semalam rabu sept 28th, 2005, was my mom birthday. amidt the busy-ness of painting my bedroom, i forgot the date. luckily my aunty sms me sending the wishes to my mom, via me. both of us kinda forgot the date of yesterday, we silencely agreed to sit around quitely for a while, in my messy bedroom, and reflect my mom's birthday.

anyhow, it was quite a short break, as i still need to paint my feature wall baby blue. the rest of the room was light lavender... it is soooo tranquil n sweet for me. i love it. although, i have trouble sleeping that night because of the fresh painting smell, and because i was so tired and my body ache, i could not sleep at all. plus, there's one issue, very urgent and pressing issue that keeping my mind whirling around, but i could not share it here. i pray that my darling could help me before the deadline.

one of my ex-neighbour from my old house, the LKNP flat at Jalan Ahmad Shah came around just now. makcik n her secind daughter came on their motorcycle, actually to kutip duit kutu from my mom. i think it is a good idea having kutu (not that creepy crawling insecticides!), it is a form of saving, with no interest, you just submit ur monthly share to the kutu's team leader, let say, there's 12 members of the team, each member pay rm100 monthly, they will withdraw among each other for the month their going to get the kutu, so when your month comes, you'll get rm100x12, which is rm1200 of your monthly saving.

well, it was not an investment, merely a group of friend, helping each other menabung cara senang. kalau nak harap menabung sendiri, it takes a lot of willpower, as ada jer benda yg nak dibeli dan dibayar, so bila menabung cara kecil2an ni, tak perasan pun, but after 12 months, whalla... you got some token of your saving ;)

oh ya, the aunty, the daughter, my mom and me, remisnicing the good (not that good actually) ol' day when we were living in the two-bedroom flat. it was a two storeys flat and rows of shop lots at the ground level. the flat used to be the happening property back in 70s, with the new and happening market just next to it, and the Malayan Banking bank right to the left, it was a growing property. alas, the management of th flat getting tired of maintaining it, it gets older by day now. the market was demolished last 3 months, and a new market is now bustling, a bit farther away from the old market. i've heard, some businessman, bought the market's land, which is actually harta kerajaan, of course he bought it from kerajaan, to build a hotel. i guess, some time, they are going to demolish the flat as well.

we were thankful as we have moved from the flats, years now. the aunty and the daughter also live in Taman Temerloh Jaya as well, but in different area and housing scheme. she is a widow, her husband, a late police officer, died several years ago, but alhamdullillah, she manage on her own now, with the help of her first daughter.

i guess that's all for today. my hand still ache a lil bit from the painting. it was a tiring yet enjoyable task for me, climbing up and down the stairs, painting the about 10' of walls. and it is so worth for every drop of the sweat. i got my bedroom be so tranquil and sweet.