Pagi Hari di Durham

2 hours later after the last post, I’m feeling much better.

Baru jer makan nasi daging mak masak which is so delicious. Aku nak bangun awal untuk belajar cara masak, tapi tak larat lak.

Sekarang nih duk mengidam pulut lemak dengan sambal bilis pulak. Sementara mak ada kat sini, bleh la belajar masak bebenda eksotik macam nih. Ari tu aku duk terfikir gak kat mana nak cari pulut, pastu isteri Ustaz Mazlee bagitau yang ada jual kat Newcastle. Aku tanya, ‘apa diorang panggil dalam BI?’

Er… ala, dah lupa. Tapi kalau nampak, InsyaAllah bleh ingat balik.

Okay, mood dah baik. Adakah tadi sindrom ‘cranky when hungry’?

BBQ

Semalam, orang-orang Malaysia Durham buat BBQ aka family day dekat Hamsterley Forest, dekat Bishop Auckland. Aku bawak mak dan ayah aku join sekali. Semalam pulak bukan main panas lagi, takde angin pun, jadi aku taklah risau sangat bila mak dan ayah aku duduk kat luar. Tak sejuk. Macam kat Malaysia pun ada.

Banyak jugak komuniti Malaysia kat sini. Semalam jer dah ada lebih kurang 15 family.

York

Hari ni plak, kitorang gi York. Aku, parents aku, Kak Nur dan Kak Shifa satu kereta; Yasmin, Kak Dijah, the Bruneians – Nurul, Arni dan Zeah satu kereta.

Pergi York Designer Outlets. Tapi aku tak beli apa pun. Mak ayah aku ada la beli sikit-sikit.

Lepas tu balik dari York, sempat singgah rumah kawan Kak Shifa, Kak Uda, solat dan dijamu makan sekejap.

Sempat la berjalan dalam 45 minit dekat bandar York.

[Gambar: Mak dan abah kat York]

Pastu kitorang pun bertolak ke balik ke Durham. Sekarang nih dah musim panas, jadi gandum-gandum dan bunga-bunga kuning yang diorang tanam untuk dibuat minyak dah dituai. Banyak gak kitorang tengok jerami dekat tepi-tepi jalan digulung-gulung bulat-bulat. Macam dalam citer-citer kat Texas plak sikit-sikit. Aku geram. Rasa nak bergambar dengan jerami-jerami tersebut. Sampai jer dekat satu tempat yang kitorang terasa bleh park, terus park kereta dan keluar tangkap gambar.

Dan bleh tahan gak hasil-hasil gambar dia. And here it is:-

Kepada rakan-rakan yang mengikuti blog aku, korang bleh la ’subscribe’ kalo nak tahu updates. Bukan apa, aku duk tengok, ramai gak yang duk check blog aku setiap hari, tapi takde update. Boh email korang dalam box sebelah kanan atas muka surat ini.

Minggu ni, aku mengikut jadual seperti yang aku tulis dalam post sebelum nih. Disebabkan jumpa supervisor hari Khamis, jadi sibuk la sedikit hari Selasa dan Rabu.

Nothin much happen this week. Mak dan abah dah makin okey dengan cuaca. Tapi minggu ni pun, cuaca baik. Agak panas setiap hari. Jadi taklah teruk sangat.

Dah 2 malam aku tido pukul 12. Malam ni nak try tido lambat balik. Walaupun sekarang dah mengantuk, tapi agak bosan juga tidur awal. Semalam tido pukul 12, alih-alih bangun pagi pukul 11 jugak. Hmm.

Gambar atas, melepak kat Starbucks MetroCenter Newcastle, sementara menunggu Kak Shifa dan Kak Dijah Durham abis shopping.

That’s all for now.

‘hws tok lang?’

‘tok lang is good’. Aku jawab lepas Ili, anak sepupu aku tanya. That’s been the questions people keep asking lately, and as it is asking about my parents, I would gladly answer.

Aku tengah catching up dengan study. Kurang sedikit masa untuk tengok Stargate sebab tengok-tengokkan parents aku. But hey, it’s a good thing!

It is easier than I expected. Mak dan abah agak cepat juga beradaptasi dengan cuaca yang sejuk. Hari pertama jer yang mak dan abah mengeluh banyak. Pastu, dah tak kisah dah melepak-lepak kat ruang tamu kalau tak buka heater pun. Aku jer yang selalu buka heater untuk diri sendiri. Aku masih tak tahan sejuk.

Minggu pertama mak dan abah di UK dah officially tamat semalam. Hari ni dah masuk minggu kedua dari 7 minggu mereka di sini. Kalau percutian aku kat UK, macam bila aku pergi tempat Abang Tra atau Mahadi, aku suka jer lepak-lepak dalam rumah. Janji diorang masak, dah cukup best dah. Tapi, takleh la nak buat camtu kat parents aku kan. So, untuk minggu kedua nih, schedulenya adalah seperti berikut:-

Isnin – hari ni, lepak rumah. Sebab semalam dah keluar
Selasa – esok, turun Newcastle untuk tengok-tengok barang, window shopping and charity shop shopping, serta membeli daging halal. Kak Shifa dan Kak Dijah Durham akan turut serta
Rabu – cadangnya waktu pagi, pergi ke Tesco besar, saja jalan-jalan situ sementara tak pulangkan lagi kereta sewa
Khamis – Rehat rehat. Aku kena jumpa supervisor lagipun
Jumaat – bawa abah gi solat Jumaat kat pekan Durham. Nak gi masjid pun adalah dalam 20 minit naik bas. Pastu kalau diorang nak join, ada Kuliah Tafsir/Hadis kat Bowburn. Aku baru first time nak pergi. Amirul berseloroh, ‘tahu la ko tak pernah pergi sebelum ni, takkan takut nak pergi sampai bawa parents kot?’. Macam masuk sekolah waktu first day plak.
Sabtu – Orang-orang Bowburn (lupa lak nak bagitau, tempat aku duduk namanya Bowburn, adalah banyak gak orang-orang Melayu kat sini) buat BBQ kat Newcastle. So pergi BBQ
Ahad – Join Kak Shifa and the gang ke York sebab Kak Shifa nak pergi shopping barang untuk kahwin. Dia nak balik kahwin.

Hmm.. not bad eh.

Usrah

Semalam, it was my first time going to usrah in Bowburn. (Duh, Kak Khalidah, you dun to laugh for it!)

Let’s put it in a simple and short description – it’s good for the soul, so guess that I’m gonna attend it next time I’m free.

Actually, it was settling down up until somehow the guys start to talk about car. Somehow I do have allergy of people talking about cars. But thanks God it doesn’t last that long. So, I’m cool. (Yes Mahadi, I’m kewl!)

Car boot

Car boot nih ialah macam pasar malam, tapi orang-orang jual bebenda yang diorang dah tak nak guna. Macam ‘garage sale’ yang kita tengok kat dalam citer-citer US tu.

This is also my first time going to car boot sale. Dulu waktu kat London, takde kesempatan.

Bawak mak dan ayah aku sekali, dengan Amirul dan Kak Shifa.

Carboot sale yang aku pergi nih dekat Sedgefield. Diorang buat kat padang lumba kuda. So, here’s mom and dad posing in front of the race track:D

Banyak gak la benda yang kitorang beli. Abah beli satu baju sejuk. Amirul beli lampu-lampu dengan buku Lord of The Ring. Mak beli buah-buah. Aku beli pam basikal (1 pound), heater (5 pound), dan paling best, aku beli 5 cd lagu yang lama-lama (for 2 pound). Semuanya album-album yang pernah aku beli dalam bentuk kaset waktu kat USM dulu. Nih kira saja amik yang CD, bleh rip.

I got -

Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta get thru this (beli waktu first year kat USM dulu)
Gareth Gates – What My Heart Wants To Say (beli waktu first year gak, waktu duk kat Aman Damai)
Five – Kingsize (beli waktu second year kat USM)
Blue – Guilty (pun waktu first year)
Blue – All Rise (dulu beli waktu kat KMPP)

Uh, tadi bangun awal.

Time to sleep again soon..

First of all, mom and dad is in a good condition. Adapting to Durham weather which is colder than London. Mom keep saying that Kak Azu’s house is warmer – it is, much more likely because of the weather itself. UK is sucks for its unstable summer. Usually it is cold rather than hot. Bila kitorang kat sini cakap, ‘hm.. panas hari ini’, lebih bermaksud ‘kalau kat Malaysia, suam-suam kuku jer, tapi kat UK, panas lah’.

I owed Shahrill tag questions, so here it goes:-

NAMA TIMANG-TIMANGAN OLEH ORANG TERSAYANG?

Oh, I talked about this last week. Refer to Nama. Parents call me ‘adik’. And I dun mind being called that in the public. So what?

ANDA SEORANG YANG ?

Ah, actually the reason I’ve been wanting to answer the tag is because I really wanna answer this question. Coz I’m kinda wanna let it out, and as usual, this is the place to do.

I don’t have to do the sugarcoated, but the sugar-coated version of me:-

I’m a nice innocent boy, who loves and takes after his parents. I usually talk nicely to other people and hardly harm others. Yada yada yada, whatever good things you think about me – that’s the sugar coated version.

Here’s what I am and what I prefer to be known as, as it will make my life easier:-

I’m bad. I’m not as friendly as people think and I can get easily annoyed. If you ask me to do things which I usually don’t, I get piss off (yeah, having some issue at the mo, go figure!). I hate lame talk on YM (friends know that already. Awin (x-KMPP) already avoiding asking ‘how are you’ question and shoot the ’solid’ question. Sorry Awin, as I said, I’m bad.).

I get easily annoyed with small things. I hate people talking to me or make a distraction while I’m watching something or doing my work (YM as well). I also dislike people keep mentioning that I’m always busy in YM as well. Simply said, ‘I get easily annoyed’.

Hm.. that’s kinda explains a lot about me right?

(Feeling good after taking it all out. Kinda annoyed lately)

INSAN TERISTIMEWA

Family and friends.

MAKANAN DAN MINUMAN KEGEMARAN SAYA?

Mi goreng and juice

WARNA KEGEMARAN?

Blue

LAGU KEGEMARAN?

At the mo -

Chris Brown – With You,
Carrie Underwood – All American Girl,
Jonas Brothers songs,
Boys Like Girls – Learning To Fall,
Simple Plan songs
Faizal Tahir – Mungkin Tak Bisa

SIAPA YANG SELALU BUAT SAYA GELAK?

Lately – Mahadi, Kak Khalidah, my Durham friends, and people who leaves comment on my blog. I smile at least:D

SIKAP YANG BUAT SAYA TERTEKAN?

Hm… I got a list of that actually, being annoyed by it; but just keep it silent for now.

KALI TERAKHIR ANDA BERIA-IA MENANGIS?

Hm… how do you measure ‘beria-ia’? I cried after coming out from the graduation hall, and embracing my parents. This time it was so emotional for me. For many different reasons. Let say that I’m glad that my parents were there to celebrate a year of a roller coaster experience (where the downs were more than the ups)

PERKARA PALING LUCU ATAU MELUCUKAN DALAM HIDUP ANDA?

I dunno. I’m moody now, not in the mood of talking funny.

TAG ORANG??

Nope, thanks.