The town at 9.30 pm, 221108
One of her favourite places, the Taman Bersatu Lake (can you spot Alvin, 4ML?)
Her little girls' favourite playground
Ika (her niece) with Zainab and SarahNote that the word is 'fell' not 'falls'. The latter would imply that she always falls in love, but this blog entry is about why she fell in love. Oh yeah, not with her husband, this is going to be written, some time when her mood is better. At this juncture, I suggest we focus on her love for Rawang.
There was a woman who hailed from a village in Alor Gajah, Melaka. By a twist of fate, she ended up settling down in a quiet town, called Rawang, Selangor. In 1991, the school holidays started in October and the school new term started in December. Hence, she came here in late October 1991, when her first child was 5 months old.
If you asked her about one thing she found intolerable , it was the 'serenity' of this developing town. Her workplace was SMK Seri Garing, which had a composition of 90 per cent non-Malays. Would that have intimidated her? No! Because she never saw the colour of other people. But she missed her 5 Science 2 students of SM Dato' Haji Talib Karim, she could remember Low Sheau Fang , Hadi, Norhaliza and the faces, if not the names of the other students, oops , ex-students of hers.
Her first six months were spent at her mother-in-law's house, until they moved in to Taman Mawar house , about two months before Mukhlis (her second child) was born. In the following 8 years, she had 4 more additions to her family, and they were all girls, four beautiful girls who inherited their mother's good looks.
Similarly, Rawang had also grown to be a bustling new town, but still without a proper bus-station, neither did it have enough parking space. But supermarkets had mushroomed in Rawang and not very far from Rawang, she could easily 'shop till she drops' at hypermarkets like Tesco, Mydin and Carrefourre in Selayang or Melawati. Maybe this shopping part is the most exciting one, maybe.
Fast food outlets seemed to understand her craving for the heavily-tainted fast food. If she did not care about the health of her family and the health of her purse, she would have settled herself in these outlets 7-day-week, just name it, Pizza, McDonald's, KFC, Secret Recipe, once there was the Chicken Rice Shop, and another one, Deli? what?
OK, to be fair, she loved or rather she loves the people of Rawang too. And guess who is the person she loves the most? Don't worry , she will tell it all some time, some day, when her mood clicks.
There was a woman who hailed from a village in Alor Gajah, Melaka. By a twist of fate, she ended up settling down in a quiet town, called Rawang, Selangor. In 1991, the school holidays started in October and the school new term started in December. Hence, she came here in late October 1991, when her first child was 5 months old.
If you asked her about one thing she found intolerable , it was the 'serenity' of this developing town. Her workplace was SMK Seri Garing, which had a composition of 90 per cent non-Malays. Would that have intimidated her? No! Because she never saw the colour of other people. But she missed her 5 Science 2 students of SM Dato' Haji Talib Karim, she could remember Low Sheau Fang , Hadi, Norhaliza and the faces, if not the names of the other students, oops , ex-students of hers.
Her first six months were spent at her mother-in-law's house, until they moved in to Taman Mawar house , about two months before Mukhlis (her second child) was born. In the following 8 years, she had 4 more additions to her family, and they were all girls, four beautiful girls who inherited their mother's good looks.
Similarly, Rawang had also grown to be a bustling new town, but still without a proper bus-station, neither did it have enough parking space. But supermarkets had mushroomed in Rawang and not very far from Rawang, she could easily 'shop till she drops' at hypermarkets like Tesco, Mydin and Carrefourre in Selayang or Melawati. Maybe this shopping part is the most exciting one, maybe.
Fast food outlets seemed to understand her craving for the heavily-tainted fast food. If she did not care about the health of her family and the health of her purse, she would have settled herself in these outlets 7-day-week, just name it, Pizza, McDonald's, KFC, Secret Recipe, once there was the Chicken Rice Shop, and another one, Deli? what?
OK, to be fair, she loved or rather she loves the people of Rawang too. And guess who is the person she loves the most? Don't worry , she will tell it all some time, some day, when her mood clicks.
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