We left Tenby, Wales on Friday evening and stayed overnight at Heathrow to catch the morning flight to KL on Saturday 28th March. Fahrul's parents arrived on the flight from KL early on Saturday morning (the same aircraft that we took). So, it was sort of change of shift from maternal grandparents to paternal grandparents for Najla. A few days before we left Tenby Najla kept on asking Tok Mi why Tok Mi wants to go back. "I am very sad," she kept saying, and as the departure day got nearer Najla got more and more attached to her grandma. It will be 'Tok Mi, please help me do this' and 'Tok MI, please help me do that' even for the smallest of things that she used to do herself and for which she had always been proud of declaring, "I did this or that by myself" everytime. Suddenly she was unable to do them and kept asking Tok Mi to help. She even had Tok Mi to tuck her in to sleep at night and read stories for her, when prior to this she had always insisted that her dad do it!!. Hopefully with her paternal grandparents around she will be none the worse with the separation from Tok MI.
On returning to PeeJay, I just had to make a trip to see Mum in JayBee. At the same time I wanted to take the opportunity to see my Aunty, Mum's younger sister by a couple of years, who was taken ill and hospitalised in a coma, some two weeks earlier. She has since recovered and is recuperating. Also, my sister (fourth sibling) had had twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl, from one son recently and it was just as good an opportunity as any other times for us to visit and see the twins. Moreover, my sister and family had recently moved into their new house. So, we killed many birds with one stone that day, heh heh.
We took the Firefly (an MAS subsidiary airline, their commercial tagline being 'the community airline') flight to JayBee, early morning from KL and returned by the evening flight. The weather was good and there were no hiccups in our journey. We spent some time with Mum, my sister (second sibling) and family, joining them for breakfast and stayed a while to chat. They had planned to take Mum for a follow-up medical check in the hospital later in the morning, so it was just good timimg that we went there early in the morning. We were off to see my Aunty by about 11.00am and spent some time with her. She looked frail and sickly, she had just been discharged from hospital a week earlier, and is recuperating well though. Perhaps the drugs she is taking makes her look that way. Hopefully when she has fully recovered she will look better.
From Aunty's place we went straight to my sister's place to see their new house and also the twins. We had lunch of traditional home cooking that is familiar to our family. You can just imagine how I tucked in and savoured the spread of food. I think I overate. I was sleepy soon after!! Anyway, we stayed in their house until it was time for us to leave for the airport, and of course we had time to nap. It was sleep rather than nap..... I can now claim that I have slept in my sister's new house heh heh. The twins were sleeping most of the time when we were there. They are about four months old, cute little babies. We did not hear any sound from any of them while we were there, although both of them responded to our promtings. Both were detained in the hospital for a few weeks after birth as they were then too small to be taken home.
Can you tell which one is the boy and which one the girl?
It was a day well spent, caught up with family things and issues, some of which I need to look into, being the default head honcho!! heh heh. In due time, in due time....
MKI Ramblings Unlimited,
Bintulu, Sarawak
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