My Kind of Travelling

Last weekend we decided to go back to En. ID hometown in Batu Pahat. Then teringat nak singgah AG, hantar barang Ms A and her favourite meatballs.

 

Bekal untuk Ms M makan dalam kereta

 

Bekal untuk Mummy and Papa nya

 

Singgah sekolah Ms A, sekadar hantar barang kat guard saja sebab hari Jumaat, parents tak boleh melawat. On the way nak ke highway semula, ternampak nyonya jual durian kat tepi jalan. Terus berenti.

 

Durian kampung. Sekilo RM5

 

Makan di situ saja. Tak nak bau kereta.

 

So succulent...!!!!!!

Keluar dari highway, saja lalu Tangkak. Sebab nak cari mee bandung Muor!!!!! Ramai cadangkan pergi ke satu kedai di Jln Abdullah or something tapi sebab En. ID nak solat Jumaat, tak boleh nak round lama lama, we end up at makan kat restoren ni. Sederet dengan kedai murtabak singapore yang famous kat Muar tu. Deret Petronas sebelum Sekolah Sains Muar.

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My order. Mee Bandung biasa. A bit too sweet for my liking

 

Order En. ID. Mee Bandung special.

 

 

Sampai Batu Pahat, nenek En. ID dah siap masakkan rendang ayam nogori. En. ID's family orang N9 yang bermastautin di Batu Pahat.

 

 



 

Rendang yang sungguh sedap. Dah lama belajar buat tapi masih tak sama rasa dan rupa.

 

Malamnya, kami pergi makan di restoren favourite En. ID and his family. Restoren ni dari dia kecik dah ada. They call it Jeng Kuan tapi nama yang tulis kat situ Kwang Ah.



 

Mee Hailam.

 

Rojak Petis Batu Pahat Style. Banyak kangkung and taugeh. Tak berapa pedas which I like.

 

Pagi esoknya, saya dan En. ID ke pasar Batu Pahat. Tujuan utama adalah nak breakfast kat satu kopitiam tepi pasar Batu Pahat tu.

 

My order, lontong biasa. Nasi impit tu dia guna ketupat.

 

En. ID order lontong dengan rendang daging.

 

Order sate jugak. Orang Batu Pahat ni biasa makan sate masa breakfast.

 

Kopi ais sebagai pelengkap.

 

 

This is my kind of travelling. Makan... makan dan makan. And I like to try local street food. Authentic!!!!

 



Review of the Week

Minggu yang sangat sibuk
Tak sedar dah hari Jumaat

Ms M dah mula kelas tuition minggu ni
Pertama kali pergi tuition sebab nak UPSR tahun ni
Isnin sampai Rabu saya perlu balik jam 5 tepat.
Perlu sampai rumah awal.
Tengokkan kerja sekolah dia
Makan malam dengan dia
Pastikan dia dah kemas bag sekolah dan segala persiapan untuk kesekolah esoknya
Lepas solat maghrib, hantar dia ke kelas tuition
Balik kol 10, dia terus tidur.
Setakat ni dia suka dengan rutin baru ini

Dipejabat pula
Additional workload!
Additional country to cover
Ditambah dengan seorang staff resign
Tapi sebelum dia resign, I discovered one region was not properly covered. A lot of things not done or not properly done
In short, more challenges at work.

But I'm a firm believer of work-life balance.
5 sharp angkat bag.
Laptop tinggal office.
I would rather datang awal and sacrifice my lunch time
Dari balik lambat or buat kerja office di rumah.

Anyway, plan for this weekend is:
1. Hantar kereta my mama to workshop
2. Nak ke Jln TAR cari tudung sekolah Ms A
3. Continue my gardening project kat belakang rumah
4. Nak masak nasi ayam and pot roast

Salam Jumaat.

Abah

I just got a call from my abah. And it made me cry........

My abah is the best father in the whole world. Tiada lelaki yang sebaik dia dan sesabar dia.

I was the youngest of 3 girls.
When I was 10, my parents divorced. He fought for the custody over 3 of us, his girls and he got it.
I was raised by my Abah.
He never knew how to cook. So we eat out all the time.
He washed all our clothes, iron it perfectly.
He washed our shoes. Putih bernila
Everyday, I will go to school by school bus in the morning, he will pick me up in the afternoon and brought me to his office.
I will eat at the office canteen and later sleep on the sofa in his office
After office, we will pick my sister from school, eat out and go home
That was the routine until we all went to boarding school
He said to his friends "Budak bertiga ni lah nyawa saya"

I always remember my childhood as a happy ones despite my parents divorce.
All because of Abah
He never said a single bad word about my Mama.
He regarded what had happened between them as fate
My life was pretty good actually.

When I was 16, he eventually got married again. And have his new family

Abah came to UK for my graduation
And I remembered he said "Mama should be here to celebrate this"

When I came back and started working
He said to me
"Bila adik dah dapat gaji, jangan lupa bagi duit pada Mama. Tak payah bagi duit pada Abah sebab Abah masih kerja"
"Walau apa pun yang dah berlaku, Mama tetap mama adik. Kalau dia tak lahirkan adik, you will not be who you are today"
Begitu tulus hati Abah

Now, I am very close to my Mama too.
Like abah said, she is my Mama.
Segala apa yang telah berlaku adalah takdir Allah.
Tiada siapa yang salah.
Dan tiada guna untuk memandang kebelakang.

Last week, my sister told me she planned to visit her daughter in Egypt
And wanted to bring abah too.
I agreed to pay for his ticket.
And Along will cover his ground expenses.

So this morning, I bought the ticket
And called Abah to tell him to renew his passport

And just now, Abah called me
And he cried...
He said
"Abah nak ucap terima kasih kat adik belikan tiket abah. Abah doakan adik murah rezeki"

I feel so sad because what I did was nothing compared to what he has done for me.
Saya sanggup bagi nyawa untuk abah.
Inikan pula harta dunia yang tak seberapa ini.

Abah memang macam tu. Belikan baju pun tak putus ucapan terima kasih dia pada kami.

Ya Allah... kau berikan lah kesihatan yang baik pada Abah. Kau rahmatilah hidupnya di dunia dan diakhirat. Kau ampunilah dosanya dan masukkan lah dia ke dalam syurgaMu ya Allah.