Hi fellas!
Ye, saya cakap saya sibuk kan? Takde masa nak blogging kan? Tapi tetiba pagi ni ada plak free time sikit... hehehe...
This is probably a random rambling post sebab dalam kepala saya sekarang tak ada specific topic yang nak dihamburkan di sini muahahaha! Cuma tangan je rasa gatal nak menaip sebab dah lama tak blogging and I can't keep creating sentences in my head anymore. Kena jugak release sikit.
First and foremost, sejak seminggu-dua yang lepas ni saya sibuk menjual perabot terpakai yang kami suami-isteri dah sepakat taknak bawak balik Malaya (locals here refer to WM as Malaya). Bukan sebab kami bercadang nak beli baru... oh tidakkk... tidak. Instead, learning from past experience, kali ni kami nekad nak berkonsepkan "minimalist". Haa gitu.
Itu yang tersurat. Yang tersiratnya... kuranglah sikit keje akak nak ngemas2, susun-atur bagai, tak gitu? Hehehe... Kurang perabot, kurang semak, kurang habuk. Dan akhirnya, moga-moga kurang lah kerja-kerja house cleaning yang saya memang tak berapa gemor!
Perabot kalau dah banyak, sekali-sekala tentu nak kena lap, ye tak? Dan selagi ada laci dan kabinet, lagi besar lah potensi pengumpulan sampah sebab main sumbat je asal tak nampak pada pandangan mata. I'm sure uol pun pernah buat... catalog tupperware sayang nak buang in case nak tengok lagi, so sumbat je dalam laci dulu hehhee. Lepas tu bukan tengok lagi dah, sebab lupa terus! Betul tak? Betul tak?
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| Antara barang-barang yang telah berjaya dijual. |
Seterusnya...
Minggu lepas adalah minggu paling busy. Last week of school lah katakan. Sibuk ringan-ringankan tulang tolong persiapan pihak sekolah untuk Hari Penyampaian Hadiah dan Konvo Tahun 6. Saya faham, hujung-hujung tahun persekolahan cikgu-cikgu memang selalunya tak menang tangan, jadi kita yang ada tulang 4-5 kerat ni, walaupun tak kuat mana, manfaatkan lah juga. Bantu mana-mana yang patut. After all, untuk anak-anak kita gak kan?
Hari terakhir sekolah, hari yang sangat sedih. Sedih nak mengucapkan selamat tinggal kepada kawan-kawan anak saya, sebab mereka dah macam anak saya sendiri. Setiap kali saya hantar atau jemput Maira, mereka always, ever so ceria "Hi aunty", "Bye aunty".
Dan merekalah yang tanpa jemu-jemu membantu Maira tatkala kemampuan fizikalnya terbatas. Tolong buka/pakaikan kasut, tolong pimpin turun/naik tangga, tolong kemaskan beg sekolah waktu pulang, tolong, tolong dan macam-macam pertolongan lagi. Allah saja yang dapat membalas jasa baik anak-anak yang sangat saya sayang ini.
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| Aunty doakan kalian menjadi anak-anak yang solehah dan berjaya dunia akhirat. Sayang semua ketat-ketat! |
Of course, saya tak lupa pada guru-guru yang sangat memahami keadaan Maira. I have no words to express how accommodating the school has been, right from the start. Masa mula-mula Maira masuk sekolah dulu atas kerusi roda, pihak sekolah siap buatkan 'ramp' untuk memudahkan kami menolak kerusi roda masuk ke dalam kelas. Dan sepanjang 3 tahun di sekolah tersebut, kelas Maira dikekalkan di tingkat bawah (ground floor) supaya dia tak perlu turun-naik tangga.
MasyaAllah.
And did I mention? Pihak sekolah tersebut siap buatkan tandas duduk untuk anak kami memandangkan dia tak boleh mencangkung sedangkan di sekolah tersebut tak ada satu pun tandas duduk sebelum ini.
Now you see why I am so indebted to them?
My heartfelt thanks to all the teachers and workers of this school. Unfortunately, I don't want to mention the name of the school here for personal reasons.
Moving on...
The next day, concert si Mamat lah pulak. I had been looking forward to this concert sebab nak tengok anak saya beraksi di atas pentas. Kami sekeluarga yang first sekali sampai. Therefore, kami dapat tempat duduk yang paling best. Unobstructed view of the stage. Perfect!
Errrr... actually, not so perfect. The poor soon-to-be-performing boy pulak tiba-tiba cuak tengok orang makin ramai memenuhi dewan. They had had a rehearsal the day before, tapi masa tu dewan kosong. And he actually thought that that was his "new school". Tapi ni apehal tetiba ramai orang plak ni kan?
Akhirnya he burst out crying and refused to go with the other students. Mama pun pujuk lah sedaya-upaya and sent him back to his group dengan harapan setinggi gunung. They all went backstage, and I thought, amid the noise in the dewan, I heard a faint wailing coming from backstage... macam suara Mamat hahaha!
And sure enough, kejap je lepas tu teacher dia datang hantar semua dia ke tempat duduk. Madam principal said, "we don't want to upset them at this age". But I heard that as "we don't want him to disrupt the order backstage" hahaha! Takpe...takpe... saya paham.
Ok lah, ok lah... tapi Tuhan saja yang tahu betapa kuciwanya saya. I brought my whole camera bag yang bagak dan berwarna oren terang itu just for this occasion. Just so I could capture this moment. It was his FIRST ever concert, after all. Yet here he was, sitting on my lap peluk mama macam taknak lepas. I tried coaxing him.
When the first performance started, he saw it and I could tell that he was feeling 50-50 about it. "Nampak macam best, tapi macam takut la plak..." haa macam tu la agaknya perasaan dia. So I decided to take him outside, out of the hall so that I could slow talk him into doing it. Setelah agak-agak lebih kurang 15 minit di luar dewan, dan setelah termeterainya perjanjian membeli toy selepas concert, he finally agreed to give it a shot.
Without wasting much time, bergegas-gegas lah saya bawa Mamat turun ke bawah, cadangnya nak masuk ikut pintu belakang dewan, terus ke backstage. Nak dijadikan cerita, kunci lah pulak pintu bertuah itu. Saya ketuk dan ketuk dan ketuk...obviously nobody heard me cause they were busy on the other wing. I knew this cause I was there the day before. Not wanting to give up, pemburuan mencari pak guard pun bermula. Nasib lah tempat lepak pak guard tak jauh. Saya mintak tolong bukakan pintu sebab surely depa ada kunci kan?
We got in, sent him to his teacher, and I quickly got back to my seat, praying hard that my dear son would do what he was there to do.
Alas... let the pictures speak!
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| Waving to the family as soon as the curtain opened. |
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| Finally on stage! |
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| Bye-bye! |
So there... I couldn't be any prouder of him! He felt pretty good himself after the concert, sebab mama dengan abah tak habis-habis bagi pujian melangit-langit hehehe! I was just relieved that he finally did it. Phew!
And just as promised, we did get him his reward.
I'm just happy I got them pictures. I live for these moments!
