System of A Down

Haha.

No, no. Not the band.

My laptop suddenly won’t turn on which I think will affect the blogging activity since I don’t know how to upload photos in here without downloading them to the laptop first. Sigh. Please laptop, don’t die on me now. Not now, not now 😭(although its age is 6 this year).

I can’t imagine having to survey for the best (yet affordable) one now because I haven’t spoken the computer hardware/software language for a very long time. Rasa macam nak kena start from the beginning because I’m sure so much has changed ever since.

Please, please let me be comfortable with my current old, ancient yet beloved laptop.

Malang Yang Tak Berbau

Petang semalam dengan famili pergi berpiknik di Pantai Penunjuk, Kijal. Dalam kereta bukan main nak save bateri phone, tak bagi anak saudara main sebab nak ambik gambar banyak-banyak kat pantai nanti. Tapi rupanya tak terambik gambar pun kat sana.

Sesampai di pantai, lepas settle hampar tikar semua, kami pergilah beli makanan dekat pasar malam berdekatan. Tengah beli kerepok lekor tiba-tiba dengar ada customer lain bagitahu penjual tu yang ada budak lemas. Bila kami tengok ke arah pantai, memang nampak orang semua tengah berdiri pandang ke laut.

Rupanya ada dua orang  tengah berpaut pada batu di tengah-tengah laut. Ombak besar menyebabkan mereka tak dapat berenang balik ke pantai. 

Kakau ikut versi cerita orang kat situ, katanya yang lemas seorang, dan yang seorang lagi tu orang yang nak selamatkan dia. 

Abah ada call JPAM. Rupanya orang JPAM akan selalu call kita balik tanya update selain lokasi dan details pasal kejadian.

Masa semua orang kat pantai suspense tengok dan tunggu bomba/ambulans/JPAM sampai, nampak dua orang hamba Allah berdayung ke batu tempat mereka berpaut tu dengan sampan kecik. Kami yang tengok ni berdebar jugak sebab diorang tu tak pakai life jacket dengan keadaan ombak besar jika nak dibandingkan dengan saiz sampan tu. Salute sangat dengan keberanian diorang tu.

Aku pergi jugak dekat dengan kejadian masa diorang bawak naik mangsa tu ke pantai, tapi tak nampak sangat. Cuma nampak ada orang tengah buat CPR. Tak sangka jugak serius keadaannya  sebab masa sampan tu pergi dapatkan mereka, aku dah rasa lega sebab ingatkan dah selamat semua.

Menurut Abah, yang buat CPR tu doktor, kawan Abah. Tapi lepas tu kami dapat tahu, the boy didnt make it. Innalillah. Al-fatihah.

Ni ada link berita kejadian di Sinar Harian, cuma tak ada mention pasal sampan yang pergi ambik mangsa tu. 

http://www.sinarharian.com.my/mobile/semasa/kegembiraan-mandi-manda-di-pantai-bertukar-tragedi-1.799206

Air Pasang Pagi

This is written at 9.33pm, Jan 3.

Malam ni pukul 11malam nanti air pasang besar. Kalau ikut jadual air pasang yang di-share di family WhatsApp group, malam ni air pasang setinggi 3.6 meter. Esok pun sama.

Semua tengah berdebar sebab sekarang hujan tengah lebat dan menurut mak, air makin naik. Petang tadi dah melimpah ke jalan depan rumah.

Nak menunggu fasa air pasang ni habis memang rasa cemas bila air longkang sebelah rumah mak dah melimpah sampai jalan, ditambah dengan hujan lebat. Harapnya hujan berhenti kejap lagi.

Dan harap-harap tak banjir besar. Risau sangat ni. Semoga Allah lindungi keluargaku di Kemaman.

Retak Satu Part II

I wrote about similar incident here

And my sister sent this video a couple days ago. I LOL-ed the moment I watched it.

Kita senasib, only the plate of hers broke for a valid reason (or must I say a very SOLID reason) that a mortar fell onto it. Haha, another LOL. Sorry, Buyan.

So, misi mencari pinggan mangkuk is ON.

Retak Satu

It's hard to throw you away when you decide to break yourself so beautifully. Feels like I can still use you (cry emoticon).

Dia pecah sendiri secara tiba-tiba. Okay, maybe aku tersilap letak masa susun kat dishdryer tu yang mana rasanya ada terlebih tekanan sikit dekat bucu dan propagate crack dari situ. Tapi terkejut tiba-tiba tak semena-mena dengar bunyi kaca pecah. Cari-cari dari mana datang bunyi tu, tengok-tengok dah terbelah dua macam tu.

Dahlah rumah ni memang sedia kurang pinggan mangkuk, pecah pulak lagi. Kalau dia pecah berderai memang dah lama buang. Tapi bila pecah macam ni, tak sampai hati lagi nak buang. Haha, unnecessary dilemma, I know, I know.

#prayfortheankle

I sprained my ankle last Sunday while playing badminton (cry emoticon). Mula-mula ingatkan macam biasa so lepas terpeleot tu, rehat kejap dan sambung main walaupun terhincut-hincut. Tapi malam tu macam makin sakit pulak. Nak berpijak tu macam terseksa sangat.

Aku ada Google jugak treatment untuk sprained ankle so nak share jugaklah kat sini. Ada method yang dipanggil RICE method - Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevate.

1. REST - Kena rehatkan kaki, tak boleh gerak banyak-banyak. Tang ni macam dah fail sikit sebab hari tu sambung main jugak lepas dah terpelecot tu.

2. ICE - kena tuam dengan ais untuk reduce swelling. Nasib baik kat rumah ni ada HOT/COLD PACK so senang sikitlah, letak je 20 minit dalam freezer lepas tu bolehlah tuam tempat yang bengkak. Do this every 1-2 hours for about 20 minutes.

3. Compression - kena balut atau letak bandage supaya dapat support kecederaan tu. Aku tak ada bandage jadi aku balut je pakai scarf, yang penting jangan ketat sangat. 

4.  ELEVATE - tinggikan kaki melebihi paras jantung. Ni boleh buat time ada peluang nak baring jelah.

Yang paling penting, jangan urut dalam masa 3 hari. Lega jugak bila baca ni sebab ada excuse tak pergi berurut ehehe. Sebab aku perasan dalam budaya Melayu ni, mesti nak kena cepat-cepat pergi urut kalau terseliuh, kan? Tengah sakit macam ni orang pegang pun dah rasa nak menjerit, kalau pergi urut tak tahulah. 

Ni semua hasil Google je. The best is of course, seek medical advice from the doctors lah kan sebab takut ade injury more than just normal sprain Nauzubillah. By the time I'm writing this (which will be auto-published as usual), I haven't seen the doctor yet. Still within 24 hours, tengoklah macam mana. 

Please pray for me.

Mother Figure?

This happened last year. I drafted this post the day it happened but didn't finish it. So now I'm posting it. Here goes..

I went to shaklee to stock up some vitamins. Once I was done with the purchase, I went out. Oh, btw, the door was securely locked,there a was a guard in charge to unlock the door every time people coming in and going out of the premise.

I noticed this one boy went out, too, alone, at the same time I got out.  I wondered at that instant "where is he going?" He walked very close to me and I started to think "is this boy following me?"

When i reached my car, he was there too, so it was obvious that he did follow me. I asked him "Where are you going? Where's your mom?" but he just looked at me and then looked away, looking so lost. He didn't say anything but his face looked as if he was just waking up from sleep or maybe under coughing syrup influence or something.

I know, I'm a bit slow. Only after a few seconds later I kinda figured out what just happened. He must had mistakenly thought me as his mom - may be that was why he followed me.

So I ushered him back to Shaklee. The guard waving at him to come in back once he saw us. Behind the guard was a woman. That must've been the mother.

I immediately left after his mom saw him. I just couldn't stop thinking what if the boy followed the wrong person? Nauzubillah.

Please be extra careful dear parents out there.

The Title

Cuti CNY baru ni, ada jemputan majlis kahwin saudara nun di Besut. Maka berkonvoilah kami ke sana.

Cuma nak cerita waktu sampai, kami tunggu kereta lain (gang konvoi) yang belum sampai kat luar pagar.

Nampak tuan rumah tergesa-gesa nak mengejar seorang tetamu yang dah mula nak beredar.  Kebetulan tetamu tu lalu sebelah kami, maka aku pun konon-konon tolong panggilkan.

"Kak!"

Tapi almaklumlah suara tak berapa nak kuat, tetamu tu tak dengar.  Tuan rumah pun mengejar dengan berlari-lari anak sambil memanggil tetamu tu "Dato', Dato'!"

Haissh. Nasiblah beliau tu tak dengar aku duk panggil "Kak" tadi.



The End of Brangelina

Been scrolling FB newsfeed last night and news about their break-up was all over the wall.

So I guess it's just about time. Finally the most gorgeous couple (or should I say sexy couple) on earth is untying the knot.

I used to write about my favorite Hollywood's A-list couple back in 2010. And guess what? They're all divorced now.

http://mygoldpen.blogspot.my/2010/11/break-up.html

Okay, enough gossiping .

Till later.

Denial denial denial

You know you're in denial when you insist on being addressed as Cik Ngah instead of Mak Ngah by the nephews.

Cik Ngah by all means sounds younger than Mak Ngah.

Haha. Dilema makcik 'muda'.