Apai Maie, oo Apai Maie

Sudan, Maie enggau aku tegagap ketawa ngalih ari tu tadi laban aku beduan dadi. Igat nadai di rumah nyau ngulu pengerami ngintu ari pengada kaban iya ba Pizza Hut. Udah tembu makai aku lalu meda CSI, Sudan tepelapik gali. Maie macha bup ke ngasuh iya nyabak lalu dadi macha online news.

Sebedau aku nusi jaku tundi aku enggau dadi, aku nusi jerita dadi dulu laban jaku tundi aku mulaika jaku iya enggau bala anak.

Maya Krismas tu kemari, Sudan enggau bala pangan iya suah pansut malam, nyu tiga malam berunggu. Bendar amat sida ngambi peluang laban ngelamatu jarang sama bisi pulai ke menua maya chuti: Stephanie belajar di USM, HIllary belajar di UITM, Melissa belajar di Unimas enggau David belajar ba Unisel. Malam keterubah udah sida ba rumah kami sida ngabang ke bukai, Sudan pulai pukul 11 malam. Dadi nganti penatai iya tinduk ba sofa di baruh laban iya nangika Sudan enda nemu nutup alarm enggau masang alarm baru (ga ia merinsa diau ba menua ke enda tentu likun, nyu asaika dijel ba rumah diri empu).

Malam kedua Sudan laun amat pulai, pukul 1.0 pagi. Bakanya mega, di anti Dadi. Dinga aku dadi lalu mutap ari siti, gut gut nganu Sudan, nanya kini ka sida sekaban, nama gaga sida. Sudan madah sida ngabang ngagai rumah bala kaban bukai, udah nya ngagai Waves. Dadi nanya sida bisi ngirup tauka enda lalu sapa driba. Sudan madah nadai ngirup, muti ngirup coke, David driba, mai Pajero apai iya. Dadi lalu nganu Sudan, nama ngelaunnya pulai. Nadai kami ngaga pengawa enda menuku deh D, ku Sudan. Kita amat enda ngaga pengawa enda menuku tang enda likun kita pulai laun ari Waves, tu maya urang rami, urang mayuh ngirup, mabuk kini, meda kita sekaban ke indu biak-biak bakanya ngambika di ining urang ku dadi. Ni urang ke mabuk driving agi, pechuma kita dilantak urang ku dadi. Nama aku di asuh nuan baka Cinderella deh D, enda tau laun pulai ari jam 12 malam? pia ku Sudan, ka ngenyelapka ati dadi. Eh, amat utai ku dadi nya ku aku, aku enda setuju kita laun pulai. Tang sekalika amat urang lelaki ngining kita sida Steph & Mel enda ga aku nemu ku aku. Ee, kita ukai nemu utai, trust me, aku lelaki ah, ku dadi. Enda memunyi kami tiga menyanak, amat meh nya, pia. Nya lemai ketiga sida Sudan sekaban madahka ka party, malam ke penudi iya, laban ari siti Steph, Hillary & Mel ka pulai. Sudan madah sida ka bbq. Enti kita bbq ditu kita ku dadi, legi meh aku sponsor, anang tak segau-segau. Tang penudi sida bbq ba rumah Hillary laban apai indai Hillary ka betemu enggau sida sekaban.

Betumbuh ari nya, kami suah betundi pangan diri ngena leka jaku "di ining urang". Ma seduai menyadi ka ngena baju ke bisi ngayanka berang, lalu dirara, enggaika di ining urang pia. Lemai mari aku enda nutup curtain, kami berandau ngirup kupi, aku ngena baju tinduk. Eh, tutup curtain nya ku dadi, peda urang kitai. Amat ga Mi tu, legi di ining urang dik ku Maie & Sudan...Kapa enda deh ku aku, ti urang ka meda aku ke udah di gravity pulled tu.

Kemari kami tiga shopping, Sudan rengik-rengik ka mai ngabas butik ba Parkcity ke bisi ngayanka baju gaun ke manah-manah. Sama bisi ungkup kami tiga menyanak. Nya alai malam ari Maie alu ngujika gaun ke dibeli iya, halter neck, empire cut lalu length mid thigh. Nya dadi lalu nanya bakatu:

Dadi: Nama nangka nya aja pemanjai skirt nya Pi?
Maie : Au D.
Dadi: Kati tu ayan deh?(dadi murus pah iya empu)
Maie: Ngena legging urang ngena baju pandak bakatu D, aku enda ngena ga aku nguji baju tu aja. Enti aku keluar ngena baju tu legging meh kena aku.
Dadi: Kati enggau tu deh Pi? (dadi lalu nempik-nempik berang enggau belakang iya empu).
Maie: Eh, nemu kami deh, kena kami cardigan ngelalaika berang & belakang. Enda kami ngayanka isi deh.
Sudan: Enggai ka Pi di ining urang di D, nya alai di nanya munyi nya?
Kami: ketawa magang.

Pulai ngagai jerita aku tengah ari tu, udah dadi macha online news, iya lalu begari ngena T shirt enggau shorts, sigi pandak shorts iya nyu ka baka boxer. Iya nganti petunggal iya ke ka nulung iya muai dan mangga ke ditenso iya kemari. Benung iya nagnti iya lalu duduk ba sofa, macha bup Paul Coelho ke di bai Sudan (Brida). Aku angkat gali (benung meda CSI NY), meda pah iya nyu ayan amat ga tanchut kuntong pandak amat.

Aku: Apu, lawa amat nuan ulu, tak ngayanka pah, nama di minta ining aku ka?
Maie & Sudan: Ketawa.
Maie: Apu, burak amat pah apai aku wai..
Sudan: Apu seksi amat apai aku wai.
Dadi lalu tesipu-sipu munyi ku Melayu, beguai guai ngambi cushion siti agi kena iya nutup pah iya.
Dadi: Tuyu kita tiga tu.
Aku: Ga anang mayuh penumbuh, nuan ka ngajar kami jaku ngining deh ku aku...

That's my husband, he is original, he says the darndest things.

Taun siti tu kemari pemulai kami tiga ari Glasgow kami bemalam semalam ba KL. Udah makai malam, dadi berurut kaki semak Bkt Bintang. Tua Maie ngirup ba Planet Hollywood, enggai enggau iya. Udah tua menyanak dia, tua bejalai ngagai depan Metrojaya ka ninga urang belagu ba open air dia. Ka duduk tua iya, rindu ninga lagu sida, sigi easy music ke dikerindu maya biak kelia. Tang tua menyanak enda selesa enggau crowd dia, nya alai udah tegi-tegi kira 10 minit, mulaika diri ngagai hotel. Mansa concourse ba mua BB Plaza tua lalu ngetu meda bala nembiak ke breakdance. Datai ba hotel nyu pukul 10.30 malam. Di anti tua menayanak datai bedau ga dadi datai. Kini dadi tu pia, enda patut nyu lebih sejam reflexology. Dadi datai 11.30 malam, iya lalu nusi iya lama laban rindang meda bala nembiak lelaki betanda ba depan BB Plaza ku iya. Nemu seduai, ku dadi, tanda bansa ke nikau-nikau kediri ka tanah nya ba, ku iya. Tua Maie lalu beperening pangan diri lalu lekik-lekik ketawa. Breakdance nama tanda bakanya D, ku Maie. Pia ku dadi. Nya alai diatu enti nusi urang betanda maya rami, kami selalu nundi iya, bisi urang betanda bansa ke nikau-nikau ke diri D?

He he kena merindang lemai ba, tu ka ngirup kupi, rauh-rauh baru urang nganggauka aku.

Tu peda utai digaga seduai menyadi dua lemai berunggu, ngaga antin. Sudan mai manik enggau kereban bukai kena ngaga antin lalu ngajar Maie. Tu gamal antin digaga seduai.Nti ka mesan ulih, ila ngaga agen di Miri & Bintulu.

Kong Hee Fatt Choy

Lama enda nyenguk, tembu bejegau aku, tiga malam ke Kuching, enggau urang Business Summit. Bc betabi enggau aki Uban laban iya meri tanda pengingat ngagai wakil kempeni ke sponsor Summit. Betemu enggau mayuh bala pangan lama, rindu ga berandau, bekenangka utai. Bc jerita bini siku pemesai kena sakit ti disenakut, bc jerita bini pemesai siku bendar ngintu laki ke sakit, bc jerita YB ke kaung-kaung madahka pasal SCORE ke rumah panjai tang kitai di rumah panjai bengap2 enda nemu utai ku YB. Bc jerita allocation ba MP9 enda dipejalai enggau manah problem implementation etc etc..

Nya meh, kami be kong hee fatt choy laban bala anak bisi di rumah magang. Sudan datai kena 21 suba, Maie datai demalam. Tadi kami menyanak stocking on DVDs jerita tukis baru kena merindang ati maya chuti. Ka pulai ka Dijih enda ga ulih laban jalai ke bisi putus, tambah mega jalai ngagai rumah panjai kami naka iya penyai, enda ulih tengah kereta biasa. Nya meh buah sawit bala din nyentukka sawit ladang RH nyu dibuai ba tisi jalai laban enda ulih dianjung ngagai kilang ketegal jalai ke jai. Nya ku aku nganu apai Maie enti di Malaya din tama suratkabar jerita bakatu ku aku, laban urang tak muai duit ba menua kitai di Dijih, udah ga maya ekonomi merosot. Kasih bala ipar aku, nasit bisi mulong ditebang kena ngulihka belanja sekumbang ari ke jai & rega sawit turun.

Maya merarau tadi kami menyanak bendar amat ketawa ninga jerita Maie nusi bala patients iya. Misi meh ku urang nganggauka sida pharmacists, pia pin Mi ku iya, ukai tudah nemu utai ke bisi bida ku iya. Ga iya ku aku, ke beguna amat nuan ngelayan sida enggau manah. Gaga sida ku Maie kelebih agi sida ke tuai tuai urang Iban & urang ulu, laban silik utai dipadah. Ila ngiga dik aku endu enti aku berubat ku siku. Ari ni menua nuan endu ku siku. Ga ia endu, aku tu sakit ampus, kumbai dik endu kitai Iban ga sigi urang bumai, dini enda bendar gawa, ku siku. Kedua indai tuai and apai tuai urang ulu enda tentu nemu jaku Melayu, nya meh tusah amat madah utai ke sida. Tang sida selalu disempulang uchu, enti lelaki sigat-sigat Met, ku Maie madahka Sudan. Au neh, ku Sudan ila enti uchu sida enda enggau manah ka nuan ngelayan aki ini sida ngambika di tusika uchu sida ku Sudan nyadi batu api. Nya meh polis lalu bejagang ninga seduai bejaku munyi nya. Acah aja Mi ku urang nganu aku.

Mupuk dulu aku, urang nyu rauh-rauh mai aku meda Mamma Mia, tadi aku duduk din sida bara tinduk, muti Sudan ke dugau-dugau macha bup. Eh, umbas nuan blogging ku anak ke tuai, iya ke buban nya ba, kitu nuan ah enggau kami ngirup. Sudan mai mayuh bengkah keropok pulai, lalu keropok pisang sida nyamai amat gulai keju. Urang Indon sigi kreatif ngaga utai. Udah tu ka nemuai ngagai menyadi aku apai Sampai, iya nangi amat laban bukit ke semak taman sida di Jade Garden bisi runtuh, nangika rumah sida menyanak tak kena laban enda jauh ari kaki bukit.

Kong Hee Fatt Choy.

On a rainy day

I spoke too soon. I thought yesterday the weather would be fine today, not sunny but not raining either. How wrong I was, cos at about 4.30 this morning the rain felled heavily, with bouts of thunder. It did not let up come 6.00am, so I practically had to drag dadi and Igat out of bed to avoid being late for mass. Thank God Stella Maris is just 5 minutes away from home, so we made it to church in the nick of time. Talk about JIT. Poor dad had his shoes and half of his pants soaking wet as he had to park the car. It rained heavily throughout the mass that Fr Dom said he would just give a short sermon as those at the back might not hear clearly what he said. No worry there, he has a strong voice. He focused his sermon on the 2nd reading from 1 Cor 6, the part asking us to stay away from fornication, to keep our body holy as it is the temple of the Holy Spirit. In that context Fr Dom spoke of the challenges facing parents today. He said "I know you are doing your best, I know you are doing a good job as parents... " Notwithstanding that Fr Dom lamented the fact that we still have teenage pregnancies occurring in our midst. So we inevitably marry the children at such young age. As they are not ready for responsibility as parents and spouses, the marriages often break up after one or two kids. Or we have children running away from home and when they are found, more often than not they are with their boyfriends. Some reported the matter to the authorities, so then began the rounds of court cases, accusations of statutory rapes...Fr Dom said these things happen b'cos of our fallen nature, our inclination to sin, so that is why we need Jesus in our lives, to redeem us. And that is why Fr Dom said we must emulate young Samuel in the 1st reading, to use our body to the glory of God, saying yes to the Lord, "speak Lord, your servant is listening".

Yes, the things he said do happen, even in the best of families. Imagine the heartbreaks, of parents soul searching, asking where they went wrong, of kids broken or rebellious, of hopes dashed. Munyi ku jaku tuai, tak ngenggam semengat kitai nyaga, ngemataka bala anak. Maya sida agi biak agi, kitai nangika sida ngaga pengawa ke disebut Fr Dom nya, nangika enda meruan belajar, enda pandai, enda ulih masuk universiti. Nya kebuah kitai ke apai indai enggai amat ngasuh sida be boyfriend girlfriend. Enggaika pelajar tebasau, enggaika tubuh tebasau. Tang dalam kitai ngenggaika utai ke bakanya, kitai mega nemu attraction bakanya sigi enda ulih dikelaung. Bepangan meh urang, nya alai bendar amat nyadi polis maya sida anak agi ba high school. Enti bc aktiviti sekula ke luar ari jam sekula, sigi di anjung & ambi, enggaika ngigau ke bukai. Enti udah tembu program ba sekula sigi enda tau enda pulai, enda tau lepak. Enti ka lepak bai bala pangan ke rumah, begulai di rumah. Aktiviti di sekula enda tau sepeneka enggau, enda tau enda ditapis tua dadi dulu, enggaika ngelimpangka ari pelajar. Maie laban ke aktif enggau urang debate, public speaking, choral speaking, scout, prefect, interact club, suah amat ngedun mua ngagai tua dadi lebuh maya program ke enda di kemendar. Pia mega enda tau enda nemu sapa bagi urang ke enggau sida begulai, ke pangan di sekula, dataika kami ke apai indai nyu bekelala pangan diri laban ari bala anak ke bekaling.

Maya udah kereja, kitai nangika sida salah milih indu/lelaki ke bini/laki sida. Maya sida ba u, kitai nangika sida bepangan enda tejagaka diri, tauka enda meresa ati diri empu dulu, enda chukup pansik dulu sebedau ngaga pemutus ati ba senentang bepangan. Maya sida nyu udah ba u, open agi ga kitai, ngasaika tua dadi, ulih nerima sida ke bepangan, tang meh munyi ku Melayu, agi waspada. Kitai enggai meda sida nyu kulu kili baka ke udah betunang. Nama kebuah, nya meh laban ke ngembuan pengirau, enggaika sida telih. Kati kitai ulih ngelindung sida ari ditinggang penusah ati (hurts)? Aku ingat bisi tiga tauka empat taun ti udah aku bisi begulai seminar di KL enggau indu China siku, agi biak, muti tuai setaun dua kini ari sida Maie umur iya maya nya. Ia single, besekula ba menua tasik. Sekali maya merarau ia mendingka kami ke bisi anak bekenangka cabaran ke nuntung apai indai, penangi kitai enggaika sida salah singkang, ngaga penyai, penakut kitai enggaika anak kitai telih ati kasak urang bukai, kelebih agi pangan indu/lelaki sida. Dia ia nyebut, ku iya, enda ulih kita nyaga ngemataka sida belama, kelebih agi enti sida nyau enda begulai enggau kita. Ke beguna amat kita apai indai enda tau enda madahka sida ni bagi utai ke ngena, ni bagi utai ke salah, ngambi sida nemu mutarka diri maya sida ngaga pemutus runding. Munyi ku Melayu, tepegun aku, so young and yet so wise. Kira ba aku iya nyebut nyadika pengari sida ke anembiak, madahka dini endur adan apai indai ngelengkaka penangi. So I have been doing that all these while, getuk getuk, ga aku kumbai sida tiga "mafa mifi pafa mafa" .. nya bahasa F, begedi aku ninga sida bejaku munyi nya. Enti ka belalaika aku & dadi utai disebut, mulalah urang bebahasa F. Nyu kasih Igat ke aku, dia iya madah bakani aku ulih nemu utai ku sida, buai aja utai ke F ari belakang mami, sambung dik nyadi leka jaku ku Igat. Thank you Lord for the son. Diatu agi mengkang nyadi polis, lebih ari ke enda ulih temu, serahka aja ngagai Tuhan, nemu Iya kasih ke kitai deh, nulung kitai.

So what do you do on a rainy Sunday? I made simple lunch and baked today. I have kilos of flour and tubs of butter in the fridge, left over from Christmas, that I have to put to good use. So since today I will visit indai and my elder sister, I baked banana cake, my family's favourite. I have been looking for the perfect recipe all these years and finally after many tries, found just the perfect one that is loved by my family. Its's fluffy, light and has all the banana goodness. Tu gambar kek aku.

Enti ka nguji, tu resipi ia:

3 cups mashed banana
3 cups flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup roasted, chopped walnuts ( I use cashewnuts when I run out of walnuts)
2 tsp baking soda
1.5 tsp baking powder
250 gm melted butter
4 eggs
2 cups sugar ( I use 1.3/4 cups, umbas ia pemanis)

Beat sugar and butter, add eggs one at a time. Fold in flour and later mashed banana. lastly, put in the nuts. The batter makes 3 loaf tins. Bake for 50 min or more at 160c. It's perfect coated with cream cheese frosting.

Selamat mencuba.Madahka aku.

Saturday, a day of indulgence

I woke up early today, raring to go marketing. Has been awhile since I went to the tamu, well, to be exact since 23 Dec. Been longing to eat the local vegetables and jungle produce. Thank God the weather was fine this morning, well not overly so, but a little ray of sunshine nonetheless. As usual the tamu was wet and not so many vendors today, who can blame them in this kind of weather. Plus the fact that "sayur enggai idup ibu, balat amat ujan" pia ku endu ke selalu endur aku meli sayur. I missed the vege vendors whom I came to know over the years, well they are mostly my SIDS members and dad's relatives. So the marketing trips usually ended up with socialising, asking how are you and so and so and listening to their tales. Today indai David and endu told me that their longhouse by the Mukah river is flooded. Endu wanted to go home but wondering how she could do that when there is no access to her longhouse. Indai David said "ee, merau ah, ni aku tumu pagi tadi merau meh, naban ka udun enggau lelabi ke dijual"..

Also this morning I managed to menjejak kasih with a vendor selling buah dabai. From his accent, I could tell he was from the upper reaches of the great Rajang river and indeed he was, from Balleh. I told him grandpa was also from Btg Rajang and he asked where in Btg Rajang, I told him Sut.. so the conversation went while his wife was busy weighing the dabai for me..rather pricey, RM14 per kilo but what to do, nyawa ka makai, beli meh, as a former colleague said, "sik bankrap meli barang makan bah"...Then I met indai Unya, selling tanggoi biru.. stopped and chatted for a while, then I met indai Scott with her friend. She gave me a packet of salai ikan bawan.."nuan laun ibu, nyu nadai agi tu, udah abis, nya aku meri sebungkus ka nuan,..." My, she must have bought several packets to spare one for me. Then she was busy buying ikan sungai, ka di kasam ibu, ku iya. That is one lady who is true to her roots, married a Scots, has three great kids, cook western dishes for Sam and cook lauk Iban for herself, she makes great kasam ikan.....taught the children to speak Iban......atta girl, that's the way to go girl.

So the three of us came back with our booty. Here's what we bought..

And you know what happened to some of them from the 1st picture above..

Yes, it has been awhile since we indulged ourselves, well since new year eve to be exact. There just wasn't enough time to do much in the evenings after work, so the staple has been the supermarket sayur, a soup and one main dish. Furthermore this is the only weekend since before Christmas that dad and I are home, for the past month or so we had become semi Mirians. Also yours sincerely and Igat are trying our best to shed some weight, so we skipped dinner most of the times and survived on fruits, vegetables and fresh fruit juices. Kadang-kadang we cheated, dad caught us snacking on crackers in between watching Heroes cd. But mind you not eating dinner is one great way to lose weight. But I don't starve myself, I eat full lunches, lots of fruits and concoct many types of fruit cocktails.. yesterday after lunch I made papaya, dragon fruit and pineapple smoothie, Indai Kumo (she comes three times a week to clean the house and do the laundry, thank God) liked it...dad pejam enchelak mata, he didn't like the papaya taste..

So, I had not made new year resolutions for ages cos I never got to keeping them but this year I promised to take good care of my health, the visits to Normah had been scary...so I have been stocking on fruits and vege since new year and bought my arsenal of vitamins...

Dad and I have been buying books on nutritional health, impressed by the many reported cures just by taking nutritional supplements. Many of our ailments are actually caused by lack of nutrition. Our latest arsenal is grape seed extract and CO enzyme 10. Grape seed is touted to be a powerful antioxidant. We need antioxidant to combat oxidative stress, which is euphemisim for rusting body....Oo, I must be mindful what I write, I am not the doctor-to-be nor pharmacist in the family.. legi dirara urang aku, kumbai sida anak and dadi lutor mami.. But if you are interested, read the book by Ray Strand MD (What your doctor doesn't know about nutritional medicine may be killing you) and the book "The Complete Cancer Cleanse" by the "Juice Lady" Cherie Calbom, and co-authors John Calbom & Michael Mahaffey, PC. Last year when I was told that I had microcalcification on my left breast, I took lots of vegetable and fruit juice and when I went for check up last Aug, the calcium deposits had disappeared. And what Dr Strand wrote had me changed my prejudice against wheatgrass juice. I used to frown when the children took wheatgrass, I told them its an alien drink... not any more now. Apparently wheatgrass has powerful antimutagenic effect, the ability to fight tumors. The wrinkly looking fruit is beet, it is best for liver cleansing, just juice it up with carrots or red apples. Or you may shred it and eat it raw with olive oil and lemon juice. The Juice Lady listed the following juices as "superhero" juices: (1) beet, for liver cleansing, (2) cabbage, high in phytochemicals to protect us from cancer (3) carrot, great source of beta carotene, containing cancer-fighting properties (4) garlic juice - inhibit tumor growth (5) green juices - parsley, spinach, kailan, wheatgrass - rich in chlorophyll, to block the genetic changes that carcinogenic substances produce in cells and (6) tomato, rich in lycopene, esp good for prostrate cancer prevention.

Here's my supply of fruit cocktails.. nya meh mid week, weekend, aku beringku meli buah and vege. Peria is refreshing juiced with cucumber, celery and green apple.

But some things tusah ka dilengka, like this kasam ikan...its a complete no no its carcinogenic.. tang nyamai amat diempa.. kati deh, ila badu mai kasam ari rumah...

And another thing I promised I will give up, wine, well not totally, but I will drink only during birthdays and anniversaries...I did well last week, I did not touch a drop during the wedding reception...Well not that I am a drinker, just that at times dad and I would buy a bottle or two once a month or when friends come to the house.

I indulged... had this ice cream as dessert. Dad and Igat watched only cos they had theirs from Chicken Delight when we went marketing.... I wonder whether I had undone all the good I achieved for the whole week, I did manage to shed a kilo, though..

And we have this unwritten, unspoken rule in the house. When the girls are not around, the men do the dishes after meal, since mom does the cooking. Acih ulu, kala apai Maie nyebut "kumbai dik kala sida niang indai ngasuh aku masu pinggai" ku iya.... "eh, enda ngawa" ku aku, "ngambi sigat agi".."gamal dik" ku iya.."bajik ah" ku aku....

Ngulu pengerami gawai tikah di Miri

Minggu tu kemari kami tiga menayank ngulu pengerami gawai tikah anak Jane Donald/Gandu Giyang (apai indai urang indu) enggau anak Elisa Suma/Cassidy Chili, apai indai urang lelaki. Jane sama sekula enggau aku di kolej Tg Lobang kelia, serebak kami sida Puteri, lalu Elisa bala ari apai Maie, rumah panjai sida enda jauh ari rumah panjai kami di Selangau. Elisa gawa ba Bintulu Port, kala nyadi kerani dadi, Cassidy udah retire ari MLNG, diatu gawa ke tasik nyadi runggu ensing.

Mayuh amat bala dipanggil, nyu penuh ruai ba Eastwood Valley Country Club. Laban ke enda tentu terang, enda ulih meda ni bagi urang ke dikelala, muti ba mija seberai kami bala sida Robert Resli enggau bala pangan Sebugey (ku Maie, indu siku ngajar sida aunty bepoco-poco ku iya). Bendar tudah Santok ke nyadi mc gawa, pia bejaku, pia belagu.

Tu gambar kami malam nya.


Sara and Martin, benung besampi di uluka Fr Ugil. Tu maya ka melah kek.
Tu bala kami ari sepiak pengantin lelaki, begambar enggau Martin & Sara.

Seduai ditundi Santok, di asuh besium.
Indai & anak.

Apai indai pengantin.

Aku meda bala sida poco-poco, aku nelai Maie, bakatu:-

Aku: I will dance and sing at your wedding.
Maie: Mom, you will have a long time to practice.
Aku (dalam ati): Spoil sport.

Not long ago when she started work, Maie said:-

Maie: Don't you say the "M" word mom, I am still young, baru 22 taun.
Aku: Eh, enda aku nyebut deh. Kapa nya, ukai aku tu bangat ka ngibun uchu. (esin nya munyi ku sida Igat...dini ke enggai.

Kudi, ampuh bah

I woke up at 5.30 am today and for the first time in weeks, to complete silence. Nadai munyi umbak degum-degum. Ukai main penginggar umbak ngelamatu, mangka ba gerugu batu. Seminggu-minggu ari enda enchelak di Bintulu. Lemai ari lima minggu siti tu kemari ari kudi, ujan betutuh pauh naka ia pemangat, ti ngujungka ampuh bah ba sekeda genturong pendiau enggau pasar Bintulu. Puji Tuhan taja housing kami ba tisi tasik, ai enda datai ngagai rumah, muti naka pun lorong jalai ke masuk. Sida ke diau ba taman sepiak, Good Park, kasih amat, tak masuk ai dalam rumah, nya meh pagi siti maya tua dadi matau menua meda bala benung bebasuka bilik enggau porch, peda carpet nyu bekedempai dijembi ba pagar. Aku ninga sekeda nyu abis jai perabut. Aku sempat nyadi reporter, ngambar aftermath of the thunderstorm.

Tu rumah neighbour ba belakang rumah kami, takah 2 pintu. Pelaman sida tama ai ari tasik laban pagar sida ke mua ari tasik bansa ke bisi takah, enda pagar bata. Jiran sepiak ia laban ke bepagar bata ok, enda tama ai pelaman.

Tu gamal tebing tasik ba belakang taman kami.
Tu rumah siku senior lawyer ba taman sepiak kami, ba Good Park. Kerita iya nadai dia, laban ia selalu nadai di Bintulu, bala bini anak ia di Kuching.
Naka ia penuai pun kara tu, tak ari munya sigi udah bisi. Tu nyu tumbang.

Tu gambar kayu tumbang ba Parkcity commercial centre.

Sayau amat aku meda mayuh kayu ba tisi jalai tumbang.

Pagi nya tua dadi mansangka Miri, ngena jalai tebing tasik. Ia kami nyu ka datai ba jematan sungai Nyelong, peda tak mayuh kerita dia, nemu nya jalai ampuh bah. Kerita saloon sigi enda ulih mansa laban ai dalam. Nasit tua dadi ngena Hilux, ulih nempuh ai tang plet lumur Hilux tingkil. Tu gamal jalai maya nya.


Aku ingat ke penudi endar ujan ngemalat tu dataika ampuh bah ba pasar kena taun 1999, maya Krismas. Indai aku balat amat sakit, nyu tengah malam dibai kami ngagai sepital. Datai din peda sepital ampuh bah, ai muti enda ngelui pala patung. Meda bakanya apai Maie lalu ngema indai, laban kerita enda ulih dibai semak sepital. Empa pemendar indai aku sakit nyu tekemi-kemi iya di ma apai Maie. Indai enda masuk, lalu kami pulai ngelaban ujan betutuh pauh.

Tu ba Miri ga bisi penusah, maie madah kemari tanah runtuh ninggang Shell station lalu dua iku pekerja mati....jimat-jimat kitai bejalai...sama-sama bejaga.

Jerita Teraik

Aku tuchum ngenang jerita lama maya aku nemuai ngagai Canada begulai enggau GM ke dulu suba dalam taun 1992. Tiga iko kami di sempulang dua iko pemesai ari Ministry of Transport enggau EPU. Batang pejalai nemuai ngagai penyangkai kapal di Montreal, Vancouver enggau upis indu penyangkai kapal di Ottawa, mansik atur enggau structure sida laban perintah Malaysia deka numbuhka siti port authority ti megai semua upis penyangkai kapal. Sida di Canada udah ngaga atur bakatu. Maya nya aku agi nyadi legal officer, nya kebuah aku dibai GM enggau iya.

Kami ngagai Ottawa dulu, datai ba airport, beg siku ari pangan kami (Haji ia diatu) enda temu,teberayan ditepu ba bilun ke mansang ke bukai. Kami lalu check in ngagai hotel, nya meh haji tak ngeluh ngenang diri ke nadai gari kena nemuai ngagai Canada Ports Authority ari siti. Ngiga ba pasar ke semak hotel kami nadai kedai bejualka kot. Ka ngiga ka bukai ari nyu udah lemai, tambah enda nemu menua. Eh, enda ngawa ku pemesai ari EPU, nginjau kot aku nuan, aku bisi mai dua iti kot. Au meh ku iya, tang aku nemu iya sigi enda puas ati laban pemesai tubuh seduai enda sama, apai tuai EPU tinggi agi, besai agi tubuh ari haji. Iya ga aku nemu haji kami nya sigi urang ke smart begari, ngena utai branded magang, selalu mutong kot ari Sparkmanshop di KL. Nama deh ari siti, ia kami ka nurun ngagai upis nya, peda aku tudah haji tak enda tentu manah gamal ngenatka diri ngena kot ke besai sereta lengan ti panjai, bendar amat ia narit-narit lengan kot ke atas, ngicha ka bisi ayan jari tudah tuai. Kasih aku meda iya. Puji Tuhan lemai nya beg iya datai di anjung airline.

Ari pengasai tu, aku enggau apai Maie sigi selalu nyimpan gari kena betukar ba hand luggage maya bejalai kelebih agi ngagai menua tasik, enggai ke beg tak laun datai, pechuma kitai bebelika gari. Pama enggi kitai indu, angka enda tusah begigaka gari ke umbas tang enti kot urang lelaki, tusah amat ngiga kot ke udah sedia ti ngam putong enggau sais ba tubuh. Tambah mega mar rega.

Ari Montreal kami ke Vancouver. Kami dibai urang merarau ba palan endur makai seafood dia. Dia pemesai di Vancouver madahka bini iya baru udah beranak, bulih anak lelaki. Oo, ku GM kami, patut meri kami cigar nuan, ku iya. Ketawa pemesai nya, nadai aku mai ku iya, tang aku meda iya baka ke impressed, laban GM kami bisi nemu tradisi omputih ke bakanya. Kira well-read enggau cultured meh GM kami nya, ukai urang ke enda nemu utai. Udah nya aku lalu nanya sekalika pemesai nya berasal ari Scotland laban nama pun iya munyi nama urang ari sepiak nyin. Oo, ku iya, aki ini aku endang datai ari nyin, pindah ka Canada ku iya. Kami berandau, enda putus-putus meh randau, mayuh utai dikenang.

Ia kami udah tembu makai, kami ngirup kupi. Enda mukai-mukai tak teraik meh apai tuai ari EPU naka penginggar-inggar nya. Udah iya teraik iya lalu nyebut alhamdullilah. Aku lalu merening pemesai omputih, meda gamal iya blanching, kedua omputih berumban ngelap mulut ngena napkin. Aku merening GM kami, iya merening aku, udah nya sama malik ke bukai. Aku malik ngagai bala kami, peda aku haji enggau pemesai ari Ministry nadai nya nya gamal. Pemesai ari EPU nama deh, tak baka mayau ke udah makai chit, puas ati laban kenyang makai ikan salmon enggau clam chowder. Ah deh.. deh.. ku ati aku din, nama ga sekeda kitai tu enda sekena, iya ga bepangkat besai, iya ga enda nunda adat basa omputih. Ambis poin GM ke nemu pasal cigar…….Ba adat basa sekeda pupu bansa, sigi ok teraik enggau inggar, udah nya alhamdulilah, laban meri terima kasih ngagai Tuhan ke meri pemakai. Tang ba adat basa urang putih, sigi enda ok, tu siti pemali ba sida, sigi ngelanggar adat basa enti kitai teraik ba mua urang.

Hi hi, ila enti sema kita duduk berimbai enggau urang ke teraik, kuingka mua ke bukai, enggaika kesuh utai ke diteraik kena sium kitai, pama nempuh, anang enti udah makai buah rian tauka petai……

Au, pulai ngagai jerita pemesai ke teraik, taun siti tu kemari aku bisi enggau konferens di Kuching, diau ba Hilton. Ia ka tama lift, bisi berapa iku lelaki sama tama, aku ngasaika diri diperening urang. Udah nya kami ka tama ba bilik endur konferens, siku ari apai tuai ke sama pansut ari lift lalu nanya aku, nuan sanu ku iya. Aku tekenyit, apu patut aku ngasaika diri diperening urang, itu tadi ku aku. Au ke aku, malu ke diri enda ingatka iya. Aku tu ku iya, nyebut nama, kitai begulai ngagai Canada kelia ku iya. Aku meda nama nuan ari list nama urang ke enggau konferens, ku iya, tu nyu betemu enggau nuan ku iya. Apu ku ati aku din, apai tuai teraik tu paduhal. Aku lalu betabi lalu kami duai berandau enda lama. Manah tudah tuai, agi ingat, manah jaku. Nya meh, ari bala ke dikelala, bisi kedua ke meri macham-macham pengasai….ke nyadi buah kenang, ke ngasuh kitai tuchum maya gawa.

Enda Betah

Tu dua ari Maie & Sudan udah mulaika diri ngagai endur kereja/belajar, aku agi seilu-ilu ditinggalka seduai. Sekumbang ke chuti Krismas, tak 10 ari kami menyanak sewing-wing kin-kitu; berapi begulai, ngirup, makai begulai, meda TV, ninga lagu begulai, best amat maya ke berandau bejam-jam nunga pemakai. Tu seduai udah nadai di rumah tak sunyi amat, aku enggai tama ke bilik seduai, mua enda bisi seduai gali ba katil, ngujika bling bling, ngujika baju, macha bup. Agi tubah disium, agi tubah diberap tua dadi bala anak. Kadang-kadang nyadi "tingak" sida (munyi ku jaku sida agi mit suba), ngalika diri ba tengah-tengah tua dadi.

Aku enda nemu bakani enda asai ati indai urang bukai ditinggalka anak, kati bisih ai mata baka enggi aku kini. Enggi aku tak pun Maie nurun sekula ngagai Perth taun 2004 suba aku sigi udah enda betah. Tua dadi seminggu nganjung ia din, ia sida mula orientation tua dadi pulai. Ari college ngagai airport, tak bekerenjui ai mata aku nyaya. Bisi mendua minggu aku enda nyamai amat, upai Sudan agi bisi di rumah maya nya.

Udah nya Sudan ga ngejang. Bakanya tadi ga, ma tak seilu-ilu, tak nyaya ai mata aku enda betah. Kelebih agi laban iya ke sekula ba Jogja, nangi ka urang ke selalu nunjukka penggengai ati, nangika tanah berenyang, nangika penyelamat iya di menua urang. Mula Sudan kin, nyu tiap-tiap ari aku besembiang minta Tuhan nyaga ngemataka iya. Kedua aku sinu ka iya, laban bandar din mayuh pengurang kelebih agi ba utai di empa. Kasih ngingatka nyawa anak ke ka makai utai ke dikerinduka iya tang enda ulih laban kedai din nadai nyual tauka enti bisi, enda sebaka asai enggau ke ba ditu.

Ke ka endar tak begulai meh enggau bala anak. Ga maya sida tiga menyadi diasuh urang sekula ba boarding school berengkah ari Pom 1 tua dadi enda ngasuh, laban enggai beserara enggau sida maya sida agi biak, laban enti sida udah ngejang, lalu ngejang sida, muti pulai chuti. Dini enda, peda Maie, udah badu belajar nyu gawa di Miri, enda ga begulai ditu, semadi iya chuti.

Maya aku ke emo, apai Maie selalu nyebut ngagai aku, nama utai ulih bala anak enti besekukut enggau tua di Bintulu tu. Aku nemu sigi amat utai ku iya nya, tang kati ku enggau enti aku enda betah, sigi nyaya meh ai mata. Nya aku ingat amat ka indai aku maya aku mula ngejang ke rumah kelia. Aku sekula di Miri berengkah ari Pom 4 dataika Pom 6. Udah nya aku ke u. Tiap kali aku pulai ke sekula/ke u, nyabak belama indai aku. Nya aku ngaum indai, enda ngasuh iya nyabak. Bakatu ku indai aku nyaut: ila nuan ngasai, maya nuan udah bisi anak ila, maya anak nuan ninggalka nuan, sigi beraie nuan ila, ku indai aku. Amat utai ku urang tuai. Tu enda lama agi Igat ga mansang ke kolej, sigi mamau aku ke seminggu dua.......