DeJaVoo

Oh no not again. Feeling kinda sick today, same feeling I had sebelum mendapat horrible contractions at Jusco last Saturday. Ironinya kerana tengahari nanti mungkin akan ke Jusco lagi! Mungkin I should just stay home and sleep, sbb semalam mmg tidak dapat tidur dengan lena.

Except, I'm not really at home. I'm at my sister's house since yesterday. Tunggu R balik dari Highlands petang ini. I'm so tired. I'll update again later.

Nitrus - Cinta

Lagu paling best dalam orbit cinta aku buat masa sekarang. Long live Nitrus!

I hate scene office drama Melayu and its stupid ABBA files. Bila ada scene pejabat sahaja, mesti ada berpuluh-puluh ABBA files. It's like the director has the same mindset, ooh ooh the more ABBA files on the table, the better! Baru nampak busy, korporat, realistik. Macam haram. I wonder di mana these people mendapat ide sebegini. Pejabat kerajaan kah? I don't know. I only have ABBA files on my table when I do my filing. Buat semak je letak banyak-banyak atas meja. I think that's why we have a SECRETARY? To keep the fucking ABBA files out of our sight! It's as bad as watching drama Melayu - scene di restoran - order air fresh orange. But that one is so 80-an already, you hardly see people order fresh orange on TV anymore. Sudah pupus scene sebegitu sebab sudah tak cool.

Anyway, saya minta maaf to my twitter friends for the false labor drama over the weekend. Tapi serious, gua memang rasa macam dah nak beranak masa tu ok! Next time live updates will come from the labor room itself okay, not when aku menahan kesakitan di Jaya Jusco or whatever.

I'll be 38 weeks pregnant on Thursday. Aku sudah bersedia melepaskan tanggungjawab kerja dan tumpukan perhatian kepada rumahtangga & motherhood. I suppose nobody will ever understand about my blind devotion towards work. So let's have it everybody's way, right this minute, aku sudah tidak mahu kerja for the next 2 months.

Hmmm...

Okay, okay, after esok okay, sebab saya nak brief colleagues saya tentang hal2 kerja that they have to take over. Thank you.

Peace out.

Friday madness

I hate Fridays. They're like Mondays, only meaner.

Kesian lil' Yakuza, tidak sempat berenang dengan ria hari ini. I was multi-tasking - mana nak layan ad agency, nak betulkan grammar orang, nak beat deadline sendiri, etc.

Sorry baby. Mari kita layan Paris Hilton's My New BFF okay. Like, this is the best reality show eva!

Note to self: Fix the damn blogger time stamp.

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I am still alive! Dalam huru-hara nak meet 20th April deadline (deadline kerja, bukan deadline beranak) aku terpaksa mengalah dan minta MC. Flu, demam, lemah badan segala (tapi kerja tetap berjalan dari rumah - talk about komitmen!). Doktor mahu beri 2 days MC but I said no thanks doc, I banyak kerja kat office. *slaps head*

Check-up went ok. Baby sudah engaged (er I suppose itu maknanya possibility untuk bersalin awal sudah ada). Mak tak rela! Ada few things tak sort out lagi (like the hospital bags, documentations, mental preparation, etc).

Esok I will be 37 weeks. Ya Allah, kuatkan semangatku!

Mode: Tired [glad that Friday is finally here]

Mode: Tired [glad that Friday is finally here]
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"So are you gonna do an Erra Fazira*?," asked my sister and colleagues.

Hell yeah baby. ;p

* Pihak media terpaksa bersabar selama 44 hari sebelum dapat merakamkan foto baby Erra.

"Jangan salahkan I, I tak minta dilahirkan seksi sebegini" - Kak V, Breakfast @ Suria.

Rancangan radio with no moral values whatsoever but I love it!

Selamat Hari Friday Bagus.

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This morning my doctor said the baby is already semi-engaged. Meaning that Lil Yakuza is halfway there, sebelum dia 'menjenguk' keluar. Sounds like a battle cry from Star Wars to me! Eh wait, Star Wars ada battle cry ke? Doctor also said "See you in a week, if you tak bersalin lagi that is". Isk ngeri.

See you in a week means I have to work another week. Gahhhhhhhh.

OK lah nak makan kejap. I am at 36 weeks minggu ini.

Short rebiu of tongkeng ayam (TA) istimewa oleh Ayamas. Hmm sangat sedap!

If there's one thing that I kempunan ketika mengandung is only TA or nama glam-nya: Bishop's Nose. Itupun ketika 1st trimester. Or perhaps karena I'm absent-minded - one day I may be craving masak lemak ikan patin yang dijual di hadapan Istana Biru di Kota Bharu, the next day I might be craving ravioli di Pizza Uno pula. I forget about my cravings easily, just like I how I easily forget nondescript human beings yang aku jumpa hanya sekali.

Kenangan kempunan TA agak melucukan, because I wanted fresh ones so that I can goreng TA myself, instead of beli di pasar malam sahaja (yg selalunya bersalut madu eeee yuck). Not many supermarkets sell them, not even Ayamas anymore (they used to sell them by trays ok). When I was still in school, me & my mom bought TA kat Ayamas Bangsar. Ada mak datin sorang ni bought TA for her cats, sedangkan kami membelinya untuk sajian makanan tengahari! Fast forward a decade later, bila aku tanya kedai Ayamas near my house samada mereka menjual TA atau tidak - the girl laughed at my face as if I'm some nutcase gila nak makan bontot ayam (oh wait, I am that nutcase).

Last2 jumpa di Jusco AA akhirnya, walaupun ketika itu I pretty much gave up my quest for TA.

Ayamas probably heard my prayers. I wonder when are they gonna come up with kaki ayam bersalut istimewa next (er, don't).

Look what I found! *flails*
Dream come true, TONGKENG AYAM BERSALUT ISTIMEWA.
Terima kasih Ayamas! Nanti apabila anak saya bercakap tanpa henti I have you to thank! :D

tidak mahu berkawan

Nate is Frankie
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34 weeks. And still counting. I’m tired, I want 2 weeks of MC like other expecting mommies now. Over the weekend, I met some friends at Chawan (so-so place by the way, we all know we're paying for the ambiance, not the food). They were attending a reading organised by a long-time friend and I have not seen some of them since masa bujang! How time flies. Suf sudah beruban (kih kih), Ru pula sudah menjadi seorang yang unrecognizable with that scruffy hair (sarcasm still intact though), Azwan masih seperti dahulu walaupun signature hat-nya sudah tiada and ada budak Singapore gila sorang ni semakin vogue (tapi speed percakapan masih laju seperti bullet train). All is good anyway.

Kami dipersalahkan kerana tidak mahu menggunakan Fesbuk untuk berinteraksi. Banyak event2 yg kami ketinggalan & karya2 agung teman2 kini hanya boleh didapati secara eksklusif di Fesbuk. My friends even threatened to stop sending me their photos but will post them at fb instead so that I'll be forced to join fb.

Aergh taktik keji! Bleargh. But that's okay. I am a social hermit by choice these days (make that for the past 8 months).

p/s: Hamster kakak ipar aku sudah beranak (twins!). Debaran semakin memuncak.
p/ss: I think I need a haircut.

Friday morning guilty pleasure

Aku ada satu rahsia. Radio station I listen to on my way to work on Fridays is Suria FM sebab ada Kak Vee! She/he is febelez y'allz.

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Sometimes ppl can just be so gross. Let me tell you a story. Kisah benar, I don’t make stories up.

You know the food island at Cold Storage KLCC? Ada jual potato salad, fries, fried chicken dan pelbagai juadah makanan lagi. So we wanted to buy the fried chicken. Nampak sedap. But masa tu ada wanita tua ni was standing in front of the fried chicken area sambil bercakap dengan kuat on the phone. Fine. Apa yang tak fine is that - At the same time, tau tak tangan dia buat apa? Tangan dia sedang kutih/cubit cebisan2 ayam goreng dan terus masuk mulut dia, macam makan popcorn. Selamba je dia makan! There were too many ppl around so if you walk past her, you wouldn’t notice her doing it.

Kami agak tergamam dengan situasi ini. We could have told the security and let the security drag her sorry ass (and dirty fingers) out of Cold Storage but man, we were just too stunned to do anything. Ada jugak orang macam ni!

Perhaps ini adalah tanda that the economy is really bad now? (tapi banyak jugak orang gi shopping like dapat bonus 10 bulan kan? Membeli hadiah hari jadi untuk diri sendiri seperti aku doesn’t count okay. La la la)

I’m doing a little homage for my late father on my Twitter today. Sudah 7 tahun dia meninggalkan kami. Kadang-kadang aku panik apabila aku lupa certain things about him. Dalam memori aku Baba akan kekal dalam uniform referee FAM warna hitamnya, sambil meniup wisel dan melayangkan kad merah. Setiap tahun berlalu, dia semakin jauh, dia tidak datang dalam mimpi aku lagi walaupun ada waktu jantung ini akan tersentap apabila terpandang lelaki yang iras-iras wajahnya. My father-in-law namanya BabaH, which is a good thing – sekurang-kurangnya ingatan aku pada my real Baba tidak lenyap (walaupun I must admit, apabila nama BabaH disebut, dunia ini terhenti seketika).

Jadi Ba, if I could layangkan sehelai nota ke syurga sekarang, I want you to know that I miss you terribly. I’m in good hands now. Roy is a good husband (he may not be a superhero like you tapi he’s doing his best!) and tak lama lagi I’m going to be a mother. I wish you could be there for me to tell me that everything will be alright. Thank you for this strength that I inherited from you and I hope all my doa to you diterima.

Al-Fatihah.

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Bersalah-nya rasa apabila gagal mengingati tarikh lahir arwah Baba.

Nothing much to report. No wait, I want to gloat sekejap. My road tax dah siap! 2 weeks early kali ini (my road tax will expire on my birthday – 25th March). Selalunya few days before or after it expires baru akan dapat terima road tax. Sebab apa? Because I have to get my bank to do it for me (which is in Berangan or Banting or something don’t ask me why my bank is there) and the bank uses the lousiest courier service! Mesti my road tax tak sampai.

So I decided to try myeg.com.my this year. Ala yang ada iklan Maya Karin tu. It was so easy! Say like if semalam I renew the road tax, today sudah dapat. But of course you have to bayar your saman trafik first, renew insurance (which can also been done online) then head over the myeg then settle. Phew, lega. Hurray me dum dee dum.

I have another ante-natal class tomorrow. Lately I’ve been missing my Queen Mother (nenda di Kota Bharu) sana – I’m not sure why.

I survived my prenatal exercises class. Or to put it mildly a la my husband "Gila babi bapak penat" (ok he doesn't speak that way but uhm, yeah, those are some of his favorite terms - harap2 Little Yakuza won't turn into a swearbox mwahaha). Dengan kaki yang senantiasa bengkak, rasa macam mahu menangis apabila ada gerak exercise yang melibatkan kaki.

Alamak it's almost 11pm (jangan percaya time stamp di bawah). Esoklah kita sambung.

Seksanya nak bayar saman trafik.
Kali ke-3 singgah ke kaunter trafik baru dapat bayar saman:
1. Called balai polis TTDI to ask for the nearest place to pay saman - dia kata The Curve (polis kata it's only open from 10am to noon on weekends). Macam hampas, I went to there at 10:30am, turns out they are open from 2pm-8pm on weekends!
2. Went there again at 5pm. Abang polis pergi solat. *bangs head to the wall*
3. Terkejar-kejar kembali ke kaunter by 7:10pm. Takut abang polis pi solat lagi. He's there yay! Reluctantly parted with RM360.

Lepas ni aku janji aku tak park illegally / langgar lampu merah / obstruct traffic lagi!

The new Komikoo is finally out! Lama gila okay tunggu this issue. Worth the wait though because the paper quality sudah tidak flimsy lagi. Do get it at the your nearest bookstore. Orang Singapura mahu satu copy kah? Do email me okay. :)

p/s: Surat bonus masih belum kelihatan. Aergh the suspense will kill us all at the office.

Dah, aku sudah tahu macam mana rasanya ditikam dengan pedang samurai (yang tembus ke belakang). Try having gastric when you're pregnant! Semalam mmg meraung guling2-lah (at that time belum tahu aku kena gastric, sbb dah lama tak kena pun). Masuk tido at 10pm, then by midnight baru dapat melelapkan mata with the stabbing pains. By 2am wooo wa sudah tak tahan la, called hospital, MO said it may be gastric, but since takde ubat kat rumah, terus ke Emergency.

Mmg agak seram apabila keseorangan dalam labor room (R was on his way up masa tu) and yang hanya kedengaran was the baby's heartbeat. Macam bunyi degupan jantung Edgar Allan Poe. Or perhaps, bunyi tapak kuda and orang melompat-lompat upstairs (when you know there's nothing up there ala2 cerita seram). Then bila baby bergerak, bunyi macam dia tengah susun furniture. Geli hati pun ada.

By 4.30am we left the hospital (terima kasih Dr. El dan staff nurses yang sangat membantu) and sempat singgah McD for breakfast. Mmg gastric. Aduh, the pain was unbearable, tak sanggup to go through it again (alamak ini belum labor pains lagi ni).