To Dad With Love

I know Father’s Day is not around the corner or so but I want to write something about my dad. I guess I miss him much. Here something:

I. We call him ‘papa’ yet when I’m about the age of 15, I’m the one started calling him ‘Daddy’ and I don’t know why but all of us call him ‘Daddy’ afterward.

II. He loves to eat. He hid stocks of Cadbury under his work desk. He put fridge on his mobile so he can drink cool drink while driving. Skype time: he never fails to show what he is eating (almost every time I call he is eating). Guess what he got for mum on Hari Raya, not langsir baru or sofa baru but an imported barbeque set! (although mum not really happy with it, ‘course she want langsir baru)

III. He’s one lucky father to have 3 daughters who will go at him anytime and start of a conversation with “Daddy….”.(is our way to try and get something from him that cost.huu~) one trick:fix something nice for him to eat, sure you will get it then =P

IV. He laughed at my SPM biology is B, and said “aha, sorang anak papa kena jadi engineer”.So now don’t ask why I chose engineering.

V. He works on his own now but still he dresses properly(office is downstairs only!!), “Nina, gosok baju papa na” “Aik,nak gi mane ayah aku ni..?”.With his aftershave and all, I miss the scent of him.

VI. He has the usual fatherly-buncit perut. And all the time my mum screech at my ear “Nina bawak la papa pergi jogging na”, and yet the temptation never succeed.

VII. Jogging not him but camping or adventuring stuff is so him. I am so jealous of him. He already went to Taj Mahal, China (not sure of the Great Wall), Mount Everest (no, he did not climbed through it, he went by jet plane just to watch the peak of it), then Angkor Wat and lot more which I am not to know maybe during his studying over Wisconsin, United State.

VIII. He is actually a weeper. Believe it or not. Still remember during the usuall Saturday night where we all will watch the tv3 Cerekarama and then my mum will say “Jangan kang papa nangis kang…”.

IX. He is good at making ommelette! Years ago when we all are still school kids, he helped mum for sahur and fix us ommelete. And now we wonder when we gonna have the taste of his ommelete again.

X. He loves to shop. DIY shop and hardware shop. Well that kind of shop. But every time with mum at any furniture house, he is nowhere to be seen near mum. Sian mama..And actually we love to shop alone with him because he malas nak layan us, then whatever we asked, He will not comment much and just say “Kalau suke ambikla..”. That’s my daddy!

Mum and Dad at somewhere in China

For whatever it is Dad, I miss You.

Climbing The Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji!!

Climbing a mountain is totally not one of my ‘have-to-do-before-I-die’ lists, but when it comes to being a foreign student here, somehow it became a MUST. Fine, really not an obligation what so ever, but every year almost every one of us done it, then why should I be left out. Hoorah! I was excited when Haris told my name is in. Next thing I do was book a flight from Chitose to Haneda and off I go to get my foot on top of Japan highest mountain: Mount Fuji. Well, before going up we need to really tank up all our energy as Haris said “tido puas-puas”. Then on the day itself we receive quite a few equipments to prepare for our climbing. Handglove, raincoat, torchlight with lots of batteries, onigiri, snickers, drink (varieties of it; energy drink, mineral, vitamin c, etc, you can figure it out).

Enough said, now let me take you through out our climbing. We started at 1930 from the 5th checkpoint. Oh yeah, I forgot about to mention there are 8th checkpoints in total, and the height of Mount Fuji is 3776m. (Sure enough we won’t start from the bottom, “Are you out of your mind?”). Anyway the starting of the climbing was pretty easy, but when it started to get hard, it become tougher all the way up. We climbed by group. My group: Dd, Izz, Lin and me. Some of us vomited trough the climbing and needless to say some were really needy of the 02 gas tank that were being supplied for each group. We took lot of rest and each of the rest was long enough before we have the will to get back on and start the climbing.

Our adventure of climbing Mount Fuji was just not a physical challenging; it was also a mental-disrupting-time-machine-bomb kind of adventure. Here and there I heard harsh word being used like “**** are we there yet?”. The trail really got the nerve out of us. Nevertheless we made it, I arrive first for my group and I can’t help hugging them all as an appreciation by keeping me sane throughout the climbing. For the rest of the other group they arrive a lot earlier than us, say that we arrive quite on the perfect time to watch the sunrise.

-We Arrived!- (Look How Many Happy Climber Back There!)

-Way Down There, we made it-

-Dd with the awaited sunrise-

-Us 'bathing' the sunrise because freaking damn cold up there at the peak-

Here some of “amaze-me” thing I tumbled upon during the climbing:

. Some of the Japanese also bring their kids by the age 8 to 10!! (hello?? By that age I was still pretty locked up in front of the tv!!!) and found a person brought a dog too like down there aren’t enough space to dog walking, wait, is it dog climbing setting a new trend now? Hahaha

2. While we were taking a rest, we put off our torch light and actually it was quite amazing in the dark the stars and the moon were shedding light for you. Imagine seeing lots of honeystars on top of your ceiling. I got to watch lots of shooting stars too but I forgot the make-a-wish part.

3. Do you familiar with some of documentary programs like discovery where they show the sky with clouds moving really fast like they fast forwarding the record? Guess what? That was how the cloud we got to watch up there and it was scary though. Standing there on the same level as the thin layer of cloud moving fast like that make you feel like they want to take you away too.

4. I just knew that actually Mount Fuji is an inactive volcano. Not dead! Inactive means it sure can be active anyhow right?? Tell me again why am I climbing this mountain??

-There you Go Malaysia Boleh spirit!!On top Of Mount Fuji-