The Girls and the Boys. Is it happening already?

Makin menginjak dewasa budak-budak kat rumah ni makin bertambah ler cerita yang menarik rupanya... seperti

1. We just found out that a certain boy - a Malay boy - who happens to be Arissa's classmate at school lives somewhere in our block. I've met the boy several times but only realise that he's Arissa's classmates a couple of weeks ago when we terserempak ngan dia after I picked the girls at school. Arissa macam tension jer masa tu. In fact, budak tu pun macam saja lambat2 datang kat lift bila nampak kami. In fact, when I sesaja invited the boy to share the elevator, the boy lagi control macho dan kata "TAK PE"

Anyway today, Yan picked the girls up from school and terserempak ngan the boy again at the elevator. The boy pun pada mulanya tak nak join in until Yan ajak berulang kali. Agaknya sebab segan dia pun kata yes and was walking towards the elevator nak masuk ler. Elok dia sampai jer depan pintu lift tu Arisssa boleh press the close button. Talk about shutting a door right in front other people's face. Alia and Asma punyer ler menjerit2 ketawa lepas tu. Kejam jugak Arissa ni yer.

Apakah namanya jejaka itu? Biarlah Rahsia.....

2. The girls moved to their present school last year. Previously they attended a private Islamic school in Shah Alam. Apparently, they are happier here at a Sekolah Kebangsaan. Good for them. And we just found out that when Asma became a new girl in her class last year she had (as told to Alia the sister who had sworn to secrecy but had told these interesting bit of information to Bapak and Mak nevertheless)...
a. a boy sent a note professing that dia minat kat Asma
b. another boy told another friend that dia minat kat Asma
c. and boy number three went straight up to Asma and told her that he likes her.

Budak-budak darjah empat ni. Boleh?

3. Alia. What about Alia? She left her heart in Shah Alam, I think...... kah kah kah. Tapi sekarang dah ada pengganti kot.... siapa? Tungguuuuuu perkembangan selanjutnya nanti.

And How Does Bapak feel about all these?
Bapak: I Like. I Like. I Like!!!!!

Kantoi Masa Main

Ini cerita masa budak-budak kat rumah masih dia orang kecik. Zaman dia orang belum sekolah lagi. Dah namanya bebudak, macam-macam games dia orang akan main. Dari main dolls ke main masak-masak.

Satu hari dia orang bertiga main doktor-doktor. Bukan tak de toys macam doctor equipment dibeli tapi tah macam mana hari tu dia orang jumpa satu benda yang serupa dengan thermometer (betul ke nih). Jadi dia orang pun guna lah benda tu main doktor-doktor.

Siap yang sakit tu masuk dalam mulut lagi thermometer tu – kononnya nak check temperature lar tu.

Apakah dia sebenarnya yang dikatakan thermometer itu?

Err sebenarnya benda itu ialah pregnancy kit yang telah digunakan oleh Yan. Kah! Kah! Kah! Kah!

Malam Lailatu Qadar

Di Bulan Ramadan ini ramai orang berlumba untuk mengejar kelebihan malam Lailatul Qadar. Ini kisah bulan puasa my mother in law a few years ago. Masa tu she stayed with us kat rumah lama di USJ 20. I have to record this story.

Satu malam di bulan puasa masa tu, my mother in law menunaikan solat tarawikh kat rumah jer sebab hari tu dia tak larat nak ke masjid. Dia solat agak lewat macam after midnight gitu.

Dalam pada dia solat tu tetiba dia tercium bau yang harum mula menusuk hidung dia. (Masa ni kami semua dah tidur) Makin lama makin harum suasana dalam bilik dia. Alhamdullilah kata hati mak mertua saya ni. Dapat merasa malam Lailatul Qadar. Maka orang tua tu pun lepas selesai solat tarawikh terus sujud syukur. Bersyukur kerana diberi kesempatan dan peluang sebegini rupa. Lepas solat dia pun keluar bilik dengan hasrat nak beritahu kami yang dah lama belayar ke Bidor. Bukak2 jer pintu bilik tengok2 suasana putih (macam kabus) menyelubungi rumah.

Dan dalam kabus tebal tu, duduk Arissa (masa ni umur dalam tiga atau empat tahun) sedang main dan menghabiskan sebotol bedak Baby Carrie yang baru dibeli.

Tu yang wangi satu rumah tu!!!

Phobia

A phobia (from the Greek ????? "fear"), is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject.

I was watching Anita over Astro Ria tadi and the topic today was Phobia. Quite an interesting subject matter. Both Yan and I were laughing at some of the phobia yang people suffered. Like Alam phobia bawak kereta. And Aznil Nawawi takut air laut, binatang and telur. Yes, telur. Don't know why but another guest also takut telur and they forced him to eat telur tadi, memang torture nampak budak tu tadi. Tu belum tengok other guests yang takut binatang seperti ular and benda2 berbulu attempted to conquer their phobias but ended up menangis2 and terjerit2.

Yes we can laugh but if you have a fear of certain things, it is not funny anymore.

Soalannya sekarang ialah apakah benda yang I fear? Banyak actually. I used to be afraid of height tapi rasanya sekarang ni dah tak lagi kot. Otherwise I won't be living on the ninth floor like I am now, right? I remembered masa sekolah rendah dulu pergi ikut rombongan sekolah ke KL. Dalam banyak tempat nak pergi melawat benda yang mula-mula sekali kena pergi ialah Batu Caves yang ada beratus-ratus tangga tu. Masa pijak second steps kat tangga tu dah rasa gayat giler. So the whole entire rombongan left me at the bottom while they enjoyed the view from the top.

I have a phobia of reptiles too. It's more geli than takut actually. Ini phobia sejak azali kot. And seingat saya ada dua incidents yang I think Tuhan nak uji as far my phobia of binatang is concerned.

Kali pertama masa sekolah menengah. Masa tu nak tidur jadi ambil bantal (masa tu bantal simpan dalam built-in closet) and terus ler nak membuta. Tetiba macam rasa tak selesa dan telinga macam berbunyi. Mula-mula ingat tak de apa-apa, tetapi makin lama makin kuat bunyi. Ingatkan ada lipas ker dalam bantal jadi seluk le sarung bantal tu, rupa-rupanya ada tikus. Apa lagi melompat ler terus tak boleh tidur.

Dan yang terbaru a few months ago masa balik ke rumah mak di Temoh. Masa tu pagi masuk bilik air and I was sitting on the throne. Sambil baca paper. Tetiba jer ada seekor biawak hidup yang sepanjang 2 kaki datang melilit by body seluruh badan. Apa lagi ler- pekik ler sampai satu kampung boleh dengar.

Agaknya still traumatised dengan these two incidents, I am still having a phobia over binatang yang sewaktu dengannya.

Macammana nak ubat tu ha?

Pantang Asma

Asma, anak dara kami yang kedua ada satu pantang. Dia pantang tengok satu-satu benda lepas tu mesti nak. Macam...

1. Awal tahun ni, kami tertonton Australian Open Tennis Championship kat Astro. For some reason, dia boleh jadi minat tengok and was so impressed dengan Martina Hingis who was then making a comeback. And she decided to become a tennis player macam Martina. Dan Bapak dia pun pergi ler beli racket tennis ...tambah pulak kat rumah ni ada tennis court. Sekarang dah nak masuk bulan October dan kami baru pergi main tennis sebanyak DUA kali sahaja. So much for tennis...

Martina Hingis in action

2. March hari tu kami tengok World Cup Show Jumping and were so taken up by the kuda-kuda yang melompat-lompat tu. Asma pun decided that she wanted to bela kuda and become a sh0w jumper one day. Macam orang kaya lar. So Bapak dia pun berangan sama - "kita beli satu abandon castle kat mana-mana di UK lepas tu kita bela kuda banyak2. Lepas tu kita cakap orang putih siap ngan thick English accent dan pakai baju lawa-lawa pergi Ascot." (Masa berangan tu luper pulak Ascot to tempat race kuda bukan tempat kuda melompat)

3. And latest sekali lepas tengok citer Heart tempoh hari, Asma decided she wants to become macam Nirina Zubir. So hari-hari mintak Mak dia potong rambut pendek macam character Nirina dalam cerita tu. Ingat muka dia lawa macam Nirina ler tu. Tapi cuba tengok betul2 gambar Nirina kat bawah ni, she's better looking with her long hair. So keep your hair Asma. Kang potong pendek2 jadi macam Bapak menyesal tau.

Nirina Zubir berambut panjang