Lamunan pagi Khamis

Mengantuk benar saya pagi ini. Pelik juga, kerana semalam saya masuk tidur pada waktu yang sama. Tidur pun nyenyak, bermimpi pun tidak.

Sejak mula minum ubat batuk yang diberi doktor saya tidak batuk-batuk lagi. Lega rasanya – batuk itu sungguh memenatkan. Arahan pada botol supaya minum lima ml empat jam sekali. Kuat ubatnya, boleh menyebabkan si peminum menjadi mengantuk. Amaran pada botol: “Kalau mengantuk, jangan memandu kereta atau mengoperasi mesin.” Tapi rasanya bukan ubat batuk yang membuat saya mengantuk pagi ini, kerana sejak pukul sembilan malam tadi saya belum minum ubat lagi. Entahlah. Rasanya batuk ini sudah makin pulih, jadi saya kurangkan minum ubat itu.

Minggu depan saya bekerja hanya tiga hari. Bos menyuruh saya cuti hari Isnin, kerana banyak waktu yang sudah ditambah di buku waktu kerja saya, akibat perjalanan saya ke Malaysia beberapa minggu lalu. Hari Jumaat pula cuti Good Friday. Cuti dari hari Jumaat depan hingga hari Selasa! Bagus benar dapat cuti begini. Kami tak ada rancangan nak buat apa-apa, tak nak ke mana-mana, duduk di rumah, rehat, baca buku, jenguk ibubapa, begitulah.

Bila bermula menulis pagi ini, teringin pula saya menulis dalam Bahasa Malaysia. Rasanya kekok sedikit kerana tak biasa, tetapi saya gembira kerana kebolehan saya menulis dalam bahasa ini masih ada. Tapi entah siapa di antara para pembaca blog ini yang boleh membaca dan memahami tulisan ini! Malas pula saya nak menterjemahkan tulisan yang tidak seberapa ini…

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5 Comments

mooiness 6 April 2006

I faham! Says the Aussie-fied boy in broken Malay. 🙂

First paragraph: cough medicine makes u drowsy. Even after you’ve stopped taking it.

Second paragraph: you will be working only 3 days next week. w00t! You will just laze around, visit the parents or read a book.

Third paragraph: you had doubts about writing the post in Malay but you felt good in the end because your composition is still ok. You don’t know who will understand this yet you are also too lazy to translate!

Kamu sungguh bersemangat!

tfp 6 April 2006

You mean “saya faham!” heheheheheh. I got bits of it. I got the drowsy/sleepy but not the cough medicine. I understood the working three days next week and the planned activities. By now I was tired and couldn’t be bothered translating. 🙂 I was struggling, after all, with my Standard 4 Malay from 1985.

CW 7 April 2006

Cheers Mooiness and tfp 🙂

I’m really sleepy this morning. It’s strange, because I went to bed at my usual time last night. I slept well, I didn’t even dream.

Since taking the cough mixture the doctor prescribed I haven’t been coughing at all. I feel much better – that cough was exhausting. The instructions on the bottle are to take five ml every four hours. It’s strong stuff that can make you drowsy. There’s a warning on the bottle: “If affected do not drive a motor vehicle or operate machinery.” I don’t think it’s the cough mixture that’s making me sleepy this morning, because I haven’t taken any since nine o’clock last night! I don’t know. The cough’s improving, so I’ve been lessening the dosage.

Next week I’ll have a three day week at work. The Boss told me to take Monday off, because I have accumulated a lot of time in my time book, due to my trip to Malaysia a few weeks ago. [Actually The Boss didn’t specifically tell me to take Monday off, he just told me to take the time off.] Friday is the Good Friday holiday. The break is from Friday until the following Tuesday! It’s great to have such a break. We don’t have any plans to do anything or go anywhere, we’ll stay home, rest, read, see the folks, that sort of thing.

When I started writing this morning, I felt like writing in Bahasa Malaysia. It felt a bit strange as I am not used to doing this, but I’m pleased because I still have the ability to write in this language. But I have no idea who among the readers of my blog will be able to read and understand this writing! And I can’t be bothered to translate this insignificant writing…

anlasim 8 May 2006

Are you Malaysian?
Saya seronok membaca blog anda. Happy blogging. Maybe we can share our experience.

CW 9 May 2006

Hi Anlasim, ya, saya lahir di Malaysia, tapi sudah dua puluh tahun menetap di Perth! Terima kasih kerana meninggalkan komen di blog saya 🙂