Cleaning Up - Day 2

Most of the major works were done. The sofas were sitting on the porch drying up. Carpets (thank God I only owned two small pieces) were hanging on the wooden fence, smelling so foul I had to hold my breath everytime I had to bypassed them.

We had washed the floor and the house looked almost livable. Bibik whipped out an old tikar from dunnowhere so that we could rest our tired muscle once in a while. Kamarul & Zariah came to visit and offered one of their many cars for our use. Thank you soooo much.

Between hubby and I we had filled in numerous forms from Welfare Department and whatnots. Did government really going to hand disaster aid to us...... Well, just wait and see.

The tow truck from Chevvy service centre came in the afternoon to tow my car away. Most of the affected cars in the area had already been towed away. What was left at the neighbourhood were either borrowed cars or lucky cars that managed to escape the flood.

Cleaning Up - Day 1

I didn't even know where to start. The mess was huge. But seeing as bibik already started to clean up the kitchen and hubby was immersed in both cars so that left the living room to me. Easy peasy. Hauled out the big heavy sofa to dry up. Threw the kids toys that were beyond repair. Threw all cd cases. Washed the remaining toys and vcds. Washed the wall. Took down the curtains. Running up and down to my room to check on the boys.

Erma, my senior at UiTM cum hubby's classmate dropped by with huge container of ice cubes, about half of whatever the bakery displayed on their shelf and four power rangers vcds to the boys. Gosh...you're an angel, honestly. The vcds and cakes kept the boys entertained in my room thus I was spared the job of running up and down every 10 minutes or so. It kept them away from the disaster area as well, which, knowing my kids, would just increase the workload tenfold.




Ninuk smsed with offer to do my laundry. I felt like bawling my eyes out. We had angels for friends. Thanks, Ninuk. Azri came with lunch and Cu Nan showed up again with drinks and fruits and of course, ready to work. We we so blessed.

The Famous Shah Alam Flood

By the time bibik woke us up....it was already too late to rescue the cars. But we managed to haul up small stuffs from living room to upstairs and of course, foods. We watched from my bedroom window as the water kept on rising steadily even though the rain has stopped. Cars alarm went off everywhere, including ours. Especially ours since we didn't know where was the battery for the merc was located. Our washing machine was floating merrily beside the floating fridge. I didn't want to think about repair/replacement cost now.

Thank God, my kids were pretty easy going. We did not have electricity for the whole day. Adam of course, wouldn't mind cold milk. Amri could eat honeystar/cococrunch straight from the box. That was the only good thing for having a lazy me for a mom....the kids had a laid back parenting style where travelling with a thermos was unheard of. In fact, the kids had a great time camping out in my room, wearing swimming trunk and eating biscuits and donated meehoon accompanied with mineral water. Even Adam was eating more than usual.

By lunch time, hubby had to wade through a waist deep water to get food from the mosque. Thank you to kind hearted souls out there at TTDI Jaya Mosque who cooked our lunch. A boat from Bomba would also passed by from time to time to check whether we had enough to eat. In fact, we actually ate more than usual. Well...kind of storing enough calory to burn during cleaning up the next day :)

When the water receded to knee deep, I finally relented to the gazillionth pleading from the two boys to play in the murky water. Yuck! The were having a ball of a time. Splashing water all the way from living room to the gate. The boys spent a few hours in the teh tarik water and only reluctantly came out when I started to physically dragged them out of water and into bathroom. Well...gotta clean them up before it was too dark to see the dirt. The electricity was still out.

Nighttime came and again we ate donated dinner, fetched by Cu Nan, by the candlelight. The water has receded to ankle deep outside the house while inside the house, all that left were bloody patches of thick mud everywhere. The boys conked off, the earliest in history. Hubby and I sat amids the strewn sofa cushion and started to chat the night away. Then all the phones started to ring off the hook. Oh yeah! It was 8pm and we were in the news. Shocked families and friends sms/called with sympathy and offers to help. Some offered to pick us up to spend the night at their houses. Aren't you all sweet......:) Thanks Ninuk, Salina, Anisa, Nadia, Intan, Ayu and everybody. We appreciated the sms/calls and all the offers. Sure did entertained us for the whole day. Talking about the doom sure help to ease the pain of looking at our cars and furnitures.

Electricity was back by about 10pm and hubby immediately went to work on cleaning up. I, on the other hand, decided to sleep it off till tomorrow. Never in my life was i in hurry to clean up and certainly did not plan to start today.

Motor Cu Nan

March Wedding

I received 2 wedding invitations for the same date - 18 march. One by normal post and the other via email. One at Tmn Tun KL and the other at Tampin. One is a dear friend of hubby and the other is a dear friend of mine. And I want to attend both, Insyaallah.

I must remember to buy 2 set of wedding gift...no problem there :) But the one in Tampin was so dear to me as he was part of my growing up years. When I get married, for some reason, he was not able to attend but he took the trouble to buy me a wedding gift and search high and low for other friends who would attend my wedding so that those people could carry it for him. He gave me a nice set of cutleries, which I still used to till now. So, in addition to whatever gift I'll be buying for him and his future wife.....I'll get him a cutlery set as well :)

Congratulation Amin on your forthcoming wedding day!

On the road KT-Shah Alam

Well....end of holiday. We packed our bags, exchanged lotsa kisses and hugs and off we drove back to Shah Alam. Took the Jerangau Jabor route, which meant I would not be able to make a pit stop at Intan's house. Hubby was clearly not in mood for detour, so be it. Left KT sometime before 10am and reached Shah Alam sometime after 4pm. Okay, I guess. The kids slept most of the journey away so it was rather uneventful.

Home sweet home. The best place on earth for me is my own bedroom.