sometime ago my sis popped a question out of the blue
"tikki, awak rasa umi n abah sEkaraNg asyik2 bz sgt tak?"
i was stunned for a bit. where on earth did that come from???
"em, nape awk tiba2 tanye soalan cemtu skarang? bukan kite mmg dah biase mcm ni ke?"
"ntah....."
"saye rasa abah mmg bz dari dulu..."
that was very true. he was always at work. even when we go on holidays, his phone will ring non-stop. at home, i barely see him. it came to a point where he could afford asking me "how's studies" everytime we 'bump' into each other kat rumah. there was this one time he was always at home n i'd see him like TWICE a day, n everytime he saw me, he'd ask "how's studies". can u imagine someone asking u that like TWICE a day? tau sgt there's nothing else to talk about...
he can come back from australia in the morning and then catch another plane later that evening to indonesia... he can plan last minute and buy a plane ticket to dubai at the airport counter just like as though he's buying a bus ticket to johor. till now, i think his driver knows better about his whereabouts than i do....
coming back to the conversation with my sis. i added on to her
"tapi saya rasa umi dah far more busier now than she was last time. dengan kelang plus the endless meeting in adni... dulu umi yg slalu bwk kite gi mana2 kan?"
when i come to think of it again, she's much more busier than i thought she was. she has a house to manage and top of that, like 3 families' daily food to think of. overseeing the thai girls, the jakarta girls, plus the other 2 girls. now she starts going overseas too. that JV project la, visiting islamic schools in australia, jakarta, surabaya, and i dont know how many other schools in indonesia. those trips to south africa, india, and soon she's going to algeria. she's got heaps of stuff to think of.
my sis seemed to agree with what i said. the matter never came up again.
so why am i bringing it up now? it's becoz i havent been well for 3 days, and it seems like she's too bz to care.... but i DONT blame her. if she's bz with adni, then insyaAllah it means that it's for the greater good for the muslim ummah.
Ya Allah, please give me strength to go on...
"tikki, awak rasa umi n abah sEkaraNg asyik2 bz sgt tak?"
i was stunned for a bit. where on earth did that come from???
"em, nape awk tiba2 tanye soalan cemtu skarang? bukan kite mmg dah biase mcm ni ke?"
"ntah....."
"saye rasa abah mmg bz dari dulu..."
that was very true. he was always at work. even when we go on holidays, his phone will ring non-stop. at home, i barely see him. it came to a point where he could afford asking me "how's studies" everytime we 'bump' into each other kat rumah. there was this one time he was always at home n i'd see him like TWICE a day, n everytime he saw me, he'd ask "how's studies". can u imagine someone asking u that like TWICE a day? tau sgt there's nothing else to talk about...
he can come back from australia in the morning and then catch another plane later that evening to indonesia... he can plan last minute and buy a plane ticket to dubai at the airport counter just like as though he's buying a bus ticket to johor. till now, i think his driver knows better about his whereabouts than i do....
coming back to the conversation with my sis. i added on to her
"tapi saya rasa umi dah far more busier now than she was last time. dengan kelang plus the endless meeting in adni... dulu umi yg slalu bwk kite gi mana2 kan?"
when i come to think of it again, she's much more busier than i thought she was. she has a house to manage and top of that, like 3 families' daily food to think of. overseeing the thai girls, the jakarta girls, plus the other 2 girls. now she starts going overseas too. that JV project la, visiting islamic schools in australia, jakarta, surabaya, and i dont know how many other schools in indonesia. those trips to south africa, india, and soon she's going to algeria. she's got heaps of stuff to think of.
my sis seemed to agree with what i said. the matter never came up again.
so why am i bringing it up now? it's becoz i havent been well for 3 days, and it seems like she's too bz to care.... but i DONT blame her. if she's bz with adni, then insyaAllah it means that it's for the greater good for the muslim ummah.
Ya Allah, please give me strength to go on...
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...buy a plane ticket to dubai at the airport counter just like as though he's buying a bus ticket to johor...
Yeah, that's a really good comparison of the situation. ^^; My dad travels a lot too, and is living in Dubai about 90% of the time now. But even when he was around, all he'd say would be stuff about "jaga adik-adik" and "help them with homework", etc. =T But it's to be expected, the petty daily stuff have always been my mum's territory.
Glad you're feeling better already. :) We just have to remember to appreciate what we have...
Once upon a time, you were all so very small, so very fragile and so in need of attention. Once upon a time, business was just growing, expansion wasn't really happening and life was just moving.
At this point of time, success breeds success and children have grown considerably bigger, more capable of managing their own lives with their own resources.
Worry less about Umi or Abah not being around to care for you, worry more that you wouldn't be around to care for Umi and Abah now and in the later years.
For it should not be of how much they love us but of how much we love them.
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