Back to school

Its time of the year again for parents to prepare lots and lots of things for their kids before going back to school next year, schoolbag, books, stationery, shoes and socks, uniform, badges and the list goes on. I noticed that current trend, there are variety tyoe of school uniform depending on your position in school, if you are prefect then your uniform is different and so does a librarion or class monitor.

Back then it was way much easier, just differentiated by tie colour..so parents won't have to worry about spending extra cash for the class monitor or school librarian. I wore my pinafore till the end of the skirt rest above my knee and the white blouse was no longer pearly white :-)...it was hard tp keep on changing and buying new uniform.

Our school bag were different from those kids now, at one time I had a case with blue checkered and worn it till the outer layer peeled off, at those time beg peti was a hit...but the peer pressure was less and we did not care if our's was not a famous brand and being in a small town like Alor Star, we don't have many choice unless you go to shop in Penang.

Moving to secondary school we opted for backpack, my normal shopping spree was at a small shop next to Hankyu Jaya, we could bargain to suit our badget and again just bag cap ayam but it does work well for few years coz our text book are much lesser than current primary kids..most of us will adorned our bag with various type batch from White Snake, Bon Jovi to New Kids On The Block... :-)
Book band was a must-have too where we bought at mall or lorong sempit, just few ringgit and we look up-to-date.

I went to school by beca Pak Harun...just a small trishaw that could accommodate 6 pupils..six not two ya..!!we just squizzed in with our beg peti and botoi ayaq from Seberang Perak to SNC..the worst part is when the beca had to cross the bridge over Kedah River...kena turun sat pastu naik balik kat Pekan Melayu..one fine day I fell off the beca and hit the hot premix road ;-P ... those were the days..
Then when my parents had enough money I was send by Bas Mak Nab, small van actually ..life changed a bit bith more friends to minggle but need to woke up early and by secondary school I managed to persuaded my mom to allow me to go to school by Bas Bandaran which cost me only tiga kupang per trip and looks more cool with more friends to hang out and more boys from KSAH to eye...hampehh...but that was it, just look and nothing happen..we were innocent and naive but we never move forward with anything stupid... :-)

I think when we were small in the 80's life was more relax...we were not influenced much by tv commercial and what not..we just go to school with what is necessary and few cents and turn out to be like we are today compared to kids nowadays who need to be equipped with different kind of uniform, shoes, handphone and other unnecessary items.....

Gulai Ikan Temenung dengan Ulam Raja & Mengkudu

Esok dah nak balik...satu apa pun kami tak pack lagi..kalau dulu masa dok Johor, excited nak balik Kedah..naik bas dekat sepuluh jam dari JB sampai Sahab Perdana, kadang-kadang turun depan Pekan Rabu..masa tu tough, naik bas sepuluh jam, berenti dua kali makan, pi toilet tiga kali....pusing-pusing tidur ataih bas single seat banyak kali...sedaq sedaq masuk dah tol Aloq Staq selatan...dari highway nampak dah Menara Aloq Staq depan sekolah dulu..(sekolah Convent)..masa tu dah tak sabaq nak turun bas

Bila esok tu bangun, yang best sekali dapat makan my mom's breakfast..nasi goreng campoq dengan ikan temenung goreng had semalam..tu yang sedap

Tengahari makan sambai tumeh ikan temenung lemak beli di market, boleh tambah tiga pinggan, kalau buat sambai belacan makan dengan ulam raja ambik depan rumah lagi best, kadang-kadang makan pucuk mengkudu, tapi kena rebuih dulu, baguih makan pucuk ni..pernah makan pucuk bebuaih...? mai aloq staq baru tau...:-)

Makan nasi dengan ulam-ulam ni syok kalau ada gulai ikan, kami sini suka ikan temenung, had lemak tu yang sedap...forget about cholesterol...dulu masa market lama di seberang perak, ada satu aci dok giling rempah gulai..memang sedap, gerai dia kecik dalam 4 kaki darab 4 kaki saja..tapi rempah tu kalau makan sampai bau tangan dua tiga jam melekat ;-O

La ni tak tau ada lagi ka dak..masa tu pun aci tu dah dalam 40an..

Apa-apa pun yang mak masak memang sedap..tu yang tak sabaq nak balik ni...

Raya Korban...

Aidil adha datang lagi..tapi excitement dah tak macam dulu dah..nowadays it is just a time to spend with family..

Masa dulu petang raya sibuk tolong masak sikit-sikit untuk pagi raya, kemas-kemas rumah..malam main bunga api...

Pagi-pagi raya, bangun awal..pi masuk bilik ayaq 'mandi raya', makan ketupat sikit dengan rendang daging ..lepaih tu mak panggil (my grandma) ajak pi madrasah lama kat simpang jalan...kadang-kadang kami pakai siap-siap telekung di rumah...kadang-kadang kami nak vogue ..so pakai baju kurung, telekung letak dalam plastik bag

Seronok semayang raya di tempat kecik macam tu sebab dapat jumpa ramai orang..rasa lebih akrab..time semayang tu kadang-kadang tak khusyuk jugak sebab dok tengok bumbung rumah arwah Pak Su Zali dengan pokok-pokok kat rumah dia..madrasah lama ni tingkap sampai ke bawah...tu yang dok jeling-jeling tengok macam-macam..kadang-kadang tak tengok luaq..tapi dok kira kotak di selendang Imam..selendang macam Arafat pakai yang merah kotak-kotak tu....

Lepaih semayang kami turun tangga batu yang melengkung tu dengan slownya sebab masa tu ramai lelaki dok tunggu turn depa pulak nak semayang...kena control ayu takut terpijak kain..dah la tangga tinggi tak ikut spek Bomba..:-)

Lepaih tu baru start aktiviti pi makan-makan rumah jiran-jiran sambil kutip duit raya..oo before that..kena salam-salam minta maaf dulu...

Zaman tu kami sanggup jalan tengah panaih pi sampai Lorong Ayer Puteh, Taman Brown pi kutip duit..masa tu selamat lagi budak-budak berjalan..tak macam la ni..Flat Seberang Perak wajib pi...ada satu rumah Arab tu yang paling best sebab bagi duit raya lima kupang..rumah lain bagi sikit...masa tu rasa banyak dah...

La ni tak pi kutip dah..kena bagi jugak..tapi sambil bagi sambil kutip la jugak sebab tolong kutip untuk anak pulak.... :-)..tu depa punya terus masuk akaun Tabung Haji...

Raya tahun ni first day di Penang la macam biasa..tapi tak buat korban..banyak perkara-perkara terjadi disana..so..korban kami bagi duit buat di Bangladesh..bagi bahagian saya dan Sufiya..kami bagi kat ustaz..semoga diberkati...Insyaallah...

Raya kedua ada korban di Sala,...rumah Tok..macam best pulak..ingat nak tidoq sana ramai-ramai since my hubby tak pernah tidoq sana...

So kepada semua..selamat memandu dan Salam Aidil Adha...