Tuesday, November 16, 2004
♥ Happy Birthday To ME!!!!!
Raya ketiga... today is my 2?th birthday.. 16th November 197? I was born... On the 15th, selepas penat mengemas rumah dan clearkan pinggan mangkuk, rasa macam nak terlelap je depan TV sambil menonton cerita She's Too Young di Hallmark channel. Biasanya tak sampai separuh jalan cerita, mata memang terpejam. Seolah-olah ada magnet. Tiba-tiba handphone berbunyi. SMS masuk. Mulanya buat tak tahu je. Lepas tu asyik masuk je. Aikk.. dalam kepala dok berkata.. banyak la pulak. Sape lak ni. Mata pun dibukak. And terus baca sms. Laaaaaa... dah pukul 12 malam rupanya. Ramai yang wish happy birthday.
Most of them my 'new' friends yang dikenali melalui internet. Actually from the same 'interest' kami berkenalan. Akhirnya persabahatan pun terjalin. Dan kini, kami sangat rapat antara satu sama lain.
I actually did get a wish from my dearest friend. Kawan semasa sama-sama di U dulu. Terkejut juga kerana masih ingat birthday I. Anyway, thanks Nan.
Emmm.. berbalik kepada cerita raya (memandangkan masing-masing masih dalam mood raya), persiapan raya memang sentiasa melampaui waktu tidur. Yela, masa ni la kiranya spring clean rumah. Berplastik-plastik barang yang tak digunakan lagi I buang. Maklumlah, kalau my mother tahu, nescaya dia takkan bagi buang. Semuanya nak disimpan. Tapi bila time raya ni la selalunya I and my brother akan mengambil kesempatan untuk membuang segala 'sampah-sarap'. He..he.. but this year, I did it mostly by myself. My younger brother tengah further studies overseas. So, I'm left with the youngest brother. Maklumlah anak bongsu, so, agak manja sikit. No offense ye.. :-)
Malam raya tu, tidur pukul 3.30 pagi. And then dah bangkit untuk solat subuh pukul 6.30 pagi. Tu pun mintak excuse kat mak bagi chance la lambat sikit. Terus siapkan meja and pegi solat Aidilfitri. At my place (somewhere in Klang Valley), kalau tak betul-betul, you can feel like you're in Bangladesh or Indonesia. Memang foreigners ramai. Balik je solat raya, terus salam dan mohon ampun pada my parents. Banyak jugak rasanya salah silap yang I buat. Masa itu sahaja keinsafan datang dan menjengah dalam hati. We all pun bertolak balik Melaka. But before that, singgah menziarahi pusara adik. Adik no. 3 meninggal when I was in form 1. He was ten years old back then. (Actually, dia accident sewaktu balik Solat Jumaat a day before my birthday).
Sampai je di Melaka, terus I ternampak my cousins yang anak yatim. Pilu dan sedih melihatkan they all. Terus bermain-main dan layan karenah they all. Akeem dah pun agak besar dan makin cerdik. Banyak yang dibualkannya bersama-sama. Sekali-sekala sebak dan my aunt pun jadi sebak melihatkan I layan dia berborak. As a 5 year old kid, dia agak cerdik dalam berkata-kata.
That evening after visiting all my relatives (almost all) di Melaka, kami pun balik ke rumah. Memang itu rutin raya setiap tahun. Actually cadangnya nak balik ke Terengganu (my father's hometown) tapi memandangkan takut banjir, we all tukar plans ke Melaka.
Usually during raya inilah my aunt and uncles plus nenek saudara and saudara mara yang lain akan pop up the BIG question ~ bila nak kahwin. But this year, takdela pulak from them. Agak lega sedikit. Maybe they understand that marriage is not for a day. But what touched me this time is my favourite cousin - Akiem (he is not the same Akiem as Akeem) who is also 5 years old asked that question to me. Arrggghhh.. rasa macam nak menangis aje bile Akiem tanya soalan itu. How am I going to answer such a question to a 5 year old? Memang susah. And I was left speechless. I told him that I was wating for him and changed the subject to something else and luckily, that question remained unanswered. Even now, while writing this, I still don't have the answer. If you were in my shoes, how would you answer that question?
p/s: Sky.. selamat hari raya to you too.. Memang pink is one of my favourite colours..
Starchaser.. thanks for dropping by.. memang saje je nak kasi theme pink karer.. :)
Most of them my 'new' friends yang dikenali melalui internet. Actually from the same 'interest' kami berkenalan. Akhirnya persabahatan pun terjalin. Dan kini, kami sangat rapat antara satu sama lain.
I actually did get a wish from my dearest friend. Kawan semasa sama-sama di U dulu. Terkejut juga kerana masih ingat birthday I. Anyway, thanks Nan.
Emmm.. berbalik kepada cerita raya (memandangkan masing-masing masih dalam mood raya), persiapan raya memang sentiasa melampaui waktu tidur. Yela, masa ni la kiranya spring clean rumah. Berplastik-plastik barang yang tak digunakan lagi I buang. Maklumlah, kalau my mother tahu, nescaya dia takkan bagi buang. Semuanya nak disimpan. Tapi bila time raya ni la selalunya I and my brother akan mengambil kesempatan untuk membuang segala 'sampah-sarap'. He..he.. but this year, I did it mostly by myself. My younger brother tengah further studies overseas. So, I'm left with the youngest brother. Maklumlah anak bongsu, so, agak manja sikit. No offense ye.. :-)
Malam raya tu, tidur pukul 3.30 pagi. And then dah bangkit untuk solat subuh pukul 6.30 pagi. Tu pun mintak excuse kat mak bagi chance la lambat sikit. Terus siapkan meja and pegi solat Aidilfitri. At my place (somewhere in Klang Valley), kalau tak betul-betul, you can feel like you're in Bangladesh or Indonesia. Memang foreigners ramai. Balik je solat raya, terus salam dan mohon ampun pada my parents. Banyak jugak rasanya salah silap yang I buat. Masa itu sahaja keinsafan datang dan menjengah dalam hati. We all pun bertolak balik Melaka. But before that, singgah menziarahi pusara adik. Adik no. 3 meninggal when I was in form 1. He was ten years old back then. (Actually, dia accident sewaktu balik Solat Jumaat a day before my birthday).
Sampai je di Melaka, terus I ternampak my cousins yang anak yatim. Pilu dan sedih melihatkan they all. Terus bermain-main dan layan karenah they all. Akeem dah pun agak besar dan makin cerdik. Banyak yang dibualkannya bersama-sama. Sekali-sekala sebak dan my aunt pun jadi sebak melihatkan I layan dia berborak. As a 5 year old kid, dia agak cerdik dalam berkata-kata.
That evening after visiting all my relatives (almost all) di Melaka, kami pun balik ke rumah. Memang itu rutin raya setiap tahun. Actually cadangnya nak balik ke Terengganu (my father's hometown) tapi memandangkan takut banjir, we all tukar plans ke Melaka.
Usually during raya inilah my aunt and uncles plus nenek saudara and saudara mara yang lain akan pop up the BIG question ~ bila nak kahwin. But this year, takdela pulak from them. Agak lega sedikit. Maybe they understand that marriage is not for a day. But what touched me this time is my favourite cousin - Akiem (he is not the same Akiem as Akeem) who is also 5 years old asked that question to me. Arrggghhh.. rasa macam nak menangis aje bile Akiem tanya soalan itu. How am I going to answer such a question to a 5 year old? Memang susah. And I was left speechless. I told him that I was wating for him and changed the subject to something else and luckily, that question remained unanswered. Even now, while writing this, I still don't have the answer. If you were in my shoes, how would you answer that question?
p/s: Sky.. selamat hari raya to you too.. Memang pink is one of my favourite colours..
Starchaser.. thanks for dropping by.. memang saje je nak kasi theme pink karer.. :)
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