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Lagi bingung mikirin mobil..hmm.. kemaren pas pergi daftar sekolah Radit ke Montessori, tiba-tba alarm mobil nyala sendiri & ngga bisa dimatiin. Lama-lama mati sendiri tapi lampunya masih suka nyala-mati sendiri.

Setelah pulang & jemput Radit, pergi ke bengkel Proton. Setelah disuruh nunggu 3.5 jam & itu juga kalo ngga ditanyain sama Happy mungkin disuruh nunggu sampe bengkelnya tutup =( , bengkelnya nyerah & nyuruh ke bengkel alarmnya. Karena udah kesorean, kami ngebaso & pulang.

Malemnya udah ada feeling ngga enak karena lampunya masih nyala-mati sendiri. Nyoba nyabut kabel accu tapi keras banget & toolsnya tidak memadai. Pasrah deh.

Ternyata bener, pagi ini mobilnya ngga bisa distart. Low-bat =(

Sebel sendiri aja karena I knew this would happened but I didn’t try hard last night. Jadinya sekarang harus cari jalan lagi buat ngecharge accu mobil & pergi ke bengkel alarm.

Sebel juga karena pas kejadian ini semua, Frieza lagi di tengah laut.

Ya sudah, cuma lagi pengen curhat aja.

Ever since Happy came to KL, I felt like having a friend in common, considering that we’re in the same age, our children are also in the same age and even their name is similar ..hehe.. and both of us are searching for school for our children. So, since the last 2 weeks, we went school hunting from Mutiara to Sri Utama, Montessori at Ampang & Fairview. Last Sunday Frieza, me, Radit, Udin took Pak Tasfin, Frieza’s friend who just moved to KL, to the Islamic International School in Gombak. The school had also a Montessori for children of 3 years old and above. The school building and surrounding is nice, it still looks like a new building. What interests me the most was the school hours.. 8.30 AM - 3.30 PM … I could have more spare time during the day..hehe.. buat Frieza definitely rejected the idea of sending Radit to school here at IIS due to the distance which he find rather far from our apartment, although it only takes about 20 minutes through the highway from home.

Last week was quite a week for Radit. On Tuesday me, Radit, Happy and Ditha went to Jusco at Seremban for the Members Day Special, for the sake of the discount. well, it was worth it. Happy said that compared to the Members day at Jusco Wangsa Maju, the one in Seremban is less crowded. We didn’t find any trouble to get each a trolley to put our sleeping childs there. Then we started browsing at all the discounted items & our childs were awake. Radit as usual, always like to run around even in a crowded place like that, and then he was missing. I thought that he was still somewhere close until I heard an announcement that there was a little boy with blue shirt and Chinese Nationality found. Yup, this fits Radit ! And when I finally found where he was taken to (Customer Service), Radit was sitting there & crying, but was not eager to meet me =( dasar anak lempeng !

I think it was the following night that Radit suddenly fall from his bed while he was sleeping. He only cried for a short while, didn’t even care to open his eyes & went back to sleep.

Then, one afternoon during the week too, Radit was playing in the study room while I was ironing the clothes. I guess he was getting sleepy. All I know was that he was on his knees playing in the floor when suddenly he cried out out & I found that his lower lips was bleeding quite badly. On the inner part of his lips I found teeth marks, so he must have bumped his upper teeth with his lower lips but the outer part of his lips were also bleeding, maybe he bumped to the floor. And while I tried to stop the bleeding, Radit went to sleep.

Frieza came home & panicked to see Radit’s lips, wanted to take him to the doctor but adit was still fast asleep. When Radit finally woke up, we asked if he feels any pain, but he didn’t and he didn’t want to go to the doctor. So we just went to Giant & there Radit was already running around with other children, as if nothing happened before. Thankfully, the lip healed a few days later & Radit never complained of any pain from his bruise.

During his Yamaha course, last week the teacher gave the students a homework to create a magic work. Radit already created his magic word & have been practising the whole week. But when his Yamaha teacher asked him what his magic words were, he didn’t say a word. He kept quite & when I tried to make him speak, he started crying. Aaarrrgh, I was just very dissapointed.

In the weekend, Frieza’s former Ceria Worley’s friends were in KL & we went to meet them at KLCC & again, Radit was running around by himself with no fear of getting lost. Ngga kapok-kapok !

But lately I think Radit is enjoying going to his current school, even though he was having a cold & coughing he still wanted to go to school & he even drank his medicine so that he could go, because I told him that if he didn’t want to drink his medicine then he can’t go to school, so he did drink it. Wow ! Usually it’s so hard for me to get Radit drink his medicine, that’s why I usually never take him to the doctor or even buy him a medicine when he gets the flu. But this time we went to the doctor because Frieza was leaving and he wanted to make sure we’ll be ok. Thankfully Radit was in a good mood to drink his medicine =)

And I never thought that Radit would miss his father that much, but every night since Frieza left, Radit kept asking why Ayah hasn’t come home yet although he was already aware that his father was somewhere offshore.

This morning Radit’s bus driver was on leave for a day, so I had to take Radit to school. Somehow it was a good thing because we all got up late, Frieza after watching the world cup final, me after eating sahur and Radit will not wake up in the morning unless we wake him up.

After dropping-off Radit at school, I went to JPJ-Setapak to get my driver’s license. After applying at JPJ-Putrajaya around 6 weeks ago, I received a letter from JPJ last Friday, while Frieza has already received his around 2 weeks ago and has already retrieved his license.

The early birds gets the worm, I didn’t have to queue and wait long because there were not many people there yet. In less than 15 minutes I received my Malaysian driver’s license, at last, by just handing over the letter I received from JPJ, a filled form, copies and original passport & my Indonesian driving license, a photo and money, and then I received my driving license. How convenient. So now I’m not an illegal driver anymore.

Afterwards, I went to Sri Utama International School which is located near the JPJ Office, to inquire for Radit. Unfortunately I got a bad first impression from the unfriendly lady who served me in the office. So I only collected the form and brochure and didn’t ask to look around the school.

Went back home and got a message from Frieza that my friend Happy, who’s also moving to Kampung Warisan, sent him a message. So I called her and then we went together with her daugther to pick-up Radit from school and had lunch at Mc D. Trying my best to provide information for her while Radit ran around the place with one of his school mate who also had lunch there and another older boy. Then Happy remembered that she forgot to unplug her water boiler, so we went back home.

Actually we were going to swim together in the afternoon, but I had to cook for dinner, so, some other times lah !

That Saturday morning, we went to Kelab Darul Aman where a soccer game was to be held between IATMI members in terms of World Cup 2006 fever, with other programmes such as poco-poco and farewell party to 3 IATMI families who are moving from KL.

When we arrived, the poco-poco has just started. I followed the dance, while Frieza went to kick balls with some others who didn’t join the dance and Radit played with his friends too. Thanks to Mba Sulandari who taught me the poco-poco steps at the office 2 years ago, now I can join this society dance. Then the men started playing soccer while the ladies tried other dance steps, enough to let your sweats out. I tried to follow the salsa steps with confusion and fun.

Around nine o’clock, me and Radit went to Q-dees because Radit was going to do a performance in the event of Flip-tech (the method they use in the school) celebration. The performance started at 10 o’clock and Frieza came just in time to see Radit and his classmates sing and dance. What a cute performance ! It was our fisrt experience to see our son perform in front of other people. Radit actually did sing and dance, he wwas having fun ! Unfortunately we forgot to charge our camera’s battery, so we could only take pictures from Frieza’s handphone. After Radit finished his performance there were other performances from the other classes, but we just left the school and went to baso Afung at Sri Hartamas to have brunch. Afterwards we went home to rest.

In the evening we went back to Sri Hartamas to meet our friends Rani-Indi-Noe who’s been living in Singapore. We arrived early and didn’t know where to go so we went to the Sri Hartamas Shopping Centre. Looks like a new shopping centre, quite large and not many people compared to KLCC or Midvalley. Many restaurants. Surrounded by shophouses. The area looks like a nice place to walk and hang out if more shops are open. While we were walking around, Rani called and said that they are at Hartamas Square, and after guided by her friend Collin, we found out that the place was near baso Afung that we just visited this afternoon.

So we met Rani-Indi-Noe, Rani who came from the same school as me (our beloved Taruna Bakti) is actually 3 years younger than me and I forgot how we knew each other in the first place, although if you went to school at Taruna Bakti, you are familiar with the entire students at school (junior & high school), at least by the face. So when I entered Taruna Bakti Junior High School in 1989, I could get to know my senoirs who were as old as my sister Wendy who is 5 years older than me, and when I was a senior high school student, I could get to know my juniors. That’s what I loved most about our school, we get to know a lot and actally play together and hang out with friends from different ages.

There were Rani-Indi-Noe’s friends : Collin & Trudy, a Chinese-Malay couple, where Trudy works for UNDP while Collin is a homemaker working in the IT section if I’m not mistaken; Dimas, a Bandung-ers who has stayed 7 years in Singapore and 1 year in KL, a musician who makes music for artists and movies, and also Rani’s future brother-in-law; and Fay, a Malaysian who has an obsession with Indonesia and owns a website about it. It was a fun and interesting reunion and new community we met. We talked while having dinner there, the food is not bad. We just found out that the place is a very popular place to hang out during the world cup season, and  watch the game together.

Then while we were still hanging out, there was an announcement that there’s going to be a black-out for at least half an hour, so we decided to move to baso Afung (again!). We should get a discount card for visiting the plays 2 times in a day, and bringing friends during our second visit of the day. Actually we were already full, we just came for desserts which unfortunately the es teler and avocado juice were not yet available. So we just ordered drinks and snacks, some ordered baso just to satisfy their curiosity.

Around 10 o’clock we went home. The area was getting crowded with people who just arrived to watch the world cup soccer game.

Kegiatan rutin Frieza & Radit di Sabtu pagi adalah ikut main badminton sama Bapak-bapak se Kampung Warisan sementara anak-anaknya main sendiri. Kesempatanku buat beberes rumah. Sabtu pagi 10 Juni 2006 juga sama, pagi-pagi aku beberes & nyiapain perlengkapan buat perjalanan ke Kijal. Frieza harus kerja di Kertih besok (Minggu) di mana kalau di negara bagian Trengganu, weekendnya Jumat-Sabtu, jadi Minggu adalah hari kerja. Seperti biasa, kalo Frieza ada tugas ke luar kota, if possible, aku & Radit diminta ikut. Karena waktunya pas weekend, ya hayu lah !

Berangkat dari rumah jam 11-an, masuk highway ke arah Kuantan. Medannya lebih berat dibandingin perjalanan ke Johor Bahru, yang ini harus naik ke gunung dulu, jalannya lebih kecil & belok-belok, sempet ngelewatin terowongan yang nembus gunung (for us it was amazing !). Setelah itu jalannya mulai lurus & membosankan, bener-bener bikin ngantuk. Akhirnya supir cadangan pun harus bekerja & sempet ngantuk juga sambil nyetir karena monotonnya jalan & pemandangannya. Koleksi CD lupa dibawa, yang ada di mobil cuma Bass Heroes, jadi itu aja diulang-ulang.

Stop over di Kuantan buat istirahat & makan siang. Kuantan sebagai ibu kota negara bagian Pahang, dari yang sempet kami lewati, kesan yang kami dapat kotanya kayak Cirebon. For a state capital ?! Mungkin juga belum lihat seluruh kotanya.

Dari Kuantan ke Kijal (it’s the nearest area to Kertih with a big hotel) perjalanannya menyusuri pinggir laut. Ada daerah yang sepi & ada juga daerah yang rame di mana ada hotel & resotran2 di kiri-kanan jalan.  Trus kami mulai masuk negara bagian Trengganu (Kijal & Kertih ada di negara bagian tsb.) yang nuansa Islaminya lebih kerasa.

Akhirnya sampai di tujuan, Awana Kijal. Wow, hotelnya ternyata gede ! Yeah.. it’s a resort, ada lapangan golf-nya segala. Ngga nyangka karena ngga sempet browsing sebelumnya, tapi sempet curiga emang hotel gede karena ada di peta. Weekend itu adalah weekend terakhir ‘cuti sekolah’, jadi hotelnya rame. Untung aja kami masih kebagian kamar. Kamarnya..hehe.. harusnya buat bulan madu nih, soalnya ada bath tub gede di sebelah ranjang (di luar kamar mandi)… kesempatan buat bikin adiknya Radit nih..hehe.. tapi cape banget karena total perjalanan dari KL ke Kijal sekitar 5 jam.

Sempet jalan lihat lingkungan hotel & fasilitasnya. Lengkap deh, ada lapangan golf, sauna, kolam renangnya gede, kolam main anaknya ada sendiri & cukup luas, ada playground, pantainya bersih tapi agak curam, tempat renang di lautnya sempit. Radit masih aja takut sama air laut.. salah orang tuanya sih jarang ngajak main ke pantai. Ngga mau dia main di pantai, sambil takut sama air laut, juga ngga mau kakinya kotor sama pasir. Sementara kami masih nongkrong di pantai, Radit jalan duluan balik ke arah hotel & berhenti di keran tempat cuci kaki & nunggu kami di sana.

Malamnya cari makan, di depan hotel di pinggir jalan ada ruko dengan beberapa pilihan makanan… warung standar (paling rame, sempet ikut duduk tapi akhirnya nyerah takut lama nunggu makanannya), ada restoran Korea, Cina & KFC. akhirnya kami pilih restoran Cina yang ngga terlalu rame & makanannya lumayan enak. malam itu hujan gede.

Balik ke hotel, aku & Radit sempet nemenin Frieza ikut nonton bareng World Cup 2006 di coffee shop di lobby hotel, soalnya channel bolanya ngga bisa diakses dari tv di kamar. Yang namanya nonton bareng selalu lebih seru, banyak teriakan kalau bola udah deket gawang. Ngga lama, Radit mulai bosan & ngantuk, aku juga, jadi kami duluan masuk kamar.

Minggu pagi, Frieza breakfast duluan trus berangkat ke Kertih. Radit baru bangun jam 9, mandi, trus breakfast. Makanannya standar.. jadi mulai hafal menu makanan breakfast hotel sejak merantau ke KL.. setelah sebulan pertama tinggal di hotel & beberapa kali ikut dinas luar kotanya Frieza.

Abis breakfast Radit main di playground lagi & sempet jalan-jalan ngelilingin hotel lagi. Wah, ternyata ada tempat sewa sepeda juga & ada juga aktivitas di laut kayak jetski dll kalau mau, bener-bener lengkap hiburannya hotel ini. Pas lewat kolam renang, lihat yang lagi berenang, akhirnya Radit pengen berenang setelah sebelumnya selalu nolak kalo diajak. Walah, padahal lagi panas-panasnya, sekitar jam 10.30. Yah sudahlah, namanya juga ngasuh, untung bawa senjata sunblock meskipun akhirnya tetep aja belang. Dan beneran ngasuh, seperti biasa aku ngga boleh lepas dari pandangan Radit. Nongkrong sementara dia naik-turun slides & main-main air. Untung ada bangunan jamur gede yang ada airnya ngalir, jadi bisa duduk sambil berteduh & kesiram air. Kalau udah masuk air, malah susah buat ngajak Radit udahan. Alasannya selalu ‘tangannya belum keriput’ padahal udah. Apalagi rame banyak anak-anak lain, Radit tea suka sok akrab ngajak main. Panasnya itu loh yang bikin ga betah, apalagi aku ngga boleh berenang sendiri di kolam yang lebih dalam. Pas ayahnya pulang dari Kertih, kaget dia lihat aku & Radit mateng..hehe..

Sebelum check-out, lunch di hotel bareng atasannya Frieza di kantor, Puan Fatimah, & beliau kami antar sampai airport Kuantan. Airportnya ternyata lumayan jauh dari kotanya. Sempet ragu salah jalan, tapi setelah nanya di pom bensin, ternyata airportnya udah deket. Airportnya lumayan gede & ternyata it’s an international airport. Seperti biasa Radit yang kalau ketemu orang baru diem melulu, pas orangnya pergi baru nanya ‘kenapa ibunya ngga ikut naik mobil?’ ‘kenapa ibunya naik pesawat?’ and all the neverending ‘why’ questions.

Perjalanan pulang ke KL, supir cadangan ngga harus kerja, tapi harus kerja jadi navigator terus supaya supir ngga ngantuk.

Senin 12 June 2006, Radit mulai sekolah lagi. Ayahnya dapet cuti karena kemarin kerja. Radit pulang sekolah kami jemput ke sekolahnya, trus ke HSBC bayar tagihan kartu kredit, lunch trus ke Midvalley. Wah, yang namanya ke Midvalley kalo ngga ada petunjuk jalan pasti nyasar, bisa muter-muter ga jelas. Di sana ngecek arlojiku yang masih belum selesai diperbaiki & nonton Cars. Radit seneng banget nonton Cars karena sesuai dengan minatnya, mobil balap. Dari sejak beli karcis & nunggu masuk bioskopnya sambil jalan-jalan dulu, udah ribut aja pengen nonton. Sepanjang film dia excited banget & kali ini ga bolak-balik ke toilet padahal udah sempet minta ACnya dimatiin saking dinginnya. Abis nonton Radit dibeliin majalah tentang film Cars, seneng banget dia, malemnya sebelum bobo minta dibacain & seperti biasa Radit kalo punya barang baru pasti harus dibawa tidur.

The following day after we came back from Johor Bahru, 22 June 2006, was a very hectic day. It was the day Frieza’s brother A Yusan and his family and the entire big family of his wife Teh Lina went to visit us in KL. We were aware of the plan since long. We knew that despite they are staying at the hotel, they wanted to see our apartment. What we didn’t realize until that morning was that not only A Yusan’s family who was coming to the apartment but the entire group (16 people consisting of 8 adults and 8 children). It’s not that we don’t like visitors, we always love when friends and family come and visit us. It’s just that we never actually received that many people in our apartment and we only have a couple of hours of preparation. Panic attack !

The night before I stayed up late, washing all the dirty clothes and other dirty stuffs caused by Radit’s vomit. Then I woke up early to eat sahur, still sticking to my plan to pay my feast debts (hmm, I don’t know what the exact term is), considering that it’s already late June and soon it will be Ramadhan again. And also the fact that I have 14 days of debt and I only started feasting again last monday. After sahur I coudln’t go back to bed, the house was a mess. Then I had to prepare breakfast for Frieza, wake up Radit, bath him and send him to school. Afterwards, dropped Frieza at the office, who intended to arrive late at the office today for he was still exhausted from yesterday’s travel, in a dirty and smelly car. From KLCC my destination was Jalan Raja Alang. I missed the right turn to Yap Kwan Seng because the traffic was heavy and I couldn’t merge right. So I turned right at jalan Sultan Ismail and then missed a turn and got carried by the traffic flow up to dataran Merdeka, Dayabumi building and heading towards I don’t know where. To make it even worse, I left the map at home. So I just followed my instinct and tried to get back to a familiar territory and alhamdulillah found my way back and finally reached Jalan Raja Alang. Bought some teh botol & went to Chow Kit market to buy fruits and vegetables. Then went to wash the car and went back home. Tried to order sate from Lorong Kramat 13 but the phone was not answered. Finally ordered sate & martabak from Malindo.

Radit came home from school around 11.40 as usual. Fed him lunch while cleaning the house and washing the clothes and did a little re-arrangement with the furnitures. Around two o’clock we went to Jusco to do some shopping. Parked at the wrong place, causing the newly washed car re-washed by the rain.

From Jusco we went to Jalan Raja Alang again, this time to Maju Garuda to buy fried chicken. The traffic was congested and we couldn’t find a parking space, even after circling the area. Finally gave up, time is running. So we went to Malindo to get our orders. Radit slept since we left Jusco, I would have slept too if I didn’t have to drive. From Malindo to Nasi Kandar Penang in front of Corinthian to buy the Malay flavor sate, cooked vegetables and tomyam (I’m glad I bought tomyam because then they enjoyed eating it). I had to carry sleepy Radit from the car because the car was parked rather far. Frieza called informing that the man sending minerala water is in front of our apartment and because nobody’s home, he left the bottles in front of our door.If it weren’t for the heavy traffic we would’ve been home by now. It was already five o’clock so we then picked-up Frieza from KLCC and went home to prepare the house and food. I wanted to stay home and prepare the servigs but Frieza wanted me to come and go to the hotel to pick up the Waslam Family. So we rushed the preparation and went to Crowne Plaza. It took two limo taxis and our car to bring the Waslam Family to our apartment. They were hungry but I guess I ordered to much because there were a lot of left-overs. But they were also tired because of the journey, they left Jakarta early in the morning with a stop over at Changi before arriving at KLIA. Around 10 o’clock everybody left in 3 taxis. Then we called Udin and Sekita to help finish the food.

Radit was very excited to meet his cousins and having so many people at home, he cried when they went back to the hotel. ‘Why don’t they stay and sleep here in my room?’ ‘why are they staying at the hotel?’ and all other ‘why’ questions.

I’m just glad it’s over and everything went well.

A Yusan left his camera at our place, so on Friday 23 June 2006 morning, me and Radit drop Frieza at the office and then went to the hotel to deliver the camera. At the hotel lobby the rear left tire bumped into something but I didn’t realize until a car over took us in the highway to inform that we have a flat tire. We stopped after paying at the toll gate and the man in the car who informed us even stopped his car to check on our car. There was a big tear in the tire, no wonder it’s flat, but how come I didn’t realize it ?! Unfortunately he was in a hurry that he coudln’t assist us in changing the tires. No problem sir, we’ll just find somebody else to help us. Thank you very much for your attention !

Changing tires is something I know theoretically but never actually performed it alone. Fortunately a man (I guess it was a toll gate office given by his uniform) came and help me in changing the tire. Thank you very much sir !

Went back home, took a bath and then went to Radit’s school to meet with his teacher. She said that Radit is doing well in school except in communicating. Well, that is a family disease..hehe…both his parents are the types of people who would rather avoid talking to stangers unless necessary and now it has become a hereditary. Radit is an obedient student, he follows what the teacher tell him to do, he likes to sing and do sports but he just don’t want to talk. even with his friends, he just call their names but then talk nothing else. Well, we got to fix that problem, starting by fixing ourselves ..hehe..

Our original plan was to follow the Waslam Family to Genting Highland after we go to Radit’s school, but due to the torn tire, it’s goodbye Genting. So we went to buy new tires and went back home and rested. It was a good thing we didn’t go because then we could rest, I only realized then how exhausted I was.

In the evening we met the Waslam Family again at KLCC to have dinner at the foodcourt and then they wanted to buy souvenirs. Buying souvenirs in KLCC is not a good idea, for there were limited choices and high prices. It was getting late, around nine o’clock, but we just drove to Bukit Bintang, hoping for more choices. Fortunately there are and they’re still open. Not so many choices compared to the Central Market, but I guess this is ok. The prices were not much different from Central Market and much lower than at KLCC. Then we walked back to the hotel. Radit again is very excited, running around with his cousins, not a single time did he asked to be carried.

From the hotel, the three of us went to Hard Rock to buy t-shirts for a Yusan & Teh Lina. Radit was dancing by himself listening to the music while we were selecting t-shirts. From there we took a taxi to KLCC because our car was parked there. Another exhausting night. Radit slept all the way home.

Saturday morning is the usual badminton day. Around noon we met the Waslam Family again who were having luch at Malindo after going on a city tour. It was time to say goodbye again, they were going to Singapore and Radit was crying again watching his cousins leaving on a bus. Back to the three of us again.

Alhamdulillah bisa ngajak Apa & Mamah nya Frieza maen ke KL, Apa & Mamahnya juga lagi dalam kondisi sehat. Hari Senin pagi setelah balik ke KL, life goes on. Frieza kerja, Radit sekolah. Aku beberes rumah. Apa & Mamah masih kecapean juga, banyak istirahat.

Waktu lagi mudik kemaren dapet sms dari Udin kalo kelihatannya ada yang masuk ke apartemen, dari sliding door yang emang kuncinya agak longgar. Setelah aku check, yup, positif, aku kehilangan beberapa barang tapi semuanya makanan dari lemari di dapur. Sementara barang-barang lainnya masih utuh dan tetap pada posisinya. Makanan yang ketauan hilang antara lain abon satu kantong plastik besar isi beberapa kantong kecil, bawang goreng & pisang sale. Setelah beberapa hari baru sadar juga kalo minyak wijen nggada. Barang lainnya yang hilang (ini juga baru sadarnya pas perlu) shavernya Frieza, CD Sting All This Time (this was my favorite CD), uang SGD 50, semprotan pewangi ruangan, daftar alamat & nomor telepon ibu-ibu Kampung Warisan (yang ini sampai sekarang masih berharap mudah2an keselip diantara tumpukan kertas). Udin katanya kehilangan juga makanan yang dia tinggalin di meja makan.

Frieza lapor ke security, tapi tanggapan dari security & management, kalo yang hilang kebanyakan makanan, kemungkinan yang masuk monyet karena memang ada beberpa monyet yang suka berkeliaran di daerah sini & masuk ngambil makanan katanya. Ya sudahlah, anggap aja emang monyet yang masuk & mulai sekarang harus lebih hati-hati kalau ninggalin apartemen. Barang-barang yang hilang mungkin memang bukan hak kami.

Hari Senin itu juga, 15 Mei 2006, Frieza pulang kantor sambil bawa mobil Proton Gen2 kami. Hore, mobil baru ! Malemnya test drive ke pasar malem Setiawangsa (ngga jauh-jauh dulu deh). Belanja sama Mamah, banyak nemu bumbu-bumbu yang ternyata di sini ada, selama ini ngga kenal tampang atau ngga tau nama, maklumlah, masih begineer. Kata Mamah sayurannya di sini lebih seger & bersih, harga daging lebih murah tapi harga ayam mahal dibandingin di Indonesia. Ikan yang dijual ikan laut semua. Hmm.. beda emang kalo bawa pakarnya..hehe..

Hari Rabu 17 Mei 2006 ngajak Apa, Mamah & Radit naek LRT. Paginya ikut pengajian dulu di rumah Mba Neneng Danu. Naik LRT sampe KL Sentral & lunch di The Chicken Rice Shop. Dari sana ke KLCC naek ke skybridge trus duduk depan air mancur sambil nunggu Frieza pulang kantor, jalan lihat playground & tamannya KLCC trus dinner di food court.

Hari Jumat 19 Mei 2006 dapet kiriman file dari BITA buat diterjemahin, seperti biasa dengan deadline mepet. Kenapa kiriman terjemahan ini selalu datang pada saat yang kurang tepat, pas lagi ada tamu di rumah & harus meng-entertain. Jadinya ya mulai lagi malam-malam begadang ngerjain terjemahan pas semua udah tidur & nggada tugas rumah yang harus dikerjain lagi. Alhamdulillah, adanya Apa & Mamah jadi bisa bantu, Apa nemenin Radit main & Mamah bantu masak dan setrika. Jadinya bisa juga kerja siang meskipun otaknya lebih sering buntu, lebih lancar kalo malam. Kalau dipikir-pikir, kurang ajar juga ini mantu, ngerjain mertuanya. Ngga minta lho.. and I really appreciate their help. Terjemahan yang dulu datang pas Mamah & Papap dan juga Wendy sekeluarga lagi berkunjung ke KL, sekarang ini pas ada Apa & Mamah, repotnya pas harus lagi meng-entertain tapi untungnya jadi ada yang bantu. Always look at the bright side !

Ngajak Apa & Mamah jalan-jalan lagi hari Sabtu 20 Mei 2006, ke Putrajaya & Sunway Lagoon. Dengan modal peta & nekat, jalan-jalan mengelilingi Putrajaya, lewatin jembatan-jembatannya. Sesudah muter-muter trus ke Sunway Lagoon.

Hari Minggunya, 21 Mei 2006 maen ke Genting. Kalo naik mobil sendiri jadi kerasa ngga terlalu jauh dibanding waktu naik bis. Ngga naik skyway, langsung parkir di salah satu hotel & sempet muter-muter cari jalan ke Indoor Theme Park-nya. Cuacanya lagi bagus, cukup cerah. Bisa naik monorail yang mengelilingi indoor & outdoor theme park-nya. Sempet agak susah cari lunch yang bisa masuk selera Mamah & Apa.

Rencana awalnya Apa & Mamah cuma mau tinggal 2 minggu di KL. Setelah kami rayu dengan ajakan main ke Singapore, akhirnya mau juga mundur pulangnya, nambah seminggu. Hore !

Di tengah minggu kedua di KL, sempet ngajak Apa & Mamah ke Central Market di Pasar Seni. Jemput Frieza dulu ke KLCC trus ke Central market. Sempet nyasar-nyasar muter-muter di sekitar KL Sentral, gara-gara niat mau parkir di Gedung Pos di sebelah Central Market tapi malah muter-muter & pas keluar salah jalan. akhirnya berhasil juga balik lagi ke Central Market & parkir di halaman depannya.

Hari Kamis 25 Mei 2006 ke JPJ Putrajaya sama Frieza untuk bikin SIM Malaysia. Ngisi form & ngasih persyaratannya trus katanya tinggal nunggu kira-kira sebulan, nanti suratnya dikirim ke rumah. Sorenya Frieza pulang kantor dengan laporan kalo handphonenya kayaknya diambil orang di LRT. Kasian juga sama orang yang ambil hp-nya soalnya udah rusak microphone-nya, kalo mau ngomong harus pake handsfree tapi handsfreenya ngga ikut diambil. Belum lagi tutsnya yang udah mulai suka ngaco. Yah, bisa dibilang a blessing in disguise, jadi ada alasan kuat buat Frieza ganti hp.

Jumat 26 Mei 2006 sore berdua Radit jemput Frieza ke KLCC dalam keadaan hujan. Hujan di Jumat sore jam bubar kantor di KL sama kayak di Jakarta, macet. dari rumah masih lancar, di jalan Ampang setelah melewati perempatan Tun Razak mulai ngerayap. Dari KLCC menuju Low Yat padat merayap juga, dengan hujan yang membesar. Perjalanan KLCC-Low Yat 1 jam sendiri. Survei handphone sambil bingung juga mau beli yang kayak gimana. Sempet turun buat makan hotdog dulu trus Frieza naik duluan buat nyari-nyari lagi. Akhirnya milih yang ini, dengan penjual yang handal bisa jual dedet segala aksesorisnya. Untungnya nomor hp yang lama bisa diselamatkan, setelah lapor ke Celcom, meskipun address book-nya bubar semua.

Sabtu & Minggu 27-28 Mei 2006, we went to Singapore by car. Sempet susah cari hotel, weekend ini banyak yang fully booked karena The Great Singapore Sale mulai. Akhirnya dapet di YMCA. Trus ternyata Mamah & Papap weekend ini, yang ternyata kalo di Indonesia it’s a long weekend, maen ke Batam trus mau nyoba naek ferry ke Singapore. Minta dicariin hotel juga & on the last minute dapet di Hotel Phoenix.

Berangkat jam 7 pagi dari rumah, perjalanan KL - Johor sampe ke Tuas checkpoint full highway. Setelah lama baru sadar kalo link Malaysia - Singapore ada dua, Tuas & Woodland, yang lebih rame lewat Woodland karena langsung dari kota Johor Bahru.

Perjalan KL - Tuas kurang lebih 4 jam. Berhenti beberapa kali buat ke toilet & breakfast. Perjalanan lancar, yang tersendat malah di imigrasi karena kami belum siap dengan kartu imigrasinya, padahal kalo semuanya udah siap, enak banget, ngga perlu turun dari mobil. Setelah akhirnya lolos dari Imigrasi Singapore, mulai tegang Frieza nyetir di Singapore dengan modal peta dari brosur. Sempet sms Dedhi buat nanya jalan, tapi dia ngga tau karena ngga pernah nyetir di Singapore. dari Dedhi juga kami dapat kabar tentang gempa Yogya.

Alhamdulillah sampe juga di YMCA, sempet muter-muter cari tempat buat parkir mobil. Akhirnya dapet parkir agak jauh, jalan ke YMCA & baru deh dapet reserved parking. Setelah check in & naro tas, bertiga Frieza & Radit pergi buat mindahin mobil & cari lunch. Sore istirahat bentar trus mulai jalan.

Ngajak Apa & Mamah nyoba naik MRT dari Dhoby Ghaut ke Orchard, trus mulai jalan kaki menyusuri Orchard Road yang meriah dengan great salenya. Sms-an sama Mamah & Papap trus dinner bareng di Paragon, sempet antri nunggu tempat dulu. Radit excited banget kakek-nenek-nya kumpul semua.

Hari Minggu paginya jalan-jalan ke Esplanade trus ikut City Buzz. Sempet ngobrol sama taxi drivernya & baru ngerti soal ERP, jalan tol-nya di Singapore yang pake sistem kamera & detector. Jadi tiap mobil yang mau lewat ERP harus punya alatnya yang disimpan di atas dashboard trus ada semacam prepaid card yang dimasukin ke alat itu. Nanti kalo lewat ERP langsung di-debet. Wow, canggih ! Di KL ada yang mirip, SmartTag, tapi yang ini masih lewat gerbang tol biasa, meskipun dari jauh udah ter-detect, jadi ngga perlu ngerem pas di gerbang tol, nanti palangnya buka sendiri & langsung di-debet. We asked the driver what will happen if a car with no auto-debit device passes the ERP, the driver answered that our car will be captured by a camera and then we will be fined. Jadi kepikiran, kemaren ps baru datang rasanya kami lewat ERP, trus what will happen to us ya ? Apa nanti bakal ditahan di imigrasi ? Tapi sampai akhirnya pulan ke KL, nothing happened.

Ada 3 rute City Buzz, dicoba semua sambil menunggu hujan reda. Ternyata hujannya awet, jadinya hujan-hujanan ke Orchard, lunch trus jalan menuju ke YMCA sambil shopping. Jalannya lumayan jauh juga, kasian Mamah & Apa, tapi ya serba tanggung, kalo naik taxi terlalu deket & ngga bisa shopping. Akhirnya jam 4 sore meninggalkan Singapore & sampe di KL lagi jam 11 malam.

Senin 29 Mei 2006 pagi ke bengkel Proton buat servis 1000 km. Baru 2 minggu udah 1400 km gara-gara pergi kemaren. Radit libur 2 minggu.

Selasa 30 May 2006 sore jemput Nta ke kantor trus nyari yang namanya Masjid India. Sempet nyasar sampe ke jalan Parlemen, masuk ke halaman gedung Parlemen & balik lagi, ngelewatin Taman Tasik Perdana. Akhirnya nemu juga tempatnya, lewat jalan kecil penuh orang. Mamah puas belanja kerudung buat oleh-oleh. Pulangnya mau nyoba makan di Malindo, ternyata katanya kalo akhir bulan tutup lebih cepat. Jadinya dinner di nasi kandar depan Corinthian, menu standar chicken rice. Harusnya hari ini deadline ngirim terjemahan, tapi apa daya belum selesai meskipun udah begadang tiap malam.

Kamis 1 Juni 2006 ke Masjid India lagi, berempat Apa Mamah Radit naek LRT biar ga pusing cari jalan & parkir. Beli kerudung lagi & oleh-oleh lainnya.

Hari Jumat 2 Juni 2006 Nta libur dalam rangka ulang tahun Raja besok. Pagi maen ke Taman Tasik Titiwangsa. Luas juga ternyata daerahnya, selain danaunya luas, ada playground juga, ada taman traffic, jogging track, tempat horseback riding, restoran & litar kereta kawalan jarak jauh (remote control car track). It still amazes me how they can keep a public place like this clean and tidy.

Pulangnya mampir ke Pasar Dato’ Kramat, nyoba ikan bakar.

Malamnya ada pengajian di rumah Mas Teguh/Mba Wiwid, syukuran pulang umrah. Ternyata memang banyak orang Indonesia penghuni Kampung Warisan, banyak juga muka-muka yang baru lihat. Radit stay home sama Apa & Mamah.

Sabtu 3 Juni 2006, hari terakhir Apa & Mamah di KL. Siang nganter ke KLIA, sedih juga Apa & Mamah pulang, udah mulai terbiasa di rumah rame gak cuma bertiga. Radit nangis pengen ikut Kiki & Ninin-nya naik pesawat. Dia kehilangan banget, setelah tiga minggu bareng. Radit selalu seneng kalo ada temen/sodara nginep di rumah, apalagi ini kakek-nenek-nya. Lihat dia nangis, kami jadi ikutan sedih. Jadinya harus nongkrong ngajak Radit lihat pesawat take-off & landing, sambil nunggu Kiki-Ninin-nya take-off. Lumayan teralihkan perhatiannya, apalagi di sana rame banyak anak-anak jadi Radit ada temen main. Tapi pas dibilangin ‘itu pesawat Kiki & Ninin take-off’, nangis lagi lah dia, pengen ikut. Wah, salah strategi nih. Diajak ngobrol lah dengan segala usaha untuk mengalihkan perhatiannya lagi, sambil bergerak pulang.

Lucu, perjalan pulang dari KLIA kami ngikutin petunjuk jalan yang ada, pokoknya ikutin arah Kuala Lumpur. Tapi ternyata perjalan pergi & pulang koq beda jalannya, perjalan pulang lewat daerah Damansara-Hartamas. Jadi inget ada baso Afung di Sri Hartamas, tapi ngga inget petunjuknya & gada nonor referensi yang bisa ditanya. Setelah ngobrol sama Ika baru tahu kalo ternyata kalau kita mau jalan pulang lewat jalan yang sama sama waktu perginya, harus ikut arah KLCC, bukan Kuala Lumpur. Ooooo….

Gara-gara pengen ngebaso, akhirnya nyoba baso di depan station monorail Chow-Kit hasil referensi dari Mba Aida. Nama restorannya kalo ga salah TAR, baso-nya rasa baso kampung yang kuahnya pake rebusan tulang & sumsum. Yang lebih menarik malah bala-balanya, sayang stocknya terbatas. Radit yang dalam perjalanan tidur, pas ngebaso malah nangis lagi masih inget aja pengen ikut sama Kiki-Ninin-nya. Paling kerasa sepi waktu masuk rumah lagi, back to the three of us.

Another official trip, this time to Johor Bahru again. Rencana awalnya Frieza harus stay 3 hari, berhubung banyak kerjaan di kantor jadinya cukup satu hari kerja, tapi harus nginep di sana. Jadinya kami nemenin & Radit bolos sekolah satu hari.

Berangkat Selasa 20 Juni 2006 siang (Frieza ngantor setengah hari) naik mobil. Sempet padat merayap di daerah Seremban karena ada pengaspalan jalan. Hampir sepanjang jalan hujan, Radit enak bobo di kursi belakang. Sampe Johor Bahru sempet muter-muter salah jalan menuju hotel. Hotelnya ternyata deket sama Woodland checkpoint, tapi untuk menuju ke hotel harus agak muter dulu. Akhirnya sampe juga di hotel, yang letaknya deket terminal peti kemas. Pemandangan dari jendela kamar adalah Woodland checkpoint, the bridge and Singapore. Wah, deket banget ya, bisa jalan kaki ke perbatasan. Kamar hotelnya sendiri cukup gede, ada dapurnya, living room & bedroom. Lebih gede dari kamar waktu tinggal di hotel Micasa.

Rabu 21 Juni 2006 pagi Frieza pergi kerja di Pasir Gudang. Radit bangun jam 9, mandi trus breakfast. Standar. Abis breakfast jalan-jalan lihat entertainment di hotel, di lantai 7 ada swimming pool, tempat fitness, salon, playground (under renovation). Swimming poolnya keliatah udah tua & sepi. Aku males berenang tapi Radit pengen. Ya udah, nemenin Radit main air sambil berusaha ngerayu dia buat main airnya di bathtub kamar aja. Akhirnya mau juga Radit pindah main air di kamar.

Mau pergi ke luar hotel, naik mobil ga berani, ngga tau jalan. Sebenernya deket sama pusat keramaian, bisa jalan kaki katanya, tapi puanas banget, males deh !

Nongkrong di kamar aja sampai jam 4 kurang, untung boleh late check-out. Baru deh aku & Radit ke City Center ceritanya mau late lunch & jalan-jalan sambil nunggu Frieza. Ternyata Radit langsung tidur di mobil begitu keluar dari hotel, padahal 10 menit juga udah sampe ke City Center. Mau dibangunin kasian, mau digendong kasian ibunya, jadinya nongjrong dalam mobil di tempat parkir to let him have his afternoon nap. Jam 5 aku bangunin karena lapar & then we had a very late lunch. Trus jalan-jalan sambil nunggu Frieza yang baru datang jam 7an, sampe udah bingung mau ngapain & sempet kepikiran mau nyusulin ke Pasir Gudang ada, tapi Frieza discouraged me. After he arrived, had a light dinner then headed home to KL. Supir cadangan ngga kerja tapi harus stay awake sepanjang jalan. Radit muntah & ngga sempet ketampung, arahnya pas ke antara jok tempat kopling & rem tangan. Muntahnya kali ini langsung setelah minum susu jadi ngga sempet ambil kantong plastik, biasanya ngga pernah langsung & aku udah bisa siap-siap kalo lihat dia mulai mual.What a mess ! But afterwards, Radit slept the whole trip home.