Seperti biase, aku menyambut HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI di rumah adik kepade abah di Singapore (Jelebu Road, Bukit Panjang) kerane atuk dan nenekku tinggal bersame mereka (paman dan mak usu). Rutin raye ini telah ku lalui sejak 1994 selepas atuk sebelah ibu meninggal.
Rase bosan seperti duduk di sangkar burung terubat apabila kami sekeluarga pergi beraye di rumah nenek usu belah ibu pula (kebetulan dok kat Singapore gak, kim tian kot namenye). Setiap tahun nenek usu bagi beberape kuntum bunge ros sebab die tahu aku suke bunge( it’s started when I asked her for a rose 2-3 years back. Then she give me bunge for every raye). Selepas asar kami bertolak pulang ke tanahair. Sebelum balik ke rumah, kami singgah di air baloi, pontian, umah embah busu belah abah pulak. Then baru balek umah.
~2nd Raya~
Sebelum bertolak ke Selangor (kampung ibu), kami beraye di rumah ex-jiran @ mak angkat adik. Kami meneruskan perjalanan sehingga ke penghujung Pulau Indah, Klang. Destinasi pertame adalah rumah nenek ika. Selalunye kami sampai btol2 masok zohor, so nenek ika akan sediekan lunch. Tapi raye tahun ni kami sampai lambat sket so no lunch there. Next destination is nenek dawim’s house yang btol2 depan umah nenek ika. Selepas itu kami pergi ke teluk gong untuk melawat nenek alang pula.
~3rd Raye~
Semue adek beradek ibu berkumpul di rumah mak long. Sort of gathering la. Family pak itam tak dapat datang. Katenye kete rosak. Sangat seronok sebab dapat jumpe sume orang. sume kezen2 pon da hensem skarang. Well, our family have more boys than girls. Ratio laki:pompuan is 29:10. Even anak-anak buah pon lebih ramai lelaki dari pompuan. Tak percaye lak tengok my kezen (lelaki) at my age da kawen and ade anak yang berumur 2-3 years while the other two and me (all at the same age) still childishly playing around.
Pastu kami sekeluarge dan keluarge ude pergi melawat atok usu yg saket (lembah klang). Petangnye, aku, adek-adek, dan kakak bam sempat bermain layang-layang di tasek pebende namenye kat Bandar baru bangi.
Sebelum pulang ke rumah kami singgah di nilai 3 untuk membeli langsir raye. Then balek tros ke rumah. Time to get beauty sleep. Zzzz ~
The trip started on my birthday morning, so unfortunately I miss so damn many birthday wishes from my friends (whom really forgot to wish me the next tuesday). We jumped on a white van, which was rented by UMS and could fit all 10 of us (including pakcik driver). Pakcik fetched us up at 9 in the morning. Still so damn early to start a trip if you asked me. Luckily I didn’t forget anything. Then the journey started. At first I thought pakcik was going the wrong way because as far as I know the road to tawau is passing through ranau and all. Actually the trip is about journey around sabah, literally! So we were using keningau’s road to reach tawau. We ‘mounted’ bukit emas and reach keningau town first (the first stop). There we saw somebody was showing a newly dead black snake at the shell station where we’re stopping. The most disastrous thing during the 1st day of the trip was the 2-hours drive on totally gravel road. With the dust left behind by the car upfront, even the aircond cannot be switched on because the dust will enter the van. I wonder if my fasting is accepted or not when I’m inhaling the dusty air. Then we reached merotai besar, tawau (if I’m not mistaken) at 5pm. We were supposed to sleep at Yati’s house that night. We stop at bazaar for 10 minutes then rush to her house. Her parents had already bought us all nasi ayam then they head to semporna to their other house. Actually I was about to retire for the night but all the others want to have a look at tawau city, so I’d followed them with a heavy heart. Not many things we could see at night in a small town. Many shops were closed. Luckily the supermarket (forgot the name already) was still open. Since it’s still my birthday, they bought me a cake, so sweet~the rest of the night was explained in my previous post.
~5th of September 2009~
Happy belated birthday to me!! We officially fulfilled the trip objective by going to the Tacara factory. The factory is processing seaweed into gel in powder form. We were given white boots before going into the processing area.
After the study trip, we stopped by Taman Bukit Tawau, which were on our way to tawau city. Shalany, fei, rey and yati ‘mandi’ at the waterfall while the others and me were just playing with the water.
Next we stopped by tawau city to buy delicacies and souvenirs to bring back. Tawau is famous with its delicious amplang (keropok pelang-pelang). Afterwards we’re heading to semporna where yati’s house is situated. We really did saved a lot of money on accommodation because of yati. Thanx A Lot YATI. Yati’s parents had set up bbq for us. So, everybody was showing their own skill in marinating and cooking. It was a lot of fun. Yati’s father brought us to tampe-tampe (where ‘duyung’ movie was shoot) that night. At first I don’t want to ‘mandi’ there, but I can’t stand the temptation and straight away jumped into the sea. That was the 1st time I ‘mandi’ in the sea at night. I sharpened my swimming skills and now I can even do ‘kuak lentang’.
~6th of September 2009~
Everyone woke up late that morning. Pretty tired after 2-days journey but we have to make sure that we reach docks at 7am. So sleepy. While waiting for the ‘boat person’ to come and fetch us, we went to a nearby resort with splendid view. That’s when our photo-whoring started.Even there’s ‘abang’ that works at the receptionist who ‘sound’ us not to take pictures there. Duh!! Kedekut btol. So what right?!
After that the boat person took us to the ‘bajau’ houses at bum-bum island and the seaweed farm. The water is so clear that you can even see the fishes, even sting rays swimming around, the starfish crawling (is this the right movement of starfish?) and also various colours corals. Got green, purple, blue and etc. I saw one like dory (finding nemo) but just the small one. The bajau people also showed us a sleeping coral snake with blue and white stripes.
The moment we stepped on the mainland, the seaweed field trip is officially ended. Time to go back guys. We headed to Lahad Datu next. Prof. Awang planned to go to Gua Madai where they collect bird nest before going to Lahad Datu, but people there said it’s too dangerous for outsiders to go into the cave. So we headed straight to Lahad Datu where we stayed at a hotel for the night. All seven girls of us crammed into a queen-and-single bed room. The room was so packed that the only space left is space to walk to the window where we perform our prayers. Dr. Suhaimi spent all of us ‘buka puasa’ at Grace hotel-buffet style. You can imagine how glutton they were after a tiring day of seaweed trip. Even the lift can’t hold all of us up anymore which can hold perfectly before.
~7th of September 2009~
We had our journey back to Kota Kinabalu. We stop by a line of stalls at the T-junction of Ranau and Sandakan. I did buy some delicacies and fruits for friends and family. There’s an incident where shalany encountered with a small, stripes snake at the roof top of the stall. The snake was just few cm in front of her (because the roof is not that high). Everyone was so shocked. But everything was alright after snake went away. Then we head straight to Kota Kinabalu. Hence a long, four-day trip ended with beauty sleep after we arrive at UMS at 3pm. The trip is more to having fun than a seaweed field trip. With that I officially have went round Sabah~
Last friday was my 22nd birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!! Yeay! I had been waiting for the day to come. Of course. Everybody does, right? well, since at that particular day, I’d started a journey around Sabah with 8 of my friends (which will be explain more in the next post) as early as 9 a.m. so i have miss so many birthday wishes since i could not attend the friday class. No regrets since my friends have messaged and facebook-ing me earlier of the day wishing me happy birthday. Some of them gave me birthday gifts even a day before. thanks a lot to ez and anem for such cute gifts. Really appreciate it. My 8 friends (yati, yan, zara, fei, chiao eing, shalany, pija and rey) and I were celebrating it at the persiaran beach in Tawau that very night. Happy me because we were celebrating my birthday elsewhere than kk or kluang or seremban. They have bought me mango cheesecake (although it did not taste like a cheesecake at all). they asked me to make a wish before I blew up the 4 candles (2 big ones represent 10 years each and 2 small ones represent 1 year). Instead I wished for several wishes:-
·May Allah bless me and whatever I am doing
·Raise my CGPA a bit – hehe~
·I want to get married soon – this is the most crucial one~
We sure have a bundle of laugh at that time, behaving like 'sakai' people that turns people heads. Thanks guys. Love you always.
