Yeyyey Kak Long Masuk TV, Yeyyey Kak Long Masuk TV

We came back from Port Dickson on Wednesday at about lunch time and I read an eMail from Tessa that she has to appear on TV (NTV7) to talk about PETRONAS Formula 1 community service programme at 9 am on Thursday. Although excited, she said she was apprehensive and afraid she may fumble and so on. By the time I get to read the email my other children had already responded to her. By their response both of them registered excitement, one saying “yeyyey Kak Long masuk TV, yeyyey Kak Long masuk TV” (both siblings call Tessa Kak Long) and the other saying, “Alamak, can tape or not, where can get TV at 9 am in the morning (during office hours that is!!)”.

The programme started off at 9 am with commentaries on current news and events interspersed with advertisements as usual and Tessa did not come on until about 9.30am. She was interviewed together with Rosman, the Senior Manager of Motor Sports by the NTV 7 Anchorman. Rosman spoke about the involvement of PETRONAS in motor sports from the humble introductory beginning many years ago to participation for world recognition and now comes the stage for PETRONAS to be amongst the top players in F1. Indeed PETRONAS has been recognized the world over and its logo is familiar to many as a result of this evolvement. Tessa on her part spoke about the programmes laid out by PETRONAS for the locals not only for those attending F1 races at Sepang circuit but to the communities all over the country, reaching even to those in the remote areas. A sort of outreach programme. Over the years PETRONAS has brought the F1 car and all its ‘regalia’ to every state and every town in the country. I know for a fact that, staged performances of the F1 cars, including pit stop actions were held in these visits. Parts of the roads in the towns were closed for these staged performances. It has excited many and many have shown interest in the sports and in PETRONAS as well. Other than that, extensive programmes to expose the young to the world of oil and gas, apart from motor sports, were held with positive response.


Overall the programme was informative and inspirational. Tessa, worried that she may fumble, worried for nothing really. She did very well and was eloquent. The flow of facts and her thought sequence showed how confident she was. As I told her earlier Ram and I have all the confidence in her, and this morning she did deliver, and delivered it well too. Talking to her later she said that she was at one point distracted by her image on the video screen near her but she got out of it in time and continued with the interview.

Sita told me that she ‘sneaked’ out to the canteen and watched her sister on TV there!! I am sure she was not alone in the canteen. Shaffik also saw the TV in the office. Ram had an appointment with her eye doctor in the morning. We went late to the hospital but she got to see the doctor as by the time we reach the hospital there were still quite a number of patients yet to see the doctor and she just got into the queue.

See some of the screen shots (not very clear) below……

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NTV7 Interview - PETRONAS Formula 1 Venture

  

Tessa on NTV7

  

PJ - Kerteh - PJ - JB

Sita and little Najla stayed with us for two nights (Thursday and Friday) on transit from Kangar, Perlis to Kerteh. Fahrul had to go back to Kerteh on Thursday itself as he has to work the next day. The house was not too quiet with Najla around, a lot better than when only the two of us were at home. “The sounds of little kids are always soothing to the soul?” Kids may get on your nerves sometimes, but it is something you enjoy in the end, really.

Najla was not well. Sita took her to see a pediatrician on Friday afternoon and with some medicine she was a lot better, crying less and playing more. Originally Sita was to hitch a ride from one of her friends returning to Kerteh, but with Najla in that condition, we decided to send them. After all we were quite free and had nothing to attend to in the next few days. Not until Wednesday as we have to be in JB then for a planned meeting with mum and my siblings.

We left for Kerteh at just before 7 in the evening, stopped once for dinner and evening prayers at one of the rest plaza’s on the highway, arriving in Kerteh at just about midnight. There was not much traffic on the roads and highway but Najla was restless, sleeping little and ‘crappy’ most of the time. I think she was really tired by the time we arrived in Kerteh as according to Sita, she slept till morning. However when she woke up the next morning she continued to be crappy. Her condition improved over the next few days though as she was more playful and lively then. As most little children are, she was difficult only when her mother was around and more so when she was not well. Otherwise, she was playful and gave us not much problem.

We returned to PJ on Tuesday, did some chores, paid some bills and next morning we were off to JB. We planned to be in JB for two nights and return to PJ on Friday. The rush is because we have a ‘Tazkirah’ or religious colloquium session amongst our retirees fraternity of which I am the secretary. Mum commented that I am busier now than when I was working and indeed it is true. However, I am now busy doing something I really enjoy.

While in JB I chaired a meeting of the ‘family grouping’ and discussed usual issues related to management of the grouping etc. etc. Ram and I also took the opportunity to ‘drive’ around JB and ‘view’ the houses and the neighbourhood where we grew up and the changes viz-a-viz developments in JB over the years. We also viewed an old house where Ram’s elder brother used to live in and which had recently been destroyed by fire, due perhaps to old electrical wiring in the house. There was no one in the house at the time it caught fire, but the house is almost a total loss except for a small portion in the kitchen. More on this nostalgic tour in coming issues of my ramblings.

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Najla In Better Mood

 
 

See My Teeth, I bite!! 

At Home In PJ

It is our second day back in Petaling Jaya. The house is too quiet. Already we miss the three little kids in Bintulu. A consolation is Sita. She, Fahrul and Najla are returning tomorrow from Fahrul’s hometown, Perlis and will be stopping over in PJ for two nights, before proceeding to Kerteh. We also had visitors today. Two former colleagues, who sits with me in the committee of our retirees club came in the morning for a chat and to discuss some issues regarding the club. A little later, Ram’s niece came with her husband. She had just returned from performing her Haj. Hence our day went quite fast today.

We had our hands full all of two weeks that we were in Bintulu, especially with the two smaller kids, Haziq and Haadieya who kept on getting to each other, especially Haadieya who would go after anything that Haziq touched. She will disregard her own toys and go after the brother’s toys, and only the ones that he was playing. They were very noisy too. She is only 11 months old and she is already constantly annoying her brother. She does not bother Hifzhan though, maybe because Hifzhan is much older than her!! A respite for us would be the time when the two boys were at playschool in the morning. The house would then be very quiet.

Haadieya would scream at her brother, or cry when they quarrel, or just noisy banging the toys. Haziq on the other hand was noisy too. He kept on talking and he has a lot of ideas. He will put his imaginations into words and will loudly say them out. Once he said that there was this big car that talked to him. I said I have never heard a car talk. He replied, “Yes, Tok Bah. Big cars can talk”. I said, “Oh! Big cars can talk? Small cars cannot talk?” He said Yes. I asked him to show me a big car that talks. He said, “Ahhh.. Dedek hear the big car talk in Dedek’s dream!!”. I then asked “Oh! What did the car say?” He said that the car asked him to drive it to Tok Bah’s house in Kay Ell!! So, did you drive the car then, I asked. “Noh, he said, Dedek cannot drive lah Tok Bah!!” Haa haa, imagination and reality intermingling!!

Dedek has a new phrase. Sometime, while we were on the road, and amidst his talking and ‘yarning’ he will suddenly say “ooooh la la! never shee thing dat my life beforeeee”. I will then ask him to say it again slowly and word by word and he will say “oooh la la!, never see anything that in my life beforeee” I will correct him by saying “Ooooh la la! I have never seen anything like that in my life before!” He will reply yes. I asked what yes and he will reply yes like what Tok Bah said, refusing to repeat it! Hmmm…

Usually Dedek will go on talking or asking me things or just say whatever that comes into his mind. He does not stop. He will go on and on and on. Once I asked him to shut his mouth for a while, not to say anything until we reach home. No words should come out from your mouth from now until we reach home, can you do that? I asked. Babang said “Dedek, zip your mouth”. He replied, “ok, Dedek keep quiet”. A moment later he said, “zip my mouth eh eh” I said shhhhh! He responded ohhkehhhh! A few moments later he made sounds like ‘eh ‘eh! I asked what is wrong with you now? He replied, “Sorry Tok Bah, Dedek Hi cup!!” I said no Dedek, it is hiccup! He said heeecup and Babang then corrected him saying hiccup Dedek, hiccup. He said, “hiccup la Tok Bah, Dedek hiccup” By then we had already reached home and Dedek has had his say.

In the playschool the kids were once taken on an outing to the local fire brigade and were shown how to put out fires by using a water hose. Recently their grandpa (the other grandpa, not me!!) quietly went to the back of his house and prepared a fire to roast chicken for lunch. The two boys were playing inside the house then. As the fire was slowly building, grandpa went into the kitchen to prepare the chicken. From inside the house the two boys saw smoke at the back, shouted fireeee! ran to the back, grabbed a nearby hose and directed the water to the fire!!!!! What a riot. Poor grandpa had to build the fire again!! Dedek said that he washed the fire, proud that he has saved the day ha ha!
And Grandpa? Well! He is a man of a few words. He just rebuilt the fire and said nothing!! Looks like the grandkids can get away with anything…. Ha ha!

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