WatashiNoJinsei’s Neighborhood

Ari tu cuti Jepun and balik kampung. Aku tak drive balik kampung ari tu. Tak berani nak drive jauh sorang2. Ramai orang tanya, apasal tak bawak keta balik. Senang jalan2 if ada keta. Memang la faham pasal tu. Bukan tanak bawak balik. Tapi satu hal, balik kampung sorang, nak balik Penang sorang. Ngantuk, penat cane? Dahla tak tau jalan lagi. Pi ke Rawang ok lagi rasanya. Dekat lagi dari Melaka. Pastu bila fikirkan pasal petrol, tol etc..baik sewa keta kat kampung. Tak penat, jimat gak. Mintak tolong Kaklong carikkan keta sewa, tak jumpa. Huh! Kampung koboi betul Masjid Tanah. Dulu rasanya ada je orang buat keta sewa. Pastu kawan dia nak kasi pinjam keta. Just isi minyak je la. Tu satu hal. Pinjam keta orang maknanya ada masa2 kene pulangkan. Pastu rasa tak sedap coz aku bukan kenal kawan Kaklong tu. Yang nak drive nanti aku, bukan dia. So ari tu, bila nak ke simpang, jalan kaki la.

Sampai2 Melaka ari tu dalam nak kul 6 dah. Apa ke hal agaknya bas tu or pakcik driver ari tu, asyik langgar lubang ke apa bende alah. Gedegang sana sini. Baru tido sekejap, terjaga balik. Pastu jenis terjaga yang terperanjat lak tu. Bila dah sampai Melaka Sentral, apa lagi, ke toilet dulu cuci muka dan sebagainya. Pastu ingatkan nak pi online kat CC, tapi tutup lak. Tunggu bas balik kampung punya berzaman. Alih2 ada satu bas ke Kuala Linggi. Cam pelik gak mula2 sebab selalunya bas balik simpang cam banyak. Ari tu ari Sabtu lak tu. Bas Kuala Linggi tu tak lalu bus stand kat simpang so kene jalan jauh. Menggerutu gak hati time tu, nak2 tengah sakit perut bahana makan karipap beli pagi tu. Lalu kat Pasar...apa ke nama pasar tu...Ala, pasar pagi yang jual sayur2 fresh, seafoods, ayam, daging la, ada makanan gak. Pasar Dagang. Eh tak, Pasar Tani. Syok gila tengok sayur2, udang ngan sotong dia fresh2. Aku rasa ada rupa jakun kot time tu dok tengok keliling pasar tu. Dahla bawak bag besar ngan selebet tak ingat. Terus plan nak pi balik lepas sampai umah. Beli lauk buat masak tengahari tu nanti. Masa jalan balik ke rumah sekejap2 sakit perut. Sampai masjid, terus cam dah emergency. Cepat2 message mak mintak tolong bukak pintu ready sebelum aku sampai. Bukan jauh pun masjid ngan rumah. Tapi sampai2 je, tak bukak lagi pun. Terjerit aku kat luar panggil budak2 tu bukak pintu. Apa lagi pastu lari masuk bilik air. Aku ni masalahnya bila makan pagi sangat, perut terperanjat. Sure pi toilet la. Budak keje aku kata bagus. Tapi minum air ke susu pun leh sakit perut, takke naya if pi mana2? Pastu kan, aku tanya la mak aku apasal tak bukak pintu. Ada ke mak aku cakap patutla dia mimpi nak bukak message, tapi tekan2 takpat gak. Camtu nye kes pun ada.

Lepas letak barang2, kuarkan baju nak basuh etc, aku tukar baju nak pi jogging. Bukan nak jogging sangat pun, nak pi Pasar Tani sebenarnya. Ajak budak2 tu, Syafiq ngan 'Akiff je ikut. Cis, diorang lagi laju lari. Aku asyik berenti2 je. Waaaa!!! Nampak sangat dah gemuk takpat lari!!! Mak kata lauk dah ada, so takyah beli pape. Jogging sampai ujung tanjung, pastu pusing balik. Aku dapat nombor 3. Hehe. Buat malu je kalah ngan budak2. Sampai umah, tak ingat buat apa, tetiba ngantuk. Tanak tido sebenarnya, tapi mata cam ada penimbang. Tetido la sampai kul 1 lebih. Seb baik. Ingatkan tido sampai petang gila. Lepas basuh baju, mandi, makan, aku buat keje bodoh ngan budak2 tu. Syafiq ngan Alif main gasing. Kebetulan aku bawak balik camera. Amek video diorang main gasing, kononnya tengah ada gasing nye competition. Yang 'Akiff lak main baling batu ngan kayu, buat2 cam baseball. Terer weh. Kayu kecik, batu kecik tapi dapat pukul tu. Tengah amek video 'Akiff, 2 monyet tu dok sibuk lalu lalang sengaja nak masuk dalam video tu. Hampeh tol. Petang tu berangin, so aku cakap la nak amek gambar diorang main. Diorang sibuk soh amek video. So aku kata nak buat pertandingan nyanyi, Nenek Idol. Asyik gelak je aku petang tu. Sayang Fina takde sebab ada kelas tambahan. Malam tu buat birthday party untuk Syafiq kat KFC. KFC ari tu tak best. Banyak lebih bawak balik. Sebut pasal KFC, aku berangan apa agaknya ari tu sampai terlupa voucher KFC kat Penang. Handbag beli utk mak ngan Kaklong pun tetinggal. Berasap kepala aku dalam bas masa teringat ada barang tertinggal.

Esoknya ingatkan nak jalan2, tapi malas bangun. Panas sampai pening kepala. Lagi dasyat daripada Penang nye panas. Bape kali mandi agaknya ari tu sampai lesu rasa badan. Petang main2 ngan budak2 tu, yang Alif cam takde mood. Malas dah jadi rasanya. Petang keluar pi pasar malam ngan budak2. Jumpa Kaklong kat simpang. Jalan2 carik makan tapi tak beli banyak pun. Lepas tu, sapa entah yang mula sebut pasal tak payah pegi sekolah esoknya, budak2 tu soh aku cakap ngan Kaklong. Kemain suka dapat cuti Agong. Esoknya Kaklong aku dah membebel dari pagi soh aku bangun, tanya nak pi jalan ke mana. Aku tido lambat malam tu baca buku cite. Sapa soh kasi pinjam. Aku ni pantang ada buku. Kene abiskan secepat mungkin. Mak lak pasal apa entah punya masam dari semalam tu. So aku pun jadi bad mood gak. Alih2 lepas mandi, makan, aku ajar 'Afina Maths. Tak dapat buat banyak pun sebab abang aku datang nak bawak kitorang pi tengok Kak Ina ngan baby kat Mahkota Medical. Masa tu mak aku dah ok balik. Sampai ari ni tak tau apasal tetiba jadi camtu. Nak kata marah ngan aku, aku tak buat apa pun. Marah ngan budak2 tu pasal apa pulak. Sebelum pegi pasar malam ok je. Siap pesan ngan kitorang beli buah2 yang best. Aku balik punya banyak buah beli. Marah Kaklong pun cam tak logik sebab Kaklong takde kat umah sebelum tu. Dia balik dari pasar malam sekali ngan kitorang. Bila aku tanya apasal tetiba marah2, mak aku buat tak tau. Isk, macam2.

Kitorang tengok baby sampai kul 3 lebih. Lepas tu pi makan kat MP. Aku bawak budak2 main bowling. Mak ngan Kaklong pi beli barang sket. Camera tertinggal kat my mom nye bag, so takpat amek gambar main bowling. Syafiq ngan Alif lawan tengok sapa dapat markah banyak. Yang 'Akiff lak asyik tersungkur lepas baling bola. Kitorang asyik gelak je setiap kali turn dia main. 'Afina macam biasa la, malu2 mulanya sampai aku tukar turn dengan dia. Bila cakap jangan jatuhkan maruah Aunty sebab markah dia guna nama aku, dia senyum simpul. Bila dah 2,3 kali baling, dia dah ok. Dapat jatuhkan banyak gak. Bila mak ngan Kaklong datang, terus dia jadi balik perangai malu2 kucing dia tu. Susah betul anak buah pompuan aku yang sorang ni.

Lepas main, kitorang nak terus balik. Tau apa jadi? Mak aku ilang. Nak jadikan cite, hp aku tinggal rumah. Kaklong nye hp tak cukup credit nak call. Mak aku pun tinggal hp kat rumah. Aku relax je sebab Mahkota Medical tu seberang dari MP je. Dalam otak pike mak dah pi ke sana terus sebab malas tunggu kitorang habis main. Call abang aku guna public phone, kata takde pun mak kat sana. Abang aku terus tanya ilang mak ke? Kaklong aku dah panik. Terus soh kitorang tunggu bawah sementara dia carik mak kat tempat bowling. Rupa2 nya mak aku pi beli air. Kitorang jenguk gak ke situ, tapi tak nampak pun. Haha! Sebelum balik aku singgah Speedy beli drama Korea nak tengok. Beli Sweet 18 or Little Bride. Balik ke umah dah penat. Lepas tengok 1 cd, aku terus tido. Esoknya nak balik Penang dah.

Yesterday marked a truly remarkable day at work. After being swamped with endless of works for so many weeks, I finally could clear all the backlogs by 5 and went back 10 minutes before 7. Even one of my colleagues pointed out to me that my work tab was looking 'abnormal'. I didn't catch her meaning at first. Then she said that I only had few orders today. I was happy. She was happy. I think most of the team members were happy since they didn't need to stay back and helped me finished my orders. On second thought, they didn't need to feel happy. I almost always finished my work by myself. They called me 'champion' because everytime the daily remaining volume of orders report's out by 4 or 5pm, I topped the list. Yesterday, I only had 2 left. Even I was amazed.

But seriously, too much works, going back late almost every working night, less rest, have to drive back by myself (did I mention I hate driving?) certainly affecting my psychological health. I don't mind working since I don't have much to do anyway, but not to the point of staying back late until 9,10 at night. Every night. I arrived home yesterday at about 5 minutes after 7, took a long shower, stood in my bedroom, facing the bed with a smug smile plastered on my face. My bedroom looked nice. Heck, my bedroom looked better than nice. It looked even better when I'm not tired and cranky. I was happy.

Today I am not so happy. Back to usual routines. Still lots of works. Still lots of orders. But I doubt I'll be the 'champion' again today. Thank God for that. *err, touch wood?*

On a different note, what a single girl should do on Valentine's Day? I'm planning to cook myself something fancy. What about you?

I hate it when I do that...

I'm certainly not in my best mood. Work's been crazy lately. And of course, it's the 'perfect' time for my 'best friend' to visit me. Right after shower last night, I put on my sweater and settled on the sofa in the living room. I curled myself into a ball and slept there until 5 this morning. I got in my room and tried to continue sleeping, but I couldn't. Being in this condition, which seldom happens to me btw, makes me feel sick all over. Ended up boiling water for bath this morning. Felt like I lived in medieval era. But the hot bath made me felt slightly better...and surprisingly hungry. I wonder, is there any connection between hot water and hungriness? Anyhow, I decided not to drive today. Not when I just want to double over and disappear. I just finished my work for today and waiting for the 7pm bus. I have too much to do, but I haven't managed to do most of them since I am always tired after work. Ni yang rasa cam nak nangis nih...

Here's the link where you can check all the pics from my colleague's wedding.

http://community.webshots.com/user/nurizrahanim

I kind of forgot that I have accounts with Webshots. 5 if I'm not mistaken. Might combine all the pics from Japan time and upload them in one album. We'll see.

My driving instructor a.k.a. my cooking's guinea pig said that I shouldn't drive to work yet. According to him, I still have another 12H of driving lessons to complete before I can drive by my own on the big, scary road. I disobeyed him today. I drove to work this morning hoping that nothing bad would happened. Except for the part when I almost closed my eyes when I drove the car out of the parking lot (it's a scary drive out I tell ya), everything was not that bad. But now I worry about driving back home. How do I park the car? Can I just leave it near the entrance? Help!

I finally managed to make a decent chocolate cake! Way to go Cik Anim! Everytime I bake something by myself, I almost always ruin the recipes, be it simple cakes, cookies or my mom's legendary black forest cake. You don't want to ask about cooking. To me, there's no such thing as simple recipes. I have to admit that I am a retard in the kitchen. If you ask me, when the recipe said that you have to bake something for 1 hour, I'd think that if I double the temperature, I'd only have to wait half an hour or so. It works well everytime I want to freeze my drinks quickly. Turn the indicator to the "Colder" and voila! my drink''ll be cold in less time than what I normally have to wait. If you haven't notice, I'm not good at waiting. Mostly because I have STML. 15 minutes into waiting for the thing to bake, I'd be like, "There's something I need to do and I need to do it quick. But what is it?". 30 seconds later, there'll be a mind-snapping smell of burning cookies. And, "Oh, that!"

But, 2 days ago, I finally managed to not ruining a recipe and made a decent chocolate cake. I followed mom's recipe, but with 25g more of butter. Why? Well, one cube of butter is 250g. Mom's recipe indicated 225g. But I'm lazy so give me a break. It turned out quite well since I used the steamer not the oven which likes to burn everything I try to bake in it. Evil. The good thing was the steamer method gave a much more moist feels to the cake. And it is still soft this morning *shining eyes*

Be sure that I'll be making this cake again in near future. I'm going to prepare the cake frosting next time. Wish me luck!

I'm uploading lots of photos in my Flickr from my colleague's wedding party. I still look kinda selebet. Oh well. At least I tried. Hehe!

My God...one of my trainers certainly knows how to ruin Malay language. Her Malay sucks! I mentally cringe everytime she attempts to speak in Malay. On the first day of training with her, I actually said something like, "I pity you coz you look like you're struggling to speak in Malay. You can use English or Japanese. I'm fine with it." Yes, I'm blunt. She said she doesn't mind using Malay. What I didn't say is I 'suffer' everytime I listen to her struggling to find words to explain things and I don't understand most of it. Trust me, it's a very loooooong ear suffering 2 hours of training. Lucky for me, my ears get a break today. No training until next Monday. Phew!

Now, I am actually tempted to tell her that she better not speak Malay.. I mean, really, what does "tak sat" means? I live in Penang for so long but never heard of anyone (except her) using the phrase. But, sometimes I am able to restraint myself from being mean *applause*. So, I guess I'll have to learn the study materials by myself.

Am I being too nice? Or am I being wise?

Oh, btw, I want to say hi to my friend, ★エミ★ いつもMSNでチャットしてもらってありがと！明日は休みだから、私はオンラインしないね。またチャットしよう！

Work's been crazy lately. The management revised the pairing for FE,CR,OM and OE starting the new calendar year and I've been given 2 OMs and too many strategic companies in my list. I won't have any problem handling lots of orders everyday, but I still have to attend the management training everyday for 2 hours and that leaves me less time to clear my work tab compared to others. By the end of the day, I'm always tired and sleepy. Later at home, I'd fell asleep while watching TV. Or reading. When I voiced out about the imbalance pairing, the SU said that one of my OMs is handling another OM's orders whose on maternity leave. Hmm, interesting. Take yesterday for an example...others were not really busy. Some even didn't have orders early in the morning. While I'd been 'bombed' with lots of orders from morning to evening. When I came back from training at 4, I still had more than 10 orders to do and others were not that busy, but they did their works slower since it was Monday and no one offered to help, while I tried to clear my work for the day. Finished everything before 7.30 and went home tired and cranky. When I keyed in the daily report today, I saw that I actually did more than others who had all day to do their works. Now, tell me, is that fair?