LEPAK JITRA

Dah lama tak balik tengok sedara mara kat Jitra. Actually diorang sedara mara angkat. My dad moved to Jitra in 1992, on the last day of my spm paper that year. One of his officers kat PULAPAH (the place we stayed before moved upnorth) punya kampung kat sini. So the night we arrived, Tok Minah yang masak kasi kitorang makan. And tok minah dok masak for us ever since. Everytime mama & babah kena outstation, tok will cook for us. Then her cucu, either abang or dikda will deliver the food to our house (hmm.... now come to think about it, me at 17 years old, hampeh sungguh. tak boleh harap punya anak dara! hehehehe. Well, I learn to cook when I was in Australia, and so used to maid, so, don't blame me!!! hehehehehe)

Our family memang anggap Tok and her family as our own. They are very humble people. To this very day Tok calls babah as tuan, and calls mama as cik puan. 2 years plus kitorang tinggal Jitra, pagi raya rumah tok la kitorang serbu and collect duit raya. Aunty ana (tok's 2nd daughter) is very close to mama. Ini 2 perempuan kat dapur, aiyak, very bising! But at the same time you can expect yummy food. Aunty Ana ni pandai masak. Memang dia antara ceterer yang glamour kat Jitra. And she knows our favourite. Sometimes she will cook our favourites and deliver to our house, eventhough after we moved to Sungai Petani. Her house is always full of laughter, ada saja lawak dia everytime kitorang datang visit. My cousins, my friends, anak-anak kawan my mother yang study kat UUM dulu will agree on this. Diorang selalu lepak rumah Tok and Aunty Ana over the weekend.Tapi sekarang, takde lagi. Aunty ana meninggal 3rd week of Ramadhan baru-baru ni. I tak balik jenguk, ma & ba saja yang balik. Memang kematian dia sangat mengejutkan, tapi Allah lebih sayangkan dia.

So last weekend I went back to Jitra to attend her daughter's wedding. Memang terasa sangat kehilangan Aunty. But the wedding went smoothly. My parents, as usual, in-charge of menyambut tetamu & entertaining guest (on each family wedding as long as I can remember, my dad tak reti buat keja kenduri). Ma as usual mengdominate her say in arranging things for keluarga pihak sebelah. Hehehe, so hari tu semua kena kerah la buat kerja. I was really tired that day. Mana tak nya, sampai SP pukul 430am, tido kejap, then dah terus kena drive pegi Jitra. Mama baked some chocalate cupcakes, very yummy. She made yummy jelly. I had to sorok some, sbb ramai yg nak, kena la simpan utk tuan rumah yang penat melayan. Before balik sempat packing utk semua keluarga terdekat bawak balik kek. Tapi kenduri okay, enough food, hari tak hujan. Sampai pukul 5pm masih lagi tetamu yang datang.

We left early as we had to go to penang that same night. Babah nak visit Mamak Ahmad, my granduncle as he was not well. Dia dah kurus sangat since he fall sick few months back. Mamak Ahmad ni pandai melawak, mesti tak kering gusi kalau ngan dia. He is my opah's adik tiri, satu mak, lain bapak. I ordered roti bengali berpack-pack bawak balik KL. Mama was telling me & adik the story of our great grandfather who had a kilang roti in Tanjung Malim when she was a child. My arwah great grandfather nama Lal Mohamed. Keturunan bengali dari pakistan. No wonder I have big bump.

On Sunday, as usual, bangun pagi kena kerah buat kerja. Sapu rumah, mop kasi bersih from atas sampai 3rd floor. Penat la. We had late lunch at Leboss, a restaurant near my house. This place is very cosy, has yummy food at affodable price. Semua western food. I suka the environment in the restaurant. Balik mama sibuk suruh goreng ayam. About 80 pieces of drumstick yang mama dah marinate the night before I kena gorengkan. Semua bawak balik KL. So on the way balik memang bau ayam goreng la dalam kereta. We left SP at 6pm. (Ayahnurin : Sori la, your portion takdak sebab kitorang tak detour Sg Buloh, nanti mama turun, so mama masak la. Kakteh punya dia ambik kat office, so she got he 10pieces of her share, jangan marah la!)

Sekali sekala balik utara memang letih sebab kejar masa. Tapi this time balik best dapat jumpa ramai orang. And sekali-sekala jumpa sedara mara, banyak benda I rasa I'm still lacking, banyak benda lagi nak kena achieve. I'll take one at a time.

TV still no progress. Dah survey, nanti weekend ni beli. Duit keta.... dream on ja la. Mama buat condition only to be used for wedding. Hmm... Takpe, beli keta next year pakai duit lain.

This Sunday am going dating with Hariz Danial! Yeay! At least that will cheer me up. Ayahnurin : Make sure you give enough money for hariz & me! Hehehehe.