A piece of my time

Kadang-kadang bukan saje kids say the darnedest things, orang dewasa pun boleh join jugak. Here are a few I encountered this past 2 days:

Kes no 1

Budak kampung : Kak..err..Dr..saya nak buat gigi depan ni

Aku : Nih dalam rekod dah 2 kali dah fail apointment RCT..Tetibaa jee nak buat nih..apa pape ke?

Budak kampung : Kalau boleh saya nak siapkan sebelum 16 haribulan nih..

Aku : Lajuu tuu..kena datang next week 2 kali la. Ada apa 16 haribulan nih?

Budak kampung : Saya ada audition, kak..err..Dr.

Aku pun senyum simpul dan malas nak tanya audition apa..taknak pry la kononnya. Setelah disetkan apointment, Budak Kampun pun keluar bilik surgeri.

Tup-tup, dia masuk balik.

Budak kampung : Dr, nanti bila gigi saya dah cantik dan saya berjaya audition, jangan lupa undi saya.

Cehhhhhhhhhhh….

( Rupa-rupnya, dia nak Audition AF kat Penang!)

Kes no 2

Kring kring

Nervous patient : Hello? Nak cakap ngan Doktor boleh?

Aku : Ye saye

Nervous patient : Ingat tak saya ni pesakit Dr buat RCT 2 tahun lepas?

Aku : Aaa..saya buat berpuluh-puluh kes RCT dengan ramaaaiii pesakit. Cik sama sape? No IC berapa?

Nervous patient : Alah, Saya buat 2 RCT hari tu..tak ingat ke?

( Aduhhh…nama pun tak bagitau jugak)

Aku : Sori. Tak ingat. Cik telefon ni kenapa ye?

Nervous patient : Takde..tampalan 2 tahun lepas tu cam tertanggal la..Isk..betul Dr tak ingat saye nih?

( Puh..dia nih Mariah Carey kot. Pemes benor)

Aku : Takpe cik, kita set apointment. Nanti bagi details kat assistant saya ye.

Wah, jenuhnya.

Tapi bes juga ada orang2 cam ni…terhibur jugak daku pada penghujung hari yang penat.

Heya,
Before the year ends tonight, I’d better review 2009. I managed to dig up last year’s blog entry for resolutions of 2009. Lemme see..

2009/1430 to do list and what I actually did:

1. Be more toned.
I guess I am. And I thought I’ve reached plateau 5 years ago, but surprise-surprise, I did managed to lose another 1 kg what’s with all those running. I’m doing 5-6 days of workouts weekly. So I guess that’s not too shabby.

2. Save more money
Saved and saving… Important for proper exit strategy

3. Use my passport
Nope. Refer no 2.

4. Run more
You betcha I did. I guess I overachieved this one. I never really thought/imagined that I’d participate in competitive running. I’ve been working it up in my mind for the last couple of years but never really had the guts to do it until May when I suddenly experienced what you can say an enlightenment. Never looked back since.

5. Do more housework! hahhahhah ( ye la tu, says somebody i know)
Ye la tu..

6. Learn how to goreng on the drums
Yup. Goreng the (chicken) drum stick is more like it. Initially the drums were bought because I wanna look like awesome Meg White ( of the White Stripes). But ever since the purchase of those drumsets, ade la 3-4 months semangat nak main, then the giddiness deteriorated. Those poor drums are now like artifacts in the back room.Sometimes, hub will play for about 5-6 minutes. Occasionally, when the kids somehow find their way to the room, they’ll bang on it like there’s no tomorrow. Me? I can hardly remember the basics. Maybe I’ll carry forward this to 2010 huh?

3 out of 6?
But I did achieved some other things that are, well, unintended
1. Got a promotion
2. Got an APC
3. Learned the guitar !!
I bought my first guitar back in 2002 and tried to learn to play but it made my fingers rough and hurt like anything. So I gave up and kept the thing in my room so my friends would be awed with my coolness (huhu). But when hub left to do some peacekeeping duties with UN in Lebanon for 9 months, I got bored and took guitar lessons on Youtube ( everything is so accessible nowadays on the net). Now I can proudly say I can play..urm..good..uh..sometimes.. Not Steve Vai yet but probably Lisa Loeb or Jewel. Okay, I ‘m exaggerating. But I can play. Yay me!

4. Got 2nd in a race! Walaupun bukan dikalangan orang terer2 tapi I got RM200 for it. Terer schmerer.

So 2009 ain’t so bad. I got to be the girl who did things and not the girl who dreamed big but was too scared to get off her but.

So for 2010/ 1431, I hope to

1. Run a marathon!

2. Eat healthily ! Cut back the jajans!

3. Be more toned ( TONED not SKINNY)

4. Menerer kan diri playing the guitar and play Karma Police ( yo la tu..power chords pun terhegeh-hegeh)

5. Be a multitasker super mommy ( cheeyyy)

6. Berguru

7. Oh..and learn how to goreng on the drums ( fingers crossed)

That’s all for now. I’m off to sleep. LSD this week will be postponed to 2nd January as the Lake Garden will be full of mat rempits still in new year celebration mood, people with bad hangovers and other weirdos who can’t fathom the decency of an early morning run.

Happy new year everybody! God Bless.

Situation 1 :

We were starving. Last meal was at 7.20 am.

Plan :

To go to a chicken rice chain. Gerenti sedap. Tak payah pikir banyak. Dapat 10%government servant discount lagi.

What we did :

Ordered a set meal for 3-4 people. Okay, a bit over the top but most of the time Chiam eats as much as me.

Result :

The serving wasn’t big. The rice was like one small bowl serving size. We attacked the rice , chicken and bean sprout first and didn’t even touch the extras ( bean curd, gado-gado, paitee, apa lagintah). But by the time 3/4 of the rice is consumed, we felt full. Bukan full sikit-sikit ni. Peringkat sengkak ni. And nauseous.  We hardly touched the soup.

Discussion :

This is a weird phenomenon. Especially if it involves my hub’s appetite. Usually ( more like most of the time) one small bowl of rice isn’t enough for him.And we didn’t even snack on anything pre meal. Not even a shared ice cream cone. There was nothing wrong with the chicken rice. It tasted like it was supposed to taste. Nothing was raw. Nothing was green ( except the vegetables) Takde asap berupa tengkorak steaming over the meal. So why were we so kenyang so early into the meal? Well, hub theorize that maybe the chicken rice wasn’t that good. We were so into telling ourselves that it was delicious  to justify the price ( RM 58 for a chicken rice set for 3-4) tapi our innner common sense taknak comply.

Conclusion :

Sebab I yang bayar and I yang insist going there at the first place, I rebuffed the theory

Situation 2 :

We were still full from our lunch but bought nasi briyani and nasi tomato for dinner at a famous rest stop anyway just because orang kata sedap. Bayar RM 12 untuk 2 bungkus.

Plan :

Try sikit, kalau kenyang sangat simpan untuk esoknya.

What we did :

Lepas balik, bukak bungkusan nasik, mak ai. Portion bapaknya banyak. Satu bungkus nasi macam untuk 3 orang makan. Nasik membuak2. Ayam macam 1/4 of a whole chicken. Pinggan nak angkat sebelah tangan senget jugakla. Bila test, mm sedap. The kids pun makan banyak. 15 minutes later….licin.

Discussion :.

Ok. I take back the rebuffed theory. Memang chicken rice tadi tu tak sedap. Saje je nak cover line tadi.

Conclusion:

Hampeeehhhhhhh…punya chicken rice franchise

I’m gonna indulge in my inner -teenager and write about New Moon.. Nope , I haven’t seen it. And following rotten reviews on the internet, I’ll guess I catch it when the DVD is out.
But the thing that amazes me is, no matter how bad they say the movie is, flocks of females all over the world will go out of their way to defend it.
And there’s this thing that’s been going around that I thought was confined to this small town but I guess it’s like everywhere now. What thing? Well, girls are going gaga over anyone who looks remotely similar to Jacob Black. Why Jacob? Because he looks slightly Asian and I guess senang sket kot nak cari kat sini compared to finding an Edward lookalike.
Tapi it gets ridiculous when they go overboard with this thing. Just yesterday I went to Midvalley and I chance upon these adolescent girls giggling and whispering excitedly among themselves, ” Jacob! Jacob!”. When I saw who they were referring to, aku tengok tak samaaaa punnnnnn. Kot yang paling sama dengan Taylor Lautner tang kuku kaki kot. Ntah la.
Tapi girls, kalau nak tengok a guy who looks a liiitttllleee bit like your favorite werewolf, go raid Watson Taiping. There’s this trainee guy who sometimes works at the counter, muka dia ada la sipi2 Taylor. He’ll give you a shy smile after giving you the receipt and you’ll think , ” Okla..boleh la..dia ni” Haha.
Aku tak berani nak cakap lebih-lebih, kang ada yang turun dari JB ke Taiping kang. Haha

It’s the rainy season and I love it here.

In the mornings, as it drizzles a little and you’re walking under an umbrella, you can see fog covering up the surrounding mountains and you could just see the blue tips of them. The trees would seem greener and the air would have the fresh smell of rain mixed a little with the earthy smell of grass. It’ll be cold, so cold that you slightly anticipate snow ( what’s wrong with wishful thinking?) and you’ll shiver under your thin garments not prepared for the weather. Everything would be a little slower, a little more serene, and a little calmer, and you sigh to yourself, this is the life.

At nights, It’ll be impossible to sleep with the fan on at full. Even when wearing long sleeves, you tend to wake up at night with the chirping of the crickets and the cries of the frogs, to sigh and pull that blanket up just a little bit more. Outside, the rain would patter with occasional clasps of thunder from way beyond. Sometimes, when it’s breezy, you can hear soft moans of the winds travelling through trees and overgrowths.
I’ve lived all my life in towns and cities. And while this is the first rural ( if you can call it rural) place I’ve stayed, I’ve grown to love it.

If I plan to settle down somewhere else, I hope it’ll be just like this. With the condition that the nearest town ( with a hypermarket) is 20 minutes away and a big city 1-2 hours nearby.

(Hey, I need my fast food and shopping fix, okay?)

Some JKR technicians came to my house today to do some electrical fixing.

JKR guy : You play the guitar?
Me : Just a bit. How’d you know?
JKR guy : Saw the guitar over there. Figured any real man wouldn’t be caught dead playing a guitar with that colour. ( violet)

Ellleeeehhhh…wei, real men wear pink, okay.

My son right now is at a phase where’s he’s asking questions constantly. Every 5 seconds, ade je soalan dia nak tanya.

Ingat tak iklan raya yang budak tu asyik tanya bapak dia ” Burung apa? Burung apa?”. Well, kalau sape-sape ingat iklan tu tak logik, you haven’t met my son. Rasanya dan nak dekat 6 kali dah dia tanya kenapa kami tukar tombol pintu.

The funny thing is, he won’t accept ” I don’t know” for an answer. Masa nak tido pun nak tanya macam-macam. If I tell him, ” Orang tak tanya soalan malam-malam. Tanya soalan siang je”, that wil trigger off a series of questions like why he can’t ask at night, what kind of questions can be answered at daytime, what’s the difference between night and day, what’s in between night and day, how come Adik has to wear pampers at night, how come orangputeh panggil night and melayu panggil malam , etc.. etc.. etc.

Just this morning, on the way to school he asked :

Him : Mama, RON tu apa?

Me : Apa? Long ? ( diversion tactic untuk soalan yang tak reti jawab)

Him : Tak, RON RON RONNNN

Me : Aa..minyak.

Him : Bukan la..gred minyak.

Me : OOoo? Sapa bagitau ?

Him: Papa

Me : Abis kalau dah tau kenapa tanya?

Him : Saje nak test.

Where oh where did that came from? Haduuu..

Nota kaki : For  smarty pants readers out there~okay, RON is not really gred minyak but it’s close enough. Try explaning to a four year old about Research Octane Number and it’s significance. Rasanya aku pun kurang paham.

Since I remembered, mom has always been the so called royal hair cutter of the family. She doesn’t trust professional salons and insists that everyone, EVERYONE goes under her..err..scissors.

As a result my sisters and I have identical haircuts from kindergarten to high school. I had my hair first profesionally cut at 20 years of age.

Now that I have kids of my own, my mom takes over her favourite role voluntarily. Priding in her prized bob hairstyle, she harasses me to learn to cut my children’s hair too ( which I know squat about).

Well, nak jadikan cerita, after 2 months of her last haircut, Adik’s mane was getting a bit unruly. My mom, who still works can’t find the time to cut Adik’s hair in between our visits. So last Saturday, I took out a pair of scissors from the front drawer, sat Adik on a spreaded newspaper page and did my thing.

Snip snip snip snip snip snip

The result?

Adik’s hair is an uncanny resemblance to Audrey Tautou’s hair.

Wait, I’m not finished.Not Audrey Tautou’s hair in Da Vinci Code but her hair in Amelie!

Yes, It’s that bad. And to think hari raya in a week and a half away.

Pada suatu hari

Budak Sekolah : Hello, Dr. Kalau saya tak dapat datang hari ni takpe ke?

Haku : Kita tukar apointment je la. Issue crown tu hari lain.

Budak Sekolah : Esok boleh tak?

Haku : Takbleh sayang. Esok kan cuti

Budak Sekolah : Isnin ?

Haku : Takboleh. Isnin kan cuti merdeka. Selasa la, selasa pagi.

Budak sekolah : Ala..selasa saya dah masuk asrama balik.

Haku : Ha tu la pasal.

Budak Sekolah : Alah..Dr bukak je la klinik taim cuti. Untuk saya sorang je.

Haku : Mana bleh cam tu ( Banyakcantikmukakau.Akunyetaimcutikonakgantike.Akunyegajikonakbayarke.Kirawaktutaimkofreejekye.Taimakubagikapointmentpi kuarpekanbelibajurayalapala)

Budak Sekolah : Abis camnenih?

Haku : Adik try jugak sampai hari ni sebelum pukul 5. Takpe, saya tunggu.

Dan pada pukul 4.55 petang, budak sekolah pun sampai di klinik dengan kereta abangnya yang dikona masuk ke klinik macam pemandu formula 1.

Issue crown selesai pukul 5.25.

And the world once again regained its order.

Pengajaran : Kenapa tak ikut resmi Mr Bean, yang bersungguh2 nak menepati apointment dentist nya?

Wah..sekarang ni hobi baru aku ngan hub adelah menonton movies tiap2 malam. Our choice mostly are high rated indie films..haha ( cari kat rottentomatoes la ni).

Dulu, taim study dulu, asal ada movie baru kuar je tengok. Every week pi cinema. Apa2 movie pun bantai la tengok. Movie yang lepas kita kuar wayang rasa cam otak dah hangus pon tengok jugak.

Skarang ni kalau nak pi cinema 4 kali setahun pun kira amatlah bertuah. The last movie kami tengok kat cinema adelah the dark knight kot..ahah..kuno betul.

So skarang, to catch up, apa lagi.. tengok la. So at 9.00 pm or so, kami pasang astro ceria for the kids, then bertenggek depan komputer tengok the films that we missed over the years ( baru semalam tengok Little Miss Sunshine). Sad kan ?

Yang syoknya, every 10 minits ada suara-suara kecik berbunyik :

” Mama, nak minum”

” Papa, nak kencing”

” Mama, adik bagi sepah mainan”

” Papa, mana Baby Duck adik?”

” Remote mana mama?”

” ( jerit -jerit..giggle..giggle..gaduh gaduh)”

Sangat bertuahla kalau kami boleh get thru the movie without pausing.

Okla tu, kat wayang jangan harap leh pause-rewind-amik air-bagi makan-leraikan pergaduhan-salin baju-pi toilet-bancuh susu -etc etc etc cam nih..haha