Weekend News

It was a pretty busy weekend for us. Bright and early on Saturday morning we headed to our regular car spray painting workshop. When we got there we explained what happened and asked to get the car done up.

“Oh ini, boleh punye. No problem. Saya ketuk sikit, yang tercabut saya taruk gam lepas tu skru balik. Nanti kasi cat. Boleh, boleh.” Don’t worry, I’ll just wave my magic wand and it’ll be good as new!

I love their optimism.

Then we asked him how much it would cost. You know it’s never a good thing when you ask, “Berapa?” and the guy breaks out into a huge grin. I mean HUGE, ok. His smile stretched from one ear to the other.

He starts using his pretend calculator on his hand and comes up with “RM350”. Let’s all cringe again. We got it down to RM300, handed over the car keys and left.

From there we headed to Tawakal Hospital in KL to pick up some medication for Daddy, then back home for lunch. Abang had an enormous nasi lemak lunch. So much, he even burped 3 times!

After lunch we thought we’d break the monotony of staying at home and packed everyone up to go to Nenek’s house. It seems everyone else in town had the same idea because it took us an hour to get there! Never mind, Daddy and I managed to outsource the boys to Nenek, Ant J and our maid and we went off running some more errands, including picking up the MPV.

We got field reports from Ant J who took Abang out on her errands with her at Ikano and then for an early dinner at IKEA. Abang snacking away in the supermarket trolley, Abang reading a book at the bookstore and then asking to buy one for Adik, Abang eating three quarters of his spaghetti and then whacking Ant J’s fries.

Adik was happily playing at Nenek’s house, including using the batu lesung. It’s nice that both the boys like to play masak-masak, but this is the first time either of them is using it to crush some lemongrass. We think he looks pretty cute!

Then this morning, lo and behold, the MPV wouldn’t start. It sounded like a weak battery and then I realised one of the interior lights was on (probably accidentally switched on at the workshop) and that must have drained the battery overnight.

There’s a small, very small, silver lining in this story. After I paid the AAM mechanic for the battery, he took an interest in the radio. It’s one of those in-dash CD/ DVD players and I told him that’s a new one, because the original that came with the car was all in Japanese and we couldn’t quite figure it out.

He asked to take a look at it and I got it out from our store room, in the box, and after some discussion he gave us RM50 for it! Hooray.

I wonder what else I can find in the store room that that can be sold … Could help to pay for my hospital bill, bodywork on the car AND the new car battery.