back to life, back to reality...

okay..went to work last night and in the morning had a meeting with the FOL member. tu kira friends of the leberi ler tu. my friend ni kan, she gets easily frustrated. nak explain bende pun kalau kita tak get her meaning, wahhh...cepat betul marah. i mean it wasn't like she had to explain like four or five times. i yang buat label so i know lah berapa ramai members kita ada. i did say that the numbers yang i kasi i pakai old lilst. bila key in..ada members upgrade their membership to lifetime after checking against the new list.

sarina tukang amik gambar..kak za..' nak cheetos?'...hehe, nengok ajer lah..dah lah lemah lembut ..duduk selimput ...wanita melayu yang anggun lah..hehe..tak cam i..duduk bersila kat atas their couch..hahahaha

entah kenapa tah i get to do this job. collate info. i was only trying to help. cam gini kan..lain kali you can do it yourself lah. tak paham i ngan ppl like this. anyway..dah selamat dah project tu. dah mail out the postcards dah semalam jugak.

sarina pulak..wah, berkobar2 nak belajar crochet. sebab dia nampak kat rumah kak za..al the crochet stuff that kak za dah buat. she asked me, 'what is that mommy?' bilang lah kat dia tu kak za kait. dah dia kata dia nak belajar. i ni bukan tak nak ajar dia..but sometimes, cam i have no patience lah..dunno why. so semalam dapatlah benang from a friend of mine and dah start kait dah. kait tali air..entah betul entah tidak..kita bedal jer. i nengok the way she is holding the jarum cam a bit awkward gitu but takper. she is still young. then kan, pegi lah this bookshop. ada kit for beginners and children like her. dia mintak i belikan..but expensive gitu. $20 over dollars. bilang kat dia..kita ge leberi okay. then she went to the library, bawak balik satu buku ni...for advance beginners thru advance nyer crochet-ers...dia kata nak buat topi, baju and sweater...lerr..i bilang kat dia i sendiri pun tak tau camana nak buat tu seme..hehe. yang i tau buat cuma doillies jer..so kita nengok the end product in a couple of months okay. itu pun kalau ada end product.

ni dia...mr. john ...or to sarah aka uncle bob aka uncle sean..main hentam jer si sarah tu :) i think he should have become a doctor..hehe.

sarah pulak...hai..tukang menyerak nombor 1 lah dia. so semalam paksa her pick up her own mess. wahh...tak terima. nangis2 and whiny2. suruh dia taruk buku balik kat playroom, only 3 books and 1 toy..itu pun tak terlarat nak angkat. asked her dah taruk ke belum. she said yes..i nengok pintu bilik dah kena tutup..wonder why..i bukak lah..rupa2 nyer..bukan dia ak taruk balik kat dalam basket or the shelves..dia lambak kan kat tetengah bilik..wahh..pastu pandai tutup pintu so that i cannot see..hehehe. apa lagi..bilang kat dia..her book privilege kena tarik balik. until she knows how to put it away properly :)

balik keje..dengar bunyi zzzzzzzz...my cell phone kat atas shelf buzzing. ada new voicemail..check..dengar suara kak za..hehee. geli hati baca msg dia. takper kak za..itu dah mmg plan kiter :) terima sajelah hakikat nyer..hahahahahahahha.

tish and joanie. again sarina yang amik gambar.

okay..vacation day one. thursday..kita bertolak cepat sikit. like sean , i pun prefer to be there hours earlier rather then later. i dah check in online so cuma kena kasi beg and dah tak yah susah2 nak line up kat check in counter. had lunch at the airport too. sarina and sarah punya lah kesukaan. nak nak si sarah. dah check in luggage, in her whiny voice cakap nak naik kapal terbang. i said not yet lah..wah tak terima. dah kena dokong..patu kena threatened japs...if you don't follow us..we will leave you behind..hehehe. nak tak nak ikut jugak dia. once naik plane jer..she is so happy. duduk kat sebelah i bebual sorang2...baca buku dia lah. very easy traveller lah dia.

first night kat massachusetts, nothing eventful except we couldn't find the way to our hotel. jalan kat sana belit2. pusing kat sini ingatkan ikut highway ni..alih2 jer..pusing lagi sekali...dah tukar jalan lain. baik2 kat boston, dah masuk ke salem pulak..dah kena beli map pastu patah balik. but the best thing about mass, after driving around in kansas, is that, it is so small..5 minutes of driving..dah masuk another town. so finally we jumpa jugak hotel. check in , order room service. i ordered fish and chips and fried calamari while sean and sarina order cheese pizza. sedap.

next day, after checking out..we went to gloucester. my in-laws came here for one of the holidays. i can see why they like it. it is beautiful. ate at this restaurant. it was very cold that day. no snow, but my snot was frozen. sarina pulak ada cold. dah kena bundled up. we ordered losbter bisque. i loved it. it is so yummy. very different than the one from maine. it was thinner and lacked flavour. but this one was thick and creamy. yummmsss! sean got fish and chips, i ordered seafood linguine and sarina had honeyed salmon with almond crust. she didn't like the sweet taste of the honey..so terpaksalah i makan.

from there we drove to norwood. this halal meat store. that's where i found out that hari raya haji falls on sat and not on sun. the place was busy. ramai orang call in their order for meat. i had to wait for more than half an hour until i tiold them that they don't have to cut the meat and chicken for me. i can do it myself. and from there we drove to kak za nyer rumah. ingat jauh lah jugak..tak sampai half hour dah sampai rumah kak za. but no one was there. so kita rounding2 lagi. found this grocery store..i think upscale nyer lah..some of the stuff pretty pricey but i saw sushi for just $8..murah seh considering they had tuna on it. so bought that for sean and a snack before eating dinner. went back there again and dah ada kereta kat tepi rumah.

keluar kereta naik tangga..kak za dah bukak pintu. best dapat jumpa another malay person..hehee. i love their house. the barn, the animals. the girls apa lagi. they buat cam rumah sendiri..hehe. yang kelakar nyer..si sarah panggil kak za aunt gina..i bilang kat dia aunty za..she said..aunt gina...hehe john pulak..memula uncle bob, pastu jadi uncle sean..only after that baru dia panggil uncle john :) . then dok bebual japs. sungguh lemah lembut nyer kak za ni tau. bak kata sean, i tiga beranak, cam make so much noise that would wake the dead indian buried out back in the yard..hahaha. duduk2 bebual..phone rang. kak za cakap japs and she said that tish , john nyer sister is coming over. pas tu tak lama, john pun balik. wonder how he felt balik jer..rumah dah ada 4 strangers...tercegat..senyum kambing cam buttercup..hahaha. all i can say is that, they are very nice ppl. sapelah lah eh nak accept strangers into their homes..hehehe.

terlupa pulak nama tempat ni. but it is a 5 star restaurant. we didn't go there..cam tempat seafood kat kukup tak eh..hahaha

pikir jugak apa nak buat for dinner..but the girls dah start their investigating. nengok the birds..nengok the iguana...they are very curious what is upstairs. kak za bawak naik atas..and a short while later sarina come down and was going ooohh and ahhh..she said kat atas cam museum..hehe. she said ada lots of interesting stuff..hehe. i bet :) malam tu kita masak kari ayam. but i tertaruk banyak ginger. so a very gingery curry indeed. tish and joanie came and the girls talked non stop. kita bawak keluar cheetos and gardettos. lama gak bebual dengan diorang. sarah panggil joanie aunt oni..hehe.

lama jugak bebual..then they left. we had dinner. and then duduk berbual lagi..sean dengan john..apa lagi lah..bukak one topic after another. i pun tak ingat when we all masuk tido..but i think john and sean stayed up later than us..hehe. yang kelakar nyer..these two guys..wahh..duduk berbual..bangun gi dapur berbual..penat duduk..berdiri berbual...they almost talked non stop lah...geli hati nengok. but i am glad that they can relate to one another. would be pretty awkward if they cannot get a long kan..hahaha. okaylah..better go now..nak kena buat DIY around the house japs. and nak kena plan our budget for the practice. oh what fun....NOT! takper..insyallah there is a silver lining for sean sometime in the future..heheh. semalam dia gi kerja muka teramatlah cramp..kesian my husband ....takper bawak banyak bersabar..hehe...lermerkkk..baru tepon sri..terlupa pulak time diff is 14 hours..dah pukul 11 kat sana. sri dah landing...hub dia yang jawab...aisehh very embarassing dahh..sri mintak sorri kat your hub eh ganggu tetengah malam hehehehehe.