Baby gajah

'Nadiah, please help me with the curtains'. 'Later mother, i need to attend to baby gajah!' Baby gajah as big baby. Elephant is big. Baby is a baby. A person who most of the times demand to be attended to like a baby whose needs are looked upon is called a baby. Only that when that person has outgrown the baby stage in our family she is called baby gajah. The phrase has been in the family since i do not know when. Maybe after my firstborn started primary school and maybe she is the one who started the phrase. Baby gajah and 'not-not' ( i shall tell later) is often called upon among us. I have not heard the phrase for quite sometime because my daughters are away in college. So is my sister who works overseas. Only recently we got a chance to meet and when we do, that is when all the teasing started. The phrase baby gajah surfaces again. I said to myself, wow its been a long time, uttered as naturally as can be. Teasing is fun, creates laughter.  I believe the phrase will stay with us for a long long time. As long as any of us 'wants' to be baby gajah.............

Warisan Bonda

After a hard day's work i would have the radio at almost full volume. Tuned in to my favourite channel Light FM. Never dreamt that one day i would be singing along with the radio in my restaurant while cleaning and closing. The singing helps me to relax. The restaurant is named Warisan Bonda. It all began about ten years ago. I woke up from one morning nap, sitting on my bed with my youngest on my lap, saying to myself, hey zuraidah there has to be more to life than being  only a homemaker. People asked me why did i start the restaurant business. I never worked after receiving my diploma. 17 years after leaving college, whatever I've learnt is considered ancient. I used to have dreams running a restaurant and that's what i did, operate a restaurant! Initially my idea was to have a small cafe that I could serve homemade dishes, make it very homely with a corner for crafts and books. I ended with a shoplot so that's how Warisan Bonda got started. My restaurant serves dishes that i learnt from my mother and aunties and my grandmoms. Hence Warisan Bonda which is a malay phrase meaning heritage from the mothers. Literally warisan means heritage, bonda means mother. The restaurant serves food from the malaysian dishes....menu malaysia. Restaurant Warisan Bonda has a facebook. Stay 'tune' there shall more  postings on my 'baby' god willing.

it comes.........

Hadn't seen jerry for quite a while. We met at lunch this afternoon. The usual hellos and greetings. Jerry asked how's life....me answering..hmmm, things are good well fine. When it comes, it comes. When it goes, it goes. When it stays, it stays. There are things we can control and there are those beyond our control. If its yours it shall be yours, god willing. If its not meant to be yours, it never will be. It can be that little kitten you saw at the pet store. It can be that beautiful dress you noticed in the fashion magazine or the funky sports shoes or the dream house. Many things we wish and hope for but there are also many things that we do not really need to make us happy. Working towards things that are reasonably within our reach makes us happier if not happiest person. Less stress and frowning brows, hahaha. But then there is this one question, love, love. Looking, searching, hoping, wishing, pining..........then you realise when you let go of these looking, searching, hoping, wishing, pining you feel better. Look at oneself and around us, there is enough love to make one happy. The greatest love of all comes from The All Mighty.....never doubt His love for His most  beautiful creation, us.