It was the 15th day of Ramadhan and as usual, my family was up at 5-ish AM for Sahur. And naturally, while eating sahur, we watched the idiot box in the TV room, because it’s more interesting than sitting at the dining table, watching each others’ sleepy/bored face, forcing down food in the wee hours of the morning.
Sometimes Baba got the TV remote first and changed to…drumroll please…Golf Channel 815. We couldn’t always argue with the Head of the House’s choice. I myself have got more or less acquainted to golf (tak main pun, tapi I get the hang of it laah). So when Adam Scott made a comeback by winning a Major (PGA Championship) I was kind of wow-ed. I also found it fascinating when the lady commentator said Adam Scott has a text-book golf swing (In other words, straight lines everywhere. In other words, perfect golf swing lah tuu). I wonder if Adam’s latest win has anything to do with ditching Ana Ivanovic …
Anyway….(slapped myself for getting carried away)
This morning though, it was Ira who got the TV remote first. Ira scanned through the movie channels and settled for a movie which title did not register in my mind, and hence I can’t mention it here. But I remember Justin Long was in it. After a few minutes of trying to work out what I was actually watching (note: brain not functioning well at 5 AM), there came a scene where the woman, while sleeping on a bed, was attacked by a horrible looking ‘creature’ which eerily crawled over her. Neurons sparked in my brain and I figured that we were watching a horror movie! NOOO, absolutely NO at that hour! No thanks if you want to remind me of The Exorcist. I grabbed the Astro remote, while shouting at Ira for her choice of channel (poor her, I felt guilty now) and flipped through to my favourite channel range… 700-ish.
On 712, Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 6 Finale was on. I made a comment to everyone that this episode was interesting because the host made a HUGE blunder of announcing the wrong winner. Baba and Mummy was quite amused by this fact and said “hah! jom tengok ni!”.
And there we were, watching Aussie NTM. These models wore heels so high that Baba commented “hmmm, ada setengah kaki kot heels dia.” Congratulations, Ba. You managed to make us, the girls and Mummy laugh so early in the morning!
Then, he said “Kenapa nak pakai heels tinggi-tinggi? She’s already tall!”
To which Mummy answered, “Biarlah, actually kan, pakai heels ni makes us more confident tau.”
Baba laughed at Mummy’s comment and snigger, “ye ke?”
I thought to myself, yes on those rare occasions that I wear high heels to work, I DO feel more confident. Albeit the real reason I wear it is to make me taller, Mummy’s statement made me realize that I wear it to feel more sure and confident of myself too. Gaya executive la, bak kata Uncle Aris. Hahahha.
So I added, “Eh betul jugak Mi. Lina rasa more confident kalau pakai high heels.”
The next thing Baba did was so funny, I nearly choked off my kurma.
He stood up on tip-toes to make it look like wearing heels and walked in front of us, swaying away while doing the comically mocking face of his and asking us, “Ni ke rasa confident? Tak rasa pun!!!”
We laughed so hard at Baba’s act. Baba can be so funny you could never imagine.
Shortly after, the Azan Subuh was heard, and Kakak and I finished doing the dishes. On the way up to my room, I passed by the TV room. It turned out the Head of The House dah tukar to his favourite channel, where dimpled white balls roll on green grasses. Haih…so much for Aussie Next Top Model! We didn’t even reach the part where the host made the blunder! DKJ, DKJ….
Selamat Berpuasa to all Muslims! May we gain much from this 2nd leg of Ramadhan.
P/S #1: To Abang Hafeez yang tak suka sahur tu, ada interested nak join we all sahur after this??
P/S #2: Head of The House = DKJ = Baba = :)
