me. Bila Shahirah hulur tangan kat dia aje, dia terus tunduk, gelak2 sambil gigit jari. Dara pinggitan sungguh.

Hubby watching them play together. I wish to let them meet up more often.

Ini lauk yang mostly BIL J beli. Tapi sedap gilosss cumanya aku tak makan banyak - nak simpan perut for tonite!

Shahirah dan nenek.

Dalam bilik, dia sibuk prektis tonggeng2. I think he’s intimidated by Shahirah’s ability to crawl. haha speculation!

Sudah terlentok sambil tengok Akademi Nasyid.

Tengok ikan berwarna merah dalam aquarium. TAKUUUUUTTTT

Sebab dia takott kena dukung sepanjang dinner. Wah, lapar sungguh tunggu makanan tu siap hidang.

Check out MIL staring at the camera.

Seriously, makanan kat sini sedap cuma aku kurang menikmati. Satu meja untuk 6 orang ni cuma RM120 aje.

The siblings having discussion on Family Day?

Nenek took over kuciku nak kasi can mama makan.

Licin!!!!

Iklan tak berbayar: Kalau datang Padang Besar, sila makan kat sini.

Sejak balik dari roadtrip to North aku sangat penat. Macam orang baru balik ngerjakan sawah. Cewahhh.. macam la pernah buat sawah. Aku teka je tu, sebab rupa aku sebijik macam rupa mak aku balik dari sawah petang2 dulu.

I had a GREAT time roadtripping, JJCMing, little shopping and photographing people (mostly kuciku) and stuff.

Me, making face and Ammar Izzudin Wafiy.

Oleh kerana aku adalah si penangkap gambar, maka tak de lah gambar aku dalam entri2 Perlis (akan datang). Ini my hubby snapkan. Lain2 ada gambaq my ‘backside’ aje. Boleh gitu?

Cerita Penang hari tu kononnya nak sambung, tapi tak tersambung sebab asik tengok Gossip Girl dan JAWAB TAG aje. Banyak sungguh tag hari tu kan.

Hmmm, Penang was not so great.

It’s not the place that’s not, but the time constrain. Kami bermalam satu malam aje kat sana sebab keesokan harinya hubby dah janji dengan adik bongsunya untuk hantar dia balik asrama.

Aku ajak hubby pegi Penang sebab teringin nak makan pasembor kat Padang Kota , shopping kat Queensbay Mall dan jalan2 Batu Feringghi. Akhirnya hanya satu objective aje tercapai. Aku fikir-fikir, mungkin keadaan kami dah banyak berubah, tak semua yang kami rancang boleh dilaksanakan, macam dulu-dulu. Sekarang, anak adalah priority, kadang2 sampai hubby pun jatuh second. I just can’t help it.

Sebelum bertolak ke Penang, ada small birthday celeb untuk SIL P, adik hubby yang bongsu. Lihat itu, munciku didukung kesana-sini oleh nenetnya yang sakit tangan dan lutut. Anything for munciku rite, nenet?

SIL P potong kek, next to her is Syahirah’s mom.

Sampai aje hat hotel, hubby layan work report dia dulu, boleh gitu? Ala-ala  ‘with great power comes great responsibility’.

Takde sapa layan aku, aku layan kamera. Tangkap gambar Penang ghetto dari tingkap hotel. Tapi tingkap tu lock la… kalau tak lock habis gayat boleh terjun terus.

Tangkap gambar budak tido. Senang betul dia tido dalam aircon sejuk yang amat nih. Tak la meroyan macan kat rumah, kena buai semua kan. Ene cakap anak aku ni macam Davin Blain, suka sejuk - boleh duduk lama2 dalam ketul ais. Pandai la ko Ene. Dah dia tido dari petang sampai malam, maka kensellah nak makan pasembor kat Padang Kota.

Ni the next day, nak pergi Batu Feringghi, tapi dia dah tangkap lentok dlm kreta. So kensel BFeringghi. Kami pun jalan2 sightseeing aje lah.

Pergi Kebun Bunga. Banyak turis dari Siam datang.

Kena paksa bergambar kat Masjid Negeri. Sowwy bang….

Ni ntah bangunan apa ntah.

Akhirnya… Queensbay Mall. Percaya tak, aku yang nak pergi shopping sini, alih2 aku tak dapat ape satu barang pun. Me hubby lak yang dapat barang dia. Banyak lak tu. Hmmph

Kepenatan tunggu abah ambil kereta kat parking entrance.

Kemudian dari Penang dah lewat dalam 3 pm gitu, SIL P dan asik call aje tanya jadi tak nak hantar dia balik hostel, gate tutup pukul 6 la apa la. So we rushed to SP, tapi kat exit SP jam teruk ada eksiden. Sampai sana dan 4.30. Aiyyoo.

Tunggu SIL P ambik kad hostel dia kat pak gad. Hujan lebat.

Introducing SIL P and munciku.

SIL P ni maru masuk je sini lepas dapat result PMR hari tu. Asrama dia, jauh hebat dari asrama universiti - satu bilik 4 orang, baru pulak tu. Rezeki dia dapat belajar situ. Kalau nak banding ngan asrama aku dulu lagi out la. Asal boleh tidur aje siap tak de kipas angin lagi. Tapi aku suka asrama aku.

Begitulah kisahnya Penang 2008. Sekian

Few days back abah told mama that she can have a car as early as October, for whatever reason which mama couldn’t care less. As long as mama get a car. Good news, yeay! But mama just don’t wanna put her hopes up, coz anything can happen in 5 months time. Read: Car price sky-rocketted or mama dont have to go ta work on January or whatever. Ececeh, abah-mama bagai…

Anyway, I just don’t wanna get too excited.

So, on Sunday morning we went for a nasi dagang fix at Mok Su’s. Then we went straight to my fave paman and bibik’s place. Paman is my father’s younger bro and he is like a father to me. Our relationship became distant for no obvious reason after Ameen episode. I guess the loss was unbearable I just want to bury myself in my grieve and forget other people that was involved in the debacle. Paman and bibik played major role during Ameen’s funeral, I owed them so much. Oh, bibik’s kinda unwell - she has diabetes.

Paman dan bibik ku. Lihat peha anakku itu, macam cellulite pun ada.

Paman ada kucing gemok nama Hanger.

After that we went to survey for mama’s car at few places. I’m interested in Proton Persona coz it’s very affordable and the design is okkayyyy la.

Teman mama survey kereta

But then as usual my hubby potong stim by suggesting Nissan Grand Livina. So off we went to Nissan showroom at Metro Prima. Meleleh air liur mak tgk Grand Livina…. I loike!!!! And as expected the price is already up tak masuk akal recently and I got frustrated for the countless time. Hmmm… I dunt know what to believe anymore. I told u not to put my hopes up.

Testing the interior. In my DREAMS!

wuuwuuu… eat me heart out