Good Daaaay, mate! II

Day 1 (29/5/11)

The Air Asia flight to Melbourne was scheduled at 10.30 pm. Mama and I checked in at 6 sumthing pm. During the check in I spotted a familiar face. Sekali pandang cam kenal, dua kali pandang mcm xknal plak. But suddenly that guy startled and was staring hard at me. Saaah, mmg kenal! It turned out he was a USIM's sci tech guy, same batch lak tuh. Hahaha.

The eight-hours in-flight journey was okay. But kinda boring. Ye la, air asia. They don't give any entertainment unless you pay for them. Tp syukur laaa, nk naik MAS mahal kot.

Mama was overwhelmed by tiredness

We arrived at 8 am sumthing, got to go tru the immigration stuff and declare some food item we brought in together. Keropok ikan je pn, tp cuak gyle, takut2 immigration officer tu punggah beg nk check, mane la tau. Makanan tu plak sumbat between baju, mne xmalu klau kne punggah. Huhuhu. So, mama siap bce2 doa and sembur2 lg kat immgration officer. Hahaha. Kelakar, tgk2 the officer just x-rayed our luggages. Alhamdulillah, lepas.

We waited for like 15 mins for Nana and Sis Aliya to arrive. And then, they brought us to an Arabian restaurant for breakfast and shopped for Arabian sweets. Mama siap speaking Arab lagi ngan shopper tuh. Being at the restaurant and the sweet shop brings back all those memories my mother had when she was in Cairo. And I think baba should be here too, reminiscing those memoirs together with mama. Because I absolutely had no idea what she was talking about. hahaha. 

In front of the restaurant

Xtau pizza jenis ape

Inside the sweet (halawiyaat) shop

After filling up, Nana made a quick tour around the Melb City. We took some pics at Carlton Garden.

Mama n me

Mama, me, Nana and budak kecik, Layth

Depan fountain with naked boy sculptures, hahaha

"Flower for ummi!" -Layth

Far-sighted scene, hahaha

Mama wat posing ayu, hehehe

In the afternoon, Nana and Sis Aliya had prepared for a small bbq behind the house.We grilled chicken wings, sausage with weird flavours (for me laa), lamb and I think that's all. Although, it took us some time to get the fire/heat ready, we got it right at the end. And when I said 'we', it means Nana, Sis Aliya and mama. I helped them too.....by eating the food ;p.

Layth was inspecting the grilled sausages

Half-cooked and half-burned chicken wings

Say 'Bismillah' everyone! Yum, yum yummy!

Well, that's all for now.

Good Daaaay, mate!

Alhamdulillah, Allah gives me 2nd opportunity to travel to the land of kangaroo again. Been here for 4 days already. Not doing much (eating too much ade la), just visiting area around the house and etc. Previously, Nana lived in Coburg, nearer to the Melb City but then he moved to Frankston, dekat sgt dgn beach!!, tp it takes almost an hour to get to the City. 

And now it's winter. Temperature is around 10 sumthing. Time noon okay laa kuar, xde la sejuk sgt tp time early morning and night, my fav spot is in front of the heater, huahuahua. The cold is bearable, cam constantly duduk dlm air-cond in lecture hall. 

I think it's kinda weird to see mama not doing anything. Klau kt rumah, if there's free time, she'll be mengemas, mengemas and mengemas. Tp rumah bersepah gk, thanks a lot to jejaka2 kt umah tuh (sy mungkin sepahkan skit2 kot, ha3). Mama is a neighbourly type too. Suka bertandang kat rumah2 jiran, but here, batang hidung jiran pn xnampak, apatah lg nk kenal. So, she's a bit disappointed about that. I bet those people are either too busy working or too old and sick to get out often.

Anyway, life will be incomplete without probs to test us. We're having some sort of camera probs. 

1) My cam has LCD prob. I opened it last week to get it fix tp okay lak time tu. So, xjd nk baiki. Smpi sini screen die blank balik, tp boleh amik gambar lg. But it feels like taking photos blindly, cam bangang je.

2) Mama's cam okay, tp when I checked the SD card, it has 128 MB of memory, PE KEJADAH NIE!!! SAPE TUKARR?? No wonder it gets full to quickly. Since the cam is an old version of Sony, so xdpt cari laa pengganti lain.

3) Nana's cam pn okay sgt2. So, we borrowed his cam and snapped photos sana-sini. When I got home, I attempted to transfer the pics into mama's lappy when suddenly the comp was jammed and the SD card coudn't be read. And that was  the end of it and the photos too. Fortunately, ade laa saki-baki photos snapped by my ipod.

I'll post some photos in my next post. Layth tetiba wat sudden appearance nyibuk kat sini.

Where did you land?

InsyaAllah, by 2016 or so, the five of us will be called doctors. It's a family dinasty....hahaha

I found this pic in facebook. I tried to do it but unfortunately, I cannot make out what kind of person I am. 

Try your luck.

Xtau nk land kat mne...

p.s. Four months of hols can erase your two years of medical lessons...What to dooooooooooooooooooo!!

And there he went

 So, praises to Allah, my bro secured MARA's scholarship to Jordan. This morning, he had his flight and headed to INTEC with mama. Baba has a big operation today, so he couldn't take a leave.

I think by next year, all of my brothers will be out of Malaysia. And yes, leaving me alone here.

Xpe la. I can teman baba and mama here.

Anyway, Miswar was really excited  having a chance to go to Jordan. He wanted to buy a book about Jordan (but I said that it was a waste of money since you can google it all up). He even bought a pencil case with a JUST written on it (well, it's the JUST COOL brand actually, ha3). It is a nice feeling to have everything planned and all you have to do is to go to that direction.

The last three years, I was in the same spot as he is. But maybe less exuberance. USIM was neither the first nor the last choice. For me, it was a safe choice to make.

Entah. Maybe sometimes, I do wish I gamble a bit with my life. Make a risky choice. I guess that is what we call 'The Road Not Taken'.

p.s. How to get rid indecisiveness? It drives me crazy to choose a trivial thing for hours. Fuuh!