Bertuahnya badan..

More on weirdness
Fussiness about food, vege in particular.
I don’t like sawi in my fried mee. However, I love sawi goreng campur tauhu.
I don’t like biting into pieces of onions whether big or small esp. in my telur dadar or whatever that I’m eating. Even, my fave recipe for fried rice called for cili api & bawang yg ditumbuk lumat.
Kecik2 dulu, rasa nak menangis apabila makan sambil pilih bawang letak keliling pinggan. Pastu kena marah lagi.
Tapi, klu bawang dlm sambal tumis ok pulak.

Bertuahnya badan..
During the recent CNY big family gathering (all except one family), Ah Long perli, “Tak macam ada orang tu, dah tua bangka pun panggil adik lagi..”
(pusing kiri-kanan, sape eh?)
Then, sedang bersiap2 tunggu maghrib, mak panggil, “Nah, kau ambik ni ha…” Wah, sepasang kain untuk dibuat kebaya dari Indo (bertuahnya ada menantu Indo nih) – kaler gold, berkerawang & berlabuci bagai; not really my taste la tapi orang bagi percuma takkan nak tolak pulak ye tak? *sesuai wat baju nikah kot? Heheh*
Er, mak bagi tu senyap2 lar tapi nak sorok camna kan. So, kelihatan kakak2 ku yg ada bertiga itu agak jeles!! Mak counter back, “Kau tu gomok, mano nak sesuai pakai laie…” Hardehahahah..

Menurun (redefine)
Dukun menurun…
Warna baju turun…
Pakaian menurun dari kakak ke adik..(more baju-s for me)

Being trusted
By Monday noon, everybody was gone, just left the two of us. Mak mentioned again about her plan to ‘buat rumah’ – no more baiki2 as rumah sekarang atap dah banyak bocor bila hujan. Kali ni nak buat proper, rumah batu ok. I told mak, “Tunggu la setahun dua lagi, oghang dah kojo nanti bolehlah bantu sikit sebanyak. Kito buek boto2 kali ni..” Mak also wanted to show (off- only) to me (and kinda safety net coz only me & the one sister who stay with her know) the whole amount of money she managed to save so far; TH ada kurang sikit RM22k, ASB ada kurang sikit RM9k- siap tunjuk buku akaun tuuu...
“Mak, ayah dulu pun baiki rumah ni dah lebih 20 ribu. Upah orang yo dah samo hargo nilai bahan. Koman2 kena ada RM50k baru jadik ni.”
Blahblah…
“Aik, aritu mak kata nak buek ghumah kochik yo?”
Tersipu2, “Itu mak cakap dulu2…”
Mak pesan, “Kalau mak dah mati sok Dik, kau sumo jangan ghobut duit ni. Buek ghumah elok2 supayo kau adik-beradik dapek berkumpul. Lagipun, ni sambung hajat ayah kau dulu.”
InsyaAllah – “Iyo lah mak..”

Last time, mak already mentioned about Felda providing loans for settler to borrow for the sake of housing repairs@built new. The thing is one of the children (anak peneroka) has to act as loan-taker; we are talking about beyond a mere RM50k so the loan payment will eventually take the normal 20-25 years of repayment period. And all my bros & sisters already take loan for their respectives dwellings (fact of life: duit makan gaji masing2 cukup makan je) and I cannot take any loan obligations yet coz me not working mah…So, takleh harap sape2 gamaknya.
Of course, the ladang getah & sawit are providing mak with an income which she shares with sis #2 (coz staying with her) and bro #1 (coz not working) & both do help with overseeing the ladang. One thing about tanah Felda, there can be only one beneficiary – an undecided matter. So, sape dapat dia punya tanggungjawab la ye tak? Sure la anak lelaki kan.. My eldest bro cannot commit himself yet coz his wife & boys masih kerja/sekolah kat pekan. My second bro already out of the race coz mak already gave him a piece of land with the promise for him not to kacau yg lain2. My third bro, I couldn’t simply imagine him managing the ladang even though he knows how to tap the rubber trees – he’s simply too modernized! Imagine, pergi menoreh bawak pda (he like to show off- bleh..)? ‘Menyabit’ dlm ladang? Weekend bawak anak2 soping kat ladang?

CNY menu: (Special for Simah to know)

Starter: Lemang cicah rendang maman ayam kampong

Main course: Nasi dengan gulai lemak rebung campur perut lembu, sup tulang, sayur2

Desserts: Tapai pulut

Minum petang: Roti jala

Sarapan pagi: Nasi goreng sardine special, roti sardine, cekodok, maggi goreng, sandwich sardine (2nd round)

P/s: I was the last person to reach home on Sunday evening so everything was already on the table. And this was my only contribution-