zebra ku lari/terbang gagah berani

Two weekends ago pergi main layang2 kat Taman Layang-layang somewhere in Kepong ke mana. We went from my mother in law's place in Gombak together with my brother in law and sister in law and Amani's cousin, Insyirah.


Seperti biasa mak bapak yang lebih excited nak main kite tu. The best part about this taman is that it's so much easier to fly a kite there as it's windy most of the time. Last month when we were in Terengganu, Amani and I had gotten kites, mickey mouse for her and a zebra for me (yet another example of mak yang over excited) but other than flying it on the beach when we were there, we haven't been able to fly the kites since. So when Yannie aka Makchu mentioned they were going to fly kites, we quickly menumpang tanpa segan silu.

Amani dan layang-layangnya

Mak Amani dan layang-layangnya.

Eksyen & over sangat,
last-last kite zebra ku yang
layang melayang tinggi dgn megah,
akhirnya kena pau dengan taiko danau kota sambil hisap rokok biskut bersalut coklat dgn selamba.......

Thursday ramblings

I have an agreement I have to send in by today so of course I start doing all sorts of other things including this blog post until there's nothing else left to do but to start on the damn thing... so anyway, last Friday during a BV II Delicious lunch with Eza, she mentioned Central Market, somewhere I haven't been probably in almost a decade. Before there was KLCC or One Utama or heck, even Sogo, there had been Central Market where we used to meet up with friends or boyfriends. CM was conveniently located next to Bus Stand Klang and every one I knew used to travel by Bas Mini or Bas Srijaya. I would take the No 21 bus from Taman Tun and Nazri, my now-husband-then-boyfriend would take the No. 16 or 14 from Gombak and we'd all meet up with friends at CM. I can't remember what it was we did at CM which took almost the whole day, sometimes we'd eat upstairs, walk around, buy asam timbang, watch the artists painting with oil paints or crayons. When I started working at my second job at Leboh Ampang, I'd still walk to CM from time to time to go to the 2nd hand book store there which stocked backdated magazines, old Mills & Boons, the Adventurer series of books that I loved reading during my childhood where you had to skip from different pages throughout the book depending on the option you chose at the end of each page and my favourite, old Agatha Christie books.

So on Tuesday, as I was driving in KL, I saw I was heading towards CM and decided it would be a good day to revisit an old haunt. Wow, CM is all cleaned up and sparkly now. Some corners looked familiar, some were totally new but what made my day was that my favourite 2nd hand bookshop is still there! Even the uncles manning it look the same albeit older.
And what next made my day was finding there Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel "A Pale View of Hills" which I read for the first time and continued reading this morning until I was late for work. As I reached the ending I thought "No way!! Did she just say "we"??" and now after work I have to read it all over again to see the story for what it really is. I love books that linger on in my head even after I've finished reading it.

My favourite girl in my favourite 2nd hand book store