Membeli barangan runcit

Yesterday after Bollywood dance class I had dinner with a girlfriend at a cafe in Bangi and on the way I stopped by a convenience store to buy some groceries. After finding nearly everything, I went up to the sales assistant to ask about the last item I was looking for.

-Adik telur ada?
-Ada kak. Tapi kecik. (and pointed to another corner of the mart)
-Oh. Tak nak lah kecik sangat.
-OK jap kak.

From another part of the store I could hear the supervisor's voice shouting out to the kid.

-Awe mung kecek molek-molek sikit dengan Akak tu. Dio mintok ghapo ke kamu? Nanti kito keno kompeling ni dengae muluk kamu hok celupa tu.

And while he was scolding the boy he walked towards me and the boy came back to where I was waiting. He was holding a carton of telur kecik.

-Owh. Hok telur yang itu.

Salah sangka dan salah tafsiran menjadikan kita mangsa keadaan. Bak kata lagu Sheila Majid lah. Kalau saya, saya kata, "Awe kalau hok telur kecik lagu tu mu simpae sendiri la buak main batu serembae."

Tapi saya hanya tersenyum. Saya ambil telur kecik budak itu dan saya ucapkan terima kasih kepadanya, sebelum bergegas ke kaunter pembayaran.

Masuk air

At the beginning of the rafting trip our guide Salim had already predicted that a few of us would be thrown into the river.

-Ni mesti ada yang terjun masuk air ni. Nanti kita tengok siapa.

Tapi kami tetap steady. Yang hampir terjatuh tu dia.
Alahai Salim!

Kami tetap OK!

Teng teng teng

Teng teng teng (bunyi nada dering untuk sms di telefon bimbit saya).

-Yati Apa nama application yang boleh chat between BB n iPhone?
-WhatsApp.

Seminit kemudian.

Teng teng teng (bunyi nada dering untuk sms di telefon bimbit saya lagi).

-Application yang boleh chat between iPhone n BB tu apa namanya?
-Application tu namanya WHATSAPP la.

Teng teng teng.

-Ooohh. He he. I thot I saw u wrote whatsup. That's why I asked the same question.

Walhal kawan saya ini membeli iPhone kerana font tulisan untuk sms dan email boleh ditukar bukan sahaja kepada Extra Large tetapi juga Giant. :-)))

Sincere Care Home Kajang

This lady is one of the elderly residents of the Sincere Care Home in Kajang. She is nearing 70. Gentle and soft spoken. When asked about her children, she would just brush the subject off lightly, saying that she doesn't remember much about their whereabouts. All she tells me is that she is lucky to be in the company of the other residents. She doesn't want to talk about her family.

And yet she still mothered me around when we came to have tea with them, asking me to drink and have all the cakes and snacks, adding that I could do with a little more weight.

"Saya makan sikit tada apa, janji kita semua boleh rasa."

And she never stopped smiling.

Such is the beauty of the spirit for life.

Sepetang berjalan-jalan

Hari itu saya pergi berjalan-jalan di taman bersama anak saudara saya.

Langit mendung seperti hendak hujan.

Kami berborak-borak sambil berjalan.

-Mak Long I collected rocks from Ayong's garden. 4 rocks. Different colours.
-Wow. Did you have fun?
-Yeah! We had to dig. And then I thought we found some dinosaur bones.
-Which dinosaur?
-Oh then I discovered that they weren't dinosaur bones. Just chicken bones.
-Oh OK.
-Mak Long do they have dinosaur chickens?
-I guess so.
-What are they called?
-C-Rex.
-Like T-Rex?
-Uhuh.
-C for chicken?
-Uhuh.
-Owhhh. Thanks Mak Long. You're the best Mak Long in the world. You know everything.

Dan kami terus berjalan.

D5

As I went through gate D5 to board my flight back home from my short holiday break, the thought that came to my mind was "Alamak nanti gi keje nak iron baju mana ni?"

Handphone

Yesterday I bought a new handphone during a road show in a shopping mall in KL. When I reached Bangi the person who sold me the phone called me to say that she had inserted the wrong sim card and that I had to go back to the shopping mall to get it replaced, failure to do which I will not be able to convert my pre-paid line to a post-paid one. Which was something that I had to do (the conversion) to be able to register for the data plan. But since I was already at work so I told the person to courier me the new sim card.

Today I received the new sim card. But now the problem is that it is not the micro sim type that would fit into the phone. It is too large. So in short, the sim card that fits snugly in my new handphone now is not the right one to use and the new one that I had just received to replace the current one does not fit at all but is supposed to be the right one.

It cannot get any dumber than that.

So tomorrow I guess I need to go to the nearest telecommunications centre to get this mix-up fixed. And hopefully I might be able to use my handphone at last.

As I am typing this, I may seem calm and collected. There is even a little smile on my face. But take off this mask I have and wipe off this fake smile and you will see a highly anger-crazed woman screaming ''PUTAIN DE BORDEL DE MERDE!!'' on top of her lungs.

OK. Putting my fake mask back on. Peace.