Diari 10 Hari - Chapter 2

Burrpp... Alhamdulillahh... Sedapnya makan kat Sri Pumpong. Lauk semua habis licin di"selesai"kan oleh anak-anak Mak Lijah. Lagipun diorang memang tengah lapar. Tapi... nak dapat menikmati hidangan tu bukannya mudah.. Mula-mula tak ada meja kosong sebab ramai sangat orang, lepas tu, queuenya bukan main panjang lagi.. Tak sempat nak betol-betol tengok semua hidangan. Apa-apapun, janji dapat ikan keli dan sayur cendawan. Yummy...

Dah selesai makan dan semua bagai ular sawa tersadai, kami sambung balik perjalanan dan Danisy pun rewind balik soklan dia:

Sekarang pukul berapa?

Nak sampai pukul berapa?

Lagi berapa kilometer?


Akhirnya, selepas membeli pisang goreng RM5 (dapat satu beg plastik penuh), 2 kilo buah dokong dan 10 tongkol jagung di simpang Gunung Keriang, kami pun sampai di Kampung Santan pada kira-kira pukul 3.30 petang dalam gerimis. By then, Teh and family dah pun sampai (they flew in the day before). Danisy sangat excited tengok "rumah baru" Mak Tok sambil terlompat-lompat dan berlari-lari exploring the renovated part of the house. Mak Lijah pun excited juga sebab I got the color I wanted for our new, large bedroom (walaupun Pak Lijah kata warnanya suram. Hey, it's lilac, you know.. warna romantik!) and we had a much bigger family area. Problem is.. filling them up!

Abang Jam and Abang Adik arrived later with their family dan rumahpun jadi riuh-rendah.

And so everybody got themselves busy catching up with each other. Macam tak jumpa lima tahun. Bila dikira-kira, ada 20 manusia dalam rumah kecil itu. Yang absent hanyalah Feera, my anak sedara yang ada kelas on Monday, so tak dapat nak join us in Santan. Malam tu dinner macam kenduri, padahal bukanlah ramai sangat pun. Obviously we now need a much bigger dining table.

Yang peningnya, although we have more rooms now, budak-budak tu (all six of them) still insisted that they want to sleep depan tv kat family area tu beramai-ramai. Adoilaa.. bukannya apa, Mak Lijah juga lah yang kena angkat tilam nanti....

Finally the house was quiet at about midnite... Fuuuhh... lega...