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Wednesday 9 July 2014

Melakar Kenangan

I felt so good as my last weekend was tremendously filled with activities yang i nak buat sangat-sangat. Bukan apa sangat pun. Cabut rumput, alih-alih pasu bunga, salin pokok ke dalam pasu. Itu pun dah cukup membahagiakan. 
Pegaga yang sengaja i biarkan merimbun di pangkal pokok dalam pasu. Pegaga ni senang hidup.

Cukup la peluh untuk bakar lemak yang membeku selama seminggu. The most happy part, dapat beli pasu baru di Xue Bang! Pasu tu ada crack sikit, so good bargain la jugak. Xue Bang has so many nice and fancy vintage pots. Kadang boleh dapat yang macam tembikar Cina. I like. Cuma pokok bunga tak varity sangat.

Friday night we took the girls to a late night movie date - Transformers. The boboiboy pun of course la ikut juga - his third time going to cinema. First time bawa masa umur dia nineteen days *grin*. Mardeyah enjoyed wearing the 3D glasses. Siap tangan tergapai-gapai bila ada scene habuk-habuk berterbangan - konon nak capai.
She was not in a good mood, sebab dah lewat malam, mengantuk.
The walid as usual, performs Friday prayer at KLCC and menyinggah ke Kinokuniya. Couldn't remember ni kali ke berapa he bought them this activitiy book - published by Kumon. 

Bagus buku ni, sebab it really helps in improving your child's motor skill. Mula-mula i didn't like the idea of buying this book sebab ada aktiviti menggunting bagai - first i takut tergunting jari and secondly, of course i takut i become mad dengan cebisan-cebisan kertas tu. Tapi the walid already trained them to pick those sampah after finish the work. This time they got vehicles theme. 

Kakak si tukang potong

Mardeyah selalu jadi tukang tampal
Cut and fold and paste the small piece provided on each page to create a three dimensional object. Trust me, it's really fun!

Saturday evening after masak, around 5.30pm macam tu, i went straight away to Nilai Square. The first outlet yang i singgah, they ada saiz 16-radiant orchid colour-baju melayu. And i sampai rumah before 6.30pm. *lap peluh* At last dapat juga baju melayu for the boboiboy. Round satu Bangi tak jumpa the size and colour yang i nak. Shopping la di Nilai Square. Berbaloi-baloi untuk wang anda! Lega dah ada baju raya, boleh tidoq!

Balik dari Nilai Square sempat singgah kat florist tepi jalan beli peacock ni. Radiant orchid juga warnanya.

On Sunday tu, after buat sikit puding, we off to my SIL's house. She was sooo generous masak laksa untuk adik-adik yang longing for masakan ibunda mereka. Bibik Yuli, my SIL's maid, served this smoked banana.

Dia tahu i suka makan ni. I bukan suka sangat pun tapi sebab every bites of it will remind me of my late nenek, it reminds me kenangan duduk-duduk di pangkin nenek sambil makan makanan kegemaran orang-orang tua. Bau smoked banana ni akan buat i teringat bau lauk-pauk arwah nenek, teringat dapur kayu arwah nenek, teringat semua-semua benda keliling rumah arwah nenek, tempat i bermain, berlari, menyorok, dengan my cousins, tempat i jatuh dan menangis. 

Inilah 3V swing yang buat i rasa overwhelmed due to its bulky size.
Tak sangka this swing sekejap je dah hilang depan mata.

Sunday morning tu i captured photos of Mardeyah main seorang diri atas swing ni. On Monday, the walid drove home this Hilux to bring her joy away.
Mardeyah mula-mula tak nak let go this swing pada siapa-siapa. Tapi after pujuk and the walid bagitahu dia that i'm gonna buy a garden bench, she agreed. Dengan kids pun, kita kena let them know certain decision yang kita buat for our family. Involve them, they will be proud to be in the circle of trust. Budak pun ada perasaan and diorang jujur.

After 20 minutes drive, this swing pun sampai ke destinasi barunya. Yahya and Yusuf are now becoming its new owner.
Kalau i can say this to the swing, "Baik-baik di sini ya, sayang. Bukan kami tak sayang kamu, tapi kami inginkan kamu punya tempat yang lebih selesa. Di sini lamannya luas. Terima kasih atas khidmat bakti kamu kepada kami sekeluarga selama empat tahun ini. Jasamu akan kami kenang." Yes, the swing dah jadi sebahagian daripada memori zaman kanak-kanak to my girls.

Nampaknya, lepas ni kena lah berusaha lebih gigih in order to have my own garden bench as i wished. Macam ternampak-nampak sinar di hujung lorong :-)

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