Monday, May 05, 2008

Pitam

Dunia gelap. Lepas tu cerah. Lepas tu CPU hang.

 

Hari ni saya rasa nak pitam je. Mungkin sebab otak saya terkejut. Baru hari Jumaat tu gumbira bagi ikan makan di Pulau Manukan. Hari Sabtu pulak gumbira menghirup udara segar di kaki Gunung Kinabalu dan cicah kaki di Poring Hot Spring. Hari Ahad, bersuka-ria projek shopping mania dan cuci mata (sampai Suami Terchenta ‘ikat’ tangan sebab tak kasi masuk Pasar Filipin lagi).

 

Tiba-tiba hari Isnin menyerang. Surat jemputan Exco! Teks ucapan Menteri Besar! Artwork dah siap ke belum! Senarai jemputan dah finalize ke belum! Meeting 8hb di Johor! Huha huha huha!

 

Mana tak sel2 otak dari happy-happy terus macam kena renjatan letrik.

 

Sepatutnya saya ambil cuti sehari, tukar program ‘Holiday.exe’ ke ‘Work.exe’. Tapi, saya tahu kalau saya ambil cuti, takde sapa yang akan buat kerja. Huwaargghhh! Kenapa saya macam bos merangkap kuli eh?

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Friday, May 02, 2008

Breakaway!

Otak dah penat. Hati dah sakit. Badan dah lesu.
Pekerjaan di saat-saat berhenti kerja buat saya stress.
Pukul 4 pagi orang lain masih enak buat tahi mata. Saya dah bangun dan mandi. Bersiap utk outstation.
Pukul 5 pagi orang lain baru nak bangun Subuh. Saya dah khatam beberapa dokumen dan buat checklist utk meeting dalam ERL.
Pukul 8.30 malam, orang lain dah ada di rumah, tengok Akademi Fantasia. Saya baru nak terhegeh2 boarding flight balik ke KL.

Demi menghilangkan stress dan re-charge energy, that's why saya dan Suami Terchenta (dan Shai) sekarang di KK, berhooray2 sakan!
Bukan setakat problem kerja terbang melayang, dengan kami2 pon terbang melayang ber'parasailing' di Pulau Manukan!

Saya akan story2 lagi bila sudah balik ke alam realiti ;) Buat masa sekarang, kena tido awal sebab besok akan menghirup udara segar di Kinabalu Park seawal jam 7 pagi. Suami Terchenta pon dah lama berlayar ke alam mimpi.

Kalau singgah di blog ni, buat la macam rumah sendiri ya? Bancuh la air kopi sendiri. Hehe. Toodles!

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Missing Little Rio

Rio, our newly adopted kitten had disappeared last week. I had been too heartbroken to update my blog ever since missing my cute little kitten. I even dreamed about Rio and constantly wonder whether he is somewhere safe.

How did we lose Rio? Last week, we figured that Rio was bored at home. He had been constantly following us everywhere whenever we are home. It’s like, we had a puppy instead of a kitty. He even followed me into the bathroom as I took my wudu’ and then ran helter-skelter when I turned on the shower and he got splashed. Right on his wee little head. I didn’t do it on purpose – didn’t see him sitting watching me did ablution. Nevertheless, it made me roar in laughter because it was so comical.

So anyway, we went out for a drink at the food stall behind our house. As Rio had been cooped up in the house since his rescue, we brought him along so he can see other than the sofa, the four walls, the toilet floor, the toilet itself and our notebooks’ screen. Rio was interested in everything he saw that night. He smelled here, he smelled there. Then suddenly, he was no more to be seen!

We thought he’d come back after finished inspecting his new environment and perhaps, making a friend or two but he didn’t. Suami Terchenta said that maybe because of his ‘sensor and balancing dah rosak’ (he can’t even smell his food a few steps away from him) he couldn’t locate our table. We walked around to search him, but he had simply vanished!

Truth is, I had this mixed feeling when he was gone. I felt guilty for taking him out that nite and losing him, but at the same time I was relieved because it’s not really healthy for him to be trapped in the house without a companion cat to steam off his kitty energy. We only managed to play with him an hour before we rushed to work, and a few hours at night because we are really tired after work. Like this, how to spend time with our kids (later)? We did look for him but he was gone. In the morning, we peeped out the window at the food stalls, and he’s still… gone.

I’m hoping that he could find his way back home and when we come back later, he’ll be at the front door waiting. If he’s not, then I hope that Rio would survive and be able to mingle with other cats there.

I miss Rio terribly – his amusing little games of chasing our ankles, his frenzy war with plastic bags and the way he springs at us (konon2 to surprise us) and then runs to hide behind the kitchen’s curtain. His funny expression when he poops and his yowlings of delight at our voices when we return home.

And after all the exertions that leave him tired, he would trot his way into our laps and curl up to sleep, a happy and contented kitten who only craves for a piece of love from these two humans.

Come back home, Rio.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

16.04.06

Dua tahun lepas, pukul 10 pagi sampai 12 tengahari, saya di dapur.

Macam Cinderella dipaksa ditugaskan memasak untuk tetamu2 yang bakal hadir.

Saya masak ayam masak merah, tanak nasi, bancuh air, dan siapkan beberapa lauk-pauk yang lain. Malam sebelumnya, saya buat kek batik. Tinggal nak keluarkan dari peti sejuk sahaja. Rajin betol anak dara ini kan (sekarang dah bukan anak dara. Huhu…).

My beloved mother masuk ke dapur. Dia kata, my beloved father nak jumpa.

Saya keluar dengan senduk di tangan, duduk depan my beloved father. My beloved father tanya, ‘Nak berapa lama?’

Saya fikir sekejap. 5 tahun lagi boleh? Muahaha. Mahu terkedu tetamu2 yang bakal hadir.

‘Hujung tahun la.’ Kata saya.

Kenapa my beloved father tak tanya saya, ‘Nak berapa?’ Isk… Isk. Sungguh tak aci.

Pukul 12 tengahari. My beloved father pergi menjemput tetamu2. Saya masih berhempas-pulas meniup kayu api memasak.

Tetamu2 duduk di ruang tamu. Mula2 senyap, lama2 mula berborak2. Hahaha itu, Hahaha ini. Saya sudah makin rimas. Lantak la sedap ke, tak sedap. Peluh pun dah terasa melekit di badan.

My beloved mother kata, ‘Kalau dah siap memasak, naik la ke atas tukar baju.’

Saya naik, mandi, dan pakai baju kurung yang saya bawak balik dari KL. Baju raya tahun sebelumnya.

Bila saya turun, bonda saya berikan saya cincin.

Rupa2nya sesi tawar-menawar perbincangan dah selesai.

Keluarga saya semua senyum gumbira. Keluarga dia semua senyum gumbira jugak.

Gumbira sampai tak ingat nak ambil gambar. Saya seorang sahaja yang senyum kelat *membayangkan cincin tu sebesar gelang kaki, cuma gelang kaki tu ialah besi yang dirantai kat bola pemberat. Yang macam banduan2 kat penjara pakai tu*

No more ‘cuci2 mata’ with my best friend Eva, atau merempit macam minah rempit. Kehidupan saya dirasakan macam gelap-gelita.

Fobia seeyyyhhhh!!!!

Itu 2 tahun lepas. Sekarang saya sudah gumbira.

Gumbira sampai loncat2 di PC Fair sebab ada orang tolong bayarkan external hard disk 160GB.

Gumbira sebab dapat coklat mahal (walaupun bukan birthday saya).

Gumbira ada orang akan temankan saya tido sambil peluk kuat2 lepas tengok cerita ‘Congkak’ malam esok. Tak la takut sangat.

Seronok rupanya berkahwin ni.

Suami Terchenta, boleh kita ulang sekali lagi? :p

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Rio The Pooping Cat

During the first few days after adopting Rio, there were moments when I was anxious that Rio had constipation because he did not poop. He peed in his box, 'cried' a lot, and did not like to be left alone. He did everything but pooping.

At that time, I thought this is something to be worried, but if I had known earlier, I wouldn't be encouraging Rio to poop so much. Now, all he does is poop. Poops after a nibble of food, after completing a round of the living room tour, and after he wakes up from his cat nap. At first, it amused us to see him stopping whatever he's doing to go for his toilet break. But after a while, it really gets on our nerve and we wish he was born without a bowel.

This is especially so whenever I come back from work and the first thing to do is to clean up the toilet. I would wonder, did we adopt a young cat or a baby elephant? A day in the toilet, and Rio managed to poop everywhere except in the toilet bowl. Even his carrier and the wall was smeared with his poop. What did the cat do while we are at work? Skimp around in the poop, then ran everywhere? Was he so bored that he decided to make arts out of his own poop?

In return, we bully Rio for pooping so much. Every time he poops, he will get a bath. He hates it so much but since he has the worst toilet manner and he steps on his own poop, we have no choice but to immediately whisk him to the bathroom and wash him again. Otherwise, his mess would be imprinted on our clean, green carpet!

We also love to do this - while he sleeps, Suami Terchenta would position his feet to cover his eyes. Rio just looks comical in this position! Hahaha!

At the moment, I can still be patient with his pooping habit, but I'm starting to think that he seriously needs to be taught by an older cat on how to poop properly and neatly without sending showers of the poop-infested sand everywhere on the 10th-time scrubbed toilet floor. Because honestly, in another week or two, I might resort to smacking his small bottom for making me repeat the same task over and over again, and I paling benci buat benda yang sama tiap2 kali.

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