Sunday, March 13, 2005
Day Twoi was rudely awoken at the crack of dawn by the glaring light and the noise made by everyone else (who woke up early). i had to "shower" using a gayung. there was a kolam thing to take water from. i was so afraid it might contain mosquito larvae or something. but after critical inspection i decided the water was safe. went downstairs for breakfast: buttery prata, pretty bread, apam pulau pinang and tea.
we then roamed around the outside of ami salim's house with him. we bought 1000 rupiah (20cent) mini brownies and mini pizzas. took pictures with cart things tt the sellers push around while making a racket to get ppl's attention. ami salim borrowed his friend's motorcylcle and gave us all rides around his home area. aha funfun. i wanted to ride it on my own but he wouldnt hear of it. bah. went back in to play with affaf for a bit. shes extreeeemely cuute! waha. she looks like ameera did wen ameera was her age.
we then went to the ultimate boring shopping mall in the world. with ami salim's family. there was nothing attention grabbing. but then i refused to leave without getting anything so in the end i got myself a jacket, two bags, sandals, a new watch and cds (metallica, malmsteen and ahmed deedat)
vocab: obral-sale. uang pas-cash.
ami salim introduced bakso tebet (some meatball noodle) to us and everyone loved it. except me. then we went back to ami salim's place so tt everyone could pray and eat. i went and bought more brownies=) later we went to habib shaikh aljufry's hse (amati fatimah's dad). the house was super laRRGe. ultimately giant! some disgusting tapai, pulut, bingka ambon and teh halia was served. blegh. i felt like washing my mouth out with listerine. the house was linked to amati fatimah's siblings houses. quite cool. they all live next to each other. literally.
next we went to amati azimah's house in the green kijang. amati fatimah wanted to buy jam for the following day's breakfast so ameera, faizah and i decided to go with her. it was sortof like an econ minimart. only without aircon. plus they sell handbags there.
lastly we went to ami alwi's house (where jiddah maryam also lives) for diner. nice=) the tiny indonesian folks plus singaporean bratboys were sakating us singaporean girls. they were attempting to scare us with a cockroach. ameera stupidly thought it was fake and picked it up to scare the boys back. sick. anyway. aysha has a crush on nabil. hee. if only he was at least eleven years older.
back at ami salim's house that night: momentarily overcame fear of black jamban. lalat-free and fairly cool night. better night.
-blogged on 20/3/05
-aysha