To there and back...in pictures

 Ha...semoga tersimpan ingatan. Yang rasa gembira pernah bertandang. 

Dari tingkat 11. Cyberjaya.

Jalan jalan ronda Putrajaya

Mcm dok luar negara no

Tasik Putrjaya
Ayer8

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Ipoh mari

Menunggu masa utk tiada

To there and back.....

 Hi,

Salam semua.

Dah beberapa hari tak bersiaran , sbbnya kerana berada di luar kawasan. Sibuk berurusan dan ilham pun tak kunjung datang.

Sekarang ni, dah selamat sampai dari perantauan. Bolehlah click cluck laptop buat catatan......

Oh well... where do I begin. To tell the story of my journey .

Let's start with buying ETS tickets.

The tickets

I had ideas to go on the Business Class but with cikli not registered as yet on the online platform, no discount would be given. He would be charged the full amount..RM 177 per trip. Even as pensioner the discount was only a mere 20% off.

RM 300 for two to KL would be too much kan.....

So to KTMB Arau we went to purchase the tickets. For RM 110 we procured the tickets for that Friday journey.

The journey

The journey on the Platinum train was smooth and uneventful. By 4 we were on our way to the station that day. And by 503 we were all on the ETS...south bound. 

By and by we reached KL Central by 10.15. 

Ciklin was there to whisk us off to Cyberjaya.... our lodge for the whole stay. Thanks cikna.

The wedding

Yes, Tujuan utama kami ke KL adalah memenuhi jemputan kahwin anak menakan cikson. Anak adik .By 10 we headed towards Bandar Baru Bangi with ciklin at the wheels. Berdesup . By 11 we  safely arrived at the wedding venue. Apa ke nama entah building tu. Ostia something. Lupa pulak.

Boleh kata semua adik kakak tuan rumah hadir . Walau yang sedang sakit sakit. So happy to see the tuan rumah happy .

Food a plenty, hospitality too ,venue cosy . Tahniah adik..Dr Habibah and children for the wonderful time we were there.

The walk by the lake

Next day was spent nursing the aching body and feet. Ehh wait.. we went to Tasik Putrajaya la..Had an early dinner at a restaurant there and returned before maghrib.

At the basement carpark bumped into a couple with a wailing baby. Kecik sangat baby tu dok bawa jln dkt maghrib ni. Entah kenapa my hair stood on ends .....

The journey home

With cikli having to have his dialysis , we have to head back to Perlis. Mujuq ciklin tgh cuti. By 9 we were already on the highway heading North...bye Cyber.

Eeeee... jumpa jam walau bukan cuti sekolah and it was a weekday. Ngeri tgk mangsa di tutup ditepi jln somewhere in Perak. 

Had a stop at number of RnR.

At Bukit Gantang, rambutan and manggis nampak menyelerakan. Ehh... betul ke kiraan harga yg dichargekan. Mcm tak kena saja. Lain kali kalau membeli kat situ kena perhatikan kiraan . Jgn balik baru garu kepala...

By 5  we arrived safely at RBL...home sweet home. Tapi macam ada kekosongan. Bila anak anak semua kat ibukota. Cikson pula tiada siapa siapa kat sini. Terasa sunyi. 

'Cikli, kita pindah pi KL na?' 

What's up bro.....sis

 Hari diluar masih kelabu.

Tanda matahari masih beradu.

Namun, kereta ,motor dah banyak menderu. Laju. 

Tergesa gesa makhluk dalamnya ke tempat kerja macam selalu.

 And today 13 June juga hari baru buat menantu....start kerja baru. 

Semoga sukses selalu.

Cucu cucu berdua pun mesti terkesan dengan rutin yang menunggu. Semoga mereka ok dan aman menghadapi era baru.

The other day when they were here, I got a few lessons from adik.

We were enjoying out afternoon with oranges when the little one came out with an idea.

Tok, boyeh buat air dengan buah oyen. Shedapp. Mula mula tok kupas, lepas tu tok ambik cawan.....n so on....

Last sekayi tok letak dlm peti aisshh. 

Terangnya antara pelat dan terus. Anyway,he has made tremendous progress in his bahasa. Only a few words un deciphered.

This Friday,ciklicikson would be off to KL on the ets. Talking about ets, the first priority is buying tickets.

Haha... nilah problemnya. Cikson dah register tetapi tak begitu dengan cikli.

The last time I bought tickets, cikli was charged the full fare. No matter his status as a warga emas or not.

So buying online was an option. 

Jomlah kita pi Arau beli tiket. Dapat  half price. He said.

So off to Arau we went the other day.

Kaunter kosong. Ada notis ' Hanya utk ETS saja'

Fine. We waited and finally an officer came to our help.

Cik, kena beli kat mesin tu. He said pointing to the vending machines nearby.

Dahhh... dengan orang ramai, dengan kelabu mata, anxiety attack... mau teraba raba berurusan kat mesin tu. Actually dah pernah beli tiket komuter ke SP. Tau lah sikit sikit. 

At last, an officer helped us to the machine and two tickets were secured at half price. Alhamdulillah.

Tentu orang KL gelak kat kami disini kerana baru jumpa mesin beli tiket.

Actually masih ramai yang perlu pertolongan station master kat sini.....Until one day when we are ready.

Bila lihat youngsters pun terkial kial nak beli tiket, ok jugalah kami yg terlebih umur teraba raba nak berurusan. Nothing to be ashamed of la kan. 

Buat apa nak pi KL tu cikson. 

Cuba teka... nah ni cluenya.

Rasa mcm nak pi kerja la pulak

Been such a long time I spent and splurged on myself..... 

Budak oyang putih ni.....

 Dah 4 tahun tapi pertuturan dia masih pelat. Jenuh perembang apa dia kata. Last last kena cari jurubahasa. Sapa lagi abangnya lah ..si Fahim kesayangan semua.

@#$%&&*(.....dia berkata.

Fahim,tok tak fahamlah. Tolong translate sat.

Then the little boy started speaking in English. Ehh..fasih pulak dia. Tak ada pelat melat pun.

Reading to his bro

Tuition kat adik ni

Adik n his fav series

So the next time when we were at a lost ,trying to comprehend his speech, we said to him.

' Adik speak English la'

Itulah cucu kedua cikson. Active,creative , imaginative tapi masih pelat pelat yang manja.

Sometimes I love to hear his baby talk. Faham ke tidak lain bicara.

I was wondering why this phenomenon is happening among many of my cucus... sendiri or otherwise.

Their parents , dont really speak fully in English but their children are. And with a British slang.

I was among the guests at a wedding. Many children were playing among themselves.

Speaking English!

I was wondering how they became so despite their parents speaking their mother tongue.

La,makngah depa tengok video. Peppa Pig, Ryan , and a number of unknown series to me.

No wonder la....

This took me to the time I was raising my kids. They too have favourite series on movies and cartoons.As well as comics and novels. 

And people did ask me how is my English better off than most of my colleagues.

At that time in question,I was devoid of tv, social media, gadgets etc.

It was reading books. Yes, I was into books during my growing years. If the catalogue of the school library and borrowers record be the rujukan, I would be the winner. My name would be on most of the cards. SBS library  1963-1969

Now Fahim is into books too. At 6 ,he is an avid reader. As an incentive, his reward would be the bokshops and libraries. I would buy him books thru the internet sometimes.

As a result of his reading I noticed that Fahim is more interested to talk about current affairs like the on going war in Ukraine. Types of minerals ,dianasours and so on.

Reading to his ayah on the way home to kl.
Subject...engineering
Ayah kena buat revision utk kerja 

Ehh macam tok la. Suka general knowledge. Masa sekolah dulu kalau ada quiz, cikson naik pentas jadi peserta. Menang weii!

Kalau English as a language pula, cikson selalu cepat angkat tangan kalau cikgu tanya soalan. Kawan2 jadi menyampah sebab kena puji selalu. 

Depa kata apa tau...

'You ni pi la kawan dengan Chatar Singh. Suka menunjuk pandai'. Hahaha..Chattar Singh ni mmg English dia superb. Tapi satu hari tu dia kalah dgn cikson dalam punctuation. Masa tu Mr Peter ajar English Form berapa tak ingat. Cikson boleh punctuate paragraphs correctly much to the amazement of my fellow classmates.

Tu la kenangan cikson masa sekolah menengah. Budak serabai tapi English pandai... hai hai.

But now, my English pun dah kelaut....